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Speaker 1: Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, Your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we're gonna welcome in the great
Speaker 1: Michael Kuno from CBS four to talk about this big
Speaker 1: game on Sunday, December NFL football and the importance of
Speaker 1: the stretch run for your Miami Dolphins, Plus the return
Speaker 1: of JPP covering your hometown team. We'll talk nap more
Speaker 1: trophy fun chat with Mike Kuno, plus Kyle Krabs joined us,
Speaker 1: a break down the weekend and championship weekend in college football.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from Mike McDaniel and a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Maggie Daffy.
Speaker 1: My guest today, CBS Four's Mike Kunyo Joining me today
Speaker 1: is CBS four his own Mike Kuno. Kuno, what's happening
Speaker 1: my man?
Speaker 3: What's up? Travis? How's it going.
Speaker 2: It's going pretty good.
Speaker 1: I had my first question for you here is did
Speaker 1: you ever think there was more to life than being really,
Speaker 1: really ridiculously good looking?
Speaker 3: Stop?
Speaker 4: Stop, but no, no, this is what I've been looking for.
Speaker 4: It's it's been an ugly, duckling sort of thing most
Speaker 4: of my life. So I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: But if you see something that I don't, thank you.
Speaker 1: Broadcasting one on one is to make your guests as
Speaker 1: uncomfortable as possible off the start, right.
Speaker 3: You nailed it. You nailed it. I am now sweating
Speaker 3: under here.
Speaker 2: Well, I was.
Speaker 1: I was running over some show notes last night before
Speaker 1: I went to bed, and I was thinking, you know
Speaker 1: what I read.
Speaker 2: I read the story in.
Speaker 1: The Miami New Times about when you won your Emmy,
Speaker 1: and the way that the writer positioned it was like,
Speaker 1: it's almost annoying how good looking Kuno was, and its
Speaker 1: just it was a whole thing. It was hilarious to me.
Speaker 1: So I thought about the great Zoolander quote there. Put
Speaker 1: it in here. It's staying in the show. I think, okay,
Speaker 1: but we'll go and move on here, and I do
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about about that. It's about
Speaker 1: your your upbringing here in South Florida and you know,
Speaker 1: pursuing a life in sports. I was the same way, man,
Speaker 1: Like every day I was out in my backyard throwing
Speaker 1: the ball down to myself and you know I would
Speaker 1: I would run back like a Super Nintendo NBA game
Speaker 1: and just read the scores or partid I was doing broadcasting,
Speaker 1: like I love that stuff. So this stuff fascinates me.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about your journey and how special
Speaker 1: it was to you to achieve the position you're in
Speaker 1: now as a kid that grew up loving sports in
Speaker 1: South Florida to now work across the entire you know,
Speaker 1: professional sports spectrum here in the South Florida area.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been wild. It's definitely not the normal
Speaker 4: route a lot of people have taken. I remember telling
Speaker 4: telling friends like in high school and college, when they
Speaker 4: ask you, what do you want to do? I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: I want to I want to be a broadcaster. I
Speaker 4: want to be an analyst. And I even realizing what
Speaker 4: that what that really was in terms of sports, because
Speaker 4: obviously not analysts. I'm more of a host and anchor
Speaker 4: and reporter. But that you know, just your friends kind
Speaker 4: of looking at you like you're crazy. And then getting
Speaker 4: to college and not really having any direction and what
Speaker 4: what like classes you need to take. I didn't take
Speaker 4: like a single television class. Probably not something good to admit,
Speaker 4: but yeah, you know, I kind of got got my
Speaker 4: way on there through through internships and all that stuff.
Speaker 4: But listen, growing up down here in Miami was a
Speaker 4: huge Minding Hurricanes fan. My dad was a big Dolphins fan,
Speaker 4: my mom loved the Heat. We kind of all rallied
Speaker 4: around the Marlins and Panthers as they as they came,
Speaker 4: you know, into their own here in the market. So
Speaker 4: kind of being able to grow up with all these
Speaker 4: teams because miney sports relatively young, you know, Heat in
Speaker 4: the eighties, Panthers, Marlins in the nineties. You get to
Speaker 4: like grow with those teams. And so that's kind of
Speaker 4: where my passion for South Florida sports started. And it's
Speaker 4: just been that, you know, a dream come true to
Speaker 4: be able to do this down here in my home market.
Speaker 4: And have you know, my friends and family also see
Speaker 4: you know this kid who said he wanted to do
Speaker 4: it and then eventually did it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's wild. I pitched myself every day.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 1: The fact that it is your own market is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Even though I grew up a Dolphins fan, everyone knows
Speaker 1: about that, and this is where I wanted to be ultimately,
Speaker 1: Like I got a text my buddy last night that
Speaker 1: was like, you're on the y'all who's sports fantasy update
Speaker 1: about devon a chain being limited. In practice, all I
Speaker 1: did was post the image of the injury report on
Speaker 1: Twitter and they found it, so I guess the right
Speaker 1: people are following me, So that's cool. I suppose you
Speaker 1: also mentioned, like you know, when you announced that this
Speaker 1: is the path you want to pursue. The people that
Speaker 1: are like a little bit dubious about it, and my
Speaker 1: step or my wife's stepfather, I was like four years
Speaker 1: into it. Lockdown Dolphins was like the top, like top
Speaker 1: one hundred Apple chart every single week, and he was like,
Speaker 1: Travis just sits in his househol they didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Caitlin supports is still, but so
Speaker 1: like people.
Speaker 2: Don't get it.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's so funny to me to hear
Speaker 1: you because you took a more conventional path than I did,
Speaker 1: for sure, but one of those stops on that path
Speaker 1: is a really cool thing that South Florida does, and
Speaker 1: I don't have this back in the Northwest. Of course,
Speaker 1: South Florida is the football mecha of the universe.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, is the not more trophy.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you about that in general,
Speaker 1: your involvement in that this year's crop of kids, and
Speaker 1: just how cool and special it is to win that
Speaker 1: trophy down here, to be honored by one of the
Speaker 1: all time Dolphins greats in an area where if you're
Speaker 1: the best high school fotball player here, you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: play in this league someday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was long overdue for the area when we
Speaker 4: started this, and it was five years ago. Now we
Speaker 4: had a brief pause one season because of the COVID year,
Speaker 4: but this is the fourth year we're handing out the trophy.
Speaker 3: And it's been really cool.
Speaker 4: I mean, everyone talks about, you know, high school football
Speaker 4: and which state is better, and Florida is obviously always
Speaker 4: mentioned with states like Texas and California. I know in
Speaker 4: Texas CBS station out there has a similar style an award,
Speaker 4: and that's kind of where we adopted the idea here
Speaker 4: at CBS Miami, and no one was doing this, and
Speaker 4: it just seemed kind of silly to us that we
Speaker 4: don't have, you know, kind of a best of our
Speaker 4: Final four, like Heisman style trophy for these kids when
Speaker 4: each and every year heck on Sundays, you're watching and
Speaker 4: you hear, oh, so and so into Miami Northwestern, so
Speaker 4: and so went to powerhouse Saint Thomas Aquinas. So let's
Speaker 4: you know, let's recognize these kids and their families and
Speaker 4: their coaches and their teams. And so that's what we've done.
Speaker 4: And this year, you know, every year, the you know,
Speaker 4: it's not just like a quarterback award. I mean, this
Speaker 4: year we have three wide receivers and a running back.
Speaker 4: In years past, we've had mostly defense. You know, we've
Speaker 4: had offensive linemen. So we really try to find who
Speaker 4: truly are the best football.
Speaker 3: Players in the area.
Speaker 4: This year, you've got two kids at a Shamana Madonna
Speaker 4: wide receiver Jeremiah Smith and Jasiah Trader. You got Lwayne McCoy,
Speaker 4: who's a guy who could play both sides of the
Speaker 4: ball over at Central. And then you've got Jordan Lyle
Speaker 4: running back from Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Speaker 3: And if you're ever the running back at.
Speaker 4: See Thomas Aquinas, you're probably a really good, you know,
Speaker 4: football player. So we've got a healthy crop of kids
Speaker 4: this year, and it is just so hard just to
Speaker 4: narrow it down to those final four. So for anyone
Speaker 4: who's listening to this, who follows along with the neat
Speaker 4: more stuff, just know that this is very difficult to
Speaker 4: wind it down to four, let alone the final one.
Speaker 4: But it's it's very cool. We've seen it kind of
Speaker 4: pick up steam.
Speaker 3: Last year.
Speaker 4: We had Ruben Bain who's just been an absolute scud
Speaker 4: at the University of Miami and acc he won the
Speaker 4: award and then committed to Miami on the show, kind
Speaker 4: of surprising people as they're handing him the trophy. He's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: by the way, I'm stay at home going to Miami.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's been it's been really cool. It's been
Speaker 4: fun to watch the families, the schools, the coaches, and
Speaker 4: the players all kind of get behind this in kind
Speaker 4: of such short order. And again our fifth year, but
Speaker 4: really our fourth trophy were given out and I mean
Speaker 4: you just see the amount.
Speaker 3: Of votes that come in and denominations and that's been
Speaker 3: really cool to see.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Man. The stars are tomorrow, like you mentioned, because all
Speaker 1: those kids wind up playing at Miami, at FSU at
Speaker 1: Florida maybe even a little bit like they're playing at
Speaker 1: the biggest schools in the entire nation. So it's definitely
Speaker 1: big time talent there. And speaking of big time talent,
Speaker 1: and a local kid that you know, hit it big
Speaker 1: and is coming back home here, one of the many
Speaker 1: South Florida natives who made the league now gets a
Speaker 1: chance to fulfill his dream of playing for his hometown
Speaker 1: team in Jason Pierre Paul. I just wanted to hear
Speaker 1: from someone who's from here, who lives it. You just
Speaker 1: told us about the not More trophy and the importance
Speaker 1: of the local you know, high school level football down here.
Speaker 2: Someone who understands the scene.
Speaker 1: Just tell me about the importance of that and why
Speaker 1: that's so damn cool for him for folks that are
Speaker 1: from here. For yourself, like, why is it always so
Speaker 1: cool when you get a Mike Wier, Robbie Chosen or
Speaker 1: JPP coming back here to South Florida.
Speaker 3: Because you like so I've actually covered like Pop Warner football.
Speaker 4: That's kind of like where my TV career started, like
Speaker 4: doing little league games where you go out and report
Speaker 4: on these games and do highlights for the Man Air
Speaker 4: you know, on TV the next day. When you're out there,
Speaker 4: you see these families and it's not just mom and
Speaker 4: dad are out there. You see aunts, uncles, cousins, everyone
Speaker 4: out there going through these games at these local parks.
Speaker 4: And then you know they move on JPP obviously with
Speaker 4: the South Florida so University of South Florida, so that
Speaker 4: kind of family connection was probably easy for him to
Speaker 4: migrate north to Tampa. And then when it just always
Speaker 4: seems like somehow these guys find their way back home.
Speaker 4: And when that happens and you hear them make a
Speaker 4: play and you hear that faint like.
Speaker 3: You know, whore in the crowd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like there's the section right, like there's the
Speaker 4: White Mike White section, or there's the Duke Johnson section.
Speaker 3: Like these these guys.
Speaker 4: Grew up literally in the shadow of hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 4: I remember when we covered Duke Johnson when he was
Speaker 4: in high school. You can literally see the stadium from
Speaker 4: their football field. So it that means a lot that
Speaker 4: they get to play in their backyard and have their
Speaker 4: families come check it out. And because it's such a
Speaker 4: rich area of high school football. It's not like it's
Speaker 4: not like this is a rare occurrence. So all these
Speaker 4: families also know each other, you know, the you know,
Speaker 4: I'm sure when Alan Hearns is here. Obviously I don't
Speaker 4: know their families, but Alan Hearns Duke Johnson's families probably
Speaker 4: sat in in you know, at little league parks next
Speaker 4: to each other, and then to sit next to each
Speaker 4: other at hard Rock Stadium one day. It's it's just,
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's very unique I think in the NFL,
Speaker 4: and it's wild and it's always cool to have these
Speaker 4: guys come home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like, you know, like I keep saying, I'm
Speaker 1: not from an area where that's common at all. Like
Speaker 1: I think we had like one NFL guy like two
Speaker 1: decades from my local area. So it just doesn't happen
Speaker 1: up there, but down here it's a way of life. Man,
Speaker 1: Like you said, the family experience of it all is
Speaker 1: really really cool, great stuff, Kunyo. I want to pivot
Speaker 1: now towards more Dolphins themed type of conversation here on
Speaker 1: the Draft Time podcast on the Miami Dolphins PODCAS Network,
Speaker 1: and one of the things we've been hearing from a
Speaker 1: theme perspective this weekend with you know, reporters and the
Speaker 1: players and coaches are talking about at the podium and
Speaker 1: we just it's a common thing across podcasts and TV
Speaker 1: shows is December football? Right? Oh?
Speaker 2: J McDuffie always tells me they.
Speaker 1: Never remember what you do in December, like it says,
Speaker 1: go to quote, and I'm wondering how you feel like
Speaker 1: last year's experience where the wheels kind of fell off
Speaker 1: in December, and of course you had an injury to
Speaker 1: your quarterback that played into that. You had three really
Speaker 1: difficult road games. In fact, thinking back to that, a
Speaker 1: West Coast swing in two tough places to play against
Speaker 1: two good teams and the Ninners and Chargers, and then
Speaker 1: a short week at Buffalo on a Saturday night that
Speaker 1: was a tough, tough road to hoe and they were
Speaker 1: in those games and came up short in those How
Speaker 1: do you think that taught this team maybe some perseverance,
Speaker 1: maybe the ability to overcome some of those, you know,
Speaker 1: the obstacles that come with an NFL season. How do
Speaker 1: you think last year, in Mike McDaniel's first year, prepared
Speaker 1: this team to make a run this year in December?
Speaker 4: Well, I think when you look at the schedule now
Speaker 4: and yet there the end of the season that isn't
Speaker 4: necessarily on the road, but you go, hey, remember those
Speaker 4: tough games against you know, the Chargers and the Niners
Speaker 4: and the Bills.
Speaker 3: Well, you have a stretch like that coming up for
Speaker 3: the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: You know the Bills, I know they've been had an
Speaker 4: up and down year by their standards, it's still a
Speaker 4: good football team. You got the Cowboys and then you
Speaker 4: got the Ravens. Right, So those three games stacked up,
Speaker 4: while not all of them are are on the road,
Speaker 4: they do kind of mirror the challenge you had a
Speaker 4: year ago. And how if you don't hold on to
Speaker 4: that rope and you do not focus, it can slip
Speaker 4: away and then it feels like, you know, you're pushing
Speaker 4: uphill and that's not where you want to be. I
Speaker 4: think Christian Wilkins said it this week that you know,
Speaker 4: earlier in the year, September, October, you're playing ball December.
Speaker 4: It's like it's where you make your money, right, this
Speaker 4: is where the Dolphins have to show that they've improved.
Speaker 3: And the thing that I've liked about.
Speaker 4: In this Dolphins team is even if you go back
Speaker 4: to like week one and week two, say hey, the
Speaker 4: run defense didn't show up this week.
Speaker 3: The next week you saw improvements.
Speaker 4: Hey on the road, they had struggles communication, They can't
Speaker 4: win on the road. You know, they're back to five
Speaker 4: hundred now away from hard Rock Stadium. So to me,
Speaker 4: I think it shows growth. I think they learned a
Speaker 4: lot of things last year that you can't just a
Speaker 4: look ahead and be if you're not just in the
Speaker 4: moment in that game right now, you have the chance
Speaker 4: of dropping or getting steamrolled in a situation where you shouldn't.
Speaker 4: And so I think they've done a good job this
Speaker 4: year of staying where their feet are and making improvements
Speaker 4: week to week. And that's what I like to see.
Speaker 4: If they can do that kind of on the macro,
Speaker 4: now do it in December football, I think they'll be okay.
Speaker 1: I love that you mentioned that stretch because to me,
Speaker 1: it almost simulates like a playoff run. Like you take
Speaker 1: care of business the next three games, right that would
Speaker 1: make you eleven and three. That would make Dolphins fans
Speaker 1: very very happy. It's easiersad than done, but the opportunity
Speaker 1: is there to do that, and then you get a
Speaker 1: trial run, like if you lose, you get to try again. Like,
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool how they have that up there
Speaker 1: for them to really get their biggest test late in
Speaker 1: the season with you know, potentially a division title already
Speaker 1: in hand. If they can take care of business and
Speaker 1: get one more Buffalo loss, that's all it would take.
Speaker 3: So look at the Vision title, AFC title.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot like those games are going
Speaker 4: to mean something. It's not just another regular season game.
Speaker 4: Those games actually have implications, and I think that's even
Speaker 4: better for them because now it's like you get that
Speaker 4: sense of an elimination style week.
Speaker 1: To your point, I mean you talk about home and road,
Speaker 1: like some of those games could decide whether you're playing
Speaker 1: down here or up in Kansas City or up you know,
Speaker 1: wherever it might be in the postseason. So I was
Speaker 1: looking at the other day when the last time they
Speaker 1: were favored in a playoff game.
Speaker 2: Do you know what that was?
Speaker 4: Was it against the Cults in two thousand close.
Speaker 1: I didn't look that far back because there was one
Speaker 1: after that. It was actually the next year when they
Speaker 1: got bounced in the first round by the Ravens. They
Speaker 1: were actually favored in that game at home, and it
Speaker 1: was a low out for the Ravens, So I just
Speaker 1: was curious about that because, like I'm thinking, the last
Speaker 1: time Miami had their starting quarterback in a playoff game
Speaker 1: was two thousand and eight with Chad Pennington, and he
Speaker 1: got picked off four times in that game. So it's
Speaker 1: just like, this is the opportunity Miami has to actually
Speaker 1: go into the postseason with a team they feel like
Speaker 1: they could possibly make a run and win some games,
Speaker 1: opposed to the last you know, a decade and a
Speaker 1: half or it just hasn't been that way. So it's
Speaker 1: it's a fun conversation to have, and it starts this
Speaker 1: weekend Mike and Washington. Are you gonna be on the
Speaker 1: road in Washington, And whether or not you are, what
Speaker 1: are you looking forward to in this one?
Speaker 4: I'll be home for this one, so I probably end
Speaker 4: up traveling later in the year as we get closer
Speaker 4: to the playoff. But the thing I'm looking forward to
Speaker 4: this is how they bounce back from the Jalen Phillips injury,
Speaker 4: and I think they have a good at least Litness
Speaker 4: has to see where that rushes from the edge with
Speaker 4: guys like Ben Gangko and Ogba. Just because Sam Howe
Speaker 4: has been sacked more than any other quarterback in the league.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's a stat you guys have talked about,
Speaker 4: you know, a lot this week. So I think it's
Speaker 4: opportunity for that defense to really show what they can
Speaker 4: do without Jalen in there and maybe give those guys
Speaker 4: confidence that, Hey, down the stretch, you know, you'd love
Speaker 4: to have him in there, but maybe.
Speaker 3: We'll be okay.
Speaker 4: And I think they will be because everyone speaks so
Speaker 4: highly of a guy like Andrew Van Ginkle. So that's
Speaker 4: what I'm looking forward to. And then on the other
Speaker 4: side of the ball, the turnovers. I mean, they got
Speaker 4: to stop giving the ball away, whether it's fumbles or interceptions.
Speaker 4: You can't be minus five at this point in the
Speaker 4: season in the turnover margin. When you're this good like
Speaker 4: it can't like it can't look that bad. You can't
Speaker 4: be in the red there when it comes to turnovers.
Speaker 4: If you're if you're going to be a team that's
Speaker 4: going to compete, because at some point you're gonna run
Speaker 4: into a jugger nut that'll make you pay every single
Speaker 4: time you turn the ball over.
Speaker 2: We've seen it happen in the KC game.
Speaker 1: The one big turnover in that game was kind of
Speaker 1: the difference in that game there with the fumble that
Speaker 1: I'm still not so sure was actually a fumble, but
Speaker 1: I digress and we move on here.
Speaker 2: So it's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: It's the thing is like, if they do that, though,
Speaker 2: what's going to stop them?
Speaker 1: You know, because it's been the only thing that's been
Speaker 1: bothering them so far this late to the defense surging
Speaker 1: and the offense being capable of what it can do.
Speaker 2: It's I cannot wait to watch it play out.
Speaker 1: But I also want to be present, like you talked
Speaker 1: about the Daryl Bevell quote, be where your feet are
Speaker 1: and just kind of appreciate this team what they're doing
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: So good stuff.
Speaker 1: There a couple more here for you, Mike, and these
Speaker 1: are going a little bit back towards the personal stuff.
Speaker 1: So you had your first season on the sidelines this year,
Speaker 1: Dereck Dolphins preseason, and you got to talk to Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel to a tongue of my low like you did
Speaker 1: the whole gambit, right. I'm just wondering, is there a
Speaker 1: moment that maybe for a first time or made you nervous.
Speaker 1: Was there a moment that was surreal to you. I
Speaker 1: just want to hear about your experience down there and
Speaker 1: maybe a fun story to go along with it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's this story is kind of like, will
Speaker 4: wrap all that up in one But right before my
Speaker 4: first hit, they go on the first preseason game, they're like, hey, like,
Speaker 4: I want to just do a real quick run through
Speaker 4: with you, just a quick rehearsal, and I'm like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: let's do it. And I'm looking at my watch. I'm like,
Speaker 4: we're like two minutes from the broadcast starting. It's like,
Speaker 4: there's a great time. There's a great time to just
Speaker 4: but listen, those guys are bit I get it. So
Speaker 4: they come to me and I couldn't try it. I
Speaker 4: couldn't get the words out of my mouth. I'm like shaking.
Speaker 4: And this was like the rehearsal and I'm like, this
Speaker 4: is gonna be terrible. And even my boss afterwards was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I was a little nervous about you going to that
Speaker 4: first hit. And then and then once it became alive,
Speaker 4: I don't know, like something came over me and and
Speaker 4: it was all fine. I think it's just that thing
Speaker 4: like we sometimes we talk about it in like TV
Speaker 4: and broadcasting that like when it's live for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: you don't mess up because you can't, like you do,
Speaker 4: you just have to do it. But when you know
Speaker 4: it in the back of your mind it's it's a rehearsal.
Speaker 4: Then you start to overthink and you're like, am I
Speaker 4: doing this right? And then and so you trip up.
Speaker 3: So that first hit right out of the gate.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, all this is like
Speaker 4: the one of the biggest moments of my career and
Speaker 4: I'm I'm about to fall flat on my face and
Speaker 4: uh no, it ended up it ended up working out
Speaker 4: great doing the Uh the real I think the pinch
Speaker 4: myself moment was you always hear like on the NFL broadcast, like, hey,
Speaker 4: we caught up with Mike McDaniel this week.
Speaker 3: Who got to sit down for with him for like
Speaker 3: an hour in our production meeting or whatever it is.
Speaker 4: But being able to do that and just kind of
Speaker 4: really get the sense every week where these guys are at,
Speaker 4: what like makes them tick, where their headspace is at
Speaker 4: that point in training camp and preseason, what they're looking
Speaker 4: forward to having those kind of like moments where there's
Speaker 4: no cameras, it's just you and the coaches or you
Speaker 4: and the players talking catching up to me, that was
Speaker 4: is my favorite part of the whole thing, just because
Speaker 4: I think he got a real sense of who these
Speaker 4: guys are, what makes him tick, and you know their
Speaker 4: passion for folk on how hard this this actually is.
Speaker 4: So that was each and every week I've looked forward
Speaker 4: to that, I think more than I think.
Speaker 1: It's like when Mike leaves the podium and like has
Speaker 1: a couple extra words for us about his energy drink
Speaker 1: or whatever it is for the day, Like those are
Speaker 1: the best moments of those press conferences.
Speaker 2: I agree with you there. I did a live hit once.
Speaker 2: I wasn't live.
Speaker 1: It was recorded in front of the facility at Davy
Speaker 1: during the pandemic year because NFL thatsing talent out to
Speaker 1: the building, so they had the on air talent or
Speaker 1: the in house talent and do it.
Speaker 2: And I wasn't like that polished at the time.
Speaker 1: It was my first year on the job, and it
Speaker 1: took like eight takes and there was cars whizzing by
Speaker 1: right behind me at that on that street building there
Speaker 1: in Davy, and the nerve I felt for these guys
Speaker 1: I just met that we're shooting this thing like I
Speaker 1: keep messing this uff. These guys are gonna leave me.
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna cut me from the program. It was.
Speaker 1: It was incredible nerve wracking. So I've been there, my friends.
Speaker 1: I love sharing those stories. Speaking of that, one more
Speaker 1: here for You'll go ahead and get you out of here.
Speaker 1: Mike Kuno, CBS four.
Speaker 2: You're the man, Mike. I appreciate your time here on
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Tell us what you're working on for some potential features
Speaker 1: or stories coming up, Like what are you looking forward
Speaker 1: to coming up on CBS led by you, my friend?
Speaker 3: Well, we've got each and every week we do Dolphin's
Speaker 3: Weekly Live, the Fifth Quarter post Game Show, and the
Speaker 3: Coach Mike McDaniel show.
Speaker 4: We have all of these kind of Dolphin Shows entities
Speaker 4: and we get to talk to players one on one.
Speaker 4: The thing I tell you this week right now is
Speaker 4: we've got Deshaun Elliott on.
Speaker 3: Dolphin's Weekly Live.
Speaker 4: I got to talk to him and in one of
Speaker 4: those production meetings during the preseason, he told us Jevon
Speaker 4: Holland's gonna be a Hall of Famer. He's got all
Speaker 4: pro potential, no doubt about it. And so you know,
Speaker 4: coming off that ninety nine yard pick six. We got
Speaker 4: to talk to him about it, and he's like, I
Speaker 4: would never tell you a lie. I would never tell
Speaker 4: you a lie.
Speaker 3: I'm not lying.
Speaker 4: So deshan his interview. I think he's great this week.
Speaker 4: He's a fun guy. He loves movies. If you're into
Speaker 4: scary movies, he's got a really good one that he's
Speaker 4: uh that he's gonna suggest fourth fans out there if
Speaker 4: you can, if you can handle it. But yeah, so
Speaker 4: so that's what we've got this week. That'll be that'll
Speaker 4: be fun. That will air Sunday, eleven thirty am on
Speaker 4: CBS Miami.
Speaker 1: The first time I met to Sean, I knew right
Speaker 1: away this guy is gonna be a fun character for
Speaker 1: all content creators across the South Florida.
Speaker 3: Big hitter too, the best man to hit.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love to Sean. He's the man. That's a
Speaker 2: great company. Do not miss that.
Speaker 1: Big horror fan, big horror movie fan myself as well,
Speaker 1: So definitely gonna tune into that.
Speaker 2: Mike Kuno, appreciate your time.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: We'll see you next week.
Speaker 4: Maybe, yeah, you'll see. I'm always around, man, I'm always around.
Speaker 2: I'm always around appreciate you, big Doug. All right man,
Speaker 2: thanks ving and there he goes the great Mike Kuno.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there,
Speaker 1: come back on the other side. I we'll hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel before getting to my final guests
Speaker 1: of the day, Kyle Krabs. That's all next Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Onto Nation.
Speaker 1: Segment two on a Friday, going to be very brief here.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and hear from head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: But first before that, the latest injury news for your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and we start with a really fun one
Speaker 1: as coach as transparent as he can be told us
Speaker 1: that Devon Achan will play in the game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I continue to speak about how important it is to
Speaker 1: get him back as well as getting Waddle cranking full
Speaker 1: steam to go along with what Tyreek Hill has been
Speaker 1: from the word go to me, there's not a better
Speaker 1: trio of skill players of playmakers in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and I think Miami will rely upon those guys to
Speaker 1: carry them as far as they possibly can go this year.
Speaker 1: Don't count o Raheem most from that equation either. But
Speaker 1: great news to get Devon a Chan back fresh legs.
Speaker 1: Hopefully to have him for the stretch run could be very,
Speaker 1: very vital to the Dolphins offense. And you know, I
Speaker 1: just I continue to think about where this team has been,
Speaker 1: where this team is gone, and we'll play some more
Speaker 1: sound here from coach talking about being in the exact
Speaker 1: same situation in terms of being eight and three heading.
Speaker 2: Into the month of December.
Speaker 1: And it was actually December fourth against the Niners last
Speaker 1: year when the season began to turn in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1: And now here we play the Commanders on Washington or
Speaker 1: on Washington on December third, again at eight and three
Speaker 1: with a chance to you know, really make things different
Speaker 1: this time around. We'll hear from coach on that in
Speaker 1: just one second, but real quick sounds like Javon Holland
Speaker 1: has a chance to play as he was limited in
Speaker 1: practice on Friday, and I imagine we'll be questionable on
Speaker 1: the injury report and that comes out later today. Go
Speaker 1: check out my Twitter around four o'clock or so when
Speaker 1: we should have that, So check it out there on
Speaker 1: social I will have the latest for you guys. But
Speaker 1: he is dealing with two knee injuries, and he is
Speaker 1: very eager to play, but as coach McDaniel has been
Speaker 1: all year long to provide caution or I should say,
Speaker 1: exercise cost with regards to his playing ability. Both to
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead and Kendall Lamb practiced on Friday as well,
Speaker 1: So a chance to see either of those guys back
Speaker 1: on the field at left tackle for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And Isaiah Win there's it's not inconceivable that he returns,
Speaker 1: Coach McDaniel said, but he wouldn't put a timeline on
Speaker 1: it to you know, short change the process. So that's
Speaker 1: the latest injury updates. Let's go ahead and play two
Speaker 1: soundbites from coach McDaniel, and I alluded to it already.
Speaker 1: I asked him how instructive was last year but also
Speaker 1: the experiences of this season leading up to this point,
Speaker 1: being back at eight and three heading into the final
Speaker 1: month or by you know, by all intents and purposes,
Speaker 1: the final month of the regular season, how instructive can
Speaker 1: last year be for this year's squad? And he gave
Speaker 1: me a great, detailed, lengthy answer. Here is Coach McDaniel
Speaker 1: talking about lessons learned from year one and applying them
Speaker 1: here in year two.
Speaker 5: Are you saying there's some similarities, Oh, the exact same record,
Speaker 5: got it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I have two really two things to kind of set
Speaker 5: my feeling towards what you're speaking of. You know, eight
Speaker 5: and three last year, and you go through something that's
Speaker 5: very very difficult, which is watching you know, having to
Speaker 5: fight in the last game to even get in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: when at eight and three, that's not really what's on
Speaker 5: your mind. So you're very interested in, you know, how
Speaker 5: how people use that. For me, you know, it falls
Speaker 5: right into the way I look at how to do everything,
Speaker 5: which is, you know, for us to say that's a
Speaker 5: bad thing or a good thing, it has to do
Speaker 5: with how we respond to it. I have two examples,
Speaker 5: that's Wednesday's practice and Thursday's practice, and those lend me
Speaker 5: to believe that that we have a committed football team. Two,
Speaker 5: to make right those lessons learned last year, to make
Speaker 5: that last year actually purposeful as opposed to just, uh yeah,
Speaker 5: we let we let opportunities slip through our fingers. We
Speaker 5: possibly could have had a home playoff game, and we
Speaker 5: uh we messed that that year up. I I've felt
Speaker 5: this week with the players that that that hurt cut deep,
Speaker 5: deep enough that there's a completely different mindset. This practice Wednesday,
Speaker 5: and this practice Thursday night and day difference from last year.
Speaker 5: And and and that's.
Speaker 3: What you want.
Speaker 5: You wanted to if you're going to go through it.
Speaker 5: You wanted to be of some purpose. And I see
Speaker 5: a team that understands what it means to build during
Speaker 5: the season, to continue the growth as a team so
Speaker 5: that we're our best version of ourselves when it matters most.
Speaker 5: I see a team that is excited to play together.
Speaker 5: I see a team that's that is used to you know,
Speaker 5: the spotlight or the headlines you know we have, and
Speaker 5: and that isn't enamored by that. I see a team
Speaker 5: that takes the Washington Commanders as serious as every other
Speaker 5: team that we've played this year, and a team that's
Speaker 5: excited to go compete against them, and that's the only
Speaker 5: thing on their mind. You know that, I'm very proud
Speaker 5: of where our team's at, because our team is connected
Speaker 5: to each other, plays hard for each other, invests in
Speaker 5: the responsibilities for one another so that they can truly
Speaker 5: take advantage of each and every Sunday, which you know,
Speaker 5: we only have a finite amount, and each one of
Speaker 5: them's very special. There's a lot of people that pay really,
Speaker 5: really good money to come watch us do what we do,
Speaker 5: and this team seems to not take any of that
Speaker 5: for granted, which gives you the opportunity to be your
Speaker 5: best self, which is all I care about.
Speaker 1: So I fancy myself a Miami Dolphins analyst, right. I
Speaker 1: actually prefer that as my title compared to like podcaster
Speaker 1: or even writer, whatever it might be. And all year
Speaker 1: long I have been shouting from the rooftops how good
Speaker 1: I think this football team can be. And last year
Speaker 1: I was doing the exact same thing, and of course
Speaker 1: the quarterback's health was kind of the deterrent in that
Speaker 1: ability to do that. We'll touch on that here more
Speaker 1: in a second as well. I think I'm ready to
Speaker 1: kind of put my stamp on this and kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, stake my claim on this that I think
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team has as good of a chance to
Speaker 1: make the run to February as anybody else in the AFC.
Speaker 1: I think Philly in San Francisco could probably you know,
Speaker 1: lay stake to a larger claim. Maybe even Dallas in
Speaker 1: the NFC, But we'll see about that, but I think
Speaker 1: in the AFC, this Dolphins team, with the combination of
Speaker 1: offensive firepower and defensive playmakers and rush and coverage and
Speaker 1: all the stuff the running game, passing game, you can
Speaker 1: win in multiple ways. You have an advanced coaching staff
Speaker 1: that understands how to you know, adjust and make changes
Speaker 1: and understands what it takes to win in today's NFL.
Speaker 1: And that answer the coach just gave us, paired with
Speaker 1: the experiences of last year and how sometimes good teams
Speaker 1: in this league have to kind of get kicked and
Speaker 1: you know, be down before they get over the hump
Speaker 1: and ultimately achieve their ultimate goal. And what coach said
Speaker 1: there about the makeup and the practice of Wednesday and Thursday,
Speaker 1: and what we've talked about really since you know, they
Speaker 1: began assembling this roster, you know, years ago, and the
Speaker 1: importance of character and locker room presence, and how very
Speaker 1: careful coach McDaniel has been about massaging those particular traits
Speaker 1: that he feels are very important to winning football games
Speaker 1: and making a deep run at this All of that
Speaker 1: jumbled up with the talent on the football team and
Speaker 1: my own personal scouting of the team. I think we're
Speaker 1: about to see something very special. Could be wrong, But
Speaker 1: like what I mean by that is like, I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance. I think there's a chance you might
Speaker 1: have seen the dolphins last loss this season. Why don't
Speaker 1: we go ahead and leave it at that. That's how
Speaker 1: a special I think this season could be. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up here, because the biggest part of
Speaker 1: that is the health of the quarterback. And coach touched
Speaker 1: on the fact that two was about to play his
Speaker 1: twelve consecutive game and this is a sidebar an additional fact,
Speaker 1: he's twenty three snaps away from eclipsing his career high.
Speaker 1: How important that's been to this Dolphins team, and now
Speaker 1: they have him healthy for the stretch run. Here's coach
Speaker 1: on how important that's been and what Tua did to
Speaker 1: put himself in this position by his diligent work in
Speaker 1: the offseason.
Speaker 5: You're always happy when people get, you know, results from
Speaker 5: you know, diligently working at something, whatever it is. So
Speaker 5: like you go and attack what you can control. In
Speaker 5: the midst of a ton of narrative about yes, you can, no,
Speaker 5: you can't, all this other stuff, he worries about one thing,
Speaker 5: and that's all right, well, what's the problem staying on
Speaker 5: the field? What can I do to fix it? And
Speaker 5: that's all he worries about. It doesn't surprise me that
Speaker 5: we're in the position we're in at this point the
Speaker 5: season where he's played twelve games in a row, because
Speaker 5: I've never seen someone attack attack an off season with
Speaker 5: that much. It's not a chip on his shoulder. He
Speaker 5: was just so motivated to control what he can control,
Speaker 5: so motivated, So h doesn't surprise me. I think the
Speaker 5: you know, the results speak for themselves in that way.
Speaker 5: Football is a uh, you know, a game where you
Speaker 5: can't predict, you know, really anything that's gonna happen, but
Speaker 5: you can control the certain things. I think he's done
Speaker 5: an unbelievable job of that. I'm really proud, just just
Speaker 5: really proud and happy that we're at this position in
Speaker 5: the season with him playing twelve games in a row,
Speaker 5: because I know how much he directly has to do
Speaker 5: with that and that it's it wasn't an easy position
Speaker 5: for him to be in. But what he did do is,
Speaker 5: uh is take himself as a man, as a player
Speaker 5: to a to a different level within that commitment, and
Speaker 5: you know, I think just his overall command just just
Speaker 5: it affects everyone. I think he his confidence with his
Speaker 5: ability to stay healthy. Guys, guys can feel and you know,
Speaker 5: we're we're just very fortunate that our quarterback is wired
Speaker 5: the way he is from a mental standpoint because he
Speaker 5: he you know, I'm not sure if you guys were
Speaker 5: placing side bets, but there's a lot of people that
Speaker 5: were betting against him. He knew that, and you know,
Speaker 5: so he as a result, he gets better from everything, good,
Speaker 5: bad or indifferent.
Speaker 1: Last break right here, let's go ahead and come back
Speaker 1: on the other side. And here from my good friend
Speaker 1: Kyle Krabs, that's the next Draft Time podcast. Your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by I donation, joining us
Speaker 1: today as he does almost every Friday. Didn't have him
Speaker 1: on last week on the Black Friday Game. Is the
Speaker 1: great Kyle Krabs from Locked on NFL Scouting and of
Speaker 1: course Locked on Dolphins covering your Miami Dolphins. Kyle, how
Speaker 1: we doing, my friend?
Speaker 2: How was the holiday?
Speaker 6: Hotday was good? I hope everybody had a good holiday.
Speaker 6: Who's listening here? And obviously Travis Hugh and then the
Speaker 6: rest of the Miami Dolphins group that put on a
Speaker 6: good show for us on Friday, Black Friday. It's always
Speaker 6: nice to get a divisional win. They are especially nice
Speaker 6: when they come by three touchdowns. So that was a
Speaker 6: really nice treat to bring the holiday weekend into full swing.
Speaker 1: If there's anything I learned from the Spotify wrapped thing
Speaker 1: this year, the thing I don't know about to call it,
Speaker 1: it's that the audience you're talking to right now probably
Speaker 1: is your audience as well. So locked on and draft
Speaker 1: time listeners are pretty pretty big ven diagram.
Speaker 2: There with a big circle in the middle.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk about this weekend in college
Speaker 1: football because Kyle one left one left before bowl season,
Speaker 1: and you know, ball season has kind of been watered
Speaker 1: down in recent years with all the players that leave
Speaker 1: and don't play in those games. So this is kind
Speaker 1: of the last big college weekend until we get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And my question for you is how important
Speaker 1: do scouts view these games in relation to the rest
Speaker 1: of the schedule. Are the bigger games amplified more in
Speaker 1: a bigger way for scouts for the next level?
Speaker 6: I certainly think, especially when you're evaluating for a team
Speaker 6: that wants to aspire to compete for championships and be
Speaker 6: in big moments. You want to see the players and
Speaker 6: how they perform and meet those big moments. So I
Speaker 6: do think that is one element of this. You think
Speaker 6: about the game tomorrow with Georgian and Alabama, with the
Speaker 6: SEC championship game, that stands out. I do think the
Speaker 6: game tonight with Oregon and Washington is big for a
Speaker 6: different reason. It's relevant for that same reason. There's obviously
Speaker 6: college football playoff spot that's on the line for that.
Speaker 6: But these two teams played each other before this season
Speaker 6: and it was a barn burner and Michael Penix puts
Speaker 6: together a killer drive at the end of the game
Speaker 6: in the final two minutes to go down and take
Speaker 6: the lead in a thirty six thirty three win against
Speaker 6: to the Oregon Ducks. Now, it's like divisional football in
Speaker 6: the NFL. When you're evaluating players, you always covet the
Speaker 6: second matchup because it showcases there's an awareness of what
Speaker 6: they do well, what they do didn't we played them before.
Speaker 6: There might be some new wrinkles, some tendency breakers that
Speaker 6: are involved, but by and large, evaluating players at any level,
Speaker 6: when there's a familiarity with all the players that are
Speaker 6: on the field. Is a really really nice kind of
Speaker 6: extra lens to put on the evaluation process. So I
Speaker 6: love getting these conference matchups that are rematches from regular
Speaker 6: season games because it's like cards were on the table
Speaker 6: the first time you played. Now it's go out there
Speaker 6: and execute. And for an Orgon team specifically, do you
Speaker 6: think about that team last year and how they got
Speaker 6: handled by the utah Utes twice last year, got their
Speaker 6: teeth kicked in? Really a chance to have a mulligan
Speaker 6: game in the Pac twelve championship game against Washington for
Speaker 6: those organ Ducks players. I'm really dialed in on that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really cut through the deception that could possibly
Speaker 1: be there from the first time you meet up with
Speaker 1: that team.
Speaker 2: That's it's a great point.
Speaker 1: I hadn't only thought of that from a divisional you know,
Speaker 1: NFL perspective, but in the same way in college and
Speaker 1: just full transparency. Supposed to be partial in this I
Speaker 1: should say impartial in this industry.
Speaker 2: Go Ducks, man.
Speaker 1: The Kougs had the dogs on the ropes last week
Speaker 1: and they let him off the hook. We knew who
Speaker 1: they were and let him off the hook. And Michael
Speaker 1: Pennox he looked injured me in that game. He was
Speaker 1: like limping around and he was, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: off by himself on the sideline. So I'm curious to
Speaker 1: see how he looks in that game, because he didn't
Speaker 1: look at the Michael Pennis we've seen all year long against.
Speaker 2: A not so great WSU defense. But I digress.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, you mentioned that game. You talked about
Speaker 1: Georgia Alabama. The getting is good this weekend, my friend.
Speaker 1: I know there's plenty of options you could choose from here.
Speaker 1: What's some games and some matchups for the NFL draft
Speaker 1: perspective of things that you're keeping a close eye on
Speaker 1: this weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you can look at any of the
Speaker 6: teams that feature teams in the top three. I'm not
Speaker 6: as dialed in on Louisville, Florida State the ACC championship
Speaker 6: game tomorrow night, but Oregon, Washington, Georgia Alabama, and Michigan Iowa.
Speaker 6: It's a little bit of a bummer that iowa't have
Speaker 6: Cooper dejen in that game. I know he had a
Speaker 6: foot injury. A couple of weeks ago. University of Michigan
Speaker 6: lost Zack Zenter with a pretty ugly leg injury in
Speaker 6: their most recent game as well. So there's some prospects
Speaker 6: in that Big ten matchup tomorrow night at eight o'clock
Speaker 6: that will be missing some of their NFL talent that
Speaker 6: will be eligible for this year's class if they choose
Speaker 6: to make that leap. But anytime you have the number
Speaker 6: one and number eight team in the country in Georgia
Speaker 6: and Alabama, you kind of know what you're getting when
Speaker 6: you have three and five in Oregon. And I love
Speaker 6: that Oregon is the PAC twelve game, is the standalone
Speaker 6: game tonight if you're not counting New Mexico State and Liberty,
Speaker 6: just because so much of that West Coast matchup is
Speaker 6: missed by casual fans, right, So you now get this
Speaker 6: spotlight in conference championship weekend for Oregon Washington, where whether
Speaker 6: it is Washington with their offensive line, they've got three
Speaker 6: wide receivers that are viable NFL wide receivers. You obviously
Speaker 6: have the quarterback position as well. Then you flip things
Speaker 6: over to Oregon and we know about bo Nix and
Speaker 6: Bucky Irving and Troy Franklin, and they've got a center
Speaker 6: that I have yet to lay eyes on that I
Speaker 6: know a lot of people that I have a lot
Speaker 6: of respect for have called out as a viable NFL prospect,
Speaker 6: and then on the defensive line, guys like Bradon dor Liss. Like,
Speaker 6: it's a loaded game, So I would look at Big ten,
Speaker 6: SEC and PAC twelve games that are all loaded with talent.
Speaker 6: If I had to rank them, I'd probably say SEC Championship,
Speaker 6: PAC twelve Championship, and then this year's Big ten Championship.
Speaker 2: That's a good point.
Speaker 1: They probably do on purpose that way with the PAC
Speaker 1: twelve on Friday, because it's always been that way for
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve Championship to avoid putting them in the
Speaker 1: ten o'clock Eastern window on Saturday, when again everyone's in
Speaker 1: bed not watching football at that point.
Speaker 2: But also I think this is.
Speaker 1: The first year of the game's Vegas, which is a
Speaker 1: huge boon because they used to put it out in
Speaker 1: Santa Clara, and you know, fans of schools, they want
Speaker 1: to go down there to the game, but you're forty
Speaker 1: five minutes away from any the nearest metropolis, so like
Speaker 1: it kind of discouraged fans from going to those games,
Speaker 1: and energy in those games was never great, but Vegas
Speaker 1: that has a different energy that typically comes built in
Speaker 1: when you play in those venues. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about the main reason you're on the podcast here
Speaker 1: in sport in that beautiful, shimmering aqua throwback Dolphins starter
Speaker 1: level like warm up bullpen, pitcher's jacket.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of words. It looks great, You look great, Kyle.
Speaker 6: It'll look good to feel good, you know, big subscriber, Maybe.
Speaker 1: Coach Probin to have uh No, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about some December Dolphins football here, because I just
Speaker 1: talked to Mike Kuno on this on this episode, we
Speaker 1: were talking about the importance of these games and how
Speaker 1: it's kind of cool how Miami has a stretch run here,
Speaker 1: you know, coming up in December, right around Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: against three teams they're probably going to be in the postseason,
Speaker 1: maybe not the final game of the year, hopefully not,
Speaker 1: but it's a good little test run for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins here. But just kind of want to get your
Speaker 1: take on December football, what this team could have learned
Speaker 1: from last year's experience where things kind of went you know,
Speaker 1: upside down this time last year, and also what this
Speaker 1: year's team could do to you probably do believe in
Speaker 1: them as a championship potential contender, But what's one thing
Speaker 1: they could do that would really make you feel very
Speaker 1: good about their chances once they do get beyond that
Speaker 1: threshold of the regular season.
Speaker 6: So I think if you, I think if you can
Speaker 6: improve your offensive efficiency in protecting the football, I think
Speaker 6: that really changes the conference. Like you could talk all
Speaker 6: you want about kind of the early season performance of
Speaker 6: this team and getting settled into the new scheme with
Speaker 6: vic Fango on the defensive side of the ball, and
Speaker 6: obviously the improvements in total yardage that this defense has experienced,
Speaker 6: this scoring defense. They're still ranked twenty second, but you've
Speaker 6: had three pick sixes this season. You had multiple possessions
Speaker 6: against the Raiders where you turn the ball over in
Speaker 6: scoring territory and directly yielded points. You had a Special
Speaker 6: Teams touchdown on Week three against Denver, but they're the
Speaker 6: fumble to start the second half against New England. All
Speaker 6: of these instances of short fields directly yielding points on
Speaker 6: the board, not ending in a possession and a kick,
Speaker 6: And I know that that's kind of every special team's
Speaker 6: coach mantras, right, is every possession that ends in a
Speaker 6: kick is a good possession, but it's in this case
Speaker 6: it's not wrong.
Speaker 3: So I think for.
Speaker 6: Miami, and you know, we heard two a tongue of
Speaker 6: Lawa talk about it this week when he was asked
Speaker 6: about it. Making sure that the efficiency is not putting
Speaker 6: the team at a position where it's it's giving away
Speaker 6: more points than teams have to earn against you. If
Speaker 6: you forced teams to go to the field against this defense,
Speaker 6: it's gonna be hard sledding. Case in point there, there
Speaker 6: has not been a single team that has scored more
Speaker 6: than twenty one points in the last four games, and
Speaker 6: you can go back to the last six game, there's
Speaker 6: only one game in which the team yielded more than
Speaker 6: twenty one points. So they haad some good offenses in
Speaker 6: that stretch. They protect the football, and I think this
Speaker 6: conversation really changes for the ceiling of his team.
Speaker 2: I can't I literally cannot wait.
Speaker 1: Like I want to enjoy these last six games we
Speaker 1: have promised to us, and then I mean, we're very
Speaker 1: close to getting promised to a seventh but like I
Speaker 1: want to enjoy them. But man, I just can't wait
Speaker 1: to see how it plays out, because I think this
Speaker 1: team has it in them to make those corrections and
Speaker 1: then be the best version of themselves, you know, when
Speaker 1: the calendar turns twenty twenty four, and if that happens,
Speaker 1: like we're going to be in for a very fun
Speaker 1: ride here. And just real quick, my co host on
Speaker 1: the post game Show, Steth loveoc gonna love the mention
Speaker 1: there of the any drive that ends and a kick
Speaker 1: is a good possession.
Speaker 2: There a little old school thinking.
Speaker 1: There, but you're I get where you're coming from in
Speaker 1: that frame of mind where just don't turn the ball
Speaker 1: over and you're probably gonna be pretty damn good and.
Speaker 3: Tough to beat.
Speaker 1: Kyle Crabs, you're the man buddy at grinand the Tape
Speaker 1: on Twitter, locked on NFL Scouting, locked on Dolphins Podcast.
Speaker 1: You can find him all over the webs, the interwebs
Speaker 1: as we call it. Kyle, Thanks for your time today
Speaker 1: and my friend and enjoy the game on Sunday, Thanks Travis,
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