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Speaker 1: this week, the Dolphins open training camp, bring people in
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, get things going on Wednesday, and some some
Speaker 1: news out of training camp. They finished signing all their rookies.
Speaker 1: Leam Miichenberg, the tackle out of Notre Dame, who's gonna
Speaker 1: compete for that right tackle spot with Jesse Davis and
Speaker 1: uh and and maybe d J. Fluker, some of those
Speaker 1: guys out there. He signed on on Tuesday. And and
Speaker 1: one little bit of a disappointment, Preston Williams back in
Speaker 1: the fold. However, he's on physically under able to perform
Speaker 1: and UH won't won't be working with the team for
Speaker 1: a while until he gets ready, so still kind of
Speaker 1: getting getting retarded from that injury had last season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big part of the offense. You know. If
Speaker 1: you can have Preston Williams on the outside opposite uh
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker, and then you add that speed with William
Speaker 1: Fuller on the inside with Jalen Waddle, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good things for to a tongue of ioloa, a
Speaker 1: lot of options at his disposal. So you hope that
Speaker 1: Preston is gonna be able to get back. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's if it's the first week or ten days, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, get into the second preseason game, maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of plays in the third, or maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: even have to play in the third. Get him ready
Speaker 1: for um. You know that that September date to open
Speaker 1: up in New England. So you're you're hoping that it's
Speaker 1: not gonna last the entire training camp because I think
Speaker 1: Preston is one of those guys we've seen in the past.
Speaker 1: Training camp kind of carries over into the regular season.
Speaker 1: You want him to be positive, have some positive plays
Speaker 1: going into the regular season. Well, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about expectations. You know, we've talked all offseason and
Speaker 1: talk about different positions and everything, But when you look
Speaker 1: at this football team, if you could just pick three
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna look at that you expect from
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin football team, I would say Number one,
Speaker 1: aggression and being aggressive on offense, meaning with tempo, getting
Speaker 1: in and out of the huddle, maybe going some no
Speaker 1: huddle uh trying to get on and and tire out
Speaker 1: of defense Number one and make them identify where all
Speaker 1: that speed is coming from, because the Dolphins have plenty
Speaker 1: of it this year. I think that's probably something I
Speaker 1: would look for. Secondly, can they build upon what they
Speaker 1: started on defense last year? I think Josh Bowyer was
Speaker 1: onto something with moving guys around and being able to
Speaker 1: be multiple not only with your players, but with your position.
Speaker 1: And now you have McKinney at linebacker, you you have
Speaker 1: Aga coming off of a huge year. You have Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle that's ascending opposite him. You had better play on
Speaker 1: the inside. Can those guys build upon what they did
Speaker 1: and make the guys behind them even better? I think
Speaker 1: that they were the beneficiaries of that. And then I
Speaker 1: think third you know, you have to look at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. You have to look at how to is
Speaker 1: going to be, how he's gonna play early, how he's
Speaker 1: going to, you know, kind of get into the fire early.
Speaker 1: Can he lead the team? Can he start that team
Speaker 1: and be a leader, you know through the first month
Speaker 1: of September, where the Dolphins aren't kind of looking up
Speaker 1: at everybody else going into October and November. Can they
Speaker 1: start fast? I think that's probably the word I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: Can to ignite a fast start for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: especially on that side of the football. I think this
Speaker 1: offensive line is going to be a very, very key
Speaker 1: component and a good component to the football team. You
Speaker 1: look at Austin Jackson, Solomon Kenley, Robert Hunt, look at
Speaker 1: all the snaps that those guys got last year, valuable snaps.
Speaker 1: They're all big guys. They're all athletic guys that can
Speaker 1: move your kick. Hunt down into that right guard right
Speaker 1: guard position, which I think is a more a better
Speaker 1: position for him. He's working in a tighter space and
Speaker 1: a bigger body. I think that's gonna help. And then
Speaker 1: the battle for that right tackle spot with the Jesse Davis,
Speaker 1: the incumbent and Leah Mikenberg coming in. D J. Fluker
Speaker 1: is gonna battle for that tackle position, maybe that guard position.
Speaker 1: But I just think with the way those those guys
Speaker 1: played last year, in the number of snaps that they got,
Speaker 1: in particular those three rookies, that they're gonna come back
Speaker 1: and be stronger and better and better equipped to be
Speaker 1: a put in John we talked about before. One thing
Speaker 1: that we've seen with his football team, uh since uh,
Speaker 1: since Brian Flores and his staff has been here, They've
Speaker 1: been able to get people to get to become better
Speaker 1: the second year than they were the first year. Growth
Speaker 1: every year we see out of these team. This this
Speaker 1: this coaching staff for these players, and I think that
Speaker 1: is going to be a key point on this football team.
Speaker 1: But I think you I can speak for you here.
Speaker 1: If we don't talk about the offensive line this year,
Speaker 1: it's a great thing. As we've been talking, We've been
Speaker 1: talking about him for about I don't know, ten years now,
Speaker 1: and you want to be able to talk about him
Speaker 1: as an afterthought. You know, the offensive line play well
Speaker 1: again today. They you know, they really did. They provided
Speaker 1: some gaping holes for the running game. They gave two
Speaker 1: tons of protection. Uh, and they moved people off the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and short yardage and on the goal line.
Speaker 1: If you can say those things with any kind of consistency,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense is gonna have a pretty good year.
Speaker 1: And that's that's where it starts, and that's where it
Speaker 1: ends sometimes, is that offensive line. And as you said,
Speaker 1: the young guys got a lot of valuable experience last year.
Speaker 1: You had a couple more new pieces. Let's see how
Speaker 1: it all shakes out, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you want the five best playing every Sunday at whatever
Speaker 1: position may be suited for them. It's it's gonna be ah.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun start to the season. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a uh. It's gonna be nice to get
Speaker 1: back and and watch training camp and see these guys
Speaker 1: have a true training camp where they get through and
Speaker 1: get ready to play the games. The next thing, you know, John,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be heading to Chicago to practice against the
Speaker 1: Bears for a couple of times, a couple of times
Speaker 1: before their first preseason game, and then then we're gonna
Speaker 1: be up to our next in it as we go
Speaker 1: on for the next one eighteen nineteen weeks, Sir, hopefully
Speaker 1: it goes, hopefully goes a little go a lot long,
Speaker 1: a little little bay stick around. We come back from
Speaker 1: talk to my former teammate, Bob bam Hower defensive tackle
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolfins from seventy seven to eighty seven
Speaker 1: or how long you're played ten years and then Alabama guy,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to with Bob bomb Now where we come back, Well,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Auto presented by Automation. Time now for
Speaker 1: our sit down. Amplify my hard rock hotel. We're playing
Speaker 1: to have a Bob bomb Hower with us, say, five
Speaker 1: time Pro Bowlers, defensive tackle for the Miami often defensive
Speaker 1: player of the year, UH Annie and Alabama guy, second
Speaker 1: round draft pick out of Alabama in the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: seven Bob, thanks for joining us here on the audible today. Hey,
Speaker 1: good to be here. Bob's good to see your buddy.
Speaker 1: I'm now known as uh head Fried cook these days,
Speaker 1: you are their head fried Cooking. You've been way for
Speaker 1: a while. I know in the restaurant you. I think
Speaker 1: you own the restaurant business. And in Alabama from Gulf
Speaker 1: Shores to UH as far west as you can go,
Speaker 1: aren't you. Yeah, we've been uh we've been doing this
Speaker 1: for a while, what you know, and um and uh
Speaker 1: got Spencer involved now my oldest. So we're we're just
Speaker 1: uh try still trying to figure it out, but we're
Speaker 1: having a good time up here doing our thing in
Speaker 1: uh in the business. Well it's that time of year.
Speaker 1: Training camps are open to Miami Dolphins open training camp
Speaker 1: this week. They came in on Tuesday, started practicing on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Uh and got after it. And uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: about you, but it's always enjoyable when when training camps
Speaker 1: open up, especially when we don't have to go through
Speaker 1: it again. Yeah, it's best that last part. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. And it brings back so many
Speaker 1: memories and uh, you know, you and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of memories from that seventy seven training camp. There's
Speaker 1: a lot going on back then. And uh, um it's
Speaker 1: funny how clearly uh you your you can recall a
Speaker 1: lot of things that happened during training camp. You know,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that uh, you don't ever forget. Bob.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you a little bit about some
Speaker 1: of those memories. Uh, you know, had such a prolific
Speaker 1: ear on the defensive side. Uh, not only you know,
Speaker 1: with multiple tackles and multiple plays along the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: but behind the line of scrimmage. How how much is that?
Speaker 1: How much do you take with with you when you
Speaker 1: run into guys like kim Bo Camper, or you see
Speaker 1: an A. J. Doe, or you see somebody that brings
Speaker 1: back a memory that make puts a smile on your face.
Speaker 1: Oh definitely, it's uh we I really feel blessed to
Speaker 1: have had those experiences and have been able to have
Speaker 1: those relationships, still have those relationships. I mean I I
Speaker 1: called Bob. I just called bo Um a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, just to catch up. Talk to a J,
Speaker 1: talked to Duck Bettors, talked to a lot of guys
Speaker 1: and Um, whether it's the memories from back in the
Speaker 1: day when we were all playing together and doing our thing,
Speaker 1: or the memories I have from our relationships as we've
Speaker 1: grown a little older. Um, it's just special. And I'm
Speaker 1: feel blessed to have those type of relationships. And you know,
Speaker 1: they all started for me back in uh seventy seven,
Speaker 1: my rookie year in Miami. Hey, Bob, let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about Two. You you've had up. You had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to watch him firsthand when he came in.
Speaker 1: U you came in and lit things up in Alabama
Speaker 1: and the type of player he was. But but talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about the character. You know. I know
Speaker 1: that there's been talk about two and can he be
Speaker 1: the guy or was he a bus in this and that?
Speaker 1: And and a lot of guys would maybe take that
Speaker 1: and say, well, you know, I'm I'm gonna show the fans.
Speaker 1: But Bob, I think from me looking at two from
Speaker 1: a distance, UM, I don't think his mind works that way.
Speaker 1: I think his mind works his Look. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out and I'm gonna work to be the best player
Speaker 1: that I can be. And I think the way he
Speaker 1: was brought up, I think that his character is really
Speaker 1: something that that that's on the forefront when you watch him,
Speaker 1: you've seen him more than I have. How do you
Speaker 1: see him stepping from where he was in Alabama, what
Speaker 1: he went through last year to what we may be
Speaker 1: expect to see from him. Knowing the personality of the
Speaker 1: of the character we're talking about, I think you're spot on,
Speaker 1: you know. I I don't know his parents, well, but
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to meet him and spend some
Speaker 1: time with him when they were in Alabama. They are
Speaker 1: wonderful people, wonderful family. And you know when we played,
Speaker 1: but we had good people on that team. When you
Speaker 1: and I came to Miami, there were good folks on
Speaker 1: that team, starting with the coaching staff and then the
Speaker 1: players that we played with, and two of his good people.
Speaker 1: He's good people. Mom and dad are great. He's a winner. Um,
Speaker 1: he is exactly what you say is as far as
Speaker 1: his attitude about being the best he can be. He's
Speaker 1: gonna do what's necessary and he's going to keep working
Speaker 1: to get better at the pro game. And then with
Speaker 1: what coach for us and coaches are doing, the decisions
Speaker 1: you're making, you know, with both defense and offense. It's uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, I got really really good feeling about
Speaker 1: what's going on down there. Bob. Really appreciate you taking
Speaker 1: some time out to join us. And uh, it's been
Speaker 1: a long time since we since we joined together with
Speaker 1: the Miami offense and still to this day, Still to
Speaker 1: this day, Bob, I'm gonna tell you right now and
Speaker 1: up tell it on TV. I know Sandosey's State could
Speaker 1: have beat you, guys in where we're gonna beat you
Speaker 1: if you, if you, if your team had the guts
Speaker 1: to plants, but you wouldn't step up and put us
Speaker 1: on your on your schedule. So it's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be left up in the air from now on. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a talk with coach Saban about
Speaker 1: that and get to get the Spartans on the schedule. Huh.
Speaker 1: There you go. Last times the sparts were on the
Speaker 1: schedule for Alabama, I think they only lasted a half
Speaker 1: a quarter until I tell you, guys got into triple
Speaker 1: or double digits or something. Bob. Always a pleasure, you know,
Speaker 1: is I know there's a lot of fans that enjoy
Speaker 1: having the opportunity to see you again out here and
Speaker 1: talking a little off. I'm looking forward to you being
Speaker 1: down for a couple of games this season and we'll
Speaker 1: see yousuming. Bo. It's great, just great, great to see
Speaker 1: and thanks for having me on. I appreciate your buddy,
Speaker 1: all right. Pleasure do you want us to say, like
Speaker 1: check it out? Yeah, let's see how it goes. What
Speaker 1: Savon I met wentning back from Mommie Dolphins, Like Ferguson,
Speaker 1: long snapper for the Miami Dolphins. We're having some fun today.
Speaker 1: Today's media day, so we want to mess with our
Speaker 1: teammates a little bit. See who we can get into.
Speaker 1: I have a little fun, you know, I can't about
Speaker 1: to start. We gotta get into it. Get a little
Speaker 1: last See what my dad talking about? Keep going into
Speaker 1: Jordan's He's find of like, why is everybody in my shots?
Speaker 1: I'm still on't kind of like that. But with me
Speaker 1: doing that and you just like standing over there, I
Speaker 1: had to get him out of the picture for one
Speaker 1: of them. Ain't doing that? You ain't doing that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah watching Let men see that. You should have moved
Speaker 1: a little closer. Yeah, I can do it. Let me
Speaker 1: show you how to do this thing. Yeah, I'll think
Speaker 1: you like that. I'm gonna get the angles because I
Speaker 1: actually I took the photography in high school. You probably
Speaker 1: get an angle over here too. We should get you
Speaker 1: should get you should move over a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: point that Toto? Am I here? Why? Hello? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: so I see you. We got tryouts. Listen. Oh who's that?
Speaker 1: Who's Oh it's Nick. You couldn't get a haircut for
Speaker 1: media day, dude, you couldn't get a haircut. I'll teach
Speaker 1: you how to flex. I will teach you how to flex.
Speaker 1: So what you gotta do. It's all on the it's
Speaker 1: all on the feet. Get some adrenaline going big yell.
Speaker 1: That's that's there. You go, there, you go. Um, I say,
Speaker 1: we go football, but he doesn't. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he'll ever have the football in his hands, so I don't.
Speaker 1: We can get him. We can get him catching the balls.
Speaker 1: Catching the ball. All right, Sorry, that was my bad.
Speaker 1: Just one more working these catches. I've been my gun
Speaker 1: this whole time, trying to scurring. I'll actually give you
Speaker 1: some good tosses for the content. I think that was
Speaker 1: all right. Welcome back to the audible Kimbo Camper. John
Speaker 1: consam me with your training camps open. Baptist Health training
Speaker 1: complexes is wide open. Players are there, John, And uh well,
Speaker 1: I tell you what a facility that Steven Ross is
Speaker 1: putting together. And he se million dollars or whatever, but
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what what a gym it is. And
Speaker 1: NFL is getting everyone back in the fans back. It's
Speaker 1: back together is the theme of the NFL. And fans
Speaker 1: are getting back to get to get to watch the
Speaker 1: training camp and and for the Dolphin fans, not only
Speaker 1: gonna just see the new new look Dolphins, they're gonna
Speaker 1: get to check out that new Baptistelf facility which is
Speaker 1: which is out of control, Johnny, it's beautiful. And for
Speaker 1: any NFL player that is a free agent, I think
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins just became that much more attractive because
Speaker 1: not only do you get to come to South Florida,
Speaker 1: but you get to come to a brand new, uh,
Speaker 1: state of the art training facility and you know, two
Speaker 1: grass fields. You have the indoor facility, the weight room
Speaker 1: is phenomenal, the training room looks spectacular. For the players,
Speaker 1: they have everything that uh that your heart would desire.
Speaker 1: I guess bo as a player. No more wooden stools
Speaker 1: for these guys that they could probably camp out in
Speaker 1: their locker for about a week and a half and
Speaker 1: not need anything. So uh, it's good for the players,
Speaker 1: it's great for the fans. They have a huge canopy
Speaker 1: uh to watch. You know, today fans were all over
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health training facility and it was great to
Speaker 1: see so um. Hats off to Stephen Ross and the
Speaker 1: organization for for building a world class facility. You know,
Speaker 1: first opportunity Phillis fans to get back and watch training
Speaker 1: camp today, and I know it was special for all them,
Speaker 1: and John I go, I go back to you know,
Speaker 1: I go back to where we were complaining, moaning about
Speaker 1: we ever did that practice facility and how rad it was.
Speaker 1: And then they moved to the new Davy facility and
Speaker 1: we're like, oh my gosh. The stated, look, I can't
Speaker 1: believe these and now the now other guys that moving
Speaker 1: there go jeezs were out of that old Davy, outdated
Speaker 1: facility into the new State garden. We have times have
Speaker 1: changed from from the two by four with a for
Speaker 1: ten years, I hung my clothes up on a on
Speaker 1: a tenpenny nail nailed into a two by four. Now
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any two by fours and tenpenny
Speaker 1: nails hanging around in the Dolphins training facility anymore. So,
Speaker 1: you know the problem is both for for me personally,
Speaker 1: I always bring it back to you know, your own
Speaker 1: personal experience. My friends at Grand Oaks say, my handicap
Speaker 1: is gonna go from a three to about a ten
Speaker 1: because I have to drive all the way down to
Speaker 1: Miami gardens down from practice in the in and every
Speaker 1: day instead of just going across the street and hit
Speaker 1: balls at the driving range, just bring us up. Just
Speaker 1: get a matt and bring it and you can pick
Speaker 1: out the practice field hit some balls there. See how
Speaker 1: long that last? For years? Yeah, I'm not gonna try that,
Speaker 1: not not this year for sure. Alright, important training camp
Speaker 1: and it's it's again great to have the fans back
Speaker 1: at at training camp who saw him there today, And
Speaker 1: it's gonna they're gonna have their opportunities that go on
Speaker 1: and and remember the first preseason game is in Chicago
Speaker 1: and August fourteen, they'll go ahead and have dual practices
Speaker 1: against the Bears for two days and then take Friday off.
Speaker 1: And John we talked about this. I love those practices
Speaker 1: and I love to I think we're I think that's
Speaker 1: you in lieu of a fourth preseason game. I think
Speaker 1: having practicing, practicing against two different teams prior to those
Speaker 1: games really is is a is a wise thing for
Speaker 1: this organization to do. I totally agree. Bo. You know,
Speaker 1: you get that opportunity to go on the road, get
Speaker 1: your team acclimated to that practice against the Bears, come
Speaker 1: home practice against the Atlanta Falcons then play them, which
Speaker 1: could be in the dress rehearsal because there's only three
Speaker 1: as you said, so the guys that are starters may
Speaker 1: get extended time in that second preseason game. But you're right,
Speaker 1: you build those practices into many games, situations on offense,
Speaker 1: on defense, on special teams. Even though there might not
Speaker 1: be that much live contact, You've got new bodies flying around,
Speaker 1: different colored jerseys. The competition levels increased because you want
Speaker 1: to win each drill, you want to win each play,
Speaker 1: and I think that heightens the uh, the preseason for
Speaker 1: a young football team that have high expectations, no doubt.
Speaker 1: All right, John's but a pleasure be in with you,
Speaker 1: and uh, look we're we're going now. So it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the brakes are off and we're rolling down
Speaker 1: the hill and it's gonna be a about a twenty
Speaker 1: some odd week, a little run force and looking forward
Speaker 1: every minute of it. Yeah, I am too, But hopefully
Speaker 1: we're smiling each and every week as much as we
Speaker 1: can because these Dolphins, they're a young team but with
Speaker 1: a lot of high expectations as we talked about, and
Speaker 1: we can't wait to watch him win in two thousand
Speaker 1: and twenty one at an Upside no doubt. For John,
Speaker 1: k Jemmy, I'm Jim bo Camper. This is the Audible
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Speaker 1: Kim Bokamper, have a good week. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time.