Speaker 1: Touchdown Miami water Run. What is up, Dolphans, And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going? Everybody? In? Is Thursday,
Speaker 1: at the start of week fifteen in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we're gonna get you callup on
Speaker 1: the latest from Dolphins camp and Davey here from coach
Speaker 1: Brian Flores, some players and their media availability. We're also
Speaker 1: going to do a feature unlike anyone we've ever done before.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have not one, not two, but three of
Speaker 1: your Dolphins rookie offensive lineman Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, and
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley all coming up here on this third day,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to waste any time on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and go ahead and just jump right into my first
Speaker 1: guest here. We're gonna talk to all three of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie offensive lineman. Let's go ahead and get this
Speaker 1: thing started off with Solomon Kinley and joining me first
Speaker 1: on this special edition of the Drive Time podcast is
Speaker 1: Dolphins left guard and right guard plays a little bit
Speaker 1: of everywhere Solomon Kinley, Solomon, how you doing? Man? I'm good?
Speaker 1: What about you? I'm not too bad. I can't complain.
Speaker 1: It's a South Florida in December. You can't beat that, man, right? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I got some pisi three back home? Is uh in Georgia.
Speaker 1: I played football in college. They said it's cold, they're
Speaker 1: putting on hat and I'm down here. That was short short. Now,
Speaker 1: when you say short shorts, are you talking about like
Speaker 1: the ones that Isaiah Ford war that Ryan Fitzpatrick later
Speaker 1: put on. Are we going a little bit longer than that? Now?
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little bit longer than that, But I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit longer than that. I thought so, man? Uh,
Speaker 1: speaking of South Florida, I wanted to bring up something
Speaker 1: to you that I had happened to me the other day,
Speaker 1: because when we talk on that podcast back in I
Speaker 1: think it was September, you told me a story about
Speaker 1: running into an iguana in your it was either your
Speaker 1: aunt or your grandma's backyard. That that scared the Jesus
Speaker 1: out of you. Um, And I saw the staying Solomon
Speaker 1: where when it gets cold here the iguanas will fall
Speaker 1: out of trees. And I was going for a jog
Speaker 1: the other day and one of them fell out of
Speaker 1: a tree and ran into the lake, and it scared
Speaker 1: the crap out of me. I'm wondering, have you had
Speaker 1: any more iguana or wildlife interactions since our last conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm putting out every tree in my back yard. Is
Speaker 1: it already done? I haven't. I haven't. I haven't had
Speaker 1: any more experience than that. I think since that time
Speaker 1: I told you about that shirt, I think I've seen
Speaker 1: like two more two more after that, But other than that,
Speaker 1: I don't really haven't seen him. But every tree around me,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely looking up and not said nothing nehing to
Speaker 1: actually is going to free. That's a good strategy, man,
Speaker 1: They're so they're terrifying. I can't even look at them
Speaker 1: without just wanting to go to the the direction. But I
Speaker 1: think that's that's plenty of wildlife talk here with the
Speaker 1: big fish himself. I want to ask you a little
Speaker 1: bit about, um, just coming into the league with you know,
Speaker 1: two fellow rookies along the offensive line and you guys
Speaker 1: both are all three of you rather have played so much.
Speaker 1: What's that experience been like coming into the league with
Speaker 1: two guys that are kind of have a similar, you know,
Speaker 1: career path in terms of coming into the league to
Speaker 1: a new team and playing along the offensive line together.
Speaker 1: What's the experience been like for you? Oh? Man is great? Man.
Speaker 1: We we we came in with each other. We know
Speaker 1: what we had to do. We we all, we all
Speaker 1: a blessful opportunity even you know, to come around and
Speaker 1: be a part of each other mines. But it's just
Speaker 1: it's just great when you can meet people from different
Speaker 1: parts of the word just condition to just click. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just I just I just love how we are brotherhood,
Speaker 1: not underknown each other for a few months, um and
Speaker 1: once your brother'shood, how we are we click on the field,
Speaker 1: we commuter hit with each other. We want to do
Speaker 1: stuff outside the field with each other, and so you know,
Speaker 1: it's just been a great spence and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to play for more and more, more and more games
Speaker 1: for these guys. Yeah, I was gonna say, Solomon. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously you guys came into the NFL and the weirdest
Speaker 1: year of my entire life, I'm sure of yours as
Speaker 1: well as far as COVID you know, protocols, and the
Speaker 1: NFL has just been different in that way, like the
Speaker 1: rest of life has. Have you guys had any conversations about, like, man,
Speaker 1: when hopefully this vaccine comes out and we all get
Speaker 1: you know, past this. Have you guys had any conversations
Speaker 1: about what you might do in the off season together,
Speaker 1: like to hang out, to go like on a road
Speaker 1: trip or something like there Is there anything you guys
Speaker 1: want to do together once this is all cleared up? Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have talked about that, but we haven't made a
Speaker 1: decidity yet because you know, like I said, we all
Speaker 1: from different places. I think Austin from the Arizona, Um
Speaker 1: Robins from Tactas, and I'm from I'm from Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 1: So you know, if all we're gonna I think after
Speaker 1: the season, after we do what we gotta do this season,
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna make a run and you know,
Speaker 1: just talking about that type of stuff and see what
Speaker 1: we really wants to do. But after right now, we
Speaker 1: really haven't made the season yet. Yeah, I'll look forward
Speaker 1: to that. Hopefully you guys can can make a whole
Speaker 1: thing out of it. I'm just picturing the three of
Speaker 1: you guys like in an RV or something, going down
Speaker 1: the highway, just having a good time. Maybe maybe we
Speaker 1: can do something with that. But no doubt. But so obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, you wouldn't know otherwise because this is your
Speaker 1: rookie season. But I'm wondering, you know, having those guys
Speaker 1: come in together and going through training camp like, because
Speaker 1: there were so many young players that were first timers
Speaker 1: in that offensive line room. What was like training camp
Speaker 1: like and coming up through this program and trying to
Speaker 1: get the field for the NFL lifestyle together? Was that
Speaker 1: helpful to have those guys around you through the process.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt. You know, you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: have somebody they can be able to, you know, not
Speaker 1: only just push you when you need when you need
Speaker 1: help but push you when stuff not going your way.
Speaker 1: You know, having a good positive mindset alone with you're
Speaker 1: when when stuff is going bad with you. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's what we did when you took every day like
Speaker 1: we stayed on the field today us three extra pass that,
Speaker 1: you know, just talking about just talking about life and
Speaker 1: sometimes get your mind off football and just you know,
Speaker 1: just just soaping it all man. You know, because you
Speaker 1: live one life, you gotta you gotta chance. So that's
Speaker 1: that's not a big stay, and that's how we're walking.
Speaker 1: That's how we talk. We we're blessed for every opportunity
Speaker 1: and blessed for everything that's coming our weight and everything
Speaker 1: else that's gonna happen in the future. It's cool to
Speaker 1: hear you talk like that, Sol then because it just
Speaker 1: goes back to, you know, the message we've heard all
Speaker 1: season long about the Dolphins bringing in a certain type
Speaker 1: of player, a certain type of person, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like all three of you guys definitely check those boxes.
Speaker 1: So it's it's cool to hear that. I'm wondering, like
Speaker 1: when when you talked about extra pass sets at practice, like,
Speaker 1: is that sometimes a little better because maybe one day
Speaker 1: you're like, man, my legs a little bit dead. I'm
Speaker 1: not really feeling it. I'm tired and I just want
Speaker 1: to kind of go take a break. But then you've
Speaker 1: got like Austin and Rother and be like, hey, le's go,
Speaker 1: let's let's get some more reps and get the restless.
Speaker 1: They done, no doubt, no doubt. One day Austin might
Speaker 1: be like, I'm from the ball in I grabbed him
Speaker 1: bout the soda bag. You know you're not. One day
Speaker 1: it might be me he tripped me up and say
Speaker 1: you stand in your big your big butt on the field,
Speaker 1: and then it might be it might be wrong one
Speaker 1: day and then both of us grabbing the off and say,
Speaker 1: you know you're not going to get better. So you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, keeping keeping it, keeping good a good
Speaker 1: hearted people and people that want to work, to people
Speaker 1: that wants to be better around you. It makes you better.
Speaker 1: So that's how we look at it. It's a good
Speaker 1: professional environment to be in. And speaking of environment, I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about coach Marshall. Uh. He's always
Speaker 1: so lively and bubbly on the on the press conference
Speaker 1: when we talked to him every other week here as
Speaker 1: part of the media. What can you tell us about
Speaker 1: coach Marshall and the offensive line room on the practice
Speaker 1: field on game day? Like, what's it like being with
Speaker 1: him and working with a guy that has so much experience?
Speaker 1: Oh my, it's a it's a great if a person
Speaker 1: to have a guy you know that that have coach plenty,
Speaker 1: clinic cleany thing to col browlers and plenty. But get
Speaker 1: too harm of famous man. You know, he just gives
Speaker 1: you streat knowledge and you know, wisdom about the game. Man,
Speaker 1: how how much potential every guy in that office, officersve
Speaker 1: line can have. Then you know, he teaches you a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff and like you said, he always have
Speaker 1: energy from when I lost a draw, he always gonna
Speaker 1: have energy too, to the point where you know he
Speaker 1: wants you to get better. He knows you knows he
Speaker 1: got your best entries in heart and in certain situations.
Speaker 1: So you know, having a person like that makes you
Speaker 1: want to get better. You don't want them down. It
Speaker 1: sounds like the entire offensive line room and probably the
Speaker 1: entire team as well, just has that kind of support mindset, right,
Speaker 1: like everyone's there to help each other out, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah, you got vent vent from the line,
Speaker 1: you know, from from Ted to egg Cloud to Jesse
Speaker 1: David to Adam Bankers to Julian you know, all the guys.
Speaker 1: You they try to they try their best to give
Speaker 1: you the leader in the right direction. As us being
Speaker 1: young and I'm there for your clin and that's there,
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect. They talked to us every day.
Speaker 1: They they they their biggest thing is to lead us
Speaker 1: in the right direction, to help us do something different
Speaker 1: for what they did in their past year. All right,
Speaker 1: sounds good, Salmon. I appreciate your time today, man. You
Speaker 1: go ahead and get back to it and we'll see
Speaker 1: you out there on Sunday. And best of luck to
Speaker 1: you the rest of the season with health and performance
Speaker 1: and everything else. So I'm gona appreciate it, and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and keep this thing rolling right along with
Speaker 1: our second interview here of three on the Thursday edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast, Let's go ahead and welcome in
Speaker 1: Dolphins tackle slash guard Robert Hunt. And joining me now
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime Podcast is Dolphins second round pick from
Speaker 1: this past year, another rookie starting along the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and Rob Hunt out of Louisiana, Lafayette, Rob, what's going on? Man? Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm good. It's good to talk to you again. I
Speaker 1: think the last time we spoke was shoot it. It
Speaker 1: might have been draft night after you got selected by
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. How you been, how's the season going
Speaker 1: so far? And uh and I gotta ask you, man,
Speaker 1: how's how's the key? I tell you right doing? M man?
Speaker 1: Everybody know about that? Huh um, it's good man. I
Speaker 1: love I love my Kea Man, I love my baby.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of space, man. It's a big car,
Speaker 1: big man like me, so very I like it. I
Speaker 1: was actually looking because I wanted to ask you about it,
Speaker 1: and I was looking to see what kind of car
Speaker 1: I was dealing with here, and I googled it and yeah,
Speaker 1: I was surprised. It has a lot of space back there.
Speaker 1: You're gonna maybe when things clear up a little bit
Speaker 1: as far as COVID goes, you're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: that thing out to the beach. Like, what's you got
Speaker 1: any big plans for that for that road trip in
Speaker 1: the future. Uh? No, not really. How live in the
Speaker 1: country stuff, man, I take that thing's gonna country. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I have to be careful with you know,
Speaker 1: it's my bank, all this stuff like that in the country.
Speaker 1: I gotta watch that man is given me a pickup
Speaker 1: truck man one of these days. Yeah, I get you
Speaker 1: something you can beat up and definitely be something that
Speaker 1: you're you're weary of the South Florida drivers down here.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've you've seen how crazy it is. It's unreal.
Speaker 1: I got someone really to me my first like two
Speaker 1: months down here. It's like, Okay, I guess I'm officially
Speaker 1: a South Alreadian now. But let's let's talk about some
Speaker 1: some some football now. Um. You know, you guys come
Speaker 1: into this to this team together, and you went through
Speaker 1: the combine, you went through the post draft process together.
Speaker 1: I think you've actually references before about working out at
Speaker 1: the combine together, the three of you guys, and being
Speaker 1: kind of close in that workout group. What has this
Speaker 1: experience been like as far as being around two other
Speaker 1: guys that you know went through the exact same thing
Speaker 1: you did from the end of your college career to
Speaker 1: the start of your rookie season. Um, it's been fun. Man. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would like it. I don't think
Speaker 1: I would want it any other way. You know, I
Speaker 1: have two other guys and three rookies in the same room.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll come at the same time to experience
Speaker 1: all this together. Man, I think I don't think I
Speaker 1: will like one or any other way. Like I think
Speaker 1: it's as as I'm blessing to this guy. You know,
Speaker 1: all of us are here. We kind of you know,
Speaker 1: help this team and get better. And we also got
Speaker 1: to come in together and like make points with each other,
Speaker 1: and you know, have relationships off the field. And I
Speaker 1: have to imagine, like I compare it to like the
Speaker 1: first day of school, Like you you arrive and maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit nervous about making new friends and and
Speaker 1: you've got these classes you don't know how to get
Speaker 1: to certain parts of campus. I have to imagine that
Speaker 1: having those guys around you helped, like really get yourself
Speaker 1: involved immediately with the Dolphins, whether it was you know,
Speaker 1: mini camps or training camp whatever it was, like that
Speaker 1: had to help to write. Oh yeah, for sure, man.
Speaker 1: Like like I said, like all this coming in together
Speaker 1: helped us all out, you know, because we we automatically
Speaker 1: have a bun because we are rookies and go on
Speaker 1: the online so um, definitely have a bun already and
Speaker 1: um there our guests and stuff. Man, they're they're really
Speaker 1: good too. They have us out a lot, um just
Speaker 1: coming into and they taught us a lot as well.
Speaker 1: Remember a training camp every day seeing Eric Flower's lard,
Speaker 1: those those rubber bands or the whatever the apparas was,
Speaker 1: the the resistance bands that you guys are working after practice, Like,
Speaker 1: was that something that he introduced you to? Had you
Speaker 1: seen that before? And what did you think when you
Speaker 1: would work after practice in this in this July Miami
Speaker 1: he on those bands? Um, No, Eric definitely um introduced
Speaker 1: um the bungees too. It's called the Bungees. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely introduced that to be my first I'm seeing it,
Speaker 1: um and then it was hot as hell and it
Speaker 1: was definitely hot as hell. Um, well, I know that,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to do that and just following the
Speaker 1: older guys um probably be for us to do. And
Speaker 1: that's just what I did, and that's what we did,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and Solomon talked about this too. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's week fifteen now, so obviously the grind is
Speaker 1: is in full force from that time to now. He
Speaker 1: talked about you guys getting some extra pass sets and
Speaker 1: after practice today even and I asked him, like, is
Speaker 1: there a certain accountability factor among the three of you guys,
Speaker 1: because you know, every profession robbed like myself, sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't want to write, sometimes I don't want to podcast,
Speaker 1: but you gotta push through. Like sometimes are there days
Speaker 1: when you're not feeling it, maybe Austin is not feeling
Speaker 1: or Solomon's not feeling it, and you guys kind of
Speaker 1: pick each other up. Um, I don't know the days
Speaker 1: like that, but I know that we definitely, um challenge
Speaker 1: each other, you know, to be better. I would say, Um,
Speaker 1: I think we all just get come in and ready
Speaker 1: to play and ready to go, and that just that
Speaker 1: helps out a lot, you know, like we're just ready
Speaker 1: to go to went first seven and we just talked
Speaker 1: to each other and we talk about what what we saw.
Speaker 1: M say, if I saw Awesome do something or if
Speaker 1: I saw saw do something different, like tell me, hey,
Speaker 1: like you try to do it that way where you
Speaker 1: did this, so you can improve, like saying with me
Speaker 1: like they do me the same way, you know, like
Speaker 1: maybe your feet coming too close together or something like that,
Speaker 1: and we just trying to fix it um like by
Speaker 1: doing that, so we just talked to trying to talk
Speaker 1: to each other. Up. I was gonna ask you, that's
Speaker 1: that's a good point there, because I was gonna ask you.
Speaker 1: The next question was, you know the Dolphins made a
Speaker 1: point as far as what Brian Floras and Chris Career
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff all says regarding the types of
Speaker 1: players they wanted to bring in this offseason guys that
Speaker 1: football was important to them. They can communicate. Did you
Speaker 1: recognize that pretty quickly in both Austin and Solomon as
Speaker 1: far as these guys are just dogs that want to
Speaker 1: get out there and grind. Of course, of course understand,
Speaker 1: and that's shoot with Austin Solomon, Brandon John's rep point
Speaker 1: although like everybody you know, and that's um the older
Speaker 1: guys as well. It's like everybody. Yet, um, everybody was excited,
Speaker 1: you know, attend to the detail was unreal. Everybody's just
Speaker 1: focus lying around. So I deinitely knows that fast. And
Speaker 1: you're still going on whatever week be and how kind
Speaker 1: of off the weeks where the team it all kind
Speaker 1: of blends together eventually, Man, is it is it important
Speaker 1: to you? Does it mean something special to you? To
Speaker 1: know that, like the three of you guys came in together,
Speaker 1: work together, and all got yourselves into positions now where
Speaker 1: you're all starting together. Um yeah, I mean it showed that,
Speaker 1: you know that they just I feel like we can play,
Speaker 1: you know. Um, I think that we worked hard and
Speaker 1: you know, like once our numbers called, we just try
Speaker 1: to get into compete. And I think that every time
Speaker 1: we have got a chance to get in and compete,
Speaker 1: I think we have done just that they haven't been
Speaker 1: perfect for use, but the chance that we have got
Speaker 1: to think that we have to kind of try to, um,
Speaker 1: take advantage of. And what about the tutelage of coach
Speaker 1: Steve Marshall, Because again, you guys, three rookies coming into
Speaker 1: an offensive line room that has a guy that's running
Speaker 1: the room and the offensive line coach and coach Marshall
Speaker 1: that has over forty years of football experience. Like what's
Speaker 1: that Ben? As far as him getting that that tutelage
Speaker 1: and that mentorship to you guys, it has been good. Um,
Speaker 1: he's he's he helped people a lot, you know, like
Speaker 1: he's like you said, it's been the game for forty years.
Speaker 1: He taught us a lot. Um, and I short stay
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And um also Lim like plushed with.
Speaker 1: He does a great job with us too. Um. He
Speaker 1: put us to the side. He makes sure we're working hard.
Speaker 1: He helps us with things you know that we want to,
Speaker 1: like stay at the prite he happens with. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a great room follow like great leaders, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious Rob, because you know, obviously a generational
Speaker 1: gap there between you guys and Coach Marshall. Really the
Speaker 1: entire offensive line room. It's not like you guys have
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of late thirties vets in that room, Like,
Speaker 1: is there ever moments where you guys have to show
Speaker 1: Coach Marshall like, Hey, this is what TikTok is, this
Speaker 1: is what snapchat is it. Are you guys doing that
Speaker 1: or not? That guy is the guy that teaches him
Speaker 1: all that I'm all that stuff that he always messes
Speaker 1: all about TikTok stuff about that. Is Coach receptive to
Speaker 1: it or is he kind of like throw throwing the
Speaker 1: hands like a humbug. Yeah, he's probably just like pums
Speaker 1: up man, like you don't really care. I guess every day. Yeah, well, shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty three, and I'm ared that way. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: it's my old soul heart there, but that's awesome to
Speaker 1: hear man. You mentioned coach Limb. Um you mentioned him,
Speaker 1: is he kind of acts like a conduit for like,
Speaker 1: you know that player experience and kind of the in
Speaker 1: between the rookies in the old grizzled vet there and
Speaker 1: coach Marshall. Like, what's his role in the room? Um
Speaker 1: limbro ro just like pretty much you just said, Um,
Speaker 1: he's the guy that played the game, you know how.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be very smart, really smart. Like he he's
Speaker 1: like he was legit a student of the game, but
Speaker 1: like a coach for him. He and he helps us
Speaker 1: um and puts us in the right spots. I think
Speaker 1: that um Limb does a fantastic job of what he
Speaker 1: does because with him does a fantastic job. And I
Speaker 1: think that we all appreciate him for what he does,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's like a lot a lot just
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, you know. Yeah, absolutely, Rob Hunt your
Speaker 1: Dolphins right tackle right now, rookie season, second round in
Speaker 1: this past draft, having a great year. Rob, appreciate your
Speaker 1: time today. Now let you get back to the Patriots preparations.
Speaker 1: We'll see out there on Sunday. All right, thank you man,
Speaker 1: And there he goes from the right tackle over to
Speaker 1: the left tackle. Let's go ahead and finish up these
Speaker 1: interviews with Dolphins rookie left tackle Austin Jackson. And joining
Speaker 1: me now is Dolphins rookie offensive lineman Austin Jackson, the
Speaker 1: eighteenth pick in this last NFL draft. Austin, how you doing, man,
Speaker 1: You're doing great. Man. Apreciate you. Yeah, of course, as always,
Speaker 1: I told you this on the last press conference. I
Speaker 1: think you were available at I always appreciate your kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, analytical approach to the game as far as
Speaker 1: techniques and different styles and different pass rushers. Just want
Speaker 1: to get a feel for you off the top here,
Speaker 1: like how's the rookie season going. How much have you
Speaker 1: learned in this year? And what's it been like for
Speaker 1: the entire learning experience as a first year player? Think
Speaker 1: the Rickie experience has going great so far. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a learning ball learning curve, i'd say,
Speaker 1: you know, the adjustment to the NFL from college. You know,
Speaker 1: there's definitely a lot of different factors they ham but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm living every minute of it. This is
Speaker 1: this is what we want is you know, this is
Speaker 1: what we've been working for. So it's been great to
Speaker 1: getting with a bunch of great guys. And I also
Speaker 1: have a bunch of rookies around me. We're going through
Speaker 1: the same thing, so we can bond and you know,
Speaker 1: just keep leaning on each other every day to get better.
Speaker 1: It's pretty fun. Yeah. I wanted to ask about that
Speaker 1: last point about having, you know, two fellow rookies starting
Speaker 1: along the offensive line, and I joked with Rob about this,
Speaker 1: saying it almost kind of reminds me of like the
Speaker 1: first day of school when you get there. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a new school. You don't really know where to go
Speaker 1: for classes, and you don't have any friends yet, you
Speaker 1: have to kind of find your own way. Like, was
Speaker 1: there a level of comfort and coming into your first
Speaker 1: training camp knowing that you've got Rob and Solomon who
Speaker 1: are both kind of going through the same thing as you. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: I think, Uh, I think we're all able to relate
Speaker 1: to each other from that exact situation, you know, just
Speaker 1: all being a rookie offensive line then, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just moving to South Florida and just being able to
Speaker 1: bond over that, and uh, that's definitely does take some
Speaker 1: pressure off. You know, you have something you can relate to.
Speaker 1: So I think that helps on the field, especially for
Speaker 1: our position, offensive line, because communication is key, So that
Speaker 1: definitely helps. Yeah, I wanted to ask you how how
Speaker 1: does how does that benefit as far as what you're
Speaker 1: able to do on the football field from like you know,
Speaker 1: tips or maybe some some extra motivation, like is there
Speaker 1: are things you guys all do together that maybe you
Speaker 1: think helps all three of your games. Well, we unfortunately
Speaker 1: can't meet up, you know, too much outside of practice
Speaker 1: just because COVID, But um, well we always make sure
Speaker 1: that get some extra working right after practice, um until
Speaker 1: such a practice. Um, just working on you know, extra passets,
Speaker 1: extra around calls. Um. Sometimes you sit and talk around
Speaker 1: meeting times or before meetings just to be sure. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, my confused and you're confused. You know,
Speaker 1: we're all confused, we have issues. Just stuff like that,
Speaker 1: you know, just clarifying and communic and just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get the best we can. Yeah, they say,
Speaker 1: the only dumb questions you ask are the ones you
Speaker 1: ask yourself from the bus riding the way home, So
Speaker 1: I guess always always get those questions into for coach
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I talked to Solomon about this
Speaker 1: and he said that you guys had had discussed, you know,
Speaker 1: the possibility of of of life post COVID. I know
Speaker 1: it's difficult this year, but you know, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys are chomping to get out there and maybe do
Speaker 1: something together maybe in the off season when when stuff
Speaker 1: clears up and gets better. Hopefully maybe that's the case.
Speaker 1: Is there something you guys might want to do together
Speaker 1: outside the building you haven't been able to do together
Speaker 1: because of the COVID situation, you know, I'm sure if
Speaker 1: the code situation wasn't here, Um, yeah, we definitely, we
Speaker 1: definitely will probably spend some time outside, um outside the
Speaker 1: silly you know, and that's offseason getting no uh, just
Speaker 1: you know, South Florida, hanging out, you know, I imagine
Speaker 1: we'd work out together for sure, still just all being
Speaker 1: afttive lineman and know we need to work on I
Speaker 1: could definitely for see that. Yeah, exactly. It's it's been
Speaker 1: it's been a challenging year for everybody I think, you know,
Speaker 1: in the country for that reason, in the world as well. Um,
Speaker 1: if it was if they told you, Austin, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do something together, Like it's let's say it's you know, July,
Speaker 1: when you guys are off like fourth of July, Austin,
Speaker 1: You're planning the trip, You're planning the party, Like what's
Speaker 1: what would you do? Where would you take Austin or
Speaker 1: Solomon and Rob if you had like total control over
Speaker 1: like a road trip or maybe like outing an event,
Speaker 1: what would you want to do a lot of things
Speaker 1: that I would probably say a nice little jet jet
Speaker 1: sky day it would be nice. Maybe, Yeah, get out
Speaker 1: on the water in South Florida see some things. You
Speaker 1: know that sounds that sounds nice. If that happens, you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna have to take some video of that
Speaker 1: and stuff as well. I'm sure Solomon is gonna be
Speaker 1: down for that, because, you know, the big fish. He
Speaker 1: loves to get out in the water and do some swimming.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we could fish too, honestly, you know, I
Speaker 1: actually just learned how to fish this year when I
Speaker 1: moved down here. So I was listening to my teammates
Speaker 1: and atom me, so it's gonna get back out. It's
Speaker 1: a good hobby down here. Especially with the weather, especially
Speaker 1: right now, since it's one of the things you can
Speaker 1: do where you can, you know, socially distance and stay
Speaker 1: away from people. So yeah, that's a great hobby to
Speaker 1: pick up. Um. Speaking of hobbies, Rob told me that
Speaker 1: Solomon is all about trying to get Coach Marshall involved
Speaker 1: on TikTok. What do you know about that? You know,
Speaker 1: I know Solomon's all about it, and I know I
Speaker 1: know Marsh's you know, it's a little bit different to
Speaker 1: me too, said he was leaving that. Uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: one day it will come around. Yeah, that sounds good.
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you more about Coach Marshall.
Speaker 1: I asked about two guys this as well, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: you guys are obviously first year players. He's been around
Speaker 1: this game for over forty years. How does that experience
Speaker 1: helped the three of you guys kind of learning in
Speaker 1: this game and play it the right way, the way
Speaker 1: coach wants you to play it. He helps a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, he's definitely very experienced and he's been he's
Speaker 1: been coaching it in for a while. And just really
Speaker 1: our room altogether too, just our big guys, like you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers, Jesse Davis, dig Ted, and even from our
Speaker 1: assistant online coach, you know, Coach Lynn. So I think
Speaker 1: all around, we just have a lot of good supporting
Speaker 1: pieces to this some position to be successful. Also, I
Speaker 1: know you have a meeting to get to here in
Speaker 1: a few minutes, but I want to ask you, how's
Speaker 1: Pluto doing. Plute is not great? Yeah, Plut was doing great. Man.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm I'm looking forward to getting over. We're
Speaker 1: not looking forward to it, but I know he is
Speaker 1: because he's been. You can end me all day, like
Speaker 1: when are we going to go to the park take
Speaker 1: a walk? So yeah, there, he's doing great and he
Speaker 1: wants It's spoken like a true dog right there. I
Speaker 1: appreciate your time today, Austin. Austin Jackson, your Dolphins rookie
Speaker 1: left tackle, best lucky the rest of the way. Man,
Speaker 1: stay healthy and we'll see out there on Sunday. Thank you. Alright,
Speaker 1: really cool stuff. They're from the Dolphins. Three rookie offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: all playing throughout the course of the season, all starting
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. Rob Hunted right tackle, Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley at left guard in place of the injured Eric Flowers.
Speaker 1: He was at right guard prior to that, and Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson playing at left tackle. Plenty of good stuff from
Speaker 1: those three guys all throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about it on the Tuesday Recap
Speaker 1: podcast talking about Rob Hunt having a pretty good game
Speaker 1: both in past protection and in the running game. We've
Speaker 1: talked plenty about Solomon Kinley this year on double teams,
Speaker 1: those combo blocks getting up to the second level, and
Speaker 1: the athletic ability he shows with that size, and every
Speaker 1: time he comes out of that tunnel on Sunday's I
Speaker 1: can just he looks so much different than the rest
Speaker 1: of the guys out there as far as that wide frame.
Speaker 1: He can block out the sun with that big body.
Speaker 1: And then Austin Jackson, I think every single week you
Speaker 1: see the athletic ability that he has show up on
Speaker 1: tape with the past blocking that he shows out there
Speaker 1: against some of the best pass specials in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So very excited about those three guys. Obviously. You can
Speaker 1: tell they're very bright, special young men that just want
Speaker 1: to put their nose down and get to work, and
Speaker 1: you can see that every day in practice. You see
Speaker 1: that on the podcast where you heard them talk about
Speaker 1: it really cool to watch those guys come up together
Speaker 1: and grow up together and hopefully be here for a long,
Speaker 1: long time together. All right's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: this podcast with Coach Flora's and Player media. Flora spoke
Speaker 1: to the media on Thursday morning players on Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with Coach Flores and a
Speaker 1: little bit of a different, I guess tone to the
Speaker 1: conversation today as coach talked about several aspects of coaching
Speaker 1: and his own coaches looking for future promotions in their
Speaker 1: careers as coaches. And we start here after Coach had
Speaker 1: mentioned what's the hardest part about about your job? And
Speaker 1: he said, well, I love my job. Everything about it
Speaker 1: is what he wants to be doing. But he said
Speaker 1: spending time away from his family is definitely the hardest part,
Speaker 1: and I can definitely understand that, coach. But then he
Speaker 1: was about what he learned over the course of his
Speaker 1: time in New England and going through all those different
Speaker 1: jobs and kind of getting that that high level degree
Speaker 1: as it were, in so many different avenues, whether it
Speaker 1: was personnel and scouting or the coaching aspect of it.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach talking about the growth of his own coaching career.
Speaker 1: I mean I learned so much. I mean you're started.
Speaker 1: I started personnel. Scott pol hired me. There was a
Speaker 1: Scott in assistance, so it was four years in personnel
Speaker 1: or UM, very valuable. There's a lot of guys in
Speaker 1: that department who have gone on and you know, done
Speaker 1: well for themselves. John Robinson, Uh, Thomas Demntro, Matt Matt Russell,
Speaker 1: Marvin Allen was on the staff there and when I
Speaker 1: was there, you know, lying over town. So I learned
Speaker 1: a lot from that group. UM and going into coaching UM,
Speaker 1: working on special teams with Brad Steely who's just recently
Speaker 1: retired and Scott o Brian retired a few years old,
Speaker 1: go as well, and kicking game UM, going over the offense.
Speaker 1: We're going with Bill O'Brien wing over the defense. Obviously,
Speaker 1: working with Bill Man, Patricia No obviously, Josh Boy and
Speaker 1: Pack Graham. A lot of a lot of really good
Speaker 1: coaches on both sides of the ball. UM. I would say, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the guys who I learned, you know,
Speaker 1: as much about coaching is anyone who's Dantes Cornekia. You know,
Speaker 1: he's the online coach over there, but just the relationships
Speaker 1: he built with with players and well, you know how
Speaker 1: demanding he was. I think I'm trying to try to
Speaker 1: take a lot of you know, what he did, because
Speaker 1: you know, he had a lot of success. But and
Speaker 1: then just you know, team building and being around a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, very good players, are very good coaches,
Speaker 1: and some great experiences there Man that list of of
Speaker 1: coaches and future executives he listed off, there are a
Speaker 1: pretty impressive list He's been around and had a chance
Speaker 1: to learn from over the course of his career. Up next,
Speaker 1: he was asked about going from the person else where
Speaker 1: he started over to the coaching side and why he
Speaker 1: ultimately decided that he wanted to be a coach rather
Speaker 1: than work on personnel, although in this possession he can
Speaker 1: certainly do both and have an influence on both aspects
Speaker 1: of the operation. I started wanting to be impersonnel. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to make more of an impact on I
Speaker 1: felt like I could have a little bit more impact on,
Speaker 1: you know, the game. So that was the reason behind
Speaker 1: trying to get into coaching. I felt like I could
Speaker 1: do relationships with players, and it's it's harder to do that.
Speaker 1: On personnel side, I'm just don't have so much interaction
Speaker 1: with them, So I just want to make more of
Speaker 1: an impact. And I'm not saying that there's there is
Speaker 1: an impact on personnel side, you just you just there's
Speaker 1: just more interaction on coaching side. And we talked about
Speaker 1: all the good coaches and executives coach has been around
Speaker 1: in his career. He was asked about what happens at
Speaker 1: this time of year when other teams come calling for
Speaker 1: the people that you have hired and put in place
Speaker 1: to possibly receive promotions throughout the league. Here's coach talking
Speaker 1: about his encourage of his coaches to get the job
Speaker 1: they're looking for and to get promotions and to get
Speaker 1: recognition from around the league. I mean, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: if those opportunities to pretend to present themselves, I think
Speaker 1: I think they should go for it. It's something that
Speaker 1: they're they're interested in. UM, and I'll help them anywhere
Speaker 1: I can't. I've been on a few interviews and you know,
Speaker 1: you can offer some advice. UM. You know, we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of qualified, you know people on the staff,
Speaker 1: So that wouldn't that wouldn't shock me at all. I
Speaker 1: would be uh, you know, I would, I would, I
Speaker 1: would be encouraging, But that's we all have goals and
Speaker 1: I'm not in the business of stopping people from getting
Speaker 1: the things they want. You know, players, coaches part of
Speaker 1: the reason why they're here. But you know, another part
Speaker 1: of the reason why they're here is because their team first.
Speaker 1: And I think people, uh, people see that. We hopefully
Speaker 1: people see that. And I would say that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason why if someone roum to one interview our guys,
Speaker 1: that that'd be part of it. So and look, that's
Speaker 1: part of that's part of as part of his business.
Speaker 1: Somebody comes calling for one of you guys the same thing,
Speaker 1: you hope that your boss would would be encouraging one
Speaker 1: be helpful in in that in that instance. So some
Speaker 1: interesting stuff there from coach Flora's on his Thursday media availability.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and wrap this podcast up with some players,
Speaker 1: starting off here first with Dolphins linebacker Kyle van Noy,
Speaker 1: who answered a question from yours truly about what can
Speaker 1: they do this time around to still the Patriots running game,
Speaker 1: who piled up a season high on the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: rushing defense with two seventeen yards back in Week one.
Speaker 1: How can the Dolphins stop them this time around? Here's
Speaker 1: the Dolphins linebacker. You know. I think it's just better communication,
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, just playing playing better. I
Speaker 1: think we're comfortable with where we're at, and we we
Speaker 1: gotta make strides of getting better each time each time
Speaker 1: you take the field. And I think, you know, as
Speaker 1: as an older guy, just playing better and having everybody
Speaker 1: play better helps as well. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, and I hope we can do
Speaker 1: our best to slow down. They're really really good. Obviously
Speaker 1: the third, I believe the third and rushing in the league. Um,
Speaker 1: They're old line is amazing. Um Cole, the old line
Speaker 1: coach does a really good job getting those guys ready
Speaker 1: to go. Um that rookie is playing really well, and
Speaker 1: illuminoires playing well, and the bats Damien Harris is playing
Speaker 1: really well. Sony still got Jews obviously, James White, um
Speaker 1: just around all amazing. And then you got Cam Newton
Speaker 1: who's still runs the ball really well. Uh, and he's
Speaker 1: doing a lot of things well. So they do a
Speaker 1: good job. And then you can as the receivers to
Speaker 1: they all run the ball pretty well too. When they
Speaker 1: get that the ball on sweeps and different things like that.
Speaker 1: But Bill has got him playing hard, and he's a
Speaker 1: really good coach, and they're doing a really good job
Speaker 1: running the ball. And you heard the scouting report there
Speaker 1: from Kyle and basically an entire Patriots offense and running
Speaker 1: game operation. He knows that team. Well, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and go from one veteran to a rookie here in
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie safety Brandon Jones, who for him this game
Speaker 1: offers a nice little I guess progress check is he
Speaker 1: played significant snaps in that first game actually back in
Speaker 1: Week one against the Patriots, and he had a bunch
Speaker 1: of tackles in that game, double digit tackles if I
Speaker 1: recall that correctly. And now here he is in week fifteen,
Speaker 1: maybe playing a little bit more of an expanded role
Speaker 1: since the you know, first part, middle part of the season,
Speaker 1: getting more reps out there with obviously different Dolphins packages
Speaker 1: on the defensive backside, and he's been, you know, the
Speaker 1: third safety as far as NAT's played this year. Here's
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones on his role in the team, his improvements
Speaker 1: from week one up to now, talking about where he
Speaker 1: sees himself a little bit finicky back then, but now
Speaker 1: more in control of his job and his duties. Um,
Speaker 1: I would just say the comfortability level on the field,
Speaker 1: I kind of I'll watched the game obviously preparing this week,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm a totally different player just
Speaker 1: from knowing kind of the next step, what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and just you know, being comfortable at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. You can kind of tell um, I was
Speaker 1: pretty antsy, you know, and trying to be everywhere all
Speaker 1: at once, but I kind of just understood and realized,
Speaker 1: you know, my job, what I'm what I need to do,
Speaker 1: how can I help? And always kind of being aware
Speaker 1: of the next step before it happens. I think that's
Speaker 1: something that's progressively gotten better over the weeks. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up this podcast kind of in the
Speaker 1: same way we started. After the interviews there with Austin
Speaker 1: Solomon and Rob and Dolphins running back Matt Brita was
Speaker 1: asked about what's his impressions of Brian Flores as a
Speaker 1: head coach here in his first year with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: and just a quick apology and we have all kinds
Speaker 1: of different things this year. Some airplanes were flying overhead
Speaker 1: as Matt was giving his press conference. So here he
Speaker 1: is with a little bit of airplane audio added in. Um,
Speaker 1: just that he treats every player the same, no matter
Speaker 1: how good you are or if you're on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: He expects, you know, great things out of you. Um.
Speaker 1: He's a great coach and he's got me coach for
Speaker 1: a very long time to leave. Um, it's rarely that
Speaker 1: you know you're around coaches like him. You know, we're
Speaker 1: very young. I understand what it takes to win and
Speaker 1: all the you know, just just put it goes into
Speaker 1: this game. And since I've been here, you know, I
Speaker 1: just see the great things about him. Um, he's lucky
Speaker 1: that he's my head coach. And I think all the
Speaker 1: guys those teams are the same way. We all want
Speaker 1: to play for him. You know, just go out there
Speaker 1: and where going down the line for him, You do
Speaker 1: the same for us. He's just a great head coach.
Speaker 1: So there you have a busy Thursday edition of the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast. A feature on the Miami Dolphins dot
Speaker 1: com web page is available for you guys right now,
Speaker 1: taking a look at that young offensive line group with
Speaker 1: Solomon rob Austin. Heard from coach Steve Marshall as well
Speaker 1: on there, so do not miss that. We have the
Speaker 1: game preview up there as well. John con Gemmis Three
Speaker 1: Keys of the Game coming your way as well on there.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're gonna have the Flashback podcast with Marty Booker
Speaker 1: taking a look at the two thousand six shutout of
Speaker 1: the Patriots. That was a fun game. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that with Marty as well as Seth and o J
Speaker 1: here from the fish Tank Podcast. Check out the Audible
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