WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 21 | A.J. Duhe 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.320 All right here we are almost on the almost on 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.080 the well, when this, when this thing cares, you will 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.080 be training kids, right, we're getting ridy, we're putting this, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.639 we're pre doing this, and so it will drop. When's 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.239 it drop? Drops on Thursdays? And drop Wednesday this week? 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.840 Maybe is it dropping dropping Wednesday? Thursday, Thursday? Okay, So 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.479 if you're listening to us, if you're listening to it, look, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:29.920 training camp started yesterday. It was a good practice yesterday. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.800 Joe enjoyed watching practice Yester I did. It was a nice, 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.879 easy practice. But Thursday is gonna be the real first practice. 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.519 Joe Rose Kim bocamper and join us in the studio, 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:41.560 number seventy seven, your program number one in your heart 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.279 on one of the uh the the one of all 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.880 time greats out of Leon got your high school from Reserve, Louisiana. 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.080 Is that going right? They know the greatest place, maybe 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:53.920 one of the greatest athletes come out of Leon got 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.760 your high school. That's what you'll need to learn. How 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.640 to pronounce that. Kids on the team's how bad is it? 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.320 Got you got choked? Got child? Got y'all? Yeah, I 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.000 don't know why because I asked him one time I've 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.840 been jay Is joined us on the program. Thank you, 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.760 thank so, I asked me, because I know that in 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:18.640 in in that French kind of dialect whatever a us right. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.120 It's like when you see like how they make go 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.800 tigers and a lot of times aux people around the 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.560 country kind of go, what are they trying to stay here? 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.000 But it's all made for the home folks. You mean yeah? 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.600 So I asked him, I saying, how do you pronounce it? 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:31.800 Got you? All right? He goes, yeah, I got you 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.000 all and everyone pronounces got you. You know, it gets 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.280 it's got everything. It's all different kinds of things. It's 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:37.880 kind of like Dewey when it first came, I thought 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.240 and then but it turned out to be due from 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.160 my first time. First time I asked a J. If 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:45.800 I didn't ask him the first time I met him, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.040 I go, J, how you pronounce that name? J? I 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.080 mean again, how practice? I said? You know, I'm sir 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.480 Dewey pronounced d e w e w do a d 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:03.080 A check. That's the US way. J. J was a 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.720 name changer out of college college was a J. Dewey. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.840 But the thing is J. But I did not put 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:15.079 do a junior on my Hello, how about your ec 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.040 his kids and calls. Now they got you know, you 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.640 know Jones Senior, because they got a few, they got 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.119 a little you know, I got a couple of third 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.120 We got some packages there they're dealing with. So anyway, hey, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.200 j training kills, training camp. What do your do you 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.120 think back to training camp started a long time, but 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.520 you know here we are the twenty one. I mean 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.240 we used to start training camp. I thinking the teams 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:40.640 right longer. I remember one time starting training camp like 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.959 two days after the fourth I don't know if maybe 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:49.400 we had we had the like one year right after, 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.480 like a couple of days out of after after fourth 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.560 of July. We're training from bottom rocks and booze. I 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.280 think I had some firecrackers. Someone through firecrackers in the BOT. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.120 I think I hold in the bottom of my foot 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.400 and I couldn't. I said, just packed that thing with. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:05.840 I ain't go in here and telling coach you life, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.320 I blew the bottom of my foot off with firecrackers. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.400 I can't practice that. I'm gonna go over. The game 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.480 has changed. What do you think a j no more 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.200 two of days, no six or seven weeks like there 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.080 used to be where you had rookie scrimmages with the 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.600 Saints and veteran scrimmages the preseason. It lasted first. I mean, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.360 you know, it's it's what it is. I mean, you know, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.680 we we can't we can sit here and talk about 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.840 how it was back in the day. But uh, you know, 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.240 the guys are playing today, the coaches that are playing today, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.280 some of the coaches on the staffs and may still remember. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.160 You know, You've got some guys they're a little you know, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.240 in their fifties and sixteed that kind of are back 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.320 from the day. But uh, a lot of these coaching 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.560 staffs are, you know, their young guns, just like their players. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.000 And and the style of the game has changed. Uh. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.520 You know, I don't argue about it. I just think 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.760 it's different. I think the players aren't getting in shape 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.280 like they should. But one thing, and uh, sometimes I 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.000 don't like it. I don't I don't like it. I 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.120 just know that it look I put it this way. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.320 You know, the guys that were playing twenty years before us, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.480 it was harder for them, you know. Then then then 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.080 we came along, and then the guys after us, it 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.280 was it was a little easier for us, then it 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.680 was easier for the next guys, and now it's here, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.240 and it's just it's just, you know, it's just the 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.839 change way the game is changing, and and I just 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.719 don't what bothers me about it is you know, there's 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.160 a couple of things that bother me about and we've 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:25.919 talked about this before. First of all, if you're an 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.640 offensive a defensive alignment and you're not a draft pick, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.880 how do you even make a roster because you get 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.720 so few opportunities to go it? Because you know, if 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:36.880 ID for a receiver, a dB, a tight end or 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.640 running back, because you can show your skills, you know, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.080 the only if you're an offensive defensive lineman, your skills 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.320 are you know, being a battering ram, you know, being 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:48.440 you know, physicalness, toughness, pushing guys around, and you can't 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.520 you can't see that in with it. So you get 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:52.560 and then and then you know, if you're a free agent, 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.840 you get very very few reps in the games, So 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.200 how do you make that impact? That's one of the 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.480 things that that bothers me about it. And the other 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.880 thing that bother me about it, I think that I 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.279 think for the first four weeks of the season. The 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.560 NFL is a very sloppy league. They're sloppy games. It's 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.880 sloppy tackling because guys, that's how they It's like back 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.160 in the old day, and you have nine weeks of 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.440 training camp, you don't really have to be in shape 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.120 because you're gonna get yourself in shape. We're here. Those 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.400 first four weeks are kind of getting me into football shape. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.240 So now they can kind of get playing at the 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.560 peak level where where we used to be kind of 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.320 going into the season started. Those are the things that 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.440 bother me about the way. Look, I understand the injury, 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.159 understand the head situation, understand all the things about safety. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.240 But I'm also concerned with with us ten years from 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.000 now watching a game that that doesn't even resemble what 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.599 we knew as football growing up. Well, I don't know 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.120 how that's gonna change. Well, because I see the game 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.440 being played violently, I mean you know, I mean uh, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.039 And getting back to when you were saying about draft 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.440 picks defensive linement, the thing is that the league is 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.679 so wealthy rich right now that you know practice squads, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.159 I mean, how many ten, twelve guys and now guys 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.680 get a little ding in training camp and they maybe 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.559 an undrafted guy, let's stick him on i R because 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.640 you know the cost of keeping these people on IR. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.839 I mean it's it's almost like it's like that whole 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.320 group is less than one player salary. I mean that 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.080 whole group of players. So you know that there are 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:17.560 some some positives to the UH to the fact that 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.839 you know, more guys have job, more guys have opportunities 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.760 by just being kind of hidden. I guess you call that. UM. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:24.920 I think guys are in a lot better shape now 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.240 overall standard football, but a j these guys, they're in 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.920 year round shape. They've got all these workout facilities. When 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.200 they're not here, you go to Bombrino and all these 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.159 and there's bomb Rito's all over the country, and go 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.920 to Arizona, l A. We got the specialty coaches. Now 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.640 if a guy wants to go throw the ball for quarterbacks. 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.840 So these guys can stay in really good shape so 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.680 that when they come in. We used to just show 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.279 up for mini camp, go for a couple of days, 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.039 get ready, and then you know, accurting mostly basketball and 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.080 little softball in there and a few little workouts. But 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:02.480 our facilities are nothing like no nobody had. Uh. I mean, 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.479 the worst facility in the league today is probably better 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.440 than the best facility back in, no doubt about it. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.360 But you're right, and look there's all the sports science, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.720 all the things like that, but but still, you know, 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.400 when it comes to that that first Sunday, Uh, you know, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.920 when the season starts, I got guys out there that 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.160 are to me, are ill prepared to play. You know, 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.280 they're more worried about them being healthy than playing their best. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.960 That's the other thing. I don't remember our hot course, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.320 we didn't have a lot of guys making a lot 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.680 of money. But now guys are protected. They they're not 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.840 playing that much preseason football. They play Game three, play 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:43.640 into the third quarter, they don't play the fourth quarter. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.360 So they're basically all they got. They got two weeks 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.559 and you know, getting back to what you said earlier, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.440 which is the true statement, these guys look like they're 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.160 just the finest athletes ever known the man kind. But 0:07:54.360 --> 0:08:00.840 why can't they play sixty snaps a game? They can? 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.280 Look these guys, these guys, let me ask you a question, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.400 when when you were when you came out in your 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.480 one years old come out of l s U could 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:14.640 you play both ways in this league at that age? Um, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.440 I could have played both ways, but I couldn't have 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.920 had to have a break. I understand that that, and 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.040 and and the point I'm getting at is going back 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.480 to two way players, going back to two way players 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.360 way back in the day, all the way to now 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.720 where it's so hyper um situational. Right third and two. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.400 This guy's going in third and three. He's not going 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.520 in the other guy's going. You know. So it's very 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:44.560 but you know, those things have just those things have 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.520 just changed over the years when you had those the 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.520 guys that could play to the reason that the reason 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.360 they're not playing two two ways anymore, it's not because 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:54.760 they don't want to, because the coaches wanted to make 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.520 individuals better. You remember when you remember when Steve Told 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.920 started having his issues, Steve Told won the great middle 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.880 linebackers that the office have ever had. That nobody, nobody really, 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.760 you know, remembers or knows that much about. Guy still 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.320 holds a record for the most tackles in a single 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.240 season for the NFL, you know, fourteen games season. He 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.920 still holds a record. But I remember he was the 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:18.319 guy that Rnge used to take out situational substitution third downs. 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.559 Let's take our middle line back around and Steve, I 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.160 thought it was a pretty good coverage guy too. Let's 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.240 bring our middle line background and put another he was, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.559 you know, starting to put in that nickel, putting another 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.800 dB in there, someone or another linebackers, and then also know, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.640 oh we got this guy compelled, let's put him in 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.360 the past. So then all the situation. So now it's 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.559 gone from guys playing two two way two ways to 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.120 now you got guys are they're barely barely playing one way, 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.160 you know, but that WLD true both of everything. Okay, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.000 so as as the situation, those situations occurred probably pre 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.000 us coming here, and then it grew. You know, obviously 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.640 I think we created the zone blitz. I think, I 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:59.240 tell people to this day, I think we created and 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.240 the thing it it's like just like in business, I 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.560 mean basically like the way you buy your airline tickets. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.920 So everything is is, it's evolution. Everything changes, so you know, 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.320 we have to accept it. But then again, old school 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.360 guys kind of say, why you know, you know, for 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.360 what reason? Yeah, well look there, you know, you take 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:20.160 rotations and in this team's about rotations, defensive front rotations, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.320 linebacker rotations, dB rotations, all about this, and and and 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.319 the frustrating thing to me is if you're were in 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.640 Buffalo somewhere, you know, and the game Buffalo is driving 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.839 down the field big series. I look over and you 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.360 got cam wake on one cam wake there, and you've 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.400 got Andre branch Or one of these guys stay on 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.839 the sun going to Dominican sus standing going wait a minute, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.680 You've got your two of your best players here and 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.079 in the most important series of the game out there defensively, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.320 and they're staying on the sideline just because of rotation. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.240 That's bullshit. You know, it's your best damn guys in there. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.840 That's the game, you know. The thing is is the 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.080 other thing that I kind of confused me and scares me, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.680 is that why do guys tap themselves out? I know 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.480 sometimes you gotta, but I see guys tapping themselves out 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.000 like because because because they don't feel like they're Sometimes 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.440 you gotta play at that for a couple of players 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.840 can figure it out. You gotta, you know, you gotta 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.880 be a man, stand up to your understand it. But 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.560 here comes the analytics, Here comes all this sports science 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.760 and this and that and and there, because you've got 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.360 these guys are on the sideline telling hey, you're not 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.400 at your peak. If you're not at your peak, if 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.040 you're not playing, come out. Let's get someone in there 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.480 that's it there full well, you know what. Just take 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.880 for example, aga you're you're playing, you're you're playing middle linebacker, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.840 you're starting middle linebacker. You know you're not at your 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:41.400 peak because you've been you've already played fifty plays in 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.760 the game, right, and all of a sudden, now the 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.600 guys on looking a little tired. Let's put this guy 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.400 in because he's he's you know, he's not tired, and 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.920 he's fresh as a daisy. Yeah, but he can't play 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.160 with the ship. You know, give me the guy who 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.240 can play, not the guy. That's the thing about being 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.120 in the game is that you gotta feel for the game. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.680 You know, you kind of know, you know, like here again, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.320 but the situations come up again. Okay, last time they 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.360 ran a trap. You know, they probably think that's their 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.240 bread and butter play here. You know, we'll well, we'll 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.080 call a right call and make the right adjustments for that. 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.679 You get a guy off off the bench, I mean, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.800 first of all, he's probably like shocked that he's in 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.800 our day. It was like whoa here, it was like 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.400 you saw a new face and what the else this guy? 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.560 But the game is a lot more rotation. The dog 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.480 especially this year, built with more pass rushers, gonna rotate 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.080 defensive tackles, and their whole thing is keep everybody fresh. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.480 Came on the other day with me, Coach Gates and said, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.240 Kenyan Drake, Hey, what do you think he goes? Oh? No, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.199 I think Kenys gonna have a good year. But I 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.120 believe in rotating my running backs, like Frank Gore is 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.440 gonna play a lot of football. Don't think he's just 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.920 here to a you know, kill some fourth quarters. We 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.080 still got it. I mean, you guys have seen him. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.040 I've only seen a few interviews. He looks in great shape, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.280 and I mean he does Okay, that's that's that's amazing. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:05.280 Guy made team takes unbelievable care. That's crazy. He say, Yeah, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.480 he's Scott Blessing. I appreciate it. You know, you know 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.600 how he's a j though. You know you're you watch 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.760 guys playing all of a sudden they step off the cliff. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.400 You know what I mean they're playing pretty good and 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.640 then all of a sudden, maybe in the middle of 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.080 the year, guy steps off the cliff and that guy's done. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.120 You can't do it anymore. So but you know, in anybody, 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.600 I don't know, I'm not talking about just Frank Gore, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.240 but anybody at that age playing the game in this 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.400 league now is I think a perfect example that would 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.960 be our own cam Wait, who they tried to monitor 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.080 that was two years and yeah, you know they counting 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.240 there exactly, and I mean, you know, and you know 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.960 he he played to it as far as I saw 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.200 as the general, you know, just fan watching him at home, 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.880 but maybe behind the scenes he was kind of like going, 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:45.959 you know, I need my reps, I need my time. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.120 He did. He just kept playing all you know, he 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.840 didn't bitch, kept playing hard. And eventually they said, hey, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.880 we need to pay all the time because he's making plays. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.679 I guess he does whenever. So you know, yeah, they 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.079 wanted worn out the end of the year, but it 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.199 heard him early on when he's playing. And I agree 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.959 with Bo. There's been times where there's crucial we need 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.920 stops at the end of the game, need to stop, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:06.920 and you look and you look to see who's on 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.520 the sideline and you're going Cam Wakes not in the 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.160 game because of the rotation. You gotta screw that. Screw 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.800 that rotation. He's there. Even of the greatest pass rushers 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.200 in history of this franchise, his ass needs to be playing. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:20.840 You know, roll, rotate all you are for the first 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.800 three quarters, but when it comes down to crunch time 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.600 and get your best guys down there. But it is 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.320 a league of rotation, now, man, I see that. You know, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.320 I get it. You know, it's kind of it's a 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.480 copycat league, you know. I mean, it's kind of you know, 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.240 just like I said, we go back to the day 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.840 when we created the zone blitzer. You know, now see 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.080 the zone blitzer is like wow, Man, I wish I 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.600 wish you didn't Bill Lawrence Barker. I was hoping we'd 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.760 have time to talk about Bill because he was way 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.880 way ahead of his time with things he created. We 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.560 had injuries, things happened during the year, and and he 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.360 came up with things. I still remember going to bed 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.200 check at eleven o'clock and seeing you and Ranges Barber 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:07.400 talking outside the hall whether you're three rows down, and 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.480 he'd get a group of guys and was telling him 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.080 what he wanted to put in and and and he'd 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.560 be creating something he'd brainstorm the day before the game, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.880 and we would we would put things in like the 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.200 night before the game, install them. And you had to 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.040 install them mentally. You know what he's like because because 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.120 we would always say yea, yeah, we can pull that off. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:28.680 Because you know, when you've been playing together a group 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.080 of guys, you can pull stuff like that off, you know, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.160 I mean, you know you didn't have to run it 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.160 seven snaps and practice brainstorm and I was always blown away, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.080 like wow, arns Barger's making adjustments. That was the other 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.280 thing to j though. The other thing that made that 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.800 I think it made it different is you know we 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.800 did play together with for a long time, Like I mean, 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.800 I played together with you your whole career, you know, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.840 I mean, you know, with Bomb Howard and Betters and 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.480 and you know the Blackwoods and and and everybody we 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.480 played with, um you played with for a long time, 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.360 same offensively, So you got to know, you got to 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.480 know what the guys next year was thinking. You had. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.840 You could have non verbal communications just by looking at 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.160 him this and that. But it also allowed for the 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.520 coaches to I mean, how many times were we in 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.600 a situation in a game where all of a sudden, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.640 some call comes in from the sideline that we maybe 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.840 not run that thing for six weeks, all of a sudden, boom, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.120 the play comes out of it. It It wasn't in our 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.840 game plan, but it was a situation presented itself. This 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.560 is a perfect defense for this situation. Keith throwing in 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.240 everyone kind of would look like Jesus and we've got 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.560 doing that. Okay, fine, boom and then you go. But 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.240 you go do it because you've done it enough, you've 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:32.760 repped it enough that you know how to do it 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.720 and you can just fall in. And but getting on 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.560 that same kind of topic, you know, we we you know, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.360 we had a uniform group of guys. We had a 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.520 core of forty five guys who are all the time 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.440 and and and that was good for the fan, you know, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.480 the you know, I think about the fans, you know, 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.320 like today's players like here I am, I'm gonna lum 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.240 and I couldn't tell you, but maybe one or two 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.120 the moves the team made the office because I got 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.840 more things going on my life. He was worried about 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.000 you guys work in the industry. You know all that's up. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.600 But I'm saying, you know, the average fan, who I 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:05.840 think I am? Now, maybe they're sitting home kind of going, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.760 I guess I gotta wait to the preseason starts. There, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.160 you know, gets carried more in the networks to kind 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.879 of start seeing because if you're not, if you're digging 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.240 deep into the the internet and into the Dolphins web pages, 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:18.920 you're kind of a little lost. He said. Old, that's 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.120 old cliche. You better get your better get your roster 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:22.760 if you want to know the players, because they change. 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.640 You know, there's a forty percent turnover in this league 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.879 these days. There there has been this way for a while. 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:30.080 Forty You know, you got, first of all, you got 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.720 guys retiring. You got guys that get hurt and leave. 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.200 You got guys that just they can't play anymore. You 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.199 get that guy that was maybe one or two year 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.359 wonder free you know, kind of a guy came as 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.000 a free agent, special teams guy that's fallen out. You 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.080 get free agent moves, you get trades. Sot of every 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.840 roster in the National Football League is turning over. That's 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.440 a lot. That's a lot of faces coming and going, 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.000 you know, to to to keep track of if you're 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.320 if you're a fan. Well here, okay, I'm gonna take that. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.320 That's a crazy number from me because I'm gonna the 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.840 business side of things. I work for a company. If 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.000 we had ten or twelve percent turnover, maybe you know, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.120 you know, in our in our department. I mean, that's 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.640 kind of like that's that's game chance, that's like whoa 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.479 you know, you need to reorganize. So I'm just wondering, 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.000 is maybe that formula might not be Yeah, but it's 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:22.480 what's but it's collective bargaining. Okay, they're not going. Okay, 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:27.120 So so the the mothership is the New England Patriots. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.280 I mean, you know what's there for. But they don't 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.760 have at they do, Yes, they do. I'm shocked. You 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.480 look at the roster. Look at you look at that roster. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.280 This they've let go Look at a Mondola's gone. I 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.040 mean they let go up a bunch of players there, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.439 you know, but and he's been doing that. He's been 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.280 doing that all you look at the you look at 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.760 the I bet you they turn over the roster more 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.280 so than you don't live up to your contract or 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.840 you come in at age thirty and usk Belichick for 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.320