WEBVTT - Drive Time - Virtual Fan Experience Winner and Twitter Mailbag 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:07.160 Practice, Rolphins Patrick drawing the teower. What a win for 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:13.080 this Miami Dolphin team. Wow, What is up? Dolphins? And 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:17.120 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:21.959 Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.240 every day. How is it going, everybody? I am your host, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.800 Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to bring you your daily 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.479 dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show we 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:35.919 dive into your questions via the Twitter mail bag. We 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.520 welcome in a very special guest who I am willing 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.199 to say has a claim as the biggest Miami Dolphins 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.959 fan on planet Earth and as the best analytics man 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.120 in the business. For my money, Warren Sharp puts out 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.640 his annual NFL preview. Will look at some data from 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.959 Warren Sharp himself and how it concerns the Miami Dolphins 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.880 and the construction of this defense. All of that and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.720 more on this right a July the tenth edition of 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:08.640 the Drive Time Podcast. And again he is my absolute 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.640 favorite analyst in the business. Warren Sharp of Sharp Stats 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.800 and Sharp Football Analysis. He has multiple avenues, all branded 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.760 and self titled publications. I'll try to get him on 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.399 at some point this summer to talk some football. But 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.919 I just ordered his three hundred and fifty page manifesto 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.440 and we'll dive into that here on future podcast. But 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.480 I want to take a look a quick peek here 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.600 at an article that he published up on sharp Football 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.520 analysis dot com, and it takes a look at the 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.200 frequency of sending just three rushers at the quarterback in 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.000 today's NFL. And the reason I want to look at 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.800 this is because the Dolphins ranked near the top of 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.440 the league in doing this. And our guest that we're 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.840 gonna have on here in just one minute posed a 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.800 specific question to me that will lead into the mailbag 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.440 regarding defensive back usage and specifically about Nick Needham and 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.800 his spa on the football team. And so when you 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.360 look at Miami's defensive makeup in a traditional sense, right, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.120 we go back to the A. J. Dewey podcast from 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.320 a couple of weeks ago, and he told us how 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.400 you mostly had eleven guys who started on the on 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.680 the defense for you in a game, and they played 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.359 pretty much the entire game for the most part. So 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.600 from that lens, a little bit of an antiquated lens, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.440 you would use four down linemen and three linebackers or 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.960 of course three down linemen and four linebackers with four 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:31.480 defensive backs regardless of which front you used on every snap, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.520 give or take a few. Right, Well, this is good 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.960 tangible evidence of how the game has evolved and the 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.560 vision of coach Flores to have a litany of cover 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.240 guys on the back end that can really help drive 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.760 this defense. So from Warren Sharp, the Dolphins utilize three 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:54.079 man rushes on of the nineteen defensive snaps, one out 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.280 of every five plays. That was second most in football 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.639 behind the Detroit Lions. And the article was really in 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.840 earnest about the New England Patriots, and they were down 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.040 to fifteen percent last year after going to three man rushes. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.639 But you go back to the previous three years from 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:17.680 through sen they rushed three in the twenty two percent range, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.480 so nearly one quarter of their snaps they would rush 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.639 three guys. And Sharp talks about the way these rushes 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.320 are effective and how it might be one of the 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.040 potential answers to all of these athletic, fleet of foot 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.880 quarterbacks that can make you pay so dearly with their feet. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.240 We're doing the Know the Enemy series right now up 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.400 on Miami Dolphins dot Com as well here on the podcast. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.840 And just look at the schedule. I mean week one, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.560 Week fifteen, you got Cam Newton there with New England. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.080 You got Josh Allen with the Buffalo Bills two times 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.200 a year. You've got Gardner Minshew, he can make some 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.920 plays with his legs. Russell Wilson on the schedule there, 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.080 justin Herbert or Tyrod Taylor in week seven, Kyler Murray's 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.560 on there. Joe Burrow, we saw what he did in college. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.800 Patrick Mahomes obvious lee. So that's what the NFL has become, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.960 a league where the quarterback is just as much a 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.640 liability in terms of beating you with his legs as 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.040 they are with their arms. For the most part, with 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.760 modern day quarterbacks, right, the game has changed, and so 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.200 on defense you have to keep up with that. And 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.599 he talks about how you can affect those types of 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.520 quarterback that can really make you pay with their legs. 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.240 And he shows this example of a rush play on 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.159 third down and fifteen against Buffalo where the ends kind 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.840 of fan out and widen out that defensive line and 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.560 they create this pocket for Alan to step up to 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.560 rather than going into that hell Marry mode where he 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.760 breaks the pocket and you allow guys to uncover downfield 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.120 because you just can't get a hand on the quarterback. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.919 And this is one of the ways Sharp rites that 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.320 you can manufacture a rush over the idea of just 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.280 relying on one guy like for instance, Cam Wake. For 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.520 how many years did we have to have Cam Wake 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.640 win his pass rush matchup? Otherwise we didn't get pressure 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.800 on the quarterback. You can manufacture this pass rush through 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.680 this team ski rush approach, and the Patriots last year 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:07.479 we're second and total pressures despite ranking on ESPN's pass 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.520 rush win rate that's a mouthful, which is a measure 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.680 of success within getting to the quarterback within two and 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.400 a half seconds after the snap. So you don't have 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.640 to necessarily get to the quarterback immediately to win with 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.720 your pressures because more coverage on the back end gives 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.480 you more time to get after the quarterback. And so 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.480 how this all relates and comes back to the Miami 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.800 Dolphins is that it pairs so well with a secondary 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.560 that has so many good cover guys like we hope 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:38.120 to have here with Byron Jones, Xavian Howard, Noah Igbanogamy, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.120 Nick need Um, Bobby McCain, Eric Rowe, Brandon Jones. You 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.800 guys know the usual suspects in the secondary by now, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.440 and Sharp notes that from this defense, you have multiple 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.200 guys that are liable to come after the quarterback at 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.600 any time. He mentions Kyle van Noy rushed on se 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.200 of his snaps, but they also have two more guys 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.520 that exceeded six rush rate and an other who had 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.880 at rush rate coming after the quarterback from that linebacker position. 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.800 And this can make the quarterbacks pre snap read foggy 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.359 and maybe force an error in his a signing of 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.440 the past protection assignments up front. And once you get 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.920 that with eight guys falling into coverage, boy, that becomes 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.880 tough to beat, especially when you can show this look 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.000 and still wind up sending a fourth or even blitzing 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.279 a fifth on that confused past protection alignment in front 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.159 of you. And so I look at the Dolphins and 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.479 the coverage skills they have, and you go down the 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.200 board with whether it's pre draft scouting reports or the 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.280 NFL tape they've put together in conjunction with coverage grades 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.239 via sites like Pro Football Focus or NFL Next Gen Stats, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.839 whatever your flavor is, these guys great out well in 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.520 that area for the most part. Then comes the idea 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.000 of the position list front seven defense. I just rewatched 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.200 the second game against the Jets from last year, the 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.000 game on the road, and there was one instance where 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.320 we have one down lineman and three linebackers and the 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.279 other seven to fenders on the field our defensive backs. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:06.160 That is your quarter package Nicholas five defensive backs, Diamond six, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.600 quarter seven, and Dollar is eight. And the broadcast crew 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.600 is just flabber gassed by this defense. And it was 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.600 a successful play. The defense got the stop and got 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.440 off the field. So I look at how you might 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.520 utilize Kyle van Noy and Vince Bagel and Shack Lawson, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.120 Emmanuel Ogba pick your poison. You really see the idea 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.600 of the defense and how you really set yourself up 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:30.239 to win on that critical down. The money down. Third 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.920 down is everything in this league, and I'm a big 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.640 fan of this idea of how you win on those 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.720 third downs. Okay, that's our deep dive into the analytics 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.880 for the week. Let's transition now and get to a 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.720 very special guest here on the Drivetime podcast. He was 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.440 the winner of our virtual draft sweepstakes. And if you're 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.280 on Dolphins Twitter, you certainly know him by now. If 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.680 you've been to Dolphins training camp, you know who he is. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.640 You can't miss him. He is big E. And here 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.480 is my interview with arguably the biggest Dolphins fan on 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:02.000 planet Earth, Big E, Ian Burger and writing shotgun now 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.440 on the Drive Time podcast. Is the winner of our 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.320 virtual fan experience. You guys all know who he is. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.480 If you're on Dolphins Twitter by now, he is Ian Burger. Ian. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.160 How's it going, man, I'm doing great, Travis. Thanks so 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.920 much for having me today. I really appreciate it. Man. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.320 We're very excited to have you on because I almost 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.240 feel like, in a way you represent the Dolphins season 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.240 ticket members because of your very public facing persona. You 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.440 got the jersey you were a training camp every year 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.840 that has your name on it. And is it number? 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.160 What numbers on that jersey? Sixty six represents my height 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.560 I'm six ft six inches tall, But it's also Larry Little, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.000 so we can't gotta give him a lot of credit 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.839 for that. Well, you can't miss Biggie because he is 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.920 six six because he has the jersey. Also a good 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.320 company there with Larry Little, who did a flashback podcast 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.160 with us, one of my favorite guests we've had so 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.440 far on this podcast. But enough about the past. Ian, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.080 you're on the podcast today to talk about kind of 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.680 your fan experience, and you're decked out in the full 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.320 on Dolphins garb right now, I am myself. We both 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.360 love this team through and through aqua running through our veins. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.800 I want to ask you when did you first when, like, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.680 what was the moment where you were like, Okay, I 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.280 am not only a die hard football fan, but I 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.400 am a die hard Miami Dolphins fan to my core. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.600 I think when I probably about fifteen twenty years ago, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.319 is when I really realized that I was a die hard. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.640 I mean, my my grandfather took me to my first 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.400 ever game in five, but it took me a while 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.360 to really get into the game, to understand it. My 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.200 parents weren't really big into football, so I never I 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.120 never watched it. It was never on the TV at home. Um. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.120 But then around two I started bringing my dad to games, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.319 to his first ever football games, and UM, I'd say 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:40.120 after ninety two I really started growing the fandom. UM. 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.720 And then about ten years ago I joined this wonderful 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.520 social media thing called Twitter, and I think Twitter has 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.160 just blown my fandom, you know, out of the water 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.800 because the ability to be able to interact with fans 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.600 not just locally but around the world and there are 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.400 a lot of Dolphins fans around the world. Um, that 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.240 has actually helped me become better fan because I want 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.559 to learn more and I want to engage more with them. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.040 Football is certainly a family affair. I think that's true 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.560 for a lot of fans that kind of go through 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.199 generations of you know, getting season tickets and being there 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:11.840 at the stadium and all these fun things to go 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.960 along with that. You mentioned the fan base around the 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.680 globe for for the Dolphins, and I'm a great example 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.840 of that because I'm from the Pacific Northwest, and you 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.000 mentioned kind of being there at the stadium and getting 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.959 indoctrinated with the game itself, but not really growing into 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.319 the big fan you are you've become until about five 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.120 years ago. It was kind of the same for me 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.480 because I grew up in a generation where I was 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.200 all about going to the Kingdom and watching King Jr. 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.440 And my Seattle Mariners. But then does Dan Marino guy 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.760 came around in my life and kind of swayed me 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.000 over to the football side. I have to imagine he 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.920 was a big influence for you too well. And remember 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.240 back in that was that was Dan Marino's heyday, So 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.800 you know, my I had many years of watching him, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.800 and I think the great thing about Dan Marino which 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.640 we have you know, which we may not have seen 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.120 over the last twenty years, is it didn't matter if 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.360 it was a winner loss With Marino, you were gonna 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.880 have about four hundred yards in the air. It was 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.000 going to be a high scoring affair, and it was 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:08.600 gonna be a lot of fun to be there because 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.720 the fans go crazy for every touchdown. Um. So yeah, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.480 he was definitely a strong influence for me, for me 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.120 through my Dolphins years. It's funny, man, we have these 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.200 new rules in today's NFL where it's a little bit 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.160 trickier to play defense and defensive back, and so you 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.800 have some stats there may be a little bit more 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.480 inflated than they were back in the eighties, like you mentioned, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:29.320 and this has been a topic on Twitter this week, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.640 is Dan Marino's four season. It just to me it 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.040 stands alone in a class of its own in terms 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:38.839 of football accomplishments. Individually on the football field from a 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.600 statistic standpoint, So, Dan Marino, we all can kind of 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.880 rally around that guy. But you mentioned years as a fan. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:46.760 How long have you been a season ticket member for? 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.280 So I was. I've actually been a season ticket holder 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.400 for about eighteen years. But the way that it worked 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.280 is back eighteen years ago, I I had a co 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.040 worker who was upgrading to club, but she didn't want 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.160 to sell her regular seats, so I volunteered to buy them. Um, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:03.920 I wasn't able to go to all the games, so 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.840 I ended up selling some of them and kind of 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.240 made some of that money back. And then about eight 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.120 years ago, I actually started my own account and I 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.960 have two tickets, so I get to rotate between my wife, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.600 my fifteen year old daughter, and my thirteen year old daughter. 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.440 But I am the consistent one that will go to 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.600 every single game from start to finish, regardless of what 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.800 the score is, and all preseason games from start to finish. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.360 So um, we have made it a true family affair, 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.360 and my kids and my wife they love going to 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.920 the games. It's it's really more about the experience of 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.760 being there and doing everything that we do versus what 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.880 the final score is for them, even though of course 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.720 I prefer a win, and I think we all prefer 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.680 the win. You know, we'll get there two hours before. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.400 We'll set up a tent with just either my daughter 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.520 and I or my wife and I throw the football 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.400 around for a while, we'll play some cards, just hang out, 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.080 and then we'll go in about an hour before the 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.520 game because we want to see what's going on in 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.160 the field and make sure we catch the pregame warmups. Um. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.000 And then we'll stay. You know, we'll stay till the 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.480 very end for four thirty. And you've got to stay 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.600 till the very end, of course, because you know, the 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.920 Miami miracle happened to the people that stayed till the 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.040 very end. Um. So that's uh, that's that's part of 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.640 the experience. And I think when my kids get older, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.360 they're not going to really remember what the final scores were, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.520 who we played. They're just gonna remember they had a 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.920 really nice time going with dad to football games, and 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.400 that's what I've really tried to create for them. I 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.360 have a couple of questions off of that answer that 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.760 I think are just terrific in terms of what football 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.360 and family can mean for people. One. I was at 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.640 the Miami Miracle and the last four games I've been 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.440 to whereas press and the previous game that I went 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.240 to as a fan in the stands was two thousand 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.520 eight against the Patriots. We lost the wildcat year, but 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.760 I was at the Miracle game and it was unlike 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.080 anything I had ever seen. Is there a game that 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.439 sticks out in your mind that's the greatest game you've 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.200 ever been to their hard rock stadium? Is that, you know, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.480 there's there's a lot of them. Obviously that one is 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.839 right up there. I'll take you back two years ago, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.880 you know, to the what is it the it's the 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:05.080 world record for the longest NFL game. And what was 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.360 great about that was that we got there nor you know, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.319 game time started at one o'clock. We got there little early, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.360 did like we normally did, and then we were in 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.120 the stands, and then of course the first delay happened, 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.640 and my daughter, I brought my at the time, she 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.760 was eleven, and you know, she was all good for 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.400 the first time. Then the second delay came, you know, 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.400 and then more and more people started leaving, and uh, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.440 and I finally said to my daughter, I said, hey, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.920 we don't have plans tonight, would you want to stay? 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.640 You know, what would be the latest that you would 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.720 want to stay? And she said, well, Dad, you know 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.000 I'm in the stands. I'm kind of bored right now. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.120 She's like, would you mind if you got me Instagram 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.680 and I won't bother you the rest of the game. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.040 So I had downloaded Instagram for her, and then we 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.320 stayed till the bitter end, and of course not bitter end. 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.520 It was actually a great end because obviously the Dolphins 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.120 beat the Titans that game. But with that was was 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.160 that an eight and a half hour game or something 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.080 some some ridiculous amount of time? And I'm proud to 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.760 be able to say I'm part of some sort of 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.880 NFL record for the my Amy Dolphins, which is pretty cool. Yeah, 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.000 a great bargaining tool. There's something I'm gonna have to 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.320 use in my negotiations with my new daughter when uh, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.600 when she gets of age to do things like that. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.760 We can actually start kind of bartering to each other 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.640 to get things, you know, from one another. But you know, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.560 you mentioned your daughter and one of my favorite game 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.560 day traditions speaking of Twitter and how it kind of 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.160 connects all of us as dolphins fans. Is you have 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.160 I'm not sure which one it is one of your daughters, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.920 loads up the car with the magnets, pregame right, which 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:26.440 which daughter is that and kind of talk to us 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:30.000 about that tradition. That is my youngest daughter and uh 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.120 and she I don't I don't remember how it happened. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.480 It just kind of happened where we started taking pictures 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.560 of her adding so we add about twelve magnets to 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.320 my car and we had four flags to the car, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.920 and we started taking pictures and then everybody started calling 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.360 her the good luck charm. So, you know, we just 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.120 started doing it more and more than we did it 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:51.800 as a time lapse and we did it as a 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.160 slow mode. We just and it just became this real 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.840 big thing. And I think a lot of people know 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.880 her as the good luck charm, you know. And and 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.520 last year we we kind of put some stuff on 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.840 the side because it was a little bit of a 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.080 challenging season last year, so we said we'll save it 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:06.880 for the next year when we know it will probably 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.160 be a little better. Um, so she's gonna be back 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.560 in the uh in the in the reins of doing 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.720 this again this year. So the great thing is too, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.760 I was out of town one one weekend for aurn 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.640 away game, and I love the fact that she even 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.800 though I wasn't home, she still put the magnets on 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.520 my wife's car and she took pictures and sent it 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.360 to me. And that just meant the world to me 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.120 because she kept up the tradition, which is so important. Yeah, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.520 I think you've succeeded in having your your family become 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.120 all Dolphins fans, because not every parent is fortunate enough 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.640 to have that. My my family out here as Seahawks fans, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.640 So I was the one that got away, I guess 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.400 from the family, the family fan based so to speak. 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.200 And and the reason we have you on here, Ian 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.360 is because you were the winner of the virtual draft 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.960 sweepsticks to come on and do some some special things 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.080 here as a member season ticket member. What are some 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.160 other benefits you've had of being a season ticket member 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.640 now with the Miami Dolphins, going back to however many 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.440 years it's been, I will tell you it's it's actually 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.040 been really cool because they've had a bunch of different 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.760 events that you can go to as a season ticket holder, 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:06.760 Like a couple of years ago they did like a 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.280 family few type thing in Nova and a couple of 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.879 the players were involved and you got randomly selected in 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.919 the audience to participate. Unfortunately, we weren't able to do that, 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.200 but um, it was a lot of fun to be there. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.280 Last season during training camp, we were able to go 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.880 into the bubble, which was something I never thought I'd 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:25.920 be able to do. And we actually got a chance 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.199 to meet all of the players who were on the 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.280 roster uh last year before training camp and you got 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.679 to take pictures with them. It was just a really 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.520 great opportunity for us to to meet face to face 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.080 and see the players that you know. Otherwise you see 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.119 them on TV, you never really have that opportunity to 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.600 get that close to them. Um, you know, and some 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.359 other things. I will tell you last year one of 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.919 the greatest opportunities, and I don't think it happens all 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.560 the time, but it just so happened for us. Was. Um, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.720 my oldest daughter went to a game and she doesn't 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.280 go to as many as she used to, and it 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.959 was last game of the season, and I called up 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.359 my ticket rep actually a couple of weeks prior, and 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.880 I said, hey, listen, I love you know what we're 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.200 doing on the field before the game starts with the 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.520 United States flag and how we're doing that. Is there 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.359 an opportunity for us to get on the field, And 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.480 he said absolutely. He's like, let me just find the 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.080 right date. So the date was the Washington Redston's game. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.880 Got there really early, participate in that, and I will 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.360 tell you that that was That's something that I will 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.320 cherish forever because it was the first time we had 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.720 ever done it, but my daughter will as well. You know, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:29.240 just being being able to be there, listen to the anthem, 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.199 hold the flag with everybody cheering around you, it's just 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.960 an amazing experience. It definitely is something that I would 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.560 love to do one of these days, get down there 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.360 and be part of those pregame anthems and the pregame 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.000 antics that really kind of, you know, really tell you 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:43.840 what football is all about in community and all that 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.800 fun stuff. So great to hear on that end, Ian 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:47.959 and you talk about going into that bubble man, that 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.040