WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 13 Variety Show with Mike Cugno 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.360 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:05.840 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not for 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:08.320 What is up? 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.959 Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:17.000 the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, Your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.200 How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.400 And on today's show, we're gonna welcome in the great 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.640 Michael Kuno from CBS four to talk about this big 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.600 game on Sunday, December NFL football and the importance of 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.520 the stretch run for your Miami Dolphins, Plus the return 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.160 of JPP covering your hometown team. We'll talk nap more 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.680 trophy fun chat with Mike Kuno, plus Kyle Krabs joined us, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:43.400 a break down the weekend and championship weekend in college football. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.360 We'll hear from Mike McDaniel and a heck of a 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.640 lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:52.560 Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:54.280 Maggie Daffy. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.960 My guest today, CBS Four's Mike Kunyo Joining me today 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.480 is CBS four his own Mike Kuno. Kuno, what's happening 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:02.800 my man? 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:04.839 What's up? Travis? How's it going. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:06.000 It's going pretty good. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.080 I had my first question for you here is did 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.480 you ever think there was more to life than being really, 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.479 really ridiculously good looking? 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:15.120 Stop? 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.240 Stop, but no, no, this is what I've been looking for. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.360 It's it's been an ugly, duckling sort of thing most 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.919 of my life. So I don't know what you're talking about. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.080 But if you see something that I don't, thank you. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.280 Broadcasting one on one is to make your guests as 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.560 uncomfortable as possible off the start, right. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.959 You nailed it. You nailed it. I am now sweating 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:36.600 under here. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:38.240 Well, I was. 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.800 I was running over some show notes last night before 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.520 I went to bed, and I was thinking, you know 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:43.760 what I read. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:44.640 I read the story in. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.680 The Miami New Times about when you won your Emmy, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.360 and the way that the writer positioned it was like, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.000 it's almost annoying how good looking Kuno was, and its 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.600 just it was a whole thing. It was hilarious to me. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.360 So I thought about the great Zoolander quote there. Put 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.960 it in here. It's staying in the show. I think, okay, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.320 but we'll go and move on here, and I do 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.120 want to talk to you about about that. It's about 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.280 your your upbringing here in South Florida and you know, 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.280 pursuing a life in sports. I was the same way, man, 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.480 Like every day I was out in my backyard throwing 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.200 the ball down to myself and you know I would 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.560 I would run back like a Super Nintendo NBA game 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.920 and just read the scores or partid I was doing broadcasting, 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.080 like I love that stuff. So this stuff fascinates me. 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.840 I want to hear about your journey and how special 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:27.200 it was to you to achieve the position you're in 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.320 now as a kid that grew up loving sports in 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.440 South Florida to now work across the entire you know, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.080 professional sports spectrum here in the South Florida area. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.560 Yeah, it's it's been wild. It's definitely not the normal 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.359 route a lot of people have taken. I remember telling 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:44.520 telling friends like in high school and college, when they 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:45.840 ask you, what do you want to do? I said, yeah, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.640 I want to I want to be a broadcaster. I 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.960 want to be an analyst. And I even realizing what 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.440 that what that really was in terms of sports, because 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.239 obviously not analysts. I'm more of a host and anchor 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.920 and reporter. But that you know, just your friends kind 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.000 of looking at you like you're crazy. And then getting 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.080 to college and not really having any direction and what 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.919 what like classes you need to take. I didn't take 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.320 like a single television class. Probably not something good to admit, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.800 but yeah, you know, I kind of got got my 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.640 way on there through through internships and all that stuff. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.960 But listen, growing up down here in Miami was a 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.240 huge Minding Hurricanes fan. My dad was a big Dolphins fan, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.799 my mom loved the Heat. We kind of all rallied 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.360 around the Marlins and Panthers as they as they came, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.520 you know, into their own here in the market. So 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.880 kind of being able to grow up with all these 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.240 teams because miney sports relatively young, you know, Heat in 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.560 the eighties, Panthers, Marlins in the nineties. You get to 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.960 like grow with those teams. And so that's kind of 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.360 where my passion for South Florida sports started. And it's 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.200 just been that, you know, a dream come true to 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.480 be able to do this down here in my home market. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:02.720 And have you know, my friends and family also see 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.160 you know this kid who said he wanted to do 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:06.320 it and then eventually did it. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.760 I mean, it's it's wild. I pitched myself every day. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:10.240 For sure. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.480 The fact that it is your own market is pretty cool. 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.240 Even though I grew up a Dolphins fan, everyone knows 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.120 about that, and this is where I wanted to be ultimately, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.000 Like I got a text my buddy last night that 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.200 was like, you're on the y'all who's sports fantasy update 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.960 about devon a chain being limited. In practice, all I 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.720 did was post the image of the injury report on 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.320 Twitter and they found it, so I guess the right 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.320 people are following me, So that's cool. I suppose you 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.520 also mentioned, like you know, when you announced that this 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.240 is the path you want to pursue. The people that 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.800 are like a little bit dubious about it, and my 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.880 step or my wife's stepfather, I was like four years 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.640 into it. Lockdown Dolphins was like the top, like top 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.920 one hundred Apple chart every single week, and he was like, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.880 Travis just sits in his househol they didn't do anything. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.640 I don't know how Caitlin supports is still, but so 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:51.239 like people. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:51.480 Don't get it. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:52.719 And that's why it's so funny to me to hear 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.360 you because you took a more conventional path than I did, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.640 for sure, but one of those stops on that path 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.000 is a really cool thing that South Florida does, and 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.880 I don't have this back in the Northwest. Of course, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.919 South Florida is the football mecha of the universe. 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.200 In my opinion, is the not more trophy. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.480 I just wanted to ask you about that in general, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.960 your involvement in that this year's crop of kids, and 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.599 just how cool and special it is to win that 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.720 trophy down here, to be honored by one of the 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.840 all time Dolphins greats in an area where if you're 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.960 the best high school fotball player here, you're probably gonna 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:23.880 play in this league someday. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.880 Yeah, it was long overdue for the area when we 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.359 started this, and it was five years ago. Now we 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.800 had a brief pause one season because of the COVID year, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.600 but this is the fourth year we're handing out the trophy. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.080 And it's been really cool. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.640 I mean, everyone talks about, you know, high school football 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.880 and which state is better, and Florida is obviously always 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.120 mentioned with states like Texas and California. I know in 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.080 Texas CBS station out there has a similar style an award, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.640 and that's kind of where we adopted the idea here 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.640 at CBS Miami, and no one was doing this, and 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.440 it just seemed kind of silly to us that we 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.840 don't have, you know, kind of a best of our 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.280 Final four, like Heisman style trophy for these kids when 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.159 each and every year heck on Sundays, you're watching and 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.040 you hear, oh, so and so into Miami Northwestern, so 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.280 and so went to powerhouse Saint Thomas Aquinas. So let's 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.520 you know, let's recognize these kids and their families and 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.279 their coaches and their teams. And so that's what we've done. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:27.640 And this year, you know, every year, the you know, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.919 it's not just like a quarterback award. I mean, this 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.480 year we have three wide receivers and a running back. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.800 In years past, we've had mostly defense. You know, we've 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.960 had offensive linemen. So we really try to find who 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.760 truly are the best football. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.880 Players in the area. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.560 This year, you've got two kids at a Shamana Madonna 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:50.920 wide receiver Jeremiah Smith and Jasiah Trader. You got Lwayne McCoy, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:52.720 who's a guy who could play both sides of the 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.080 ball over at Central. And then you've got Jordan Lyle 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.279 running back from Saint Thomas Aquinas. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:00.680 And if you're ever the running back at. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.000 See Thomas Aquinas, you're probably a really good, you know, 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.680 football player. So we've got a healthy crop of kids 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:09.960 this year, and it is just so hard just to 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.880 narrow it down to those final four. So for anyone 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.000 who's listening to this, who follows along with the neat 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.960 more stuff, just know that this is very difficult to 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.200 wind it down to four, let alone the final one. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.160 But it's it's very cool. We've seen it kind of 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:25.840 pick up steam. 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:26.320 Last year. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.560 We had Ruben Bain who's just been an absolute scud 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.600 at the University of Miami and acc he won the 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.320 award and then committed to Miami on the show, kind 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.080 of surprising people as they're handing him the trophy. He's like, oh, yeah, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.240 by the way, I'm stay at home going to Miami. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.680 So yeah, it's been it's been really cool. It's been 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.640 fun to watch the families, the schools, the coaches, and 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.080 the players all kind of get behind this in kind 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.880 of such short order. And again our fifth year, but 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.600 really our fourth trophy were given out and I mean 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:54.560 you just see the amount. 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.800 Of votes that come in and denominations and that's been 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:57.520 really cool to see. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:58.480 That's awesome. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.320 Man. The stars are tomorrow, like you mentioned, because all 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.840 those kids wind up playing at Miami, at FSU at 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.920 Florida maybe even a little bit like they're playing at 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.240 the biggest schools in the entire nation. So it's definitely 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.880 big time talent there. And speaking of big time talent, 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.000 and a local kid that you know, hit it big 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.240 and is coming back home here, one of the many 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.080 South Florida natives who made the league now gets a 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.520 chance to fulfill his dream of playing for his hometown 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.360 team in Jason Pierre Paul. I just wanted to hear 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.400 from someone who's from here, who lives it. You just 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.400 told us about the not More trophy and the importance 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.160 of the local you know, high school level football down here. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:29.840 Someone who understands the scene. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.920 Just tell me about the importance of that and why 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.160 that's so damn cool for him for folks that are 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.560 from here. For yourself, like, why is it always so 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.599 cool when you get a Mike Wier, Robbie Chosen or 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.320 JPP coming back here to South Florida. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:47.280 Because you like so I've actually covered like Pop Warner football. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.760 That's kind of like where my TV career started, like 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.840 doing little league games where you go out and report 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.240 on these games and do highlights for the Man Air 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.800 you know, on TV the next day. When you're out there, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.760 you see these families and it's not just mom and 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.840 dad are out there. You see aunts, uncles, cousins, everyone 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.560 out there going through these games at these local parks. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.000 And then you know they move on JPP obviously with 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.600 the South Florida so University of South Florida, so that 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.040 kind of family connection was probably easy for him to 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.240 migrate north to Tampa. And then when it just always 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.720 seems like somehow these guys find their way back home. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.199 And when that happens and you hear them make a 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:34.719 play and you hear that faint like. 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.040 You know, whore in the crowd. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.240 Yeah, you're like there's the section right, like there's the 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.000 White Mike White section, or there's the Duke Johnson section. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.640 Like these these guys. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.920 Grew up literally in the shadow of hard Rock Stadium. 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.160 I remember when we covered Duke Johnson when he was 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.840 in high school. You can literally see the stadium from 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.880 their football field. So it that means a lot that 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.760 they get to play in their backyard and have their 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:07.400 families come check it out. And because it's such a 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.160 rich area of high school football. It's not like it's 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.200 not like this is a rare occurrence. So all these 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.360 families also know each other, you know, the you know, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.000 I'm sure when Alan Hearns is here. Obviously I don't 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.880 know their families, but Alan Hearns Duke Johnson's families probably 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.360 sat in in you know, at little league parks next 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.439 to each other, and then to sit next to each 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.880 other at hard Rock Stadium one day. It's it's just, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.360 I don't know, it's very unique I think in the NFL, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.600 and it's wild and it's always cool to have these 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:38.319 guys come home. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.520 Yeah, I like, you know, like I keep saying, I'm 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.640 not from an area where that's common at all. Like 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.680 I think we had like one NFL guy like two 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.240 decades from my local area. So it just doesn't happen 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.280 up there, but down here it's a way of life. Man, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.160 Like you said, the family experience of it all is 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.760 really really cool, great stuff, Kunyo. I want to pivot 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.920 now towards more Dolphins themed type of conversation here on 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.679 the Draft Time podcast on the Miami Dolphins PODCAS Network, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.160 and one of the things we've been hearing from a 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.440 theme perspective this weekend with you know, reporters and the 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.520 players and coaches are talking about at the podium and 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.000 we just it's a common thing across podcasts and TV 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.880 shows is December football? Right? Oh? 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:14.440 J McDuffie always tells me they. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.400 Never remember what you do in December, like it says, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.480 go to quote, and I'm wondering how you feel like 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.360 last year's experience where the wheels kind of fell off 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.840 in December, and of course you had an injury to 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.280 your quarterback that played into that. You had three really 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.640 difficult road games. In fact, thinking back to that, a 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.880 West Coast swing in two tough places to play against 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.959 two good teams and the Ninners and Chargers, and then 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.720 a short week at Buffalo on a Saturday night that 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:38.640 was a tough, tough road to hoe and they were 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.800 in those games and came up short in those How 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.559 do you think that taught this team maybe some perseverance, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.559 maybe the ability to overcome some of those, you know, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.160 the obstacles that come with an NFL season. How do 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.720 you think last year, in Mike McDaniel's first year, prepared 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.760 this team to make a run this year in December? 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.080 Well, I think when you look at the schedule now 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.280 and yet there the end of the season that isn't 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.480 necessarily on the road, but you go, hey, remember those 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.880 tough games against you know, the Chargers and the Niners 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:06.360 and the Bills. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.160 Well, you have a stretch like that coming up for 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:09.960 the Dolphins. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.839 You know the Bills, I know they've been had an 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.439 up and down year by their standards, it's still a 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.280 good football team. You got the Cowboys and then you 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.560 got the Ravens. Right, So those three games stacked up, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.560 while not all of them are are on the road, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.079 they do kind of mirror the challenge you had a 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.319 year ago. And how if you don't hold on to 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.960 that rope and you do not focus, it can slip 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.240 away and then it feels like, you know, you're pushing 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.880 uphill and that's not where you want to be. I 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.440 think Christian Wilkins said it this week that you know, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.920 earlier in the year, September, October, you're playing ball December. 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.160 It's like it's where you make your money, right, this 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:52.240 is where the Dolphins have to show that they've improved. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.120 And the thing that I've liked about. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.360 In this Dolphins team is even if you go back 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.280 to like week one and week two, say hey, the 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.920 run defense didn't show up this week. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:03.800 The next week you saw improvements. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.120 Hey on the road, they had struggles communication, They can't 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.280 win on the road. You know, they're back to five 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:14.080 hundred now away from hard Rock Stadium. So to me, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.319 I think it shows growth. I think they learned a 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.360 lot of things last year that you can't just a 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.600 look ahead and be if you're not just in the 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.920 moment in that game right now, you have the chance 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.480 of dropping or getting steamrolled in a situation where you shouldn't. 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.840 And so I think they've done a good job this 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:38.720 year of staying where their feet are and making improvements 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.920 week to week. And that's what I like to see. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.440 If they can do that kind of on the macro, 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.600 now do it in December football, I think they'll be okay. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.880 I love that you mentioned that stretch because to me, 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:51.720 it almost simulates like a playoff run. Like you take 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:53.400 care of business the next three games, right that would 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.400 make you eleven and three. That would make Dolphins fans 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.319 very very happy. It's easiersad than done, but the opportunity 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.440 is there to do that, and then you get a 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.040 trial run, like if you lose, you get to try again. Like, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.600 it's kind of cool how they have that up there 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.920 for them to really get their biggest test late in 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.840 the season with you know, potentially a division title already 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.439 in hand. If they can take care of business and 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.800 get one more Buffalo loss, that's all it would take. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.560 So look at the Vision title, AFC title. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.440 I mean, there's a lot like those games are going 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.040 to mean something. It's not just another regular season game. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.280 Those games actually have implications, and I think that's even 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.840 better for them because now it's like you get that 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.200 sense of an elimination style week. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.840 To your point, I mean you talk about home and road, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:36.960 like some of those games could decide whether you're playing 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.080 down here or up in Kansas City or up you know, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.080 wherever it might be in the postseason. So I was 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.720 looking at the other day when the last time they 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.200 were favored in a playoff game. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.960 Do you know what that was? 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:52.040 Was it against the Cults in two thousand close. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.000 I didn't look that far back because there was one 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.560 after that. It was actually the next year when they 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.680 got bounced in the first round by the Ravens. They 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.480 were actually favored in that game at home, and it 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.040 was a low out for the Ravens, So I just 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.040 was curious about that because, like I'm thinking, the last 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.320 time Miami had their starting quarterback in a playoff game 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.440 was two thousand and eight with Chad Pennington, and he 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.280 got picked off four times in that game. So it's 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.080 just like, this is the opportunity Miami has to actually 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.680 go into the postseason with a team they feel like 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.840 they could possibly make a run and win some games, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.120 opposed to the last you know, a decade and a 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.040 half or it just hasn't been that way. So it's 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.320 it's a fun conversation to have, and it starts this 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.160 weekend Mike and Washington. Are you gonna be on the 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.320 road in Washington, And whether or not you are, what 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:29.680 are you looking forward to in this one? 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:36.200 I'll be home for this one, so I probably end 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.360 up traveling later in the year as we get closer 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.840 to the playoff. But the thing I'm looking forward to 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.280 this is how they bounce back from the Jalen Phillips injury, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.800 and I think they have a good at least Litness 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.440 has to see where that rushes from the edge with 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:55.720 guys like Ben Gangko and Ogba. Just because Sam Howe 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.760 has been sacked more than any other quarterback in the league. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.000 I'm sure it's a stat you guys have talked about, 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.400 you know, a lot this week. So I think it's 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.960 opportunity for that defense to really show what they can 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.560 do without Jalen in there and maybe give those guys 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.760 confidence that, Hey, down the stretch, you know, you'd love 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.560 to have him in there, but maybe. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:17.160 We'll be okay. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.920 And I think they will be because everyone speaks so 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.400 highly of a guy like Andrew Van Ginkle. So that's 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.920 what I'm looking forward to. And then on the other 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.920 side of the ball, the turnovers. I mean, they got 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.040 to stop giving the ball away, whether it's fumbles or interceptions. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.080 You can't be minus five at this point in the 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:40.200 season in the turnover margin. When you're this good like 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.440 it can't like it can't look that bad. You can't 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.680 be in the red there when it comes to turnovers. 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:49.840 If you're if you're going to be a team that's 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.320 going to compete, because at some point you're gonna run 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.320 into a jugger nut that'll make you pay every single 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:58.400 time you turn the ball over. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.240 We've seen it happen in the KC game. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.000 The one big turnover in that game was kind of 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.399 the difference in that game there with the fumble that 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:09.760 I'm still not so sure was actually a fumble, but 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.040 I digress and we move on here. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:13.080 So it's good stuff. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:13.280 Man. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.600 It's the thing is like, if they do that, though, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:16.720 what's going to stop them? 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.120 You know, because it's been the only thing that's been 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.840 bothering them so far this late to the defense surging 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.520 and the offense being capable of what it can do. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.120 It's I cannot wait to watch it play out. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:26.800 But I also want to be present, like you talked 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.000 about the Daryl Bevell quote, be where your feet are 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:30.840 and just kind of appreciate this team what they're doing 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:31.160 right now. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.119 So good stuff. 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:34.119 There a couple more here for you, Mike, and these 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.320 are going a little bit back towards the personal stuff. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.840 So you had your first season on the sidelines this year, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.560 Dereck Dolphins preseason, and you got to talk to Mike 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.840 McDaniel to a tongue of my low like you did 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.040 the whole gambit, right. I'm just wondering, is there a 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.560 moment that maybe for a first time or made you nervous. 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.080 Was there a moment that was surreal to you. I 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.199 just want to hear about your experience down there and 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:56.840 maybe a fun story to go along with it. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.280 Yeah, so it's this story is kind of like, will 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.560 wrap all that up in one But right before my 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:09.119 first hit, they go on the first preseason game, they're like, hey, like, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.920 I want to just do a real quick run through 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.520 with you, just a quick rehearsal, and I'm like, yeah, sure, 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.000 let's do it. And I'm looking at my watch. I'm like, 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.399 we're like two minutes from the broadcast starting. It's like, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.280 there's a great time. There's a great time to just 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.560 but listen, those guys are bit I get it. So 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.800 they come to me and I couldn't try it. I 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.240 couldn't get the words out of my mouth. I'm like shaking. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.920 And this was like the rehearsal and I'm like, this 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.240 is gonna be terrible. And even my boss afterwards was like, yeah, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.320 I was a little nervous about you going to that 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.880 first hit. And then and then once it became alive, 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.720 I don't know, like something came over me and and 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.800 it was all fine. I think it's just that thing 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.720 like we sometimes we talk about it in like TV 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.000 and broadcasting that like when it's live for whatever reason, 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:52.720 you don't mess up because you can't, like you do, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:54.440 you just have to do it. But when you know 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.639 it in the back of your mind it's it's a rehearsal. 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.919 Then you start to overthink and you're like, am I 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:00.840 doing this right? And then and so you trip up. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.520 So that first hit right out of the gate. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.359 I was like, oh my god, all this is like 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.119 the one of the biggest moments of my career and 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.840 I'm I'm about to fall flat on my face and 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.880 uh no, it ended up it ended up working out 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:21.879 great doing the Uh the real I think the pinch 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.880 myself moment was you always hear like on the NFL broadcast, like, hey, 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.560 we caught up with Mike McDaniel this week. 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.800 Who got to sit down for with him for like 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.919 an hour in our production meeting or whatever it is. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.520 But being able to do that and just kind of 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:41.000 really get the sense every week where these guys are at, 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.800 what like makes them tick, where their headspace is at 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.560 that point in training camp and preseason, what they're looking 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.440 forward to having those kind of like moments where there's 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.520 no cameras, it's just you and the coaches or you 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.840 and the players talking catching up to me, that was 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.800 is my favorite part of the whole thing, just because 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:07.080 I think he got a real sense of who these 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.720 guys are, what makes him tick, and you know their 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.880 passion for folk on how hard this this actually is. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:18.240 So that was each and every week I've looked forward 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:19.520 to that, I think more than I think. 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.960 It's like when Mike leaves the podium and like has 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.520 a couple extra words for us about his energy drink 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:25.639 or whatever it is for the day, Like those are 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.080 the best moments of those press conferences. 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.760 I agree with you there. I did a live hit once. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:30.400 I wasn't live. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.000 It was recorded in front of the facility at Davy 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.000 during the pandemic year because NFL thatsing talent out to 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:37.840 the building, so they had the on air talent or 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.159 the in house talent and do it. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.840 And I wasn't like that polished at the time. 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.240 It was my first year on the job, and it 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.800 took like eight takes and there was cars whizzing by 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.200 right behind me at that on that street building there 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.040 in Davy, and the nerve I felt for these guys 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.119 I just met that we're shooting this thing like I 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:56.680 keep messing this uff. These guys are gonna leave me. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:58.679 They're gonna they're gonna cut me from the program. It was. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.000 It was incredible nerve wracking. So I've been there, my friends. 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:05.040 I love sharing those stories. Speaking of that, one more 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:06.520 here for You'll go ahead and get you out of here. 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:08.120 Mike Kuno, CBS four. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.359 You're the man, Mike. I appreciate your time here on 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:10.720 the show. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.400 Tell us what you're working on for some potential features 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:15.440 or stories coming up, Like what are you looking forward 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.920 to coming up on CBS led by you, my friend? 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.320 Well, we've got each and every week we do Dolphin's 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:24.080 Weekly Live, the Fifth Quarter post Game Show, and the 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:25.400 Coach Mike McDaniel show. 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:29.800 We have all of these kind of Dolphin Shows entities 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.800 and we get to talk to players one on one. 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:35.680 The thing I tell you this week right now is 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.200 we've got Deshaun Elliott on. 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:40.280 Dolphin's Weekly Live. 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:41.840 I got to talk to him and in one of 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:46.119 those production meetings during the preseason, he told us Jevon 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:49.160 Holland's gonna be a Hall of Famer. He's got all 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.840 pro potential, no doubt about it. And so you know, 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:57.040 coming off that ninety nine yard pick six. We got 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:58.720 to talk to him about it, and he's like, I 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.840 would never tell you a lie. I would never tell 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:01.280 you a lie. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:01.960 I'm not lying. 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.600 So deshan his interview. I think he's great this week. 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.800 He's a fun guy. He loves movies. If you're into 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:10.880 scary movies, he's got a really good one that he's 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:16.239 uh that he's gonna suggest fourth fans out there if 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.840 you can, if you can handle it. But yeah, so 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.240 so that's what we've got this week. That'll be that'll 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.720 be fun. That will air Sunday, eleven thirty am on 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:24.680 CBS Miami. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:26.600 The first time I met to Sean, I knew right 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:28.359 away this guy is gonna be a fun character for 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:31.159 all content creators across the South Florida. 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.760 Big hitter too, the best man to hit. 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.119 Yes, I love to Sean. He's the man. That's a 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:39.679 great company. Do not miss that. 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.040 Big horror fan, big horror movie fan myself as well, 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:43.159 So definitely gonna tune into that. 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:44.520 Mike Kuno, appreciate your time. 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:44.679 Man. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:46.320 We'll see you next week. 0:22:46.359 --> 0:22:50.600 Maybe, yeah, you'll see. I'm always around, man, I'm always around. 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.240 I'm always around appreciate you, big Doug. All right man, 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.159 thanks ving and there he goes the great Mike Kuno. 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.360 Let's go ahead and take our first break right there, 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:00.479 come back on the other side. I we'll hear from 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:03.080 head coach Mike McDaniel before getting to my final guests 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:06.160 of the day, Kyle Krabs. That's all next Draft Time Podcast, 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:09.000 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Onto Nation. 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.399 Segment two on a Friday, going to be very brief here. 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:17.639 Let's go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel. 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.840 But first before that, the latest injury news for your 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.400 Miami Dolphins, and we start with a really fun one 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.600 as coach as transparent as he can be told us 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:31.040 that Devon Achan will play in the game on Sunday. 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:33.480 I continue to speak about how important it is to 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.280 get him back as well as getting Waddle cranking full 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:38.680 steam to go along with what Tyreek Hill has been 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.080 from the word go to me, there's not a better 0:23:42.119 --> 0:23:45.600 trio of skill players of playmakers in the National Football League, 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:48.119 and I think Miami will rely upon those guys to 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.440 carry them as far as they possibly can go this year. 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:53.000 Don't count o Raheem most from that equation either. But 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:55.840 great news to get Devon a Chan back fresh legs. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:58.720 Hopefully to have him for the stretch run could be very, 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:03.280 very vital to the Dolphins offense. And you know, I 0:24:03.400 --> 0:24:06.560 just I continue to think about where this team has been, 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.800 where this team is gone, and we'll play some more 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:11.880 sound here from coach talking about being in the exact 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:15.000 same situation in terms of being eight and three heading. 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:15.920 Into the month of December. 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.360 And it was actually December fourth against the Niners last 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:21.439 year when the season began to turn in the wrong direction. 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:25.280 And now here we play the Commanders on Washington or 0:24:25.400 --> 0:24:29.160 on Washington on December third, again at eight and three 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:31.919 with a chance to you know, really make things different 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:33.879 this time around. We'll hear from coach on that in 0:24:33.920 --> 0:24:36.679 just one second, but real quick sounds like Javon Holland 0:24:36.680 --> 0:24:38.720 has a chance to play as he was limited in 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:42.119 practice on Friday, and I imagine we'll be questionable on 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:44.159 the injury report and that comes out later today. Go 0:24:44.320 --> 0:24:46.679 check out my Twitter around four o'clock or so when 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:48.280 we should have that, So check it out there on 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.439 social I will have the latest for you guys. But 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:53.840 he is dealing with two knee injuries, and he is 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:56.200 very eager to play, but as coach McDaniel has been 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.240 all year long to provide caution or I should say, 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.840 exercise cost with regards to his playing ability. Both to 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:06.560 Ron Armstead and Kendall Lamb practiced on Friday as well, 0:25:06.840 --> 0:25:08.960 So a chance to see either of those guys back 0:25:09.000 --> 0:25:11.120 on the field at left tackle for the Miami Dolphins. 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:15.240 And Isaiah Win there's it's not inconceivable that he returns, 0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:18.040 Coach McDaniel said, but he wouldn't put a timeline on 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:21.320 it to you know, short change the process. So that's 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:24.280 the latest injury updates. Let's go ahead and play two 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:27.120 soundbites from coach McDaniel, and I alluded to it already. 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:31.680 I asked him how instructive was last year but also 0:25:31.880 --> 0:25:34.840 the experiences of this season leading up to this point, 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:37.240 being back at eight and three heading into the final 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:40.720 month or by you know, by all intents and purposes, 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.359 the final month of the regular season, how instructive can 0:25:44.480 --> 0:25:46.960 last year be for this year's squad? And he gave 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:50.080 me a great, detailed, lengthy answer. Here is Coach McDaniel 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:53.560 talking about lessons learned from year one and applying them 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:54.280 here in year two. 0:25:54.359 --> 0:25:58.480 Are you saying there's some similarities, Oh, the exact same record, 0:25:58.560 --> 0:25:58.879 got it? 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:00.720 Yeah? 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:10.320 I have two really two things to kind of set 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:13.680 my feeling towards what you're speaking of. You know, eight 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:17.960 and three last year, and you go through something that's 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:24.239 very very difficult, which is watching you know, having to 0:26:24.280 --> 0:26:27.440 fight in the last game to even get in the playoffs, 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:29.919 when at eight and three, that's not really what's on 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:36.640 your mind. So you're very interested in, you know, how 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:40.840 how people use that. For me, you know, it falls 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:43.640 right into the way I look at how to do everything, 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:46.280 which is, you know, for us to say that's a 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:51.359 bad thing or a good thing, it has to do 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:54.040 with how we respond to it. I have two examples, 0:26:54.080 --> 0:26:59.199 that's Wednesday's practice and Thursday's practice, and those lend me 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:06.000 to believe that that we have a committed football team. Two, 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:11.120 to make right those lessons learned last year, to make 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:15.560 that last year actually purposeful as opposed to just, uh yeah, 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.800 we let we let opportunities slip through our fingers. We 0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:22.080 possibly could have had a home playoff game, and we 0:27:22.240 --> 0:27:28.000 uh we messed that that year up. I I've felt 0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:36.920 this week with the players that that that hurt cut deep, 0:27:37.359 --> 0:27:46.040 deep enough that there's a completely different mindset. This practice Wednesday, 0:27:46.040 --> 0:27:49.360 and this practice Thursday night and day difference from last year. 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:51.640 And and and that's. 0:27:51.480 --> 0:27:52.040 What you want. 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:54.600 You wanted to if you're going to go through it. 0:27:54.640 --> 0:27:59.080 You wanted to be of some purpose. And I see 0:27:59.080 --> 0:28:06.440 a team that understands what it means to build during 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:10.080 the season, to continue the growth as a team so 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:16.040 that we're our best version of ourselves when it matters most. 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:19.800 I see a team that is excited to play together. 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:26.199 I see a team that's that is used to you know, 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:34.680 the spotlight or the headlines you know we have, and 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:38.800 and that isn't enamored by that. I see a team 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:44.960 that takes the Washington Commanders as serious as every other 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:47.920 team that we've played this year, and a team that's 0:28:47.960 --> 0:28:52.360 excited to go compete against them, and that's the only 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:56.320 thing on their mind. You know that, I'm very proud 0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:59.760 of where our team's at, because our team is connected 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:03.840 to each other, plays hard for each other, invests in 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:11.120 the responsibilities for one another so that they can truly 0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:14.840 take advantage of each and every Sunday, which you know, 0:29:15.320 --> 0:29:18.560 we only have a finite amount, and each one of 0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:22.440 them's very special. There's a lot of people that pay really, 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:25.480 really good money to come watch us do what we do, 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:30.440 and this team seems to not take any of that 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:34.280 for granted, which gives you the opportunity to be your 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:35.960 best self, which is all I care about. 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:39.800 So I fancy myself a Miami Dolphins analyst, right. I 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:42.520 actually prefer that as my title compared to like podcaster 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:46.520 or even writer, whatever it might be. And all year 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:50.000 long I have been shouting from the rooftops how good 0:29:50.080 --> 0:29:52.240 I think this football team can be. And last year 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:54.280 I was doing the exact same thing, and of course 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:57.080 the quarterback's health was kind of the deterrent in that 0:29:57.160 --> 0:29:59.000 ability to do that. We'll touch on that here more 0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:02.400 in a second as well. I think I'm ready to 0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:04.880 kind of put my stamp on this and kind of, 0:30:04.920 --> 0:30:07.200 you know, stake my claim on this that I think 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.440 this Dolphins team has as good of a chance to 0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:13.040 make the run to February as anybody else in the AFC. 0:30:13.520 --> 0:30:15.959 I think Philly in San Francisco could probably you know, 0:30:16.240 --> 0:30:18.440 lay stake to a larger claim. Maybe even Dallas in 0:30:18.480 --> 0:30:20.720 the NFC, But we'll see about that, but I think 0:30:20.720 --> 0:30:23.480 in the AFC, this Dolphins team, with the combination of 0:30:23.480 --> 0:30:27.120 offensive firepower and defensive playmakers and rush and coverage and 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.080 all the stuff the running game, passing game, you can 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:32.160 win in multiple ways. You have an advanced coaching staff 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:34.840 that understands how to you know, adjust and make changes 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:37.280 and understands what it takes to win in today's NFL. 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:40.760 And that answer the coach just gave us, paired with 0:30:40.800 --> 0:30:43.920 the experiences of last year and how sometimes good teams 0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:45.520 in this league have to kind of get kicked and 0:30:45.960 --> 0:30:47.920 you know, be down before they get over the hump 0:30:47.960 --> 0:30:52.080 and ultimately achieve their ultimate goal. And what coach said 0:30:52.080 --> 0:30:54.720 there about the makeup and the practice of Wednesday and Thursday, 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:56.560 and what we've talked about really since you know, they 0:30:56.600 --> 0:30:59.320 began assembling this roster, you know, years ago, and the 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:02.680 importance of character and locker room presence, and how very 0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:06.560 careful coach McDaniel has been about massaging those particular traits 0:31:06.560 --> 0:31:08.880 that he feels are very important to winning football games 0:31:08.920 --> 0:31:11.520 and making a deep run at this All of that 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:14.120 jumbled up with the talent on the football team and 0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:17.960 my own personal scouting of the team. I think we're 0:31:17.960 --> 0:31:21.840 about to see something very special. Could be wrong, But 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:25.600 like what I mean by that is like, I think 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:28.000 there's a chance. I think there's a chance you might 0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:30.800 have seen the dolphins last loss this season. Why don't 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:32.600 we go ahead and leave it at that. That's how 0:31:32.600 --> 0:31:35.000 a special I think this season could be. Let's go 0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:36.960 ahead and finish up here, because the biggest part of 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:39.240 that is the health of the quarterback. And coach touched 0:31:39.280 --> 0:31:40.880 on the fact that two was about to play his 0:31:40.920 --> 0:31:44.160 twelve consecutive game and this is a sidebar an additional fact, 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:47.080 he's twenty three snaps away from eclipsing his career high. 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:49.200 How important that's been to this Dolphins team, and now 0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:51.360 they have him healthy for the stretch run. Here's coach 0:31:51.400 --> 0:31:53.320 on how important that's been and what Tua did to 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:55.880 put himself in this position by his diligent work in 0:31:55.920 --> 0:31:56.520 the offseason. 0:31:56.680 --> 0:32:04.600 You're always happy when people get, you know, results from 0:32:05.000 --> 0:32:10.320 you know, diligently working at something, whatever it is. So 0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:16.840 like you go and attack what you can control. In 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:21.400 the midst of a ton of narrative about yes, you can, no, 0:32:21.520 --> 0:32:24.800 you can't, all this other stuff, he worries about one thing, 0:32:25.200 --> 0:32:29.880 and that's all right, well, what's the problem staying on 0:32:29.880 --> 0:32:32.960 the field? What can I do to fix it? And 0:32:33.000 --> 0:32:39.040 that's all he worries about. It doesn't surprise me that 0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:43.200 we're in the position we're in at this point the 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:46.240 season where he's played twelve games in a row, because 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:52.680 I've never seen someone attack attack an off season with 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:56.320 that much. It's not a chip on his shoulder. He 0:32:56.400 --> 0:33:01.400 was just so motivated to control what he can control, 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:07.560 so motivated, So h doesn't surprise me. I think the 0:33:07.600 --> 0:33:09.920 you know, the results speak for themselves in that way. 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:14.000 Football is a uh, you know, a game where you 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:20.040 can't predict, you know, really anything that's gonna happen, but 0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:23.680 you can control the certain things. I think he's done 0:33:23.680 --> 0:33:29.160 an unbelievable job of that. I'm really proud, just just 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:33.960 really proud and happy that we're at this position in 0:33:34.040 --> 0:33:37.440 the season with him playing twelve games in a row, 0:33:37.480 --> 0:33:40.640 because I know how much he directly has to do 0:33:40.680 --> 0:33:44.240 with that and that it's it wasn't an easy position 0:33:44.280 --> 0:33:48.000 for him to be in. But what he did do is, 0:33:48.680 --> 0:33:52.959 uh is take himself as a man, as a player 0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:59.080 to a to a different level within that commitment, and 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:04.640 you know, I think just his overall command just just 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:09.759 it affects everyone. I think he his confidence with his 0:34:09.840 --> 0:34:15.759 ability to stay healthy. Guys, guys can feel and you know, 0:34:15.920 --> 0:34:21.280 we're we're just very fortunate that our quarterback is wired 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:25.839 the way he is from a mental standpoint because he 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:28.520 he you know, I'm not sure if you guys were 0:34:28.600 --> 0:34:30.880 placing side bets, but there's a lot of people that 0:34:30.920 --> 0:34:34.799 were betting against him. He knew that, and you know, 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:41.359 so he as a result, he gets better from everything, good, 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:42.280 bad or indifferent. 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:44.839 Last break right here, let's go ahead and come back 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:46.480 on the other side. And here from my good friend 0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:49.120 Kyle Krabs, that's the next Draft Time podcast. Your host 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:54.839 Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I donation, joining us 0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:58.239 today as he does almost every Friday. Didn't have him 0:34:58.239 --> 0:35:00.600 on last week on the Black Friday Game. Is the 0:35:00.600 --> 0:35:03.279 great Kyle Krabs from Locked on NFL Scouting and of 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:08.080 course Locked on Dolphins covering your Miami Dolphins. Kyle, how 0:35:08.160 --> 0:35:09.000 we doing, my friend? 0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:09.920 How was the holiday? 0:35:10.800 --> 0:35:12.920 Hotday was good? I hope everybody had a good holiday. 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:15.279 Who's listening here? And obviously Travis Hugh and then the 0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:19.640 rest of the Miami Dolphins group that put on a 0:35:19.640 --> 0:35:23.720 good show for us on Friday, Black Friday. It's always 0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:26.560 nice to get a divisional win. They are especially nice 0:35:26.600 --> 0:35:28.920 when they come by three touchdowns. So that was a 0:35:28.960 --> 0:35:32.760 really nice treat to bring the holiday weekend into full swing. 0:35:33.480 --> 0:35:38.040 If there's anything I learned from the Spotify wrapped thing 0:35:38.239 --> 0:35:40.320 this year, the thing I don't know about to call it, 0:35:40.320 --> 0:35:42.720 it's that the audience you're talking to right now probably 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:46.680 is your audience as well. So locked on and draft 0:35:46.680 --> 0:35:50.880 time listeners are pretty pretty big ven diagram. 0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:51.840 There with a big circle in the middle. 0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:53.680 Let's go ahead and talk about this weekend in college 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:57.680 football because Kyle one left one left before bowl season, 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:01.280 and you know, ball season has kind of been watered 0:36:01.320 --> 0:36:03.600 down in recent years with all the players that leave 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:06.279 and don't play in those games. So this is kind 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:08.120 of the last big college weekend until we get to 0:36:08.160 --> 0:36:11.239 the playoffs. And my question for you is how important 0:36:11.360 --> 0:36:14.960 do scouts view these games in relation to the rest 0:36:15.040 --> 0:36:18.360 of the schedule. Are the bigger games amplified more in 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:20.720 a bigger way for scouts for the next level? 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:24.319 I certainly think, especially when you're evaluating for a team 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:26.799 that wants to aspire to compete for championships and be 0:36:26.920 --> 0:36:28.880 in big moments. You want to see the players and 0:36:28.920 --> 0:36:32.000 how they perform and meet those big moments. So I 0:36:32.080 --> 0:36:33.879 do think that is one element of this. You think 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:36.400 about the game tomorrow with Georgian and Alabama, with the 0:36:36.440 --> 0:36:38.640 SEC championship game, that stands out. I do think the 0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:41.239 game tonight with Oregon and Washington is big for a 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:44.520 different reason. It's relevant for that same reason. There's obviously 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:46.600 college football playoff spot that's on the line for that. 0:36:47.280 --> 0:36:49.440 But these two teams played each other before this season 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:52.600 and it was a barn burner and Michael Penix puts 0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:54.879 together a killer drive at the end of the game 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:56.520 in the final two minutes to go down and take 0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:59.960 the lead in a thirty six thirty three win against 0:37:00.080 --> 0:37:05.279 to the Oregon Ducks. Now, it's like divisional football in 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:10.919 the NFL. When you're evaluating players, you always covet the 0:37:11.000 --> 0:37:16.200 second matchup because it showcases there's an awareness of what 0:37:16.239 --> 0:37:19.480 they do well, what they do didn't we played them before. 0:37:19.920 --> 0:37:23.400 There might be some new wrinkles, some tendency breakers that 0:37:23.440 --> 0:37:28.280 are involved, but by and large, evaluating players at any level, 0:37:28.280 --> 0:37:30.440 when there's a familiarity with all the players that are 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:34.600 on the field. Is a really really nice kind of 0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:38.520 extra lens to put on the evaluation process. So I 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:42.240 love getting these conference matchups that are rematches from regular 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:45.200 season games because it's like cards were on the table 0:37:45.239 --> 0:37:47.439 the first time you played. Now it's go out there 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:51.279 and execute. And for an Orgon team specifically, do you 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:53.399 think about that team last year and how they got 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:56.319 handled by the utah Utes twice last year, got their 0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:59.760 teeth kicked in? Really a chance to have a mulligan 0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:02.200 game in the Pac twelve championship game against Washington for 0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:05.279 those organ Ducks players. I'm really dialed in on that one. 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:07.920 Yeah, you really cut through the deception that could possibly 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:09.319 be there from the first time you meet up with 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:09.680 that team. 0:38:09.680 --> 0:38:10.600 That's it's a great point. 0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:12.480 I hadn't only thought of that from a divisional you know, 0:38:12.560 --> 0:38:15.200 NFL perspective, but in the same way in college and 0:38:15.760 --> 0:38:18.759 just full transparency. Supposed to be partial in this I 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:20.360 should say impartial in this industry. 0:38:20.719 --> 0:38:21.600 Go Ducks, man. 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:24.640 The Kougs had the dogs on the ropes last week 0:38:24.640 --> 0:38:26.040 and they let him off the hook. We knew who 0:38:26.040 --> 0:38:27.880 they were and let him off the hook. And Michael 0:38:27.880 --> 0:38:30.120 Pennox he looked injured me in that game. He was 0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:32.279 like limping around and he was, you know, kind of 0:38:32.280 --> 0:38:34.080 off by himself on the sideline. So I'm curious to 0:38:34.080 --> 0:38:35.640 see how he looks in that game, because he didn't 0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:38.440 look at the Michael Pennis we've seen all year long against. 0:38:38.040 --> 0:38:41.320 A not so great WSU defense. But I digress. 0:38:41.560 --> 0:38:43.680 Speaking of that, you mentioned that game. You talked about 0:38:43.680 --> 0:38:46.800 Georgia Alabama. The getting is good this weekend, my friend. 0:38:46.920 --> 0:38:48.960 I know there's plenty of options you could choose from here. 0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:51.600 What's some games and some matchups for the NFL draft 0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:54.279 perspective of things that you're keeping a close eye on 0:38:54.320 --> 0:38:54.880 this weekend. 0:38:55.400 --> 0:38:58.000 Yeah, I think you can look at any of the 0:39:00.040 --> 0:39:03.719 teams that feature teams in the top three. I'm not 0:39:03.880 --> 0:39:06.920 as dialed in on Louisville, Florida State the ACC championship 0:39:06.960 --> 0:39:11.120 game tomorrow night, but Oregon, Washington, Georgia Alabama, and Michigan Iowa. 0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:13.799 It's a little bit of a bummer that iowa't have 0:39:13.840 --> 0:39:17.040 Cooper dejen in that game. I know he had a 0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:19.840 foot injury. A couple of weeks ago. University of Michigan 0:39:20.120 --> 0:39:24.160 lost Zack Zenter with a pretty ugly leg injury in 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:27.040 their most recent game as well. So there's some prospects 0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:29.600 in that Big ten matchup tomorrow night at eight o'clock 0:39:30.160 --> 0:39:34.560 that will be missing some of their NFL talent that 0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:37.000 will be eligible for this year's class if they choose 0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:39.719 to make that leap. But anytime you have the number 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:41.840 one and number eight team in the country in Georgia 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.200 and Alabama, you kind of know what you're getting when 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:46.560 you have three and five in Oregon. And I love 0:39:46.600 --> 0:39:49.719 that Oregon is the PAC twelve game, is the standalone 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:53.600 game tonight if you're not counting New Mexico State and Liberty, 0:39:54.160 --> 0:39:58.600 just because so much of that West Coast matchup is 0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:02.279 missed by casual fans, right, So you now get this 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:07.080 spotlight in conference championship weekend for Oregon Washington, where whether 0:40:07.080 --> 0:40:10.759 it is Washington with their offensive line, they've got three 0:40:10.840 --> 0:40:13.960 wide receivers that are viable NFL wide receivers. You obviously 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:16.759 have the quarterback position as well. Then you flip things 0:40:16.840 --> 0:40:19.160 over to Oregon and we know about bo Nix and 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:23.280 Bucky Irving and Troy Franklin, and they've got a center 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:24.960 that I have yet to lay eyes on that I 0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:26.000 know a lot of people that I have a lot 0:40:26.000 --> 0:40:28.840 of respect for have called out as a viable NFL prospect, 0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:31.560 and then on the defensive line, guys like Bradon dor Liss. Like, 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:34.799 it's a loaded game, So I would look at Big ten, 0:40:35.120 --> 0:40:39.720 SEC and PAC twelve games that are all loaded with talent. 0:40:39.800 --> 0:40:42.600 If I had to rank them, I'd probably say SEC Championship, 0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:45.400 PAC twelve Championship, and then this year's Big ten Championship. 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:46.239 That's a good point. 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:48.200 They probably do on purpose that way with the PAC 0:40:48.239 --> 0:40:49.799 twelve on Friday, because it's always been that way for 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:52.239 the PAC twelve Championship to avoid putting them in the 0:40:52.239 --> 0:40:55.560 ten o'clock Eastern window on Saturday, when again everyone's in 0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:57.240 bed not watching football at that point. 0:40:57.280 --> 0:40:59.000 But also I think this is. 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:00.839 The first year of the game's Vegas, which is a 0:41:00.960 --> 0:41:03.120 huge boon because they used to put it out in 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:06.279 Santa Clara, and you know, fans of schools, they want 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:08.000 to go down there to the game, but you're forty 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.680 five minutes away from any the nearest metropolis, so like 0:41:10.719 --> 0:41:12.640 it kind of discouraged fans from going to those games, 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:15.320 and energy in those games was never great, but Vegas 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:17.680 that has a different energy that typically comes built in 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:20.239 when you play in those venues. Let's go ahead and 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:22.879 talk about the main reason you're on the podcast here 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:28.280 in sport in that beautiful, shimmering aqua throwback Dolphins starter 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:32.120 level like warm up bullpen, pitcher's jacket. 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:35.840 That's a lot of words. It looks great, You look great, Kyle. 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:40.880 It'll look good to feel good, you know, big subscriber, Maybe. 0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:42.880 Coach Probin to have uh No, let's go ahead and 0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:45.920 talk about some December Dolphins football here, because I just 0:41:45.960 --> 0:41:48.000 talked to Mike Kuno on this on this episode, we 0:41:48.040 --> 0:41:49.879 were talking about the importance of these games and how 0:41:50.040 --> 0:41:52.439 it's kind of cool how Miami has a stretch run here, 0:41:52.760 --> 0:41:55.120 you know, coming up in December, right around Christmas Eve 0:41:55.160 --> 0:41:57.600 against three teams they're probably going to be in the postseason, 0:41:57.600 --> 0:41:59.880 maybe not the final game of the year, hopefully not, 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:02.600 but it's a good little test run for the Miami 0:42:02.600 --> 0:42:04.520 Dolphins here. But just kind of want to get your 0:42:04.560 --> 0:42:07.759 take on December football, what this team could have learned 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.200 from last year's experience where things kind of went you know, 0:42:10.560 --> 0:42:13.279 upside down this time last year, and also what this 0:42:13.360 --> 0:42:17.279 year's team could do to you probably do believe in 0:42:17.320 --> 0:42:19.880 them as a championship potential contender, But what's one thing 0:42:19.880 --> 0:42:22.279 they could do that would really make you feel very 0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:24.600 good about their chances once they do get beyond that 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:26.480 threshold of the regular season. 0:42:27.760 --> 0:42:30.160 So I think if you, I think if you can 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:34.960 improve your offensive efficiency in protecting the football, I think 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:38.719 that really changes the conference. Like you could talk all 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:41.520 you want about kind of the early season performance of 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:43.360 this team and getting settled into the new scheme with 0:42:43.440 --> 0:42:45.120 vic Fango on the defensive side of the ball, and 0:42:45.800 --> 0:42:50.000 obviously the improvements in total yardage that this defense has experienced, 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:53.719 this scoring defense. They're still ranked twenty second, but you've 0:42:53.719 --> 0:42:56.719 had three pick sixes this season. You had multiple possessions 0:42:56.719 --> 0:42:58.520 against the Raiders where you turn the ball over in 0:42:58.560 --> 0:43:02.080 scoring territory and directly yielded points. You had a Special 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:05.680 Teams touchdown on Week three against Denver, but they're the 0:43:05.719 --> 0:43:08.759 fumble to start the second half against New England. All 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:13.400 of these instances of short fields directly yielding points on 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:16.360 the board, not ending in a possession and a kick, 0:43:16.680 --> 0:43:19.040 And I know that that's kind of every special team's 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:21.640 coach mantras, right, is every possession that ends in a 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:24.160 kick is a good possession, but it's in this case 0:43:24.160 --> 0:43:24.800 it's not wrong. 0:43:25.520 --> 0:43:26.319 So I think for. 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:28.719 Miami, and you know, we heard two a tongue of 0:43:28.760 --> 0:43:30.719 Lawa talk about it this week when he was asked 0:43:30.719 --> 0:43:38.640 about it. Making sure that the efficiency is not putting 0:43:38.640 --> 0:43:41.040 the team at a position where it's it's giving away 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:44.080 more points than teams have to earn against you. If 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:46.560 you forced teams to go to the field against this defense, 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:49.560 it's gonna be hard sledding. Case in point there, there 0:43:49.640 --> 0:43:52.080 has not been a single team that has scored more 0:43:52.120 --> 0:43:54.160 than twenty one points in the last four games, and 0:43:54.200 --> 0:43:55.680 you can go back to the last six game, there's 0:43:55.680 --> 0:43:57.640 only one game in which the team yielded more than 0:43:57.719 --> 0:44:01.080 twenty one points. So they haad some good offenses in 0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:06.040 that stretch. They protect the football, and I think this 0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:09.040 conversation really changes for the ceiling of his team. 0:44:09.360 --> 0:44:11.520 I can't I literally cannot wait. 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:14.799 Like I want to enjoy these last six games we 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.279 have promised to us, and then I mean, we're very 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:19.120 close to getting promised to a seventh but like I 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:21.120 want to enjoy them. But man, I just can't wait 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:22.480 to see how it plays out, because I think this 0:44:22.520 --> 0:44:24.880 team has it in them to make those corrections and 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:27.680 then be the best version of themselves, you know, when 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:29.920 the calendar turns twenty twenty four, and if that happens, 0:44:29.920 --> 0:44:31.600 like we're going to be in for a very fun 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:34.040 ride here. And just real quick, my co host on 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:36.080 the post game Show, Steth loveoc gonna love the mention 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:38.040 there of the any drive that ends and a kick 0:44:38.120 --> 0:44:39.120 is a good possession. 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:41.040 There a little old school thinking. 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:42.719 There, but you're I get where you're coming from in 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:45.040 that frame of mind where just don't turn the ball 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:46.839 over and you're probably gonna be pretty damn good and. 0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:47.319 Tough to beat. 0:44:47.760 --> 0:44:50.879 Kyle Crabs, you're the man buddy at grinand the Tape 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:55.000 on Twitter, locked on NFL Scouting, locked on Dolphins Podcast. 0:44:55.040 --> 0:44:57.480 You can find him all over the webs, the interwebs 0:44:57.480 --> 0:44:59.399 as we call it. 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