Speaker 1: To fires touch stop waddle stocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami type pro ye window. They had to get
Speaker 1: that touchdown on that play. They give it. What is up?
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield
Speaker 1: and as always I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it's our last air quotes bye week type of podcast,
Speaker 1: although it's gonna look a lot like our usual Wednesday
Speaker 1: pod as we hear from the assistant coaches on a
Speaker 1: variety of topics. Will look at the fourth quarter and
Speaker 1: how to close games. Coach Fry touches on the importance
Speaker 1: of footwork and how he thinks to excels in that area.
Speaker 1: Plus coach lamb g A. Burke's Camp Clark as well
Speaker 1: as co offensive corner George Gottsie talk to us about
Speaker 1: the New York Jets playing the same team twice inside
Speaker 1: of one month, and the self scouting processes of the
Speaker 1: bye week. All of that and a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot more from the Baptist Health studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time podcast. As
Speaker 1: all of you know, or maybe you don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The Thursday preview podcast always requires the most
Speaker 1: research from me. Between watching some of the games and
Speaker 1: then going and finding the data, A lot of hours
Speaker 1: go into that podcast, and I would be lying if
Speaker 1: I said getting one week off from that wasn't a
Speaker 1: little bit nice. But now that we're here and the
Speaker 1: preview episode is out tomorrow, I'm kind of itching to
Speaker 1: dive back in, Like, give me a Dolphins game. I
Speaker 1: want to see how this team comes off the by
Speaker 1: and plays, and while you're listening to this podcast, That's
Speaker 1: what I'll be doing on Wednesday here working on that
Speaker 1: preview podcast. We have a whole bunch of other goodies
Speaker 1: and sound bites on this particular show to play for
Speaker 1: you all today. So I'm gonna kind of sit back
Speaker 1: and let the pH d s as I call them,
Speaker 1: do their thing. But first before we get to the
Speaker 1: media availability, where I had a list of questions for
Speaker 1: each coach and a few sidebars here that went off script,
Speaker 1: all of which was tremendous. I wanted to look at
Speaker 1: something that has really piqued my interest not just for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, as we kind of talked about the
Speaker 1: craziness in the NFL this year from a parody standpoint,
Speaker 1: but something that involves the entire National Football League. Like
Speaker 1: we talked about, you know yesterday, I was kind of
Speaker 1: a sponge for the week fourteen games around the league,
Speaker 1: just enjoying an opportunity to watch football on Sunday outside
Speaker 1: of the aquaand Orange. And the theme of the week
Speaker 1: has been the idea that no lead is safe. It
Speaker 1: started on Thursday Night Football. Viking see a to seven
Speaker 1: lead entering the fourth quarter come down to a last
Speaker 1: second throw in the end zone. And we're not talking
Speaker 1: about a hell Mary, something like the eleven yard line
Speaker 1: going in for a chance to score and get to
Speaker 1: to come back in a game where they trailed by
Speaker 1: twenty two points in the fourth quarter. The Ravens recovered
Speaker 1: an onside kick and we're just a couple of first
Speaker 1: downs away from putting Justin Tucker, the all time greatest
Speaker 1: kicker on the National Football League, in range to win
Speaker 1: a game that they trailed twenty four to three at
Speaker 1: halftime and two nine entering the fourth quarter. We talked
Speaker 1: about the Bills and Bucks three and it goes to overtime,
Speaker 1: the Bengals and forty nine in the fourth quarter goes
Speaker 1: into overtime. And look, this is not some Week fourteen
Speaker 1: revelation we're talking about here. This is every single week
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. I'm not gonna list more examples,
Speaker 1: because again, it's every single week. Go look go look
Speaker 1: for yourself. It happens multiple times every single week. And
Speaker 1: I really became interested about this because it was something
Speaker 1: that's become a bit of a theme under Coach Flora's
Speaker 1: here in Miami, the ability to salt away leads and
Speaker 1: salt away games and hold those leads and get yourself
Speaker 1: into the victories the winner circle, I shouls say, and
Speaker 1: not just hold on to the victory, but not even
Speaker 1: letting it come down to that final drive or that
Speaker 1: final pass into the end zone. This literally started in
Speaker 1: the first win of the Brian Flores era back in
Speaker 1: nineteen A two score halftime lead only became an eight
Speaker 1: point lead with fifteen seconds to play in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter against the Jets that year at home. Last year,
Speaker 1: it happened frequently that seventeen never became a game late
Speaker 1: seventeen over the Rams. I think one of those scores
Speaker 1: to get closer was there late in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: over the Chargers in a game that was with under
Speaker 1: four minutes to play, three over the Jets again, nineteen
Speaker 1: seven over the Bengals, twelve over the Patriots, with Miami
Speaker 1: C's control of that game in the third quarter, and
Speaker 1: then ahead to this year, only the Jets were able
Speaker 1: very late once again to pull that game to within
Speaker 1: a one score game over the course of the winning streak,
Speaker 1: aside from the Texans game where the score goes seventeen
Speaker 1: to nine with eleven at two to play and the
Speaker 1: defense was able to prevent points on three straight drives there.
Speaker 1: So this certainly does not have any bearing on this
Speaker 1: week heading into the New York Jets at home here,
Speaker 1: but I thought it was an interesting storyline, so I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask our coaches about this, starting with the
Speaker 1: head coach, Brian Flores, what's the key to assaulting away
Speaker 1: games in the fourth quarter execution? I think that's at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, That's what it what it
Speaker 1: goes down to, really, in all three phases, I think
Speaker 1: you gotta pay, you gotta play well at the end
Speaker 1: that goes without saying, that's when you get your opponent's
Speaker 1: best shot. You give them your best shot. And so
Speaker 1: I put the same question to co offensive coordinator coach
Speaker 1: George Gatzi, what is the key to closing out games
Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter success? Here's coach. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's about putting the game away and uh sometimes
Speaker 1: it's you know, controlling the ball and making sure that
Speaker 1: those possessions are you know, the only your best players
Speaker 1: and making sure that you know, we're calling the plays
Speaker 1: that I feel like we'll give us the best opportunity
Speaker 1: to move the chains. Um. You know, so third downs
Speaker 1: are critical. We've been fortunate to convert a couple of
Speaker 1: big third downs, I know, just off hand the last
Speaker 1: few games, we were able to convert those and again
Speaker 1: turn some clock. Um obviously opponent, depending on how many
Speaker 1: time outs they have, you know, it's important, uh to
Speaker 1: save those to the very end. So if we can
Speaker 1: use those up and get first downs, get into score
Speaker 1: and rains, make it a multiple score game, then yeah,
Speaker 1: that gives our defense a chance to pender your part.
Speaker 1: You know, our ears back on their quarterback and how
Speaker 1: about how he assesses the play of the quarterback to
Speaker 1: a tongue of vloa in those fourth quarters. Fourth quarters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been he's been well. In the fourth quarter, he's
Speaker 1: done well. And um, you know, again we want to
Speaker 1: make sure that he's making good decisions. And you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes down to playing our best to bury
Speaker 1: end of the game is ultimately where you need to
Speaker 1: play your your very best football. Um, And we learned
Speaker 1: through the course of the game how it's being played
Speaker 1: and at the end we need to make sure where
Speaker 1: you're adapting and applying our best football back. Now, I
Speaker 1: think that final point right there is very very interesting
Speaker 1: with regards to adjusting throughout the course of the game,
Speaker 1: finding out what things work for you, what things didn't
Speaker 1: work for you, and how to apply those later on.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this on podcast before. You know, going
Speaker 1: back to the Patriots game last year, you have a
Speaker 1: snapshot of essentially not the same play, but two very
Speaker 1: similar plays where to A throws a kind of scramble
Speaker 1: picks are not a pick six, but an interception in
Speaker 1: the end zone to J. C. Jackson, one of the
Speaker 1: best ball hawks the entire National Football League. And then
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, coming down the opposite direction to
Speaker 1: the other end zone. He's in the same a similar
Speaker 1: third down scramble situation, and rather than take the throw,
Speaker 1: he puts his foot in the ground, makes a move
Speaker 1: on a player, and gets in for the touchdown to
Speaker 1: really help put that game away. So learning from the
Speaker 1: earlier blessings you take throughout the course of the football
Speaker 1: game and applying them in the fourth quarter, sir, only
Speaker 1: a good trade, especially for a young player, especially for
Speaker 1: a young team like your Miami Dolphins. So really good
Speaker 1: information there from coach Godz. As always, he's always so
Speaker 1: transparent and upfront with us about his football knowledge and
Speaker 1: giving that knowledge to us as people in the media
Speaker 1: and fans of this team and of this game. And
Speaker 1: speaking of two, uh, I want to pick it up
Speaker 1: here with quarterbacks coach Charlie Fry. And again my theme
Speaker 1: here was kind of three pronged, again with some off
Speaker 1: script follow ups as well, which I got with coach
Speaker 1: Fry too, But those three prongs were talk about yourself
Speaker 1: scouting process for your particular room slash position group, and
Speaker 1: don't say talk about it because that's like journalism one
Speaker 1: on one, that's not how you ask a question. Number two,
Speaker 1: what are the pros and cons of seeing a team
Speaker 1: for the second time within the span of one month,
Speaker 1: because the Dolphins and Jets played back in week eleven
Speaker 1: and now again here in week number fift team and
Speaker 1: what are the Jets personnel and scheme do to challenge
Speaker 1: your specific room or position group. So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick it up here with coach Fry. The first
Speaker 1: question for coach was about seeing the same opponent within
Speaker 1: the span of one month two times. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: in this league, Um, it's hard to beat anybody twice,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Just so you know the
Speaker 1: second time around, you you've got a better field for
Speaker 1: each other, and you know, a second time game planning
Speaker 1: against each other, and you know, so you don't know
Speaker 1: each other better. So you've got to just take the
Speaker 1: approach of just starting all over again, um, saying attention
Speaker 1: to detail in your preparation. Uh, same same way to
Speaker 1: attack it, um, and just just go from there. And
Speaker 1: then listening back to my interview here with coach, I
Speaker 1: literally told him this is probably a dumb question, but
Speaker 1: we'll ask it anyways. I asked him, if you put
Speaker 1: more emphasis on the particular Jets game that you just
Speaker 1: played against them than other tapes as you prepare for
Speaker 1: your opponent, because you're obviously gonna have more than one
Speaker 1: tape you look at. Is there an emphasis on the
Speaker 1: last time you played this team? Yeah? I think you
Speaker 1: you you learn a lot him the first time you
Speaker 1: play them. Um, there's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: things that you you like, there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: you wish you you could do better and correct. So
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a good place to start, um.
Speaker 1: And then just you know that the the next three games,
Speaker 1: it's okay, this is how they played us. You know,
Speaker 1: are they what are they doing different? Going back on
Speaker 1: script here, back on the theme talking about coach fries
Speaker 1: self scouting process and how he kind of put that
Speaker 1: to the quarterback room to make that group better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just get better, you know. That was that
Speaker 1: was kind of the message during during the bye week
Speaker 1: was get better. Um. So you know we attack different areas,
Speaker 1: you know within you know the structure of of how
Speaker 1: we attack, and we said, okay, if we do X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z better, you know that we're gonna get
Speaker 1: a higher rate of efficiency on on this if we
Speaker 1: can you know, marry our feet within our progression maybe
Speaker 1: we can get the ball out half a second fashion,
Speaker 1: so you really don't have you know that that gives
Speaker 1: you some time to really dive into, you know, things
Speaker 1: you've been doing and and just see how you can
Speaker 1: get better. I thought that point was very interesting from Coach,
Speaker 1: especially the idea of just trying to clean up some
Speaker 1: of the little things that can create better efficiency within
Speaker 1: every single play. Obviously every drive and every game is
Speaker 1: that kind of plays out over the course of a
Speaker 1: sixty minute game, but talking about the footwork and getting
Speaker 1: certain things cleaned up, and we'll come back to that
Speaker 1: here in just a second, as I had a follow
Speaker 1: up question for Coach on that particular topic. But we've
Speaker 1: talked about it on the All Twenties two Review podcast,
Speaker 1: right like how we think that even though the team
Speaker 1: is playing pretty well right now, there are some opportunities
Speaker 1: for corrections to make things even better, and especially on
Speaker 1: the offensive side, where you get one offensive penalty or
Speaker 1: one mislocated pass or one dropped football and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the entire dynamic of that drive, of that
Speaker 1: particular maybe even game changes with that one mistake, and
Speaker 1: cleaning up those mistakes can lead to more efficiency and
Speaker 1: of course better results on the scoreboard in terms of
Speaker 1: being in more comfortable positions and not just winning games
Speaker 1: are closing out games type, but maybe you find yourself
Speaker 1: in a position where you can dominate a game, kind
Speaker 1: of like we saw in the Carolina game. So I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that with Coach also enjoyed his answer talking
Speaker 1: about what are some of the strengths of the Jets
Speaker 1: scheme and personnel they can do to challenge your group,
Speaker 1: your position group. The quarterbacks, I think they're built. I
Speaker 1: don't know from the from the front to the back.
Speaker 1: You know, just they got it. They got a really
Speaker 1: good front and they can get pressure um in a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways, so whether it's pushed the pocket
Speaker 1: or come off the edges or or things. I think
Speaker 1: for us that would just be you know, focusing on
Speaker 1: our footwork's gotta be exact, our eyes got to be
Speaker 1: in the right place. So that a is us the
Speaker 1: ability to help the unit by getting the ball out.
Speaker 1: And I think this is our last one here with
Speaker 1: Coach Fry go ahead and finish up. I talked to
Speaker 1: about the pieces of content we covered on the podcast
Speaker 1: yesterday with regards to Peyton Manning and J. T. O.
Speaker 1: Sullivan breaking down QB one here and two a tongue
Speaker 1: byla and about the idea of getting your feet set
Speaker 1: among every possible situation where there's a heavy pass brush,
Speaker 1: whether you're outside the framework of the route concept, whether
Speaker 1: you're you know, off structure because of the pressure getting
Speaker 1: in on you, or receiver not getting to his landmarks
Speaker 1: soon enough. Maybe the quarterback didn't make the right read
Speaker 1: to get himself in position to make that threatening throw,
Speaker 1: a threatening position to make a throw, make a run,
Speaker 1: what have you. Here's coach Fry about setting the feet
Speaker 1: and delivering the football in that regard and working on
Speaker 1: those things as you get deeper into the season and
Speaker 1: deeper into your career. It's every quarterback you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's your your footwork. It's kind of like your your
Speaker 1: alarm clock. It's there's a lot of things in relationship
Speaker 1: to what happens throughout a play and relationship to the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks feet, and you try and marry your feet as
Speaker 1: your timing mechanism going through progressions, going through and also
Speaker 1: in as on an alarm if something breaks down. So
Speaker 1: we spent a lot of time just makes making sure
Speaker 1: your feet are right that you're always in a position
Speaker 1: to throw. And you know, a quarterbacks back foot is
Speaker 1: a mindset, it truly is. It's it's a it's a
Speaker 1: tough guy mindset. It's a I'm gonna dig my back foot.
Speaker 1: I know they're coming, i know they're pushing, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna rip this ball up. And so with that great
Speaker 1: detail they're from coach, I had to follow up and
Speaker 1: ask about the very first play of the last game
Speaker 1: where you see two of his eyes and feet go flat,
Speaker 1: seeing back to the flat and just kind of keeping
Speaker 1: himself aligned that way. I wanted to ask coach if
Speaker 1: that was a good example and just how he kind
Speaker 1: of thought about that play and what it says about
Speaker 1: two was relationship between the eyes and the feet and
Speaker 1: hard hiring those two elements of your game together. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and when things break down, you know, the
Speaker 1: first thing that usually breaks down with with younger quarterbacks
Speaker 1: is their foot work. So it's just it's just continuing
Speaker 1: to develop it, continuing to stress and work on it.
Speaker 1: That that's at the end of the day. Your feet,
Speaker 1: your eyes, your progression, that's that's that's what allows you
Speaker 1: to sleep at night, you know what I mean? No
Speaker 1: one knows things stone cold so that in your mind
Speaker 1: they can't get you. Yep. I can talk to coach
Speaker 1: about that kind of stuff all day, and that's basically
Speaker 1: true of all my conversations here. I could just continue
Speaker 1: ripping off these things all day along with these coaches,
Speaker 1: as they give us so much detail and information about
Speaker 1: the game we all love. It's like I love assistant
Speaker 1: coach media day. It's the very best. With that in mind,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and move on now to coach Lemil
Speaker 1: John Pierre, who I asked the same question that I
Speaker 1: posed to every other coach pros and on about seeing
Speaker 1: a team twice the New York Jets within the span
Speaker 1: of four weeks. It's like it's a special opportunity, like
Speaker 1: it's very you know, unique as it is. You know,
Speaker 1: we play him that close, and whenever you play at
Speaker 1: divisional opponents, I was gonna be tough, and then you
Speaker 1: play them closer, so it's like, yeah, like you got
Speaker 1: the game. You just play so hopefully because you have
Speaker 1: film all against guys you just played against, but knowing
Speaker 1: like you played the same team another time, it's not
Speaker 1: not the same matchup. To me, it usually ends up
Speaker 1: being a little bit tougher because now like he's like
Speaker 1: that chess match was like it's closer. You know, maybe injuries,
Speaker 1: you know, they might get guys back and might have happen.
Speaker 1: We have those those things that change a little bit.
Speaker 1: But um, it's very unique in terms of what it
Speaker 1: presents you as the preparation things like that. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and stay on the script here and ask coach
Speaker 1: about what challenges the Jets front presents this Dolphins front
Speaker 1: in terms of bowl scheme and personal im in front,
Speaker 1: I mean they're very good and I mean that's really
Speaker 1: in the front seven. I think they're very good and talented.
Speaker 1: They got speed and those guys do play hard on defense.
Speaker 1: They're very talent up front, and then you know they
Speaker 1: they present something different in terms of you know, they
Speaker 1: got size and then they got power. Like along the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. You know you see you know mostly
Speaker 1: the guy you see every game you say, like you said,
Speaker 1: you're talking, he plays the energy. Well you see the speed.
Speaker 1: They also got another linebacker spots and even that secondary,
Speaker 1: I mean you see them you know their physical down
Speaker 1: in there. So that's a very good defense. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up with coach here about self scouting
Speaker 1: and the process of improvement over the time off for
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Yeah, you know, just trying to keep
Speaker 1: digging and you got a little bunch of time to
Speaker 1: for sure, you know, folks and your guys and kind
Speaker 1: of take their time to you know, look at one
Speaker 1: of the things that you know you've done well, things
Speaker 1: that you need improve on, and things like that, and
Speaker 1: you know, overall what you see is the growth, which
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like he's starting the show. Like
Speaker 1: we said, the effort for these guys have never changed. Um,
Speaker 1: they continue to you know, even during the bidby contacted them,
Speaker 1: send them things that contacted me. So we're very much
Speaker 1: in the ball. But once we get on the field,
Speaker 1: it has to show. So there goes Coach Lamb. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and flip it over to the defensive side
Speaker 1: and the guys like up against the offensive line and
Speaker 1: practice on the d line here, and let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and work front to back and talk to coach Clark
Speaker 1: about his processes over the bye week for self scouting
Speaker 1: and again improvement. Yeah, so we look at, you know,
Speaker 1: things we've done well, things we need to work on.
Speaker 1: How teams are playing us, how we're playing them, Is
Speaker 1: there anything we're given away? You know, you kind of
Speaker 1: go through, uh basically self evaluation. You know, personally, I
Speaker 1: start with myself, you know, what are we doing during
Speaker 1: practice or these drills or these techniques showing up in
Speaker 1: the game positively? Um, is there something that I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that I should be doing? Um from our defensive
Speaker 1: line perspective, and then it goes trickles out throughout the
Speaker 1: whole defense. So I think it's a great exercise that
Speaker 1: it definitely uh tells the tale kind of of how
Speaker 1: guys can get better individually. You know, every player is different,
Speaker 1: so there may be something we're doing with one guy
Speaker 1: that we need to hit before practice extra because this
Speaker 1: player has this part figured out and maybe he needs
Speaker 1: to work on that. So I think he's a great exercise,
Speaker 1: you know, and and hopefully it helps his first jets.
Speaker 1: And if you ever get a chance to come out
Speaker 1: for training camp next summer or any other summer besides that,
Speaker 1: make sure you keep your eyes on Coach Clark. He's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch coach those guys up
Speaker 1: and it's high intensity throughout the course of the fundamental
Speaker 1: segment of practice, the individual portions, the team portion, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. Those guys are on ten at
Speaker 1: all times. Go ahead and pick it up here with
Speaker 1: coach about some of the uh pros and cons of
Speaker 1: playing a team within the span of four weeks two
Speaker 1: different times. Yeah, I think it's especially a team might
Speaker 1: digests that are that are veteran good group up front.
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely a tough challenge. You know, these
Speaker 1: guys have played a lot of ball, They play hard,
Speaker 1: they work well together. Um, they've gotten better each week. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think it's tough for me coming from college.
Speaker 1: That was a new thing at first, because you only
Speaker 1: really do that if it's a championship game, you know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it's tough. I think there is
Speaker 1: a little familiarity in terms of personnel who you're going against,
Speaker 1: but they have that same familiarity. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough challenge for us. And and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a great week of practice and hopefully play our best
Speaker 1: ball Sunday. Yes, hopefully play our best ball. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for that game. But it feels like it's been
Speaker 1: forever since we last played a football game. Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Jets here at hard Rock Stadium. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and keep moving along the defense here, and let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pick us up with coach Campanelli. Every time
Speaker 1: we talk, we talk food you have to do with
Speaker 1: coach just want to play a little sit bit here
Speaker 1: talking about some pizza in the South Florida area. You
Speaker 1: know what it is. But they got like the He's right,
Speaker 1: the pizzas are kind of small, and then you just
Speaker 1: you just you end up beating, like pointing slices is
Speaker 1: not you know, I mean me anyway, I have no
Speaker 1: self control. So yeah, exactly, I look at like four
Speaker 1: pizza boxes and I'm like, I definitely ate the kids
Speaker 1: didn't feel like eating nothing. I'm like, well somebody ate this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt. I love it every time, the very best.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and pick it up here with coach
Speaker 1: camp talking about his self scouting processes and what he
Speaker 1: uses the extra time for to help out linebacker room
Speaker 1: improve and get better. Yeah. I think you go back
Speaker 1: and you look at, um, you know obviously each player
Speaker 1: what they're doing well, and then schematically in each you
Speaker 1: know situation, Um, how guys are attacking you and you know,
Speaker 1: are there things that keep coming up? And that's really
Speaker 1: just kind of keeping yourself in a competitive advantage, I
Speaker 1: guess is probably the best way to say. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, really just kind of looking inward. It
Speaker 1: gives you the bye week, gives you a chance to
Speaker 1: look at that, uh you know, kind of look at
Speaker 1: every facet of the defense and what we're doing well. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, was there any changes and and really, like
Speaker 1: like I said, how guys are attacking you throughout all
Speaker 1: those different situations in the field, so that you have
Speaker 1: the bye week adjustments there for the linebackers. How about
Speaker 1: the challenges the Jets offense presents the linebacker group here
Speaker 1: in Miami in this game on Sunday. Yeah, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: just division games are they're always gonna be tough games
Speaker 1: because you know each other so well. So um, you're
Speaker 1: really really trying to do your do diligence uh on
Speaker 1: each opponent within the division, and uh, they obviously know
Speaker 1: us pretty well. Uh hopefully we're doing a good job
Speaker 1: getting to know them well. And I think going back
Speaker 1: and looking at the games, obviously, you know in the
Speaker 1: second game, whenever you play, you're looking at what went
Speaker 1: well what didn't go well, you know, and you have
Speaker 1: it's always interesting, you know, you played each other twice,
Speaker 1: you have, and you do that every year. You have
Speaker 1: a pretty good feel for their personnel. And they have
Speaker 1: a good personnel, you know, and they they're playing hard,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, for us, just looking at ourselves
Speaker 1: that last bye week, you know, hopefully we're doing things
Speaker 1: down the stretch here in this game, which is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the next one obviously being a very important game.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we're doing some of those things better as we
Speaker 1: move forward. I just think, you know, they've got they've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of good backs. They they they've done
Speaker 1: a good job getting the ball to their playmakers. They
Speaker 1: have a good young quarterback who's obviously a playmaker himself,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know throughout the roster. I think they've
Speaker 1: done a good job building their team. And like I said,
Speaker 1: there are guys, uh play hard. You know, the tight
Speaker 1: ends have made a bunch of players this year as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: the running backs, like I said, they've done a good
Speaker 1: job in the run game in the past game. So
Speaker 1: they kind of certainly certainly test you, uh in every
Speaker 1: situation in our room. And there he goes coach camp
Speaker 1: a lot of fun talking to these guys about you know,
Speaker 1: how their time off was about food, vacation, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, but also the good football stuff. And
Speaker 1: they gave us great content every single time and helped
Speaker 1: teach us something about this game, which again is really
Speaker 1: my focus here on the Drivetime podcast, we have two
Speaker 1: more coaches left back to the secondary cornerbacks coach Charles Brooks,
Speaker 1: who I asked first about his processes for self scouting
Speaker 1: and getting the cornerbacks room better and ready over the
Speaker 1: course of the bye week. Yeah, you know, from my
Speaker 1: from my process, uh first and foremost, we you know,
Speaker 1: I'll start with us as a scheme, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: within within our different responsibilities as position coaches. You know,
Speaker 1: we look at the overall scheme first and then we
Speaker 1: look at how that affects our position. And then you
Speaker 1: dive deeper and see how that expect affects your specific players,
Speaker 1: you know, so big picture, uh, position group, and then
Speaker 1: just really the specific players. You want to sub scout
Speaker 1: them and you know, look at things that they're doing well,
Speaker 1: look at things that you know they're not doing as well.
Speaker 1: You know, how they can potentially be attacked, how they
Speaker 1: are being attacked. Uh, and then just really how you
Speaker 1: can get better from that detailed as always there with
Speaker 1: coach Brooks, let's go ahead and keep it rolling here
Speaker 1: and talk to him about the idea of playing the
Speaker 1: same team twice in a four week span. Advantages disadvantages.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, coach, Are there some frozen cons to that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would say each game. Uh, although it's the same team,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a different game, you know, so
Speaker 1: you you got to give them that respect. I think
Speaker 1: teams change, you know over weeks. The one team may
Speaker 1: have an identity earlier in the season. One team may
Speaker 1: have an identity three weeks ago, and that identity may
Speaker 1: change by tithing they get to you. So depend on
Speaker 1: who shows up, how they want to play that game.
Speaker 1: You gotta go into it. Although you're familiar with said team,
Speaker 1: we have to go into it, but basically a clean
Speaker 1: slate and approached them and giving that respect. So you
Speaker 1: have Coach Burke's talking about his cornerbacks. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish up here on the podcast today with safety
Speaker 1: or rather defensive backs Coach Gerald Alexander, same question to him,
Speaker 1: what's the pros and cons of facing a team twice
Speaker 1: inside the span of one month. Man, I think the
Speaker 1: the pros of it is, you know, you've kind of seen,
Speaker 1: you kind of experienced some things, um just very recent
Speaker 1: in regards to how they played us and what we
Speaker 1: did and what our plan was. But with work, we
Speaker 1: didn't work with the stakes we needed to correct. UM.
Speaker 1: Not that that the game is going to be the
Speaker 1: exact same, the strategy is gonna be the exact same,
Speaker 1: but you just have some familiarity with maybe the schemes
Speaker 1: that really mostly some of the players that the guys
Speaker 1: are gonna be competing against. Picking it back up here
Speaker 1: with g A a question about what this Jets offensive
Speaker 1: personnel as well as scheme can do to attack this
Speaker 1: Dolphin secondary and put or create challenges for that group.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of different things for uh them
Speaker 1: offensively where they just move guys around pre snap and
Speaker 1: move different players. So I discipline is really going to
Speaker 1: be a key deal for us as far as um
Speaker 1: what they do pre snap, how they move, the temple
Speaker 1: in which they move. So it's always going to be
Speaker 1: a challenge to make sure that we communicate well, align well,
Speaker 1: especially when you have things going on presnap that kind
Speaker 1: of messing with eye discipline and alignments and things like that.
Speaker 1: And we'll go ahead and finish up here with the
Speaker 1: same question I asked everybody else, what are your processes
Speaker 1: for self scouting and how to improve your particular position
Speaker 1: group over the course of the bye week? What's all
Speaker 1: really motivated behind self improvement? So when you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to really look at your body of work, see
Speaker 1: the things that you've done well, see the things you
Speaker 1: need to continue to improve on. Um, see the strengths
Speaker 1: and weaknesses of things that have shown up, whether it
Speaker 1: just be as a whole or individually. Uh, use that
Speaker 1: opportunity to address some of the issues, recognize some of
Speaker 1: the issues, and hopefully improve those things before and there
Speaker 1: he goes, and there we go. Hope you guys enjoyed
Speaker 1: this edition of the Drive Time podcast. Some education there
Speaker 1: as we get from the coaches every other week, and
Speaker 1: of course the assistance and coordinators, I should say, on
Speaker 1: those off weeks as well. It's a good information there
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins coaching staff. Uh, that's it. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get out of here. Jets preview podcast coming
Speaker 1: your way tomorrow. Cannot wait to dive in also can't
Speaker 1: wait to get out of here because Caroline has a
Speaker 1: Christmas performance at her school slash daycare, and I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get out there. They didn't tell us what
Speaker 1: they're doing as far as the kid's performance, but she's
Speaker 1: been coming home and completely on her own rapping out.
Speaker 1: I think, what is the performance? She's singing head, shoulders,
Speaker 1: knees and toes, eyes and ears and all that fun stuff,
Speaker 1: but she's mostly just speaking gibberish outside of the fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty or so words she knows. So as I
Speaker 1: say about seriously, everything that she does, it's my favorite
Speaker 1: thing that she does. But I think she's gonna destroy
Speaker 1: the performance and I cannot wait to see it. And
Speaker 1: if she doesn't, just roy I don't care because she's
Speaker 1: the best regardless. So that's my Tuesday, looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: I hope you guys is Wednesday here. Today goes well
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