Speaker 1: Exact field touchdown, Miami Run. What is up, doll Fans,
Speaker 1: and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. Not
Speaker 1: today's show. Once again, we have flipped the schedule. The
Speaker 1: preview show already out on Wednesday's podcast, the Wednesday edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast. Today, we're gonna dive into the feature.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Adam Shaheen about that tight Ends Room.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a fun group. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: have you guys here. Adam Schaheen talk about his relationship
Speaker 1: with Mike Kasicki, Durham Smith, and George Godzi in that
Speaker 1: tight End Room. Plus we'll hear from Coach Flores, some
Speaker 1: Dollins players and get you ready for Sunday against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: All of that and more on this Thursday, November the
Speaker 1: twelfth edition of the Drive Time Podcast. And support for
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Speaker 1: nation dot com today. Let's go ahead and jump into
Speaker 1: the Thursday injury report for Dolphins and Chargers. The second
Speaker 1: injury report after the second day of practice for your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins in preparation for the Chargers coming to hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium on Sunday at four oh five Eastern and
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins on Thursday, only ray Kwon Davis was
Speaker 1: listed as a d NP did not practice. It was
Speaker 1: not injury related. Three players were limited. Running back Matt Brita,
Speaker 1: cornerback Jamal Perry, and tight end Durham Smith limited in practice.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins also made a couple of roster moves on
Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. Kyle Van Nou as well as Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Matt Cole the wide receiver on practice god were
Speaker 1: added to the Serve slash COVID nineteen list, and Lynn
Speaker 1: Bowden Junior, the receiver was taken off of that list
Speaker 1: for the Chargers their injury report. For the update on
Speaker 1: their Thursday practice report, go ahead and check out the
Speaker 1: top news story on Miami Dolphins dot com on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson, the running back, did not practice. Trade Turner,
Speaker 1: the guard and Joey Bosa the defensive end and tackle
Speaker 1: Brian Blaga. All three of those players were limited on
Speaker 1: Wednesday's practice. Again, Miami Dolphins dot Com top news story.
Speaker 1: We'll have the latest for you guys on their Thursday
Speaker 1: injury report. Let's go ahead and jump into Coach flores
Speaker 1: Thursday morning media availability threat, and he started off with
Speaker 1: the question about new Dolphins running back DeAndre Washington, who
Speaker 1: of course was acquired on trade deadline day. He comes
Speaker 1: over from the Las Vegas Raiders. We broke down his
Speaker 1: game a little bit, what he does in the passing game,
Speaker 1: some of his wiggle and burst in the open field
Speaker 1: last week on the Drivetime podcast. Let's go ahead, though,
Speaker 1: and hear from Coach Flores and get his evaluation of
Speaker 1: DeAndrea Washington and why the Dolphins decided ultimately to trade
Speaker 1: for him. You know, we watched him, you know, during
Speaker 1: the free agency process last year. So I think he's
Speaker 1: got good vision, good run skills and catching the bad
Speaker 1: back field. You know, just doing some some some background
Speaker 1: on him, and it was a hard worker. It's important
Speaker 1: to him. He's competitive, so so an opportunity and you know,
Speaker 1: Chris and this the personnel scas after the nice job
Speaker 1: kind of pinpoint the type of that we're looking forward.
Speaker 1: They got it done, So DeAndrea Washington out here in
Speaker 1: the fold. We know Myles Gascon remains on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: Last week was the first game that he missed because
Speaker 1: of the injury, and obviously Matt Brito was out last
Speaker 1: week as well. He was back at practice, albeit an
Speaker 1: a limited capacity on Wednesday and Thursday. This week, We've
Speaker 1: also got Savon Ahmed back there, who had some good
Speaker 1: carries on the game on Sunday as well, So maybe
Speaker 1: some more depth in this running back room getting grounded
Speaker 1: out here a little bit down the second half of
Speaker 1: the season, down the stretch here to go along with
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, who of course had his fourth rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And speaking of that running back position, Coach
Speaker 1: was asked about Matt Brita and what he can do
Speaker 1: besides the speed element of his game to help this
Speaker 1: football team out. Coach says, he's already helping this team out. Well,
Speaker 1: I think he's. I think he's he's he's definitely helped
Speaker 1: team us far. Uh. But it was nice to see
Speaker 1: him out there yesterday and just you know, take a
Speaker 1: few reps and and see him move around a little bit.
Speaker 1: So that was nice. But look like you said, he's fast,
Speaker 1: he's explosive, he's tough. I think he's been He's done
Speaker 1: a really nice job for us in the kicking game.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gotten his opportunities as a runner. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's broken up some some some big playze and
Speaker 1: he just needs to do what he's been to him.
Speaker 1: He prepares the right way. It's important to him. And
Speaker 1: if he just continues to do what he's been doing,
Speaker 1: I think he'll be just fine. Up next, coach was
Speaker 1: asked about some of the blitz frequency. The Dolphins ranked
Speaker 1: five in the NFL in terms of their blitz frequency,
Speaker 1: but justin Herbert, the charges were quarterback has had some
Speaker 1: success against the blitz. Coach was asked about how the
Speaker 1: success of the opposing quarterback affects how the Dolphins want
Speaker 1: to call their game as far as they're blitzing and
Speaker 1: aggressiveness on defense. Yeah, I mean, you know, you see
Speaker 1: some of the things that you've done in the past
Speaker 1: or in previous games show up in another game and
Speaker 1: he's been effective against It makes you think twice about
Speaker 1: going that route, so we'll, um, you know, we've we
Speaker 1: we're kind of going through the defensive game plan extensively,
Speaker 1: you know, without getting into you too deep into what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do or what we'd like to try to do. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's part of it, part of the equation. You know,
Speaker 1: he's done a good job against you know, pressure, UM,
Speaker 1: but it's really done a good job against everything. So
Speaker 1: and they gotta they do a good job offensively, run game,
Speaker 1: pass game, UM, screens, draws, they moved the ball efficiently
Speaker 1: third down, red zone. So it's a good football team.
Speaker 1: You know, that's one element of it. You know, it's pressure,
Speaker 1: and you know if we call it, when we call it,
Speaker 1: we've got to do a good job executing, knowing full
Speaker 1: well that they've been able to execute against those types
Speaker 1: of it's called defensive structure. So definitely a tough test.
Speaker 1: He's a good player, they had good coaches like a receivers,
Speaker 1: tight ends back, so, UM, tough test for us. Might
Speaker 1: have to ask coach to stop hitting that pen on
Speaker 1: the table and he talks because it picks up on
Speaker 1: the microphone here a little bit on the podcast, we
Speaker 1: talked about the preview of the Chargers Dolphins game, or
Speaker 1: talked about the Charger's ability to beat the blitz and
Speaker 1: to go over the top with their deep passing game
Speaker 1: in the preview on Wednesday's podcast. If you miss that
Speaker 1: addition of drive time, go ahead and go back and
Speaker 1: check that out. We go in depth about how the
Speaker 1: Chargers attack vertically against pretty much everybody, with multiple forms
Speaker 1: of guys that can make big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams a big, tall, fifty fifty ball guy that
Speaker 1: really turns him into that Davante Parker ball. They've also
Speaker 1: got Jalen Guiton, who over half of his production in
Speaker 1: terms of his receiving yards this year has come on
Speaker 1: passes thrown over twenty yards down the field. Will check
Speaker 1: that out. Let's go ahead and get back now to
Speaker 1: coach Flores, and so we talk about the vertical threats
Speaker 1: outside with Mike Williams and Jalen Guiton, and Mike Williams
Speaker 1: is more than just a vertical threat, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is one of the better receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: A top ten draft pick once upon a time, but
Speaker 1: a guy that was drafted in the second round once
Speaker 1: upon time. Who has become, for my money, a top
Speaker 1: ten receiver and the very best route runner in the
Speaker 1: entire National Football League. For a long time, I went
Speaker 1: back and forth on Keenan Allen and Doug Baldwin in Seattle,
Speaker 1: but of course Baldwin retired, So now Keenan kind of
Speaker 1: has the the throne all to himself for my money,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and here from coach Flora's about Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen the challenges he presents inside slot. Because the Dolphins have,
Speaker 1: of course Byron Jones and Xavien Howard on the outside.
Speaker 1: Do they think about bringing one of those guys inside
Speaker 1: to cover Keenan Allen. Here's Coach Flora's on that answer.
Speaker 1: Keaton's are very very He's one of the top players
Speaker 1: in the league, very productive, very good route runner, good hands,
Speaker 1: good after the catch. I feel like I've seen him
Speaker 1: every year for the last ten years. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: good He's a very good player. Uh and uh. He
Speaker 1: poses a lot of problems, but they got they got
Speaker 1: other guys that post problems as well. Um, Guitan, you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. It's a hunter Henry m So we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to deal with with guys on a perimeter, obviously
Speaker 1: we need to deal with Keenan and the slot. When
Speaker 1: he's in the slot, I mean, they move him around
Speaker 1: so you can try to pinpoint where he is. But again,
Speaker 1: you know, hen does a good job of moving these
Speaker 1: guys around. Um. So again that that's that's part of
Speaker 1: the you know, some of our things we have to
Speaker 1: deal with defensively. Uh. But yeah, all those conversations have had.
Speaker 1: Um you know, do we move a guy that's primarily
Speaker 1: outside inside and you know, do we leave him outside
Speaker 1: and deal with the issues inside. Well, we move and
Speaker 1: they don't move, We're good. If we move and they move,
Speaker 1: you know, now you know they got what they want.
Speaker 1: We you know what I mean. It's just those are
Speaker 1: all the kind of gymnastics you go through as you're
Speaker 1: you're trying to game plan. So we'll see, you know,
Speaker 1: you'll find out on Sunday. But what we all know
Speaker 1: is that keen now is a very good player, and
Speaker 1: we know Herbert will be looking for him as you should. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to watch this matchup of the Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense versus a rookie quarterback because I think that one
Speaker 1: of the things this Dolphins defense does a good job
Speaker 1: of and I'm sure coach Flores would would tell you
Speaker 1: this as well, is they mix up their looks, they
Speaker 1: mix up their blitz looks and their coverages in the
Speaker 1: back end, and they find a way to create mismatches
Speaker 1: in the past rush game. We've talked about that for
Speaker 1: this entirety of the Drive Time podcast since it came
Speaker 1: to be a thing back in February, but also my
Speaker 1: time previously with Locked on Dolphins. We talked about how
Speaker 1: they find ways to scheme pressure on the quarterback through
Speaker 1: games and through stunts and twists and different overload blitzes
Speaker 1: and and trying to get the five guy up front
Speaker 1: of the offensive line into one protection look and then
Speaker 1: you bring something else and it causes confusion. It creates
Speaker 1: free rushers. We've seen it two weeks in a row
Speaker 1: now with Emmanuel og Ball, because when you send that
Speaker 1: zero pressure and you mug guys up in the A
Speaker 1: gaps in the B gaps and bring those linebackers down,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the running back back there, if
Speaker 1: there is somebody not an empty formation, if there's a
Speaker 1: running back or a tight end in formation, their job
Speaker 1: is to work inside out. You want to get the
Speaker 1: most immediate pressure on the quarterback coming right up the middle.
Speaker 1: Take care of that first, then work outside. And because
Speaker 1: of that, because of Jerome Baker and Kyle van Noy
Speaker 1: and you land In Roberts and all these guys that
Speaker 1: can put in those a gaps to simulate pressure that way,
Speaker 1: you have to worry about those guys. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you get Immanuel og Ball taking a
Speaker 1: free run on your quarterback and two games in a row,
Speaker 1: I mean that's produced fourteen points, not to mention Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson giving you seven more essentially with his strip sack
Speaker 1: and Kyle Van Noy's recovery down to the one yard
Speaker 1: line that Miami punched in one play later on a
Speaker 1: Miles gas Can touchdown run against the Rams. So the
Speaker 1: idea is to create confusion on the quarterback. It'll be
Speaker 1: a big test for Justin Herbert, the rookie. He's had
Speaker 1: a hell of a season. Good on good Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: and their pressure against the young quarterback. I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to see how he handles it on Sunday. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and flip this thing over to the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Coach Floors was asked about the offensive
Speaker 1: line combinations. We saw seven guys play on Sunday. Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley had the fifteen snaps, Austin Jackson had forty three,
Speaker 1: Julian Davenport out there for one snap. The other guys
Speaker 1: played the entire game, Jesse Davis flipping from left tackle
Speaker 1: to right guard. Here's Coach Flores on the Dolphins offensive line,
Speaker 1: the combinations, the rotations, what they might do on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Um as far as Solomon Kinley, you know, I talked
Speaker 1: to you all the offensive line. I talked to really,
Speaker 1: I try to talk to everyone on the team. But look,
Speaker 1: my message is normally the same. Let's improve, Let's get
Speaker 1: better every day. What happened last week or six weeks ago,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It's about what you do today. HI
Speaker 1: perform in practice today, and you know, I'll how you
Speaker 1: take advantage of opportunities when they when they present themselves.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Coach Flores is Thursday morning media availability.
Speaker 1: If you guys want to see that and its entirety,
Speaker 1: go ahead and check it out up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com as well as the team's YouTube page. You
Speaker 1: also can find Dolphins Today up there, as well as
Speaker 1: all the press conferences for your Dolphins players and coaches
Speaker 1: here on the Miami Dolphins YouTube page. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get nowt to my interview with Dolphins tight end
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheen and I had been putting this piece together
Speaker 1: up on Miami Dolphins dot com for a little bit
Speaker 1: of time here looking at the tight end room because
Speaker 1: I'm so fascinated by the number of jobs these guys
Speaker 1: have to fulfill in terms of past protection, run game scheme,
Speaker 1: getting into the routes and route combinations for the quarterback
Speaker 1: when he does throw the football to the tight ends,
Speaker 1: and not just that, but special teams as well. Having
Speaker 1: Chandler Cox of fullback in that room too. There's so
Speaker 1: many different has these guys have to wear. You might
Speaker 1: have heard in the past that tight ends one of
Speaker 1: the harder positions for rookie to come in and have
Speaker 1: an immediate impact. We saw Mike Asiki kind of have
Speaker 1: a glow up from year one to year two. We've
Speaker 1: seen it across the league several times with the young
Speaker 1: tight ends making more of an impact in their second year,
Speaker 1: and you can understand why they have so many roles.
Speaker 1: They have to fulfill and it's probably a lot early
Speaker 1: on for these guys, but right now Miami has a
Speaker 1: good mix of veterans in that room, but young veterans
Speaker 1: really because both Gasicki and Smite have been the league
Speaker 1: for three years now. Adam Shaheen and his fourth season
Speaker 1: just got the contract extension. So we talked to Adam
Speaker 1: about the tight end room, had a little bit of
Speaker 1: a buzz round, uh speed round with him rather talking
Speaker 1: about who's the best at what and that tight end
Speaker 1: room and just some fun questions for Adam Sheheen. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and turn out to my interview with Dolphins
Speaker 1: tight end Adam Sheheen and joining me now on the
Speaker 1: Drive Time podcast is Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen. Adam,
Speaker 1: how you doing, man? What's going on? Not too much?
Speaker 1: It's gonna talk to you here. I like to always
Speaker 1: ask the players on the podcast. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: a long season. Football's a war of attrition. How's the
Speaker 1: body feeling right now? Man? You know, not too bad.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody at this point has some some bumps
Speaker 1: and bruises, but you know we're working through it and
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of finished strong over the last
Speaker 1: half of the season. And I think one of the
Speaker 1: more intriguing parts about the tight end position in the
Speaker 1: NFL is the fact that it's kind of a small room.
Speaker 1: You don't have, you know, offensive line or wide receiver
Speaker 1: where you have ten twelve guys in that room at
Speaker 1: a time. I'm curious to to know kind of how
Speaker 1: you've you've kind of kind of become innundated with the
Speaker 1: Dolphin's tight end room here with Mike A. Sicki and
Speaker 1: Durham Smith, and how you've kind of been accepted among
Speaker 1: those guys in that tight ends room. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like, for me, this is the best room
Speaker 1: I've been in as far as like what what I
Speaker 1: worked well with. So it's been really uh good. Those
Speaker 1: guys are awesome as well as Chris and Chandler and
Speaker 1: then you know the other tight end coaches with Mike
Speaker 1: and Shahn. So it's been a really good fit. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun, and you know, we've been
Speaker 1: able to go out there and actually been playing pretty
Speaker 1: good and be a positive as a whole I think
Speaker 1: for the offense. So yeah, you you mentioned their Chris
Speaker 1: Myrick obviously and Chandler Cox. The Dolphins fullback here. And
Speaker 1: I want to say it was coach at Godsey who
Speaker 1: mentioned something about the muscle room. Is that what you
Speaker 1: guys call that? Is that a different separate thing? How
Speaker 1: did you get into the muscle room? Like, what's the
Speaker 1: requirements to get yourself into the muscle club? I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say we're muscle Well, I think that's just a George
Speaker 1: term likes to you know, Chandler's, you know, pretty stocky guys.
Speaker 1: So I think he just likes to give Chandler a
Speaker 1: little well actual love for that. So so, Adam, I've
Speaker 1: got a great picture that's gonna go on the feature,
Speaker 1: the written feature on Mimi Dolphins dot com for you know,
Speaker 1: talking about the Dolphins tight end room. And it's a
Speaker 1: great picture of you and Mike and Durham celebrating after
Speaker 1: Durham's first career touchdown catch. And I was just curious,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about the brotherhood of that room.
Speaker 1: Was there any like unique initiation or type of thing
Speaker 1: you had to do to kind of be accepted or
Speaker 1: like a moment where it was like, Okay, he's one
Speaker 1: of the boys. And I know that both those guys
Speaker 1: are really tight, like best friends was the was you
Speaker 1: coming in was an instant and it takes some time?
Speaker 1: Was there a moment and like how did that happen? Um?
Speaker 1: You know there was an initial like initiation. I think,
Speaker 1: like you know most rooms, I think, came in and
Speaker 1: it worked hard and you know just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: earn their respect and you know, come friends after that.
Speaker 1: So one of the yeah, I guess, I guess time
Speaker 1: to change as far as any possible hazing. But you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have that anyway, because you're not a rookie anymore.
Speaker 1: So no, no more of that in the NFL. But
Speaker 1: I do want to go back to Mike Kasiki's rookie year,
Speaker 1: and I was curious if you'd seen this. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that it would come up for you, but they
Speaker 1: did this thing back when players got drafted in that class,
Speaker 1: where they had a few guys attempt to draw their
Speaker 1: team's logos. Have you seen that? No, I haven't seen that, Okay,
Speaker 1: So so you asked Mike about it one of these days.
Speaker 1: He tried to draw the Dolphins logo and it I
Speaker 1: won't tell you what it looks like. It's just it's
Speaker 1: not good. I was curious if you hadn't seen that
Speaker 1: if you'd give them a hard time for it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: George would appreciate that as well. I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: shoot over to you after this, after this phone call,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll, you'll really appreciate you can give him a
Speaker 1: hard time for it. I want to play a quick
Speaker 1: speed round with you right here. Among among those three guys,
Speaker 1: we can go ahead and throw Chandler and Chris and
Speaker 1: there as well, just a real quick speed round about
Speaker 1: who is the best at category X? So to speak?
Speaker 1: You go with that? Sure? Okay? Who do you think
Speaker 1: is the best dancer among you guys? Do I go?
Speaker 1: Do I have to count myself? Of course? Okay, I'd
Speaker 1: save dancers. Chandler, Chandler. What's his best move? Um? Some
Speaker 1: kind of circle? Some kind of circle move. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you would know this because you've been here
Speaker 1: only since you know, COVID became part of our lifestyle.
Speaker 1: But who do you think might be the best cook
Speaker 1: or best chef, best best person in the kitchen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's your go to specialty? Steak? Awesome? Awesome? I love that.
Speaker 1: I can't go wrong with good steak. Who is the
Speaker 1: best basketball player? Oh? Um? You know, I think either
Speaker 1: I obviously Mike play, but on the he's got some
Speaker 1: length and some athleticism, and then Durham I can see
Speaker 1: being described. I don't know. I played college basketball too,
Speaker 1: so maybe Mike, we'll give it some Mike, I played
Speaker 1: Division two ball my first year in college, and then
Speaker 1: I transferred to play football. How about the best joke
Speaker 1: slash storyteller? Joke slash storyteller? Um like, who's the class clown?
Speaker 1: I guess class clown? Um mm hmm. Maybe Mike it's Mike. Yeah?
Speaker 1: Does does he? Does he come in with like the
Speaker 1: you know here, what's the deal with airplane food? Or
Speaker 1: is he? Is he a little more just kind of
Speaker 1: off the cuff. No, it's more so just laughing. I
Speaker 1: guess I'm not not not not a like an initial
Speaker 1: like a joke. Yeah it's a good Yeah. Back to
Speaker 1: the back to the muscle club? Who who bench patches
Speaker 1: the most? Chris? That was quick? Yeah, yeah, that was easy.
Speaker 1: Who's the who's the best dress of the group? Best dress?
Speaker 1: I mean it's tough. I don't see these guys much
Speaker 1: outside of facility with COVID, right, so maybe, uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Chandler. Okay, can see him. He got a
Speaker 1: bunch of Lulu stuff. Chandler, there you go. I think
Speaker 1: I heard someone talking about Mike's Lulu the other day too.
Speaker 1: It's maybe it's a maybe it's a tight end thing
Speaker 1: for the Lulu um and the last one for you here,
Speaker 1: who's got the best taste in music? Like? Who who's
Speaker 1: the guy that gets the Bluetooth connect when you guys
Speaker 1: are on if you were to take a road trip, Oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta give Durham one here. We gotta give Durham
Speaker 1: one here, so we'll give it. I would I would
Speaker 1: have guessed just total assumption that Durham's a country music guy.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong on that? I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I could see it for sure, I
Speaker 1: don't know for sure. No, it's a it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the kind of the blue collar mentality that Durham
Speaker 1: has and that coach Godzie always talks about when he
Speaker 1: when he tells the media about how much he appreciates
Speaker 1: the way Durham works. And speaking of George Godzi, you know,
Speaker 1: we get a chance to talk to the assistant coaches
Speaker 1: every other Tuesday. We get to hit a chance to
Speaker 1: talk to George the media, and I always really appreciate
Speaker 1: the way he communicates his answers to us. What can
Speaker 1: you say about what type of communicator George Godzia is
Speaker 1: one of a kind. Just the way he says things
Speaker 1: and get to the crosses, you know, very unique. We'll
Speaker 1: take it. That sounds great. Yeah, he's I always he's
Speaker 1: always in depth. I always appreciate that about him. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to when you arrived here, Adam. We'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and close with this um. When you were first
Speaker 1: traded in Miami, what was your initial thought? I mean
Speaker 1: I was I was pretty happy just you know, become
Speaker 1: coming down and have an opportunity to play, so you know,
Speaker 1: I had to get some things right healthy wise and
Speaker 1: being able to do those with them, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of good help from the training staff and the coaches,
Speaker 1: and you know it's paid off for me and hopefully
Speaker 1: you know, paid off for the team. I think as well,
Speaker 1: it's been good. Well, I think the proof of the
Speaker 1: putting there as far as it paying off for you
Speaker 1: and the team is is the contract extension. What was
Speaker 1: your thoughts, you know, kind of going from the process
Speaker 1: of being traded and then getting to a new team
Speaker 1: and then you know, halfway through the season or less
Speaker 1: than that, you've got a new contract here with the Dolphins. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean for me is just like uh man, we
Speaker 1: got traded. You know, usually that's not always the greatest thing.
Speaker 1: And came in here, like I said, with some health
Speaker 1: and stuff and just work through it and pretty much
Speaker 1: put my nose down and with everything I could and
Speaker 1: played as hard as I could. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm happy with the results so far. So but like
Speaker 1: I said, we still dote eight games left, absolutely, Adam, Well,
Speaker 1: I won't take up too much more your time, you know,
Speaker 1: enjoy enjoy the rest of your day, and I guess
Speaker 1: to get back into the film there and stuff, and uh,
Speaker 1: we won't won't keep you the longer on draft. I
Speaker 1: appreciate your time today, Adam. Thanks. I appreciate And there
Speaker 1: he goes. That was Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen. If
Speaker 1: you guys want to see the feature up on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com, go ahead and go there Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot Com. The tight End Room one of many hats
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: this Thursday edition of the Drive Time Podcast with some
Speaker 1: player media availability, and we'll go ahead and start with
Speaker 1: veteran offensive lineman he plays everywhere, Jesse Davis. And first,
Speaker 1: Jesse was asked, you know, you're one of the guys
Speaker 1: that has been here for a few years now and
Speaker 1: we're here to the entirety of last year and now
Speaker 1: year two into head coaches head coach Brian Flores' tenure
Speaker 1: in Miami, with the Dolphins playing good football right now,
Speaker 1: winners of four straight, what are some of the things
Speaker 1: you've seen kind of flip and turn around for this
Speaker 1: team to make that jump and have a stronger first
Speaker 1: half this season than you had last season. Here's Jesse
Speaker 1: on that. You know, we kind of flipped it pretty quick,
Speaker 1: and we've we've had some good leadership on this team.
Speaker 1: Our defenses, you know, really playing really well, and then
Speaker 1: our quarterback situation is really well as as well. In
Speaker 1: the old line kind of had our struggles too, but
Speaker 1: I feel like we're on the top end of things
Speaker 1: right now and trying to get that solidified to hopefully
Speaker 1: a little bit more. You know, we'll have more production
Speaker 1: on offense for sure, and we talked a lot about
Speaker 1: running backs on this podcast. You heard coach off the
Speaker 1: top of the episode talk about Matt Brita, a little
Speaker 1: bit of DeAndre Washington talk as well the Dolphins new
Speaker 1: running back who was acquired on trade deadline day. Here's
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis talking about a player who made his NFL
Speaker 1: debut on Sunday and the win in Arizona, savan Akhmed.
Speaker 1: Here's Jesse on Miami's workie running back who led the
Speaker 1: team in rushing with thirty eight yards on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's willing to learn. He's a really coach
Speaker 1: and pull back. Um, he's a quick, really fast guy.
Speaker 1: Especially have the backfield that's to it kind of helps
Speaker 1: our offensive move as you know, those faster guys that
Speaker 1: can you know, hit the whole and lead on. No,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him, you know, develop more obviously
Speaker 1: gasking and newly developed. And I feel like that's a
Speaker 1: similar type of running back. And earlier in the press conference,
Speaker 1: Jesse alluded to some improvements in the leadership that he
Speaker 1: thinks he's seen in the recent Dolphins team, and he
Speaker 1: was asked to expand on that. So here's Jesse on
Speaker 1: improvements in leadership and the guys that are brought in
Speaker 1: here coaching these guys and the guys that we brought
Speaker 1: in in free agency or in the draft, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, they kind of did a really good job
Speaker 1: getting that done. And we you know, we have guys
Speaker 1: that stepped up and more vocal, especially younger guys too.
Speaker 1: You know. It's kind of a good little marriage we
Speaker 1: had going on. I feel like it's only gonna do that.
Speaker 1: And we kind of continue our theme of talking about
Speaker 1: the running game here on this Thursday edition of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast with Jesse Davis talking about where the team
Speaker 1: can can improve the running game and kind of get
Speaker 1: rolling with some success early in the game on the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, as soon as we can get him get
Speaker 1: those first downs rollingly, I feel like we gain a
Speaker 1: momentum and that kind of opens up to play calling
Speaker 1: a little bit too, you know, and we can get
Speaker 1: the run game established. And obviously it hasn't been that
Speaker 1: great in the run game and kind of more reliable
Speaker 1: in the past or the you know, the RPO kind
Speaker 1: of world. But if we can get that run game going,
Speaker 1: you know, we can open up a lot more and
Speaker 1: then hopefully I have two more comfortable back there as well.
Speaker 1: And you heard Jesse talk about savan Akhmed earlier in
Speaker 1: the podcast. Let's go ahead and hear from someone we
Speaker 1: have never heard from before on the Drivetime podcast. He
Speaker 1: made as NFL debut on Sunday. Savan Akhmed, who was
Speaker 1: first asked about the impact of having Miles Gasking here
Speaker 1: with him in Miami and how much he kind of
Speaker 1: helped show Savon the ropes like he did back at
Speaker 1: the University of Washington. But still Gokus, Oh, man, he's
Speaker 1: been tremendous. Just like when I first got to Washington,
Speaker 1: you know, I was a freshman using junior and you know,
Speaker 1: he just kind of showed me the roots and make
Speaker 1: sure I was good. So, you know, definitely a blessing
Speaker 1: to be to be a part of this organization. Also
Speaker 1: to be with Miles again. And so Savon and Miles
Speaker 1: lived together in college at the University of Washington. And
Speaker 1: apparently there was a midnight race that went down one
Speaker 1: night here Savon on that race, Yeah, man, because we
Speaker 1: lived together in college, so, um, you know there's a
Speaker 1: night he was votes going back and forth. Um, because
Speaker 1: in high school he had beat me in the our
Speaker 1: four by one and came down to like inches and
Speaker 1: he had beat me when I was fifteen years old.
Speaker 1: He was. He was a senior at the time. So
Speaker 1: we were just talking about that and then we just
Speaker 1: kind of it was late. He was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's just go to race. And we had raced a
Speaker 1: couple of times, and you know, I got him in
Speaker 1: the like the first two and he got me on
Speaker 1: the last three year them. So I think it came
Speaker 1: down to a conditioning thing. And I love these these
Speaker 1: young kids in their first time doing this type of
Speaker 1: thing because you and just see a big smile on
Speaker 1: Savan's face while he's giving us press conference, and that's
Speaker 1: a perfect lead into this question that was asked him
Speaker 1: about the emotions or how special it was to him
Speaker 1: to make his NFL debut on Sunday. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was it was so cool to be a part of
Speaker 1: you know, I just wanted to go out there and waiting.
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to do do whatever I could
Speaker 1: and my party to go out there and win. So
Speaker 1: it was definitely a childhood dream to be a part
Speaker 1: of that. You know, it's a big time game and
Speaker 1: a big win for our organization. So you know, for me,
Speaker 1: it was it was I was happy to be a
Speaker 1: part of that. And obviously, you know the first game,
Speaker 1: you know, you just kind of go into it excited
Speaker 1: and I was happy, you know, you know, blessed like that,
Speaker 1: the opportunity that you know, coach loan and does the
Speaker 1: gaming opportunity to go do that. So I was happy
Speaker 1: to be a part of that. And you know, get
Speaker 1: out there with a win. Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up here with savon on the big run he had
Speaker 1: the nineteen yard or on Sunday was the biggest of
Speaker 1: the day for the Dolphins and obviously the biggest and
Speaker 1: a young career so far of Savan Akhmed uh Man.
Speaker 1: Make the most of it, make the most of it,
Speaker 1: and then you know, kind of just hold onto the ball, um,
Speaker 1: kind do do what I've been coached to do, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I think I was running that patch of
Speaker 1: Puterson and I'm like, oh man, that's pat p So
Speaker 1: that was kind of cool. But uh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it was kind of you know, credits to the offensive line.
Speaker 1: You know, they you know, they weren't really hard and um,
Speaker 1: you know, they're able to open up some stuff for us.
Speaker 1: And as a team. So that was that was really cool,
Speaker 1: and not only in the ring game, but also in
Speaker 1: the past game. Let's go ahead and go on the
Speaker 1: other side of the football here and here from Dolphins
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Zack Steeler on the fourth down stop towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game late in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: That really helped the Dolphins get I guess it did
Speaker 1: get in the football back, really help the Dolphins find
Speaker 1: victory as the offense went down and kicked the field
Speaker 1: goal on the following drive. And then of course Miami's
Speaker 1: defense boat up late in the game. Again, here's Zack
Speaker 1: Steeler on the fourth down stop late in that game.
Speaker 1: I mean, plays like that always feel good. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just uh, it really was just just close acted coaching. Um,
Speaker 1: especially those fourth and inches, third, third and shorts. The
Speaker 1: key's just knocked back and make sure your gaps on
Speaker 1: and go from there. Um. If you don't get knocked
Speaker 1: back during get he's gonna fall for the end anyways.
Speaker 1: So um, that's kind of my mindset going into that fourth,
Speaker 1: fourth and short was and you did see the knock
Speaker 1: back on that players Zach was able to engage and
Speaker 1: then kind of toss his man to the side, and
Speaker 1: it was one on one and that gap between he
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals left guard on that place. So big
Speaker 1: time play by Zach Seeler. Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: this thing up here with Bobby McCain, who was asked
Speaker 1: specifically about quarterback Justin Herbert and what the Chargers QB does. Well,
Speaker 1: he's good. He's a really good pastor. He's got a
Speaker 1: good he's got a really good deep ball. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: even though he's a rookie, you can tell he's he's
Speaker 1: seeing things a lot better than he was when we
Speaker 1: first got in um in the beginning of the year. Um,
Speaker 1: he feels a lot more comfortable. So Um, you know
Speaker 1: he's a big, big, tall frame guy, big got big arm. Um.
Speaker 1: That was a deep ball. Well, and you know he's
Speaker 1: gotta keep it. We gotta keep him in front of us.
Speaker 1: And you've heard me talk on this podcast a lot
Speaker 1: about the work of Bobby McCain on the back end
Speaker 1: of that defense, limiting deep passing over the three game
Speaker 1: the three games of the winning streak, zero for fourteen
Speaker 1: in deep passing. We're opposing quarterbacks on throw us twenty
Speaker 1: or more yards downfield. You heard me talk about it
Speaker 1: in the preview podcast on Wednesday, how the Chargers have
Speaker 1: been one of the more efficient teams throwing deep over
Speaker 1: the top, so good on good Bobby McCain versus Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert in that regard, and of course a lot of
Speaker 1: the other players on the defense. With the pass rush
Speaker 1: combining up with the coverage on the back end, we'll
Speaker 1: go a long way to determining who wins that game
Speaker 1: on Sunday a hard Rock Stadium. All right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be my time here on this Thursday edition of the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast. We'll come back tomorrow and have the
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Speaker 1: Dolphins and Chargers Sunday at hard Rock Stadium. In the meantime,
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