Speaker 1: All right here we are almost on the almost on
Speaker 1: the well, when this, when this thing cares, you will
Speaker 1: be training kids, right, we're getting ridy, we're putting this,
Speaker 1: we're pre doing this, and so it will drop. When's
Speaker 1: it drop? Drops on Thursdays? And drop Wednesday this week?
Speaker 1: Maybe is it dropping dropping Wednesday? Thursday, Thursday? Okay, So
Speaker 1: if you're listening to us, if you're listening to it, look,
Speaker 1: training camp started yesterday. It was a good practice yesterday.
Speaker 1: Joe enjoyed watching practice Yester I did. It was a nice,
Speaker 1: easy practice. But Thursday is gonna be the real first practice.
Speaker 1: Joe Rose Kim bocamper and join us in the studio,
Speaker 1: number seventy seven, your program number one in your heart
Speaker 1: on one of the uh the the one of all
Speaker 1: time greats out of Leon got your high school from Reserve, Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Is that going right? They know the greatest place, maybe
Speaker 1: one of the greatest athletes come out of Leon got
Speaker 1: your high school. That's what you'll need to learn. How
Speaker 1: to pronounce that. Kids on the team's how bad is it?
Speaker 1: Got you got choked? Got child? Got y'all? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know why because I asked him one time I've
Speaker 1: been jay Is joined us on the program. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank so, I asked me, because I know that in
Speaker 1: in in that French kind of dialect whatever a us right.
Speaker 1: It's like when you see like how they make go
Speaker 1: tigers and a lot of times aux people around the
Speaker 1: country kind of go, what are they trying to stay here?
Speaker 1: But it's all made for the home folks. You mean yeah?
Speaker 1: So I asked him, I saying, how do you pronounce it?
Speaker 1: Got you? All right? He goes, yeah, I got you
Speaker 1: all and everyone pronounces got you. You know, it gets
Speaker 1: it's got everything. It's all different kinds of things. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like Dewey when it first came, I thought
Speaker 1: and then but it turned out to be due from
Speaker 1: my first time. First time I asked a J. If
Speaker 1: I didn't ask him the first time I met him,
Speaker 1: I go, J, how you pronounce that name? J? I
Speaker 1: mean again, how practice? I said? You know, I'm sir
Speaker 1: Dewey pronounced d e w e w do a d
Speaker 1: A check. That's the US way. J. J was a
Speaker 1: name changer out of college college was a J. Dewey.
Speaker 1: But the thing is J. But I did not put
Speaker 1: do a junior on my Hello, how about your ec
Speaker 1: his kids and calls. Now they got you know, you
Speaker 1: know Jones Senior, because they got a few, they got
Speaker 1: a little you know, I got a couple of third
Speaker 1: We got some packages there they're dealing with. So anyway, hey,
Speaker 1: j training kills, training camp. What do your do you
Speaker 1: think back to training camp started a long time, but
Speaker 1: you know here we are the twenty one. I mean
Speaker 1: we used to start training camp. I thinking the teams
Speaker 1: right longer. I remember one time starting training camp like
Speaker 1: two days after the fourth I don't know if maybe
Speaker 1: we had we had the like one year right after,
Speaker 1: like a couple of days out of after after fourth
Speaker 1: of July. We're training from bottom rocks and booze. I
Speaker 1: think I had some firecrackers. Someone through firecrackers in the BOT.
Speaker 1: I think I hold in the bottom of my foot
Speaker 1: and I couldn't. I said, just packed that thing with.
Speaker 1: I ain't go in here and telling coach you life,
Speaker 1: I blew the bottom of my foot off with firecrackers.
Speaker 1: I can't practice that. I'm gonna go over. The game
Speaker 1: has changed. What do you think a j no more
Speaker 1: two of days, no six or seven weeks like there
Speaker 1: used to be where you had rookie scrimmages with the
Speaker 1: Saints and veteran scrimmages the preseason. It lasted first. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's what it is. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we we can't we can sit here and talk about
Speaker 1: how it was back in the day. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the guys are playing today, the coaches that are playing today,
Speaker 1: some of the coaches on the staffs and may still remember.
Speaker 1: You know, You've got some guys they're a little you know,
Speaker 1: in their fifties and sixteed that kind of are back
Speaker 1: from the day. But uh, a lot of these coaching
Speaker 1: staffs are, you know, their young guns, just like their players.
Speaker 1: And and the style of the game has changed. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't argue about it. I just think
Speaker 1: it's different. I think the players aren't getting in shape
Speaker 1: like they should. But one thing, and uh, sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't like it. I don't I don't like it. I
Speaker 1: just know that it look I put it this way.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys that were playing twenty years before us,
Speaker 1: it was harder for them, you know. Then then then
Speaker 1: we came along, and then the guys after us, it
Speaker 1: was it was a little easier for us, then it
Speaker 1: was easier for the next guys, and now it's here,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's just, you know, it's just the
Speaker 1: change way the game is changing, and and I just
Speaker 1: don't what bothers me about it is you know, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of things that bother me about and we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before. First of all, if you're an
Speaker 1: offensive a defensive alignment and you're not a draft pick,
Speaker 1: how do you even make a roster because you get
Speaker 1: so few opportunities to go it? Because you know, if
Speaker 1: ID for a receiver, a dB, a tight end or
Speaker 1: running back, because you can show your skills, you know,
Speaker 1: the only if you're an offensive defensive lineman, your skills
Speaker 1: are you know, being a battering ram, you know, being
Speaker 1: you know, physicalness, toughness, pushing guys around, and you can't
Speaker 1: you can't see that in with it. So you get
Speaker 1: and then and then you know, if you're a free agent,
Speaker 1: you get very very few reps in the games, So
Speaker 1: how do you make that impact? That's one of the
Speaker 1: things that that bothers me about it. And the other
Speaker 1: thing that bother me about it, I think that I
Speaker 1: think for the first four weeks of the season. The
Speaker 1: NFL is a very sloppy league. They're sloppy games. It's
Speaker 1: sloppy tackling because guys, that's how they It's like back
Speaker 1: in the old day, and you have nine weeks of
Speaker 1: training camp, you don't really have to be in shape
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get yourself in shape. We're here. Those
Speaker 1: first four weeks are kind of getting me into football shape.
Speaker 1: So now they can kind of get playing at the
Speaker 1: peak level where where we used to be kind of
Speaker 1: going into the season started. Those are the things that
Speaker 1: bother me about the way. Look, I understand the injury,
Speaker 1: understand the head situation, understand all the things about safety.
Speaker 1: But I'm also concerned with with us ten years from
Speaker 1: now watching a game that that doesn't even resemble what
Speaker 1: we knew as football growing up. Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: how that's gonna change. Well, because I see the game
Speaker 1: being played violently, I mean you know, I mean uh,
Speaker 1: And getting back to when you were saying about draft
Speaker 1: picks defensive linement, the thing is that the league is
Speaker 1: so wealthy rich right now that you know practice squads,
Speaker 1: I mean, how many ten, twelve guys and now guys
Speaker 1: get a little ding in training camp and they maybe
Speaker 1: an undrafted guy, let's stick him on i R because
Speaker 1: you know the cost of keeping these people on IR.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's almost like it's like that whole
Speaker 1: group is less than one player salary. I mean that
Speaker 1: whole group of players. So you know that there are
Speaker 1: some some positives to the UH to the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, more guys have job, more guys have opportunities
Speaker 1: by just being kind of hidden. I guess you call that. UM.
Speaker 1: I think guys are in a lot better shape now
Speaker 1: overall standard football, but a j these guys, they're in
Speaker 1: year round shape. They've got all these workout facilities. When
Speaker 1: they're not here, you go to Bombrino and all these
Speaker 1: and there's bomb Rito's all over the country, and go
Speaker 1: to Arizona, l A. We got the specialty coaches. Now
Speaker 1: if a guy wants to go throw the ball for quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So these guys can stay in really good shape so
Speaker 1: that when they come in. We used to just show
Speaker 1: up for mini camp, go for a couple of days,
Speaker 1: get ready, and then you know, accurting mostly basketball and
Speaker 1: little softball in there and a few little workouts. But
Speaker 1: our facilities are nothing like no nobody had. Uh. I mean,
Speaker 1: the worst facility in the league today is probably better
Speaker 1: than the best facility back in, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But you're right, and look there's all the sports science,
Speaker 1: all the things like that, but but still, you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to that that first Sunday, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: when the season starts, I got guys out there that
Speaker 1: are to me, are ill prepared to play. You know,
Speaker 1: they're more worried about them being healthy than playing their best.
Speaker 1: That's the other thing. I don't remember our hot course,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a lot of guys making a lot
Speaker 1: of money. But now guys are protected. They they're not
Speaker 1: playing that much preseason football. They play Game three, play
Speaker 1: into the third quarter, they don't play the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So they're basically all they got. They got two weeks
Speaker 1: and you know, getting back to what you said earlier,
Speaker 1: which is the true statement, these guys look like they're
Speaker 1: just the finest athletes ever known the man kind. But
Speaker 1: why can't they play sixty snaps a game? They can?
Speaker 1: Look these guys, these guys, let me ask you a question,
Speaker 1: when when you were when you came out in your
Speaker 1: one years old come out of l s U could
Speaker 1: you play both ways in this league at that age? Um,
Speaker 1: I could have played both ways, but I couldn't have
Speaker 1: had to have a break. I understand that that, and
Speaker 1: and and the point I'm getting at is going back
Speaker 1: to two way players, going back to two way players
Speaker 1: way back in the day, all the way to now
Speaker 1: where it's so hyper um situational. Right third and two.
Speaker 1: This guy's going in third and three. He's not going
Speaker 1: in the other guy's going. You know. So it's very
Speaker 1: but you know, those things have just those things have
Speaker 1: just changed over the years when you had those the
Speaker 1: guys that could play to the reason that the reason
Speaker 1: they're not playing two two ways anymore, it's not because
Speaker 1: they don't want to, because the coaches wanted to make
Speaker 1: individuals better. You remember when you remember when Steve Told
Speaker 1: started having his issues, Steve Told won the great middle
Speaker 1: linebackers that the office have ever had. That nobody, nobody really,
Speaker 1: you know, remembers or knows that much about. Guy still
Speaker 1: holds a record for the most tackles in a single
Speaker 1: season for the NFL, you know, fourteen games season. He
Speaker 1: still holds a record. But I remember he was the
Speaker 1: guy that Rnge used to take out situational substitution third downs.
Speaker 1: Let's take our middle line back around and Steve, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a pretty good coverage guy too. Let's
Speaker 1: bring our middle line background and put another he was,
Speaker 1: you know, starting to put in that nickel, putting another
Speaker 1: dB in there, someone or another linebackers, and then also know,
Speaker 1: oh we got this guy compelled, let's put him in
Speaker 1: the past. So then all the situation. So now it's
Speaker 1: gone from guys playing two two way two ways to
Speaker 1: now you got guys are they're barely barely playing one way,
Speaker 1: you know, but that WLD true both of everything. Okay,
Speaker 1: so as as the situation, those situations occurred probably pre
Speaker 1: us coming here, and then it grew. You know, obviously
Speaker 1: I think we created the zone blitz. I think, I
Speaker 1: tell people to this day, I think we created and
Speaker 1: the thing it it's like just like in business, I
Speaker 1: mean basically like the way you buy your airline tickets.
Speaker 1: So everything is is, it's evolution. Everything changes, so you know,
Speaker 1: we have to accept it. But then again, old school
Speaker 1: guys kind of say, why you know, you know, for
Speaker 1: what reason? Yeah, well look there, you know, you take
Speaker 1: rotations and in this team's about rotations, defensive front rotations,
Speaker 1: linebacker rotations, dB rotations, all about this, and and and
Speaker 1: the frustrating thing to me is if you're were in
Speaker 1: Buffalo somewhere, you know, and the game Buffalo is driving
Speaker 1: down the field big series. I look over and you
Speaker 1: got cam wake on one cam wake there, and you've
Speaker 1: got Andre branch Or one of these guys stay on
Speaker 1: the sun going to Dominican sus standing going wait a minute,
Speaker 1: You've got your two of your best players here and
Speaker 1: in the most important series of the game out there defensively,
Speaker 1: and they're staying on the sideline just because of rotation.
Speaker 1: That's bullshit. You know, it's your best damn guys in there.
Speaker 1: That's the game, you know. The thing is is the
Speaker 1: other thing that I kind of confused me and scares me,
Speaker 1: is that why do guys tap themselves out? I know
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta, but I see guys tapping themselves out
Speaker 1: like because because because they don't feel like they're Sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta play at that for a couple of players
Speaker 1: can figure it out. You gotta, you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: be a man, stand up to your understand it. But
Speaker 1: here comes the analytics, Here comes all this sports science
Speaker 1: and this and that and and there, because you've got
Speaker 1: these guys are on the sideline telling hey, you're not
Speaker 1: at your peak. If you're not at your peak, if
Speaker 1: you're not playing, come out. Let's get someone in there
Speaker 1: that's it there full well, you know what. Just take
Speaker 1: for example, aga you're you're playing, you're you're playing middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: you're starting middle linebacker. You know you're not at your
Speaker 1: peak because you've been you've already played fifty plays in
Speaker 1: the game, right, and all of a sudden, now the
Speaker 1: guys on looking a little tired. Let's put this guy
Speaker 1: in because he's he's you know, he's not tired, and
Speaker 1: he's fresh as a daisy. Yeah, but he can't play
Speaker 1: with the ship. You know, give me the guy who
Speaker 1: can play, not the guy. That's the thing about being
Speaker 1: in the game is that you gotta feel for the game.
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of know, you know, like here again,
Speaker 1: but the situations come up again. Okay, last time they
Speaker 1: ran a trap. You know, they probably think that's their
Speaker 1: bread and butter play here. You know, we'll well, we'll
Speaker 1: call a right call and make the right adjustments for that.
Speaker 1: You get a guy off off the bench, I mean,
Speaker 1: first of all, he's probably like shocked that he's in
Speaker 1: our day. It was like whoa here, it was like
Speaker 1: you saw a new face and what the else this guy?
Speaker 1: But the game is a lot more rotation. The dog
Speaker 1: especially this year, built with more pass rushers, gonna rotate
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, and their whole thing is keep everybody fresh.
Speaker 1: Came on the other day with me, Coach Gates and said,
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, Hey, what do you think he goes? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: I think Kenys gonna have a good year. But I
Speaker 1: believe in rotating my running backs, like Frank Gore is
Speaker 1: gonna play a lot of football. Don't think he's just
Speaker 1: here to a you know, kill some fourth quarters. We
Speaker 1: still got it. I mean, you guys have seen him.
Speaker 1: I've only seen a few interviews. He looks in great shape,
Speaker 1: and I mean he does Okay, that's that's that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Guy made team takes unbelievable care. That's crazy. He say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Scott Blessing. I appreciate it. You know, you know
Speaker 1: how he's a j though. You know you're you watch
Speaker 1: guys playing all of a sudden they step off the cliff.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean they're playing pretty good and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, maybe in the middle of
Speaker 1: the year, guy steps off the cliff and that guy's done.
Speaker 1: You can't do it anymore. So but you know, in anybody,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not talking about just Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: but anybody at that age playing the game in this
Speaker 1: league now is I think a perfect example that would
Speaker 1: be our own cam Wait, who they tried to monitor
Speaker 1: that was two years and yeah, you know they counting
Speaker 1: there exactly, and I mean, you know, and you know
Speaker 1: he he played to it as far as I saw
Speaker 1: as the general, you know, just fan watching him at home,
Speaker 1: but maybe behind the scenes he was kind of like going,
Speaker 1: you know, I need my reps, I need my time.
Speaker 1: He did. He just kept playing all you know, he
Speaker 1: didn't bitch, kept playing hard. And eventually they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to pay all the time because he's making plays.
Speaker 1: I guess he does whenever. So you know, yeah, they
Speaker 1: wanted worn out the end of the year, but it
Speaker 1: heard him early on when he's playing. And I agree
Speaker 1: with Bo. There's been times where there's crucial we need
Speaker 1: stops at the end of the game, need to stop,
Speaker 1: and you look and you look to see who's on
Speaker 1: the sideline and you're going Cam Wakes not in the
Speaker 1: game because of the rotation. You gotta screw that. Screw
Speaker 1: that rotation. He's there. Even of the greatest pass rushers
Speaker 1: in history of this franchise, his ass needs to be playing.
Speaker 1: You know, roll, rotate all you are for the first
Speaker 1: three quarters, but when it comes down to crunch time
Speaker 1: and get your best guys down there. But it is
Speaker 1: a league of rotation, now, man, I see that. You know,
Speaker 1: I get it. You know, it's kind of it's a
Speaker 1: copycat league, you know. I mean, it's kind of you know,
Speaker 1: just like I said, we go back to the day
Speaker 1: when we created the zone blitzer. You know, now see
Speaker 1: the zone blitzer is like wow, Man, I wish I
Speaker 1: wish you didn't Bill Lawrence Barker. I was hoping we'd
Speaker 1: have time to talk about Bill because he was way
Speaker 1: way ahead of his time with things he created. We
Speaker 1: had injuries, things happened during the year, and and he
Speaker 1: came up with things. I still remember going to bed
Speaker 1: check at eleven o'clock and seeing you and Ranges Barber
Speaker 1: talking outside the hall whether you're three rows down, and
Speaker 1: he'd get a group of guys and was telling him
Speaker 1: what he wanted to put in and and and he'd
Speaker 1: be creating something he'd brainstorm the day before the game,
Speaker 1: and we would we would put things in like the
Speaker 1: night before the game, install them. And you had to
Speaker 1: install them mentally. You know what he's like because because
Speaker 1: we would always say yea, yeah, we can pull that off.
Speaker 1: Because you know, when you've been playing together a group
Speaker 1: of guys, you can pull stuff like that off, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you didn't have to run it
Speaker 1: seven snaps and practice brainstorm and I was always blown away,
Speaker 1: like wow, arns Barger's making adjustments. That was the other
Speaker 1: thing to j though. The other thing that made that
Speaker 1: I think it made it different is you know we
Speaker 1: did play together with for a long time, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I played together with you your whole career, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, with Bomb Howard and Betters and
Speaker 1: and you know the Blackwoods and and and everybody we
Speaker 1: played with, um you played with for a long time,
Speaker 1: same offensively, So you got to know, you got to
Speaker 1: know what the guys next year was thinking. You had.
Speaker 1: You could have non verbal communications just by looking at
Speaker 1: him this and that. But it also allowed for the
Speaker 1: coaches to I mean, how many times were we in
Speaker 1: a situation in a game where all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: some call comes in from the sideline that we maybe
Speaker 1: not run that thing for six weeks, all of a sudden, boom,
Speaker 1: the play comes out of it. It It wasn't in our
Speaker 1: game plan, but it was a situation presented itself. This
Speaker 1: is a perfect defense for this situation. Keith throwing in
Speaker 1: everyone kind of would look like Jesus and we've got
Speaker 1: doing that. Okay, fine, boom and then you go. But
Speaker 1: you go do it because you've done it enough, you've
Speaker 1: repped it enough that you know how to do it
Speaker 1: and you can just fall in. And but getting on
Speaker 1: that same kind of topic, you know, we we you know,
Speaker 1: we had a uniform group of guys. We had a
Speaker 1: core of forty five guys who are all the time
Speaker 1: and and and that was good for the fan, you know,
Speaker 1: the you know, I think about the fans, you know,
Speaker 1: like today's players like here I am, I'm gonna lum
Speaker 1: and I couldn't tell you, but maybe one or two
Speaker 1: the moves the team made the office because I got
Speaker 1: more things going on my life. He was worried about
Speaker 1: you guys work in the industry. You know all that's up.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, you know, the average fan, who I
Speaker 1: think I am? Now, maybe they're sitting home kind of going,
Speaker 1: I guess I gotta wait to the preseason starts. There,
Speaker 1: you know, gets carried more in the networks to kind
Speaker 1: of start seeing because if you're not, if you're digging
Speaker 1: deep into the the internet and into the Dolphins web pages,
Speaker 1: you're kind of a little lost. He said. Old, that's
Speaker 1: old cliche. You better get your better get your roster
Speaker 1: if you want to know the players, because they change.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a forty percent turnover in this league
Speaker 1: these days. There there has been this way for a while.
Speaker 1: Forty You know, you got, first of all, you got
Speaker 1: guys retiring. You got guys that get hurt and leave.
Speaker 1: You got guys that just they can't play anymore. You
Speaker 1: get that guy that was maybe one or two year
Speaker 1: wonder free you know, kind of a guy came as
Speaker 1: a free agent, special teams guy that's fallen out. You
Speaker 1: get free agent moves, you get trades. Sot of every
Speaker 1: roster in the National Football League is turning over. That's
Speaker 1: a lot. That's a lot of faces coming and going,
Speaker 1: you know, to to to keep track of if you're
Speaker 1: if you're a fan. Well here, okay, I'm gonna take that.
Speaker 1: That's a crazy number from me because I'm gonna the
Speaker 1: business side of things. I work for a company. If
Speaker 1: we had ten or twelve percent turnover, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: you know, in our in our department. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: kind of like that's that's game chance, that's like whoa
Speaker 1: you know, you need to reorganize. So I'm just wondering,
Speaker 1: is maybe that formula might not be Yeah, but it's
Speaker 1: what's but it's collective bargaining. Okay, they're not going. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so the the mothership is the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what's there for. But they don't
Speaker 1: have at they do, Yes, they do. I'm shocked. You
Speaker 1: look at the roster. Look at you look at that roster.
Speaker 1: This they've let go Look at a Mondola's gone. I
Speaker 1: mean they let go up a bunch of players there,
Speaker 1: you know, but and he's been doing that. He's been
Speaker 1: doing that all you look at the you look at
Speaker 1: the I bet you they turn over the roster more
Speaker 1: so than you don't live up to your contract or
Speaker 1: you come in at age thirty and usk Belichick for
Speaker 1: a new contract when you're real good and he's thinking
Speaker 1: you're on the downside of your career. We're moving out.
Speaker 1: We don't pay that kind of money. This thing we
Speaker 1: win here, we don't worry about if you're looking to
Speaker 1: get paid. Because I was wondering what their formula was.
Speaker 1: When you guys, you know in the industry, you you
Speaker 1: see it as that is taking place up there as well.
Speaker 1: I called he's got he's got the Wayne hysinga magic,
Speaker 1: knows when to buy. More importantly, knows when to sell.
Speaker 1: He knows when you get rid of these guys, when
Speaker 1: you know they're there there he sees a little Okay,
Speaker 1: I see that little well. I hope I hope you
Speaker 1: made a mistake on Amndola. Yeah, yeah, I hope we
Speaker 1: haven't made a mistake. People getting back to you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen a few clips of the you know, the
Speaker 1: O t a thing that you know. I mean, that
Speaker 1: boy's got some wiggle. He can more, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if the guy's covered anymore or number
Speaker 1: three on the depth chart, but I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: smart guy. He's tough. He's gonna be just fine. He knows.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, you know, we're losing my
Speaker 1: homeboy drivers, but you know, maybe that might be a
Speaker 1: better replacement. I mean, I'm just Joe. You you you
Speaker 1: were talking about on your radio show this week. And
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, the the sometimes the elimination, eliminating guy
Speaker 1: actually makes a team better. And I think you look
Speaker 1: at the three guys that you know, I think you
Speaker 1: look at Mike Pouncey. Look, I love nobody, nobody that.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone that's associated with this organization, whether
Speaker 1: whether you work with the organization or you're close to
Speaker 1: the organization or a fan. Um, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: see Mike Pouncey here. Mike Pouncey one of the great players.
Speaker 1: From a players standpoint, from a guy standpoint, from a
Speaker 1: teammate standpoint, from a locker room guy. He brought you
Speaker 1: everything you wanted out of a football player. I hate
Speaker 1: to see him go. But look, he's got that hip
Speaker 1: thing and he's been dealing with and you just wonder,
Speaker 1: how long do you how long do you roll the
Speaker 1: dice on that. You know, they got lucky last year
Speaker 1: with him because he was able to play a number
Speaker 1: of games. So so he's kind of when you understand
Speaker 1: a little bit. But Sue and Jarvis Landry, those are
Speaker 1: two guys that are still in their prime of their careers,
Speaker 1: still playing at a high level. But but but I look,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm not I'm not pulling this from anybody else.
Speaker 1: I'm just this in my own opinion. You know, I
Speaker 1: think those I think those guys were the me guys
Speaker 1: that we need to get rid of me guys and
Speaker 1: get us guys. And I think they got rid of
Speaker 1: two me guys that are very good me guys and
Speaker 1: brought in guys that are US guys. The Robert Quinns
Speaker 1: that Danny Mendola is, the Sittings, those kind of guys guys.
Speaker 1: I've said this before. I said, my, My, My, My.
Speaker 1: Deal this year for this team to win is they
Speaker 1: got to overachieve. They've got to overachieve. And Adam Gay
Speaker 1: has gone out and got overachievers again in tannem Bomb
Speaker 1: and Greer has gone out and brought overachievers to this team.
Speaker 1: That's one of the things they've got to do if
Speaker 1: they if they want to be successful, they've got to
Speaker 1: play better than what what the roster looks like on page.
Speaker 1: He wants guys though they're gonna play together and not
Speaker 1: after a game complain about stats or doing their own
Speaker 1: thing different than everybody else is doing. And hey, Jay,
Speaker 1: you listen to this program. You listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1: You can go to podcast is what are you listen?
Speaker 1: You listen on Apple Music? No, I pulled them up
Speaker 1: on my computer. I go to the Dolphins website. I
Speaker 1: do like an old school guy, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You know, you should try to be and you travel.
Speaker 1: You got a phone you should get. You should get
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolfins mobile app because you can hear it
Speaker 1: on on the mobile apps. And I'm using company data,
Speaker 1: so I guess that that doesn't matter. You can use
Speaker 1: a tune in radio. You got tuned in radio, don't you.
Speaker 1: I don't, but you got it, so you can. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of places you can watch, and I
Speaker 1: know you want to listen to it, watch it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. We used to watch, but now now we
Speaker 1: just you know, listen, Now we just listen. Now we
Speaker 1: just sit back and listen, listen and hear what they're
Speaker 1: gonna say. Geez, that's bullshit. Tired of this thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad football season's coming around because so ay,
Speaker 1: j let let me get let me get your view,
Speaker 1: let me, let me let me So you say, you
Speaker 1: know you're a fan of the team, you know, I
Speaker 1: know during the season and during the off season, during
Speaker 1: the off season you're you know, you're you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're not as focused on on all the little moves
Speaker 1: in this and app I get focused on politics, and
Speaker 1: I'm tired of that and out politics where you go,
Speaker 1: don't go talking like, don't bring up politics. That's a
Speaker 1: party killer. That's a that's a conversation kill or man,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's a it's a it's as
Speaker 1: a conversation starter, but it quickly turns into a conversation
Speaker 1: killer these days. It's a bad anyway. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get it anyway. So, so, so from where you stand,
Speaker 1: from the type of fan you are, Um, when you
Speaker 1: look at this football team, what are your concerns? Is
Speaker 1: this team gets ready to to start your training camp
Speaker 1: and begin preseason games. I mean, I guess my concern
Speaker 1: is that you know how over the last four or
Speaker 1: five months, how he's been playing out how unified they are.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're not unified, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: you're done. I mean, you know, this team behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: I want to and and behind the scenes we'll see that.
Speaker 1: We'll see that in the preseason. It plays a little bit,
Speaker 1: but the first three or four games of the season,
Speaker 1: you'll see if these guys came to play, if they
Speaker 1: believe in each other, if if they're all you know,
Speaker 1: in the brotherhood where you want to call it, you know,
Speaker 1: because because you need to make things happen early in
Speaker 1: the season. You don't want to be climbing that ladder,
Speaker 1: you know, you know in October November, you know, you
Speaker 1: want you want to be up a few runs in
Speaker 1: the ladder, you know, and just kind of looking down
Speaker 1: with people and that it's hard to do because we're
Speaker 1: in a tough you know, I think the Patriots in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean there are two rock solid teams
Speaker 1: I think in our division, you know, the Jets, and
Speaker 1: I think they're in a rebuilding team right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, we got we got two teams ahead of
Speaker 1: us in our conference that uh yeah, there's challenges. We've
Speaker 1: got two teams that got new two new quarterbacks out
Speaker 1: there that I don't know about Buffalo, Buffalo. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not sold that. I gotta see either one of
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks. They gotta back up in a rookie. Yeah
Speaker 1: we got we gotta see that to believe in the
Speaker 1: guy that's killed us has gone. Yeah, Cleveland, but so
Speaker 1: but so from that standpoint, j obviously getting off to
Speaker 1: a fast start. UM, young young running backs, Kenyan Drake,
Speaker 1: you bring we talked about bringing Frank Gore back. Uh.
Speaker 1: Noticing Sonora's Perry. I think there's a couple of a
Speaker 1: couple of the guys in that that running back mixed
Speaker 1: out there. King on Bellage they bring in um and
Speaker 1: a lot there's been a lot of talk about the
Speaker 1: offensive line over the last couple of years. Think they
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, they feel like they've rectified that
Speaker 1: with Josh Sitton. Uh. They go out and get the
Speaker 1: other it was the other kid they got um kill Gore.
Speaker 1: Uh and then to Juwan James coming back. You gotta
Speaker 1: learn me tounso um and probably it's gonna be uh
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis at that right guard. Um. You feel like
Speaker 1: they if you feel like you feel like there's some
Speaker 1: resolve there. Uh you know, I'm really not that solid
Speaker 1: on who they're gonna line up. You know, their their
Speaker 1: five interior guys. But that's that The key impact the
Speaker 1: game is one of the line of scrimmage. I mean,
Speaker 1: no matter even if you're throwing the ball or running
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, if you're in the spread offense,
Speaker 1: those five guys have to open up pose. They gotta
Speaker 1: give your quarterback protection. So you know you named I
Speaker 1: mean Touns. So you know he's still kinda needs to
Speaker 1: have a breakout year. You know, he's he kind of
Speaker 1: hit or miss I think, you know, uh uh. The
Speaker 1: other kid from Tennessee was John James. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: he was having a pretty stellar leader. I think it
Speaker 1: like last year he end up getting hurt because I
Speaker 1: wasn't paying that much we do he tours knee up,
Speaker 1: our ankle or something. I mean, he missed the last three.
Speaker 1: We're geting to see us, right, yeah, because then I
Speaker 1: remember Sam Young started filling in and playing a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and Sam's you know, steady, solid guy.
Speaker 1: He can give me production. But you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you know he didn't hurt you. Yeah, so again, you know,
Speaker 1: the five guys that they can figure out who's gonna
Speaker 1: line up on the opening Sunday. That's gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: be a test that's gonna take place going over the
Speaker 1: next three or four weeks. Now, you know, I say
Speaker 1: one thing to everybody's gonna have their own opinion on
Speaker 1: this team. Are ones that we've draft and need to play,
Speaker 1: like number ones back three drafts, Tounsil He's got potential
Speaker 1: a g I think he'd be really good left tackle
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker, Juwan James needs to be really good. Charles Harris.
Speaker 1: We need all those those guys all need to those
Speaker 1: guys all need to play. Like look, there's no reason
Speaker 1: to me to learny make tunsl can't just can't be
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl guy. It can't be a dominant guy.
Speaker 1: He was giving the talent. I mean, okay, so you're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: looking back back in the day, you know, Richmond Webb
Speaker 1: number one stud Studs day one, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: Sim's second, Kate Sim Okay, talking about the kid from
Speaker 1: Missouri last year the defense was his name, Charles Harris, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean he had a couple of games that he played,
Speaker 1: you know, the shining star but I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think he played as bad as poorly as right,
Speaker 1: he had a couple of shining star moments, you know,
Speaker 1: but when you're a number one, you need to be
Speaker 1: a shining star at least one or two plays per quarter,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you gotta you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: be like you know where the fans are kind of going, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why we got what I mean, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's and that's not there, you know. And then again
Speaker 1: with you know, the Davante Parker. I mean, he came
Speaker 1: in here a little wounded warrior, and you know, supposedly
Speaker 1: he's you know what he's been. They think he's they
Speaker 1: think he's healthy. Now, I mean, I mean he's been healthy,
Speaker 1: he teases us. He's got his moments. We just need
Speaker 1: to get more. I mean, you know, I mean I
Speaker 1: thought the guy would be a Calvin Johnson, you know, me,
Speaker 1: some big, strong talk guy. And I think we wanted
Speaker 1: to be Calvin. We've seen, we've seen glimpses are yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not he's not as big physical as
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson was, but he can certainly go out for
Speaker 1: the ball. He's got the athletic ability, and we've seen
Speaker 1: signs of it a number of times. But man, they're
Speaker 1: they're just they come and go. Man, it's like a
Speaker 1: comment shooting by you know that was pretty So he's
Speaker 1: not even as big as I are fitz Erald and
Speaker 1: Yer is a lot more physically. Yeah, okay, I mean
Speaker 1: who I mean, I'm just trying to place him in
Speaker 1: the league because some of the key receivers who were
Speaker 1: stand out big you know, six ft four or five guys,
Speaker 1: he's to fifteen to six. I would put him sizewise,
Speaker 1: probably more like Randy moss leer athletic. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: the guys you were talking about. I was trying to
Speaker 1: compare him even to the kid who plays for Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: and that's he's not even not even so these are
Speaker 1: his carters, these are not even Wow. Okay, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's got finesse from but he's he's an athlete. He's
Speaker 1: a great athlete. Being on Julio Jones, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, Davante go up, get it now, Davante has
Speaker 1: made some play. Matter of fact, some of the best players,
Speaker 1: maybe he's been injured on going up making some ridiculous Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he can go. It's just gotta getting more.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I know you guys are
Speaker 1: you know you kind of you've got your ear to
Speaker 1: the wall and knows knows of the stone a lot
Speaker 1: more than me in this business. But uh, it's just
Speaker 1: exciting for you. But you never know, j you got
Speaker 1: the driving, You got Fitzpatrick coming in. You know, this guy,
Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, should come in and be
Speaker 1: you know, if not knocking on the Pro Bowl door
Speaker 1: being pretty. But but look, we said the same thing
Speaker 1: about Laramie Counsel, right, you know here, these guys are bad.
Speaker 1: This guy, guy's best player. Guy's the best player in
Speaker 1: the draft, right dropped into our lap and and and
Speaker 1: he has a sniff to Pro Bowl. But you know,
Speaker 1: you know, even though Nick Saban is, you know, he's
Speaker 1: the angel and devil in my life, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of both ways. But you know he tak ll shoot
Speaker 1: the National championship. They came here, bailed on us and
Speaker 1: without so but the thing is that man knows how
Speaker 1: to produce players and look in defensive backs. I mean
Speaker 1: he's a defensive back guy, and he's never stood out.
Speaker 1: Nick has never stood out in front of people and
Speaker 1: touted a guy like he did Minka. Uh so, so
Speaker 1: I think you know, but Jay, I mean, look, we've
Speaker 1: seen time and time again guys come in and hey,
Speaker 1: this guy's been great, and then look look at Dion
Speaker 1: Jordan's you know how my expectation of Dean Jordan. So
Speaker 1: you never know. But the thing I'm gonna tell you this, Okay,
Speaker 1: So Dion Jordan was kind of a to me. You guys,
Speaker 1: like I said, you're you're in the building. I mean
Speaker 1: when you look at makeup Fitzpatrick, I mean, you can
Speaker 1: look at you can look at a person in the eyes.
Speaker 1: You can kind of you know that that Dion Jordan
Speaker 1: guy kind of had them glazy eyes you never look at.
Speaker 1: You know, a few times I was around him in
Speaker 1: the building. You know, I'll smelled the rat, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So this kid, manka, I think you know,
Speaker 1: if you smell it, you're right on the Money's one
Speaker 1: of the greatest bus no check that the greatest bust
Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise. Uh. Eric Kumro is happy.
Speaker 1: He's the only He's the happiest guy out je No
Speaker 1: no Jackie play Jackie play um Jackie just couldn't played
Speaker 1: professional Jackie had skilled, but he just he didn't hit
Speaker 1: professional football skill. You know that's Minka. I've been around
Speaker 1: Minca probably now four times. Maybe you know, just different
Speaker 1: that that son of a bitch has always taken notes.
Speaker 1: He takes notes on everything I think, and he's got
Speaker 1: the focus. I mean, he's you say, you look at
Speaker 1: the guy and you look at his eyeballs. That guy
Speaker 1: wants to be good and he's gonna be good. So
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just using him because he's a he's
Speaker 1: the latest first round draft pick. We're talking about. They
Speaker 1: listening to us, but they go, yeah, man. Then guys
Speaker 1: are telling him. I think he's we don't want to
Speaker 1: come back October November, they gonna started calling him about. Look,
Speaker 1: I I think he's you know, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of all the cornerbacks that we've had over the years,
Speaker 1: Um and and and look, I know Sam and Pat,
Speaker 1: but up Salmon Patt a little bit of time to
Speaker 1: get into the lineup. Um. But you know, he reminds
Speaker 1: me Don McNeil just from the standpoint of this guy's
Speaker 1: this guy's lock and load. You plug him in from
Speaker 1: day one and he's ready to go. The only thing is,
Speaker 1: I would say, because he's a unique player, because all
Speaker 1: the different things do too many things Matt Burke. All
Speaker 1: of this to following Matt Burke, putting him in the
Speaker 1: right places, moving him around in defense. Hey listen, I'm
Speaker 1: like what you just said. I go back and if
Speaker 1: I'm Matt Burke, leave my ego at the coordinator door,
Speaker 1: and go back and see how Nick used him and
Speaker 1: see if I can use them those same kind of
Speaker 1: ways in this game. And what have they in O
Speaker 1: T A. S. He was kind of playing a little
Speaker 1: bit of every time he can play deep, you can
Speaker 1: do anything. Because listen listening to you guys and talk shows,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about matching him up against Gronkowski. I mean,
Speaker 1: He'skowski is a beast, big dude. Uh listen, that might
Speaker 1: be a mismatch train. But yeah, so I think they're
Speaker 1: hoping they can. I'm thinking hoping they can. They think
Speaker 1: for like t J. McDonald can maybe step up and
Speaker 1: try to rough from I don't know. Look, nobody stopped
Speaker 1: the guy, so I don't know, but they thought Georgia.
Speaker 1: He's up in Seattle now remember stopping him. Now in
Speaker 1: the Northwest hey, j you know what what you know?
Speaker 1: What I was, you know, the stays. The safety position
Speaker 1: in the NFL, to me, um is really one of
Speaker 1: the one of the one of the most important. To me,
Speaker 1: it's one of the very important positions, not from a
Speaker 1: stand from both from a standpoint of of physically what
Speaker 1: you do, but from a mental standpoint, because I I can't.
Speaker 1: When I first came in, it was Jake Scott and
Speaker 1: Dick Anderson. Jake left soon thereafter. Tim Foley was a safety,
Speaker 1: two very bright, smart guys. And then we and then
Speaker 1: we were fortunate enough to to draft Glenn Blackwood and
Speaker 1: then bringing Lyle Blackwood and and and what the what
Speaker 1: I saw from those those guys. And look, I'm not
Speaker 1: in the meeting rooms with these guys. I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: And and so I don't have the intimate field that
Speaker 1: I had with those guys. But I always felt like
Speaker 1: those guys made our defense better because they they were
Speaker 1: smart enough to where, you know, they break the huddle.
Speaker 1: They'd read formation, they get in formation, they'd read they'd
Speaker 1: read UH route trees, route route schemes and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and they would get it. They would say, cheat out
Speaker 1: a little bit or they would cheat over or they
Speaker 1: would say, hey, you know they were like that quarterback
Speaker 1: back there that would make the adjustments back there. And
Speaker 1: and the reason I'm asking you this is because you
Speaker 1: had you had the opportunity to be in two different places.
Speaker 1: Defensive line you never you know, you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're back there. But when you once you became a linebacker,
Speaker 1: how much more important did it become for you to
Speaker 1: have safeties back there that were smart, understood the defense,
Speaker 1: and could help make adjustments back there on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. Well, it was. It was key
Speaker 1: because we were coached and taught to be coaches on
Speaker 1: the field. I mean, so you know today, I don't
Speaker 1: know how don't know if they break the huddle and
Speaker 1: they snap it. I mean like you know, we would call,
Speaker 1: you know, a week side blitz and they come out
Speaker 1: the formation we're like kinding on just won't fly. You know,
Speaker 1: we have to check it to maybe just a standard
Speaker 1: you know, four man rush and some kind of some
Speaker 1: kind of pressure pressure a pressure d I know, coach
Speaker 1: wants to put pressure, but we can't go blitz here.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna put pressure with four or five
Speaker 1: guys instead of six, and I mean so so we
Speaker 1: made those adjustments today's game. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: these these players you know, like you're not in training camp.
Speaker 1: Be long enough, dude, you know you're not playing together
Speaker 1: for so many years and do it so so so
Speaker 1: like getting back to the original question, you know, the
Speaker 1: you know, Glenn and I kind of you know, when
Speaker 1: the huddle would break. Soon as we saw where the
Speaker 1: tight end went and the two receivers that would be,
Speaker 1: we kind of knew automatically, you know we can go
Speaker 1: with it, you know, I mean are sometimes you know
Speaker 1: their emotion soon as you know, the two of us
Speaker 1: kind of and sync, you know, working with RNs so
Speaker 1: much during the course of the week where we would
Speaker 1: always check to something that was gonna be safe and reliable,
Speaker 1: you know, where we wouldn't just you know, and you
Speaker 1: guys up front, soon as you heard the magic word,
Speaker 1: you know how to make that adjustment. But within if
Speaker 1: it was like hud hut, you know, we can say
Speaker 1: we're on the second hunt. And you guys were smart
Speaker 1: enough because we we were we were intelligent enough and
Speaker 1: we practiced enough to know that you know, I'm maybe
Speaker 1: having to do you know a rip technique here? But
Speaker 1: now I gotta play outside show to control. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, in those quick, quick moments like that. So
Speaker 1: I just think the mentality of the seriousness of the
Speaker 1: way we took our jobs and the way we applied
Speaker 1: ourselves a lot different. But the other thing is a
Speaker 1: defensive player, Um, look what we had. We had a
Speaker 1: pass rush was important for us. Man, it has become
Speaker 1: of paramount importance now now it's like, you know, forget
Speaker 1: your contained, forget rules, just get to the damn quarterback
Speaker 1: cast from disruption back there because you see guys spinning
Speaker 1: inside when with no contain outside. And but that's that's
Speaker 1: the way, you know, that's the way the league is,
Speaker 1: and that's what defense defense want. Defensive cordiners want pressure, pressure, pressure,
Speaker 1: no matter how you go out and go out and
Speaker 1: get it. It seems like, you know, we've heard over
Speaker 1: the years though, just talking about what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: how many times we're defensive coordinators say, man, I gotta
Speaker 1: dummy this defense, that we're making too many mental mistakes.
Speaker 1: We gotta simplify things. You never heard that with Bill
Speaker 1: Larrence Barker, the guys that played on Bill Larrence Barker's defense. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if you weren't smart enough, no matter how talented you were,
Speaker 1: you couldn't plan it because he couldn't trust you. And
Speaker 1: and mental mistakes. You know, my physically we were going
Speaker 1: to all get beat, but mentally you can't have a
Speaker 1: guy wide open in the middle of feel from a
Speaker 1: breakdown or a blitz and somebody didn't know who they
Speaker 1: were supposed to pick up. And you know, but the
Speaker 1: thing is that did happen occasionally. You're not gonna go
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, you know, I remember we used
Speaker 1: to take pride in the fact that, you know, we
Speaker 1: used to come into the NFL. I mean the NFL
Speaker 1: there are locker rooms on on Mondays or Tuesdays wherever
Speaker 1: our day back was on Mondays, you know, And and
Speaker 1: you know, I used to love the fact when it
Speaker 1: would say mental mistakes would be like for the whole
Speaker 1: team and for all sixty eight snaps it would be
Speaker 1: like two. You know, It's like, you know, we used
Speaker 1: to take pross the fact that you know that you know,
Speaker 1: we had hardly no mental breakdowns. And what was it?
Speaker 1: What was the day off? Because that was the day
Speaker 1: that I couldn't enjoy myself coming the next day. You
Speaker 1: know what, it was horrible because we were off Monday,
Speaker 1: and we came back and watched films on Tuesday. So
Speaker 1: you played on Sunday and and and you know, you
Speaker 1: and I drank beerans did stuff after that. But then
Speaker 1: once you started clearing up and you got ship, remember
Speaker 1: that playing the third quarter and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you remembered every bad play, every bad here
Speaker 1: I go, I know that, and so that, so that
Speaker 1: Monday off, you know, we tried to go out and
Speaker 1: do stuff, but it was miserable because you know, all
Speaker 1: it was just you know, you're just pushing, you're just
Speaker 1: delaying the inevitable. You know, you're gonna walk in that
Speaker 1: meeting room tomorrow and you're gonna rip your ass and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna go in your your your position room
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get your ass ripped again, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna walk in the field. You're gonna feel like a
Speaker 1: piece of ship. You know, don't you think the accountability
Speaker 1: was good though, Like I didn't like it at the time.
Speaker 1: I had chewing my meetings. You guys didn't have him.
Speaker 1: He was tough man like he broke down every play
Speaker 1: like you think he got by and he go back
Speaker 1: a seventh time and go, wait a minute, what were
Speaker 1: you doing on this B And I had a little
Speaker 1: Q and A and the other night, and I kind
Speaker 1: of mentioned that I'm saying, you know, in today's political correctness,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we used to get pounded and
Speaker 1: beat on and just humiliated and just kind of and
Speaker 1: you just took it like you know, this is part
Speaker 1: of the job description, although you know I never liked it.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it like a job. What if we
Speaker 1: didn't have to watch game field like a game film,
Speaker 1: I could played another three years. I didn't leave the
Speaker 1: game because a physical hurt. I've left the mental anguish.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I just couldn't take the beat downs anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, you ever got called in, Like, first of all,
Speaker 1: coach will never called you in and say, hey, you're
Speaker 1: playing great, really happy with you. You got calling in
Speaker 1: if things were you know you were wanting to ask
Speaker 1: you and you do it at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I can still remember a little tears wandering him. My
Speaker 1: damn my driving home going man, we talked to me
Speaker 1: like I remember, were driving home. We used to driving
Speaker 1: me for a while. There was me a J. Bomb
Speaker 1: HOWERD and either Rusty Chambers or Wally Pursuit used to
Speaker 1: drive together, right, and uh, and Bob was always playing well,
Speaker 1: you know, and so I'm getting yelled at and you know,
Speaker 1: Russy is getting yelled at or whatever, and we're bitching
Speaker 1: Cam sholing and Bob and go, yeah, Gene, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's wrong. He's a good, nice guy to me.
Speaker 1: And well, you wait one of these days, and sure enough,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden something happened. He he hurt his
Speaker 1: knee right, which doesn't count. So so he's not playing
Speaker 1: as well as he was still playing good. But now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's getting little heat. That guy's
Speaker 1: a son of a bit. We've been trying to tell you, man,
Speaker 1: you're having to figure it out here, but oh god, yeah,
Speaker 1: it made it tough. But but you know what, you
Speaker 1: look back. I just keep looking back and say, you
Speaker 1: want a lot of games. And you know we're talking
Speaker 1: about we're talking about it before you know, these guys
Speaker 1: leaving New England. Now you know you got guys. Now,
Speaker 1: guys are chirping. No one ever talking about Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, you got Danny Avendola. You
Speaker 1: got this guy talking about, hey, really you know, it
Speaker 1: really was no fun to play. There was this and
Speaker 1: that and and I'm sitting there going he sounds pretty
Speaker 1: familiar to me, you know, sounds pretty familiar to to
Speaker 1: what we went through where you gotta coach, but that
Speaker 1: that all goes back to the Paul Brown. And you
Speaker 1: know that that that coaching treat that all kind of
Speaker 1: came off with Paul Brown. And you know, I didn't like,
Speaker 1: you know, these guys, you know, they got sorry. I
Speaker 1: don't have sorry grapes about playing, you know, for your
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just thought he was you know,
Speaker 1: he was an s ob you know what. I love
Speaker 1: the guy, you know, I mean, nobody was complaining we
Speaker 1: had home field advantage. We got them banners sitting that here.
Speaker 1: You know, I know our generation, I think we won
Speaker 1: the a f C East five times maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, so that that's what I want
Speaker 1: to see some more banners being hung. You know, like
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm saying Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving to me is like
Speaker 1: you know, that's when it's like, that's when you're happy.
Speaker 1: It's hell about what's going on, Like you're going there's
Speaker 1: nothing like, man, you can play all you know, they're
Speaker 1: nothing like winning late December early January and sitting there
Speaker 1: and knowing you got a week off and looks like
Speaker 1: you said, you get you know, you come coming around
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving time and you gotta you got a four game
Speaker 1: lead in your division or something, or a three game
Speaker 1: leading your division, and you know your best football is
Speaker 1: coming up this year on Thanksgiving dinner. I hope our
Speaker 1: team is in the talks of like they might make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's you know, yeah, just a I just
Speaker 1: want to know that I can go to a playoff game.
Speaker 1: That's you know, our kids. I mean, you know what
Speaker 1: I got kids, You got you got generations in it.
Speaker 1: Maybe seeing one or two playoff games in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, and that's that's about it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to it's hard to imagine our kids the
Speaker 1: same age I lost mine. Just he never got to
Speaker 1: see he caught that early thirties and he's gone through.
Speaker 1: Man's been a lot of rough football around here. Ran
Speaker 1: into it. Ran into a guy the other night or
Speaker 1: talking to him and he said, uh, you know, he's
Speaker 1: got his kids he's got his got his tickets, brings
Speaker 1: his kids in the game, and he says, he's constantly
Speaker 1: telling us the kid, Yeah, they used to be really good, man,
Speaker 1: they used to be really good. And then the kids
Speaker 1: going with with when was that? You know? But hey,
Speaker 1: look hopefully, hopefully they're heading that direction now. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, this can be a big test. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big year for Adam Gaze because this is
Speaker 1: a very impatient town. Uh. You know, it rolls you
Speaker 1: into the playoffs the first year, and then you know,
Speaker 1: the one thing no one talks about last year, and
Speaker 1: and and you know, you hate to bring it up,
Speaker 1: but that was a tough year. Man. At the beginning
Speaker 1: of that season, I was I was physically I was
Speaker 1: physically worn out after four games and I had never played,
Speaker 1: didn't play a snap. You know, these guys have been
Speaker 1: in You've been in California for ten days, You're in
Speaker 1: New York, you're in London. There in Philadelphia for four
Speaker 1: or five days before that, you know, in the with
Speaker 1: a hurricane. It was just a brutal, brutal you know
Speaker 1: how that schedule, Uh, let's see this year just roll
Speaker 1: off three or four Tennessee. Start off with Tennessee, then
Speaker 1: you have New England Jennis Tennessee at home. K you know,
Speaker 1: I'm finally new em in the road early. I'd be
Speaker 1: playing that I'd rather do. Yeah, I'm just saying. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to picture in my head. You know, can
Speaker 1: we pull off? Can we? And yeah? I think so? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they gotta like they had two games last year Oakland
Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay. They were both asking, yeah, en will
Speaker 1: fall over and you guys score that those at home.
Speaker 1: So they start to September nine at home in tennis
Speaker 1: versus Tennessee, at New York at home versus Oakland, then
Speaker 1: up to New England, then to Cincinnati, Okay something. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you got looked at that. That's not I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's soft, but it's like it's a favorable sketch up.
Speaker 1: That's I could see yourself coming out of that three
Speaker 1: in two, four and one possibly if you get that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? You know, yeah, get off
Speaker 1: to a good start. Yeah, careful, you never know who's
Speaker 1: gonna be good though. From year to year. In Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: everybody want to play Philly last. People people who people
Speaker 1: who look at our schedule, you kind of go, we
Speaker 1: got the dolt. You know they're saying the same thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: so well yeah, but look at look at every look
Speaker 1: you know, my big big example I can look. People say,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think of the schedule? I said,
Speaker 1: I really don't care about the schedule. Schedules A schedule
Speaker 1: you're gonna play who you're gonna play. And I said,
Speaker 1: I look at the NFL schedules as fluid. It can
Speaker 1: change week to week. All it takes is Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: to go down, and everyone had everyone had that loss
Speaker 1: mark next to Green Bay. All of a sudden that
Speaker 1: l went to a w where Aaron Rodgers went down.
Speaker 1: And so you know, one guy going down in this
Speaker 1: league makes a makes a big difference in how your
Speaker 1: team is winning and losing. So I don't worry about
Speaker 1: the schedule because you don't know that. You don't know
Speaker 1: that New England. What happens if in week three or
Speaker 1: a week two, you know, Tom Brady blows out his
Speaker 1: knee and then you go up to New England and
Speaker 1: play them, and they got no backup because they traded
Speaker 1: him off to uh San Francisco and wherever else. The
Speaker 1: other guy went to Baltimore. He went to the Yeah,
Speaker 1: I still say who's there? But who who's their backup now? Though,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know what they're backup is now.
Speaker 1: But they had two pretty good ones that Garoppolo and
Speaker 1: the kid, uh the kids from Florida. Right there, there's
Speaker 1: uh Jacobe Bissette. He went to the Colt the coach y. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, let's see are getting us the new
Speaker 1: eng backup or what? Oh you know what? Yeah? That
Speaker 1: that that is Thanksgan Hey. Uh. Shocking news over the
Speaker 1: weekend with with Tony Sprawno fifty six years old. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I know people have mixed emotions here about Tony Sprawno.
Speaker 1: But he was a good man. He was. He was
Speaker 1: a tough coach um. He liked his players, he coach,
Speaker 1: he was. He was always good to me. Um. And
Speaker 1: I was shocked. I was shocked. I was add and
Speaker 1: I was broken hearted. I was I was just with
Speaker 1: a day of physicals, bow and the medical field. You
Speaker 1: just don't expect it here and actually years old, well
Speaker 1: he had gone. He's talked about winning. On Thursday with
Speaker 1: chest pains, they cleared him and then two days later
Speaker 1: he's he's you'll find on the floor. And I will
Speaker 1: tell you we've had a lot of coaches come to here. Um,
Speaker 1: he was one of the most respected with players and
Speaker 1: coaches that I've ever seen, and we've had a run
Speaker 1: of a lot of coaches. But they played hard for
Speaker 1: him and and it didn't work out. Everybody knows the
Speaker 1: Wildcat was the good when he was here, Ricky and Ronnie.
Speaker 1: The bad was the way it kind of ended with
Speaker 1: that whole thing was a mess bag, well, the Jeff
Speaker 1: Ireland thing and the whole thing to create. And I
Speaker 1: think to me, Tony was one of the guys that,
Speaker 1: to me, uh, I wish we had given him more time.
Speaker 1: You know that this is an area here where there's
Speaker 1: an understandable this this team's you know, fans are dying
Speaker 1: for a winner here. It's been a long time since
Speaker 1: this team has been a continuous playoff caliber type of
Speaker 1: football team. So so I understand the impatience. But I
Speaker 1: think Tony was a guy who was building a foundation
Speaker 1: because he came in want a little bigger physical you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of had to change the physical makeup of
Speaker 1: the team, and I just don't think they ever allowed
Speaker 1: him the time to to to to run it, to
Speaker 1: get the team to where he wanted to be and
Speaker 1: coach it the way he wanted to coach it. That
Speaker 1: that's my own opinion. I just thought he was a
Speaker 1: good coach that kind of got put. It got put
Speaker 1: into a bad situation. That got worse when when they
Speaker 1: went out and tried to recruit Harbor in California, and
Speaker 1: that really created a bit that that which kind of
Speaker 1: was overseeing every that was a monkey wrench in the
Speaker 1: whole thing. He got ugly anyway, ar Condole's go out
Speaker 1: to the Esperanto family and Jeanette and and the and
Speaker 1: the and the sons, and I didn't get two sons
Speaker 1: and a daughterdren, grandchildren, and and you know, first and
Speaker 1: foremost he's a family guy, and so I know it's
Speaker 1: I know how difficult that is for that family right
Speaker 1: now and what they're going through. So uh, just just
Speaker 1: send some good thoughts their way, and because it's gonna
Speaker 1: take them a long, long, long, long time, uh to recover.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, losing losing uh you know, someone
Speaker 1: that young in their life. You know, I just don't
Speaker 1: expect that with a guy Yeah coaching, ye crazy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny because I remember talking to him. Uh. I
Speaker 1: caught up to him last year after the we played
Speaker 1: up in Minnesota just to say hello to him because
Speaker 1: I I just he was he was just he was.
Speaker 1: He was one of my favorite guys. I liked him
Speaker 1: a lot. So anyway, um, so let's let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get some fan questions here before we wrapped this
Speaker 1: thing up. El Chopo Jr. Coming back in. What are
Speaker 1: some of your guys favorite, favorite or funniest training camp stories? Jay?
Speaker 1: What do you got from? What do you got from
Speaker 1: training camp? Uh? You know training camp. I took the
Speaker 1: I took my job. You know, pretty serious a lot
Speaker 1: of times. Uh, you know we started training a lot
Speaker 1: downtime during training camp you have to fill up with
Speaker 1: something I do know. My my my rookie, my rookie year.
Speaker 1: You know when I first got was a hold out.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of getting ripped and left and
Speaker 1: right and all differ away. So the veterans kind of
Speaker 1: who was your agent was Howard Slush? Howard Slush, he
Speaker 1: was the hold out agent? What kind of signing bonus
Speaker 1: you get back there? What was that thing? What that
Speaker 1: look like? Signing bonus? If my bonus was a hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars nowadays. I was here before, I was here
Speaker 1: before ag and mine was sixty three. I think Don
Speaker 1: McNeil got a hundred my year. Leroy Leroy Selman was
Speaker 1: the first pick in the draft my year, and he
Speaker 1: got a hundred thousand dollars signing bonus. That was the
Speaker 1: number back money back then, though I deferred it to man.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't take a dollar, right, you know,
Speaker 1: I hope some of these guys they got some good
Speaker 1: agents helping them make good. No. But the thing is that,
Speaker 1: I mean, I remember, man, the veterans are You're making
Speaker 1: me skip out after cur if you go buying a beer,
Speaker 1: you know, and uh like, you know, you're freaking out.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, get the hell out here, right,
Speaker 1: here's the money I'm paying for it. Just go get
Speaker 1: us some bear, you know what I mean. At least
Speaker 1: at least they paid for it. They just want me to,
Speaker 1: you know, be the man. That's all I could think
Speaker 1: of was getting in there. I sang on that damn
Speaker 1: chair every night, well by saying fight songs. Any song
Speaker 1: I could think of. Well, you know, it's funny when
Speaker 1: you're a rookie. When you're rookie, going to dinner was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go in there, man, because they're
Speaker 1: gonna make you do something right, sing song or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so and so and and so. You used to you know,
Speaker 1: after your rookie year, you kind of figure out what's
Speaker 1: going on and you didn't care about getting in and
Speaker 1: listen to the guys sing. You just want to get
Speaker 1: in your car and get down the road to the
Speaker 1: Lums and so you can drink, so you can drink
Speaker 1: ice cold beer. So all the vets. It was like
Speaker 1: it was like a Laman start out of the training camp.
Speaker 1: All these cars spitting gravel getting out of the parking
Speaker 1: lot to go to Lums to get a few beer.
Speaker 1: And you you go there and drink six beers and like,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen minutes or whatever, I just kind of pouring.
Speaker 1: Now I gotta get it dinner. So now you walk
Speaker 1: to dinner. Now you got all these these you know,
Speaker 1: there was probably about maybe fifteen guys that would do that.
Speaker 1: You got fifteen guys walking and ship faced, half drunk
Speaker 1: off their ass and out and these rookies that didn't
Speaker 1: get out in time. There there Now that he let's
Speaker 1: let's get some singing going on in here. And now
Speaker 1: I got all these drunks in here, in there forcing
Speaker 1: all these guys to do stupid ship like that. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was, yeah, it was. It was a little different.
Speaker 1: But you know what I remember, you know what I remember.
Speaker 1: I think of a lot of things I remember about
Speaker 1: training camp and funny things. But one of the things
Speaker 1: I really remember, and I think it came about I
Speaker 1: think you guys were both there at the time, because
Speaker 1: said Garrol was still there and uh so you know
Speaker 1: during training, you know, he had that couple hours off
Speaker 1: between the first practice and the second practice after lunch,
Speaker 1: and and I was in there getting some treatment or something.
Speaker 1: There was me and two or three guys other guys
Speaker 1: in there getting treatment at the time, and Garrow was
Speaker 1: in there. I don't know what Garrol was doing in there.
Speaker 1: So we're in the training room Junior getting treatment and whatever.
Speaker 1: And uh and and here comes this this sales guy
Speaker 1: comes in out of nowhere. Uh. And he's trying to
Speaker 1: sell a piece of equipment to the trainer, trainer Bob
Speaker 1: LUNDI trainer at the time, and and we ended he
Speaker 1: end up buying a machine. It was that remember that machine,
Speaker 1: You put a big sleeve over your leg and they
Speaker 1: put ice and stuff in you put like the hoses
Speaker 1: in it, which just kind of it was like a
Speaker 1: like a sauce thing. So I was in there the
Speaker 1: day the guy came into to try to sell lend
Speaker 1: the machine and the machine and we're all laying on
Speaker 1: the training table and this and that, and we're we're
Speaker 1: giving a guy a right that bullshit will never work,
Speaker 1: you know. He's trying to pitch the guy, and you know,
Speaker 1: so we're sitting there watching and and Alice I noticed
Speaker 1: and the guy had the guy had back at the time,
Speaker 1: he had remember those, remember those that time they had
Speaker 1: those golden nugget watches. They were the goddiest watchers ever seen,
Speaker 1: Just like it looked like just a pile of gold
Speaker 1: rocks with a watchhead of it. Right, So these guys
Speaker 1: wearing that, you know. And so he's he's pitching about
Speaker 1: this machine, you know, and and we're giving him to
Speaker 1: bust his balls, and all of a sudden, girls, hey,
Speaker 1: let me talk to you in the other room for
Speaker 1: a second, right, So guys, well let me he goes, no, no,
Speaker 1: come on, talk talk you Garrol and the guy leave.
Speaker 1: Guy leaves, They go in the in the weight room,
Speaker 1: remember that weight room, like right next door. They're going
Speaker 1: away room. They close the door. It's rolls I was
Speaker 1: doing there, you know. All of a sudden, Garrel comes
Speaker 1: walking out. He goes, hey, I mean endorseting this machine.
Speaker 1: He got the guy's watch on. He talked the guy
Speaker 1: out of his watch and endorsed the machine, which is
Speaker 1: one of the stupid stuff that happens when you're not practicing.
Speaker 1: In the downtime with training camp is pretty Uh, the
Speaker 1: camaraderie with the guys was the best. And that's the
Speaker 1: one thing to me, you know, it was even we
Speaker 1: were all bitched and moaned about being at you know,
Speaker 1: being at Biscayne College or St. Thomas Wood University now
Speaker 1: you know, in the dorms and this and that, but
Speaker 1: you know it it served a purpose. You know. It
Speaker 1: is a bonding type of thing. It brings you together,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a you know, it's that goddamn you
Speaker 1: look at that. You look at that every day every day.
Speaker 1: I know you you you you didn't care you and
Speaker 1: I cared every dad walking you know, he put the
Speaker 1: put the schedule up on the overhead projector. First thing
Speaker 1: idea was went to the bottom and make sure we
Speaker 1: see if we had gassers, you know, and I knew
Speaker 1: he did. I knew it. He was never gonna go high.
Speaker 1: Let's forget the gasses today. But I always had to
Speaker 1: go down there and look. But I think we're getting
Speaker 1: you know, the schedule. We we we we We went
Speaker 1: like a buck forty. Yeah, we're a good Now, what's
Speaker 1: what's two days? Now? They practice? How long they Yeah?
Speaker 1: But they I think they go longer, but they only
Speaker 1: have one pros. They don't do two days, so so
Speaker 1: they're they're going a little longer. But but we, you know,
Speaker 1: we do we if we went an our forty, there
Speaker 1: was a lot packed into an hour forty. I mean
Speaker 1: there was there was no no waste of time. But
Speaker 1: there's always some good stories out of training camp, some
Speaker 1: of you can't tell Twitter from Chip folsom I'm calling
Speaker 1: this year the purge. I like what they've done. Actually,
Speaker 1: this will set the tone for the years to come
Speaker 1: with Gays. Roster looks more fit, with more to more
Speaker 1: to fit with Gays is looking to do ball catchers
Speaker 1: everywhere in all different styles and finally, got him some
Speaker 1: tight ends bigger for Gays. I think this is a
Speaker 1: big year for outom Gays. I think it's a big
Speaker 1: year for him in his offense. To this offense needs
Speaker 1: they need to score, they need to be in a
Speaker 1: mad him seventeen points a game. I'm gonna Pertram called
Speaker 1: the reboot. Yes, I agree with that. Yeah, just you know,
Speaker 1: get rid of some guys, you know, get some new
Speaker 1: bloody and he's got everything he wants. He's got the
Speaker 1: coaching staff he wants now, and he's got the players
Speaker 1: he wants to and he's got the players with the
Speaker 1: attitude that he's looking for. The guys that are that
Speaker 1: are gonna do that extra guys are gonna make guys
Speaker 1: around him better and do all those types of things.
Speaker 1: So so for as much of it is a big
Speaker 1: year for a lot of people, I think it's as
Speaker 1: equally it is an important year for Fradom Games because
Speaker 1: look at this team. If this team um is sub
Speaker 1: five hundred again, doesn't make the playoffs, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: the chirps, the chirping is gonna start start going around.
Speaker 1: You know, the shine is gonna kind of wear off
Speaker 1: of the uh of the Crystal there Fradom Gay so uh,
Speaker 1: he knows it and it looks everything. So I'm not
Speaker 1: telling anybody anything than anybody else doesn't know, alright at
Speaker 1: alright in Miami, Twitter, too many people forgot what QB
Speaker 1: one and this team accomplished in two thousand sixteen. It's okay,
Speaker 1: they'll be reminded soon. Look that that's one. I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that we're bad. That everybody
Speaker 1: that has positive you know, feels this team is gonna
Speaker 1: be better than than than as being presented nationally to me.
Speaker 1: And a lot of it comes down to number seventeen
Speaker 1: and Ryan Tannehill and what he does if he can
Speaker 1: come back and start at that level he was in
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen when he was playing very good football
Speaker 1: over a hundred quarterback rating uh, interceptions down, touchdowns up,
Speaker 1: deep balls up, um, turnovers down to a minimum. I
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that's that's that's the number
Speaker 1: one key to the success and failure of this football team.
Speaker 1: He's worked hard. It's just a matter of putting together
Speaker 1: that's the most important position. We're breaking everything down. But
Speaker 1: a lot of this comes down to seventeen. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: get it through. Uh we could eat twenty four that
Speaker 1: we twitter. You know him right we uh? Durham Smith
Speaker 1: is a Gays kind of guy, smart and gritty. He
Speaker 1: loves the block and if the ball hits his hands,
Speaker 1: he's catching it. Durham kind of greeting Anthony. Creating separation
Speaker 1: will be his biggest challenge. He's like an Anthony Vasano
Speaker 1: Smith or Smithing. Kasecki sure seemed like a perfect fairy. Look,
Speaker 1: they've got you t we had, we have both of
Speaker 1: You've had both of them in here and in uh
Speaker 1: in uh. Gasecki says I can block better than people think,
Speaker 1: and Smith says I can catch better than people think,
Speaker 1: and everyone thinks, you know, vice versus. So look, I
Speaker 1: think they got to two tight ends here that are
Speaker 1: one of them at least is gonna have to be
Speaker 1: productive this year. They got all of you guys. One
Speaker 1: of them gonna have to be a big part of
Speaker 1: the second. Fourth round picks are making the team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got some veteran guys who are ahead of them
Speaker 1: right now that they picked up from other teams. Wait,
Speaker 1: you said, from what I see, it looks like all
Speaker 1: draft pick makes team nowadays. I pretty much I don't think, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, but you're you're right, You're right, you're
Speaker 1: a dan. We had guys, you know, sometimes we had again,
Speaker 1: we had a twelve round guy with making, so you know,
Speaker 1: we had more draft picks. But we got a kid
Speaker 1: that we cant where that a mirror lineman Smith out
Speaker 1: of I forget where it was out of do third
Speaker 1: round draft pick, coach, you will cut him in a week.
Speaker 1: First are the peg in the country. When smart guy
Speaker 1: a good thing, you couldn't play you can you can
Speaker 1: fix my ni now. But yeah, that was that was it.
Speaker 1: Um James Richard LaPoint facebook last one. I'd still feel
Speaker 1: better having a bit more depth of defensive tackle. Maybe
Speaker 1: we can snagg a surprise cut from another team that
Speaker 1: can provide a little more insurance. I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle position. I think you've got enough guys
Speaker 1: in there because I think more times than not, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see more defensive ends lined up. You know, the league,
Speaker 1: the leagues are passing the league is the league is
Speaker 1: is three wide, four wide, five wide, empty backfield, those
Speaker 1: kind of things. You know that the the days of
Speaker 1: the you know, the days of the line of an
Speaker 1: eye formation and running a p ten or or running
Speaker 1: a you know, a trap or those days are over
Speaker 1: is wide O up and it's spread. And so so
Speaker 1: I would prefer to have more pass rushing defense. I
Speaker 1: say it over and over again. I look back to
Speaker 1: the New York Giants when they beat uh beat New England.
Speaker 1: They beat him because they could sit put six defensive
Speaker 1: ends out in the field and rushed the passer and
Speaker 1: they couldn't block him. And that to me, we're worried
Speaker 1: about defensive tackle either. No, just just not a concern
Speaker 1: to me. That's gonna do it. Man, he was coming
Speaker 1: at me. Is good. It takes this show to see you. Man,
Speaker 1: nobody sees you anymore. Oh, I get out a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm a homeboy. You're taking naps
Speaker 1: and stuff again, a little you still playing card games.
Speaker 1: I kind of given up on what happen to Bomb Howard?
Speaker 1: He never shows up now here. He comes down and
Speaker 1: grabs his boat and goes in. You know, Riggy keeps
Speaker 1: you marked out there calling me off. He said, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm heading down. What are you doing this weekend? I go, no,
Speaker 1: I'll give me a calling again here and then I
Speaker 1: get a call from on Monday driving home. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: nice snow he's spending some of that money he's made
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