Speaker 1: Actually your booking, deep down field, touchdown, Miami Run. What
Speaker 1: is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? It is Friday. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I am
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, it's Fan Friday. On a football Friday,
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear from John con Jemmy, answer your questions,
Speaker 1: pick the NFL slate, and give you a weekend prospect guide,
Speaker 1: as we do every Friday here on the podcast from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcasts come so holidrate the life
Speaker 1: of On Shula this Saturday at four thirty at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. The free event is open to the public
Speaker 1: and will feature remarks from the Shula family with panel
Speaker 1: discussions from several Dolphins alumni. Attending fans will also receive
Speaker 1: a commemorative Don Shula three forty seven patch. Registration is
Speaker 1: now open at Dolphins dot com slash Don Shula and
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and start this podcast as we do
Speaker 1: every Friday, but welcoming in my friend and my guest,
Speaker 1: John Conjemmy. Well, John, We're back here for the fourth
Speaker 1: Friday edition of the Drive Time Podcast this one season.
Speaker 1: And I'm not normally one for superstitions, but what was
Speaker 1: it that we did ahead of Game one? Let's let's
Speaker 1: try to go back to that and help our guys
Speaker 1: get back to five higher this weekend. I know I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out what I was wearing where
Speaker 1: I was sitting. Yeah, let's get back to Week one.
Speaker 1: I like winning, that's for sure. We'll get a chance
Speaker 1: to get back in the win column this Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Colts. And let's actually before we get to Sunday,
Speaker 1: start with the Saturday celebration of life of Don Shula
Speaker 1: here at hard Rock Stadium at four thirty. I just
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and give you the floor. John
Speaker 1: is a you know, South Florida, a main stay here
Speaker 1: in South Florida, spent plenty of time down here covering
Speaker 1: this football team and otherwise. I just want to give
Speaker 1: you a chance to kind of talk about Don Shula,
Speaker 1: both the football coach, but I think even more importantly
Speaker 1: the man Don Shula. Well, I think growing up in
Speaker 1: South Florida. Uh, you know, my parents moved from Youngstown, Ohio,
Speaker 1: and I was seven years old. So my dad was
Speaker 1: a teacher and a coach, and that's what Coach Shula was.
Speaker 1: You know, He's a guy from Ohio that really put
Speaker 1: South Florida in the city of Miami on the map,
Speaker 1: utilizing the Miami Dolphins as that vehicle. Uh, coming from
Speaker 1: Baltimore and being the head coach of the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: going through that heyday in the early seventies, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was easy to be a fan of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and it was a direct correlation because of the
Speaker 1: way Coach Sula really rejuvenated h this franchise and rejuvenated
Speaker 1: a city and had people pulling together for for one
Speaker 1: common cause, and that was rooting for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And you know, as a kid, Travis, it's pretty cool
Speaker 1: to go to what was the Orange Bowl and very rarely,
Speaker 1: uh ever seeing your your team lose. Uh. There was
Speaker 1: a long time where the Bills would come into town,
Speaker 1: you know, the New England Patriots would come into town.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure they lost to him in the seventies.
Speaker 1: You know, it was hard, it was very rare, and
Speaker 1: for a kid growing up, that just made you appreciate
Speaker 1: not only the players, but the way they were coached
Speaker 1: as you grew up, and you know, and I matured
Speaker 1: the value of what he instilled in his football teams.
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a high school player at St.
Speaker 1: Thomas Aquinas playing against seanmand one of Coachula's sons, Mike
Speaker 1: was the quarterback on the opposing team, and we had
Speaker 1: the better of it, you know, one evening on Friday night,
Speaker 1: and Coachula waited around to shake my hand and introduced
Speaker 1: himself and say, I played a great game. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought that was the top of the world for me. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, then getting to know him and getting to
Speaker 1: be around players that he had coached and hearing all
Speaker 1: the stories, uh great, funny, bad and different they were.
Speaker 1: They were all over the board, but one thing for certain.
Speaker 1: Everyone respected coach La and the way his team's performed,
Speaker 1: the way they prepared, the way they were disciplined, and
Speaker 1: and just his charitable work, you know, raising a family,
Speaker 1: doing things for the city of Miami. It just just
Speaker 1: so many things that you could say that Coachula touched
Speaker 1: so many lives of people young, old, in the middle,
Speaker 1: and it was through the vehicle of football and and
Speaker 1: things he did off the field that really made you
Speaker 1: appreciate him. That's perfect, John. I can't even I can't
Speaker 1: expand upon that anymore other than just to say come
Speaker 1: out on Saturday to hard Rock Stadium to hear more
Speaker 1: kind of discussions like that about the legendary coach. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be penty of Miami Dolphins alumni at that event.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gonna be all all great for all
Speaker 1: things Dolphins. And you might even show a Tier two
Speaker 1: at that celebration of life of Don Shula on Saturday.
Speaker 1: And then after that we've got a game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: And you know, John, I'm not really a spirit spiritual person,
Speaker 1: but sometimes things just kind of find a way to
Speaker 1: work out with having the Colts in Miami this season
Speaker 1: for a game at hard Rock Stadium, because it works
Speaker 1: out with Shula's legacy being predominantly with Miami and of
Speaker 1: course a little bit back with the then Baltimore Colts.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about the Indianapolis Colts and
Speaker 1: stay at that quarterback position with Carson Wentz, who has
Speaker 1: not one, but two ankle injuries. Kind of a bizarre
Speaker 1: thing that he played through last week against the Titans.
Speaker 1: And you know, John, my goodness, they make these guys
Speaker 1: tough in this league, don't they. It's it's crazy they
Speaker 1: can get through a game with two bum ankles. I
Speaker 1: mean I sprained ankle one time and I was useless
Speaker 1: for weeks. I couldn't even get off the couch that day.
Speaker 1: And that was just the one ankle after a basketball
Speaker 1: roll up. But I touched on this on the Thursday
Speaker 1: preview show. I want to go ahead and just hear
Speaker 1: from someone who's played the position, how difficult do you
Speaker 1: think it would be to go out there with a
Speaker 1: bad ankle and try to still get drive on the footballer,
Speaker 1: you know, get through your drops, to get through your
Speaker 1: reads and all the footworks required in the pocket. What's Carson,
Speaker 1: what's gonna be dealing with out there on Sunday with
Speaker 1: those two wobbly ankles. Anytime you're not a hundred percent,
Speaker 1: You're you're thinking about, you know, how can you get
Speaker 1: through what? What do you have to do to make
Speaker 1: this throw? What do you have to do to get
Speaker 1: this handoff deep enough so that you know you're running
Speaker 1: back is able to see the whole and give him
Speaker 1: time to hit the hole with authority. Um, you're constantly
Speaker 1: is on your mind. Now. The good thing for Carson
Speaker 1: is he's gone through a week kind of going through
Speaker 1: those scenarios at practice and then performing in a game
Speaker 1: and being able to get through although they you know,
Speaker 1: you lose, uh to Tennessee. You play fairly well, you
Speaker 1: keep it within almost a one score game. I think
Speaker 1: it was sixteen. But you know, Carson Wentz is a
Speaker 1: big guy, He's a strong guy, and he's usually relies
Speaker 1: on that mobility, uh, not only within the pocket, but
Speaker 1: to extend play. So that's something that is definitely going
Speaker 1: to have to be on the mind of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and how they go after Carson Wentz and and
Speaker 1: for for him personally, the good thing is that he's
Speaker 1: gone through it one week. He's probably a little bit
Speaker 1: better for it. Uh. There's always things you can take
Speaker 1: to help you get through those issues. But I would
Speaker 1: think that it's probably his advantage going through it one week,
Speaker 1: being injured and facing the Dolphins and this being his
Speaker 1: first week and not knowing how his body is going
Speaker 1: to react. That's probably the biggest thing. You want to
Speaker 1: be able to know how your body is going to react,
Speaker 1: and not only in practice, but when in game time
Speaker 1: when you have to make those sudden adjustments. Was split
Speaker 1: second accuracy. That's a really good point. You did get
Speaker 1: through the entire game last week, and you know, good
Speaker 1: on him. I think he definitely gives the Colts the
Speaker 1: best chance to win as they actually brought up a
Speaker 1: a quarterback from someone else's practice squad and Brett Hunley
Speaker 1: and activated him to the to the main roster. And
Speaker 1: they've also got Jacob Easton waiting in the wings that
Speaker 1: are the former you dub quarterback second round draft pick.
Speaker 1: And you know once is not the only guy battling injuries.
Speaker 1: They have a long list of players on the injury report.
Speaker 1: They're in Indianapolis. And so from your experience as a player, John,
Speaker 1: when you're going into a game knowing you might be
Speaker 1: down some key guys, how does that kind of impact
Speaker 1: the rest of the locker room throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the week in practice and the meetings, Like what's a
Speaker 1: player's mindset when you know we might be down five
Speaker 1: or six important guys this weekend? Well, it hurts you know,
Speaker 1: you're right. Half the Colts team seemed like they were
Speaker 1: on the injury port, you know, the middle of the week,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it's going to get a little bit
Speaker 1: better as they get closer to game time on Sunday,
Speaker 1: But it does play into your mind a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think as a player, you want to know who's available,
Speaker 1: but it only plays into your mind early in the week.
Speaker 1: Once you get Wednesday, Thursday's practice and Friday's kind of
Speaker 1: dress rehearsal, You've got guys that you're counting on, and
Speaker 1: that's why they're on the roster. You have to be
Speaker 1: able to, you know, step up, accept the responsibility and
Speaker 1: really don't have any um lag and performance. And that's
Speaker 1: the mindset you have to have. If you don't have
Speaker 1: that mindset and you do struggle, you know, Wednesday to
Speaker 1: Friday at practice because you're missing to lineman or a
Speaker 1: key receiver or a key nickelback or a corner, those
Speaker 1: things creep into Sunday, and for the Colts, that mindset
Speaker 1: you don't want to have that, you know. For the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: I think they're health wise, are way ahead of where
Speaker 1: the Colts are right now, So I I think that
Speaker 1: is a huge advantage. But I would say if I
Speaker 1: was putting on that, you know that horseshoe helmet of
Speaker 1: the cults right now, and I'm thinking about it, you
Speaker 1: want to block that out. Guys are on the roster
Speaker 1: for a reason. They have to step up, they have
Speaker 1: to perform, and you have to be able to get
Speaker 1: them in, doctoring them into the playbook the way you
Speaker 1: want that that program to run on Sunday, the way
Speaker 1: you want that game plan to flow on Sunday, on
Speaker 1: both sides, really all three phases of the game. You
Speaker 1: have to completely be on board with the guys that
Speaker 1: are available and go forward with those guys believing that
Speaker 1: you can win. I'm glad you mentioned that because I
Speaker 1: I've heard this, you know, from various whether it's on
Speaker 1: social media or fans or practice, whatever the case, maybe
Speaker 1: I've heard before. Like you know, I'm focused on the top.
Speaker 1: You know, ten or fifteen players in the roster. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, you gotta have fifty three guys. Have
Speaker 1: you never seen a football season before, because a seventeen
Speaker 1: now eighteen week season, you're gonna have to call upon,
Speaker 1: if not all of those guys, most of those guys
Speaker 1: for some key role at some point that the course
Speaker 1: of the season. We've seen a year and year you know,
Speaker 1: year in and year out across the National Football League,
Speaker 1: team in and team out. So I'm with you on
Speaker 1: that fifty three man roster. Everyone's important, everyone has a job,
Speaker 1: everyone has a role that they have to fulfill. And
Speaker 1: with that in mind, just kind of looking at this
Speaker 1: Colts roster and what they bring. You know, their O
Speaker 1: and three, but I think I think most would agree
Speaker 1: they're a better team than O one three record. They've
Speaker 1: had a pretty tough start to the season with their
Speaker 1: schedule and of course the injuries that we talked about,
Speaker 1: but they're well coached, they're a deep roster. If you
Speaker 1: can just kind of talk about some keys to those
Speaker 1: Colts game and then also our final question here before
Speaker 1: the mail bag, John, the Dolphins win this game if
Speaker 1: fill in the blank. Well, I think you know, to
Speaker 1: start with that, the Dolphins win if they can stop
Speaker 1: the run. I think that's number one because with the
Speaker 1: injuries and with Carson Wentz not being maybe as mobile
Speaker 1: as he would have been three weeks ago, Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: is the guy that has to have a big game.
Speaker 1: If if the culture gonna win, he has to be
Speaker 1: able to control the football, you know, on first down,
Speaker 1: on second down, and if he does, that allows Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz to get the play action that allows him to
Speaker 1: make it easier down the field. Now, I would say,
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman, Paris Campbell, guys like Pascal and Doyle. So
Speaker 1: if you can shut down the running attack, if you
Speaker 1: can win that battle up front with the front seven
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, boy, you put a whole lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: Now on Carson Wentz scoring points, put a whole lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on that offense staying on the field, and
Speaker 1: it makes it a lot easier for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: to win this game at home. So that's the first thing.
Speaker 1: You have to stop the run and what happens after
Speaker 1: that if you do or slow it down, at least
Speaker 1: you get after wins. You show them a couple of blitzes,
Speaker 1: you put pressure, You sent an extra guy because of
Speaker 1: the point I made with what the players you're going against.
Speaker 1: You know, last week was a tough challenge for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and they were up to the challenge. They gave up
Speaker 1: some big plays, but they were up to the challenge.
Speaker 1: They moved guys around that that defensive backfield. I mean,
Speaker 1: you saw X on the inside. You know, you saw
Speaker 1: Byron Jones on waller, you saw, you saw guys in
Speaker 1: positions that you hadn't seen them in the past. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Dolphins are gonna have to do that
Speaker 1: on defense. If they can stop the run, play solid
Speaker 1: in the back end, and get after that line in scrimmage,
Speaker 1: you get after wins. I think those that's the way
Speaker 1: the dominoes have to fall. And lastly, I would say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we've been talking about explosive plays or I
Speaker 1: don't know, at least at least three weeks, right, but
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Dolphins must create some explosive plays. Now.
Speaker 1: We've been stretching the field. We been stretching it sideline
Speaker 1: to sideline. You need to stretch it a little bit
Speaker 1: more goal line to goal line. Now. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be the fifty yard down the field shot every time,
Speaker 1: but it might be nice for the Dolphins to get
Speaker 1: a break on a flag now and then that would
Speaker 1: get you that thirty three yard game or forty five
Speaker 1: yard game where maybe it's not successful, you know, throwing
Speaker 1: it and catching it, but you get a p I
Speaker 1: down the field and that helps you get you out
Speaker 1: of you know, bad field position, or it gets you
Speaker 1: into the red zone, or it gets you down to
Speaker 1: the one yard line. Let's take a couple of more
Speaker 1: shots down the field and see if we can't connect
Speaker 1: on a few and if not, get a good break
Speaker 1: and and maybe let those penalties work in your favor
Speaker 1: this week. And that actually it was a big reason
Speaker 1: for the game tying touchdown last week. The passenger feris
Speaker 1: down to the one yard line, you score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: then you punch in the two point conversion, tie game,
Speaker 1: go to overtime. And John, I always love having you
Speaker 1: on after I've done my kind of study for the
Speaker 1: week on the team because it kind of helps me
Speaker 1: confirm or or go back and look at the tape
Speaker 1: some more, and you confirm two of my each there
Speaker 1: with regards of the Colts running game and just looking
Speaker 1: at the splits out of eleven personnel, they've been very
Speaker 1: successful running football this year with Jonathan Taylor, so that's
Speaker 1: a key for me in this game as well. And
Speaker 1: then you mentioned the past catching options there number two, three,
Speaker 1: and four leading target receivers, the guys that have the
Speaker 1: most targets are tight ends and running backs, so they
Speaker 1: definitely throw the ball to the guys, you know, not
Speaker 1: on the perimeter as much regarding Michael Pittman, and then
Speaker 1: the tight ends and running backs they go too heavy there.
Speaker 1: So we've got a little bit more here with John Conjemi.
Speaker 1: You want to stick around for the mailbag, John, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds rurific. Okay, We've got three here for you
Speaker 1: this week, and there's some good ones. I like these
Speaker 1: questions a lot. This first one comes in from me
Speaker 1: stir tweet a great handle there. Now that the coaching
Speaker 1: staff has addressed the lack of explosive plays kind of
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, John, are we going to see some
Speaker 1: explosive play calls this week? Do fifty fifty balls come
Speaker 1: into play and possible d p I or catch down
Speaker 1: the field? What do you think about that? I mean
Speaker 1: you just kind of touched on it. Is there anything
Speaker 1: else you want to add to that? Well? I think
Speaker 1: that you know they have addressed it. They've talked about it, uh,
Speaker 1: you know with their media availabilities this week, and they've
Speaker 1: talk about trying to get the football down the field.
Speaker 1: Now talking about it's one thing actually scripting it and
Speaker 1: getting it into the offense and being in a position
Speaker 1: to do it is another. Sometimes you just have to
Speaker 1: take a series of downs and say, listen, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if Dalton's come out first, intend first possession,
Speaker 1: throw one down the field. You know, if you don't
Speaker 1: get it, the crowd's gonna go crazy, right, the crowd's
Speaker 1: gonna clap mockingly a little bit. But at least you
Speaker 1: you're kind of saying, you know what, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: more aggressive today. We're gonna take some shots down the field.
Speaker 1: And I think you are going to see that. Now.
Speaker 1: Are they going to completely just drop what they believe
Speaker 1: in philosophy wise and just you know, bombs away. No,
Speaker 1: they have to be who they are. But I think
Speaker 1: you can script or add some of that stuff in
Speaker 1: there and make sure you have it on your call list,
Speaker 1: you know, in bright red letters or green letters or whatever.
Speaker 1: It gets your attention. Let's take a shot, you know,
Speaker 1: take a shot here, take a shot there. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: sudden change. Uh, you know, they've got a great, you know,
Speaker 1: dialed up play that they've wrapped during the week. Let's
Speaker 1: call it then. But I do think you will see
Speaker 1: the ball go down the field this weekend. No, that's
Speaker 1: a great answer, and I love you. You kind of
Speaker 1: gave us a segue into the second question here, And
Speaker 1: this is something I've been interested in myself as well.
Speaker 1: So great to have a former player on the podcast
Speaker 1: to talk about this. It comes in from at j C. C.
Speaker 1: Dixon thirty three on Twitter. Are the first twenty plays
Speaker 1: scripted in a game? If so? How hard is it
Speaker 1: to call it twenty first play? Any idea how a
Speaker 1: play call is generated slash talked about. I know that's
Speaker 1: very inside baseball, but I'm curious, So John, just the
Speaker 1: the general script I've always heard fifteen plays? Is that
Speaker 1: the case? And then what happens after that script? Like,
Speaker 1: can you just tell us a little bit about scripting
Speaker 1: your first few plays on offense? Sure? I don't know
Speaker 1: if I've ever gone to twenty. Uh. There are some
Speaker 1: teams college, high school, pro that go fifteen summer twelve,
Speaker 1: summer ten. It's just the personal preference that coordinator. But
Speaker 1: it gives you a chance at practice that kind of
Speaker 1: reped what you're gonna see the first time you have
Speaker 1: football and you work on positives you don't really script
Speaker 1: for negatives you're working. You know, if if the first
Speaker 1: plays are running play, hey, now it's second in five,
Speaker 1: or it's second and six. This is the second play,
Speaker 1: and you kind of have building blocks on how you're
Speaker 1: going to script the plays. And the good thing about
Speaker 1: it is you repetit practice, you feel good about it.
Speaker 1: You see what's working, what's not working, what you like,
Speaker 1: what you don't like, and by Friday, you've got that
Speaker 1: script kind of honed in. Whether it's ten, twelve, fifteen
Speaker 1: plays on how you want the game to start, whether
Speaker 1: you score on the first opportunity, you get eight plays
Speaker 1: into it, you continue on the next series. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure if the Dolphins do or or do
Speaker 1: not script plays, but that's kind of what goes into it.
Speaker 1: And the way you do it is where you get
Speaker 1: the football on the field first intent on the twenty
Speaker 1: five they've picked it in the end zone. This is
Speaker 1: where we want to start. Maybe it's a sudden change
Speaker 1: play that you you know, put into your script. Uh,
Speaker 1: dolphins are on defense, all of a sudden, you get
Speaker 1: a turnover. Bang. You either want to go to number
Speaker 1: one on the plays that you've scripted, or you go
Speaker 1: right to your sudden change play depending on where you
Speaker 1: get the football on the field. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of ideas on how you script plays, but basically, when
Speaker 1: you go through your game plan and every call sheet
Speaker 1: on the sideline is going to have a first intent
Speaker 1: backed up first intent plus you know minus first in ten,
Speaker 1: midfield first intent, you know plus thirty your plus thirty five.
Speaker 1: Then you have your red zone. So everything's kind of bracketed.
Speaker 1: So everybody's gone through that. We always talked about it's
Speaker 1: a collaborative effort when you get to that script where
Speaker 1: you get to that call sheet by going through what
Speaker 1: the quarterback likes, what the coordinators like, what the head
Speaker 1: coach kind of says, hey, I want this in this week.
Speaker 1: So that's how you get to either a script your
Speaker 1: play calls, or your play calls in certain segments of
Speaker 1: the field. No, that's a great answer, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: the question as well there from j C. Dixon on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you know, and just kind of what it sounds like
Speaker 1: to me is that there's always adjustments to be made
Speaker 1: even within your script, because, like you talk about, things
Speaker 1: don't go the way you plan them to you have
Speaker 1: to adjust to that. So you know, those in game
Speaker 1: coaching adjustments I think can maybe be a little bit
Speaker 1: lost to the casual observer because it's it's such a
Speaker 1: battle of you know, chess matching, a battle of attrition
Speaker 1: and trying to I want to react to what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do where I think they're gonna do, and then
Speaker 1: how do we react to that as well? Like if
Speaker 1: there's so much that goes into it's what makes football
Speaker 1: so much fun to me. And then I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and end on this third question here from
Speaker 1: at Lord to another great name right and in for
Speaker 1: the podcast here Um talking about the offensive line, he
Speaker 1: refers to it as a regression, but maybe you have
Speaker 1: a different word for He just says, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on the regression of the offensive line? Do you
Speaker 1: think it has anything to do with a first year
Speaker 1: offensive line coach? What do you think about the offensive
Speaker 1: lines progression so far now with a bunch of young guys, John,
Speaker 1: and then also the one of the challenges of our
Speaker 1: first year offensive line coach in that room, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it has to do with the first
Speaker 1: year offensive line coach. I think you're only as good
Speaker 1: as what you're putting on tape and it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like UM guys are making the same mistake, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's identification or footwork or hand placement, or just
Speaker 1: getting physically beat or there's a speed rush the beach
Speaker 1: on the outside. UM, I wouldn't say regression. I would
Speaker 1: say stagnation. I would say that they have to find
Speaker 1: a way to get out of where they were in
Speaker 1: in week one and two, and maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: in week three. I thought they improved against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: I liked the the adjustment of Davis going inside and
Speaker 1: letting the rookie Igenberg kind of live on the right side.
Speaker 1: You know, if it were me, I would let him
Speaker 1: live there for the rest of the season. Health you know,
Speaker 1: taking that out of the equation. If he's healthy, he
Speaker 1: should start let him play because he's your future on
Speaker 1: the outside. UM, I think this week the Colts present
Speaker 1: a challenge. It's gonna be a challenge every week in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. UH, your will against somebody else's
Speaker 1: will when it comes to controlling the offensive and defensive
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. UH, this week is no different it.
Speaker 1: I think the Colts do give you some challenges up front,
Speaker 1: but I do believe the Dolphins with the lineup that
Speaker 1: they have now crossing your fingers, that deater is going
Speaker 1: to be able to be okay and and play. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see this group the way they were against
Speaker 1: the Raiders go against the Colts and see if we
Speaker 1: can see uh an improvement from week three to week four,
Speaker 1: and the proof will be in the pudding. Can you
Speaker 1: run the football, can you get to play action? Can
Speaker 1: you pass for tech? Can you give Kobi an opportunity
Speaker 1: to create from the pocket instead of him escaping and
Speaker 1: extending plays? And those be your most explosive plays of
Speaker 1: the week. If they can do those things, then we're
Speaker 1: on on the on the right path in terms of
Speaker 1: offensive line. Yeah, it would be nice to see some
Speaker 1: continuity built in there because from day one back in
Speaker 1: training camp of twenty nineteen, like Flora's first ever training
Speaker 1: camp practice, he talked about continuity and find the best guys,
Speaker 1: the best five guys and having them all play together
Speaker 1: and developed that continuity. We saw that line up on
Speaker 1: Sunday I thought showed some real growth compared to the
Speaker 1: previous game, and especially with Austin Jackson left tackle. You know,
Speaker 1: two weeks off the COVID list. He even said himself
Speaker 1: he felt stronger in that second game. So, John, you're
Speaker 1: a very busy man on Sundays, I'll see it. I'll
Speaker 1: see you at hard Rock Stadium. But where can the
Speaker 1: folks find you? Pregame? Post game? What are you up to?
Speaker 1: We'll be doing the Dolphins Weekly live on Channel four
Speaker 1: w f O R, CBS four Miami, So we'll do
Speaker 1: that right after the Brian Flores Show on on CBS.
Speaker 1: That will be at eleven thirty and then we'll have
Speaker 1: the fifth quarter post game show wrapping up. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on channel four or Channel thirty three,
Speaker 1: but you can catch us on one of those two. Probably,
Speaker 1: I would say around the four o'clock our four fift
Speaker 1: we'll be on there for about an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'll be doing. I know you'll be
Speaker 1: busy on radio, So we'll probably catch up midweek again
Speaker 1: and and talk about the next opponent, which is Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: But hopefully we have a victory to talk about. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get there and hopefully we have some
Speaker 1: key line pie in that press box to looking forward
Speaker 1: to this week. Look, we see that we got we
Speaker 1: got a good thing going. Maybe that's the superstition right there,
Speaker 1: A key line, Pope. You heard it here first on
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, John con Jemmy, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time today, my friend. We'll talk to you on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Sounds great, thanks Jervis, And so we roll off that
Speaker 1: interview there with John con Jemmy. Great as always here
Speaker 1: on the Friday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. If you
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Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. And we got one here from the
Speaker 1: Apple podcast reviews. And I recognized this name writing in
Speaker 1: once Again Cool Kids Table and the E is a three.
Speaker 1: At the end of that, he writes, would you compare
Speaker 1: Brian Flores to Rex Ryan? A defensive coach who has
Speaker 1: yet to land an offensive identity yet? I understand the question,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's the case coach. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: call him a defensive minded coach. He's just a football coach.
Speaker 1: Like he's been involved on off is on defenses, on
Speaker 1: special teams and personnel scouting, the whole gamut he's done
Speaker 1: at all. And I think the offense does need to
Speaker 1: find and develop an identity. And I think losing your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback and the first quarter of game number two
Speaker 1: will certainly create some obstacles and doing that in the
Speaker 1: early portions of a season where you're trying to introduce
Speaker 1: a new offensive system. I mean, watch watch a single
Speaker 1: broadcast of Peyton Eli on Monday Night, which should be
Speaker 1: every week, by the way, that's the best thing on
Speaker 1: football broadcasting has ever done. Excuse me, and Peyton will
Speaker 1: talk about how much he despises the thought of learning
Speaker 1: a new system. It's not easy to do. And I
Speaker 1: can pull up old quotes from even Tom Brady last
Speaker 1: year talking about how it took him some time to
Speaker 1: get the Bucks system down there with Bruce Arians, even
Speaker 1: though Bruce Arians said this week that they use a
Speaker 1: lot of, if not all, of the Patriots concepts with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and mind. So something to think about that.
Speaker 1: With regards to the offensive system, I would say more
Speaker 1: than three games required before you can really start to
Speaker 1: judge what you see as the product. It's a work
Speaker 1: in produc Griss and I think the one thing that
Speaker 1: I would hope to see it's an offense that can
Speaker 1: do the things that we try to prevent on the
Speaker 1: defensive side, right like the invitation to you know, be
Speaker 1: more run centric and prevent the big plays and the
Speaker 1: long pass plays over the top to force those long
Speaker 1: drives and put the onus on the offense to limit
Speaker 1: their mistakes to almost nothing because you have to have
Speaker 1: that on long drives and then also play really good
Speaker 1: Renzo defense and make the offense beat you without those mistakes,
Speaker 1: converting in the red zone and then not having turnovers
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the game. I hope we can
Speaker 1: become that offense that can strike quick and not have
Speaker 1: to rely on being perfect and limiting mistakes and playing
Speaker 1: perfect in the red zone. I hope that answers your question,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you writing in. Let's get to a
Speaker 1: few of these on the Twitter mail bag. I put
Speaker 1: the call out on Thursday morning. You reply with your questions,
Speaker 1: we answer them here on the Friday edition of the
Speaker 1: Drive Time podcast. And Mike Morby at Mike more By seven,
Speaker 1: this guy actually used to paint the corners ac when
Speaker 1: we were coming up in the Eastern Washington baseball landscape.
Speaker 1: Pitched at my rival high school, and I had a
Speaker 1: hard time getting my ops going against this guy. So
Speaker 1: what's up, Morps? He asks, better Logan Gilbert comparison, Josh
Speaker 1: Beckett or a J. Burnett, And that's a lot of
Speaker 1: Mariners and Marlin's cross over there, because you guys know
Speaker 1: about Josh Beckett and Logan Gilbert is a current starter
Speaker 1: in the Seattle Marras rotation. I'm going to a J.
Speaker 1: Burnett because I just love the fact that the other
Speaker 1: night in the game, Gilbert was popping nine middle middle
Speaker 1: like middle of the plate, middle of the strikes own
Speaker 1: and getting away with it. That's the big league heat
Speaker 1: saw with a J. Burnett for years Josh Beckett I
Speaker 1: thought was he had the heat for sure, but definitely
Speaker 1: more of a well rounded picture in that regard. At
Speaker 1: Gabe Geno thirteen asks number one, if you had to
Speaker 1: pick the most positive thing from weeks one through three,
Speaker 1: what would that be? I would say the secondary in
Speaker 1: this defense is as advertised with regards to Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, and that safety rotation with all the cornerback
Speaker 1: depth you have there as well, I think those guys
Speaker 1: have all played very very well, and at moments during
Speaker 1: these defensive sturges we've seen in Week one as well
Speaker 1: as last week, and then some moments during week to
Speaker 1: the secondary has been a driving force behind that. His
Speaker 1: second question, my over dramatic self is thinking Sunday is
Speaker 1: a must win game, not trying to be that guy
Speaker 1: who says Game four is do or die. But with
Speaker 1: Week five in Tampa Bay, a one in four start
Speaker 1: dooms the season. Your thoughts, well, yeah, you don't want
Speaker 1: to be one in four. I will say in team
Speaker 1: they were one in four and they went ten and
Speaker 1: six that year and went to the playoffs. I just
Speaker 1: cannot call like you mentioned a Week four game of
Speaker 1: must win game, like it doesn't matter the situation, the
Speaker 1: dire straits, like you never know what's gonna happen and
Speaker 1: what kind of run you can go on late in
Speaker 1: the year. Hell, last year was what a five game
Speaker 1: winning shrieking, So that can erase a one in four
Speaker 1: start if you do win five games in a row.
Speaker 1: And so I do think this is the most important
Speaker 1: game that there is right now because it is the
Speaker 1: next game. But getting back in the win Callum before
Speaker 1: a tough opponent is certainly going to be you know,
Speaker 1: something you want to do. It's a big spot for
Speaker 1: this team. You don't want to follow one in three
Speaker 1: and you for sure don't want to fall to oh
Speaker 1: and two at home. So it's definitely a big game,
Speaker 1: must wins too far, But I do want to get
Speaker 1: this w for sure. At Narrator Underscore thirty two, I
Speaker 1: felt like one of the reasons the Dolphins lost last
Speaker 1: week was the difference and yards after contact. How do
Speaker 1: we improve our ability to limit that for the Colts
Speaker 1: and and get some more explosive for ourselves or get
Speaker 1: some more for ourselves going forward. With regards of the Colts,
Speaker 1: it's just tackling an execution, that's all that is. And
Speaker 1: this defense typically under Brian Flores, has been that, and
Speaker 1: you heard Jerome Baker talk about it, You've heard Brian
Speaker 1: Flores talk about it. The execution just hasn't been what
Speaker 1: you would expect it so far this season. So that's
Speaker 1: the number one key there, just to execute that and
Speaker 1: then offensively it's it's the same thing. But I would
Speaker 1: also point to the the segment we had on a
Speaker 1: Sunday night postgame show with O. J. McDuffie talking about
Speaker 1: maybe incorporating some more routes they get the football to
Speaker 1: guys on the move or just execute those when they
Speaker 1: are there, because there's too many instances I think right
Speaker 1: now where guys are catching the football flat footed, and
Speaker 1: that does not bode well, does not conduce, it is
Speaker 1: not conducive to yards after the catch. They have the talent,
Speaker 1: they just gotta make it happen. Next question from at
Speaker 1: D quick zero four and nine eight. Why haven't we
Speaker 1: seen the Amba defense yet? Well, I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: put it to you this way. I can't give you
Speaker 1: an exact reason, but I know that every single week
Speaker 1: requires a different game plan, and if the coaches think
Speaker 1: that their game plan is doesn't require that, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna put it in. That's the reason for it. There.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll see it at some point this season.
Speaker 1: Let's finish up with this one here from Jason Sarney,
Speaker 1: because this is one of the craziest questions I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: But it's not the only time I've seen it. It's
Speaker 1: popular He's at Jason underscore Sarny milk before Cereal or
Speaker 1: Cereal before milk. Look, this should not be a question.
Speaker 1: I mean, do what you want. Like I don't care
Speaker 1: for the hot dog sandwich arguments. I don't care about
Speaker 1: any of that. I don't care if you like pineapple
Speaker 1: on your pizza or not. Eat what you like, Eat
Speaker 1: what makes you happy, Do what makes you happy in
Speaker 1: this life. As long as you're not hurting others, I
Speaker 1: don't give a crap what you do, as long as
Speaker 1: you're not hurting others. But pouring milk in the cereal
Speaker 1: bowl before the cereal is serial killer mentality stuff like
Speaker 1: are you doing number one? The splash factor? You're gonna
Speaker 1: get milk coming out of that bowl if you put
Speaker 1: the cereal into a bowl of milk, which is like cats.
Speaker 1: Who what kind of a human puts milk in the
Speaker 1: bowl first? I don't understand this. Plus your distribution of sogginess,
Speaker 1: like the way the milk cascades over the cereal, gives
Speaker 1: you that balance of you know, the milk soaked cereal
Speaker 1: with the crunchiness, it's perfect. You do the other way around,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a different, completely off balance ratio. And
Speaker 1: the ratio of how much milk to put into the
Speaker 1: bowl is also easier when you have the cereal in
Speaker 1: their first. So if you go milk first in your cereal,
Speaker 1: it's my opinion that it's time to reevaluate what your
Speaker 1: entire life. It's crazy to me, like, do you guys
Speaker 1: do that? Does anybody out there do that? Let me
Speaker 1: know if you do, and we can maybe have that
Speaker 1: discussion on Twitter. But no, it's milk cereal first and
Speaker 1: then milk. And there were a ton of questions in
Speaker 1: the mail bag this week. I wish we had time
Speaker 1: to get to them all. We do not. We'll get
Speaker 1: to some more on the written mail bag up on
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins dot com. Thank you guys so much of
Speaker 1: the questions. We have two more segments here. We'll do
Speaker 1: him quick. The college three pack was gonna do a
Speaker 1: college six pack. I'm washed up. So we do half
Speaker 1: the six pack and get to three games here. And
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and include here that last
Speaker 1: week I should have put Liberty Syracuse in the slate
Speaker 1: because even though we had our second straight three and
Speaker 1: a week on the podcast here to get to six
Speaker 1: and three on the season, Malik Willis to me is
Speaker 1: so far in a way QB one in the draft
Speaker 1: class right now, And that was probably the only chance
Speaker 1: we had to get him in here because of competition's sake,
Speaker 1: and probably not gonna watch many Liberty games this year,
Speaker 1: but Malik willis QB one on my board heading into
Speaker 1: the month of October. Now, as for the games, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start here with number fourteen Michigan at
Speaker 1: unranked Wisconsin. I'm taking the upset here. Give me the
Speaker 1: fighting van Ginkles, that Badgers at Camp Randall. We gave
Speaker 1: you the Badger's players last week, and that lops had
Speaker 1: had lost to the Irish. Let's go ahead and punt
Speaker 1: on their prospects. Just go back to last Friday's Drivetime
Speaker 1: episode and run that back if you want that prospect list,
Speaker 1: because I want to talk about the Michigan Wolverines here
Speaker 1: and primarily two players I like a lot. Aiden Hutchinson
Speaker 1: is one of the best defensive end prospects in the country.
Speaker 1: In fact, Pro Football Focus tweeted out their top four
Speaker 1: defensive prospects currently are Cavon Thibodeaux from Oregon the defensive end,
Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton's the safety from Notre Dame, Derek Stingley Junior,
Speaker 1: the cornerback at l s U, and Aiden Hutchinson edge
Speaker 1: defender for the Michigan Wolverines. Pass rush, run defense, dent
Speaker 1: in the edge, recognizing screens, retracing, hustle effort, he does
Speaker 1: all of it. I love his pad level so much,
Speaker 1: like he rarely surrenders knocked back because he plays with
Speaker 1: such good pad level. He can win with bull rush,
Speaker 1: the relentless motor, and he continues his pursuit after quarterbacks
Speaker 1: when they get off their spot, and he can change
Speaker 1: directions and redirect through contact which helps him get clean
Speaker 1: up sex. He's just a special player in my opinion,
Speaker 1: number nine seven in the Maze and Blue on that
Speaker 1: game on Saturday. I believe it's a noon kickoff. He'll
Speaker 1: stand up, He'll get in the four point stance. He's
Speaker 1: everything you want at the position. Six ft six, two
Speaker 1: seventy pounds, A great makeup at that position in this
Speaker 1: defense if that's where you go in the future. Certified
Speaker 1: stud now in the secondary. Another guy that I like
Speaker 1: a lot is Daxton Hill, another one of these post
Speaker 1: safety slash slot corner cover guys. He flies to the football,
Speaker 1: quick trigger, tremendous tackler. There's a little bit of Antoine
Speaker 1: Winfield Jr. In his game, and you guys know how
Speaker 1: much I loved a dub junior in that draft class.
Speaker 1: Then they have a pair of tackles I want to
Speaker 1: get a look at for myself. Haven't had a chance
Speaker 1: to see them yet, but I've read about them. Offensive
Speaker 1: tackle Ryan Hayes was a converted tight end who could
Speaker 1: make a jump with another improved season of play towards
Speaker 1: the top prospect. And then Andrew stubor is six ft
Speaker 1: seven pounds. Uh Leo DiCaprio, Jeff from Django unchained. You
Speaker 1: have my attention, So now I want to see if
Speaker 1: you can get my cur You have my curiosity, my bad.
Speaker 1: I want to see if you can get my attention
Speaker 1: and see if you can play game number two, number
Speaker 1: eight Arkansas, Number two, Georgia. Oh nelly, it's a good one.
Speaker 1: We've covered both these teams so far on previous podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to just go ahead and say this. Georgia
Speaker 1: has by her the best d line in college football,
Speaker 1: and they're going up against one of the top offensive lines.
Speaker 1: Good on good always makes for fun. I just want
Speaker 1: to see that battle and really get a look at
Speaker 1: some good trench players. So give me the dogs in
Speaker 1: this one. Baby. This is how the dogs. George telling
Speaker 1: you that Visor is coming off. Game number three twelve
Speaker 1: franked Old Miss at number one. Obama Crimson tied Matt
Speaker 1: Corral for Old Miss potential QB one of this class
Speaker 1: has a chance to do it. Crazy arm talent, multiple arms, slots,
Speaker 1: off script ability, kind of has that modern day quarterback makeup.
Speaker 1: I want to get a look at how he can
Speaker 1: attack this Bama defense within the structure of the offense,
Speaker 1: because I know he can make plays outside the structure
Speaker 1: and off script. I want to see how he does
Speaker 1: against a very good defense, a very well coached defense
Speaker 1: there at Alabama. And I also love their linebacker like
Speaker 1: Kiah Henry. One of these versatile prospects with track speed
Speaker 1: and elite level movement skills will keep it on him.
Speaker 1: And also running back Jerry on Elie, super electric guy,
Speaker 1: can make guys with even within a phone booth. Good
Speaker 1: pass catcher. Looks like a nice change of pace prospect
Speaker 1: right now, Let's see how he fairs against this Bama defense.
Speaker 1: And once again, we covered Bama on a previous podcast,
Speaker 1: so it's basically everybody on that team is a good prospect.
Speaker 1: Everyone that's draft ellible eligible is on the watch list.
Speaker 1: Give me the Crimson Tide at home. Now, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get to Sunday and our professional football players
Speaker 1: and football teams twelve and four. Last week thirty three
Speaker 1: and fifteen on the season, we are cooking now. We
Speaker 1: took Jacksonville over Cincinnati on Thursday Night football. No idea
Speaker 1: how that turned out. Recording this podcast before that game
Speaker 1: went final. Give me the Titans over the Jets. I
Speaker 1: just think even without a j Brown, Julio Jones, they
Speaker 1: are further along. I expect a big game from Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry Chicago over Detroit. I think I hope there's a
Speaker 1: game plan for the Bears that better suits what Justin
Speaker 1: Fields does well, the fighting Dan Campbell suffered a brutal
Speaker 1: loss last week at home against Baltimore. This is kind
Speaker 1: of one of those cornered animal games, like both these
Speaker 1: teams needed victory very very badly. Give me the Bears
Speaker 1: Miami over the Colts. Give me the Dolphins. Seth Levitt
Speaker 1: on the postgame show or I think maybe it's the
Speaker 1: fish Tank I forget said that. He says he expects
Speaker 1: the Dolphins best performance coming this season in this game.
Speaker 1: I agree with Seth and then Minnesota over Cleveland the
Speaker 1: Stefanski reunion game. Kirk Cousins has quietly been damn good
Speaker 1: this year, and I think that it's a huge Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson game this week. Give me the Upset, Give me
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Give me the football team over the Falcons.
Speaker 1: The Falcons pulled out one last week, but I think
Speaker 1: w F T S D line is way too much
Speaker 1: for the Falcons to handle. Buffalo and the Texans. Give
Speaker 1: me the Bills and that one. Saints over the Giants,
Speaker 1: Chiefs over the Eagles. Give me the Dallas Cowboys over
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. I think Doc has entered the echelon
Speaker 1: of top three or four quarterbacks. Carolina gets their first
Speaker 1: big test here. Give me the Cowboys and that one.
Speaker 1: Seahawks over Niners. I like Russell Wilson off a loss.
Speaker 1: I like Shannahan off a loss two, but this is
Speaker 1: a big game that tough NFC West. Give me the
Speaker 1: Seahawks Rams over Cardinals, staying out in that tough division.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have had the Rams number in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, but they haven't seen the Stafford Rams yet.
Speaker 1: Give me the ram Packers over Steelers. I think the
Speaker 1: Packers offense is way too much for pets to keep
Speaker 1: up with. Baltimore over Denver, just like Carolina. This is
Speaker 1: the first real test for the Broncos in terms of
Speaker 1: their schedules or strength of schedule. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see Lamar Jackson on that test. Give me the Ravens
Speaker 1: Bucks over Patriots one of my favorite games of the season.
Speaker 1: Give me the Bucks on that one, and then Chargers
Speaker 1: over Raiders. This one will first sure come down to
Speaker 1: some madness at the end because both these teams like
Speaker 1: to play games like that. I kind of like the
Speaker 1: Raiders in this game, but I think the NFL has
Speaker 1: a way of balancing records and I just don't see
Speaker 1: them going on to four no over Justin Herbert and
Speaker 1: the Chargers. So that is gonna do it for us. Here,
Speaker 1: enjoy the week for Slate and the first weekend of
Speaker 1: October football. Here. You guys can find the post game
Speaker 1: show on the Odyssey app and on local radio w
Speaker 1: q AM here in South Florida immediately following the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and of course we'll have the takeaways and
Speaker 1: game recap podcast late Sunday night slash early Monday morning,
Speaker 1: as well as the takeaways, written piece and top News
Speaker 1: without the course of the week. On Saturday, we've got
Speaker 1: the Shoelace celebration of Live Rock Stadium Saturday, October two.
Speaker 1: Plus we'll have the top news story up sometime today,
Speaker 1: I believe, and the written mailback piece, all leading up
Speaker 1: to game day this weekend. As for now, Caroline, Daddy
Speaker 1: is coming home. And oh hey, one last note, go
Speaker 1: Mariners three meaningful October baseball games. I have not been
Speaker 1: able to say that since like two thousand one, so
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited for my Seattle Mariners. In the meantime,
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