Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the audible Kimbocamber, John kN
Speaker 1: Jemmy and John. We're getting used to this. Uh he's
Speaker 1: doing the show from distance, and uh it's a little crazy,
Speaker 1: but but our world's a little crazy right now. And
Speaker 1: uh we're doing as well as we can. But that
Speaker 1: being said, Kimbo Camber here, John kN Jemmy there, and uh, John,
Speaker 1: the good thing is, the good thing is with the
Speaker 1: way the draft is now and the way that the
Speaker 1: league is has set things up is you know, you
Speaker 1: know you're not sitting there. You're not sitting there two
Speaker 1: days before training camp starts and you've got your your
Speaker 1: top two draft picks unsigned and you're wondering when when
Speaker 1: they're gonna show up. Now, now it's pretty much a
Speaker 1: done deal. Uh. Your Dolphins already have what uh six
Speaker 1: players signed out of their draft class and uh and
Speaker 1: I would expect over the next couple of weeks, Uh,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll get them all. I'll put to bed here
Speaker 1: pretty quickly because John, really, in reality, with the draft
Speaker 1: and the way it's set up now, wherever you a drafted,
Speaker 1: whatever slot you're in, you're gonna get about three percent
Speaker 1: of what of over what they got those players at
Speaker 1: that spot got last year, so it makes it pretty easy.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't leave very much room for players to
Speaker 1: to hold out every now and then. I think you
Speaker 1: saw the Bosa kids that you know hold out a
Speaker 1: little bit, uh, and every now and then someone else spoke.
Speaker 1: For the most part, John, it's draft and signed for
Speaker 1: the league these days, and no different for the Miami Dolphins. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree with you though, And in terms of I
Speaker 1: never thought i'd use a four letter word more than
Speaker 1: I've used zoom in the last NABE four to six weeks, right,
Speaker 1: And I think the league is starting to adapt to
Speaker 1: to being able to function at a distance, and I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure that the signings would have been any different.
Speaker 1: But I I think for the young guys it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of catching up. And I think there's there's
Speaker 1: a little apprehension I would think on all the coaching
Speaker 1: staffs throughout the entire NFL, all thirty two teams wondering
Speaker 1: and crossing their fingers if those guys that are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got it, yeah, I got it, Uh, maybe don't
Speaker 1: have it until you can see him in person. But
Speaker 1: with the signings, I don't think there's any difference, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know, there's been six Dolphins that have
Speaker 1: been able to to ink their contracts and and like
Speaker 1: you said, both they're all gonna be slotted in, no
Speaker 1: matter if you go first, or you go in the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack, or you go last. There's a
Speaker 1: whole there's not a whole lot of room for negotiation.
Speaker 1: You know, there might be on some minor individual contracts
Speaker 1: depending on what position you play, and maybe some incentified
Speaker 1: things that you have in your contract, but pretty much
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be slotted in at a price range and
Speaker 1: you're gonna go accordingly. So I think that's been very
Speaker 1: smooth for for you know, what we're having to deal
Speaker 1: with on a daily basis of dealing with business and
Speaker 1: dealing with operational and function reality of the league. I
Speaker 1: think all that's pretty much seamless now out. And I
Speaker 1: would think that hopefully as we inch closer to getting
Speaker 1: some type of normalcy in our lives are are regular
Speaker 1: daily lives, it would it would inch back into the
Speaker 1: business side as well, and and so certainly the NFL
Speaker 1: falls into that category. Yeah, it's uh, it is from
Speaker 1: a signing standpoint, pretty much business is usual and usually
Speaker 1: usually John, the only guys that really have any anything,
Speaker 1: really any anything to deal with as far as the
Speaker 1: draft of the you know, the top few rounds of guys,
Speaker 1: and you know you'll see somebody and usually it say
Speaker 1: they want some setback kind of deals that the numbers
Speaker 1: are pretty well firmed. But you know, some of it's
Speaker 1: whether you know, if uh that fifth year extension or whatever,
Speaker 1: different things that they they they talk about. But it's
Speaker 1: it's become a lot more reasonable than that it's been
Speaker 1: in the past, where your your draft guys high and
Speaker 1: you don't have them for the first month of the
Speaker 1: season because they've held out, and then they're virtually worthless
Speaker 1: to you the rest of that year, and you kind
Speaker 1: of toss away their first year and try to get
Speaker 1: them back on speed next year. And so I like
Speaker 1: the way the NFL has done that, gotten that out
Speaker 1: of the way. You touched on a little bit, John,
Speaker 1: something else I want to talk about these the teams
Speaker 1: an now, ur I think I think virtually every team
Speaker 1: in the league has gone through virtual meetings right now,
Speaker 1: be a zoom or whatever whatever app upparatus they used
Speaker 1: for that UM And and like you said, you know,
Speaker 1: it gives you an opportunity to kind of uh speak
Speaker 1: to your players, start putting some install in, you know,
Speaker 1: the basic stuff. But John, it's it's I can, I can,
Speaker 1: I can guarantee of these coaches, UM personnel people are
Speaker 1: probably a little bit uncomfortable for this because, like you said,
Speaker 1: you know you can, you know you can, you can
Speaker 1: be you can be on one of these virtual chats
Speaker 1: and you know, and the coach was, Okay, we got this, this, this,
Speaker 1: and you get that there's like you're in it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: where in the back of their minds going I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shake my head, yeah, because I don't want to be
Speaker 1: the dummy out there, but I don't know what the
Speaker 1: hell they're talking about. Whereas whereas if you're in a
Speaker 1: meeting room, you know, and you're in your meeting and
Speaker 1: you're looking and you know there's there's something you know,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna have that closeness that you would have
Speaker 1: with your head coach, your position coach, your coordinators. Where
Speaker 1: you've got a meeting where you're actually sitting in a
Speaker 1: meeting room and you talk about it, and and as
Speaker 1: as as a meeting branch and you head out to practice.
Speaker 1: You know, you can pull that coach aside and say, coach,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you were talking about this, or
Speaker 1: get a little and get a little that personal insight
Speaker 1: that those are the types of things I think you
Speaker 1: meet with miss with these virtual meetings. Having now having
Speaker 1: said that, the entire league is dealing with it's like
Speaker 1: anything else, playing on a on a muddy field or
Speaker 1: a snowy day or a really hot day. Both both
Speaker 1: teams got to play in the same and the same circumstances,
Speaker 1: and it's no different with this. Yeah, I would think
Speaker 1: as a coach, just putting you know, your coaching had
Speaker 1: on for a minute, you would have maybe three or
Speaker 1: four guys out of say you're holding a defensive meeting
Speaker 1: and there's probably three or four guys you're walking into
Speaker 1: the meeting going I need to look this guy in
Speaker 1: the eye and make sure when I explained this particular
Speaker 1: scheme on this particular blitz, that I want to hear
Speaker 1: it from that guy because there's you know, he's very
Speaker 1: important to us disguising or us getting in the right formation,
Speaker 1: or us having the right leverage. And I think you
Speaker 1: don't get that that instant, uh, that instant feedback when
Speaker 1: you're virtually kind of going as everybody have it, every go, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody hits a button, Yeah yeah, yeah, I got it,
Speaker 1: I got it. So I think you missed that personal
Speaker 1: touch in terms of, as you said, your example, from
Speaker 1: player to coach and you're walking to lunch or you're
Speaker 1: walking out to practice and where you're walking to a
Speaker 1: walkthrough and you're able to go, hey, coach, just go
Speaker 1: over that one more time about where do I need
Speaker 1: to be in my outside the hash and then and
Speaker 1: then disguising and you know, and then and my is
Speaker 1: my depth six and a half yards on that or
Speaker 1: my eight and a half yards? And where do you
Speaker 1: want me to be? And I think you miss those
Speaker 1: little things of being able to tease a guy also
Speaker 1: to say I knew you didn't have that, and let's
Speaker 1: do it again. And now you get that kind of
Speaker 1: bond going with your coach in terms of a report
Speaker 1: of communication, and you don't get to break that down
Speaker 1: when you're sitting in your room and maybe you know
Speaker 1: you have a family and you have a you know,
Speaker 1: kids running around, or you're single, and you you can't
Speaker 1: wait to maybe do something else, and you're kind of
Speaker 1: going through saying yeah, I got it, but really you don't. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's funny, John, because you know, you
Speaker 1: look at on a the way, the way, the norm,
Speaker 1: what norm has been in the National Football League over
Speaker 1: the last a dozen years or however long. You know,
Speaker 1: you you've had these O t A s and all
Speaker 1: these different types of things going on. You know, we've seen, John,
Speaker 1: We've seen the times where you know, you you kind
Speaker 1: of look at these O t A s and then
Speaker 1: then you watch a mini camp and and you're going, geez,
Speaker 1: all right, you know this guy, you know? And and
Speaker 1: and basically now talking about the rookies or or new
Speaker 1: guys that have come into the team and young guys
Speaker 1: not not not guys have been five six seven year
Speaker 1: boards in the league because they catch on pretty well.
Speaker 1: But from a rookie standpoint, where the change of terminology,
Speaker 1: the way they go about business, the way you get
Speaker 1: in the huddle, the way you get out of the huddle.
Speaker 1: You know how practice works. Where do you where do
Speaker 1: you go first? What do you all all those things
Speaker 1: that that you go through. And so you did all
Speaker 1: that through the O T A s and through mini camps.
Speaker 1: But John even with all that, and we've all seen
Speaker 1: it over the years where you're looking at the young guys,
Speaker 1: you're looking at the rookies and Washington progressed through through
Speaker 1: mini camps and and O T s. You go, know that,
Speaker 1: kids looking pretty good and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you put the pads on and you go out on
Speaker 1: the field and the kid doesn't know where to go,
Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do, and just kind of loses everything.
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, so I think that you know
Speaker 1: that that that unknown of does it sink in or
Speaker 1: are they getting it? Is much more difficult between coach
Speaker 1: and player under this circumstance. I know technology is great,
Speaker 1: and I know you can get all these people on,
Speaker 1: but that that that physical contact that like you said,
Speaker 1: just walking and talking. Um. You know, and we've seen it,
Speaker 1: like I said, over the years where you've had a
Speaker 1: guy in New Hey, guy looks pretty good and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they can't remember how to run
Speaker 1: a route. You know, he doesn't know where he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be, and you know, how can you do that?
Speaker 1: They've been through O T s. Now you're gonna run
Speaker 1: into that at some point when camp's open up. Here,
Speaker 1: and it's probably gonna be a lot more so John,
Speaker 1: with these virtual meetings, because you know, if you're a
Speaker 1: young guy, you don't want to be the guys that
Speaker 1: every time the guard guy puts an install we have
Speaker 1: to stow down just because well, when you talk about
Speaker 1: the deep third coach, I mean, how far that am
Speaker 1: I supposed to be on, you know, closer to the line,
Speaker 1: to the sideline, And are I supposed to be the number?
Speaker 1: You know, all those little things that you can little nuances.
Speaker 1: I think of the things that you miss when when
Speaker 1: you have virtual meetings rather than what you would normally
Speaker 1: have on the field, you're on the field work that
Speaker 1: you see, well, I think so Bo. And also, you
Speaker 1: know you mentioned something about us kind of sitting around
Speaker 1: and watching the O. T A s when they finally
Speaker 1: get out onto the field. And not for the veterans,
Speaker 1: but for the young guys. We we would have an example.
Speaker 1: We'd say, hey, who check it out. They use Curtis
Speaker 1: Weaver again in this, you know with the ones and
Speaker 1: and he was able to be at an outside linebacker
Speaker 1: position and dropping or starting a defensive end and moving
Speaker 1: or we saw uh, you know, somebody else moving it
Speaker 1: at a dB spot and he's you know, running now
Speaker 1: the nickel the slot nickel, And we didn't think he
Speaker 1: could do that, but he's fast enough to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny how you pick things up and
Speaker 1: you see guys getting more reps. You know, our offensive
Speaker 1: line is gonna endure a significant change, hopefully for the better,
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty. But now you have guys like
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson and Robert Hunt and Solomon Kinley. All three
Speaker 1: of those guys are running what the wants? This is great.
Speaker 1: Let's check it out. Somebody you know, so and so
Speaker 1: is it center instead of Ed Garter a tackle? Let's this?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe he has position flexibility all over the place,
Speaker 1: so you miss things like that. And and I believe
Speaker 1: the NFL. Once we finally get too closer to the
Speaker 1: month of July and closer to you know, to maybe
Speaker 1: a penciled in start date where camps were originally going
Speaker 1: to start, I would think there's gonna be some type
Speaker 1: of provision to bring these guys in maybe a week
Speaker 1: to ten days even earlier than the original start date,
Speaker 1: and and not to be out on the field, but
Speaker 1: just to go through the normalcy of getting your physical
Speaker 1: which might be a little bit more uh entailed in
Speaker 1: terms of health. You know, your your original health start,
Speaker 1: you know, for each guy where you're at with your numbers,
Speaker 1: and then being able to go into meetings with Hey,
Speaker 1: today's just defense, and you know, let's spread out throughout
Speaker 1: the building. Tomorrow is just offense with the offensive coaches,
Speaker 1: let's spread out within the building and let's you know,
Speaker 1: get get up maybe ten seven to ten days heads
Speaker 1: start on training camp, so everybody kind of gets that,
Speaker 1: uh being around the building feeling and being around the
Speaker 1: coaches and being around how how it's gonna be hopefully
Speaker 1: throughout the entire season, and and give these guys an
Speaker 1: opportunity to maybe pick up on some of the lost
Speaker 1: things that they were missing out on in the months
Speaker 1: of you know, May and early June. You know you
Speaker 1: talking about missing out too. I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: to me and one of one of the great things
Speaker 1: that one of you know that about as much as
Speaker 1: much like going from high school to college, you know,
Speaker 1: you go from college to the pros, and you know
Speaker 1: how it is when you're you know you're going to
Speaker 1: well you're coming to high school and you go to college, John,
Speaker 1: And you got your recruiting class, right, all the guys
Speaker 1: that got recruited your year, and you're gonna be there
Speaker 1: with him for three or four or five years, depending
Speaker 1: on what your situation is. And and there's always a
Speaker 1: kinship between those groups, right, those those classes, And and
Speaker 1: it's the same in the NFL. And and and I
Speaker 1: think one thing that these guys are are are missing
Speaker 1: out on is is just that that hey, we all
Speaker 1: got drafted. We got what they got? Was it what
Speaker 1: they end up eleven eleven picks, right, eleven draft picks
Speaker 1: that they ended up with after moving the trades and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You got eleven guys that are kind
Speaker 1: of tied at the hip together throughout their career. Where
Speaker 1: you you know, you go, hey, this is these guys, Well,
Speaker 1: we all came into the Great Zay in the same
Speaker 1: draft class. And I just remember the first mini camp
Speaker 1: I went to where we had like two days where
Speaker 1: it was just the rookies before the veteran came different
Speaker 1: obviously different than what it is now, but where you
Speaker 1: get a chance to just be with those with that
Speaker 1: rookie class, whether it's draft choice and free and free
Speaker 1: agents and and just get to know him and just
Speaker 1: get the bond and you know, and just to share
Speaker 1: the experience of being, hey, man, can you believe we're here?
Speaker 1: You know, and jeez, you know, and you get to
Speaker 1: meet these guys and get to bond with them, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, those little things like that that
Speaker 1: they miss out, that they they're missing out on, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, a lot of that stuff was was pretty special.
Speaker 1: I can remember, you know, we had seventeen when when
Speaker 1: I got draft, we had seventeen rounds, and I can
Speaker 1: remember almost every guy from my rookie draft class and
Speaker 1: there's some that didn't even make the team that I
Speaker 1: still stay in contact with others, others obviously that made
Speaker 1: the team, where you develop relationships with and it was
Speaker 1: It's really one of the special things in in my
Speaker 1: life and a lot of those guys life. And it's
Speaker 1: unfortunately these guys don't get the opportunity right now to
Speaker 1: go through that, because that's basically what they would be
Speaker 1: doing right about now with this this distance after the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're they're getting together virtually in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, all the young guys have to catch
Speaker 1: up and get some things done that maybe the veterans
Speaker 1: don't have to do that. They went through either two, three, four,
Speaker 1: or five years ago whenever they were drafted or you
Speaker 1: had a contract signed by an undrafted free agent. So
Speaker 1: you you have all these guys getting together, but there's
Speaker 1: nothing like going from a meeting and then going into
Speaker 1: lunch and kind of sitting around and seeing where everybody
Speaker 1: decides to sit and seeing this, you know, decides who's
Speaker 1: gonna talk to who and who's gonna you know, get
Speaker 1: this relationship going where that bondmate and in a month
Speaker 1: or two or it may end in ten years or
Speaker 1: twelve years from now, and and like you said, or
Speaker 1: may never end. Like you said, there are certain guys
Speaker 1: that were either on the team or not that you
Speaker 1: still have a relationship with that are built within the
Speaker 1: first maybe a couple of weeks or month that you're
Speaker 1: together at training camp or at that camp that you're at,
Speaker 1: which would be for the modern day player, the o
Speaker 1: t A that they've missed out on. So you're right there,
Speaker 1: there is a special bond that these guys are are
Speaker 1: a little bit missing out on the human aspect of
Speaker 1: it in terms of being a in person relationship, but
Speaker 1: hopefully they'll be able to fast that track that in
Speaker 1: the month of July. Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see Johnny. You know, it's it's it's like everywhere else.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the conversations now that that that
Speaker 1: a lot of people have, whether whether you're a professional
Speaker 1: football player, whether you're a college athlete, whether you're just
Speaker 1: a you know, just a just a guy doing his
Speaker 1: living his life or girl living his life, family living
Speaker 1: their life, is when are things gonna change? When are
Speaker 1: thing's gonna open up? When when's our city gonna open up?
Speaker 1: When's our state can open up? You know? When when
Speaker 1: can I go out and get my haircut again? I
Speaker 1: can do that, do that, all those types of things,
Speaker 1: And the NFL is going through the same thing, John,
Speaker 1: And then the conversations get to be they're getting to
Speaker 1: be a little longer now and they're getting to be
Speaker 1: a little more uh you know, you're get a little
Speaker 1: closer to that situation. So so the thought about the
Speaker 1: NFL itself opening up, Uh, it's it's interesting, John, because
Speaker 1: you've got you have different situations that they're dealing with,
Speaker 1: you know, I know, and I've been reading about the
Speaker 1: teams in California, the two l A teams UH San Francisco.
Speaker 1: You know that the you know, California is a state
Speaker 1: that may not open up for quite a while UH
Speaker 1: and and may not allow UH sports teams to to
Speaker 1: get together where now I've heard that those California teams
Speaker 1: are looking outside in the state to set up training camp,
Speaker 1: to get away. Just the thought of opening up is
Speaker 1: another thing that that really has become at this time.
Speaker 1: The draft is behind us, They've signed free agents, and
Speaker 1: now now they're their focus is on, Hey, how can
Speaker 1: I get my team ready to play whenever the season
Speaker 1: starts in a not not knowing when and where or
Speaker 1: how it's going to open up for him. Um, you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna open sometimes, John, But boy, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you know, you're listening. You're listening, you'll read,
Speaker 1: and you're just you're you're trying to figure out where
Speaker 1: and when. And it's hard to imagine what this league
Speaker 1: is gonna be like when they do open up and
Speaker 1: allow people to start getting together in some form or fashion. Well,
Speaker 1: that is the dilemma now, not only for the NFL,
Speaker 1: but as you said, you know, a regular guy or
Speaker 1: or a woman that are trying to open up in
Speaker 1: a barbershop or a salon or a nail technician or
Speaker 1: a restaurant or whatever it is, depending on where you
Speaker 1: live and what type of local government say. Um, in
Speaker 1: terms of being able to say, are we allowed to
Speaker 1: open up at the end of May? Is it May fifteenth?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it now? June one? Is it June fifteenth?
Speaker 1: You know, everybody is a little bit different, and I
Speaker 1: guess the best way to do it is going through
Speaker 1: the protocol where you are, uh nationally in that in
Speaker 1: that cycle where that wave, you know, and in terms
Speaker 1: of suppressing the virus, And I guess everybody has their
Speaker 1: own stance and their own say on where they are,
Speaker 1: but you can look and see pretty much it's universal.
Speaker 1: You know, if it's trending down and continuing to go down,
Speaker 1: your chances should be pretty good that you're going to
Speaker 1: be able to open up uh relatively soon. And I'm
Speaker 1: you know, certain states and certain counties within those states
Speaker 1: are doing better than maybe other parts of the states,
Speaker 1: so naturally they would have a chance to open up quicker.
Speaker 1: But I would say for the NFL aspect of it,
Speaker 1: we still have a long way to go. And I've
Speaker 1: been reading a lot for only the NFL, but for
Speaker 1: college football that you know, fans around the country you know,
Speaker 1: definitely want their college football. And I think we're just
Speaker 1: you know, we have some time still to wait. I
Speaker 1: don't think there needs to be any concrete decision in
Speaker 1: terms of government, especially telling us it's not gonna there's
Speaker 1: not gonna be football in the fall. Well, we don't
Speaker 1: really don't know that yet. Let's start play out. Let's
Speaker 1: let's let it kind of see where we are at
Speaker 1: June one, and then June fifteenth, and then you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of June, and where are we out
Speaker 1: after July fourth weekend? You know, where are we at,
Speaker 1: you know, in July, and you kind of go along
Speaker 1: the calendar. And I think those decisions should be made
Speaker 1: easier as we know more and as the doctors and
Speaker 1: the science and all those things kind of melt together.
Speaker 1: We should know more by uh, you know, a month
Speaker 1: and a half down the road than we are right now.
Speaker 1: So I think patients is should be on everybody. Everybody
Speaker 1: should be heating some patients, and some time to see
Speaker 1: where we are, you know, fifteen days, twenty days from now,
Speaker 1: compared to where we are right you know, at this
Speaker 1: a moment in time. Yeah, It's it's funny, John, because
Speaker 1: you look at and I think we've kind of been
Speaker 1: under this, under this whole umbrella now for what about
Speaker 1: two and a half months right about there. But but
Speaker 1: you look at what has happened over those two and
Speaker 1: a half months. You know, from the very beginning where
Speaker 1: it's just okay, look, you guys gotta you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta stay away from people. We're gonna shut businesses down,
Speaker 1: all these things, and and how much we've advanced, you know,
Speaker 1: from the medical standpoint. You know that they're they're doing
Speaker 1: the testing they're doing, you know, they're getting different, different,
Speaker 1: different things that have hope, uh that this thing is
Speaker 1: gonna gonna be better and we're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: control it better than all these things. And then come
Speaker 1: a long way in two and a half months. And
Speaker 1: if you go to the normal start day for NFL camps,
Speaker 1: it's normally around which which which from from from today,
Speaker 1: it's really about two and a half months away. It
Speaker 1: seems like from what the way the days have been
Speaker 1: crawling around over the last you know, month and a
Speaker 1: half to two months, you're right, Bo, But but I'm
Speaker 1: also looking at how much we've advanced in those two
Speaker 1: and a half months and how much can we advance
Speaker 1: in the next two and a half months to make
Speaker 1: it safe for everyone to do thing right now? As
Speaker 1: I talked about you, you you know, the other thing with
Speaker 1: the with the NFL were opening and letting people get
Speaker 1: back to work and get back into their facilities, or
Speaker 1: how that they're gonna do it. You know, the NFL
Speaker 1: has got to play the game of hey, everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be in the same field. In other ways, if if
Speaker 1: California and the teams that are up in New Jersey
Speaker 1: um can't start get back, you you can't let every
Speaker 1: You can't let all the other teams in the league
Speaker 1: get to work and have those guys be just to
Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines, you know, waiting for another two
Speaker 1: or three weeks until they're able to go. So at
Speaker 1: least got to manage you know, both the safety of
Speaker 1: a players, the safety of staff, the safety of everybody's,
Speaker 1: safety of fans, all those types of things. But there's
Speaker 1: always gotta there, but there's it's gotta be equitable too.
Speaker 1: I think Mike Tomlin came out and spoke about that
Speaker 1: the other day in terms of, you know, everybody's got
Speaker 1: to have the same start data. You know, there shouldn't
Speaker 1: be a team that has an advantage just because they're
Speaker 1: in a state where they've been open for you know,
Speaker 1: a month and we're still kind of waiting to get
Speaker 1: the green light to go, right. Yeah, So that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the other thing that plays in there. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's you know, I wish somebody had
Speaker 1: an answer, but every day, you know, you I mean,
Speaker 1: we're all the same. We're kind of reading what we
Speaker 1: can read, listen to what we can listen to listen to.
Speaker 1: But still it's, um, it's gonna be a well, like
Speaker 1: every everything since this thing closed down, is gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting, uh exercise to see how this thing goes. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just anxious to see where it goes because I know,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that, you know, the positive start to outweigh
Speaker 1: the negative in terms of where we are, and as
Speaker 1: you said, we've we've come a long way within the
Speaker 1: last month and a half, in two months, and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that that that progression continues, that you know, it
Speaker 1: relieves not only of the tragedies, you know, that are
Speaker 1: brought along with this virus, but some really positive stories
Speaker 1: that start emerging that you know, people getting back to work,
Speaker 1: people getting back to their livelihood, and people actually trying
Speaker 1: to survive instead of maybe just crossing their fingers and
Speaker 1: hoping for the best that you know, you hope that
Speaker 1: for the betterment of humanity around the world, that we
Speaker 1: get back to some sense of normalcy, that we find
Speaker 1: something that can at least, you know, fend off this
Speaker 1: this deadly virus. Yeah, you know, you know, I was
Speaker 1: you know, he talked about looking you know, you're looking
Speaker 1: at TV. Everyone's been you know, every every every sports fan,
Speaker 1: every quasi sports fair, every sports talk host, uh everywhere,
Speaker 1: every sports network on TV seems like they've been living
Speaker 1: off the Michael Jordan's you you you the every day
Speaker 1: was Sunday. It's right, they put the they put the
Speaker 1: show on the Last Dance on on Sunday night and
Speaker 1: on Monday. Every sports talk station in the in the
Speaker 1: in the United States. That's what they're talking about, right,
Speaker 1: and really really nothing else to talk about. But but
Speaker 1: along that line, so the you know, ESPN in this
Speaker 1: last week and I caught myself watching started playing, started
Speaker 1: playing the Korean Baseball League. Have you seen this? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I have seen that. So so they're running and as
Speaker 1: it comes on like yeah here for us, it comes
Speaker 1: on like it, you know, five o'clock in the morning
Speaker 1: or whatever whatever time was. But I did catch one
Speaker 1: game and they got no fans in the stand. But
Speaker 1: you know what they've done. It's I don't know if
Speaker 1: you watched it, but you know what they've done is
Speaker 1: they've got in the stands where the I guess kind
Speaker 1: of along the camera line you or the camera line
Speaker 1: season the fans. They got like cutouts of fans back
Speaker 1: there cheating at the popcorn everything, and they piped in.
Speaker 1: They piped in the the crowd noise, and you know what,
Speaker 1: it sounds all right, it looks all right. I know what.
Speaker 1: And every time I peeked in, I've seen an overthrow
Speaker 1: or an air and some with base hit there's a
Speaker 1: fielding air or or there's an overthrown. Guys just run
Speaker 1: around the basis. That's what I've like. I was watching
Speaker 1: the other night. I was watching part of the game
Speaker 1: the other night, and they're showing the the scoreboard for
Speaker 1: the other teams, and I think that you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: the score is like four teen to ten seven, But
Speaker 1: you know what, that's my kind of baseball. I know
Speaker 1: I'd rather have that than a one nothing nothing pictures
Speaker 1: d you know what I mean exactly. Hey, yeah, the
Speaker 1: one thing John, before we go, let's uh, you know
Speaker 1: that one of the other things that came out obviously
Speaker 1: the draft and everything. But you know, after that, everyone
Speaker 1: was awaiting the release and you know, if everything that
Speaker 1: happened with coach Sula and uh and everything, and I
Speaker 1: think we're all waiting to find out. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that at some point, John, there's gonna be a you know,
Speaker 1: a public memorial for for Coach Schulan my guests would
Speaker 1: be able to be at the stadium somewhere or somewhere
Speaker 1: like whenever it is, whether it's a month from now,
Speaker 1: too much from now, six months from now, whatever, Um, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll all be we're all looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: But you know, last week we kind of spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time or the whole show talking about you know,
Speaker 1: coach Schule and his influence on everybody and our thoughts
Speaker 1: about him, and and and and we didn't really talk
Speaker 1: much about the schedule. So let's gotta run through the
Speaker 1: schedule a little bit here and UH and uh as
Speaker 1: the Dolphin is going here. Since you open up with
Speaker 1: a couple a f C East games, and and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, these two games are gonna be
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be very You're gonna tell you
Speaker 1: a lot about um. I think the FC East what
Speaker 1: it holds because you've got New England, the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots up in New England at Foxboro or uh to
Speaker 1: to open the season of Gilette, and then you got
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills coming down uh to Miami for the
Speaker 1: first game. And so you'll see the Dolphins, the Bills,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots playing each other in the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: You're gonna give you a little snapshot of what the
Speaker 1: a f C is gonna be, a little precursor, I
Speaker 1: guess if you will to the to the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season years. I agree with you, Bow because you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about how the a f C East might
Speaker 1: be a little bit more obviously wide open than it
Speaker 1: has in the past with the departure of Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in New England. But but the Miami Dolphins are going
Speaker 1: right back to where they ended their two thousand nineteen
Speaker 1: season with a three point win. And it's been twenty
Speaker 1: years since this franchise have won back to back games
Speaker 1: in New England, and that it really you know, culminates
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady's arrival and departure in New England. So
Speaker 1: you have a chance to get a win in New
Speaker 1: England again for the first time in twenty years, back
Speaker 1: to back variety. And then you get the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and everybody's talking about Buffalo beat at the top of
Speaker 1: the list in the af C. They're the team to beat.
Speaker 1: So right away you get you get two teams that
Speaker 1: you want to be able to at least split. You know,
Speaker 1: you'd love to you'd love to find a way to
Speaker 1: beat one of those two teams twice, but you at
Speaker 1: least have to beat them once. And I think getting
Speaker 1: Buffalo down here in the heat is finally an advantage
Speaker 1: because you know you're returning back there, had to finish
Speaker 1: off the season, yeah, no doubt. And in New England,
Speaker 1: you know, you just you know you you you look
Speaker 1: at all the different prognosticators and what's going on there,
Speaker 1: and they there's still get a lot of respect because
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's there. You take out you take out Brady. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know we saw with that when you saw that
Speaker 1: team without Gronk was a completely different team. Uh. You
Speaker 1: know that that's van noise on our on our vans
Speaker 1: over here. They've lost players and and so um, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see what that what that team
Speaker 1: can be with Bill Belichick and without Bryant, without Tom Brady. Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know you have to to that. You've got Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: a team that's you know, big disappointment last year and
Speaker 1: they seem to be a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: bit of a mess. They're going going up to Jacksonville there.
Speaker 1: Uh and then you got Seattle coming to coming to
Speaker 1: town for a week four. So next couple of games
Speaker 1: pretty interesting with Jacksonville team that they're trying to rebuild.
Speaker 1: The Seattle team that uh, you know that they're always
Speaker 1: in contention, always gonna be good. With Russell Wilson in
Speaker 1: that group, you know they're gonna you know, they're gonna
Speaker 1: come in and be uh be a tough out for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the really anybody they played. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get a premier quarterback in the National Football League and
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson coming to hard Rock Stadium on October fourth,
Speaker 1: and and I guess both anytime you have that Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, it's better to get it early when hopefully
Speaker 1: your your roster's healthy, and especially you only have to
Speaker 1: get on a flight from what fifty minutes you go
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. So I guess that's the boat, the best
Speaker 1: of both worlds in terms of travel. And when you
Speaker 1: have to play that on the short week against the
Speaker 1: team that's searching, you know, you get Gardner Minshew in
Speaker 1: his second year, you got Burnt still to deal with.
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of turmoil that Doug Moron has
Speaker 1: to has to go about up in Jacksonville this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then you got uh, you got which which I would
Speaker 1: assume would be a trip that the Dolphins probably stay
Speaker 1: out in the West Coast right at San Francisco on
Speaker 1: on October eleventh, and then the week next week, uh
Speaker 1: there at Denver. And my assumption would be the probably
Speaker 1: would go out to San Francisco and then either stay
Speaker 1: in stay in the Bay Area, or head to Denver
Speaker 1: to get used to the altitude. Uh. But I would
Speaker 1: assume that's gonna be a a trip where the Dolphins
Speaker 1: would stay out there and instead of coming back and forth.
Speaker 1: Well they've had experience in doing that when they've played
Speaker 1: the Chargers when they were in San Diego and then
Speaker 1: going up to LA to play the Rams. So you you,
Speaker 1: as you said, you're gonna get a team that was
Speaker 1: maybe a quarter away from winning at all in San
Speaker 1: Francisco that is so talented in terms of offense and
Speaker 1: defensive lines and how they get after you. And and
Speaker 1: Denver has improved in terms of getting some firepower around
Speaker 1: Drew Lock with Jerry Judy and kJ Hammler and they
Speaker 1: get a new center and cush Berry from l S Shoes,
Speaker 1: So that this is this is gonna be a tough,
Speaker 1: tough out for sure in San France. But Denver, that's
Speaker 1: the one you're circling. You're hoping that you can find
Speaker 1: a way to win that game. Yeah. Then then you
Speaker 1: got the to uh to l A teams coming to town,
Speaker 1: the Chargers uh coming to town in the then the
Speaker 1: Rams coming to town and you know, both of them
Speaker 1: in interesting teams new quarterback and uh in for the Chargers,
Speaker 1: the Rams a team that was you know, right in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl a couple not so long ago, a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, uh, and trying to get back
Speaker 1: and they're a very talented team. Make both of those teams,
Speaker 1: both those are gonna be big, big time challenges uh
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium. And I think the challenge for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, you know, as you mentioned, if the Dolphins
Speaker 1: stay out in San Francisco in the Bay Area after
Speaker 1: they play the forty Niners or go to Denver, and
Speaker 1: that's a lot of travel going from west coast back
Speaker 1: to east coast and then trying to get yourself ready
Speaker 1: to play two teams that are coming from coast to coast.
Speaker 1: I just think it's gonna be one of those cross
Speaker 1: your fingers, you hope you can get through the month
Speaker 1: of October and early in November when you play the
Speaker 1: Rams at least at five hundred, because they're two talented
Speaker 1: football teams at the book ends, San Francisco and l
Speaker 1: A Rams. L A Rams have a solid receiving corps.
Speaker 1: And then if you don't block Aaron Donald Donald, You're
Speaker 1: in trouble for a four quarters. So you're gonna find
Speaker 1: a way to do that. And after that you gotta
Speaker 1: head back out to the out west of the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: That's a long trip, uh, that you gotta get and
Speaker 1: then and then the Jets. You can talk to you
Speaker 1: to catch the Jets for the first time in Week
Speaker 1: ten and and to see what that football team is
Speaker 1: all about. And John, you know when you when you
Speaker 1: talk about the a f C East, we talked about
Speaker 1: the Bills, we talked about New England. You know, I
Speaker 1: have a hard time wrapping my arms around the Jets
Speaker 1: right now and figuring what they're gonna be, how they're
Speaker 1: gonna be. You know, they helped their offensive line with
Speaker 1: the draft. Uh, you got Sam Darnald coming back for them,
Speaker 1: hopefully for a season where he's health. He had that
Speaker 1: mono nucleosis last year. But when he came back while
Speaker 1: he looked really good for the Yets and they were
Speaker 1: to do something. So you know that's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, the for the last two decades, it's
Speaker 1: been New England and everybody else in the a f
Speaker 1: C East. But I think, as we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: I think the a f C East is wide open
Speaker 1: and I think everybody everybody in that camp, in that
Speaker 1: division really has a chance to to win the division
Speaker 1: or everyone has a chance to come up last in
Speaker 1: that division. There are a lot of a lot of unknowns,
Speaker 1: really a lot of unknowns, and more more unknowns in
Speaker 1: the a f C. East John than I think we've
Speaker 1: seen in quite a while. Well, it's an interesting schedule
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins because, as you mentioned in the top,
Speaker 1: you get New England and Buffalo and back to back
Speaker 1: weeks to start the season, and then in the month
Speaker 1: of November you have a bye week wedged in between
Speaker 1: the two meetings with the New York Jets. And I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure that that hasn't happened in quite some time.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't remember it. Yeah, and that it's
Speaker 1: good that you get the same opponent, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's probably for for both teams if it works out
Speaker 1: that way, that you're able to do less prep on
Speaker 1: on the Jets because you know them and you move
Speaker 1: on to the month of December. But yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: it could be feast or famine for really anybody in
Speaker 1: this division. And it's you're you're gonna learn a lot
Speaker 1: with those back to back games against the Jets. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins should have swept the Jets last year and have
Speaker 1: a chance to do that this year. Yeah, it's it
Speaker 1: is odd. You know. I remember a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago and it was it was it was it was
Speaker 1: the last year we did they had the Jets, had
Speaker 1: a bye week and then have the Giants the next week,
Speaker 1: right right where he went. So he went back up
Speaker 1: to the mental ends twice. But to get up and
Speaker 1: play the Jets one week and then get to buy
Speaker 1: and have them come back the next week. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I've seen, but you says, as you said,
Speaker 1: you know that that's the type of situation you'd like
Speaker 1: to have, like for a Thursday night game, right but
Speaker 1: him once and then and then you've got you've got
Speaker 1: half your preparation done for the next game. But uh,
Speaker 1: one way or another, you're to have a bye week
Speaker 1: to to kind of look back at what you did
Speaker 1: in that game, and you'll be seeing those guys for
Speaker 1: two weeks. Gonna be said a lot of Jets on
Speaker 1: the on the tapes as they get ready for the game. Um,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati after that and then Kansas City Cincinnati, uh in
Speaker 1: Kansas City boasted and both in hard rock. Both can
Speaker 1: be really interesting games, you know, you look at Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow coming in with Cincinnati. If A j. Green comes
Speaker 1: back and he's healthy, with those guys, um, how good
Speaker 1: are they gonna be? And look, we we know what
Speaker 1: Kansas City brings and uh and and you know, tough
Speaker 1: game before I tell you, if you're a football fan,
Speaker 1: you're you're you gotta be excited about seeing the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs come to hard Rock Stadium because you know,
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna put on the show. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: get some really interesting quarterbacks visiting hard Rock Stadium, Seattle
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson and another guy who might be at
Speaker 1: the top of the heap and Patrick Mahomes. December thirteenth,
Speaker 1: you get the Heisman Trophy winner and the first overall
Speaker 1: draft choice and this year's draft Joe Burrow coming in
Speaker 1: the week before. So you feel good and you feel
Speaker 1: confident about getting a victory, hopefully against Cincinnati and their
Speaker 1: young quarterback. And you never know by that time who's
Speaker 1: gonna be playing quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, whether it's
Speaker 1: two from the beginning, or it's two in the middle,
Speaker 1: or maybe at the end of the schedule. But you
Speaker 1: at least you get three home games in a row
Speaker 1: with Cincinnati Kansas City and then on December twenty if
Speaker 1: you get New England again for that return trip at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. Yeah, that's uh, it's gonna be Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be gonna be nice to catch him later
Speaker 1: in the season at the end of the year. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then you then Las Vegas last, your wrap up the
Speaker 1: season at Las Vegas first, first opportunity to get out
Speaker 1: there for uh to play the Raiders and then Buffalo
Speaker 1: at home and John that uh, that first trip to
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Uh, Yeah, it's kind of concerning. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: not a whole lot to say. You just kind of
Speaker 1: put your hands up in the air, right and hope
Speaker 1: for the best. Hope for the best. You know, the
Speaker 1: you know, the the Heat for the long time had
Speaker 1: that uh had that South Beast but South Beach advantage.
Speaker 1: You know, they played basketball teams that had that vodka
Speaker 1: virus coming from a night on South Beach to and
Speaker 1: then go out and play the Heat, you know that night.
Speaker 1: But Las Vegas. That's gonna be a big home field
Speaker 1: advantage for the Raiders. Uh, although you look it could
Speaker 1: it could your road their team too. From you got
Speaker 1: guys sitting in the the casino. It's it's it's don't mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really interesting dynamic to me. Uh,
Speaker 1: whether it's the Raiders or whoever would have been would
Speaker 1: have gone into Las Vegas to have a team in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas and and just see what the impact is
Speaker 1: gonna be on on both players that play there and
Speaker 1: teams that come to visit Las Vegas. Well, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting how the fan base reacts, you know, around the
Speaker 1: National Football League. I'm sure everybody that has the Raiders
Speaker 1: on their schedule or putting that in like a sharpie
Speaker 1: highlighter today, I gotta go to that game. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to go to that game. Let's make a
Speaker 1: trip out of that game. And you're wondering how teams
Speaker 1: do react. You know, the fan bases are gonna be
Speaker 1: amped up and ready to go, but how do the
Speaker 1: players react to going out there? And and then, as
Speaker 1: you said, it seems like all the time we're either
Speaker 1: at New Lengland, or at Buffalo or at the Jets
Speaker 1: to end the season, you always finishing in the cold.
Speaker 1: So hopefully Sunday, January three, as we turn the calendar,
Speaker 1: that that game, you know, those last two games mean
Speaker 1: something for the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 1: It looks like a good schedule, a lot of good stuff,
Speaker 1: a lot of good teams coming in, a lot of excitement.
Speaker 1: So all we need to do, John is get this
Speaker 1: thing going and uh, get get teams into training camp.
Speaker 1: At time will tell and we'll see. But I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm really I'm really glad that the
Speaker 1: NFL is going through the motions of normalcy right now
Speaker 1: as much as they can with the schedule. Didn't change
Speaker 1: the schedule outcome, and a lot of people saying that
Speaker 1: they should push it back and and this and that,
Speaker 1: and they said, now we're gonna we're gonna stay with
Speaker 1: our schedule and and and I kind of like that
Speaker 1: leadership from upfront. I do too. Have to stay with
Speaker 1: stay with what you have, have a plan, have some
Speaker 1: contingency plans for how you're gonna be able to deal
Speaker 1: with fans and how you're gonna deal with schedule, and
Speaker 1: if you have to move, you move back to a
Speaker 1: little bit of a later start date. But I I
Speaker 1: agree it gives you a sense, give you something to
Speaker 1: shoot for, and let's see where we're at you know,
Speaker 1: at the beginning of June. Let's see where we're at
Speaker 1: the beginning of July and see if we can you know,
Speaker 1: pull this off in terms of being able to have
Speaker 1: a regular start date, have fans in the seats, and
Speaker 1: enjoy a two thousand, twenty NFL season. Yeah, John, I
Speaker 1: know there's some some talk also about the about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins or or somebody else getting together with Atlanta. They're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, the the going up early practicing
Speaker 1: and then and then playing the game. Uh. They playing
Speaker 1: Lamb the first preseason game. Uh. And I think this
Speaker 1: is kind of one of those years. And I like
Speaker 1: those I've always liked those things, always like those situations
Speaker 1: where you go and play get practiced against somebody. They
Speaker 1: did it in Tampa last year, They've done it when
Speaker 1: they've done in Philadelphia a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: it's so forth and to me, that's you know, I
Speaker 1: would rather have those practices than a preseason game. And
Speaker 1: so I'm hoping that the Dolphins and and I would
Speaker 1: think most teams this year is particular, would embrace that
Speaker 1: idea of of of having one of those weeks in
Speaker 1: training camp in preseason games where where you do go
Speaker 1: out and practice against that team that you're gonna play
Speaker 1: on the on Saturday or Friday or whatever day that's
Speaker 1: gonna be on UM and and then play the preseason game.
Speaker 1: I think I think teams get a lot of And John,
Speaker 1: we're both out in Tampa last year and I think
Speaker 1: we both felt that they got a lot of good work,
Speaker 1: both sides out of out of those uh those meetings,
Speaker 1: Well they did. And you and you get to be
Speaker 1: around your team in terms of getting to know how
Speaker 1: you play against an opponent. Instead of practicing against you know,
Speaker 1: the same the same team, the same player, the same place,
Speaker 1: you get to kind of go against somebody else, and
Speaker 1: it does elevate the practice into more of a game
Speaker 1: type that wation and I think you're able to get
Speaker 1: more out of it, and especially getting more out of
Speaker 1: it in terms of going through the practice and then
Speaker 1: breaking down the film and being able to evaluate yourself
Speaker 1: against UM a different opponent, and then going through the
Speaker 1: preseason game. It's always a benefit, all right, John. It's
Speaker 1: things you're changing pretty quickly. I'm not sure what they're
Speaker 1: gonna be next week and the week after that, but
Speaker 1: but we'll be back here for the audible, and try
Speaker 1: to keep everyone up to date on it. And like
Speaker 1: we said, like we've been saying all along, just make
Speaker 1: sure that you're doing what you're supposed to do. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, stay, stay separated from people, Stay in your
Speaker 1: house as much as possible, where your masks, do all
Speaker 1: the right things, and and hopefully we'll all be be
Speaker 1: better for it a month or two down the road. Well,
Speaker 1: I sure hope so both. You know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where you're kind of going through it, and
Speaker 1: you're right, two months ago it looks a lot different
Speaker 1: than it does now, and hopefully a month and a
Speaker 1: half or two months from now looks a lot different
Speaker 1: than where we're at. So I'm just the glasses half
Speaker 1: full when we're trying to push forward but stay safe
Speaker 1: and stay healthier. Yeah,