Speaker 1: Well, here we are again the audible Kimbo Cambra, John
Speaker 1: can gem me with you and Uh back on the air,
Speaker 1: you can say, obviously pushes out here, which I'm sure
Speaker 1: has been disgusting two people that have had a chance
Speaker 1: to to watch this, but we're doing it anyway, and John,
Speaker 1: at least we're getting right now. I mean, we're right
Speaker 1: on the cusp of of the season beginning. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got news and notes. We'll talk about that a
Speaker 1: little as we get this show set up. We're also
Speaker 1: on excessent bows. We're gonna take a look at the
Speaker 1: at the secondary, which could be one of the most
Speaker 1: improved areas on this football team, and certainly it's gonna
Speaker 1: be an area and we talked uh previously, we talked
Speaker 1: about the offensive line, the running game and how they
Speaker 1: need to work in tandem to be successful on both
Speaker 1: ends of what they do. Same for the set for
Speaker 1: the defensive side, where you'll get those defensive backs doing
Speaker 1: what they need to get quality people back there, which
Speaker 1: they've upgraded the quality of the people in the secondary.
Speaker 1: But then you also need that coordination upfront with the
Speaker 1: pass rushers. So we'll kind of get onto that moving forward.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk about the secondary and xs and bows,
Speaker 1: and I got some old stories about some old secondary
Speaker 1: guys that I've had, and I'm sure John you've got
Speaker 1: you've got plenty of stories about some of those guys
Speaker 1: that you've dealt with. But so so that's the way
Speaker 1: we'll run the things. And that's what that's what we've
Speaker 1: got coming up for you today on the audible. Again,
Speaker 1: Hope everybody standing safe out there. Hope you're doing the
Speaker 1: right thing. Hopefully we can get through this shortly and
Speaker 1: get to an NFL season that resembles what most of
Speaker 1: us wanted to be. Now it's probably not, but you know,
Speaker 1: John talking about news and notes talking about the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: All the players are in camp now. Rookies came in early.
Speaker 1: They went through some of the testing and they gotta
Speaker 1: have too positive or two negative tests in order to
Speaker 1: forward to go forward with training camp. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: most of the rookies and free agents have already gone
Speaker 1: through the protocol and this is the week where the
Speaker 1: veterans have come in. Veteran's come in, they've gotta be
Speaker 1: they've got to be negative for two tests before they
Speaker 1: can move forward. And then they enter a phase, John,
Speaker 1: which is which is gonna be conditioning, running in and
Speaker 1: stuff for a while. But it's Johnny, it's nice to
Speaker 1: have these guys back in camp. Brian Flores spoke to
Speaker 1: the media for a short period of time and kind
Speaker 1: of went through what they were doing. But it's you know,
Speaker 1: we we've been waiting for this so for a long time,
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna resemble anything we've done before or
Speaker 1: ever in the National Football League, but it's footballs here.
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, John, but I'm I'm
Speaker 1: certainly glad to have it back. Well, I'm excited at
Speaker 1: number one, Boat, to have the guys back in the building,
Speaker 1: if it's not only just the rookies around the National
Speaker 1: Football League. But you're right, it's a it's a some
Speaker 1: sort of semblance of normalcy to get back in the building. Now.
Speaker 1: There's been plenty of protocols that are put in place
Speaker 1: due to COVID nineteen with the multiple testing and and
Speaker 1: and really guys protecting each other, you know, inside and
Speaker 1: outside of the building. I think that was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things that head coach Brian Floores talk about
Speaker 1: when he talked to the local media this week in
Speaker 1: terms of getting that message across to his players and
Speaker 1: being accountable to each other. So far, the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: haven't had anybody to opt out, which means everybody's in
Speaker 1: the building that needs to be in the building. That's players,
Speaker 1: and that's coaches, and that's staff, which is a good thing,
Speaker 1: you know, for this unit, for this group to move forward.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited about it. I know we've talked, you know,
Speaker 1: off to the side about getting our first glimpse at
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, the two thousand and twenty version that
Speaker 1: will come probably closer to the middle of August. But
Speaker 1: at least the guys are back there in the building.
Speaker 1: They are adjusting on a daily basis to what's changed
Speaker 1: for them to do their job. And I think so far,
Speaker 1: so good for the Miami Dolphins. And I'm sure everybody's
Speaker 1: heard Tour came in past his physical he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna lead to what's that competition gonna be
Speaker 1: like in that quarterback group with Josh rosen uh with
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick and with two of what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: when's two are gonna get a shot? What's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a competitive situation. But two
Speaker 1: us in he's ready to go. A lot of the
Speaker 1: other people in and John, you talk about protocols. I
Speaker 1: know they put a plastic dividers in locker rooms and
Speaker 1: meeting rooms and and done all the things. And when
Speaker 1: if you listen to Brian Floors or at the opportunity
Speaker 1: to listen to Brian Flores, I think it's it's abundantly clear, uh,
Speaker 1: from what Brian said and from the people I've spoken
Speaker 1: to in the organization, is that first and foremost in
Speaker 1: this team's mind is do whatever we need to do
Speaker 1: to keep our players safe. And I think that's uh.
Speaker 1: I think that's a message that there resonates with is
Speaker 1: gonna resonate with these football team and John trying to
Speaker 1: put a team together. Talking about Brian Flores and and
Speaker 1: the rest of the coaching staff, you said none of
Speaker 1: them opted out, so so you've got a full house
Speaker 1: their coaches and players. But John, this has been this
Speaker 1: will be one of the teams probably over the last
Speaker 1: decade or so. This had more change during one offseason.
Speaker 1: I would say during during the season, in an off season,
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of a lot of guys
Speaker 1: you know, moved along last year, and then you a
Speaker 1: lot of changes during the off season. But this is
Speaker 1: almost this is gonna be one of the one of
Speaker 1: the teams that probably has normally about at change in rosters.
Speaker 1: There's probably there's gotta be about a fifty or sixty
Speaker 1: percent change in the roster of this football team as
Speaker 1: opposed to the way it ended last year, which creates
Speaker 1: more challenges under these circumstances. Well, it does because you
Speaker 1: don't have a time to test in the preseason. You
Speaker 1: don't have a chance to go out and try different
Speaker 1: things in the preseason games. You know, it went from
Speaker 1: four preseason. I was happy with two because you're gonna
Speaker 1: still get to see guys go out in kind of
Speaker 1: kind of picture a game in quarters and halves. Maybe
Speaker 1: some guys would play a little bit more due to
Speaker 1: only maybe two games, But now there's zero. So every
Speaker 1: rep that you take in a walkthrough is going to
Speaker 1: matter almost as much as every repute take in a
Speaker 1: live practice or every repute take in a meeting room.
Speaker 1: Every chance and opportunity you have to answer a question
Speaker 1: or be right about a test or a quiz, that's
Speaker 1: giving to you by your position, coach on your job
Speaker 1: is going to have to be a hundred percent or
Speaker 1: pretty close to a hundred percent because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have those opportunities to walk through it, practice it, and
Speaker 1: then go on a field and do it under the lights.
Speaker 1: It's going to be practice, walkthrough meetings, game one against
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and your mistakes are gonna be
Speaker 1: glaring on week one if you're not prepared to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, on you know, when early September rolls around.
Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna be the biggest change. You
Speaker 1: talked about the percentage on the roster that gets that
Speaker 1: gets huge for certain teams. That's why this Miami Dolphin
Speaker 1: team needs to grow up in a hurry, and all
Speaker 1: the growing pains they went through last season with a
Speaker 1: youthful roster hopefully will pay dividends because they're depending on
Speaker 1: some of those guys to take the next step in
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty to assimilate with guys they got
Speaker 1: in free agency in the draft that are gonna have
Speaker 1: to come along at the same page. But they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of places they have a lot of catching
Speaker 1: up to do. When you start looking at the certainly
Speaker 1: you look at the two Super Bowl teams last year,
Speaker 1: you look at the forty Niners, they're pretty much stood Pad.
Speaker 1: They lost a couple of guys, picked up some guys
Speaker 1: Kansas City. For the most part that they they've they've
Speaker 1: stood pat You know that they're they're ready to go.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens, teams like that that have been that
Speaker 1: have got a more veteran leaden football team with less
Speaker 1: turnover than than this this Dolphin football team had. They've
Speaker 1: certainly got a jump start on this team and a
Speaker 1: lot more catching up for the Dolphins and teams like
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to get going, whether you've got a lot
Speaker 1: of young players or whether you're a couple of those
Speaker 1: teams UH that have new coaches that have to get
Speaker 1: their team ready to play under short order, under trying
Speaker 1: times and Bowl I'm not a dry in the house
Speaker 1: for the New Land Patriots with the opt outs, UH,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady opted out, he went to Tampa Bay this year.
Speaker 1: Gronk opted out last year and sat out the season.
Speaker 1: But a lot of those guys designing not to play
Speaker 1: due to COVID nineteen and and that roster has been decimated.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna you know, feel sorry or or not
Speaker 1: worry about the wounded guys up there that are gonna play.
Speaker 1: But you know, you have to take into account there
Speaker 1: is that that whole starting linebacking corp has gone for
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Well that's our that's the second part of
Speaker 1: our news and notes as we switch over to that
Speaker 1: and talk about the NFL and and and you can't
Speaker 1: talk about the NFL and what they're doing now without
Speaker 1: looking at New England, who lost Tom Brady in free agency,
Speaker 1: who went to Tampa uh and and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're getting you're on the you're on the
Speaker 1: threshold of training camp, and you've got I would have
Speaker 1: got five six seven guys Chung, I mean, and they've
Speaker 1: got some some quality starters. You've got the one kid
Speaker 1: they offer, Brandon Boldennte high Tower, you got the offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: There was a doctor that wants to go and go
Speaker 1: up to Canada, Cannon, so you've given him. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you talked about High Tower, the linebackers and these guys,
Speaker 1: so you know, without you know, you lose maybe the
Speaker 1: greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL, which is
Speaker 1: you know that there's a big cavity that you gotta
Speaker 1: feel somehow, And then all of a sudden, on the
Speaker 1: on the on the doorstep of training camp, you lose five, six,
Speaker 1: seven other guys, a lot of which, as you said,
Speaker 1: are frontline players and guys that they're expecting on. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna cry tear for those guys up there.
Speaker 1: And they're red, white and blue or silver or whatever
Speaker 1: the hell they call that that they're wearing up there,
Speaker 1: Um just saying, hey, welcome back to the pack. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: welcome to the rest of us. You know, it seems
Speaker 1: like they've been on the top of the heat for
Speaker 1: so long and really never had to deal with change,
Speaker 1: and when they did, it was changed by Bill Belichick saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, this guy has been an all pro,
Speaker 1: this guy has been a hall you know, potential Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame career, but he's too old for this position
Speaker 1: right now. We're gonna get rid of them, maybe a
Speaker 1: year or two early, and they would pick the right
Speaker 1: guy to replace him. It seemed like that scenario played
Speaker 1: itself out, especially on the defensive side, for many years
Speaker 1: over this dynasty that New England has had. But now
Speaker 1: I think the dynasty is gonna have the biggest challenge
Speaker 1: they've had in twenty years. Number one, without Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Number two, without the consistency of having those reliable, dependable,
Speaker 1: experienced defenders to be able to line up each week
Speaker 1: and play at a certain level. This is going to
Speaker 1: have to be one of the best coaching jobs by
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick ever to get guys on the same pages
Speaker 1: that are guys that are they're losing. Since we're looking
Speaker 1: around the league a little more and and looking at
Speaker 1: New England up there, Uh, I just want to get
Speaker 1: your thoughts quickly on on uh, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a surprising move done kind of like cloaking Dagg or
Speaker 1: like New England kind of does. But they come up
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton as a quarterback, um, and so the
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a guy like Cam Newton, who by
Speaker 1: his account is healthy, ready to go over the issues
Speaker 1: that he's had over the last year or so with injuries,
Speaker 1: And where do you see the impact that you see
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton with New England now that you add
Speaker 1: in all these other these other flock of players that
Speaker 1: have decided that uh that they'll see you next year
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to business sound when I see
Speaker 1: Cam Newton adding to New England is his experienced number one,
Speaker 1: but I think the way that he was added to eighteen,
Speaker 1: you know, the length of him staying out in free agency,
Speaker 1: may have lit the fuse on him a little bit more.
Speaker 1: To get back to his roots. Number one, he has
Speaker 1: to be healthy, which all accounts are he is healthy.
Speaker 1: For this upcoming season, He's gonna have to challenge Jared's
Speaker 1: Stendham for the for the starting job. And I don't
Speaker 1: think this is a given that Cam Newton is going
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback in New England. I think
Speaker 1: there is going to come a time if he doesn't
Speaker 1: win it outright before a game one, if Sidham does struggle,
Speaker 1: I think there will be no hesitation by Belichick to
Speaker 1: to bring in a Cam Newton, especially with the deficiencies
Speaker 1: now on the defensive side of the football. As New
Speaker 1: England goes into the season not as strong on paper
Speaker 1: as they might have been, so they're gonna need to
Speaker 1: score a lot of points or more points than projected
Speaker 1: maybe on offense, and Cam Newton gives them a dynamic
Speaker 1: they haven't add in twenty years, that a little bit
Speaker 1: of escapability that adds a little bit of pressure to
Speaker 1: a defense on how you attack the pocket. UH. In
Speaker 1: terms of Tom Brady got it out so quick. Cam
Speaker 1: Newton might hold it a little bit, but he still
Speaker 1: has that threat to get out and beat you with
Speaker 1: his legs. So I think there's that dynamic. But I
Speaker 1: wouldn't put pencil Cam Newton as a starter right now
Speaker 1: because they wouldn't have let Tom Brady go if they
Speaker 1: weren't so high on Jared's sid I just belk. I think,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, where's gonna be the first guy to
Speaker 1: line up the lead, She's gonna be short on whoever
Speaker 1: it is with Scarrett Stidham, whether it's Cam Newton, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a short leash. And and and I don't
Speaker 1: think Bill Belichick will be UH will be He's still
Speaker 1: worried about hurting any feelings exactly. Hey, let's UH, let's
Speaker 1: get over to UH two xs and bows right now.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it before, and they in the open
Speaker 1: where we've talked about the offensive line, we've talked about
Speaker 1: running backs. Another area that really got revamped this year,
Speaker 1: UH is the secondary and and part of that revamp
Speaker 1: is getting Xadien Howard back and healthy again. Now he's
Speaker 1: on the physically unable to Perform list. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means that he didn't he's he didn't pass his
Speaker 1: physical now, but if he gets the physical tomorrow and passes,
Speaker 1: he can come back in and start working. So it's
Speaker 1: it's not a six week thing. It's not a it's
Speaker 1: just whenever he's ready to play, he can get back
Speaker 1: and start playing. Uh So, so that's a good help.
Speaker 1: Uh you want to get him in there working with
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and and maybe if X sits out a
Speaker 1: little bit, um you know, but Ugomy gets a nice
Speaker 1: little opportunity to get in there and and get some
Speaker 1: of those those early reps. But when you look at
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation on this football team with Howard and Cordeira,
Speaker 1: tankers like who was coming back, But he's on the
Speaker 1: COVID the list, So he's out there, Nick need Um,
Speaker 1: all these guys. The competition at the cornerback position this year, um,
Speaker 1: to me, is really going to be something to watch
Speaker 1: during training camp and how they mesh with the safeties
Speaker 1: right now, it's Bobby McCain, is Eric Roe. You know
Speaker 1: Eric last year did a good job you know, with
Speaker 1: Uh really being that guy that can nullify some of
Speaker 1: the tight ends down the middle of the field, and
Speaker 1: I think that's become a niche for him. But you know,
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of guys in that secondary. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it before, John that can play safety, corner,
Speaker 1: very multidimensional. Look when you look at the roster of
Speaker 1: guys in that secondary for the Dolphins this year, well both,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that I think one of the strengths
Speaker 1: of this football team could be the secondary. You add
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and free agency, Uh and hopefully X is
Speaker 1: gonna be able to catch up with his rehab. Coach
Speaker 1: Floors talked about it this week about him working extremely
Speaker 1: hard and the flexibility of being able to jump off
Speaker 1: of that pup list all the way to the active roster.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got a better part of a month,
Speaker 1: month in a week, month and ten days before this
Speaker 1: is gonna kick off for real, So I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some time for Exaving to get ready and
Speaker 1: be able to play in that opener against New England. Least.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's crossing their fingers on that one. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned the depth, there's a lot of depth, not
Speaker 1: only at the cornerback position, but at safety. And I
Speaker 1: think safety is one of those positions where you know
Speaker 1: you can mix and match, uh, depending on who you're
Speaker 1: playing against. I think Eric Row made a great transition
Speaker 1: from the outside cornerback position to two inside at safety,
Speaker 1: whether that's playing center field or closer to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. And you mentioned one of his greatest assets
Speaker 1: is covering a tight end because he has that quick
Speaker 1: twitch mentality coming from the edge of a defense. So
Speaker 1: between him and Bobby McCain in the back end, Colbert's
Speaker 1: back fledgelum comes in free agency that can give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of both on special teams and add
Speaker 1: to that secondary and Stephen Parker, you know, this is
Speaker 1: a guy that had an incredible interception and you know
Speaker 1: in the end zone this these are guys that are playmakers.
Speaker 1: These guys can can step up and do the job.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a great competition but at that position,
Speaker 1: but will also strengthened you go out to the outside.
Speaker 1: You mentioned you know ig been Agany, he might be
Speaker 1: able to do a little bit of everything play inside.
Speaker 1: Nicol would need him challenge at a cornerback position. If
Speaker 1: somebody goes down, wearing a lot of hats is big
Speaker 1: on this Miami Dolphins defense. He's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that can do with Keim Webster has experienced, Jamal Perry
Speaker 1: has experience on the inside. And then you get Javars Davis,
Speaker 1: that undrafted free agent from Kansas City who played with
Speaker 1: Noah at Allburn. They were the two owners that started.
Speaker 1: So you've got some flexibility there and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great competition to see who the eight
Speaker 1: or nine ten defensive backs are on the opening day roster.
Speaker 1: And one of the kids we didn't talk about as
Speaker 1: as Brandon Jones, uh the kids from Texas to safety
Speaker 1: from Texas. See what kind of impact he can make
Speaker 1: back there. But one thing we did we we have
Speaker 1: lost in the in this period is you know, a
Speaker 1: guy like Mishaw Jones, who who was a physical guy
Speaker 1: and I know the injuries and you know they have
Speaker 1: you know, curtailed his career. The last couple of years
Speaker 1: have been not what we were we we've seen out
Speaker 1: of him, But the way that that ability to have
Speaker 1: a guy like him, like you said, you could creep
Speaker 1: in the line of scrimmage, you can blitz. He could
Speaker 1: do so. He was such a physically impactful player in
Speaker 1: that secondary. Um, somebody needs to step up and fill
Speaker 1: that role. Somebody just needs to step up and be
Speaker 1: that guy. Like you said, it can get up closer
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimms and can feel that box.
Speaker 1: That can can they can put some pressure on the
Speaker 1: quarterback they need to in a blitz situation and can
Speaker 1: give your run support. Another aspect that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a safe place safety in this sleep. You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to get up and you gotta be able to
Speaker 1: support the run. So uh and Rashad Joe is gonna
Speaker 1: did a good job of that. So they're needs gonna
Speaker 1: gonna need to find the physicality out there somewhere that
Speaker 1: you lose when you when when Rashaw Jones left the organization.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, bo, I think somebody's gonna have
Speaker 1: to be the leader of this group. And I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure it might not be multiple guys that take
Speaker 1: that rope and our leaders of the secondary. You know
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier about the relationship with that offensive line
Speaker 1: and running back and the past rush and the defensive
Speaker 1: facts and how how that correlates into having success on
Speaker 1: either side of the football. I think with new offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Josh Bowyer, you're going to see five dbs, six
Speaker 1: d b s. You're gonna see, you know, seven dbs.
Speaker 1: In terms of being able to get guys flying all around,
Speaker 1: You're gonna see multiple looks. And I think with the
Speaker 1: guys that we mentioned, not only do they have to
Speaker 1: be physical, but they need the ability to cover and
Speaker 1: they need the ability to play the football. This this
Speaker 1: team needs a defense that is known to be able
Speaker 1: to take away the football, to attack the football, whether
Speaker 1: that's coming up from the secondary and striking or running back,
Speaker 1: or or taking a wide receiver or tight end aggressively
Speaker 1: to the ground, or being able to take it away
Speaker 1: from the opposing offense. And I think with Bowyer at
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator, you're gonna see a mix and match
Speaker 1: of a lot of these names that we mentioned in
Speaker 1: the line up of of eleven defenders. At the same time,
Speaker 1: he's not afraid to go six dbs because he has
Speaker 1: those guys that play multiple positions in their career and
Speaker 1: has faith that they could do their job for that
Speaker 1: three and a half, four and a half, five and
Speaker 1: a half seconds. Uh, and hopefully it's closer to three
Speaker 1: and a half for that defensive line putting pressure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You think a couple of years back and you had
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain playing corner. He's had experience at corner, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember remember the night of the draft, you know,
Speaker 1: when we had three first round picks and getting that third,
Speaker 1: he goes, he want to and they picked, they picked.
Speaker 1: It's been on running back and they get a d
Speaker 1: D back here you have running back here you've got
Speaker 1: you know, and there was another quarterback and then and
Speaker 1: then afterwards, uh, you know, Brian Flora said, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I learned a lot of things in New England. One
Speaker 1: of the things I learned, and one of the things
Speaker 1: get stuck with me, is you can never have enough
Speaker 1: cornerbacks on your football team. And I like that philosophy,
Speaker 1: especially especially in today's game. You know, if it was
Speaker 1: if you were back twenty years ago, when it was
Speaker 1: you know, one tight end too tight end, you know,
Speaker 1: I formation, Brown Format's reformation, then maybe not so. But
Speaker 1: now with these spread offenses, run pass option, all of
Speaker 1: those things out there, three wide receiver, four wide, five,
Speaker 1: you know, multiples coming out of the bat. It's you know,
Speaker 1: to me, give me guys that can cover and and
Speaker 1: find out those guys that have a little extra oof
Speaker 1: to them that can play that safety position where they've
Speaker 1: got to come up and stick their head. But I
Speaker 1: think from a standpoint and I think, John, we're seeing this.
Speaker 1: I think when you start to try to look at
Speaker 1: analyze what this team is looking like, is you you you,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the defensive front linebackers. A lot
Speaker 1: of flexibility. Now with those guys, a lot of linebackers
Speaker 1: you've got that can easily step up the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage to be an outside pass rusher and vice versa.
Speaker 1: There uh offensive line running that you know, You've got
Speaker 1: a lot of different And so I think this stuff
Speaker 1: this is just another position where the ability for guys
Speaker 1: to do multiple things within the framework of that position,
Speaker 1: that secondary position. I like that. The ability to have
Speaker 1: those people that can cover as well as coming in
Speaker 1: and be a little more physical when they need to inside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I can foresee a defense where you have four
Speaker 1: defensive pass rushers, you take out your entire linebacking corps,
Speaker 1: you put Eric Browe and Noah Higbanogany at the linebacker positions.
Speaker 1: You bring in Perry at the nickel and you play
Speaker 1: with your four dbs. Mean, that's the way the NFL
Speaker 1: is going today. It's not your traditional you have to
Speaker 1: play with you know, these guys at this position because
Speaker 1: that's the label on where they line up. So I
Speaker 1: think with the the options that the Miami Dolphins have
Speaker 1: given themselves through a free agency and through the draft,
Speaker 1: you get you get a guy like Van Noy. You
Speaker 1: might have you know, traditional four defensive backs, but you
Speaker 1: have van Oy, you have Ogba, you have different guys
Speaker 1: that play different roles, and you have those flex guys,
Speaker 1: those linebacker defensive end types like Beagle and Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: and and van Oy. They can line up anywhere. So
Speaker 1: I think that give Boyer a lot of flexibility. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. Yeah, So it's gonna be exciting to see
Speaker 1: the transition transitions offense only group of offensive linemen, your
Speaker 1: running backs, a new quarterback in the mix, same thing,
Speaker 1: defensive front, changing positions in the secondary. A lot of
Speaker 1: things to look at. But I think the secondary is
Speaker 1: really going to become you know, you know, granted, injuries
Speaker 1: are always part of the fact, or you've got a
Speaker 1: factory injuries in as you go along. But I think
Speaker 1: on paper, I think the secondary really could be and
Speaker 1: maybe the strongest position on this football team. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think so both at least it challenges for this the
Speaker 1: strongest one on the position just by the names that
Speaker 1: we talked about and the multiplicity that they bring to
Speaker 1: a defense. That they can line up at safety, they
Speaker 1: can line up close to the line of scrimmage, they
Speaker 1: can rush the pastor. We've seen McCain do it. We've
Speaker 1: seen uh Eric Rowe do it. We've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys in different roles, and I think it's
Speaker 1: good for the Miami Dolphins to be able not only
Speaker 1: to disguise, but to be reliable guys that you can
Speaker 1: put out in any situation and feel like you have
Speaker 1: the confidence that you as a coordinator, you can call
Speaker 1: certain things and they're not gonna You're not gonna have
Speaker 1: that glaring bust. You're not gonna have that guy running
Speaker 1: down the field by himself and you got him, I
Speaker 1: got him, nobody's got. You've got enough experience and enough
Speaker 1: youth in your second area that they can watch the
Speaker 1: guys during practice, they can watch the guys during walkthrough,
Speaker 1: They can go over and the film and they won't
Speaker 1: have a chance to do it, you know, in a
Speaker 1: preseason game, but they're gonna see these guys that have
Speaker 1: done it before do it. And that's the way you
Speaker 1: have to do it now, that's the way it has
Speaker 1: to be taught. And you have to have that trust
Speaker 1: that you picked the right guys that are gonna be
Speaker 1: able to do their assignment and do it at a
Speaker 1: high level. You know, John can be a little storytime with.
Speaker 1: Then we're talking about the secondary. I've always been a
Speaker 1: safety guy, you know. I always like those big hitters,
Speaker 1: you know, And I remember growing up and then grew
Speaker 1: up in the Bay Area and watching Jimmy Johnson for
Speaker 1: the forty Niners, and and watching uh George Atkinson and
Speaker 1: uhum and who the kid from Otto States they called
Speaker 1: him Jack Tatum, Dad Tatum back. They're just lighting people up.
Speaker 1: And and even watching the Dolphins watching you know, Jake
Speaker 1: Scott was a small Dick Anderson, the Blackwood Brothers, all
Speaker 1: those guys are those safeties that were big hitters, and
Speaker 1: Lewis Oliver and the one thing that had and and
Speaker 1: really one of my favorite safeties that this team has
Speaker 1: ever had, what was Lewis Oliver? You know when they
Speaker 1: got Louis all around of Florida, Um, I thought, I
Speaker 1: did I first of my song, I said, man, this
Speaker 1: guy this is that's a lineman five, A big, strong
Speaker 1: guy and and very successful, very good, hard hitter, tough player.
Speaker 1: And John You know what each one of those guys
Speaker 1: had to me. The guys I played with, and I
Speaker 1: know I got to be friends with with with George
Speaker 1: Atkinson and Jack Tatum for a while, some of those guys.
Speaker 1: And you look at the Ronnie Lotts and the Kenny
Speaker 1: Easley's and you know, when you go back and look
Speaker 1: at all these great safeties that have played the National
Speaker 1: Football League, you know what, all the good ones are smart.
Speaker 1: You know they they're smart. They they know how to
Speaker 1: read formations, they know how to read rap patterns from
Speaker 1: the snap, and and they know how to either move
Speaker 1: somebody into a position of where you can cheat a
Speaker 1: little bit or cheat themselves a little bit, and and
Speaker 1: and be able to make plays. But but to me,
Speaker 1: Louis Oliver, and and I'll never forget for as long
Speaker 1: as I live up in Buffal intercepts the ball in
Speaker 1: the end zone, takes it back all the way and
Speaker 1: I can see he was gonna get it, and I
Speaker 1: just could't wait for him to get the end zone
Speaker 1: and do it that a little and they had that
Speaker 1: little horse dance and as I said, Los, just give
Speaker 1: me a little shun every now and then he'll give
Speaker 1: me a little he'll buck up a little bit into it.
Speaker 1: But uh, to me, Louis Oliver was it was probably
Speaker 1: dolphin wise beyond the Blackwood brothers that I played with. Uh,
Speaker 1: probably my favorite safety that I watched for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, that safety play like that is
Speaker 1: kind of becoming a thing of the past, kind of
Speaker 1: like the fullback in the in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: As I said, we're talking about going to more more quarterback.
Speaker 1: Were cover guys back there than hard hitters. But well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you were those hard hitters when they were
Speaker 1: out there playing and rolling that secondary. There were some
Speaker 1: good ones back there that were really really fun to watch. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that brought the thump were those
Speaker 1: safeties in the history of the Miami Dolphins. But the
Speaker 1: guys that brought a lot of chatter are always the
Speaker 1: guys out on the edge, you know. And I think
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins chatter. I think of Sam Madison primarily
Speaker 1: because getting to know Sam as a colleague, as a friend,
Speaker 1: and and watching him as a player. You always heard
Speaker 1: Sam before you saw Sam, you know, because you were
Speaker 1: gonna listen to him, you know, talk talk trash for
Speaker 1: as many people, on as many people, and for as
Speaker 1: long as he could. But I always, as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you always like to give it back to those guys,
Speaker 1: and that's when you built respect off the field, because
Speaker 1: you never wanted to be known as a guy that
Speaker 1: took everything but never gave anything back. So I can remember,
Speaker 1: I can remember times, just you know, in college and
Speaker 1: in in Canada where you would just yell back and
Speaker 1: forth at dB they put toast back up there, turn around,
Speaker 1: I want to see how back you know, how dark
Speaker 1: your backside is because you've been getting burned all day?
Speaker 1: Or Dan would Dan would tell me in a Dolphin
Speaker 1: practice when Sam would start talking noise that Danny used
Speaker 1: to call him visa or master card because he would
Speaker 1: pull him out of his pocket, use him as a
Speaker 1: credit card anytime you wanted to. So those two guys
Speaker 1: used to go back and forth all the time. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure no one had the upper hand and that
Speaker 1: in that battle between talking noise back and forth, because
Speaker 1: it's a two way street when it comes to dbs
Speaker 1: and usually wide receivers, but the quarterbacks get involved sometimes too.
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny because when I first started doing
Speaker 1: doing more broadcasts with the Dolphins and stuff and down
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and everything, it was the Sam and Pat.
Speaker 1: We're still here with Sam Sam one side, Patch the
Speaker 1: town on the other side, and Terrell Buckley. You know,
Speaker 1: let's see what it was, Sam and Tea Buck and
Speaker 1: I think Patrick was kind of you know, pushing Tea
Speaker 1: Buck for for time and eventually took over for Tea Buck.
Speaker 1: But Tea Buck was a mentor. Tea Buck was, you know,
Speaker 1: he was the guy that they looked up to. And
Speaker 1: Terrell could talk too. Yeah, Puck could talk, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know Sam could talk and Patrick was pretty
Speaker 1: good at it too. And I just remember being there
Speaker 1: on the sidelines and watching those guys come off the
Speaker 1: field and listen to the conversations go and and part.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a lot of extras and ohs
Speaker 1: and a lot of this and that. But then there
Speaker 1: was all that, you know, a lot a lot of
Speaker 1: trash talking going on too, which was was fun. But
Speaker 1: then that was a really that was a really good
Speaker 1: time for the domards because Lewis was you know, Lewis
Speaker 1: Oliver was in that group and that group some of
Speaker 1: those guys during part of that time. So um, really
Speaker 1: that was the only meeting room bo usually you had
Speaker 1: a sound proof of walls. That was the dB room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because when they started, everybody else's meeting was disrupted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. That was a good stuff. So good stuff.
Speaker 1: So hey, John, great to be with you. Great to
Speaker 1: get another audible in the books. I hope the fans
Speaker 1: are enjoying it. Hope the fans are stands safe. As
Speaker 1: I said, I'm trying to say this every week, keep
Speaker 1: mashed up where you're supposed to be messed up, do
Speaker 1: the right thing, stay away from as many people as
Speaker 1: you as you and unless you absolutely have to, and
Speaker 1: let's get through this thing and let's get back to normal.
Speaker 1: But we need all your help in order to do that.
Speaker 1: So let's just everyone try to follow the protocols we
Speaker 1: talked about early in this program of the Dolphins, you know,
Speaker 1: really being strict with protocols, being safe, making sure their
Speaker 1: players are safe. Well, we as citizens should try to
Speaker 1: make everybody around us safe, I mean by doing that,
Speaker 1: by by doing the right things. So hopefully can do
Speaker 1: that and and and get things going. But John, as
Speaker 1: we're in this thing, football seasons back. Training camp is open.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we start seeing some video in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, because I think for the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks by me in the bubble doing a lot of
Speaker 1: condition and all this stiff weight training, and until they're
Speaker 1: ready to hit the field in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: all the teams will be out there hitting and hopefully
Speaker 1: that the that the protocols are keeping this COVID virus
Speaker 1: under and check with this group. Unlike baseball and unfortunately
Speaker 1: our our brethren with the Marlow's down there, who got
Speaker 1: a little crazy out there and got a little a
Speaker 1: little going. But good to have football back, good to
Speaker 1: have the season going, and uh really looking forward to
Speaker 1: the next six or eight months and seeing what this
Speaker 1: uh what this holes for the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of excitement to look forward to. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to the middle of August so we can get out
Speaker 1: and watch some football. But everybody's got to do their
Speaker 1: part to do that, so you know, I'm with you. Both.
Speaker 1: Wear a mask is to keep your social distance and
Speaker 1: and keep that excitement going for the Miami Dolphins because
Speaker 1: on September rolls around, I know everybody's gonna want to
Speaker 1: see Opening Day and the Miami Dolphins traveled in New
Speaker 1: England to play the Patriots. So um, everybody, stay safe
Speaker 1: and good being with you again, Bo looking forder seeing
Speaker 1: the young kids. Want to thank Logan mccalleg Jeff Griffin
Speaker 1: for the work that they do on the audible for
Speaker 1: John kim Jemmy, I'm Kimbo Kapper. Stay safe, We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week.