WEBVTT - Drive Time: Nick Westbrook Ikhine and Ashytn Davis Join, Analysis on KJ Britt and Alexander Mattison 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.320 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.680 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:16.480 you guys know what time it is. We are still 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.439 rolling through the free agency class. Here. We have two 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.759 more players to analyze, two more interviews to get to, 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.240 and some additional activity over the end of the week 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.440 and the weekend to cover. Here from the Baptist Health 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.000 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.320 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.440 We'll get to my chats with Nick Westbrook, Akine and 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.879 Ashton Davis here in just one second, as well as 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.800 the breakdowns for kJ Britt and Alexander Madison. But first, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.879 the news that Shent shockwaves down at Dolphins Twitter on 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.400 Thursday night. The Dolphins brought back Liam Eichenberg to round 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.920 out some depth on the offensive line. Just a couple 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.920 of things here, real quick. Trust me, I get it. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.880 I've seen the reps that make everyone lose their minds, 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.839 the reps that are out and out losses that result 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.080 in big hits on the quarterback, negative runs, all that stuff. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:15.040 I think that the outrage that you are experiencing and expressing, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:20.479 which I see all of it. If we go into 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.320 week one, and Liam is the starter. I think all 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:25.720 of that would be justified, every single ounce of it, 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.600 but I highly, highly, highly highly doubt that's the case. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.479 I think that this is like your eighth or ninth 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.120 offensive lineman, And if the Dolphins signed a player who 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.200 was a lesser player than Liam and had a different name, 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.560 I think Dolphins fans would have an opposite reaction. So 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.720 I understand the PTSD attached to it there, and I 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.440 thought that alf Artiega from the Three Yards per Carry 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.680 podcast really put it well that Liam's not about like 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.640 volume losses, it's when he does lose it tends to 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.920 have a major impact on the game, can almost wreck 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.840 the game because some of those losses can be so bad, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.440 where James Daniels is a guy that when he loses 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.800 his reps, it's like, rather than an eight yard run, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.559 a three yard run. I thought that was a very 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.880 apt comparison there. So yeah, frustration understood, but maybe a 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.720 little bit strong here in the month of March, but 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.240 I do totally understand it. I think that I also 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.560 get the sense, like Dolphins fans or on Twitter at least, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.800 kind of feel like the order of how you sign 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.040 guys is like means anything like as if you know 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.560 we can't sign someone better because we just went down 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.959 the pecking order. I don't know, that's kind of the 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.480 sense that I get, so Liam Mikenberg. We also I 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:34.959 had to come in here and redo this because the 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.240 Dolphins also on Friday it was reported agreed to a 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.920 contract with tight end Pharaoh Brown, who just off the 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.840 top before I get into analysis there. To me, I 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.640 think is probably competition for Julian Hill as kind of 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.079 that why tight end or number two possibly number three 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.120 tight end. So Leam Mikenberg and Faraoh Brown. Let's go 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.080 ahead now and get to my chat with new Dolphins 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:01.280 wide receiver Nick Westbrook. Akine, It's Dolphins and welcome back 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.440 into another edition of the Draft Time podcast. Free agency addition, 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.600 I'm joined by new Dolphins wide receiver Nick Westbrook a 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.160 keyne Nick, Welcome in, man, how. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.880 You doing doing well? Doing well? Thank you? 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.160 I get the name right, last name right? 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:13.359 Yeah, got it right? Yeah, you got. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.240 I watched some Titans radio broadcast to hear them say 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.240 your name after touchdowns, and so I really focused on 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.600 that to get that in and then really hammer in 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.160 on the pronunciation on your last Yeah. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.040 Put in the work. I love it. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:26.760 A little preparation you a little bit something about that 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.800 as well. So first off, welcome home, man. I know 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.880 Lake Mary is what about a four hour drive from here? 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.200 Yeah? Yeah. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:34.920 Have you spent any time in South Florida in your 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.880 life besides you know right now? 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:37.880 Yeah, a little bit. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.000 We were actually just down here a couple of weeks ago, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.920 which is cool. Took the bright Line down. He came 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.160 in early, saw my family and then took the bright 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.880 Light down. That was awesome. That was pretty cool experience. Yeah, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:50.880 I love it, love it. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.720 My neighbor is like a big manager at bright Lines. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:54.280 I'll be happy to hear that is that we get 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.920 a lot of use out of that train system there. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:57.960 What do you think is the biggest difference between South 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.119 Florida and northern slash at Central? 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.640 I mean, for me, it's the beaches right there. In 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.320 Central Florida, you gotta go a little bit to get 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.640 to the beach, but you know, down here, the beach. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.680 Is right there. So yeah, it's it's different. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.000 Probably a little bit hotter, maybe we'll see, but I'm 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:16.680 excited to be here. 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.640 Yeah. The humidity definitely creeped up on you. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.560 Down here, especially on training camp time for sure, so 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.279 it is definitely toasty. So going back to the football here, 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.960 getting to the football, I should say, watching you on tape, man, 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.400 like your route running is really pure and clean and 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.480 smooth and fun to watch to me. And so I 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.280 was curious if you could just kind of take us 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.599 through the progression of learning to become a great route runner, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.120 which is obviously one of the biggest things that the 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.000 receiver can do in the league. And if you thought about, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.480 like when you came into the NFL, like what would 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.960 twenty twenty five Nick tell twenty nineteen Nick at Indiana 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.520 about the progression of six years of learning how to 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:49.159 run routes. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.400 It's a process. Trust the process. 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.800 Yeah, I feel like to me, it's just about like 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.320 being as efficient as you can, you know, explosion and 0:04:59.360 --> 0:04:59.839 all that. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:01.440 That really is really helpful. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.080 But when you can take out the the things that 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.000 are gonna, you know, get in the way of you 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.359 being efficient, I feel like that's what helps out the most. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.599 So yeah, a lot of credit to you know, my 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.240 receiver coaches over the years, Rob Moore, Tyke this past year, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.760 they really you know, helped me out and work with 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.120 me put in that work. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:21.800 A lot of that duance to your game too, like 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.760 where you kind of head g nob like peak one way, 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:25.120 break off the other way, Like that was a big 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.040 part of what helped you get open with the Titans. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.320 Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent and stuff like that. That's 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.440 the stuff that I learned kind of as as I 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.120 went along and I was watching guys, watching you know, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.840 teammates of mine, and what they use, the tricks they use, 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.039 and I feel like that's you know, one thing I 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.880 try to do is just be a sponge trying to 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.520 absorb as much knowledge as I can from the game 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.480 because there's so many great guys that I played with. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.600 Well that will fit in well here. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.159 So will your run blocking real, which, again on the 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.680 tape I had, I was like fist pumping watching you 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.080 block some guys down the field, some combination blocks like 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.240 hitting the edge and then climbing to the linebackers and 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.000 getting those guys like, this guy's gonna fit in well. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.400 Because we have a bit of a saying here, at 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.120 least I've heard it a few times, no block, no rock, Right, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.000 So I'm curious, what do you think makes a really 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.560 good blocking wide receiver position? Where sometimes maybe guys turn 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.279 that that part of the job down and choose to 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.720 kind of, you know, maybe take those plays off a 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:14.040 little bit. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.520 I just gotta be willing to do it. I feel 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:16.200 like that's what it is. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.719 I mean, I pride myself in the dirty work, and 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.120 I feel like, you know, you do it enough and 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.000 it's not as dirty. You know, you realize there's an 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.679 art to it. So yeah, you just gotta be willing 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:27.080 to do it. 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.599 Yeah, it's it's it's awesome to watch Man's that part 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.080 of your game, the route running. And then also you 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.960 play all over the formation, right. I think I saw 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.640 a stat that you were in the slot like forty 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.120 percent of the time with the Titans, so good inside 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.080 outside game. Was that something you've always done, going back 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.040 to Indiana High school playing all over the formation? 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.279 Yeah, a little bit. You know. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.280 I feel like I just try to get a full 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.919 grasp of a game plan, the playbook so that I 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.760 can be plug in whatever I need to need to be. 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:54.840 That's kind of how I. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.880 Earned just to be able to carve out a role 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.760 early on in my career was just being able to 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.480 know every position and go in and play. But that's 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.720 really helped me because then I get a full grasp of, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.279 you know, the plays that we do have, knowing where 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:09.920 I fit in it, or knowing where I fit in 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.119 the progression and just kind of just you know, thinking 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.240 about it from a bird's eye view. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.040 Yeah, the more you can do, right, undrafted guy kind 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.800 of had to learn that probably right away that the 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.160 more you can do is the best chance to make 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.200 a football team and make a career and be here 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.760 for your second contract with the Dolphins, right exactly. Yeah, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.800 So how valuable is that though? Like the ability to 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.760 play multiple positions across the offense. I'm sure they've told 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.760 you that that's a pretty big part of the offense 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:32.240 down here. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:33.480 Yeah, it's huge. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.560 I think it's a huge, huge, just to be able to, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.880 like I said before, like be plug and play and 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:40.480 you know, if a guy goes down, because. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.800 That's unfortunately the nature of the business, and sometimes. 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:43.680 Guys go down and you need to be able to 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.920 have a guy that you knows what to do. So, yeah, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.840 just being versatile, reliable, that's what I try to hang 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:50.240 my hat on. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.520 So you're a six foot two receiver. We have a 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.560 bunch of guys that are very good receivers down here. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.920 They're all very fast, but we don't have anybody of 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.080 that size. What do you think that your size brings 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.640 to the Dolphins wide receive her room. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.120 Yeah, I mean it's a god given thing. I can't 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.000 you can't coach it, you can't, you can't create it. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:06.760 I mean, you can get a surgery, but I feel like, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.440 you know, you can't play football if you get. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.680 A heighth extension surgery. Yeah. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.440 So yeah, it's just trying to use the gifts that 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.800 he gave me, and yeah, I try to, you know, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.240 maximize it as best as I can. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.920 I mean, nine touchdowns on thirty two catches last year, right, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.840 It sounds like that's probably a pretty big part of 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.560 your game is going up and catching the football and 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:26.400 down the red zone. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.440 Yeah. Yeah, I definitely love the red zone. Yeah, I 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:29.080 love the red zone. 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.680 We can always use it, always can use guys that 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.840 can score touchdowns down the red zone. So went to Indiana. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.360 You're a Hoosier for for five years, correct, got your 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.760 business marketing degree there. What was that like and how 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.439 do you plan to maybe use that down the road 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:41.000 at some point? 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.240 Yeah, we'll see, hopefully not any time soon. But but 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.599 we'll see. It was great. Kelly School of Business is 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.840 a really good business school up there in Indiana. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.840 Met my wife down or up there, and that's, you know, 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.600 blessing in itself. I love her so much and she's 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.760 honestly a huge reason of just me even being in 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:04.160 this right now talking to you. So yeah, we'll see 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.600 what it takes or where it takes me that degree, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:07.400 but hopefully. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:07.760 Don't use it soon. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.720 Yeah, maybe like ten twenty years down the road. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.160 Yeah, maybe something like golf related. Really into golf, so 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:12.600 we'll see. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.680 All right, So just stop the whole in you because 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.079 now you're talking. I mean I was just watching the 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.040 players before I came down to talk to you, so, like, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.960 I love golf. Have you looked into the region at 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.520 all about what's out there? Because there is golf everywhere 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:24.640 you go down here in South FORTHA. 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.640 Yeah, that was that was something I realized, you know, 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.200 once sign and I was like, there's golf year round, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.880 there's no off season. Yeah, so I'm excited for that. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:34.760 Yeah, it's really cool. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:34.920 Man. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.560 What's the handicaff You'm me asking? 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.200 I mean, so I just had a nine month old son, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.120 so I haven't played in probably like a year, like 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.440 maybe once or twice. So we're definitely in the team's 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:46.520 probably somewhere right now. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.400 Okay, we'll get you dialed in here real quickly. You 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.199 mentioned the son, so nine month old. You mentioned you 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.440 said it's a little boy, little. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:52.679 Girl, So yeah, son boy. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:53.360 Okay, cool. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.800 So what's what's been the I guess the biggest learning, 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.600 the biggest thing you've taken away from being a father 0:09:58.640 --> 0:09:59.440 for nine months? 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.560 Yeah, it goes fast. 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.000 I mean he's already nine months and I'm just like, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.520 I missed the times and I could just fit him 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:11.439 right here in my forearm. Yeah, I just I love 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.040 him so much, it's awesome. 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:14.360 He's really such a gift. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.000 Yeah, so there really hasn't been learning other than just 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.559 like patience and really I feel like I'm learning sacrifice 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.320 for the first time and really understanding. You know, I 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.000 understand it for myself, but sacrifice for someone else is 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:29.880 definitely different. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.960 Definitely sacrifice and sleep. I'm sure here and there. Just wait, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.400 take a little bit older. They try to take the 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.959 food off your plate like my kids are. I was like, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.520 can I have it? I'm like, yeah, I guess you can, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.280 because you're up next. So you're always always trying to 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.200 take something from you and you give him back all 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.160 the love and return. Man, that's great to hear. So 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.680 you also have a little dog named Winston. And I 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.880 was kind of reading about your background in Indiana and 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.480 how you download this app called Rover where you can 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.880 babysit dogs, and you were like very into that. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:55.960 Can you tell us about that a little bit? 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.880 Yeah, I mean I grew up always having dogs, love dogs. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.600 When I was in Indiana, I was like, I would 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.800 love to have a dog, but didn't make sense. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.520 With schedule and all that. So in the off. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.800 Season I would do Rover and I would dog sit 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.280 for people and you know, there was one dog I remember, 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.360 I took him into the facility with me, had to 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.840 run around, run around for me, stuff like that, and 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:16.800 the owners just loved it. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.400 They got it. They got a big kick out of it. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.800 So yeah, that was that was my fix because I 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:22.560 couldn't have a dog. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.440 And you did some work with the Tennessee Humane Society 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.120 is where the National Humane Society as well, right, correct? 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:29.080 What was that like? 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:30.719 That was cool? It was? 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.080 It was really awesome that you know, there was a 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.240 dog I was able to go take on a walk 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.560 and kind of just create some awareness for a pet 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.480 adoption week and then ended up getting adopted, So it 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:42.280 was it was really cool. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.920 Yeah, that's a really cool part thing to be a 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.679 part of. You also won the ed Block Courage Award 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.920 back in twenty twenty twenty one with the Titans. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.400 Can you tell us about that a little bit. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.480 Yeah, I had an injury at the very end. It 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.760 was almost like basically the last play. It was the 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.280 last play for me. We had the wild card game 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.800 against the Ravens and it was two minute drive and 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:08.200 got tackled and you know, had an injury with my ankle, 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.800 and yeah, it was tough, especially right at the end 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.040 of the season, was you know, finishing up my rookie year. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.480 I feel like it was a high note to end 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.760 it like that was tough. But yeah, it was just 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:21.720 put in the work and just was in there all 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.720 the time, getting rehab, doing everything I could I could 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.120 do to get back, and came back next year and 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.480 had an even better year than the year before and. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:29.600 Just kind of kept it going from there. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.679 Now with the Miami Dolphins, I wasn't going to close 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.600 with what are you most excited about to be in 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.600 South Florida for but it sounds like maybe that might 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:36.560 be golf. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:41.040 But maybe football first, but outside of football golf. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.800 Yeah, okay, So the way I will ask you the 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.839 final question is if you could just tell Dolphins fans 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.320 what are they going to get? What can they expect 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.199 to see on Sundays with Nick Westbrook It. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.000 Yeah, I'm gonna work my tail off. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.360 I feel like that's what I've done since I've been 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.160 in the league is just try to find a way. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.280 First it was finding a way onto a team, and 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.000 then once I was there, I don't want to leave, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.160 and so just kept working, kept working. And I feel 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.280 like that that in itself too is a gift that 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.679 God has given me, just to just work hard and 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.280 just put my head down and grind it out and 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.120 see how see how it ends up. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.240 With that there great stuff, New Dolphins wide is here. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.000 Nick Westbrook a kin, thank you for your time today 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.079 and we'll see you out there on Sundays. Man, Thank you, 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.320 and off he goes. Let's go ahead and pause for 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.640 our first break right there. Come back on the other 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.719 side and hear from new Dolphins safety Ashton Davis. That's 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.960 next Draft Time Podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield brought to 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:35.680 you by AutoNation. What's Up, Dolphins? Welcome back into an 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.400 edition of the Draft Time podcast Freeency edition, And my 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.040 guest today is new Dolphins safety Ashton Davis. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.120 Ashen, what's up and how you doing? 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:42.760 Doing well? 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.600 Happy to be here, Excited. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.880 You came over to the good side. Check rivalry. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.319 I guess that got you down here. Now, what do 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.800 you remember most about playing those games? 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.320 Uh? Shoot, the warm weather when we were down here? 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.000 Sure, yeah, at that stadium and you know it always 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.880 you guys are always sitting in the shade and we're 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.000 sitting there cooking in the sun. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.120 That's a that's the most memorable thing I think. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.480 But now you are you guys? 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.680 Now, now I am you are one of us, But 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.640 you've also got a few picks off of us. I 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.920 think I've mistaken two or three. So yeah, four actually 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.040 quarterbacks down four? 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:13.840 Who's counting? 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.440 Yeah, I guess you are. I mean it makes sense. Yeah, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.360 I remember being like, yop, there's Ashton David's another pick 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.680 for the Dolphins. You Ashton, And then like I think 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.640 Brandon Eckles got a few times too. Yeah, so he 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.840 also signed somewhere else as well. So making the Dolphins 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.440 better and maybe the Jets a little bit worse too. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.320 So welcome in man. How's how's it treating you so far? 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.040 The building there, that's great. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.680 Flew in this morning, kind of just getting the lay 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.200 of the land. Still introduced a lot of names, Probably 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.040 going to have to have some reintroductions, but it's been 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:41.680 great so far. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.560 Santa Cruz Kid, right. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:44.280 Santa Cruz Kid. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.120 So, beach is probably calling your name a little bit. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.400 Beach is calling my name. Yeah, I actually don't surf 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:48.640 at all. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:49.720 The really never been. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.760 I'd surprised me. I would have thought maybe that's like 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.760 a part of the world where everyone yeah, yeah, absolutely 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.120 no doubt. So when you think about going back to 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.800 like your days at Cal track team walked onto the 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.240 foot ball team, right, when you think about going into 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.240 your sixth year in the NFL after being a walk 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.880 on in college and obviously a third round pick, so 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.880 like you weren't like slept on at that point, but 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.520 a walk on is usually doesn't usually make it to 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.720 this level. When you reflect upon all that, what comes 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:13.120 to mind? 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:13.360 Do you? 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.800 I think the biggest moment that comes to mind is 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.880 I actually walked on for a track too, and that 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.680 after my freshman year of track, they offered me a 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.280 full right scholarship, but with the condition that I couldn't 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:32.240 play football, and thankfully my parents where you know, I 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.720 had to ask them first if that was okay, and 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.600 they let me chase my dream of football and ended 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.640 up working out. So I think that was the most 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.240 memorable you know decision or like, you know, they were 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.320 willing to take out a loan to help me pursue 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.240 my dream and I was able to do something with it. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.200 So that was the biggest thing I remember from college. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.920 Go from walk on to conference champion in track, walk 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.800 on to a third round draft pick, and like maybe 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.320 could have gone even higher, Like you were really good 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.400