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Speaker 1: today show, we're flashing this thing back to two thousand six.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins shut the Patriots out twenty one nothing in
Speaker 1: Week fourteen of that season. We're gonna talk to former
Speaker 1: Dolphins receiver Marty Booker about that game. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: Seth and o J here on the podcast from the
Speaker 1: Fish Tank to talk about that game as well, and
Speaker 1: Marty Booker, and we'll go ahead and get you the
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Speaker 1: a big, big game here in the a f C
Speaker 1: East as wide receivers DeVante Parker and Jachem Grant as
Speaker 1: well as tight end Mike Siki will all be questionable
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Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com. Our top news article has the latest
Speaker 1: on Dolphins and Patriots. And joining me now on the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast is former Dolphins wide receiver Marty Booker. Marty,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me today. Thanks for having me. It's
Speaker 1: a pleasure, real pleasure. Yeah. I I told you before
Speaker 1: we started recording the podcast here that I heard you
Speaker 1: on the Fish Tank. It must have been about a
Speaker 1: year ago, but now they're in the Dolphins network as
Speaker 1: well as Drive Time as well, so figured how had
Speaker 1: to get you on here and talk about some of this.
Speaker 1: You know, I always call it my golden era as
Speaker 1: a Dolphins fan, not necessarily because of the wins and losses,
Speaker 1: but because I grew up in that late nineties early
Speaker 1: two thousand stretch where you and Chris and Randy McMichael
Speaker 1: and all these guys were featured prominently. But before we
Speaker 1: get into that, Marty, you'd like to ask my guest
Speaker 1: here on the podcast, what have you been up to
Speaker 1: in your post playing career. How's how's life for Marty Booker?
Speaker 1: I can't complain, you know, I've been uh fortunate enough
Speaker 1: to be able to stick around here and continue to
Speaker 1: live here and enjoy this Florida weather. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I've just been being able to work with Kevin Burnett
Speaker 1: over at uh mccarthur High School and coaching receivers and everything.
Speaker 1: It's it was a trying year this year, just because
Speaker 1: of the whole COVID situation and everything, and and plus
Speaker 1: at the time, they didn't know what they were gonna have,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have any games at all, And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they decided to, you know, uh, to let
Speaker 1: some teams have games. And the good thing about us.
Speaker 1: We only had four games. Uh, so we they was
Speaker 1: considering four games and maybe two bowl games after that
Speaker 1: or whatever. But you know, after going through the season
Speaker 1: and and and having a disastrous season that we had, UM,
Speaker 1: we decided not to do the bowl games. Of course
Speaker 1: we went over and four um, but we had a
Speaker 1: lot of freshman sophomores and and the thing I learned
Speaker 1: about Florida and and and how it is now is that,
Speaker 1: uh there's no county line and kids are able to
Speaker 1: go to and transfer and go to any school that
Speaker 1: they want. So it's it's it's kind of like college.
Speaker 1: You have to get out there recruit guys and try
Speaker 1: to get some of the best before other teams get
Speaker 1: them and jump on them. So we were left without
Speaker 1: a lot of uh good guys and stuff. So we
Speaker 1: had to make do with what we had. And like
Speaker 1: I said, we had a lot of freshman sophomore so
Speaker 1: we were able to to take them out there and
Speaker 1: let them get that experience of Unfortunately, you know, our
Speaker 1: probably our average defeat was like thirty points, but you know,
Speaker 1: at least the kids got some experience at that and
Speaker 1: they were able to enjoy. So that's pretty much what
Speaker 1: I've been doing and just trying to instill my time
Speaker 1: into teaching these kids and and trying to spread the
Speaker 1: little knowledge that I did gain as playing to them.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of things you mentioned that I want
Speaker 1: to ask about, because one the South Florida weather. Being
Speaker 1: a Pacific Northwest person myself, it's amazing. I left my
Speaker 1: apartment this morning to go for a jog in December,
Speaker 1: you know, in shorts and a T shirt. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: Is that what kept you in South Florida? Like? Is
Speaker 1: that the driving force to keep you here? A of course? Uh,
Speaker 1: I grew up in Louisiana, so I got some of
Speaker 1: the good weather and and and it gets cold. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not as snowy. It it's nothing like the
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest, of course, but they do get a chance
Speaker 1: to see the seasons. And that's what I enjoyed about there.
Speaker 1: But here, like you said, you know, you you get
Speaker 1: sunshine year around, and what we had a cold spell
Speaker 1: with last week and where everybody's bringing out the big
Speaker 1: coats and it was only like sixty sixty degrees during
Speaker 1: the day and it maybe got a low of forty
Speaker 1: degrees or something like that. And everybody's freezing, you know,
Speaker 1: And and I look at that and I think about,
Speaker 1: what would you understand Chicago, where it's brutally cold. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the snow. You're driving in the snow.
Speaker 1: And I've done that for years, and I wasn't I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to do that at all. No, my my
Speaker 1: friends will send me snapchats of back home and it's
Speaker 1: like gray and the leaves are all the trees. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good here. I'll just go ahead and in
Speaker 1: fact forget there's something for the vacation wise to go
Speaker 1: back and and and to see it. Loans it there
Speaker 1: for a few days or whatever, but then you have
Speaker 1: to come back. Yes, I think I might go check
Speaker 1: out my Seattle Mariners, like in May when the weather
Speaker 1: is perfect up there. So maybe that would be the
Speaker 1: time where I get out of the South Florida heat
Speaker 1: and go back to the nice summer weather up in
Speaker 1: the Northwest. But you know, you also mentioned that the coaches,
Speaker 1: the former Dolphins coaches. I had no idea that you
Speaker 1: and Kevin Burnett were both coaching together. That's that's awesome, man,
Speaker 1: because we talked about you know, passer Tan squad and
Speaker 1: Shannon talks about getting out there and Jason Taylor's out there,
Speaker 1: It's like, man, what a better place to to develop
Speaker 1: this young football talent in South Florida because all you
Speaker 1: guys are out there coaching, Like what got you into that?
Speaker 1: Just you know, after a while, you is, it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to kind of stay away from me, especially
Speaker 1: when you continuously sit here and you joined the sport
Speaker 1: and you continuously sit here to watch it and watch it,
Speaker 1: and you watch it and it's like the juices and
Speaker 1: the bugs started the year up and stuff, and and
Speaker 1: you know, you we you gotta think playing for years
Speaker 1: in the NFL was just if you take it back
Speaker 1: to high school and then you go to college and
Speaker 1: then you go to the pros and you spend so
Speaker 1: many years when you're learning and developing so much in
Speaker 1: this game that you have so much knowledge and then
Speaker 1: after a while, you know, you you want to get
Speaker 1: yourself back out there and just to get that feel
Speaker 1: of being around uh, the whole football atmosphere. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, you have so much knowledge to spread
Speaker 1: to these kids and and they're willing to sit there
Speaker 1: and eat it and soak it up. I'm willing to
Speaker 1: UH to spread out there to them as much as
Speaker 1: I can. You know, like I said, so much talent
Speaker 1: down here, Like you said, so many coaches. You've got
Speaker 1: Pat over there UH coaching heritage with h he has
Speaker 1: a run day gassing on his squad, on his UH
Speaker 1: coaching staff. You got uh St Thomas where JT is
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, and and guys just kind of spreading
Speaker 1: themselves around and trying to do stuff. And as athletes,
Speaker 1: you know, we kind of always if you enjoy it
Speaker 1: and you loved it, of course you want to always
Speaker 1: kind of be around it. Um then especially you know,
Speaker 1: you've got guys who have kids too, and they want
Speaker 1: to be out there with their kids and coaching their kids.
Speaker 1: So you know, for us to get back out there
Speaker 1: and and and do that, it's it's a joy. It's
Speaker 1: fun to talk about too. I mean, high school football,
Speaker 1: it's I love it. I can't get enough. A Friday
Speaker 1: night lights, It's it's the best. And you know, speaking
Speaker 1: of alumni here, we've had plenty of teammates of yours
Speaker 1: on the podcast in the past, plenty of guys prior
Speaker 1: to your playing days. You know they were on the
Speaker 1: podcast as well. But one of the most memorable guests
Speaker 1: I get every single every single year or every single
Speaker 1: you know, Timing comes on its Channing Crowder and we've
Speaker 1: got to talk about this two thousand and six shutout
Speaker 1: victory over the Patriots here eventually. But I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a little let's call to clap back opportunity because
Speaker 1: Janny came here on the podcast man and that the
Speaker 1: two five season opening win over the Broncos. You had
Speaker 1: a sixty yard touchdown reception running away from the entire
Speaker 1: Denver secondary. So I asked Channing about that play because
Speaker 1: you know it was the first game of the season.
Speaker 1: The South Florida just sweat box that it is down here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He he credited the Miami humidity for those yards after
Speaker 1: catch for you. He talked about it. But I want
Speaker 1: to give you a chance to respond to Channing about
Speaker 1: your speed, like take take the flour man. You know
Speaker 1: what I've always had that that issue where everybody just
Speaker 1: discredit him my speed. Everybody don't not believe that I
Speaker 1: can run. They always say, oh, he's a possession receiver.
Speaker 1: Oh he can't. Everything he does is inside. It's funny
Speaker 1: that that even mentioned. That is the simple fact that
Speaker 1: I just received. Like it's like a little small little
Speaker 1: highlight thing from the NFL, and most of the highlights
Speaker 1: on there is me on the side kitchen deep balls.
Speaker 1: So I'm able to but I don't have speed, but
Speaker 1: you see me running past guys and jumping over guys
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So you know, I I always
Speaker 1: can not to bicker about it or anything. I I
Speaker 1: always just like you know what, I just let my
Speaker 1: speed do the talking and then just underestimating. So and
Speaker 1: then there was another time when I went back to
Speaker 1: Chicago and I was able to have a big run
Speaker 1: and out run the defense and the same thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's where did this speed come from. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've always had this, so it's it's it's all funny games.
Speaker 1: But you know I have stuff and I have proof
Speaker 1: to back all that stuff up. And I do remember
Speaker 1: that game. It was. It was incredible because they came
Speaker 1: here and I think the whole team was just about
Speaker 1: in the in the locker room getting I V s
Speaker 1: and stuff. I know, Champ went down Linda Walls or
Speaker 1: other cornerback and there was so many guys going down
Speaker 1: having to get I d S just because it was
Speaker 1: so hot, and that was a good thing about us.
Speaker 1: We could use that to our advantage, and that day
Speaker 1: we did. But Channing, I have some some crazy stuff
Speaker 1: about that dude. I don't know if I can see
Speaker 1: it on the podcast, but he a man. That stuff
Speaker 1: that kid used to do that I will always catch
Speaker 1: him doing and always be like look at him, like
Speaker 1: come on, guys, what you're doing? And it was always
Speaker 1: funny games with him. Man, He's he's a character within itself.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna text Seth and O J and tell him
Speaker 1: to get you and Channing on the pod together on
Speaker 1: the fish tank. That's that's a little more fish tank realm,
Speaker 1: I think. So we'll go ahead and just save that
Speaker 1: for another day. But let's go ahead and talk about
Speaker 1: this game here. You had mentioned, um, you know that
Speaker 1: that he and the I V for the Broncos players
Speaker 1: and not oh five opener, But in this O six
Speaker 1: Patriots game, you know, guys enter at five and seven.
Speaker 1: The Patriots are kind of and what they had become
Speaker 1: familiar territory for them. They're nine and three and you
Speaker 1: guys picked them off with a convincing shutout victory. I'm curious, Marty.
Speaker 1: We talked about the September heat, but maybe it's similar
Speaker 1: in December. What is it about these December Dolphins Patriots
Speaker 1: games in Miami that always seem to come right down
Speaker 1: to the wire. Well, like you said, that umited and
Speaker 1: that heat is it's a big adjustment. And I learned
Speaker 1: that earlier when I first got down back down here too,
Speaker 1: when I got traded. Is that your body and then
Speaker 1: your blood thickens up when you're in that cold, and
Speaker 1: once you get down here, you know, it's hard for
Speaker 1: you to breathe and hard for you to just I
Speaker 1: don't care what time of year it is, even if
Speaker 1: it's in the sixties or whatever, it's still donna affect you.
Speaker 1: So that helps most dramatically for for any of us
Speaker 1: going into that that time of the year or whatever.
Speaker 1: The Patriots, like you said, that's are all time game,
Speaker 1: especially coming down here, because we always want to see
Speaker 1: when they're gonna be able to come down here and
Speaker 1: and see if we're gonna be able to go there
Speaker 1: before it starts to get cold. And you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it always worked out where unfortunately we had to go
Speaker 1: up there when it was cold, and they would come
Speaker 1: down here when it was hot instead of you know,
Speaker 1: vice versa. So when you know the temperature, we're kind
Speaker 1: of tapering off a little bit. But you know, that's
Speaker 1: the good thing about I love about being in Florida
Speaker 1: because you know, no one can come down here, no
Speaker 1: matter what time here and and take that heat. And
Speaker 1: and like you said, the Patriots were nine and three
Speaker 1: at the time, and and to to do what we
Speaker 1: did twenty one and nothing I think I had. I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar. I'm not sure about exact catches or yards
Speaker 1: and stuff, but I do remember the touchdown and everything,
Speaker 1: and Jason and the defense Rea can havoc on Um
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, I think getting sacks and a couple of
Speaker 1: forced fumbles and stuff, so that I know that helped
Speaker 1: us out a lot. I've got some stats right here
Speaker 1: for because I was gonna ask you next. You had
Speaker 1: a big day, eight catches, a hundred and three yards
Speaker 1: and the touchdown, and you know, I was I was
Speaker 1: kind of trying to figure out where I wanted to
Speaker 1: go with with that production of yours. And I think
Speaker 1: what I want to know the most is what is
Speaker 1: it about that Patriots defense that was. You know, for years,
Speaker 1: regardless of the personnel, they would they would send guys
Speaker 1: out and bring new guys in, and they always found production.
Speaker 1: But from a receiver's perspective, what was challenging about finding
Speaker 1: soft spots in their zone or beating their man coverage.
Speaker 1: You're trying to find a way to just get production
Speaker 1: on that Bill Belichick defense in this game, like twenty
Speaker 1: one points from your offense, just taking what they give you. Man,
Speaker 1: The Patriots stayed the defense used it speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: They're very discipline it and their whole key is they
Speaker 1: would mess up, and I mean as you mess up,
Speaker 1: they jump on you and they capitalize on you. So
Speaker 1: going to any of the games with the Patriots, we
Speaker 1: were always do not mess up, stay disciplined, do not
Speaker 1: turn the ball over to them, because once they turned ball,
Speaker 1: you give them any kind of extra opportunities or motivation,
Speaker 1: they're gonna jump on it and probably put you away.
Speaker 1: So forwards their defense, it was more of just longest
Speaker 1: we could just kind of maintain and pick our little
Speaker 1: pieces here and there. We knew after a while it
Speaker 1: will start to open up. Uh. You know, you have
Speaker 1: to look at them because they always kept a good
Speaker 1: pass for us. They're alway there, front forward, the front seven,
Speaker 1: always coming no matter what. And once you're able to,
Speaker 1: you know, block them up and and and move them
Speaker 1: around and you would have success. And the good thing
Speaker 1: about that day we had some success on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. And you mentioned playing turn over free football.
Speaker 1: That's what happened in this game. Your offense didn't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over with quarterback Joey Harrington at the controls.
Speaker 1: And you know, you guys had seen a few quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that year, and then your four year stint with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: you actually played with nine quarterbacks. I was just curious
Speaker 1: how challenging was that to go through so many quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And what did Joey do that season, I think the
Speaker 1: only season he actually played here for the Dolphins on
Speaker 1: the field, what did he do to to kind of
Speaker 1: give you guys some offensive success down the back half
Speaker 1: of that oh six season, we did have a lot
Speaker 1: of success, especially when Joey came in, uh Man, just
Speaker 1: to touch on food all the different quarterbacks. I I
Speaker 1: tell guys all the time, I'm like, be grateful that,
Speaker 1: you know, for guys who were able to just play
Speaker 1: with one guy and one good quarterback. Be grateful for that,
Speaker 1: you know, because there were many times even when you
Speaker 1: go back to my Chicago days, there was probably double
Speaker 1: digit quarterbacks there too, and going through that, and you
Speaker 1: will go through the week and not know what quarterback
Speaker 1: you were going to get. So you just had to
Speaker 1: just and to say the career that I was able
Speaker 1: to have and with and and to make do with
Speaker 1: what I had, I'm gracious and proud of what I
Speaker 1: was able to accomplish and everything. Uh, you know, that year,
Speaker 1: you know, we we started to get on a win
Speaker 1: streak towards then in there and we had some pretty
Speaker 1: good games, I think going into Thanksgiving also with Joey,
Speaker 1: you know, having a good game, and I think we
Speaker 1: ended up trying to get ourselves back into it and
Speaker 1: I think we end up losing the last second to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and kind of hurt us. Uh some chances there,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, you know, Joey came in
Speaker 1: and and and he got on the Terror and he
Speaker 1: was playing pretty good football. He was playing the state
Speaker 1: free football forwards and giving us an opportunity to to
Speaker 1: make plays. You know, I think uh at the time,
Speaker 1: Sammy Morris was doing really good at running back and
Speaker 1: helping us out there too, So we were getting things
Speaker 1: going forwards, um the run game and the passing game
Speaker 1: that allowed us to have some success. Well, I'm glad
Speaker 1: you mentioned the game in Detroit because you had a
Speaker 1: long touchdown catching that one again back to your speed,
Speaker 1: you ran away from the entire secondary and I want
Speaker 1: to say it was like a little over route, maybe
Speaker 1: a drag route, where you caught a short pass and
Speaker 1: took it the rest of the way. And they did
Speaker 1: a whole feature on Joey that day. You know about
Speaker 1: the piano man. He's back in Detroit and he's he's
Speaker 1: he's taking it to his old team, the team that
Speaker 1: drafted originally. So that was that was a cool, little,
Speaker 1: you know, detour for that season. But back to this game,
Speaker 1: he found you on a thirty two yard touchdown strike
Speaker 1: and on the radio called Joe Rose loses his mind.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny. He's shouting. He goes, how the heck
Speaker 1: did he catch that? So I gotta ask you, if
Speaker 1: you recall that play, a contested ball in the end
Speaker 1: zone with Harrington rolling to his right, how the heck
Speaker 1: did you catch that? I think the initial play was
Speaker 1: I was going on a deep overround. I think he
Speaker 1: was rolling to his level. I can't really, but I
Speaker 1: kind of remember going over across the fielding over route
Speaker 1: and I might have been like the last read. And
Speaker 1: you know, once I kind of got over and kind
Speaker 1: of popped up over there, the safety was on the
Speaker 1: other side. And it was one of those balls that
Speaker 1: if he didn't throw it like he was supposed to,
Speaker 1: or he kind of lobbed it up there, it could
Speaker 1: have gotten interception. It could have been an interception. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he threw it on a diamond and he
Speaker 1: put it right there and and me and the defensive
Speaker 1: back and think the safety kind of got there at
Speaker 1: the same time and I was able to catch it.
Speaker 1: And you know, just being the Patriots and the whole
Speaker 1: excitement of the game and how it was going, I
Speaker 1: you know, I I always you know, getting the end
Speaker 1: zone and I may do a little thing here and there,
Speaker 1: and and just the excitement of it all kind of
Speaker 1: took over. And I did a little two step here
Speaker 1: and there, and I think I'm at a throw the
Speaker 1: ball high in there, and just the whole dis excitement
Speaker 1: of it just took over. It was a big touch
Speaker 1: and I put you guys up a team zero late
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, and and Marty I talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up kind of with those Dolphins teams
Speaker 1: of your era. And I was on Dolphins message boards
Speaker 1: for as long as I can remember, and people always
Speaker 1: had custom avatars which would show up when they posted
Speaker 1: whatever they wrote about. And you know, you could choose
Speaker 1: a player, certain people would would edit the avatar tourn
Speaker 1: them into a jef. And there was one with you
Speaker 1: doing like that celebration where you kind of your arms
Speaker 1: would come in and out. And I always loved seeing that.
Speaker 1: Always minded me. There's eighty six of my n right
Speaker 1: there doing his thing. So I'm glad you mentioned the
Speaker 1: touchdowns celebrations because they were they were always fun to watch.
Speaker 1: But you know, we we we talked about the offense
Speaker 1: in this game with the defense, like you had mentioned,
Speaker 1: two came to play. You turn him over three times,
Speaker 1: you get five sacks, and of course Jason Taylor, as
Speaker 1: he seemingly always did, got one on Brady. What do
Speaker 1: you remember most about playing with Jason Taylor and that
Speaker 1: two thousand six Defensive Player of the Year season he
Speaker 1: had where he just sacks, interceptions, touchdowns, Like, is there
Speaker 1: a moment from that season that stands out the most
Speaker 1: from him or just a collection? What was special about
Speaker 1: j T s O six season man and everything? Because
Speaker 1: it was it was consistently happening every week with him.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, he has always been known as the
Speaker 1: beast coming out that edge and with speed and getting
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. But man, it's just it just seemed
Speaker 1: like everything was kind of falling his way. If it
Speaker 1: was like he would knock the ball down or get
Speaker 1: a sack, ball pop right back up to him and
Speaker 1: he was able to take it in for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: or he would rush the pastor and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden the quarterback would try to throw it and he
Speaker 1: just anticipated and jumped up there and just snag it
Speaker 1: out of the air and would take it in. He's
Speaker 1: that whole season, man, for him was just memorable. And
Speaker 1: I just remember I went back to Chicago and that
Speaker 1: was big for me, and that year they were undefeated
Speaker 1: at the time, they were having these high hopes and
Speaker 1: going to the Super Bowl and all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: and then you know, we were when we were still
Speaker 1: trying to find ourselves at that time and to go
Speaker 1: in there and and score touchdown and then him kind
Speaker 1: of seal the game with his little interception and I
Speaker 1: think it was an interception or fumbre recovery for a
Speaker 1: touchdown or whatever it maybe. And for him to go
Speaker 1: in there and do that, I knew from right then
Speaker 1: is he's gonna lock this up. The way he's playing,
Speaker 1: and he keeps playing like that, no doubt. That was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite games to ever watch. I actually
Speaker 1: had that BEARSS game on a VHS tape and I
Speaker 1: probably watched it twelve times. Like I think, I think
Speaker 1: Chambers had a big touchdown. I want to say, you
Speaker 1: scored in that game? Did you score that game? I scored.
Speaker 1: I think West score. I think Chris score too. I
Speaker 1: think we all got a chance to score that game.
Speaker 1: So it was it was that we were able to
Speaker 1: have some fun and put up some points on there.
Speaker 1: And it was especially for me after getting traded and
Speaker 1: going back up there. It was that was the ice
Speaker 1: in the cake for me. Yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: fun to watch that that team play had a bunch
Speaker 1: of big names. The record maybe didn't match up with
Speaker 1: the talent, but it was still a fun season to watch.
Speaker 1: I want to give you one more topic here talking
Speaker 1: out before we get you out of here, because Seth
Speaker 1: and o J Are gonna come on. They come on
Speaker 1: the Friday podcast with me Marty and talk about the
Speaker 1: flashback game every single week. And before we say goodbye,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, cause I think you guys,
Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, you guys covered this on your
Speaker 1: appearance in the fish Tank. What were some of those
Speaker 1: basketball backyard basketball games like an OJ's house back in
Speaker 1: the day. There, Man, it was I'm talking about everybody
Speaker 1: and their families there. It was so many people there,
Speaker 1: you know, and it was to the point where when
Speaker 1: you finally get on the court you had to win
Speaker 1: because if you lost, you were not getting back on
Speaker 1: there because there were so many people waiting to play.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, oh different from basketball players from football
Speaker 1: players being there. It was so crazy, but it was
Speaker 1: it was. It was awesome though. You know, he had
Speaker 1: the court out, he had the lights and everything, and
Speaker 1: guys will be out there all hours of the night
Speaker 1: just playing basketball. It was awesome. Who who did your
Speaker 1: who would you compare your game too? Like what NBA
Speaker 1: player might we we refer to Marty booker as on
Speaker 1: the hardwood. The fun of the thing you say that
Speaker 1: is a simple fact is my first love is basketball.
Speaker 1: I was always basketball guy basketball. I was gonna play basketball.
Speaker 1: But then once I got up in high school, and
Speaker 1: and I didn't grow anymore, and I was more of
Speaker 1: a and and we didn't have a big team to
Speaker 1: where we had six for six five guys, so I
Speaker 1: was the one had to kind of play down low
Speaker 1: because I was a bigger guy. So I'm like barely
Speaker 1: six foot even playing against big tall guys, but I
Speaker 1: was able to bang with him and and and hanging
Speaker 1: there with him. So I always told my agent once
Speaker 1: I finished playing football that I was want to go
Speaker 1: over seas and play but because my agents are basketball agents,
Speaker 1: so I after I finished playing, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm done with kind of sports. So that
Speaker 1: never panned out. But you know, basketball has always been
Speaker 1: my thing. I loved it and and I always I
Speaker 1: would say my game was more of uh Dwayne Wade,
Speaker 1: but better maybe a better hyper centage three point shooter
Speaker 1: than he was. I just I just shoot it. But
Speaker 1: I was more of a control driving and taking into
Speaker 1: the hoop and and also being able to do the
Speaker 1: things that he did on defense, So I always kind
Speaker 1: of compare my stealth to him. Well, hey, that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty great company down in these parts. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of the legends with with Marino
Speaker 1: and Shoela, He's kind of he's kind of on that
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of Miami sports star. So without a doubt,
Speaker 1: Garrison there. But I think you made the right choice.
Speaker 1: Played a lengthy football career. You had eleven years in
Speaker 1: your career. You played four years with the Dolphins from
Speaker 1: oh four to oh seven. You caught just under two
Speaker 1: hundred balls for two thousand and six hundred twenty seven
Speaker 1: yards and eleven touchdowns in the eleven in your career,
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty nine catches for over sixties seven
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Marty Booker, my guest today, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time today. Man, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, thank you for having me. So there
Speaker 1: he goes Marty Booker. Pretty interesting stuff there from former
Speaker 1: Dolphins wide receiver. Let's go ahead and spend this thing
Speaker 1: from one former Dolphins wide receiver to another, along with
Speaker 1: his co host on the Fish Tank and Seth and
Speaker 1: O J. And joining me now on the Drivetime Podcast
Speaker 1: as we do on Friday's here on the flashback edition
Speaker 1: of Drive Time. That's right, it's cross over Friday. O. J.
Speaker 1: Seth from the Fish Tank Podcast. What's up, fellows? Man?
Speaker 1: It looks like I'm in the back seat again, man,
Speaker 1: Big Seth is back, Travis. Man, It's like I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: right in the back now. Man. You always got shotgun juice,
Speaker 1: you know that. Man. As long as we're all chipping
Speaker 1: in for gas, we're good. It's all that before we
Speaker 1: started this thing. I'm that guy who never brings his wallet.
Speaker 1: Juice on that guy. Well, I guess, I guess the
Speaker 1: cars going backwards against Day, We're going back to two
Speaker 1: thousand and six, to the twenty one nothing shut out
Speaker 1: of the Patriots. And I talked about this in the
Speaker 1: current content for the week, how the Dolphins have five
Speaker 1: wins in the last seven games in Miami against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and four of those came in December. And this one
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six came in December again, a
Speaker 1: twenty one nothing blanking of the Patriots. And it starts
Speaker 1: with some scoring by place kicker or Lindo Mari who
Speaker 1: you guys just had on the Fish Tank podcast, and
Speaker 1: you know it's kickers are a very unique position in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and for a long time, you know, this
Speaker 1: team has always had pize Toghanovitch or Lindo mar now
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders, but a Lindo for a long time, seth
Speaker 1: And I guess whoever wants to take this. Uh he was.
Speaker 1: He was one of the premier point scorers in the
Speaker 1: NFL for a long time, and he paired so well
Speaker 1: with that defense that was so dominant. Yeah, he really did.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a little hesitant here with my guy
Speaker 1: Juice here to talk about Lindo being one of the
Speaker 1: biggest offensive weapons that we had. But there there were times,
Speaker 1: unfortunately that you have to rely on your kicker to
Speaker 1: keep you in games. Like that's just the nature of
Speaker 1: the sport. And when when you do have to rely
Speaker 1: on your kicker, you want a guy like Lindo Marit
Speaker 1: on your side. I imagine that's maybe the best way
Speaker 1: I could say it justice, But Lindo, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he was great on our podcast and and uh really
Speaker 1: an incredible success story and like a lot of kickers,
Speaker 1: just kind of an unlikely um path to the NFL,
Speaker 1: but Lindo could put him up there and and you know,
Speaker 1: big strong leg and and typically very reliable um and
Speaker 1: so you know, as you look at this game, and
Speaker 1: obviously he only needed to make one to beat the
Speaker 1: Patriots on this day, but he did. He did score
Speaker 1: seven points and and you know it was a great
Speaker 1: day for Lindo. Yeah. Absolutely, man, Linda Earn Street cred.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about in our podcast about and
Speaker 1: being able to run and lift with the best of us,
Speaker 1: and the wide receivers and stuff. He made a lot
Speaker 1: of big kicks, so you know, he's one of those
Speaker 1: kickers that was included when you talk about team. You know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't excluded like a lot of kickers. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask you that, o J because always I
Speaker 1: mentioned it. I kind of stumbled off for the top
Speaker 1: of the podcast. I'm always fascinated by the dynamic of
Speaker 1: the kicker kind of blending into the rest of the
Speaker 1: team because they're just it's just kind of a different
Speaker 1: world within the same profession. And you know, nowadays I
Speaker 1: see you know, Jason and Matt out there working out,
Speaker 1: you know, when we get the chance to watch practice
Speaker 1: and stuff or or whatever it is. They're out there
Speaker 1: and they're they're in great shape. Those guys are lifting
Speaker 1: and running in in great condition. But was it always
Speaker 1: like that, like we're kickers always in great shape or
Speaker 1: were they sometimes to show up and kick the football?
Speaker 1: Because like I'm thinking, you know, Sebastian Janikowski for my my,
Speaker 1: my era. Yeah, you know what, there were no kickers
Speaker 1: that you know, we're in great shape back then, I
Speaker 1: don't think, you know. I mean, I remember the late
Speaker 1: great Reggie Roby. He didn't look like he was in
Speaker 1: the best of shape. You know, Pete Doyo, I know
Speaker 1: he wasn't in the best of shape, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's kind of like what Tiger Woods did
Speaker 1: the golf. You know, some of these you know, these
Speaker 1: guys are lifting and working and running a lot more,
Speaker 1: the same thing that guys like uh, you know, like
Speaker 1: Lindo brought to the table too. So these guys, now, man,
Speaker 1: they're in such great shape. And you know, one thing
Speaker 1: about it being a return guy, you don't want to
Speaker 1: get pop by any of these guys anymore. He was
Speaker 1: connectually tackle and they can run, they'll run you down.
Speaker 1: It's embarrassed. Yeah, So he puts up the first six
Speaker 1: points of the game to like you mentioned, Seth, he's
Speaker 1: the one that gets puts us in the position to
Speaker 1: win the game because the games for the rest, but
Speaker 1: the offense wasn't done there. And our guy, our guy,
Speaker 1: Marty Booker scored a thirty three yard touchdown in this game.
Speaker 1: Had a great celebration afterwards. He talked about it on
Speaker 1: the podcast. How gave Hi a little two step afterwards?
Speaker 1: But he he talked a lot about this game and
Speaker 1: and posting that touchdown, and and we talked about quarterback
Speaker 1: play maybe not being his favorite part of his entire career.
Speaker 1: And I recall you guys talking about that Seth back
Speaker 1: on your episode of the Fish Tank with book that
Speaker 1: his quarterbacks from his entire career maybe weren't the best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they were plentiful, that's for sure. I Mean, we
Speaker 1: went through the list and and it was, you know,
Speaker 1: it was kind of an extended podcast by the time
Speaker 1: we got through the list of quarterbacks and and and
Speaker 1: what was really tough was this Marty was listening to
Speaker 1: those names. He was almost like a ptsd C, which
Speaker 1: was he was, you know, no disrespect the folks that
Speaker 1: are that are truly battling that. But he was really
Speaker 1: kind of um falling into some sadness there juices when
Speaker 1: we were seeing he was like, God, how did I
Speaker 1: survived this long in the league with that group of quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: But on this day it was Joey Harrington, And you know,
Speaker 1: Marty didn't have a talk. Well, I guess what do
Speaker 1: you have? You know, over a hundred yards, So you know,
Speaker 1: it was a big day for him, So I guess
Speaker 1: he forgot all of the problems that he might have
Speaker 1: had beforehand and what might have come afterwards. And at
Speaker 1: least he racked up some stats that day and got
Speaker 1: in the end zone. And he did give some love
Speaker 1: to to Joey Harrington for that game and four that season,
Speaker 1: talked about how he kind of heated up and and
Speaker 1: provide the the offense with a spark, because you'll recall
Speaker 1: they started off that year with with Dante Culpepper. He
Speaker 1: didn't last more than four games, I don't think, and
Speaker 1: then Joey came off the bench and they had that
Speaker 1: big win in Chicago, which he talked about was a big,
Speaker 1: big win for him. But you know, talking about Book
Speaker 1: in his time with the Dolphins, oh, j what did
Speaker 1: you see with with his game that made him, you know,
Speaker 1: the producing receiver that he was, despite the fact that
Speaker 1: he had a new quarterback every single year. For one,
Speaker 1: he had monster hands. I mean his hands runbelievable, man.
Speaker 1: He ran great routes. But anything in the area, he
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of big old Rondey Gaston when
Speaker 1: the ball was in this area. Man, he plucked everything
Speaker 1: out of the air with Yeah, he had he had
Speaker 1: major hops, you know what I mean. And Book was
Speaker 1: just a competitor out there. You know, I'd love having
Speaker 1: him on a team, and it's it's terrible sometimes when
Speaker 1: you go to a team and you can't find the
Speaker 1: right quarterback to connect with such a talent receiver. And
Speaker 1: Book went through that here. You know, would never complain
Speaker 1: about it never. You never never bitched Himan about the
Speaker 1: management out there and did his job. So he got
Speaker 1: really frustrating at times, man, and he showed it on occasion.
Speaker 1: The Book was the ultimate professional man and it just
Speaker 1: like I said, it was just terrible that we couldn't
Speaker 1: find the right guy to keep the connection going with
Speaker 1: him on a consistent basis. I'm glad you mentioned the
Speaker 1: hops because we talked about the backyard O J basketball
Speaker 1: games and he said the basketball was his first love.
Speaker 1: He actually told me that he wanted to play in
Speaker 1: Europe overseas after his play after his football career was over,
Speaker 1: and I was like, what, I have no idea about that.
Speaker 1: Many stayed in great shape. He walked into the tank
Speaker 1: and I was kind of shocked. He said it was
Speaker 1: all smoke and mirrors, but he looked great. The popboard
Speaker 1: muscles like Joey Porticle or Joey porticles him right. No,
Speaker 1: he he mentioned, uh that he wanted to play. Then
Speaker 1: once the career came to an end, he was like,
Speaker 1: what the hell am I thinking, I'm not playing any
Speaker 1: more sports. I'm done, man. But uh, one guy that
Speaker 1: that wasn't done in this game was was Jason Taylor
Speaker 1: Seth and this guy, I mean every single game he
Speaker 1: they played against the Patriots, he would get Brady seem
Speaker 1: like he would get a strip, sack of some stort
Speaker 1: and he got it was actually Matt Castle in this game.
Speaker 1: They brought Castle into the game late and JT got
Speaker 1: a sack on Castle. So it wasn't the old JT.
Speaker 1: Brady rivalry. But I know that was a great one.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. I mean when JT retired, I think
Speaker 1: he had more sacks against He certainly sacked Brady more
Speaker 1: than any other quarterback he had faced. But I think
Speaker 1: he might have had the most sacks against Brady at
Speaker 1: that time of his retirement. And you know he had
Speaker 1: Tom go way back to before they were even drafted. Um,
Speaker 1: they have an incredible relationship and uh, he's always had
Speaker 1: the utmost respect for him and how could you not
Speaker 1: give him the success that he had. But you know,
Speaker 1: you look this game and you old Tom Brady the
Speaker 1: seven eight passing yards. I mean that said we just
Speaker 1: talked about the offense a lot, but that says a
Speaker 1: lot about the defense as a whole. Um. But this
Speaker 1: was this was a specially year for Jason of course
Speaker 1: in No. Six. So um, you know what, every week
Speaker 1: there was a sack, that was the ball was going
Speaker 1: the other way. You know, he was forcing fumbles, he
Speaker 1: was putting points on the board, and um, you know
Speaker 1: it's it's one of the seasons that helped get a
Speaker 1: gold jacket on his back. Yeah. Absolutely, that was so
Speaker 1: much fun to watch as a fan because it's so
Speaker 1: rare to see a defensive player be able to take
Speaker 1: over games like he didn't, and he would remember that
Speaker 1: Vikings game he had where he I think he had
Speaker 1: a forced fumble that led to a return touchdown and
Speaker 1: a pick six and the like in a couple of
Speaker 1: possessions back to back, like just winning the game for
Speaker 1: the team at the end there. And I would be
Speaker 1: remiss if I didn't mention this. Guys. We had the
Speaker 1: j T the the eighth UH charity poker event the
Speaker 1: other night and Seth, you saw my face, man, I
Speaker 1: knocked him out of the tournament. I was. I had
Speaker 1: the biggest smile on my face the entire night. I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about, like where I'm at my life.
Speaker 1: I'm out here knocking out Jason Taylor and a a tournament.
Speaker 1: I just, uh, it was so cool, like I really
Speaker 1: got star shucking, like a little bit of fanboy came
Speaker 1: out and me in that moment. So I'm glad you
Speaker 1: enjoyed that moment, Travis, And it was you know, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming out and supporting the organization as well.
Speaker 1: How did that event end up for you? You know
Speaker 1: you do run the event, so I'm sure there's some
Speaker 1: algorithms you can kind of play with and make, you know,
Speaker 1: makes things go your way. You saw every hand I played, Travis,
Speaker 1: a lot of them were taking some chips from your
Speaker 1: It's not on the table to mind, but listen, you've
Speaker 1: had great success. I know you've only played in three tournaments,
Speaker 1: you've made two final tables. But if the three of
Speaker 1: us that are sitting in this podcast, two of us
Speaker 1: have championship trophy title town, that's how we do it.
Speaker 1: In the time we see Charles Barky over there, Travis,
Speaker 1: for the first time on my own podcast, I'll shut up.
Speaker 1: I just hey, a great story. You know you brought
Speaker 1: up the you brought up the Minnesota game and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever heard this story, and Juice
Speaker 1: knows this story, but you know j T was having
Speaker 1: tough time getting going in that game, and you know
Speaker 1: it was it was not a great season for the team,
Speaker 1: uh and and wins were you know, weren't happening at
Speaker 1: a rapid rate. But he was just trying to get
Speaker 1: himself going and he got in his stance and as
Speaker 1: they broke the huddle, he said, I'm about to do
Speaker 1: something amazing. And then that's when he read that screen
Speaker 1: and Brad Johnson threw that ball and he had to
Speaker 1: pick six. And the referee turned to Zack and he said,
Speaker 1: did your boy just called his shot? And uh so,
Speaker 1: you know it was it was a hell of a
Speaker 1: year for him calling a shot on one of the
Speaker 1: most difficult places to relationship. I mean, pick six is
Speaker 1: those don't happen very often. That's that's pretty crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The defensive line kind of peeling back off the screen,
Speaker 1: you know, reaching up and plucking it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: super rare fun to watch. Um, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: put a close this podcast for you that guys, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you you got one more podcast come
Speaker 1: up in the fish Tank, and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good one. Yeah. I mean we're really excited. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: this week for the holidays, we're gonna enjoy a little
Speaker 1: time off and maybe give the gift of uh we're
Speaker 1: gonna read gift juice. We're gonna some of our our
Speaker 1: favorite podcast that we've had all season. Talk about that
Speaker 1: throughout the week. But then heading into Buffalo, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a guy that that our listeners have been begging
Speaker 1: for for two seasons and there's no better way to
Speaker 1: put a cap on this season and to head into
Speaker 1: the Buffalo week than for Brian Cox to dive into
Speaker 1: the tank. So we're we're exciting to announce that right
Speaker 1: here on Drive Time that Brian Cox will be diving
Speaker 1: in the tank on Tuesday the twenty nine. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: had a blast with be Cox. Man, it's my doing
Speaker 1: right there, man, And uh, we go way back. You know,
Speaker 1: he was drafting ninety one, I was drafting ninety three,
Speaker 1: and man, we have we have some fun talking about
Speaker 1: some of those times, some of our cars, you know,
Speaker 1: some of the places they went to hang out with
Speaker 1: and you know when they were living, when they were
Speaker 1: down here, and of course the Buffalo games. And then
Speaker 1: it was it was a blast having be Cox in
Speaker 1: the tank. Oh, man, I can't wait for that. We
Speaker 1: had Richmond web back on week two for Flashback and
Speaker 1: he talked about be Cox and that Buffalo It was
Speaker 1: it was the first time we did a podcast it
Speaker 1: wasn't about one game, about the entire nineties rivalry. Man,
Speaker 1: that was a greatcast. I can't wait to hear that one,
Speaker 1: because you know the old the middle fingers allude to
Speaker 1: the Buffalo fans and everything. I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: about all that. It was a phenomenal story about the
Speaker 1: middle Finger and how that was picked up by somebody
Speaker 1: who wouldn't expect. So we can't wait for but not
Speaker 1: to give the cheap podcast teas here, but we can't
Speaker 1: wait for folks to hear that. And I juice you
Speaker 1: and b cons with with the dueling vehicles that was.
Speaker 1: That was a good one as well. Yeah that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. We'll talk about those Corvette engines and then
Speaker 1: our mixed podcast that, my friends, is what we call
Speaker 1: a tease in the business. Right there, seth o J
Speaker 1: from the fish Tank Podcast. As always, my friends, it's
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to do this last time. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do this here this season, I think, unless we come
Speaker 1: back in week seventeen. So appreciate you guys help all
Speaker 1: season long. We'll see you soon. And so there they go,
Speaker 1: another fun Friday flashback podcast here on Drive Time. If
Speaker 1: you guys haven't checked out the fish Tank Podcast, go
Speaker 1: ahead and do that. Also the audible here on the
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