WEBVTT - Fins Flashback 2006 Patriots Shutout with Marty Booker 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:16.400 Cutsdown Miami n What is up, Dolphans, And welcome to 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:20.080 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.439 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.120 every day. How's it going, everybody? It is Friday. I 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.280 am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to bring 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.519 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.200 today show, we're flashing this thing back to two thousand six. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.519 The Dolphins shut the Patriots out twenty one nothing in 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.880 Week fourteen of that season. We're gonna talk to former 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.960 Dolphins receiver Marty Booker about that game. We're gonna get 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.120 Seth and o J here on the podcast from the 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.400 Fish Tank to talk about that game as well, and 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.480 Marty Booker, and we'll go ahead and get you the 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.160 latest on the injuries for Dolphins and Patriots Sunday at 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.360 hard Rock Stadium. All of that more are on this Friday, 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:09.360 December the eighteenth edition of the Drivetime podcastphs Hey Dolphins fans, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.840 The New Year starts now at Auto Nation. 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For the rest of the 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.639 Dolphins Patriots injury report, go ahead and check out Miami 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.240 Dolphins dot com. Our top news article has the latest 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.400 on Dolphins and Patriots. And joining me now on the 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:01.760 Drivetime podcast is former Dolphins wide receiver Marty Booker. Marty, 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.400 thanks for joining me today. Thanks for having me. It's 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.320 a pleasure, real pleasure. Yeah. I I told you before 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.520 we started recording the podcast here that I heard you 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.320 on the Fish Tank. It must have been about a 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.920 year ago, but now they're in the Dolphins network as 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.120 well as Drive Time as well, so figured how had 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.480 to get you on here and talk about some of this. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.760 You know, I always call it my golden era as 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.720 a Dolphins fan, not necessarily because of the wins and losses, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.360 but because I grew up in that late nineties early 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.280 two thousand stretch where you and Chris and Randy McMichael 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.280 and all these guys were featured prominently. But before we 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:34.959 get into that, Marty, you'd like to ask my guest 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:36.720 here on the podcast, what have you been up to 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.320 in your post playing career. How's how's life for Marty Booker? 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.520 I can't complain, you know, I've been uh fortunate enough 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.800 to be able to stick around here and continue to 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.920 live here and enjoy this Florida weather. Um. You know, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.880 I've just been being able to work with Kevin Burnett 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.720 over at uh mccarthur High School and coaching receivers and everything. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.240 It's it was a trying year this year, just because 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.320 of the whole COVID situation and everything, and and plus 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.280 at the time, they didn't know what they were gonna have, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.120 We're gonna have any games at all, And all of 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.919 a sudden they decided to, you know, uh, to let 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.240 some teams have games. And the good thing about us. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:21.200 We only had four games. Uh, so we they was 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:26.600 considering four games and maybe two bowl games after that 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.040 or whatever. But you know, after going through the season 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:35.400 and and and having a disastrous season that we had, UM, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.720 we decided not to do the bowl games. Of course 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.080 we went over and four um, but we had a 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.720 lot of freshman sophomores and and the thing I learned 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.880 about Florida and and and how it is now is that, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.840 uh there's no county line and kids are able to 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.360 go to and transfer and go to any school that 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.080 they want. So it's it's it's kind of like college. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.680 You have to get out there recruit guys and try 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.880 to get some of the best before other teams get 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.600 them and jump on them. So we were left without 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.320 a lot of uh good guys and stuff. So we 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.320 had to make do with what we had. And like 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.440 I said, we had a lot of freshman sophomore so 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.040 we were able to to take them out there and 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.800 let them get that experience of Unfortunately, you know, our 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.000 probably our average defeat was like thirty points, but you know, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.200 at least the kids got some experience at that and 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.240 they were able to enjoy. So that's pretty much what 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.440 I've been doing and just trying to instill my time 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.400 into teaching these kids and and trying to spread the 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.080 little knowledge that I did gain as playing to them. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:41.840 There's a couple of things you mentioned that I want 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.920 to ask about, because one the South Florida weather. Being 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.560 a Pacific Northwest person myself, it's amazing. I left my 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.840 apartment this morning to go for a jog in December, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.360 you know, in shorts and a T shirt. It was amazing. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.320 Is that what kept you in South Florida? Like? Is 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.640 that the driving force to keep you here? A of course? Uh, 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.039 I grew up in Louisiana, so I got some of 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.560 the good weather and and and it gets cold. It's 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.440 not it's not as snowy. It it's nothing like the 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.560 Pacific Northwest, of course, but they do get a chance 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.640 to see the seasons. And that's what I enjoyed about there. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.000 But here, like you said, you know, you you get 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.520 sunshine year around, and what we had a cold spell 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.839 with last week and where everybody's bringing out the big 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:32.760 coats and it was only like sixty sixty degrees during 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.159 the day and it maybe got a low of forty 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.320 degrees or something like that. And everybody's freezing, you know, 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.120 And and I look at that and I think about, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:46.679 what would you understand Chicago, where it's brutally cold. Uh, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.279 you're dealing with the snow. You're driving in the snow. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.960 And I've done that for years, and I wasn't I 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.320 wasn't trying to do that at all. No, my my 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.120 friends will send me snapchats of back home and it's 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.640 like gray and the leaves are all the trees. I'm like, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.440 I'm I'm good here. I'll just go ahead and in 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.960 fact forget there's something for the vacation wise to go 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.360 back and and and to see it. Loans it there 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.440 for a few days or whatever, but then you have 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.800 to come back. Yes, I think I might go check 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.240 out my Seattle Mariners, like in May when the weather 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:18.919 is perfect up there. So maybe that would be the 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.880 time where I get out of the South Florida heat 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:22.440 and go back to the nice summer weather up in 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.480 the Northwest. But you know, you also mentioned that the coaches, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.640 the former Dolphins coaches. I had no idea that you 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.600 and Kevin Burnett were both coaching together. That's that's awesome, man, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.479 because we talked about you know, passer Tan squad and 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.920 Shannon talks about getting out there and Jason Taylor's out there, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.680 It's like, man, what a better place to to develop 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.039 this young football talent in South Florida because all you 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.920 guys are out there coaching, Like what got you into that? 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:50.200 Just you know, after a while, you is, it's kind 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.320 of hard to kind of stay away from me, especially 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.120 when you continuously sit here and you joined the sport 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.960 and you continuously sit here to watch it and watch it, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:02.320 and you watch it and it's like the juices and 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.360 the bugs started the year up and stuff, and and 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.800 you know, you we you gotta think playing for years 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.240 in the NFL was just if you take it back 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.080 to high school and then you go to college and 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.400 then you go to the pros and you spend so 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.360 many years when you're learning and developing so much in 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.880 this game that you have so much knowledge and then 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.040 after a while, you know, you you want to get 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.760 yourself back out there and just to get that feel 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:33.280 of being around uh, the whole football atmosphere. Um, you know, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.080 like I said, you have so much knowledge to spread 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.120 to these kids and and they're willing to sit there 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.520 and eat it and soak it up. I'm willing to 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.480 UH to spread out there to them as much as 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.160 I can. You know, like I said, so much talent 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.520 down here, Like you said, so many coaches. You've got 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.200 Pat over there UH coaching heritage with h he has 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.640 a run day gassing on his squad, on his UH 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:03.040 coaching staff. You got uh St Thomas where JT is 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.280 a defensive coordinator, and and guys just kind of spreading 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.760 themselves around and trying to do stuff. And as athletes, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.080 you know, we kind of always if you enjoy it 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.640 and you loved it, of course you want to always 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:21.000 kind of be around it. Um then especially you know, 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.720 you've got guys who have kids too, and they want 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.920 to be out there with their kids and coaching their kids. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.320 So you know, for us to get back out there 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.880 and and and do that, it's it's a joy. It's 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.000 fun to talk about too. I mean, high school football, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.959 it's I love it. I can't get enough. A Friday 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.880 night lights, It's it's the best. And you know, speaking 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.800 of alumni here, we've had plenty of teammates of yours 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.240 on the podcast in the past, plenty of guys prior 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:45.880 to your playing days. You know they were on the 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.960 podcast as well. But one of the most memorable guests 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.800 I get every single every single year or every single 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.679 you know, Timing comes on its Channing Crowder and we've 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.920 got to talk about this two thousand and six shutout 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.559 victory over the Patriots here eventually. But I'm gonna give 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.880 you a little let's call to clap back opportunity because 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.480 Janny came here on the podcast man and that the 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.600 two five season opening win over the Broncos. You had 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.280 a sixty yard touchdown reception running away from the entire 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.559 Denver secondary. So I asked Channing about that play because 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.080 you know it was the first game of the season. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.200 The South Florida just sweat box that it is down here. Yeah. 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.400 He he credited the Miami humidity for those yards after 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.680 catch for you. He talked about it. But I want 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.600 to give you a chance to respond to Channing about 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.719 your speed, like take take the flour man. You know 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:35.320 what I've always had that that issue where everybody just 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.240 discredit him my speed. Everybody don't not believe that I 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.640 can run. They always say, oh, he's a possession receiver. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.560 Oh he can't. Everything he does is inside. It's funny 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.520 that that even mentioned. That is the simple fact that 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.440 I just received. Like it's like a little small little 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.079 highlight thing from the NFL, and most of the highlights 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.640 on there is me on the side kitchen deep balls. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.240 So I'm able to but I don't have speed, but 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.120 you see me running past guys and jumping over guys 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.640 and all that stuff. So you know, I I always 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:17.920 can not to bicker about it or anything. I I 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.280 always just like you know what, I just let my 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.280 speed do the talking and then just underestimating. So and 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:25.960 then there was another time when I went back to 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.840 Chicago and I was able to have a big run 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.240 and out run the defense and the same thing. Oh, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.200 he's where did this speed come from. It's like, you know, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.600 I've always had this, so it's it's it's all funny games. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.480 But you know I have stuff and I have proof 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.320 to back all that stuff up. And I do remember 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.199 that game. It was. It was incredible because they came 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.839 here and I think the whole team was just about 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.920 in the in the locker room getting I V s 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.040 and stuff. I know, Champ went down Linda Walls or 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.680 other cornerback and there was so many guys going down 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.560 having to get I d S just because it was 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.679 so hot, and that was a good thing about us. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.400 We could use that to our advantage, and that day 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:17.000 we did. But Channing, I have some some crazy stuff 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.840 about that dude. I don't know if I can see 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.480 it on the podcast, but he a man. That stuff 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.400 that kid used to do that I will always catch 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.960 him doing and always be like look at him, like 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.680 come on, guys, what you're doing? And it was always 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:38.120 funny games with him. Man, He's he's a character within itself. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.600 I'm gonna text Seth and O J and tell him 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.880 to get you and Channing on the pod together on 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.199 the fish tank. That's that's a little more fish tank realm, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.480 I think. So we'll go ahead and just save that 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.920 for another day. But let's go ahead and talk about 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.240 this game here. You had mentioned, um, you know that 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.400 that he and the I V for the Broncos players 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.640 and not oh five opener, But in this O six 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.319 Patriots game, you know, guys enter at five and seven. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.319 The Patriots are kind of and what they had become 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.880 familiar territory for them. They're nine and three and you 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.160 guys picked them off with a convincing shutout victory. I'm curious, Marty. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:13.720 We talked about the September heat, but maybe it's similar 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.640 in December. What is it about these December Dolphins Patriots 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.160 games in Miami that always seem to come right down 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.040 to the wire. Well, like you said, that umited and 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.439 that heat is it's a big adjustment. And I learned 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.080 that earlier when I first got down back down here too, 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.440 when I got traded. Is that your body and then 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.080 your blood thickens up when you're in that cold, and 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.640 once you get down here, you know, it's hard for 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.160 you to breathe and hard for you to just I 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.960 don't care what time of year it is, even if 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.640 it's in the sixties or whatever, it's still donna affect you. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:52.319 So that helps most dramatically for for any of us 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.720 going into that that time of the year or whatever. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:01.439 The Patriots, like you said, that's are all time game, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.240 especially coming down here, because we always want to see 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.640 when they're gonna be able to come down here and 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.000 and see if we're gonna be able to go there 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.120 before it starts to get cold. And you know, sometimes 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.280 it always worked out where unfortunately we had to go 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.560 up there when it was cold, and they would come 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.400 down here when it was hot instead of you know, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.079 vice versa. So when you know the temperature, we're kind 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.240 of tapering off a little bit. But you know, that's 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.720 the good thing about I love about being in Florida 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.520 because you know, no one can come down here, no 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.760 matter what time here and and take that heat. And 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.800 and like you said, the Patriots were nine and three 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.880 at the time, and and to to do what we 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.199 did twenty one and nothing I think I had. I'm 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:47.360 not familiar. I'm not sure about exact catches or yards 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.000 and stuff, but I do remember the touchdown and everything, 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:56.080 and Jason and the defense Rea can havoc on Um 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.720 Tom Brady, I think getting sacks and a couple of 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.320 forced fumbles and stuff, so that I know that helped 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.280 us out a lot. I've got some stats right here 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.920 for because I was gonna ask you next. You had 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.480 a big day, eight catches, a hundred and three yards 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.959 and the touchdown, and you know, I was I was 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.680 kind of trying to figure out where I wanted to 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.400 go with with that production of yours. And I think 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.599 what I want to know the most is what is 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.800 it about that Patriots defense that was. You know, for years, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.000 regardless of the personnel, they would they would send guys 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.960 out and bring new guys in, and they always found production. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.160 But from a receiver's perspective, what was challenging about finding 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.880 soft spots in their zone or beating their man coverage. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.080 You're trying to find a way to just get production 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.480 on that Bill Belichick defense in this game, like twenty 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.600 one points from your offense, just taking what they give you. Man, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.880 The Patriots stayed the defense used it speaks for itself. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.120 They're very discipline it and their whole key is they 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:48.720 would mess up, and I mean as you mess up, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.800 they jump on you and they capitalize on you. So 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.120 going to any of the games with the Patriots, we 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:57.280 were always do not mess up, stay disciplined, do not 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.240 turn the ball over to them, because once they turned ball, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.920 you give them any kind of extra opportunities or motivation, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.640 they're gonna jump on it and probably put you away. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:12.080 So forwards their defense, it was more of just longest 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.800 we could just kind of maintain and pick our little 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.200 pieces here and there. We knew after a while it 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.360 will start to open up. Uh. You know, you have 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.840 to look at them because they always kept a good 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.720 pass for us. They're alway there, front forward, the front seven, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.680 always coming no matter what. And once you're able to, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.800 you know, block them up and and and move them 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.840 around and you would have success. And the good thing 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.400 about that day we had some success on both sides 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.160 of the ball. And you mentioned playing turn over free football. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.240 That's what happened in this game. Your offense didn't turn 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.240 the ball over with quarterback Joey Harrington at the controls. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.160 And you know, you guys had seen a few quarterbacks 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.120 that year, and then your four year stint with the Dolphins, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.840 you actually played with nine quarterbacks. I was just curious 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.120 how challenging was that to go through so many quarterbacks. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.600 And what did Joey do that season, I think the 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.560 only season he actually played here for the Dolphins on 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.960 the field, what did he do to to kind of 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.320 give you guys some offensive success down the back half 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:16.560 of that oh six season, we did have a lot 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:21.880 of success, especially when Joey came in, uh Man, just 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.360 to touch on food all the different quarterbacks. I I 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.600 tell guys all the time, I'm like, be grateful that, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.120 you know, for guys who were able to just play 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.960 with one guy and one good quarterback. Be grateful for that, 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.640 you know, because there were many times even when you 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.040 go back to my Chicago days, there was probably double 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:48.200 digit quarterbacks there too, and going through that, and you 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.280 will go through the week and not know what quarterback 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.480 you were going to get. So you just had to 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:58.080 just and to say the career that I was able 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.080 to have and with and and to make do with 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.760 what I had, I'm gracious and proud of what I 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:10.359 was able to accomplish and everything. Uh, you know, that year, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.680 you know, we we started to get on a win 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.000 streak towards then in there and we had some pretty 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:21.600 good games, I think going into Thanksgiving also with Joey, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.840 you know, having a good game, and I think we 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.040 ended up trying to get ourselves back into it and 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.520 I think we end up losing the last second to 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.560 Jacksonville and kind of hurt us. Uh some chances there, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.400 but for the most part, you know, Joey came in 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.919 and and and he got on the Terror and he 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.240 was playing pretty good football. He was playing the state 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:46.879 free football forwards and giving us an opportunity to to 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.240 make plays. You know, I think uh at the time, 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:52.960 Sammy Morris was doing really good at running back and 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.879 helping us out there too, So we were getting things 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:00.200 going forwards, um the run game and the passing game 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.880 that allowed us to have some success. Well, I'm glad 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.879 you mentioned the game in Detroit because you had a 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.080 long touchdown catching that one again back to your speed, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.520 you ran away from the entire secondary and I want 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:11.960 to say it was like a little over route, maybe 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.560 a drag route, where you caught a short pass and 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.840 took it the rest of the way. And they did 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.119 a whole feature on Joey that day. You know about 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.800 the piano man. He's back in Detroit and he's he's 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.399 he's taking it to his old team, the team that 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.919 drafted originally. So that was that was a cool, little, 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.040 you know, detour for that season. But back to this game, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.679 he found you on a thirty two yard touchdown strike 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.160 and on the radio called Joe Rose loses his mind. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.080 It's it's funny. He's shouting. He goes, how the heck 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.040 did he catch that? So I gotta ask you, if 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:40.919 you recall that play, a contested ball in the end 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.600 zone with Harrington rolling to his right, how the heck 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.919 did you catch that? I think the initial play was 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.959 I was going on a deep overround. I think he 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.760 was rolling to his level. I can't really, but I 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.879 kind of remember going over across the fielding over route 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:04.280 and I might have been like the last read. And 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.400 you know, once I kind of got over and kind 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.400 of popped up over there, the safety was on the 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.800 other side. And it was one of those balls that 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.679 if he didn't throw it like he was supposed to, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.320 or he kind of lobbed it up there, it could 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.919 have gotten interception. It could have been an interception. But uh, 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:26.359 you know, he threw it on a diamond and he 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.400 put it right there and and me and the defensive 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.320 back and think the safety kind of got there at 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.479 the same time and I was able to catch it. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.160 And you know, just being the Patriots and the whole 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.520 excitement of the game and how it was going, I 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.520 you know, I I always you know, getting the end 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.320 zone and I may do a little thing here and there, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.919 and and just the excitement of it all kind of 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:51.120 took over. And I did a little two step here 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.560 and there, and I think I'm at a throw the 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.840 ball high in there, and just the whole dis excitement 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.000 of it just took over. It was a big touch 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:00.800 and I put you guys up a team zero late 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.160 in the third quarter, and and Marty I talked about, 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.639 you know, growing up kind of with those Dolphins teams 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.560 of your era. And I was on Dolphins message boards 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.399 for as long as I can remember, and people always 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.320 had custom avatars which would show up when they posted 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.600 whatever they wrote about. And you know, you could choose 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.520 a player, certain people would would edit the avatar tourn 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.520 them into a jef. And there was one with you 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.720 doing like that celebration where you kind of your arms 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:24.560 would come in and out. And I always loved seeing that. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.760 Always minded me. There's eighty six of my n right 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:28.960 there doing his thing. So I'm glad you mentioned the 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.720 touchdowns celebrations because they were they were always fun to watch. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.080 But you know, we we we talked about the offense 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:36.760 in this game with the defense, like you had mentioned, 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:38.879 two came to play. You turn him over three times, 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:41.280 you get five sacks, and of course Jason Taylor, as 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.399 he seemingly always did, got one on Brady. What do 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.159