Speaker 1: Factors drawing. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow,
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. What's going on everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, we're talking about Day three of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. The Dolphins plenty of picks, trading up to
Speaker 1: go get an offensive lineman early in round number four
Speaker 1: and staying active throughout the day with a trade for
Speaker 1: running back San Francisco's Matt Brita joins the roster. We're
Speaker 1: talking all things draft today. All six Miami Dolphins brookies
Speaker 1: added to the roster on Day three of the NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk to all of them here on
Speaker 1: this Saturday, April edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Up. First,
Speaker 1: you heard me talk about it in the open the
Speaker 1: Dolphins trade up to pick one eleven to go select
Speaker 1: Georgia offensive lineman Solomon Kinley. And here is my interview
Speaker 1: with the new Dolphins offensive lineman Solomon Kinley and joining
Speaker 1: us now on the Drive Time podcast. Is the Dolphins
Speaker 1: fourth round choice number one eleven overall out of Georgia
Speaker 1: offensive lineman Solomon Kinley. Solomon, congratulations and welcome to Miami. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you. I gotta ask you. We got the phone
Speaker 1: call from Chris Greer Brian Flores. How did that feel?
Speaker 1: How did that phone call go? Oh? Man, it was crazy. Man,
Speaker 1: I've seen the moment I was gonna cost my Pall
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, that's crazy. My whole dad, size of
Speaker 1: the family live down there. I was like, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: really real. Now, well now you're a Duvall guy. But
Speaker 1: you said part of your family lives in Miami, So
Speaker 1: what's the battle like there is there gonna be a
Speaker 1: rivalry in state? Nah, my family, the fan come with me.
Speaker 1: The fan will be a Dolphin fan. Perfect a family
Speaker 1: coming to South Florida. But so are you Where are
Speaker 1: the Dolphins getting in Solomon Kinley? Are They're getting the
Speaker 1: hard work, getting the person. They're gonna do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes to get on the field, do whatever it takes
Speaker 1: in the locker room to become one of the best,
Speaker 1: one of the best players that who come through Miami.
Speaker 1: And I only that they're gonna get a great leader.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a person off the field that that
Speaker 1: keeps keep everything in control, and a good character to
Speaker 1: help and try to help the commute as much as
Speaker 1: you can. Solomon, you go three thirty six. We drafted
Speaker 1: Robert hunt earlier. Goes signed Eric Flower's this offseason at
Speaker 1: three and thirty pounds. What is it like to have
Speaker 1: that much size on the offensive line. I mean, it
Speaker 1: just it just shows what the top of tier we have,
Speaker 1: the big the big bodies that we have, and what
Speaker 1: we can do and what the do I mean, the
Speaker 1: Miami's office and line is about just big and really
Speaker 1: to move people and do things like that. Would you
Speaker 1: say that your physicality on the field is your best trade. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're no doubt, absolutely. And you get to fish the
Speaker 1: nickname the big Fish because you were a lifeguard back
Speaker 1: in high school. Is there anything exciting that might have
Speaker 1: happened during that job or I guess maybe scary is
Speaker 1: the right word. Once might have had to save a
Speaker 1: kid he slipped. I was doing door swimming lessons and
Speaker 1: he slipped off the bottom of the pool and I
Speaker 1: had to save him. Other than that, it was the
Speaker 1: greatest spience. Every time anybody came to the pool, they
Speaker 1: was like, are you coming get in the pool? They
Speaker 1: didn't spit me to be a life guard. I guess
Speaker 1: nickame is perfect the big fish and now you are
Speaker 1: a big fish in Miami. But you also played some
Speaker 1: hoop to How is your game on the hard one?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can play basketball. I'm really good at basketball. Team,
Speaker 1: I can play basketball. A lot of your teammates are confident,
Speaker 1: they're hoop abilities. You gotta get in those games. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely and tell them I'm ready. How does that help
Speaker 1: on the football field, playing basketball and some of those
Speaker 1: different athletic movements. Oh yeah, he helped me. It helps
Speaker 1: your light, good feetwork, be able to keep you conditioning
Speaker 1: up and be able to move out a room. Uh.
Speaker 1: Basketball help helped me a lot going up, to be honest,
Speaker 1: That's why I think that's what really made me to
Speaker 1: fill out in today. A little bit of athletic ability
Speaker 1: and size. But when it comes to off the football field,
Speaker 1: when you get a day off, Solomon, where can we
Speaker 1: find you? What's your what's your go to off day activity? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't hand the activity that problem. I just come
Speaker 1: home must be in my families and it's enjoyed time
Speaker 1: with them. And uh, you might get me. You might,
Speaker 1: Like I said, you might get me shooting a few
Speaker 1: of shooting a few hoops. Other than that, I'm just
Speaker 1: really chilling. Man. Well, that's great to hear. Solomon. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Miami. We are thrilled to have you in. Congratulations. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: thank you for having practice alf drawing high depart for textown.
Speaker 1: What a win for this Miami Dolphin teams. Wow, what
Speaker 1: is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins. And with that, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get to my interview with new Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: lineman out of North Carolina one overall Jason Strowbridge and
Speaker 1: joining us now on the Drive Time Podcast as the
Speaker 1: Dolphins fifth round draft pick number one fifty four overall
Speaker 1: out of North Carolina, Jason Strowbridge. Jason, Welcome to Miami. Man.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you. Everyone gets that phone call at
Speaker 1: some point on draft day from Chris Greer, Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: whoever it might have been. How did that phone call
Speaker 1: go for you? M man? I I had a few calls,
Speaker 1: um few causes it wasn't nothing. It was just staining
Speaker 1: members calling. But you know, in the way it was
Speaker 1: my hard stop is just it's nervous to pick it
Speaker 1: up a phone. Um. So I was then four numbers,
Speaker 1: so I got excited. Um, but then you know they
Speaker 1: told me they picked me, and it's just, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't even believe her. And I'm still in shock.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love the stunt silence. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned nine four or five. I was gonna or nine four.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you if it was three oh five.
Speaker 1: How did it feel seeing that Miami area code being
Speaker 1: a deer phiel Hot deer Field High School product, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, like I said, I got a
Speaker 1: few calls from playing members, not from four numbers, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of hesitant at first, but then you know,
Speaker 1: I picked it up and it was them, and you know,
Speaker 1: just being you know, from from Deerfield and being forty
Speaker 1: minutes from the stadium and it's it's everything to come back.
Speaker 1: They played for play for Time team. Did you ever
Speaker 1: get a chance to go out to hard Rock Stadium
Speaker 1: as a fan? As a fan? Yeah, um, she I've
Speaker 1: been to a few games. Um in high school. Uh, well, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's last words and it's perfectly understandable, Jason.
Speaker 1: Big moment for you here. But I do want to ask,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some football. Maybe that's a little bit
Speaker 1: easier for you. What are the Dolphins getting on the
Speaker 1: field and Jason Strowbridge, I mean, just a player that's,
Speaker 1: you know, always gonna come in and work hard, do
Speaker 1: everything to get better every day. UM. Definitely a huge
Speaker 1: team guys. So I mean then nobody's gonna worry about me,
Speaker 1: you know, slacking off for doing whatever, and you know, um,
Speaker 1: just and all around this team guys. UM, hard working,
Speaker 1: UM and a competitive player. I watched you at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl, Jason. I noticed you were rushing from multiple
Speaker 1: spots and playing different positions in that game and throughout
Speaker 1: the practices. Just going off the Pro Football Focus snap
Speaker 1: count guide right here, they had you in the B
Speaker 1: gap for two eight three, over the tackle for two
Speaker 1: seventy two, and outside the tackle for one eleven. You're
Speaker 1: foot four to seventy five, long, heavy hands, versatility goes
Speaker 1: a long way in this defense. How do you feel
Speaker 1: that fit is for you in a defense that is
Speaker 1: so multiple? Yeah, I mean that's that's kind of the
Speaker 1: perfect you sue situation that let's see, um, that I
Speaker 1: want to be in. I mean I can do a
Speaker 1: lot um and so being in defense where you know
Speaker 1: I can kind of move around inside ing up, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's right up my aleage. So I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to get the work. I was just looking at
Speaker 1: your combine testing numbers. You're in the ninety percentile on
Speaker 1: ten yards split, twenty yards split, forty yard dash, the
Speaker 1: broad jump. You're in the eightie percentile on the three
Speaker 1: cone and vertical jump. How do all those measurables translate
Speaker 1: to the game on the football field? I mean, you
Speaker 1: know this, it just shows my athleticism. Um, it shows
Speaker 1: that I can you know, do do you know? Most
Speaker 1: of things? Um? And I had the athleticism in the
Speaker 1: back death. So I mean I just being at the combine,
Speaker 1: you know that was a great wonderful opportunity to showcase
Speaker 1: my athletic ability. UM. You know, uh, to advantage of
Speaker 1: you know every opportunity, are right, so athletic ability, heavy hands, versatility.
Speaker 1: If you had to peg down your very best trade,
Speaker 1: what would it be, um verst Okay, I totally understand
Speaker 1: that that's that's a good answer. And speaking of you know,
Speaker 1: your time at North Carolina, your defensive line coach Tim
Speaker 1: Cross praised you for your leadership both by example and
Speaker 1: verbally as a senior last year. How important do you
Speaker 1: think that senior leadership was and how does that translate
Speaker 1: to the next level as a professional. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, in in in school, I mean you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys coming in. You know, they're they're
Speaker 1: really young. Um, you know, college of balls so much
Speaker 1: facts in high school. So having somebody you know that
Speaker 1: to come by and pick up the young guys, you know,
Speaker 1: when things are going right or you know you can
Speaker 1: kind of see the guys, you know, they're frustrating and
Speaker 1: all that. You know, just ask someone to come and
Speaker 1: support you. You know, when when in times of need
Speaker 1: and when you don't really want it. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I need to be like, you know, someone or whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's it's a good feeling.
Speaker 1: I know when I came in, I needed someone who
Speaker 1: kind of got me. And I got that in nas Jones.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just something I kind of wanted to, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I just felt like, you know, It's what
Speaker 1: I had to do, you know. And I'll give one
Speaker 1: more question for you, Jason here before you get back
Speaker 1: to your party and enjoy enjoy your draft day. When
Speaker 1: we when you have an off day in South Florida,
Speaker 1: when you're not on the football field, what do you
Speaker 1: do for fun? Definitely? Definitely. A lot of your teammates
Speaker 1: said the same thing already. So you might have somebody's
Speaker 1: that want to go out fishing with you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm down here in Florida. You know this is best? Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: deep sea is the best time, best way to do it,
Speaker 1: all right, Jason, Well, hey, welcome to Miami. Man. We're
Speaker 1: thrilled to have you. And congratulations once again. Thank you,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to be here. And so there
Speaker 1: he goes, very excitable young man, versatility, length, He really
Speaker 1: has it all on that defensive line. And the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have traded back up once again to get into the
Speaker 1: fifth round. And why wouldn't you? This has been Chris
Speaker 1: Career's sweet spot for a long long time, going back
Speaker 1: to Bobby McCain, Jedgi, even Rashad Jones way back in
Speaker 1: two thousand ten, Tony Lippet, a few years back, the
Speaker 1: fifth round has provided gold for the Miami Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: now the Dolphins get three players out of the fifth
Speaker 1: round and Strowbridge and Curtis Weaver, and of course the
Speaker 1: trade for San Francisco running back Matt Brita who comes
Speaker 1: in and joins the Dolphins backfield. Plenty of good players
Speaker 1: added on Saturday, Friday Thursday throughout this draft, class players
Speaker 1: that fit the system, that fit the scheme, that fit
Speaker 1: the idea of what this team wants to be both offensively,
Speaker 1: defensively on the field and off the football field. And
Speaker 1: with that, the Dolphins trade back up to pick one
Speaker 1: sixty four to take Curtis Weaver out of Boise State.
Speaker 1: And with that, let's get to the interview with new
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive lineman Curtis Weaver and joining us now on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast. The Dolphins fifth round draft choice number
Speaker 1: one sixty four overall. They traded up to get him
Speaker 1: out of Boise State. He is defensive end pass rusher extraordinaire,
Speaker 1: Curtis Weaver. Curtis, how you doing man? Great? Um? Just
Speaker 1: blessed right now? Well, welcome to Miami. I gotta ask
Speaker 1: you you get that phone call from the GM, the
Speaker 1: head coach, Chris Greer and Brian Flores. What was that
Speaker 1: call like for you? Um? It was it was just
Speaker 1: a blessing. Like I said, UM, just waiting for my
Speaker 1: name to be called, or for my phone to be called,
Speaker 1: thinking your phone's broke into the whole process. But I'm
Speaker 1: just waiting for that call at the end of the day. Well, Curtis,
Speaker 1: I'm a West Coast guy, so I love watching you
Speaker 1: out in that blue turf out here in the Mountain West.
Speaker 1: And when I watch you, I can't help but recognize
Speaker 1: that childlike love for the game. Like where does that
Speaker 1: come from in you? Um, it just comes from the
Speaker 1: competition aspect of wanting to win. Through all my years
Speaker 1: of playing football, since I've been five, always wanted to
Speaker 1: win the little things in life. Um, every day is
Speaker 1: a competition. I take it in so like making a
Speaker 1: play or doing some great stuff on the field gets
Speaker 1: me hyped up. I found an article on the Athletic
Speaker 1: It was written by David Southern. It was last summer,
Speaker 1: and here's a quote from a couple of your teammate
Speaker 1: DeAndre Pierce and Chris ha Tada. Just a big kid,
Speaker 1: a goofball, how do you respond to those to those claims, UM,
Speaker 1: just trying to bet UM, trying to mold the team together,
Speaker 1: get our team chemistry up. Doing my part in that, UM,
Speaker 1: I feel like UM, and but I learned how to
Speaker 1: do it on and off the field. Was the biggest
Speaker 1: team coming from my freshman year of college to my
Speaker 1: end of career at college. So that was that was
Speaker 1: That's what that means. Yeah, absolutely, we love to see that.
Speaker 1: And from that same article on the Athletic, he writes,
Speaker 1: or he starts the article with a story about your mom, saying,
Speaker 1: the best way to describe you when you approached her
Speaker 1: with the serious demeanor, like you had to have a
Speaker 1: serious talk with her, but then you dropped a joke
Speaker 1: on her. Can you tell us that story? UM? It was,
Speaker 1: I was we were watching some movie. I got it
Speaker 1: from some movie I think, and then it was like
Speaker 1: nighttime and then UM got on my phone and like retain,
Speaker 1: I was on the phone. It was a time for
Speaker 1: a joke, I felt like, and then I just dropped it. Tasked, UM,
Speaker 1: what's wrong? And I said and I was like, ken
Speaker 1: not in my head, And She's like, what's wrong? And
Speaker 1: I just said, I'm Batman and then the day and
Speaker 1: then she's slapping me. You probably get a few of
Speaker 1: those slaps off of the course of your life, right,
Speaker 1: Oh good love taps. Yeah, there you go. Are you
Speaker 1: familiar with Christian Wilkins because he kind of has a
Speaker 1: similar personality and now you're joining his defensive line room.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, his personality is probably crazy. Um seeing him
Speaker 1: over marketing media at Clemson to um, he went viral
Speaker 1: a little bit, but looking up looking forward to me
Speaker 1: to him, Well, I want to ask you, Curs. We're
Speaker 1: talking about a bunch of jokes here and stuff, but
Speaker 1: I do want to talk to you about your on
Speaker 1: field prowess. You know, the all time Mountain West sack
Speaker 1: leader at Boise State. Uh, what are the Dolphins getting here?
Speaker 1: And Curtis, we were the football player. Um, a guy
Speaker 1: who's just gonna keep his head down and get to
Speaker 1: work quickly. Um on the playbook. You get to know
Speaker 1: the team and just do my partner, I want to
Speaker 1: go back to that athletic article one more time because
Speaker 1: there's a great quote and they're about after you lost
Speaker 1: that game against Fresno Anden you had this quote. You'll
Speaker 1: get goofy Curtis. But once we're between the lines, strap
Speaker 1: on the helmet, it's going to be a long day.
Speaker 1: Talk to us about your ability to flip that switch
Speaker 1: once you get on the field. UM. For that, I
Speaker 1: would say, um, when we're not on the field yet,
Speaker 1: warm ups, UM in the locker room, trying to be
Speaker 1: as mellow as I can. You don't want to be tight,
Speaker 1: stressful before the game. UM. I live by UM. Comfortable
Speaker 1: and confident and you step on the field. So just
Speaker 1: loosing it down, playing some candy crash before the game.
Speaker 1: I'm having fun, and then when you step on the field,
Speaker 1: it's time to go. Everything you did for it through
Speaker 1: the week. We talked about your production at Boise State.
Speaker 1: Last year. You played eight hundred and twenty snaps. According
Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus, seven hundred nine of those were
Speaker 1: outside the tackle in the five techer beyond. Do you
Speaker 1: feel comfortable condensing inside and playing multiple spots? UM? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable on multiple spots. Just waiting for where
Speaker 1: the coaches want me to play and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go from there. And your production, like I talked about
Speaker 1: Era Futable, I want to read you your pressure rate
Speaker 1: the last three years again, according to Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: eighteen point six percent six percent, and then last year
Speaker 1: again up over what trade of yours do you think
Speaker 1: it is that makes you so damn productive? Um, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't know. It's just a guy, Um, a God's gift.
Speaker 1: I feel like at the end of the day, That's
Speaker 1: how I feel. God gave me something and I'm running
Speaker 1: away with it. And one more question for you, Curtis.
Speaker 1: When you're not on the football field your day off,
Speaker 1: what are you out there doing for fun? Um? Play
Speaker 1: video games? Testing my shoes and collect shoes. What is
Speaker 1: your go to video game? Um? Right now is called
Speaker 1: of Duty. I'll played two K two little UFC. I've
Speaker 1: talked to several of your teammates, your veteran teammates, and
Speaker 1: they say the exact same thing, call of duty in
Speaker 1: two K. So you're gonna have some competition in that aspect.
Speaker 1: And Preston Williams, our receiver, is really into fashion too. Is.
Speaker 1: Maybe you guys can link up on the shoe designs. Curtis.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time here man today, Congratulations on the
Speaker 1: draft pick, and we're thrilled to have you in Miami. Man.
Speaker 1: I A p thank you. So there he goes new
Speaker 1: Edge Curtis Weaver from Waite the fifth round pick number
Speaker 1: one sixty four overall. We traded up to get him
Speaker 1: and now we have three picks left, including this pick
Speaker 1: number one eight four overall long snapper Blake Ferguson and
Speaker 1: joining us now on the Drivetime podcast is the Dolphins
Speaker 1: sixth round draft pick number one four overall. He is
Speaker 1: long snapper out of l s U Blake Ferguson. Blake,
Speaker 1: congrats and welcome to Miami. Thank you. Happy to be
Speaker 1: a part of the organization. Gotta ask you. Everyone gets
Speaker 1: that phone call on draft day with Chris Career Brian
Speaker 1: Flora's how did that call go? It was? It was
Speaker 1: crazy and you know it's it's one that I've been
Speaker 1: looking forward to for a long time. Um, and to
Speaker 1: get that call, my my stomach sunk for a second.
Speaker 1: When my phone started buzzing, I was like, what do
Speaker 1: I do? I do? Let me get the TV. UM.
Speaker 1: So it was cool. But you know, my my my
Speaker 1: family has been here and and UM, they've been incredibly
Speaker 1: supported throughout this whole process and so UM it's been
Speaker 1: a weekend and a day that I'll never forget. This
Speaker 1: is something I've been asking all your new teammates, Blake,
Speaker 1: what are the Dolphins getting in Blake Ferguson. They're getting
Speaker 1: a leader, They're getting a worker, and um, somebody who's
Speaker 1: excited to learn. Um, you know. And I know that
Speaker 1: I'll be coming in low low man on the totem pole. Um.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to work and I'm excited to um compete. Now.
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of the family business, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that here in just one second, but I'm
Speaker 1: always curious to ask, how did you get into long snapping?
Speaker 1: Because it's I think it's a unique skill to figure out,
Speaker 1: Like I can spend a ball between my legs fifteen
Speaker 1: yards on a dime. How did you know you were
Speaker 1: that good at it? Yeah? I Um, so my brother
Speaker 1: started doing it before I did, UM, and you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of, uh he had a little bit of success.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I knew that I wasn't really
Speaker 1: gonna be an All American tight end or an All
Speaker 1: American linebacker, and so I knew that I wanted to
Speaker 1: play at the next level. I just had to find,
Speaker 1: uh my niche and it was in long snapping. And so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, started to learn from him, and I started
Speaker 1: to learn. Um. I went to some camps, um, some
Speaker 1: some ruby A long snapping camps where you get the
Speaker 1: greatest instruction and so um. You know, I began to compete,
Speaker 1: and I was one of the top guys in the
Speaker 1: country coming out of high school. So I'm fortunate to
Speaker 1: have had the career that I've had and excited for more.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the family business there you wind up
Speaker 1: in the A f C East with your brother. How
Speaker 1: excited are you for a little bit of brother rivalry
Speaker 1: here in the division? It was It was awesome, uh,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be It's gonna be awesome for years
Speaker 1: to come. And looking forward to seeing him twice a year. Uh,
Speaker 1: looking forward to hosting him in Miami. Uh, and and
Speaker 1: putting the dub up on the board. But you know,
Speaker 1: to get that call and to end up in the
Speaker 1: same sin division as him is gonna be really cool.
Speaker 1: I have a friend Blake up in Buffalo who does
Speaker 1: media up there, and he just told me to ask
Speaker 1: you about the nickname Hype City. That's a nickname that
Speaker 1: that I was given by a bunch of reeds folks
Speaker 1: up in Buffalo because um, I'm naturally a a an
Speaker 1: excited hype football player, and so um, you know, there
Speaker 1: were there were pictures of me on the sidelines at
Speaker 1: l s U where I would be yelling and screaming
Speaker 1: and having a good time and just excited. UM. And
Speaker 1: so I guess I adopted that nickname. And and that's
Speaker 1: one that um, that I'll probably take with me for
Speaker 1: a long time. I'm looking forward to to see in
Speaker 1: hype city down in South Florida. But you do mention
Speaker 1: being a part of that L s U team last year.
Speaker 1: What was it like being on such a dominant college team.
Speaker 1: Not a whole lot of punt or a long snapping
Speaker 1: on punts, but plenty of p A T s, right,
Speaker 1: lots of lots of p A t s, not a
Speaker 1: lot of punts. And that's the way that that that
Speaker 1: we like it, um, you know going forward, hopefully it's
Speaker 1: the same way in Miami. Now, Blake, you just did
Speaker 1: the media with the South Florida beat guys, and you
Speaker 1: gave us a good coach oh impression. You gotta give
Speaker 1: it to we got to hear it. Yeah, So so
Speaker 1: I gave those guy as a one team would um.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's got so many different he's got
Speaker 1: so many different things. Um, Before before we go out
Speaker 1: onto the field, Before every game, we would he would
Speaker 1: have us in the locker room. And we call it
Speaker 1: the ready room. Uh it's it's where we kind of
Speaker 1: go out into the tunnel. And and so right before
Speaker 1: we go out, he would always he would always get um.
Speaker 1: He has some speakers in there, and he would have
Speaker 1: a heartbeat pumping and and and everybody would kind of
Speaker 1: be on the same page pumping before we go out
Speaker 1: onto the field, and he would say, the best own
Speaker 1: of football, the TI is going to war. And then
Speaker 1: he would he would count one, two, three, and we'd
Speaker 1: all strap up our helmets and it was really it
Speaker 1: was really a cool moment just to all be on
Speaker 1: the same page as a team. But that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of the best impression I guess I could give you.
Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time keeping it together over here. Man.
Speaker 1: I always try, but you know, I think I think
Speaker 1: you gotta beat so I won't. I won't get any
Speaker 1: further onto that, but I want one more question right here.
Speaker 1: I've got a little more practice. Yeah, yeah, you've been around,
Speaker 1: You've heard the cliches, the same. I'm sure you've heard
Speaker 1: the one team one heartbeat several hundred times. But when
Speaker 1: you're not on the football field, Blake, when you're out
Speaker 1: doing stuff on your off day, what do you do
Speaker 1: for fun? Um? So? I mean I like to travel,
Speaker 1: but I guess on an off day, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm hanging out with friends. I'm staying at home.
Speaker 1: I like to cook. Uh so, I like to try
Speaker 1: new things to cook and um, you know here in quarantine,
Speaker 1: we've we've had a lot of days where we were
Speaker 1: just messing around and we we try some new recipes
Speaker 1: and and you know, grow up something good or something
Speaker 1: like that. So I guess I guess grilling and cooking
Speaker 1: and just having a good time with some friends. What's
Speaker 1: your go to recipe? Um? So, Mom's mom's sausage castle
Speaker 1: role is pretty good. Um you know, I'm learning how
Speaker 1: to make that and make it as good as she can. Um.
Speaker 1: I like salmon, so maybe like a actor a seared salmon.
Speaker 1: And then, um, we tried a we tried a new
Speaker 1: um like ribs recipe on the grill that was pretty good.
Speaker 1: We we did we did two full racks of ribs
Speaker 1: and smashed it. So it was that was pretty good too.
Speaker 1: That one again. Yeah, I'm coming to your house to
Speaker 1: dinner one of these nights, man. Sounds to the three
Speaker 1: or five. Yeah, we appreciate. We got plenty of good
Speaker 1: cuisine down here, but it sounds like you can bring
Speaker 1: some of that Cajun flare out here with us too, Blake.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time. Man. Welcome to Miami. We're thrilled
Speaker 1: to have you. Thank you, happy to be a part.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins traded out of their final pick in
Speaker 1: the seventh round, number two fifty one, to the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: in exchange for sixth round draft pick and now our
Speaker 1: final draft pick of Navy's quarterback receiver running back. He
Speaker 1: does everything operates that option offense at the Naval Academy.
Speaker 1: He comes to Miami listed as a wide receiver. He
Speaker 1: is Malcolm Perry and joining us now on the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast is the Dolphins seventh round draft pick, quarterback
Speaker 1: running back receiver kind of does everything out of the
Speaker 1: Naval Academy. Malcolm, congratulations and welcome to the Dolphins. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I love I love to be on
Speaker 1: the on the channel with you and I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys every Yeah, of course we got Malcolm Perry here.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, Malcolm, how did that phone
Speaker 1: call go when you received it from Coach Flores and
Speaker 1: Chris Career. Everyone has that moment. How was it for you?
Speaker 1: It was amazing? Uh. I was getting to the point
Speaker 1: where I thought, you know, I was gonna go undrafted,
Speaker 1: and I hadn't heard much from a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: So hearing his voice, hearing the things he had to say,
Speaker 1: was come true and extremely blessed. Who might you model
Speaker 1: your game after at the next level, Malcolm? We know
Speaker 1: you can do multiple things. Is there anybody in the
Speaker 1: past that you've watched that you think maybe might be
Speaker 1: a good comparison for you? Um, I haven't. I haven't
Speaker 1: done a lot of comparing myself, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people like to compare me to Julian Edelman, um and
Speaker 1: obviously I respect him a lot real watching him, and uh,
Speaker 1: I can kind of see that comparison and hope to
Speaker 1: hopefully to make make that transition smoothly, smoothly as he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you come here to Miami into a program that Coach
Speaker 1: Flores preaches three things really above all, tough, smart leadership.
Speaker 1: Where do you think you fit in those categories? I
Speaker 1: think the name of academy did did a good job
Speaker 1: and preparing me for um excelling in those categories. Uh,
Speaker 1: And UH hopefully I can go in and um work
Speaker 1: hard and you know, prove myself as somebody who's worthy
Speaker 1: of being on the team and uh helping out my
Speaker 1: teammates in any way. Possibly in terms of on the
Speaker 1: football field, what are the Dolphins getting in Malcolm Perry?
Speaker 1: Just a player that's willing to line up anywhere, um
Speaker 1: more than willing to line up anywhere, player that's exposed
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands. And uh, I loves
Speaker 1: playing football. You mentioned that Julian Edelman comparison. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to ask you playing the quarterback position in the option offense,
Speaker 1: where you have to take hits and you have to
Speaker 1: be so agile and quick and decisive, I have to
Speaker 1: think that those traits which translate into running routes and
Speaker 1: playing receiver and playing multiple positions on the offense, would
Speaker 1: it not. I hope it does. That's what I've been
Speaker 1: pracing this whole sole time leading up into the draft.
Speaker 1: And uh, I can feel myself getting considerably better. UM,
Speaker 1: but a lot of work to do still, but uh,
Speaker 1: I hope it does. What does that workout? What have
Speaker 1: those workouts been like for you up into the draft process? UM,
Speaker 1: They've they've been pretty good. A lot of work up
Speaker 1: until COVID nineteen and the whole coronavirus thing. I've been
Speaker 1: stuck at home for a couple of weeks, but I've
Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to UM have a facility to work at,
Speaker 1: UM have a couple of guys who were also training
Speaker 1: and be able to work with them. So I feel
Speaker 1: like I've I've gotten a lot better and there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of improvement over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: That's good to hear. We talk about your versatility. One
Speaker 1: of those things that will that can be asked of players,
Speaker 1: you know, late round draft picks like yourself, is to
Speaker 1: play some special teams. How comfortable are you're doing that?
Speaker 1: Extremely comfortable? UM. I knew coming into the draft that
Speaker 1: that'd be a big role for me, and it's been
Speaker 1: something that I've been practicing and I'm lucky enough to
Speaker 1: have some experience in college with especially teams. Well, you
Speaker 1: mentioned your experience at college. This is from my own
Speaker 1: selfish reasons, Malcolm, because I'm a huge fan of the
Speaker 1: Army Navy game. I never missed that game, and I
Speaker 1: want to know from someone that experienced, as someone that
Speaker 1: was the focal point of it this year, what is
Speaker 1: that game like from a player's perspective. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of nerves going into that game. It's definitely the biggest
Speaker 1: game I've been a part of to date, um as
Speaker 1: far as a football player. And you know, just the pageant, street,
Speaker 1: all the extra stuff that's going on. It's hard to focus,
Speaker 1: but it's definitely definitely the biggest game I've been part
Speaker 1: of in my life, and it is definitely something that uh,
Speaker 1: i'd uh suggest people to watch. Newest Dolphins draft pick here,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Perry out of the Naval Academy and Malcolm, the
Speaker 1: d d Memorandum allows Service Academy players to go pro
Speaker 1: after graduation. Something new that is really relatively new. I
Speaker 1: should say. If it wasn't for football and being a
Speaker 1: NFL draft pick, what be next for you? I'd be
Speaker 1: an officer in the Marine Corps. So I started selecting
Speaker 1: Marine Corps ground and upon graduation, I'd be uh going
Speaker 1: down to TVs for six months where I go to
Speaker 1: school and do train and find my specific m ways
Speaker 1: um and give my specific job in the Marine Corps
Speaker 1: and i'd be an officer. Well, thank you for your service, Malcolm.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious to ask you. Are you the first
Speaker 1: one in your family to join the Naval Academy or
Speaker 1: is there a history of this in the Perry family.
Speaker 1: I'm the first one in my family to go to
Speaker 1: an academy, but both of my parents were in the Army.
Speaker 1: They both retired after twenty plus years of service. And
Speaker 1: I have a grand grandparent who who also was in
Speaker 1: the army, So there's a history of military, but not
Speaker 1: of the academy. All right, last question for you here, Malcolm,
Speaker 1: A little bit more fun. So i've been so serious
Speaker 1: and too business here. When you're not on the football field,
Speaker 1: not doing your homework and being as busy as I'm
Speaker 1: sure you are at the Naval Academy, what do you
Speaker 1: do for fun? Man? I love fishing. I'm a big
Speaker 1: outdoors man, hunting, fishing and stuff like that. I grew
Speaker 1: up in Tennessee, so I love being on the water.
Speaker 1: So you're my last review of the day for this
Speaker 1: and we've done I think eleven. Now, I want to
Speaker 1: say seven or eight of your teammates said the exact
Speaker 1: same thing. So you guys can get down to South Florida,
Speaker 1: get out in some deep sea fishing. You have been
Speaker 1: out in the ocean fishing. I haven't. It'll be there
Speaker 1: you go. Fun experience for you there, Malcolm Perry. We're
Speaker 1: very excited to have you here and welcome to Miami man.
Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate it, and there he goes. Dolphins seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick Malcolm Perry, the last draft pick out
Speaker 1: of eleven players. The Dolphins do pump in another draft
Speaker 1: pick next year, with the trade back going from the
Speaker 1: seventh round this year into the sixth round next year,
Speaker 1: so we'll have ten draft picks as it stands right now,
Speaker 1: heading in eleven new players your Miami Dolphins draft. If
Speaker 1: you want to hear more detail all these players, go
Speaker 1: check out the detailed podcast. I'll break these guys down
Speaker 1: their background, their film study, all that fun stuff. We'll
Speaker 1: talk more about their games next week on the podcast
Speaker 1: as well. Get some expert interviews lined up on the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast. We're gonna have you guys covered on all
Speaker 1: these Dolphins rookies. Wall to wall and you can check
Speaker 1: out the written articles on each of these players up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com, available right now for you
Speaker 1: guys to go ahead and digest. And we'll have a
Speaker 1: draft recap article as well as a draft recap on
Speaker 1: the Detail edition the accompanying podcast. For this Day three
Speaker 1: edition of the Drive Time podcast, I wrote up a
Speaker 1: nice little diet tribe about the Dolphins singular vision and
Speaker 1: I'm very excited about how that turned out. So go
Speaker 1: check that piece out. I think it will be up
Speaker 1: on the website either Sunday or Monday. It's on the
Speaker 1: podcast right now, so plenty of content for you guys
Speaker 1: to digest. Eleven articles, we had fourteen interviews and media availabilities.
Speaker 1: I did all eleven interviews here at the players on
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins draft class, all the articles up on
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Speaker 1: every adjective you want to throw in there. This weekend
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