WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 1 Variety Show 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.760 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.760 to a looking clips about. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:17.040 The wide Dolphins touchdown Tyrequel, unpelievable, just blue. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.439 Fire for a second time. Don't know where he was 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:20.360 going right away. 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:21.920 I want to hit that man. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:23.120 I'm gonna help you. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:24.560 Someone will keep on the bandwagon. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:26.319 Wattle, Wattle to. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.840 A shotguns, back to throw, looking at them. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.160 Up fires touchdown. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.040 It's Waddle his sixth touchdown. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:34.920 Paradom of this day. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.040 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:44.320 Now check your pulse eno for O What is up? 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:45.080 Dolphins? 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.040 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:52.120 Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.120 Your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.200 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.880 And on today's show, it's our Football Friday Show, taking. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.120 A bit of a different course this year. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.560 We're gonna hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, who addressed 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.600 the media on Friday. Plus we're gonna hear from David 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.920 Faronos of the Sun Sentinel taking a look at Dolphins 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.760 and Chargers, kind of giving you a camp and preseason 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.679 recap We'll also hear from some of the guys in 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.720 the locker room, Cater Kohu, Robert Hunt, We'll hear from Tuatungo, 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.560 Bai Loa, and Mike White, and we'll finish up the 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.840 podcast with Kyle Krabs talking the weekend in college football 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.319 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.959 This is the Drive Time podcast. That's another Miami. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.880 Dolphins go ahead and kick this off with some media 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.919 availability here from head coach Mike McDaniel, who addressed Toron 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.720 Armstead's availability or lack thereof, potentially in the game on Sunday. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.640 I want to go ahead and make it perfectly clear 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.120 this podcast will most likely come out before the injury 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.760 report comes out, So for an update on that, by 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.920 the time you guys hear this probably will be out. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.280 Go check out my Twitter timeline at Wingfield NFL for 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.600 the latest Dolphins injury report for Sunday in Los Ange, Angeless. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:01.240 As for what. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.480 Coach had to say about toront Arfseett and how close 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.280 he potentially is returning to action and getting the work in, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.160 let's go to here. Let's go ahead and hear from 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.280 head coach Mike McDaniel. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.040 Here's here's what we'll say. Especially I'm sure you guys 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.399 have talked to Tron. I know his expectation has has 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.519 been the entire time to to play week one and 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:27.880 if he has the final say, if Chris, Chris Greer 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.600 and the Boys decide to fire me and make him 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:35.040 the head coach today, he'll definitely be playing. However, you know, 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.600 want to take a look at him this this afternoon 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.040 and really kind of make a concrete decision for Sunday. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.320 So I think by today we'll have an answer for Sunday. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:52.240 And the literally the only reason, uh there's even a 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.640 debate is because it's my job to protect players from themselves, 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:04.840 and it's my job, with the aid of all sorts 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:11.079 of well intentioned, very well schooled individuals, is that we 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.080 do what's best for the Dolphins for the entirety of 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:18.040 the season. So we you know, going through that process 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:24.440 making sure that there won't there continues to not be setbacks, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.280 more that we're trying to do something for the long haul, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.320 and we'll assess it today and see where that leaves us. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.440 I just thought the whole process of how coach is 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.280 going through that and how the team is, you know, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.680 deciphering whether or not it's best for Toronto player or 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.640 not was worth hearing whether or not he does player 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.119 or not. So there's coach talking about his star left 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.160 tackle and all pre season we saw Kendall Lamb play 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.160 in that left tackle position. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.200 And a player that I've been talking about in the podcast. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.080 Whether it's training camp, whether it's games, whether it's his 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.600 reps from a season to go, albeit just thirty two, 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.800 but mostly what he says in his media availabilities and 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.800 just kind of how confident he is and the lessons 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.360 he's learned from a nine year pro career here in 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.560 the National Football League. I think Kendall can play man 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.480 and I'm looking forward to seeing him get a chance, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.320 if he does get that chance, to prove it and 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.160 show you what he's kind of progressed here towards Coach 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.040 touched on the progression that Kendall has made from his 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.360 first year here and how he's talked about it all 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.760 the time, how in this offensive line group you're doing 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.680 an ultimate trust fall because everything you've learned as a 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.080 pro is kind of being rewired to do the opposite 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.400 for how you play the position. And he talked about 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.160 the progression Kendall had from year number one to year 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.680 number two within this system, and that's kind of been 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.200 the entire theme of the off season on this podcast, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.560 right talking about how that second year breeds familiarity that 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.360 kant Neuty can potentially breed better success for the offense. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.039 Hopefully that's the idea at least, And so for Kendall 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:44.880 Lamb to get that second year of knt Nuty and 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.640 familiarity could be a big boon for him. Here's coach 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.320 talking about how comfortable he feels if Kendall Lamb is 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.600 the left tackle on Sunday against the Chargers. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:59.120 Kendall's a great example of a guy that has found 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:04.000 a place on a team that had been through some 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:11.400 trials in his career. But I mean he last year, 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.919 he made an impact so early in the room about 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.120 how he goes about his business. He uses every slight 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:25.400 that's happened to him to his advantage, not disadvantage. And 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.560 he uh, he's he's a core core piece of the 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.640 locker room at this point, which says a lot. So 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.760 my confidence is high just because I see better than 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:40.000 I hear, and he's shown me as consistent really as anybody, 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.200 what I can expect, what his teammates can expect from him, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:50.000 and that's a that's a guy that there's nothing more 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:54.880 important to him than what he needs to deliver on 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:59.160 for himself and his teammates. So anytime he's on the field, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.480 I get excited for because he's he's he's been down 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.400 the rigors of the NFL journey for a player that's not, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.040 you know, a lottery pick, so to speak, and he's 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.760 coming out a better version then he went in. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.599 Next, we get another update from coach on a player 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.839 who's been working so hard to get back from an 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.400 injury that cost him a big chunk of the twenty 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.680 twenty two season. He finally ditched the red non contact 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.839 jersey a couple of weeks back and just continues to 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.120 look on track and progressing towards Week one. Let's go 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.560 ahead and hear from coach McDaniel and how confident he 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.160 is and Brandon Jones' ability to get back into the 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.679 defense here in Week one and play against the Chargers. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.039 You know, that's first and foremost, that was our priority 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.840 in assessment from him from his from this whole offseason, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:54.200 because again you're trying to You're trying to make sure 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.200 that you're coming back the best version that you possibly 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:01.400 can and that's a process. So we're very very attentive 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:06.240 to the physical part of that, and I can I'm 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.880 very happy with Brandon. I'm very happy with the training 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.880 staff because I think for a normal timeline purpose, he's 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.120 done everything he could and more. And I feel very 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:24.200 good about his physical ability to play within the defense. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.440 And for him, you know, it's trying to make up 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:34.440 the reps in that are lost live in that process, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:40.560 in a in a new defense. You know, it's not linear. 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.640 When it clicks, it clicks, and each and every day 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.880 he's been getting better and better at getting to that 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:53.960 click spot. So I'm I'm very happy with where he's 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.920 at because he's a big part of the team that's 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:04.120 a very impactful play and you know, I feel pretty confident, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.080 as confident as one can be in the game of football, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.160 that we've done right by him and the Dolphins with 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:19.360 our progression that will continue as his uh he gets 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:19.800 caught up. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.760 I want to end here at coaches media availability this question. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.120 I asked him about a clip from his childhood lifelong 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.720 friend Dan soder A great comic who actually comes through 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.800 here quite a bit. Go check him out with Daniel 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.240 improv when he is in town here in South Florida. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.920 But he told a story about playing techmost super Bowl 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.920 against Coach when they were children, And he went on 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.560 the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast and told us this 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.199 story about playing Coach in Techmobiles. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.800 He would be the Falcons and he would is such 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.400 a memory for me because I got so angry. He 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.280 would always switch to Dion Sanders and drop Dion all 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.360 the way back. So no matter what play I picked, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.760 when I threw it, he would break on it with 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.400 d On. He would pick it almost every time, and 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.480 as he was running it back, he would look at 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:11.800 me and go brid And it's like after the first 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.360 two you're like, okay, you know, like that kid frustration. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:14.920 We're like. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.280 To try to not be and he's like. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.440 That is the most coach response I've ever heard in 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.320 my life. So I wanted to ask him about that, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.440 and you're gonna hear Coach give his little impression of 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.160 his younger self. Here's McDonnel talking about playing Techmobile with 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:30.559 a great Dan Soda. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:38.559 In terms of developing football passion, it's probably uh you know, right, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.760 you know, as I think I got my first video 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:50.320 game as a reward for straight a's right, and so 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.000 whenever those reports maybe it was first grade or something, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.520 you know, I once I got my hands on video games. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.640 That was a game changer. And U that, you know, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.760 at Techmo, super Bowl, college Football, all those games, I 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:12.360 spent way too much time. And it's probably why I 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.800 was able to, you know, at the time when we 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.720 were talking about with Dan Soder, I was four foot 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.360 ten in seventh grade, right, and probably didn't have that 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:29.720 much to talk crap about just in general and life. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.920 So video games are a nice outlet. Being good at 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.719 Techno super Bowl allowed me to you know, lay off 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:43.080 some steam probably on my my taller, uh more manly 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.600 looking friend. Hey listen prime Time now it's real. And 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.040 it was obnoxious. And then then I would get upset 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.920 that like dude, you don't want to play anymore, Like 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.760 come on, man, this is like two games. I'll be 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.520 a different team that would be the Raiders and have 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.079 Bo Jackson do the same thing. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.440 Not sure I've loved the story more so far and 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.280 coaches one and a half years here with the Miami Dolphins. 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.280 Let's go ahead and turn things now to my guest 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.040 that I welcome into the podcast today. David Fronas from 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.480 the Sun Sentinel talk in all things Dolphins and Chargers 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.560 ahead of the game on Sunday and joining me today 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.840 on the Draft Time podcast. Is a writer for the 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.120 Sun Sentinel. You can find him on Twitter at David Fronas. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.920 Underscore important for the innerscore. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.760 Right of course, otherwise you're never gonna find it. Some 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:29.800 type of my name is not like it drops down 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:30.720 on a menu or something. 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:32.640 But yeah, right, I mean I think I was on 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.559 Twitter in like twenty sixteen, so I mind's winfled NFL 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:36.520 like real original, right. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:41.400 I think some Spanish someone in Spain took David. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:42.240 Farronas before me. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:43.960 But then I think it was available one time when 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.520 I looked later, but I already had it. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:46.199 So what are you gonna do? 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.480 It's gonna cost you a pretty penny and to get 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.400 that name probably back at some point anyway. David joins 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.079 us here today talking some Dolphins, Chargers and really camp 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:53.760 in preseasons where I want to start with you because 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.160 we have a chance to be out here. You know, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.680 a unique perspective that a lot of fans don't get 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.080 because we get to see all the practices and just. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.480 Kind of start there for a week one game. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.200 Here, what's your biggest takeaway you had, David from either 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.760 the preseason training camp just the lead up to Week 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.199 one here, boy, just. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.640 Giving me the open book to to say whatever I want. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.520 I gotta go to Jelen Phillips. I mean, he had 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.480 such a tremendous camp. Just to watch how consistently he 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.199 got home those pressures. I think that that's that we 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.200 always talk about with him, that pass rush win rate. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.240 It's really going to start to turn into some sacks 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.240 this year. We're gonna see him probably get into those 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.520 double digits that've been we've been waiting to see Jaylen 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.600 Phillips get too. Through the first two years of his career, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.480 he was really consistently beating whoever was in front of him. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.760 And I mean he was my team player of the 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:39.520 camp really. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.920 So okay, So maybe boys orange jersey in game number one? 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.240 Yes, Yeah, Well, the Dolphins gonna bring back those orange 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.320 jerseys from two thousand and three or whatever it was. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.319 I might have to Roger might not like that too much. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.160 Roger could tell might might have something to say about that, 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.079 but yeah, he was. He was dominant in practice. I 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:55.440 had a stat that I would try to read off 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.400 sometimes on the show and it's like two wordy. He 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.000 had like the most pressures in a certain amount of 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.920 seconds that didn't result in sacks. And I think that 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.040 this year they have a chance to potentially turn more 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.080 of those pressures into sacks. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:05.560 Is you're an. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.480 Acronym for that? Like you got those weird ones in baseball? 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.000 There's something weird, but I can't make a word out 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.480 of It's not English, so we're gonna mess out on that. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.960 So you know, my favorite part about Week one is 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.880 trying to find out, like what teams are. We don't 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.480 really know what teams are, like, we have our our 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.920 ideas and predictions from training camp. But is there an 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.280 element to this team that is new or maybe a 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.679 little bit mysterious to you that you're most intrigued to 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.760 find out about Come Sunday, Yeah, I think you got 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.520 to go to Vic Fangioe. The team transforms its defense, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.680 so switching over from the more aggressive, the press man 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.640 and blitz heavy packages that Josh Boyer had previously, and 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.560 then now you're gonna see more of those, the variety 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.880 of his own defenses that that Vic Fanjo plays, although 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.880 he'll mix in the man coverages as well, but the 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.319 two high shell, the quarters cover six and. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.679 All those things, and really a defense that will limit 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.160 a lot of the big plays that the offense opposing 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.720 offenses are trying to hit, and then also put his 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.280 own defenders in positions to make big plays on their end. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:01.600 So thin that'll be exciting to watch. I wish we 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.760 had Jayalen Ramsey did. Does he play in it early 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.120 in the season, But something tells me he's gonna be 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.640 beating that timeline to recovering. We're gonna see him in 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:10.120 this defense. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:10.760 Man. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.760 That's that's gonna be a nice little whenever it happens 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.920 mid season, late season booing the Dolphins get to the defense, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.840 and like you said, Fangio is just I can't wait 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.400 to see what he does too, because it's it's such 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.000 a mystery and we don't know what exactly is gonna 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.400 look like, especially with the year off. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.880 And drawing up extra coverages. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.760 Kind of the same question for you here, because again, 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.440 like this is what makes this game so far. I 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.040 think it's the best game on the schedule this week. 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.480 Maybe Buffalo and the Jets is right up there as well. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.160 But there's so many storylines in this game. What's one 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.400 that you're really focusing on, Whether it's you know, Ronaldo 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.600 Hill coming back to the Chargers, or like you mentioned, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.000 Fangio's first game, what's your favorite storyline for this game? 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.040 Yeah, well, obviously the coaching matchup between Mike McDaniel his 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.320 offense and Brandon Staley his defense, and we saw last 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.240 year that one went Staley's way. The defense for the 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.240 Chargers had it schemed up well, pressing receivers, making a 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.520 difficult on Tyreek Kill and Jilen Waddle taking away the 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.280 middle of the field where likes to be so effective. 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.120 So what counters does Mike McDaniel have that's gonna be 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.600 interesting to see and finding ways to get to it 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.800 to find those targets both in the middle and on 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.840 the outside. And if the run game gets more involved. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.120 I wrote about that just today that I want to 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:14.720 see the run game also given more touches to Raheem 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.360 Mostert and and even though we don't have Jeff Wilson 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.360 to start the season, but the guys, the other guys 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.040 behind Savon Ahmed and Devon a Chanin. Maybe those rookies 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.200 and Chris Brooks who made this roster as an undrafted 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.240 rookie after a fine preseason, So which one of those 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 guys are gonna be involved in this game plan? And 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.960 Mike McDaniel has said he wants to run the ball more, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.000 so I want to see if that's true going into 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.760 Week one against the Chargers run defense that returns from 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.880 last year that wasn't very highly ranked, and obviously in 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.160 past defense they have a J. C. Jackson coming back 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.600 this year. Joey Boso wasn't playing in last year's game. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.040 He's going to be there. So that combination of him 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.080 and Khalil Mack on the edges for them against the 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:51.440 Dolphins tackles, that'll be a big. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:51.840 Thing to watch. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.240 So maybe if the run game can kind of counter 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.840 that a little bit. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.360 I'm glad you plugged your piece. Thats the whole reason 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:57.400 we have you on here to kind of get the 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.480 folks to know more of the local riders here than 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.920 to do such good work for us here on the 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.960 local beat. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.240 right here and come back on the other side and 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.960 talk more with David from from the Sun Sentinel Drivetime podcast, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.320 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.640 back here with Sun Sentinel writer David Fronas and a 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.760 special guest appearance from Renzo Shepherd on the podcast Dolphins 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.040 pr man. Just walking through the room here, No big deal. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.960 We're kind of taking up other people's space as well. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:23.280 Right now. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:23.640 It's here. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:24.880 I believe this is a quote. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.000 Food is here, So not for you guys, just from 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:28.840 me and David in the building here. But uh, David, 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.840 One of the reasons I like having you guys on 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.720 is because the more eyes, the more ears we get 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:34.440 on the show the better. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.680 Because you know, so much happens. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.480 At practice, in a locker room, in a media, a 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.920 press conference, whatever it is. Do you have a moment 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.440 from this week, whether it was open locker room, coach 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.560 at the podium, to whatever it might have been. Was 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.120 there a moment from this week that was your favorite 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:47.440 so far? 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.360 You know, it's always cool to see a coach at 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.160 the podium, and Mike McDaniels so great in this media setting, 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.520 So I mean, really it really brains our day. It's 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.720 this is an enjoyable thing to come to work to 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.560 you know, I can't complain my job when when a 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.600 lot of people are you know, you're they're tuning in 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.760 to watch the live stream, a lot of fans are 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:08.359 tuning in, And this is what I get to attend 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.639 on a normal basis, and Mike McDaniel makes it an 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.880 enjoyable experience, always got something to say when he walks 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.520 right in today. This is being recorded on a Friday, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.959 where his first Friday press conference, it's a little bit 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.320 lighter attended by the media, but I think, yeah, yeah, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.720 right right, so calling us to tried and true, and 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.640 I posted a little video clip of his opening remarks 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.359 of how excited he was to find out what we 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.720 had to ask him on a Friday press conference. I 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:35.960 think in the locker room it's a lot of that 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.239 one on one time that you get with players, are 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.919 really getting to know them and then just seeing what 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.200 kind of intricate things you can figure out about the 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:47.119 game from those those moments in the locker room into 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.679 a spoke at the podium earlier this week too. One 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.080 answer that was kind of cool from him was talking 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:52.960 about Justin Herbert. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:54.520 Those two guys, those two quarterbacks are. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.400 Always going to be compared because one was drafted number five, 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.440 one was drafted number six in the twenty twenty draft. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.280 But sort of just seeing how he said I fan 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.880 over him sometimes and the way he gets the ball 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.880 out his arm strength, So that was kind of cool 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.879 to see just one quarterback showing a lot of respect 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:10.480 to another. Yeah. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.240 Like I said, storylines are a plenty in this game, right, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.280 and that's just one of them that you I thought 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.600 that might be where you go. But I mean there's 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.480 so many to pick from that you didn't choose a 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:18.880 bad one either at all there, So. 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:19.720 Yeah, so got it in. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.120 Yeah, definitely did. That's a true proyd there, getting every 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.160 talking point in. David, appreciate your time today, man. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:25.240 Thanks Lonon, thanks for having me. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.600 Let's take our last break right there and come back 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.119 on the other side and finish up with some audio 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.800 from the locker room cater coo who Robert Hunt will 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.600 hear from Tuatungueovailoa and Mike White plus another guest, Kyle Krabs, 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.040 breaking down the weekend that is coming up in college football. 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:39.439 All that. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.720 Next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:47.480 you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead now, and get 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.680 to some of my player interviews in the open locker 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.480 room this week, I wanted to talk to a couple 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.720