WEBVTT - Sustaining Fourth Quarter Leads, QB Footwork and Assistant Coaches Talk Jets, Getting Better 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.960 To fires touch stop waddle stocked into the end zone 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:10.080 of Miami type pro ye window. They had to get 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:15.120 that touchdown on that play. They give it. What is up? 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.439 Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:24.919 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.240 How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.680 and as always I am here to bring you your 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.480 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.800 it's our last air quotes bye week type of podcast, 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.560 although it's gonna look a lot like our usual Wednesday 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.199 pod as we hear from the assistant coaches on a 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.360 variety of topics. Will look at the fourth quarter and 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.879 how to close games. Coach Fry touches on the importance 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.760 of footwork and how he thinks to excels in that area. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.760 Plus coach lamb g A. Burke's Camp Clark as well 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.280 as co offensive corner George Gottsie talk to us about 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.520 the New York Jets playing the same team twice inside 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.240 of one month, and the self scouting processes of the 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.080 bye week. All of that and a heck of a 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.040 lot more from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:19.640 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. As 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.560 all of you know, or maybe you don't know, I 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.960 don't know. The Thursday preview podcast always requires the most 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.200 research from me. Between watching some of the games and 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.039 then going and finding the data, A lot of hours 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.960 go into that podcast, and I would be lying if 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.600 I said getting one week off from that wasn't a 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.640 little bit nice. But now that we're here and the 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.880 preview episode is out tomorrow, I'm kind of itching to 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.120 dive back in, Like, give me a Dolphins game. I 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:49.920 want to see how this team comes off the by 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.600 and plays, and while you're listening to this podcast, That's 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.240 what I'll be doing on Wednesday here working on that 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.840 preview podcast. We have a whole bunch of other goodies 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.960 and sound bites on this particular show to play for 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.960 you all today. So I'm gonna kind of sit back 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.000 and let the pH d s as I call them, 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.280 do their thing. But first before we get to the 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.640 media availability, where I had a list of questions for 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.680 each coach and a few sidebars here that went off script, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.480 all of which was tremendous. I wanted to look at 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.400 something that has really piqued my interest not just for 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.360 the Miami Dolphins, as we kind of talked about the 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.200 craziness in the NFL this year from a parody standpoint, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.560 but something that involves the entire National Football League. Like 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.120 we talked about, you know yesterday, I was kind of 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.560 a sponge for the week fourteen games around the league, 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.800 just enjoying an opportunity to watch football on Sunday outside 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.640 of the aquaand Orange. And the theme of the week 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.160 has been the idea that no lead is safe. It 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.800 started on Thursday Night Football. Viking see a to seven 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.560 lead entering the fourth quarter come down to a last 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.800 second throw in the end zone. And we're not talking 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.600 about a hell Mary, something like the eleven yard line 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.239 going in for a chance to score and get to 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:01.760 to come back in a game where they trailed by 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.720 twenty two points in the fourth quarter. The Ravens recovered 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.240 an onside kick and we're just a couple of first 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.120 downs away from putting Justin Tucker, the all time greatest 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.720 kicker on the National Football League, in range to win 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.960 a game that they trailed twenty four to three at 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.680 halftime and two nine entering the fourth quarter. We talked 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.800 about the Bills and Bucks three and it goes to overtime, 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.400 the Bengals and forty nine in the fourth quarter goes 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:31.440 into overtime. And look, this is not some Week fourteen 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.080 revelation we're talking about here. This is every single week 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.560 in the National Football League. I'm not gonna list more examples, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.080 because again, it's every single week. Go look go look 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.280 for yourself. It happens multiple times every single week. And 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.720 I really became interested about this because it was something 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.360 that's become a bit of a theme under Coach Flora's 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.840 here in Miami, the ability to salt away leads and 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.000 salt away games and hold those leads and get yourself 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.520 into the victories the winner circle, I shouls say, and 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.960 not just hold on to the victory, but not even 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.360 letting it come down to that final drive or that 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.160 final pass into the end zone. This literally started in 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.840 the first win of the Brian Flores era back in 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.320 nineteen A two score halftime lead only became an eight 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.840 point lead with fifteen seconds to play in the fourth 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.680 quarter against the Jets that year at home. Last year, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:26.560 it happened frequently that seventeen never became a game late 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.400 seventeen over the Rams. I think one of those scores 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.039 to get closer was there late in the fourth quarter 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.800 over the Chargers in a game that was with under 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.000 four minutes to play, three over the Jets again, nineteen 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.440 seven over the Bengals, twelve over the Patriots, with Miami 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.359 C's control of that game in the third quarter, and 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.360 then ahead to this year, only the Jets were able 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.479 very late once again to pull that game to within 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.960 a one score game over the course of the winning streak, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.280 aside from the Texans game where the score goes seventeen 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.440 to nine with eleven at two to play and the 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.719 defense was able to prevent points on three straight drives there. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.840 So this certainly does not have any bearing on this 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.080 week heading into the New York Jets at home here, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.720 but I thought it was an interesting storyline, so I 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.640 wanted to ask our coaches about this, starting with the 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.920 head coach, Brian Flores, what's the key to assaulting away 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.240 games in the fourth quarter execution? I think that's at 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:23.800 the end of the day, That's what it what it 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.360 goes down to, really, in all three phases, I think 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.000 you gotta pay, you gotta play well at the end 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.240 that goes without saying, that's when you get your opponent's 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:36.560 best shot. You give them your best shot. And so 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.800 I put the same question to co offensive coordinator coach 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.400 George Gatzi, what is the key to closing out games 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.120 in that fourth quarter success? Here's coach. Yeah, I mean, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.400 it's it's about putting the game away and uh sometimes 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.240 it's you know, controlling the ball and making sure that 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:57.239 those possessions are you know, the only your best players 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.599 and making sure that you know, we're calling the plays 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.880 that I feel like we'll give us the best opportunity 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.640 to move the chains. Um. You know, so third downs 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.760 are critical. We've been fortunate to convert a couple of 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.839 big third downs, I know, just off hand the last 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.440 few games, we were able to convert those and again 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.719 turn some clock. Um obviously opponent, depending on how many 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.160 time outs they have, you know, it's important, uh to 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:27.080 save those to the very end. So if we can 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.560 use those up and get first downs, get into score 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.159 and rains, make it a multiple score game, then yeah, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:35.760 that gives our defense a chance to pender your part. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.320 You know, our ears back on their quarterback and how 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.760 about how he assesses the play of the quarterback to 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.240 a tongue of vloa in those fourth quarters. Fourth quarters. Yeah, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.160 he's been he's been well. In the fourth quarter, he's 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.320 done well. And um, you know, again we want to 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.960 make sure that he's making good decisions. And you know, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.960 when it comes down to playing our best to bury 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.400 end of the game is ultimately where you need to 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:04.040 play your your very best football. Um, And we learned 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.960 through the course of the game how it's being played 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:07.560 and at the end we need to make sure where 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.320 you're adapting and applying our best football back. Now, I 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.480 think that final point right there is very very interesting 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.960 with regards to adjusting throughout the course of the game, 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.720 finding out what things work for you, what things didn't 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.000 work for you, and how to apply those later on. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.800 We've talked about this on podcast before. You know, going 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.800 back to the Patriots game last year, you have a 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.360 snapshot of essentially not the same play, but two very 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.560 similar plays where to A throws a kind of scramble 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.680 picks are not a pick six, but an interception in 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.840 the end zone to J. C. Jackson, one of the 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.480 best ball hawks the entire National Football League. And then 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.640 in the fourth quarter, coming down the opposite direction to 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.080 the other end zone. He's in the same a similar 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.520 third down scramble situation, and rather than take the throw, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.320 he puts his foot in the ground, makes a move 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.560 on a player, and gets in for the touchdown to 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.040 really help put that game away. So learning from the 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.960 earlier blessings you take throughout the course of the football 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.240 game and applying them in the fourth quarter, sir, only 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.960 a good trade, especially for a young player, especially for 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.720 a young team like your Miami Dolphins. So really good 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.360 information there from coach Godz. As always, he's always so 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.720 transparent and upfront with us about his football knowledge and 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.640 giving that knowledge to us as people in the media 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.440 and fans of this team and of this game. And 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.080 speaking of two, uh, I want to pick it up 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.880 here with quarterbacks coach Charlie Fry. And again my theme 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.960 here was kind of three pronged, again with some off 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.400 script follow ups as well, which I got with coach 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.880 Fry too, But those three prongs were talk about yourself 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.400 scouting process for your particular room slash position group, and 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.600 don't say talk about it because that's like journalism one 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.840 on one, that's not how you ask a question. Number two, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.239 what are the pros and cons of seeing a team 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.720 for the second time within the span of one month, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.000 because the Dolphins and Jets played back in week eleven 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.840 and now again here in week number fift team and 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.800 what are the Jets personnel and scheme do to challenge 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.160 your specific room or position group. So let's go ahead 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:58.840 and pick it up here with coach Fry. The first 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.000 question for coach was about seeing the same opponent within 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.959 the span of one month two times. Yeah, I think 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:10.880 in this league, Um, it's hard to beat anybody twice, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.520 you know what I mean, Just so you know the 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.760 second time around, you you've got a better field for 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.640 each other, and you know, a second time game planning 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.520 against each other, and you know, so you don't know 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.280 each other better. So you've got to just take the 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:31.880 approach of just starting all over again, um, saying attention 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.600 to detail in your preparation. Uh, same same way to 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.040 attack it, um, and just just go from there. And 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.720 then listening back to my interview here with coach, I 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.120 literally told him this is probably a dumb question, but 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.760 we'll ask it anyways. I asked him, if you put 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.520 more emphasis on the particular Jets game that you just 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.160 played against them than other tapes as you prepare for 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.040 your opponent, because you're obviously gonna have more than one 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.000 tape you look at. Is there an emphasis on the 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.800 last time you played this team? Yeah? I think you 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.680 you you learn a lot him the first time you 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.040 play them. Um, there's a lot of a lot of 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.559 things that you you like, there's a lot of things 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.400 you wish you you could do better and correct. So 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.480 I think it's a it's a good place to start, um. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.800 And then just you know that the the next three games, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.560 it's okay, this is how they played us. You know, 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.400 are they what are they doing different? Going back on 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.320 script here, back on the theme talking about coach fries 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.960 self scouting process and how he kind of put that 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.360 to the quarterback room to make that group better. Yeah, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.000 it was just get better, you know. That was that 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.480 was kind of the message during during the bye week 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:44.520 was get better. Um. So you know we attack different areas, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:49.360 you know within you know the structure of of how 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:53.840 we attack, and we said, okay, if we do X, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.760 Y and Z better, you know that we're gonna get 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.600 a higher rate of efficiency on on this if we 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:07.000 can you know, marry our feet within our progression maybe 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.000 we can get the ball out half a second fashion, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.720 so you really don't have you know that that gives 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:17.280 you some time to really dive into, you know, things 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.240 you've been doing and and just see how you can 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.559 get better. I thought that point was very interesting from Coach, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.720 especially the idea of just trying to clean up some 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.640 of the little things that can create better efficiency within 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.920 every single play. Obviously every drive and every game is 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.720 that kind of plays out over the course of a 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.640 sixty minute game, but talking about the footwork and getting 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:38.600 certain things cleaned up, and we'll come back to that 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:39.880 here in just a second, as I had a follow 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.040 up question for Coach on that particular topic. But we've 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.680 talked about it on the All Twenties two Review podcast, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.160 right like how we think that even though the team 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.040 is playing pretty well right now, there are some opportunities 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.720 for corrections to make things even better, and especially on 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.760 the offensive side, where you get one offensive penalty or 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:00.640 one mislocated pass or one dropped football and all of 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.320 a sudden, the entire dynamic of that drive, of that 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.400 particular maybe even game changes with that one mistake, and 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.640 cleaning up those mistakes can lead to more efficiency and 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.719 of course better results on the scoreboard in terms of 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.800 being in more comfortable positions and not just winning games 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.280 are closing out games type, but maybe you find yourself 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.280 in a position where you can dominate a game, kind 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.679 of like we saw in the Carolina game. So I 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.760 really enjoyed that with Coach also enjoyed his answer talking 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.000 about what are some of the strengths of the Jets 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.800 scheme and personnel they can do to challenge your group, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.439 your position group. The quarterbacks, I think they're built. I 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.320 don't know from the from the front to the back. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.880 You know, just they got it. They got a really 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.680 good front and they can get pressure um in a 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.520 lot of different ways, so whether it's pushed the pocket 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.880 or come off the edges or or things. I think 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.480 for us that would just be you know, focusing on 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.280 our footwork's gotta be exact, our eyes got to be 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.440 in the right place. So that a is us the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.800 ability to help the unit by getting the ball out. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.160 And I think this is our last one here with 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.199 Coach Fry go ahead and finish up. I talked to 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.640 about the pieces of content we covered on the podcast 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.120 yesterday with regards to Peyton Manning and J. T. O. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.880 Sullivan breaking down QB one here and two a tongue 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.640 byla and about the idea of getting your feet set 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.199 among every possible situation where there's a heavy pass brush, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.600 whether you're outside the framework of the route concept, whether 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.640 you're you know, off structure because of the pressure getting 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.440 in on you, or receiver not getting to his landmarks 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.559 soon enough. Maybe the quarterback didn't make the right read 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.120 to get himself in position to make that threatening throw, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.439 a threatening position to make a throw, make a run, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.680 what have you. Here's coach Fry about setting the feet 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.800 and delivering the football in that regard and working on 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.280 those things as you get deeper into the season and 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.240 deeper into your career. It's every quarterback you know, it's 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:56.880 it's your your footwork. It's kind of like your your 0:13:57.120 --> 0:14:01.280 alarm clock. It's there's a lot of things in relationship 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.599 to what happens throughout a play and relationship to the 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.920 quarterbacks feet, and you try and marry your feet as 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.520 your timing mechanism going through progressions, going through and also 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:18.160 in as on an alarm if something breaks down. So 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:21.240 we spent a lot of time just makes making sure 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.440 your feet are right that you're always in a position 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:29.720 to throw. And you know, a quarterbacks back foot is 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.760 a mindset, it truly is. It's it's a it's a 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:37.480 tough guy mindset. It's a I'm gonna dig my back foot. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.920 I know they're coming, i know they're pushing, and I'm 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.320 gonna rip this ball up. And so with that great 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.240 detail they're from coach, I had to follow up and 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.920 ask about the very first play of the last game 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.600 where you see two of his eyes and feet go flat, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.480 seeing back to the flat and just kind of keeping 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.760 himself aligned that way. I wanted to ask coach if 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.200 that was a good example and just how he kind 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.160 of thought about that play and what it says about 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.560 two was relationship between the eyes and the feet and 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.240 hard hiring those two elements of your game together. Yeah. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:08.000 So yeah, and when things break down, you know, the 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.720 first thing that usually breaks down with with younger quarterbacks 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.880 is their foot work. So it's just it's just continuing 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.840 to develop it, continuing to stress and work on it. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.640 That that's at the end of the day. Your feet, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:27.720 your eyes, your progression, that's that's that's what allows you 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.920 to sleep at night, you know what I mean? No 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.560 one knows things stone cold so that in your mind 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.400 they can't get you. Yep. I can talk to coach 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.720 about that kind of stuff all day, and that's basically 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.160 true of all my conversations here. I could just continue 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.720 ripping off these things all day along with these coaches, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.800 as they give us so much detail and information about 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.000 the game we all love. It's like I love assistant 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.320 coach media day. It's the very best. With that in mind, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.640 let's go ahead and move on now to coach Lemil 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.640 John Pierre, who I asked the same question that I 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.800 posed to every other coach pros and on about seeing 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.440 a team twice the New York Jets within the span 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.680 of four weeks. It's like it's a special opportunity, like 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.760 it's very you know, unique as it is. You know, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.440 we play him that close, and whenever you play at 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.120 divisional opponents, I was gonna be tough, and then you 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:16.160 play them closer, so it's like, yeah, like you got 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:18.920 the game. You just play so hopefully because you have 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.720 film all against guys you just played against, but knowing 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.880 like you played the same team another time, it's not 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.360 not the same matchup. To me, it usually ends up 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.280 being a little bit tougher because now like he's like 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.760 that chess match was like it's closer. You know, maybe injuries, 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.560 you know, they might get guys back and might have happen. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.160 We have those those things that change a little bit. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.800 But um, it's very unique in terms of what it 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.160 presents you as the preparation things like that. Let's go 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.120 ahead and stay on the script here and ask coach 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.680 about what challenges the Jets front presents this Dolphins front 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.960 in terms of bowl scheme and personal im in front, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:50.800 I mean they're very good and I mean that's really 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.280 in the front seven. I think they're very good and talented. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.800 They got speed and those guys do play hard on defense. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.680 They're very talent up front, and then you know they 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.760 they present something different in terms of you know, they 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.840 got size and then they got power. Like along the 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.760 line of scrimmage. You know you see you know mostly 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.680 the guy you see every game you say, like you said, 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.920 you're talking, he plays the energy. Well you see the speed. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.840 They also got another linebacker spots and even that secondary, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.320 I mean you see them you know their physical down 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.480 in there. So that's a very good defense. Let's go 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.880 ahead and finish up with coach here about self scouting 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.520 and the process of improvement over the time off for 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.520 the offensive line. Yeah, you know, just trying to keep 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:28.920 digging and you got a little bunch of time to 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.760 for sure, you know, folks and your guys and kind 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.520 of take their time to you know, look at one 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.880 of the things that you know you've done well, things 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.879 that you need improve on, and things like that, and 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.880 you know, overall what you see is the growth, which 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.840 you know, it seems like he's starting the show. Like 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.600 we said, the effort for these guys have never changed. Um, 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.440 they continue to you know, even during the bidby contacted them, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.240 send them things that contacted me. So we're very much 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.280 in the ball. But once we get on the field, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.000 it has to show. So there goes Coach Lamb. Let's 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.160 go ahead and flip it over to the defensive side 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.240 and the guys like up against the offensive line and 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.920 practice on the d line here, and let's go ahead 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.520 and work front to back and talk to coach Clark 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.560 about his processes over the bye week for self scouting 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.159 and again improvement. Yeah, so we look at, you know, 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.760 things we've done well, things we need to work on. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.040 How teams are playing us, how we're playing them, Is 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.920 there anything we're given away? You know, you kind of 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:26.000 go through, uh basically self evaluation. You know, personally, I 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.480 start with myself, you know, what are we doing during 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.960 practice or these drills or these techniques showing up in 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.680 the game positively? Um, is there something that I'm not 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.880 doing that I should be doing? Um from our defensive 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.720 line perspective, and then it goes trickles out throughout the 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.840 whole defense. So I think it's a great exercise that 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.880 it definitely uh tells the tale kind of of how 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.200 guys can get better individually. You know, every player is different, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.920 so there may be something we're doing with one guy 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.080 that we need to hit before practice extra because this 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.480 player has this part figured out and maybe he needs 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.439 to work on that. So I think he's a great exercise, 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.080 you know, and and hopefully it helps his first jets. 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.960 And if you ever get a chance to come out 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.920 for training camp next summer or any other summer besides that, 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:12.760 make sure you keep your eyes on Coach Clark. He's 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.439 a lot of fun to watch coach those guys up 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.240 and it's high intensity throughout the course of the fundamental 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.000 segment of practice, the individual portions, the team portion, whatever 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.720 the case may be. Those guys are on ten at 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.639 all times. Go ahead and pick it up here with 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.879 coach about some of the uh pros and cons of 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.320 playing a team within the span of four weeks two 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.520 different times. Yeah, I think it's especially a team might 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.560 digests that are that are veteran good group up front. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.960 I think it's definitely a tough challenge. You know, these 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.600 guys have played a lot of ball, They play hard, 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.800 they work well together. Um, they've gotten better each week. Um. 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.560 And I think it's tough for me coming from college. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.920 That was a new thing at first, because you only 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.040 really do that if it's a championship game, you know. 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.879 But yeah, I think it's tough. I think there is 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.800 a little familiarity in terms of personnel who you're going against, 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.800 but they have that same familiarity. So it's gonna be 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.200