WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 113 | Schedule Release 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.200 All right, welcome back to the audible Kimbocamber, John kN 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.119 Jemmy and John. We're getting used to this. Uh he's 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.600 doing the show from distance, and uh it's a little crazy, 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:16.799 but but our world's a little crazy right now. And 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.079 uh we're doing as well as we can. But that 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.120 being said, Kimbo Camber here, John kN Jemmy there, and uh, John, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:24.840 the good thing is, the good thing is with the 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.040 way the draft is now and the way that the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.240 league is has set things up is you know, you 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.000 know you're not sitting there. You're not sitting there two 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.479 days before training camp starts and you've got your your 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.839 top two draft picks unsigned and you're wondering when when 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.400 they're gonna show up. Now, now it's pretty much a 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:46.360 done deal. Uh. Your Dolphins already have what uh six 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.800 players signed out of their draft class and uh and 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.760 I would expect over the next couple of weeks, Uh, 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:54.920 they'll they'll get them all. I'll put to bed here 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.920 pretty quickly because John, really, in reality, with the draft 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.560 and the way it's set up now, wherever you a drafted, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.360 whatever slot you're in, you're gonna get about three percent 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.319 of what of over what they got those players at 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.680 that spot got last year, so it makes it pretty easy. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.120 It really doesn't leave very much room for players to 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:16.400 to hold out every now and then. I think you 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.480 saw the Bosa kids that you know hold out a 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.320 little bit, uh, and every now and then someone else spoke. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.039 For the most part, John, it's draft and signed for 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.400 the league these days, and no different for the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.000 I agree with you though, And in terms of I 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.520 never thought i'd use a four letter word more than 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.840 I've used zoom in the last NABE four to six weeks, right, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.000 And I think the league is starting to adapt to 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:44.240 to being able to function at a distance, and I'm 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.480 not so sure that the signings would have been any different. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.360 But I I think for the young guys it's just 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.120 a matter of catching up. And I think there's there's 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.960 a little apprehension I would think on all the coaching 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.400 staffs throughout the entire NFL, all thirty two teams wondering 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.840 and crossing their fingers if those guys that are saying, yeah, 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.880 I got it, yeah, I got it, Uh, maybe don't 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.560 have it until you can see him in person. But 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.400 with the signings, I don't think there's any difference, you know, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.799 I think you know, there's been six Dolphins that have 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.520 been able to to ink their contracts and and like 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.359 you said, both they're all gonna be slotted in, no 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.160 matter if you go first, or you go in the 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.639 middle of the pack, or you go last. There's a 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.120 whole there's not a whole lot of room for negotiation. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.360 You know, there might be on some minor individual contracts 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.560 depending on what position you play, and maybe some incentified 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.880 things that you have in your contract, but pretty much 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.520 everybody's gonna be slotted in at a price range and 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.400 you're gonna go accordingly. So I think that's been very 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.480 smooth for for you know, what we're having to deal 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.680 with on a daily basis of dealing with business and 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:57.720 dealing with operational and function reality of the league. I 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.120 think all that's pretty much seamless now out. And I 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.720 would think that hopefully as we inch closer to getting 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.560 some type of normalcy in our lives are are regular 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.440 daily lives, it would it would inch back into the 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.720 business side as well, and and so certainly the NFL 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.800 falls into that category. Yeah, it's uh, it is from 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.920 a signing standpoint, pretty much business is usual and usually 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.120 usually John, the only guys that really have any anything, 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.799 really any anything to deal with as far as the 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.360 draft of the you know, the top few rounds of guys, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.640 and you know you'll see somebody and usually it say 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.120 they want some setback kind of deals that the numbers 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.240 are pretty well firmed. But you know, some of it's 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.640 whether you know, if uh that fifth year extension or whatever, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.640 different things that they they they talk about. But it's 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.680 it's become a lot more reasonable than that it's been 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.360 in the past, where your your draft guys high and 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.840 you don't have them for the first month of the 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.600 season because they've held out, and then they're virtually worthless 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.520 to you the rest of that year, and you kind 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.720 of toss away their first year and try to get 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.120 them back on speed next year. And so I like 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.040 the way the NFL has done that, gotten that out 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:04.760 of the way. You touched on a little bit, John, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.280 something else I want to talk about these the teams 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.400 an now, ur I think I think virtually every team 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.360 in the league has gone through virtual meetings right now, 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.920 be a zoom or whatever whatever app upparatus they used 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.040 for that UM And and like you said, you know, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.279 it gives you an opportunity to kind of uh speak 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.560 to your players, start putting some install in, you know, 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.360 the basic stuff. But John, it's it's I can, I can, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:37.160 I can guarantee of these coaches, UM personnel people are 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.720 probably a little bit uncomfortable for this because, like you said, 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.480 you know you can, you know you can, you can 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.240 be you can be on one of these virtual chats 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.880 and you know, and the coach was, Okay, we got this, this, this, 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.120 and you get that there's like you're in it. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:52.960 where in the back of their minds going I'm gonna 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.440 shake my head, yeah, because I don't want to be 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:55.839 the dummy out there, but I don't know what the 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.839 hell they're talking about. Whereas whereas if you're in a 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.359 meeting room, you know, and you're in your meeting and 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.640 you're looking and you know there's there's something you know, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.080 you're never gonna have that closeness that you would have 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:14.839 with your head coach, your position coach, your coordinators. Where 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.800 you've got a meeting where you're actually sitting in a 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.480 meeting room and you talk about it, and and as 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.960 as as a meeting branch and you head out to practice. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.680 You know, you can pull that coach aside and say, coach, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.520 I'm not sure what you were talking about this, or 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.479 get a little and get a little that personal insight 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.839 that those are the types of things I think you 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.400 meet with miss with these virtual meetings. Having now having 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.159 said that, the entire league is dealing with it's like 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.480 anything else, playing on a on a muddy field or 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.200 a snowy day or a really hot day. Both both 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.000 teams got to play in the same and the same circumstances, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.440 and it's no different with this. Yeah, I would think 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.960 as a coach, just putting you know, your coaching had 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.839 on for a minute, you would have maybe three or 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.320 four guys out of say you're holding a defensive meeting 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.000 and there's probably three or four guys you're walking into 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.359 the meeting going I need to look this guy in 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.560 the eye and make sure when I explained this particular 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.400 scheme on this particular blitz, that I want to hear 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.360 it from that guy because there's you know, he's very 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.360 important to us disguising or us getting in the right formation, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.560 or us having the right leverage. And I think you 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:24.839 don't get that that instant, uh, that instant feedback when 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.040 you're virtually kind of going as everybody have it, every go, yeah, 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.440 everybody hits a button, Yeah yeah, yeah, I got it, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.599 I got it. So I think you missed that personal 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.240 touch in terms of, as you said, your example, from 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.960 player to coach and you're walking to lunch or you're 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.760 walking out to practice and where you're walking to a 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.960 walkthrough and you're able to go, hey, coach, just go 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.320 over that one more time about where do I need 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.240 to be in my outside the hash and then and 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.719 then disguising and you know, and then and my is 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.960 my depth six and a half yards on that or 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:56.479 my eight and a half yards? And where do you 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.919 want me to be? And I think you miss those 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.960 little things of being able to tease a guy also 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.240 to say I knew you didn't have that, and let's 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.880 do it again. And now you get that kind of 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.280 bond going with your coach in terms of a report 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.200 of communication, and you don't get to break that down 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.160 when you're sitting in your room and maybe you know 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:19.760 you have a family and you have a you know, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.520 kids running around, or you're single, and you you can't 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.440 wait to maybe do something else, and you're kind of 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.720 going through saying yeah, I got it, but really you don't. Well, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.360 you know, it's it's funny, John, because you know, you 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.840 look at on a the way, the way, the norm, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.520 what norm has been in the National Football League over 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.160 the last a dozen years or however long. You know, 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:39.880 you you've had these O t A s and all 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.720 these different types of things going on. You know, we've seen, John, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.120 We've seen the times where you know, you you kind 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.720 of look at these O t A s and then 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.520 then you watch a mini camp and and you're going, geez, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:51.720 all right, you know this guy, you know? And and 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.760 and basically now talking about the rookies or or new 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.760 guys that have come into the team and young guys 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.080 not not not guys have been five six seven year 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.280 boards in the league because they catch on pretty well. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.840 But from a rookie standpoint, where the change of terminology, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.800 the way they go about business, the way you get 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:09.480 in the huddle, the way you get out of the huddle. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.080 You know how practice works. Where do you where do 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.040 you go first? What do you all all those things 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.920 that that you go through. And so you did all 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.760 that through the O T A s and through mini camps. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.480 But John even with all that, and we've all seen 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.680 it over the years where you're looking at the young guys, 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.600 you're looking at the rookies and Washington progressed through through 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.640 mini camps and and O T s. You go, know that, 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.959 kids looking pretty good and then all of a sudden 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.920 you put the pads on and you go out on 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:36.800 the field and the kid doesn't know where to go, 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.680 doesn't know what to do, and just kind of loses everything. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.120 So I think, yeah, so I think that you know 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.959 that that that unknown of does it sink in or 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.640 are they getting it? Is much more difficult between coach 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:55.080 and player under this circumstance. I know technology is great, 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.280 and I know you can get all these people on, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.000 but that that that physical contact that like you said, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.880 just walking and talking. Um. You know, and we've seen it, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.400 like I said, over the years where you've had a 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:06.880 guy in New Hey, guy looks pretty good and then 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.880 all of a sudden they can't remember how to run 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.120 a route. You know, he doesn't know where he's supposed 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:12.800 to be, and you know, how can you do that? 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.920 They've been through O T s. Now you're gonna run 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.120 into that at some point when camp's open up. Here, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.760 and it's probably gonna be a lot more so John, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.080 with these virtual meetings, because you know, if you're a 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.839 young guy, you don't want to be the guys that 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.280 every time the guard guy puts an install we have 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.000 to stow down just because well, when you talk about 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.440 the deep third coach, I mean, how far that am 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.440 I supposed to be on, you know, closer to the line, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.720 to the sideline, And are I supposed to be the number? 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.840 You know, all those little things that you can little nuances. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.880 I think of the things that you miss when when 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.920 you have virtual meetings rather than what you would normally 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.599 have on the field, you're on the field work that 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.400 you see, well, I think so Bo. And also, you 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.680 know you mentioned something about us kind of sitting around 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.040 and watching the O. T A s when they finally 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.240 get out onto the field. And not for the veterans, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.559 but for the young guys. We we would have an example. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.040 We'd say, hey, who check it out. They use Curtis 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.280 Weaver again in this, you know with the ones and 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.760 and he was able to be at an outside linebacker 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.040 position and dropping or starting a defensive end and moving 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.480 or we saw uh, you know, somebody else moving it 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.880 at a dB spot and he's you know, running now 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.760 the nickel the slot nickel, And we didn't think he 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.600 could do that, but he's fast enough to do that. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.600 You know, It's funny how you pick things up and 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.040 you see guys getting more reps. You know, our offensive 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.240 line is gonna endure a significant change, hopefully for the better, 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.520 in two thousand twenty. But now you have guys like 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.400 Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt and Solomon Kinley. All three 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.640 of those guys are running what the wants? This is great. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.360 Let's check it out. Somebody you know, so and so 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.599 is it center instead of Ed Garter a tackle? Let's this? 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.200 You know, maybe he has position flexibility all over the place, 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:56.840 so you miss things like that. And and I believe 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.120 the NFL. Once we finally get too closer to the 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.320 month of July and closer to you know, to maybe 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.840 a penciled in start date where camps were originally going 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.520 to start, I would think there's gonna be some type 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.760 of provision to bring these guys in maybe a week 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.960 to ten days even earlier than the original start date, 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.880 and and not to be out on the field, but 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.920 just to go through the normalcy of getting your physical 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.560 which might be a little bit more uh entailed in 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.080 terms of health. You know, your your original health start, 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.160 you know, for each guy where you're at with your numbers, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.080 and then being able to go into meetings with Hey, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.560 today's just defense, and you know, let's spread out throughout 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.920 the building. Tomorrow is just offense with the offensive coaches, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.760 let's spread out within the building and let's you know, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.920 get get up maybe ten seven to ten days heads 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.199 start on training camp, so everybody kind of gets that, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.320 uh being around the building feeling and being around the 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.240 coaches and being around how how it's gonna be hopefully 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:04.720 throughout the entire season, and and give these guys an 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.920 opportunity to maybe pick up on some of the lost 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.600 things that they were missing out on in the months 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.800 of you know, May and early June. You know you 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.120 talking about missing out too. I mean, I mean, you know, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:17.720 to me and one of one of the great things 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.920 that one of you know that about as much as 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.760 much like going from high school to college, you know, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.080 you go from college to the pros, and you know 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.360 how it is when you're you know you're going to 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.280 well you're coming to high school and you go to college, John, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.960 And you got your recruiting class, right, all the guys 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.319 that got recruited your year, and you're gonna be there 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.600 with him for three or four or five years, depending 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.800 on what your situation is. And and there's always a 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.600 kinship between those groups, right, those those classes, And and 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.120 it's the same in the NFL. And and and I 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.360 think one thing that these guys are are are missing 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.680 out on is is just that that hey, we all 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.880 got drafted. We got what they got? Was it what 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.560 they end up eleven eleven picks, right, eleven draft picks 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.440 that they ended up with after moving the trades and 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.880 stuff like that. You got eleven guys that are kind 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.520 of tied at the hip together throughout their career. Where 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.200 you you know, you go, hey, this is these guys, Well, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.440 we all came into the Great Zay in the same 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.120 draft class. And I just remember the first mini camp 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.800 I went to where we had like two days where 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.679 it was just the rookies before the veteran came different 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.200 obviously different than what it is now, but where you 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.840 get a chance to just be with those with that 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.880 rookie class, whether it's draft choice and free and free 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.680 agents and and just get to know him and just 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.280 get the bond and you know, and just to share 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.400 the experience of being, hey, man, can you believe we're here? 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.840 You know, and jeez, you know, and you get to 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.800 meet these guys and get to bond with them, and 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.200 I think, you know, those little things like that that 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.960 they miss out, that they they're missing out on, you know, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.400 to me, a lot of that stuff was was pretty special. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.520 I can remember, you know, we had seventeen when when 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.800 I got draft, we had seventeen rounds, and I can 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.880 remember almost every guy from my rookie draft class and 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.200 there's some that didn't even make the team that I 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.600 still stay in contact with others, others obviously that made 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.400 the team, where you develop relationships with and it was 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.120 It's really one of the special things in in my 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:10.959 life and a lot of those guys life. And it's 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.280 unfortunately these guys don't get the opportunity right now to 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.600 go through that, because that's basically what they would be 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:22.080 doing right about now with this this distance after the draft. Yeah, 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.280 and I'm sure they're they're getting together virtually in terms 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.760 of you know, all the young guys have to catch 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.400 up and get some things done that maybe the veterans 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.600 don't have to do that. They went through either two, three, four, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.000 or five years ago whenever they were drafted or you 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.640 had a contract signed by an undrafted free agent. So 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.280 you you have all these guys getting together, but there's 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.240 nothing like going from a meeting and then going into 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.520 lunch and kind of sitting around and seeing where everybody 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.240 decides to sit and seeing this, you know, decides who's 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.240 gonna talk to who and who's gonna you know, get 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:01.280 this relationship going where that bondmate and in a month 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.080 or two or it may end in ten years or 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.960 twelve years from now, and and like you said, or 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.960 may never end. Like you said, there are certain guys 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.840 that were either on the team or not that you 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.960 still have a relationship with that are built within the 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.080 first maybe a couple of weeks or month that you're 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.000 together at training camp or at that camp that you're at, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.360 which would be for the modern day player, the o 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.920 t A that they've missed out on. So you're right there, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.040 there is a special bond that these guys are are 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.480 a little bit missing out on the human aspect of 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.480 it in terms of being a in person relationship, but 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.000 hopefully they'll be able to fast that track that in 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.880 the month of July. Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.200 to see Johnny. You know, it's it's it's like everywhere else. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:47.640 And uh, you know, the conversations now that that that 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.760 a lot of people have, whether whether you're a professional 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.640 football player, whether you're a college athlete, whether you're just 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.800 a you know, just a just a guy doing his 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.000 living his life or girl living his life, family living 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.680 their life, is when are things gonna change? When are 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.240 thing's gonna open up? When when's our city gonna open up? 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.520 When's our state can open up? You know? When when 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.440 can I go out and get my haircut again? I 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.720 can do that, do that, all those types of things, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.480 And the NFL is going through the same thing, John, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.880 And then the conversations get to be they're getting to 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.440 be a little longer now and they're getting to be 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.640 a little more uh you know, you're get a little 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.840 closer to that situation. So so the thought about the 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:30.720 NFL itself opening up, Uh, it's it's interesting, John, because 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.480 you've got you have different situations that they're dealing with, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:37.520 you know, I know, and I've been reading about the 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.840 teams in California, the two l A teams UH San Francisco. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.960 You know that the you know, California is a state 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.880 that may not open up for quite a while UH 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.920 and and may not allow UH sports teams to to 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.400 get together where now I've heard that those California teams 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.400 are looking outside in the state to set up training camp, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.280 to get away. Just the thought of opening up is 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.600 another thing that that really has become at this time. 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.800 The draft is behind us, They've signed free agents, and 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.119 now now they're their focus is on, Hey, how can 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.679 I get my team ready to play whenever the season 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:19.080 starts in a not not knowing when and where or 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.919 how it's going to open up for him. Um, you 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.920 know it's gonna open sometimes, John, But boy, I'll tell you. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.080 You know, you're you know, you're listening. You're listening, you'll read, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.040 and you're just you're you're trying to figure out where 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.800 and when. And it's hard to imagine what this league 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.240 is gonna be like when they do open up and 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.680 allow people to start getting together in some form or fashion. Well, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.520 that is the dilemma now, not only for the NFL, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.399 but as you said, you know, a regular guy or 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.159 or a woman that are trying to open up in 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.520 a barbershop or a salon or a nail technician or 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.280 a restaurant or whatever it is, depending on where you 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:01.680 live and what type of local government say. Um, in 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.359 terms of being able to say, are we allowed to 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.359 open up at the end of May? Is it May fifteenth? 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.800 Is it? Is it now? June one? Is it June fifteenth? 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.439 You know, everybody is a little bit different, and I 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.760 guess the best way to do it is going through 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.879 the protocol where you are, uh nationally in that in 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.160 that cycle where that wave, you know, and in terms 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.199 of suppressing the virus, And I guess everybody has their 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.640 own stance and their own say on where they are, 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.520 but you can look and see pretty much it's universal. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.840 You know, if it's trending down and continuing to go down, 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.440 your chances should be pretty good that you're going to 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.920 be able to open up uh relatively soon. And I'm 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.359 you know, certain states and certain counties within those states 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.720 are doing better than maybe other parts of the states, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.399 so naturally they would have a chance to open up quicker. 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.800 But I would say for the NFL aspect of it, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.400 we still have a long way to go. And I've 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.280 been reading a lot for only the NFL, but for 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.040 college football that you know, fans around the country you know, 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:07.879 definitely want their college football. And I think we're just 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.080 you know, we have some time still to wait. I 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:14.639 don't think there needs to be any concrete decision in 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:19.080 terms of government, especially telling us it's not gonna there's 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.800 not gonna be football in the fall. Well, we don't 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.640 really don't know that yet. Let's start play out. Let's 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.080 let's let it kind of see where we are at 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.120 June one, and then June fifteenth, and then you know, 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.040 at the end of June, and where are we out 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.360 after July fourth weekend? You know, where are we at, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.919 you know, in July, and you kind of go along 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.240 the calendar. And I think those decisions should be made 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.679 easier as we know more and as the doctors and 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.359