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Speaker 1: My guest today from the Dallas Morning News, Michael Gelkin
Speaker 1: and joining me today here on the Draft Time Podcast
Speaker 1: from the Dallas Morning News Michael Gelkin.
Speaker 3: Michael, welcome and.
Speaker 4: Sir, thank you for having me.
Speaker 5: Travis.
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure, happy to do it.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start here with you, Michael, because
Speaker 1: in watching the Cowboys, a very fun team this season,
Speaker 1: and in particular last week, gosh it, it feels like
Speaker 1: they really missed Layton vander Esh and to Mario Overshown.
Speaker 1: I know there's a couple of players they've been without
Speaker 1: for a while now, but I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: in general, because you know Trayvon Diggs obviously no Malie
Speaker 1: Cooker and Jonathan Hankins last week, just how the injuries
Speaker 1: have impacted this defense and in particular that second level
Speaker 1: where the Buffalo Bills kind of went rough shot in
Speaker 1: the running game.
Speaker 4: I think it's a great place to start the conversation.
Speaker 4: It's obvious. I think in for agency in April during
Speaker 4: the draft, the way that fans and teams get excited
Speaker 4: about player personnel acquisitions. You know, players on the field matters,
Speaker 4: and so during the season there's nothing you can do
Speaker 4: about losing, you know, a top linebacker on your team.
Speaker 4: In terms of Layton vanner Esh, you know, a rookie
Speaker 4: third round pick and Tomorrio Overshown. Safety Willie Cooker releases
Speaker 4: a tone for the Cowboys, and from his physicality standpoints
Speaker 4: one of those types of guys, one of their best tacklers,
Speaker 4: and then a big loss they felt was nose tackle
Speaker 4: Jonathan Hankins. And so when you lose those guys, as
Speaker 4: much as you want to have that next man up,
Speaker 4: you know thing that you say that that mantra, it
Speaker 4: hurts losing those guys. And so I think absolutely you
Speaker 4: know that size and that experience that the loss of
Speaker 4: that was felt against the Buffalo Bills. You know that
Speaker 4: offensive line, it's pretty rare. They've they've started all five
Speaker 4: every single game this year. And when you've got that
Speaker 4: much continuity up front against a front seven that's missing
Speaker 4: some pieces and asking some younger guys or a practice
Speaker 4: spot elevation guy or just you know, asking guys to
Speaker 4: step up, it's you. You feel that absence, and you
Speaker 4: certainly feel it when you're missing twelve tackles, which is
Speaker 4: about as bad as the Cowboys have been right there
Speaker 4: with a Week five loss to the San Francisco forty
Speaker 4: nine ers. So it just wasn't this defense's best at all.
Speaker 4: And most of those guys aren't an't coming back, you
Speaker 4: know for this coming game against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He said, mostly guys there, becuse that makes me curious
Speaker 1: because it just it just seems so different. Like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had Tony Romo on the call last week and
Speaker 1: Jim Nantz the CBS Number one crew for that game,
Speaker 1: and they talked about Romo did the absence of Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: But how for one or two games you can possibly
Speaker 1: scheme around before teams kind of get a piece of
Speaker 1: your new scheme and can then adjust and then you
Speaker 1: start to really feel the absence of those players. But
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, a few of those guys not coming back.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious about two main ones here with Hankins
Speaker 1: and Hooker. I know it's early in the week in
Speaker 1: this podcast on a Wednesday, but do you think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will get those guys back this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah, even though this is an early week recording, and
Speaker 4: I feel confident saying that Leek Hooker will be back
Speaker 4: on Sunday. He was very close to playing a bit
Speaker 4: like Tyreek Hill for the other the other day. You know,
Speaker 4: he had a pregame workout Hooker did, and it was
Speaker 4: just decided that he couldn't go. So I would expect,
Speaker 4: given how close he was, and it was a true
Speaker 4: game day call, that he will be ready. There is
Speaker 4: that optimism for having Hooker back against the Dolphins in
Speaker 4: Miami Gardens, and then for Jonathan Hankins early week, I'm
Speaker 4: less optimistic. He has a high ankle spring also at
Speaker 4: knee issue, so I just think that's asking a lot
Speaker 4: for three hundred and thirty five pound man the trenches
Speaker 4: to come back, you know, a couple weeks after having
Speaker 4: sustained that injury. So we'll see how the week progresses.
Speaker 4: But certainly more optimistic about the Cowboys ability return Hooker
Speaker 4: than Hankins.
Speaker 1: Makes for a fun matchup this late in year two
Speaker 1: ten win teams going at it down here in Miami
Speaker 1: Gardens for twenty five kickoff, the primary Fox game you
Speaker 1: guys are used that window for the Dolphins. Is not
Speaker 1: a lot of four to twenty five Fox kickoffs for
Speaker 1: us looking forward to this one. But I usually start
Speaker 1: at this position with these podcasts, at the quarterback spot, right.
Speaker 1: It's an obvious low hanging fruit there, and Michael, I
Speaker 1: think that Dak is a good study in quarterback discourse
Speaker 1: and how misguided it can be from week to week
Speaker 1: or even year to year, because like the conversation around
Speaker 1: Dak's pit last year, right and now it's way down
Speaker 1: back to where he typically is in terms of how
Speaker 1: he puts the ball in harm's way at a pretty
Speaker 1: minimal rate. I'm curious what you think is the big
Speaker 1: difference though, between Dak's performance in twenty twenty two versus
Speaker 1: what he's done this year with this Cowboys offense that's
Speaker 1: going up and on the field. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, first, Travis, I really like the way you framed
Speaker 4: that question. I'm thirty six years old.
Speaker 3: How old are you, Travis, same age, good company.
Speaker 4: Thirty six So we're probably in the same point of
Speaker 4: life where we have been in our industry for a
Speaker 4: while now, and there are certain themes that maybe bother
Speaker 4: us about how lazy some analysis can become. And I
Speaker 4: think it's kind of hard to have a stomach for,
Speaker 4: like longevity in this profession sometimes when you just hear
Speaker 4: how lack of nuanced There is a lot of prominent
Speaker 4: conversation that's had about this sport, and Dak Prescott is
Speaker 4: a terrific example where yeah, he had interceptions last year,
Speaker 4: but if you go back and really study them, you
Speaker 4: would see that there was an element of the receiver
Speaker 4: corps that just was felt. And you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 4: lost the more cooper. Last year, they lost Cedric Wilson
Speaker 4: to the Dolphins, and they didn't really replace either of them.
Speaker 4: You know, they tried, you know, they drafted someone in
Speaker 4: the third round who caught a couple passes literally, and
Speaker 4: then drafted James Washington who really didn't catch any or
Speaker 4: they signed James Washington one year contract. He needn't really
Speaker 4: catch any So there just wasn't much productivity there and
Speaker 4: so he's got a lot more help this year. Jalen
Speaker 4: Tolbert is another year along in terms of that. Former
Speaker 4: third round pick Michael Gallup is another year removed from
Speaker 4: his ACL tear. That really helps in the big addition
Speaker 4: was Brandon Cooks March you know the edition via trade
Speaker 4: and that he's really been a veteran in the room
Speaker 4: who's helped get guys around him almost like a coach
Speaker 4: on the field. Is so experienced, he's got such a
Speaker 4: great feel for, you know, how offenses operate and where
Speaker 4: to be and when to be there to timing, and
Speaker 4: then you take that in conjunction with things that Dak's doing.
Speaker 4: It's the big difference for Dak is what he's doing
Speaker 4: with his feet. You know, he's got better footwork in
Speaker 4: the pocket, that's one. He's got a cleaner pocket, that's two.
Speaker 4: But when the play breaks down and he's having to
Speaker 4: extend plays after that initial two point three of a second,
Speaker 4: two point three seconds of a play that typically kind
Speaker 4: of went to scripted once they has to go off script,
Speaker 4: and his improvising and on the run, he's as good
Speaker 4: as anybody in the NFL, and in fact, statistically in
Speaker 4: terms of his rating on scramble drill plays, he's the
Speaker 4: best in the NFL. So that has all been a
Speaker 4: big part of it, in conjunction as well with Mike
Speaker 4: McCarthy taking him over play calling and just I think
Speaker 4: have a little bit more balance on offense. You know,
Speaker 4: the route regressions, the way things are structured. All that
Speaker 4: is set up for Dak to have success. And McCarthy
Speaker 4: has more pieces than Kellen Moore had last year as
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator and play caller. But I do think Mike
Speaker 4: McCarthy deserves a lot of credit for what he's doing
Speaker 4: with those pieces.
Speaker 1: You know, Michael, I don't have any connects really in
Speaker 1: the Dallas market because we play you guys every presidential term.
Speaker 1: And so when I asked Brett breckheis and our great
Speaker 1: communications manager over here. Who should I ask for a
Speaker 1: podcast with the boys? He first sent her Nam. Now
Speaker 1: I'm seeing why he understands that you would be good
Speaker 1: for the show because you just talked about exactly I
Speaker 1: thinks we talked about here on Drive Time all the
Speaker 1: time with discourse and how irritated it could be some time,
Speaker 1: so good stuff. Start talking about this elite quarterback and
Speaker 1: this elite offense. It's so fun to watch and it
Speaker 1: makes for a game that has elite matchups all over
Speaker 1: the field. And we saw Jalen Ramsey travel with Garrett
Speaker 1: Wilson last week to a lot of success, only one target,
Speaker 1: no catches on those twenty four routes that he played
Speaker 1: on Garrett Wilson. I'm curious if we see Ramsey doing
Speaker 1: on Ceedee Lamb this week.
Speaker 3: So my question for you, Michael is if.
Speaker 1: He does and does it well, and let's say that
Speaker 1: he takes Lamb not out of the game, because you
Speaker 1: can't do that, but if he limits Lamb to a
Speaker 1: smaller amount of production than what you're used to, which
Speaker 1: is usually a bunch of catches and a bunch of
Speaker 1: yards and a bunch of touchdowns. What would the next
Speaker 1: major area of concern for the Miami offense be? Like,
Speaker 1: I know you all got weapons over there, but who
Speaker 1: would you say if Lamb's not you know, if he
Speaker 1: has like four for forty five, who would be the next.
Speaker 3: Guy that would beat Miami if he didn't get enough attention?
Speaker 4: Well, there's not an obvious answer, which is probably the answer.
Speaker 4: My mind first went to to Jake Ferguson tight end,
Speaker 4: you know, that was that was one place my mind went.
Speaker 4: I would say two is probably Brandon Cooks, And then
Speaker 4: I think there's a pretty good gap there between anyone
Speaker 4: else in terms of the passing game. Obviously, the run
Speaker 4: game is is something that the Cowboys would want to do.
Speaker 4: And you know, if it's single high safety versus too high,
Speaker 4: you know what that looks like. You know, the numbers
Speaker 4: game in the box and all that matters in terms
Speaker 4: of box count and how you want to attack a defense.
Speaker 4: But I do think that if if you take away
Speaker 4: Ceedee Lamb, you're well on your way to really stressing
Speaker 4: this Cowboys offense. But Jake Ferguson tight end second your
Speaker 4: tight end, He's he's really crafty in the open field,
Speaker 4: he's tough. Then you know, he's got a lot of
Speaker 4: toughness to him. He's someone that you see on tape. He's,
Speaker 4: you know, before he's getting open in the flat, he's
Speaker 4: chip blocking and outside, you know, a linebacker, edge rusher
Speaker 4: and help helping free himself open and helping his protection.
Speaker 4: It was just kind of the great and toughness to
Speaker 4: his game. So I think Ferguson has really come along
Speaker 4: his second year. By no means it's a finished product yet,
Speaker 4: but I think of safety valve, if you're taking away
Speaker 4: one guy I really trust in, Ceedee Lamb, Well, a
Speaker 4: tight end is often that friendly option for a quarterback. Underneath,
Speaker 4: I'd say that he can't get open on a steam
Speaker 4: rout or what have you. But Ferguson is probably my answer.
Speaker 1: Michael I put in my notes that he's like, he's
Speaker 1: kind of George Kittle light man, like he's on his
Speaker 1: way to being that type of player.
Speaker 3: He is, Gosh, he's good.
Speaker 1: This whole offense just has pieces like that, especially across
Speaker 1: the offensive line. That's where I go next year talking
Speaker 1: about the potential absence of a future Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: and Zach Martin, I saw him walking around the sidelines
Speaker 1: watching that game last week with the quad rap and
Speaker 1: just kind of looking like he wasn't gonna play again
Speaker 1: for a.
Speaker 3: While, But now it sounds like he might have a chance.
Speaker 1: Do you think he plays and if he does not,
Speaker 1: what would the absence of Zach Martin mean to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensive line?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, first, before we gets to Zach Martin, it's funny
Speaker 4: that you mentioned the George Kittle garrison for Jake Ferguson
Speaker 4: because they're the same guy in their locker room.
Speaker 5: Kill you see.
Speaker 4: Yet people don't really know Jake Ferguson as a as
Speaker 4: a personality yet. And I'm currently working to develop an
Speaker 4: article that that'll help that. It wouldn't wouldn't be this week,
Speaker 4: will probably be next week. But he's that just like
Speaker 4: guy who keeps others loose. He's the jokester who stands
Speaker 4: in front of the entire offense and delivers jokes. Or
Speaker 4: if there's a rookie offensive lineman, undrafted rookie who is
Speaker 4: casked with making a you know, delivering a story in
Speaker 4: front of the offensive line, he pantics he doesn't know
Speaker 4: what he's gonna say in this meeting that's coming up.
Speaker 4: He says, hey, Jake, give me a story I can
Speaker 4: tell my teammates, and then he gives them like this
Speaker 4: funny story, and then the offensive line is like, all right, perfect.
Speaker 4: So he's got kind of like the glue guy in
Speaker 4: the locker room that much like Kittle is. They even
Speaker 4: have the same agent. So funny comparison you make. Obviously,
Speaker 4: Ferguson not that type of player yet, but talk about
Speaker 4: a guy who's who's tough on the field and light
Speaker 4: off with it. That's that's that's Jake Ferguson to the
Speaker 4: Cowboys locker room. As for Zach Martin, you mentioned the
Speaker 4: left quad injury, there is optimism and I don't think
Speaker 4: he's you know, he's going to doing anything on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: They have a walkthrough here on Wednesday. Thursday they practice.
Speaker 4: You might not see him practice on Thursday. That is undetermined,
Speaker 4: but for certain he's trending the right direction as of
Speaker 4: earlier this week to play on Sunday. And so that's
Speaker 4: a big deal for an offensive line that if Martin goes,
Speaker 4: Cowboys will have started the same offensive line combination in
Speaker 4: eight straight games. And that's not only a big deal
Speaker 4: in general, but it's a big deal when you're including
Speaker 4: their left tackle Tyron Smith as part of that. The
Speaker 4: Cowboys don't even practice Tyron Smith. I mean that, literally,
Speaker 4: zero weekday practices for several weeks. They just bottle him up,
Speaker 4: let him stay healthy, stay fresh, you know, keeping them
Speaker 4: busy and walkthroughs in the weight room, and then come
Speaker 4: Sunday he goes and he is as dominant as any
Speaker 4: tackle in the league. So having Zach Martin as part
Speaker 4: of that, those are two potential likely Pro Football Hall
Speaker 4: of Famers. Tyron Smith, he's been steady overly several weeks,
Speaker 4: and Zach Martin's expected to return to keep that streak
Speaker 4: alive to eight.
Speaker 1: You pretty much just described Toron Armstead too. Doesn't practice
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but is dominant when he does get
Speaker 1: on the field, and he's best some games this year.
Speaker 1: But man, when you get him back, it's so obvious
Speaker 1: how impactful he can be.
Speaker 3: Just good stuff all around there.
Speaker 1: Man, these teams, these teams mirror each other so much
Speaker 1: in my opinion, And speaking of Toron Armstead in the
Speaker 1: offensive line, let's go ahead and flip it over to
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball here. For the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: defense here and where else would you start besides Michaeh Parsons. First,
Speaker 1: I'm curious how teams have dealt with him, Like how
Speaker 1: has he impacted the way teams have to commit extra
Speaker 1: attention and bodies to him? And then the follow up,
Speaker 1: would we be a similar question to when I asked
Speaker 1: you about Ceedee Lamb, Like if you can get Parsons blocked,
Speaker 1: and whether it takes two or three guys or motions
Speaker 1: or whatever you have to do to take advantage of
Speaker 1: getting Parsons out of the game. Who's the next guy
Speaker 1: you look at in this Cowboys pass rush?
Speaker 4: Yeah, started with Michael Parker. If anyone who is a
Speaker 4: fan of the Dolphins hasn't seen him yet, number eleven,
Speaker 4: you can't miss him during the game. He's just so
Speaker 4: explosive in space, just so explosive. Think you're in a
Speaker 4: four point three forty at his pro day after skipping
Speaker 4: the season at Penn State. He's just he's got that
Speaker 4: element of just pure speed and explosion. But then he's
Speaker 4: also really good with his hands. He understands leverage. He's
Speaker 4: a former like youth national team wrestler, so there's.
Speaker 5: That element of him.
Speaker 4: And then he's just so versatile where you know, on
Speaker 4: first and second down he might be at left end
Speaker 4: or right end, and then on third down he's a linebacker.
Speaker 4: Now off ball, he's standing in front of the A gap,
Speaker 4: you know, mugging the gap. You're not sure if he's
Speaker 4: if he's gonna be blitzing, if he's going to be
Speaker 4: back and out of coverage, or he might start on
Speaker 4: the left AY gap and then rush the right A gap.
Speaker 4: And he's so versatile. And dan Quinn, the defensive coordinator here,
Speaker 4: who should be a head coach really whenever he wants
Speaker 4: to be, he can be selective, but dan Quinn does
Speaker 4: a horrific job of keeping Micah Parsons on the move,
Speaker 4: making it an identification problem. You know, when Tua or
Speaker 4: any other quarterback gets to the line, they have to
Speaker 4: be like, all right, where's where's number eleven? And do
Speaker 4: teams account for him?
Speaker 5: Every week? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: We've seen them double team, We've seen him triple teams. Even,
Speaker 4: we've seen him chipped, we've seen him cut block, We've
Speaker 4: seen absolutely every approach one could take toward a dominant rusher,
Speaker 4: and really the only thing we haven't seen lately is
Speaker 4: a holding penalty. Because it's been eight and a half games.
Speaker 4: I started keeping count. There's a counter going on thirty
Speaker 4: four consecutive quarters that one of the best, if not
Speaker 4: the best pass rushers in the NFL, has not drawn
Speaker 4: a single holding penalty. I think a single hands to
Speaker 4: the face. I double check that, but there have been
Speaker 4: multiple ones that have missed there. He just isn't getting calls.
Speaker 5: And so if.
Speaker 4: You're if you're a fan, you're on social media and
Speaker 4: during the game and you see Micah Parsons get a
Speaker 4: holding call, I guarantee you he will be trending in
Speaker 4: the Dallas area because it finally happened. As for beyond Parsons,
Speaker 4: DeMarcus Lawrence is completely I don't know if he's underrated.
Speaker 4: People talk about he as underrated, but people talk about
Speaker 4: he's underrated so much he possibly cannot still qualify. He's
Speaker 4: just dominant against the run. If you were to look
Speaker 4: at the first two plays that the Bills ran in
Speaker 4: the first quarter and the first two plays that the
Speaker 4: Bills ran on Sunday in the third quarter, so the
Speaker 4: first two plays of each half for the Bills offense,
Speaker 4: he shut them down entirely. He's the reason solely that
Speaker 4: the Cowboys had a chance to get off the field
Speaker 4: on third down both those series that they didn't, and
Speaker 4: the Bills end up scoring both those series, and that
Speaker 4: was kind of the hallmark of the game, is that
Speaker 4: they had some little glimpses, but they couldn't sustain it.
Speaker 4: DeMarcus Lawrence can't be everywhere throughout the entire game, but
Speaker 4: he's just so violent with his hands, and he's got
Speaker 4: such a great motor and backside pursuit. He's one of
Speaker 4: the best block shutters, run defenders in the entire NFL,
Speaker 4: regardless of position. He's that good. So that's number ninety.
Speaker 4: So eleven and ninety, those are the two guys. And
Speaker 4: just like Micah Parsons's versatile, dan Quinn has done a
Speaker 4: great job of developing Lawrence's versatility, so you might see
Speaker 4: him in a zero or one technique, you might see
Speaker 4: him aligned over the tight end, and tight ends have
Speaker 4: been thoroughly unable to block him all year long.
Speaker 1: Really really good stuff there, and it makes for even Again,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep saying an elite matchup across the board,
Speaker 1: because a few quarterbacks have been as effective against the
Speaker 1: blitz as to a tongue of b I lower. But
Speaker 1: that Cowboys blitz is just different because of what you
Speaker 1: mentioned there with Parsons' ability to line up all over
Speaker 1: the formation and just cause communication issues, especially for a
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive line that is pretty banged up on the
Speaker 1: interior offensive line. So man, good stuff all around there.
Speaker 1: And it's funny you mentioned the holding stuff there with
Speaker 1: with Micaeh Parsons. That reminds me so much of Cameron
Speaker 1: Wake's career down here in Miami, Like he would win
Speaker 1: the corner so fast that it was impossible, Like the
Speaker 1: physics of it didn't make sense that he wasn't getting
Speaker 1: held at least three or four times a game when
Speaker 1: he went in that corner as a pass rusher.
Speaker 3: So good company there.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a break rate there. Come
Speaker 1: back on the other side, I have four more questions.
Speaker 1: We'll do these ones quicker for you, Michael. On the
Speaker 1: other side of the Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: My guest today is Michael Gelkin, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation. Finishing up with my guests to a Michael
Speaker 1: Gelkin of the Dallas Morning News. Great stuff so far
Speaker 1: in that first part of the podcast. I have four
Speaker 1: questions for you here. This one is maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of a question I want to hear from a
Speaker 1: perspective of a different team, because for the Dolphins, it's
Speaker 1: similar to what I think the Dolphins had to overcome.
Speaker 3: Last week against the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: And it's this that the Cowboys have not lost back
Speaker 1: to back games since the beginning of last year. And
Speaker 1: for Miami, I thought we learned a lot about their
Speaker 1: team makeup with the way they performed against the Jets
Speaker 1: off that really tough loss on Monday Night football. What
Speaker 1: do you think that says about this Cowboys team and
Speaker 1: how they might respond after a tough loss last week
Speaker 1: and how they come out here against the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Well, it's funny because I actually think that streaks about
Speaker 4: the end. Yeah, but but to your let's focus on
Speaker 4: the streak. I know, I think it speaks to the
Speaker 4: resilience of a locker room. I think it speaks to
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy. I think it speaks to the talent of
Speaker 4: the football team. You know that's McCarthy, But I think
Speaker 4: the entire coaching staff that they do a good job
Speaker 4: of using failure as a lesson, and sometimes it can
Speaker 4: be more difficult on a Monday morning after a big
Speaker 4: win to get your team locked in for the next week,
Speaker 4: then it would be the Monday morning after after a
Speaker 4: huge disappointment of a loss. And so I don't not
Speaker 4: to say necessarily that was the case or been the case,
Speaker 4: but I just think that this team uses failure as
Speaker 4: a as a great teacher, and they have a lot
Speaker 4: of great teachers and the coaching staff to frame it
Speaker 4: as such, just the way. You know, Mike McDaniel, we
Speaker 4: saw that on on Hard Knocks on Tuesday evening. You know,
Speaker 4: coming out of that Tennessee game, you know, you gotta
Speaker 4: look failure in the eye and you got to just
Speaker 4: just just do it and take it and use this
Speaker 4: as as a great thing to have happened to us,
Speaker 4: because we're gonna learn from it and we're gonna be
Speaker 4: better for it. And you've got to get through the
Speaker 4: tough times to experience the success and the highs of
Speaker 4: the season that you're chasing. So, you know, much like
Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel frames that, Mike McCarthy does the same. I'm
Speaker 4: sure a lot of coaches around the league do the same.
Speaker 4: But maybe not quite as well. I really enjoyed m
Speaker 4: McDaniel hearing him talk. I respect the heck of that guy.
Speaker 4: That's a whole nother conversation. But yeah, So I think
Speaker 4: there's there's that framing and that maturity in the locker
Speaker 4: room that the locker room itself with Dak Prescott. You know,
Speaker 4: there's there's just that that mental toughness within that room.
Speaker 3: Michael.
Speaker 1: You teased it there a little bit in the opening
Speaker 1: of that answer there, and this is how I always
Speaker 1: conclude the podcast. But I do want to come back
Speaker 1: for one more question because I think it's the most
Speaker 1: important question I'll ask you here in just a second.
Speaker 1: But my penultimate question is the Cowboys win this game
Speaker 1: if and then you fill in the blank. And I
Speaker 1: don't always do this because a lot of our games
Speaker 1: have been against teams that are pretty big underdogs. But
Speaker 1: I will also ask you this question on top of that,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins win the game if how do both these
Speaker 1: teams find their way to the winner circle on Sunday?
Speaker 4: So the Cowboys can win this game if they limit
Speaker 4: the explosive plays that the Dolphins have, and those are
Speaker 4: explosives in the run game. There's obviously explosives in the
Speaker 4: passing game. This is such an explosive personnel unit with
Speaker 4: such great scheme from from McDaniel. Again my respect to
Speaker 4: what is what is in place there the Dolphins have.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's it's it's truly uh, you know, vaunted,
Speaker 4: and it's it's going to be a real, real challenge
Speaker 4: for this defense, even if they have Mollie Cooker back,
Speaker 4: Even if they had you know, some of the guys
Speaker 4: that they won't have back slowing down this Dolphins team
Speaker 4: is a heck of a challenge and it starts with
Speaker 4: limiting the explosives.
Speaker 5: As for.
Speaker 4: The Dolphins can win, if they I would say, protect Tua,
Speaker 4: that would probably be the number one thing. And obviously
Speaker 4: that by having a run game that helps the get
Speaker 4: rid of the ball quickly.
Speaker 5: That helps.
Speaker 4: By being simply able to protect that helps. But if
Speaker 4: you're able to protect your quarterback against the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 4: you're probably avoiding some of those bad turnovers. And we've
Speaker 4: seen the Cowboys, you know, dron Bland, I think he's
Speaker 4: got to an NFL record with five six pick sixes.
Speaker 4: Five it's been a while since he had the last one,
Speaker 4: but they have the ability to score on defense and
Speaker 4: to get the ball back instead of short fields on defense.
Speaker 4: So that's that's the key for the Dolphins. It's protection.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to your point, these teams rank one and two
Speaker 1: in defensive scores as well, So top offenses, top defensive scoring,
Speaker 1: the football. Just a fun, fun matchup on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish here. Because every year, Michael,
Speaker 1: you create a list of some of the top players
Speaker 1: around the NFL and their foundations and causes and encourage
Speaker 1: fans and fantasy winners to donate to those causes. I'm curious,
Speaker 1: what have you found out about the Dolphins on your
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three champions Causes.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is something I do every year. Like you said,
Speaker 4: I think this is year number eight having done it,
Speaker 4: and so I mean it's kind of a long story
Speaker 4: of how it started. I'll get to the basics. You know,
Speaker 4: there's obviously no requirement for someone who wins their fantasy
Speaker 4: league to donate a portion of their winnings to a
Speaker 4: cause that a player supports, and so like the idea
Speaker 4: there is you know, if you know it's Tyreek Hills,
Speaker 4: you win your league, it's kind of like tipping the
Speaker 4: tipping the blackjack dealer before you leave the table in Vegas. Okay,
Speaker 4: I just I'm up. I want one hundred bucks. Here,
Speaker 4: here's ten, and you flip your chip and you turn around.
Speaker 4: And so it's kind of that same spirit where you know,
Speaker 4: obviously these players, they have all the money in the world,
Speaker 4: they don't need anything but their causes, you know, their passions,
Speaker 4: be it Melanoma Research Foundation, which you know, or what
Speaker 4: have you. There's there's some really great causes out there.
Speaker 4: And so I've been doing it again for a while,
Speaker 4: and I've seen more than fifty thousand dollars be donated
Speaker 4: to Todd Gurley's cause in twenty seventeen. That was Shriner's
Speaker 4: Hospitals for Children Leave based there in Florida. And then
Speaker 4: there was another one Son of a Saint, an organization
Speaker 4: in New Orleans that benefits followless boys in the area
Speaker 4: and for Alvin Kamara that raised more than seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: And so over the years, you know, hundreds of thousands
Speaker 4: of dollars have been raised from fantasy managers, and it's
Speaker 4: been really cool that the spirit of champion Causes has
Speaker 4: been applied really by dolphins fans to non fantasy moments,
Speaker 4: and so we've seen, you know, more than four hundred
Speaker 4: thousand dollars be donated to Andy Dalton's foundation because Dallon
Speaker 4: threw a late game touchdown that got the Bills into
Speaker 4: the postseason, and suddenly they just responded by donating to him. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the most extreme example is Damar Hamlin. More than ten
Speaker 4: million dollars was donated to him and his causes after
Speaker 4: his collapse about a year ago in January, and so
Speaker 4: it's a real positive thing. I'm happy to kind of
Speaker 4: curate a list of causes. I'm still finalizing my list
Speaker 4: for Dolphins players. I don't want to give the wrong
Speaker 4: cause for them, but I post the list on Sorry,
Speaker 4: I almost say Twitter, what a huge mistake that would
Speaker 4: have been on X. I post the list on X
Speaker 4: on the Sunday morning of Championship Week, which in a
Speaker 4: new schedule is week seventeen, So on New Year's Eve
Speaker 4: morning that Sunday, I'm posting my list on my ex
Speaker 4: account there at Gelkin NFL. And so if people want
Speaker 4: to do it and want to find it, they can
Speaker 4: find it. If not, enjoy winnings, you deserved it.
Speaker 1: Grand slam guest. We all got smart, say Michael Gelkin
Speaker 1: the Dallas Morning News. I actually have in my closer
Speaker 1: here at Gelican NFL on Twitter, so I'm still team
Speaker 1: Twitter over x Michael.
Speaker 3: But that's a conversation for a different day.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time today, man, Happy holidays, and thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 4: My pleasure trave has a lot of fun tick care.
Speaker 1: Great stuff there from Michael Gelkin. You can find him
Speaker 1: on social at Gelkin NFL. Let's go ahead and pause
Speaker 1: for our last break right there. Come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and hear from the assistant coaches, Frey Smith,
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio, Sam Madison, Darryl Bevell. A great group of
Speaker 1: conversations we had in the press room on this Thursday.
Speaker 1: That's all next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Kicking off assistant coach
Speaker 1: Audio here, and I want to go ahead and start
Speaker 1: with Vic Fangio, who touched on the concept of the
Speaker 1: pass rush connection as a team opposed to being a
Speaker 1: squad that has, you know, one or two top rushers.
Speaker 1: We've seen that in the past with the Dolphins. Right
Speaker 1: Cam Wake was kind of the the guy they brought
Speaker 1: in Dominic and seue In. There was kind of a
Speaker 1: one two punch there. You had Jason Taylor, who was
Speaker 1: obviously one of the greatest of all time to do it,
Speaker 1: and at best he was paired with Adam walle Algunlie
Speaker 1: who had his big year. You see all these teams
Speaker 1: across the NFL right now with the high sack totals,
Speaker 1: there's usually a Nick Bosa, a Miles Garrett, a Micaeh Parsons,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins have just like five of the guys
Speaker 1: that are in that category in terms of really good
Speaker 1: pass rushers. Let's go ahead and hear from Vic Fangio
Speaker 1: on how this pass rush works as a team unit
Speaker 1: opposed to a singular functioning player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do a good job of rushing as a
Speaker 2: unit instead of rushing as individuals and realizing that a
Speaker 2: good even rush whether you're running games or not, we
Speaker 2: run our fair share of games and we'll provide results
Speaker 2: for the entire group.
Speaker 1: Next, I want to go ahead and play some sound
Speaker 1: here from Vic Fangil and he was asked about Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey participating on Scout Team defense and he would do
Speaker 1: that early in the year to go match up on
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Glen Waddell.
Speaker 3: Why did he do it? Here's Vic Fangio.
Speaker 2: No, it's not normal, especially at this point in the season.
Speaker 2: But again, it was something that he started to do
Speaker 2: once he got back to practicing because he had no offseason,
Speaker 2: had no training camp, and he needed reps as many
Speaker 2: as he could get to get ready for those first
Speaker 2: few games that he played in. And he's just kind
Speaker 2: of carried it over. He's not doing it quite as
Speaker 2: much as he was when he first got back, but
Speaker 2: he is still doing it.
Speaker 1: So let's jump now to the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: and Daryl Bevell is a treasure man. I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and play a few soundbites from here with
Speaker 1: him talking about his quarterback to a tongue of Bailoa.
Speaker 1: And I love that this came up because it became
Speaker 1: a conversation throughout the entire press conference. The fourth question
Speaker 1: he was asked was about anticipation, and Coach alluded on
Speaker 1: what makes too a special one of his superpowers.
Speaker 6: Here's Coach, I mean it's one of two of superpowers,
Speaker 6: you know, really, I mean there's every every player has,
Speaker 6: you know, skill sets that you know that really help
Speaker 6: them that they're really good at. And then you know
Speaker 6: there's some that you know that they're not as good at.
Speaker 6: You know, you can just stack up all the quarterbacks
Speaker 6: speaking specifically, you know, some guys have disability. Some guys
Speaker 6: have that ability. You know, if you compared Michael Vick
Speaker 6: to a Tom Brady, both outstanding quarterbacks, but different styles
Speaker 6: of play.
Speaker 5: Two is two.
Speaker 6: His secret powers are his anticipation, his timing, his vision.
Speaker 5: And his accuracy.
Speaker 6: And he does that as well as anybody that that
Speaker 6: I've been around. And not everybody can anticipate, you know
Speaker 6: sometimes you know, not to get into the specifics, but
Speaker 6: different style of players, you know, can rely on their
Speaker 6: other skill sets, you know, whatever those may be. And
Speaker 6: but those are the things that he does well. And
Speaker 6: I think Mike has done a great job of, you know,
Speaker 6: taking two his skill sets, those four things specifically, implementing
Speaker 6: an offense that enhances his skills as well as the
Speaker 6: other players that we have, you know, I mean obviously
Speaker 6: it's you know, whether it's Tyreek's skill sets, whether it's Jalen's,
Speaker 6: Durham's raheem h h, and I mean all those guys,
Speaker 6: and that's the that's you know, that's the skill that
Speaker 6: Mike has to be able to see a vision, implement
Speaker 6: the vision, and then use all the.
Speaker 5: Guys that he has their skill sets to their best.
Speaker 1: And the follow up to that was coach, is anticipation
Speaker 1: and vision from your boy? Is that inherent? Or can
Speaker 1: you trust or can you teach? I should say here's
Speaker 1: coach once again.
Speaker 6: There I think there is some some teaching that you
Speaker 6: can do. I know, I would say anticipation a lot
Speaker 6: of times is innate. Some of some of those guys
Speaker 6: have it. I think it's based on their skill set,
Speaker 6: based on how they've brought up with the you know,
Speaker 6: ten thousand hours of you know of reps that they get.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I think I think anticipation is probably a
Speaker 6: little bit more innate. And vision, I think are things
Speaker 6: that you can teach uh with a with a lot
Speaker 6: of hours in terms of you know, whether it's pre
Speaker 6: snap post snap. And obviously that's what defenses are trying
Speaker 6: to do to trick you with, you know, with where
Speaker 6: guys are and where they're supposed to be going. But
Speaker 6: if you if you can get through all that, I
Speaker 6: think you can train that.
Speaker 1: And I want to go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with Sam Madison, who touched on his very final Q
Speaker 1: and A about the conversations you have with Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: and Xaviing Howard with regards to traveling, to getting targets,
Speaker 1: to frustration boiling over you guys surely recall the Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks clip where McDaniel pointed out out Xavier and Howard
Speaker 1: having a bad rep on the tap the Titans tape
Speaker 1: in front of the entire team, but also saying this
Speaker 1: is where you kind of get locked back in and
Speaker 1: they're they're jumping outside of the structure of the defense,
Speaker 1: trying to make a play, pressing right. He always goes
Speaker 1: back to that when guys make mistakes, typically it's because
Speaker 1: they're pressing trying to go make a play in a
Speaker 1: big spot. And Sam Madison gave us a great SoundBite
Speaker 1: here following up on that very idea about the conversations
Speaker 1: with those guys and telling them to be patient when
Speaker 1: maybe you're not getting You know.
Speaker 7: It's really tough, you know, and you know when he
Speaker 7: first came here, you know, I taught I sat him
Speaker 7: down as well as x and I tried to explain
Speaker 7: to him, like listen, man, y'all never been in this
Speaker 7: situation before.
Speaker 5: This is what's going to happen. You know, it's only
Speaker 5: one football.
Speaker 7: You know, it's going to be games, and you know,
Speaker 7: I tried to take them through the things that I had.
Speaker 7: I've been through games one, two, three, games where you
Speaker 7: don't even receive a target, you know, but the things
Speaker 7: that you put on film, it eliminates, eliminates a lot
Speaker 7: of the other targeted routes that you will see later
Speaker 7: on down the road.
Speaker 5: You know, things come up just like last week.
Speaker 7: Okay, they've seen these different things and know how they
Speaker 7: can beg how offensive can attack you. But he's been
Speaker 7: playing very well in all aspects short, im mediate, intermediate,
Speaker 7: and deep route. So where you're gonna throw it, you're
Speaker 7: gonna pick your poison. And that's the things that I
Speaker 7: really just try to talk to him. You know, at
Speaker 7: some point in time, they're gonna have to come your way,
Speaker 7: and when they do, you have to make them pay.
Speaker 7: But you know, just because of what you've guys done
Speaker 7: in the past and what you've done the last couple
Speaker 7: of weeks here, it's they're gonna be very slim, and
Speaker 7: I just try to encourage them on a consistent basis,
Speaker 7: and we do tend to try to bake people up.
Speaker 5: And you can sit here and you can talk about it.
Speaker 7: Two weeks ago versus Tennessee, he had opportunity to he
Speaker 7: saw something and it just wasn't the right thing that
Speaker 7: he saw. And I was like, this is the fact
Speaker 7: that you get when you don't get targets. But good
Speaker 7: quarterbacks will be able to find those guys, and they
Speaker 7: found him and then he was able to settle down
Speaker 7: and then lock back in. So the great thing is
Speaker 7: they do get frustrated because they don't but watching the score,
Speaker 7: seeing our offense put points on the board, understanding that
Speaker 7: we were winning football games.
Speaker 5: That cures a lot of things.
Speaker 7: That cures a lot of problem man, they are able
Speaker 7: to settle in and continue to play championship football.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Assistant coaches always fun to hear from them. And what
Speaker 1: a good group we had on this week sixteen Thursday.
Speaker 1: And speaking of that, that means TNF it's our second
Speaker 1: last TNF game. And isn't it so funny every single
Speaker 1: year we do this where we complain about the quality
Speaker 1: of the primetime games. I'm not watching and your boy
Speaker 1: is guilty of that. I did not watch Chargers and Raiders.
Speaker 1: I wasn't about to watch Easton Stick and Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 1: And I think I was paid off with the result
Speaker 1: of that game and that decision I made. That said,
Speaker 1: we have two of these left guys like enjoy them
Speaker 1: because it's going back to watching like SEC basketball in February, right,
Speaker 1: who cares?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: I love golf, I love baseball. Nothing measures up to
Speaker 1: watch in the National Football League. So enjoy it and
Speaker 1: it kicks off. Go ahead and cue the music. We
Speaker 1: are one hundred and sixty one and sixty seven after
Speaker 1: a twelve and four week last week. That's seventy point
Speaker 1: six percent. I think seventy one percent still achievable, although
Speaker 1: at this stage of the year it's like batting average,
Speaker 1: not a lot of movement either direction, no matter how
Speaker 1: good or bad your week was. So twelve and four
Speaker 1: gave us a point five I guess. I guess it
Speaker 1: was a half percentage point bump in my overall achievement
Speaker 1: this year for picking games. So let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: queue the music, and it starts on TNF on Thursday,
Speaker 1: Rams over the Saints. So many of these teams I've
Speaker 1: kind of called out for the seasons saging.
Speaker 3: I'm not picking them the rest away.
Speaker 1: The Saints kind of fell into that bucket, even though
Speaker 1: I picked them last week against the Giants, because the
Speaker 1: Giants are in that bucket also, right, But the Rams
Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford, that's the game to me right there.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's one of the best quarterbacks in the off.
Speaker 1: He gets over the hump, he gets the win. I
Speaker 1: think the Rams are gonna be a good team down
Speaker 1: the stretch here that gets in and possibly makes some
Speaker 1: noise like a Rams and Lions wild card game.
Speaker 3: I would pick the Rams in that game.
Speaker 1: And how cool that you by the way, Stafford versus
Speaker 1: goff not inn Detroit, it'd be pretty cool on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Two games that always love AFC matchups, more meeting for
Speaker 1: us as Dolphins fans. It's always fun to be invested
Speaker 1: in these games. But man, the luster of these matchups
Speaker 1: had even just a month ago. I'm taking the Bengals
Speaker 1: over the Steelers, who I don't think are gonna win
Speaker 1: a game the rest of the way, which would then
Speaker 1: disrupt Mike Tomlin's record of never having a losing record
Speaker 1: in a season. I got Jake Browning and the Bengals
Speaker 1: fall into victory and that one in the nightcap. Hoping
Speaker 1: like hell, I'm hoping like hell that the Chargers get
Speaker 1: that interim head coach bump and knock off Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: Will I pick it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Would I have picked the Chargers if Justin Herbert were starting. No,
Speaker 1: But hopefully we get that result and they we're playing
Speaker 1: for a division championship on Sunday. On Sunday, we switch
Speaker 1: over here for these games. Washington over the Jets. I
Speaker 1: think the Jets have been broken twice this year, the
Speaker 1: game before the first Dolphins game and the Dolphins game
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I think we're gonna see a fractured team
Speaker 1: going forward, and I probably won't pick up the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. It's Jets and Browns next Thursday, and
Speaker 1: I don't take Joe Flacco in that one. Vikings and
Speaker 1: Lions give me the home team, the Lions in this one.
Speaker 3: No is it in Minnesota? I forget, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Lions either way because the Vikings offense
Speaker 1: is just completely stuck in neutral right now. Houston over Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Battle of Case, Keenum and Joe Flacco. Like another one
Speaker 1: of these games that would have been kind of cool
Speaker 1: on paper if both quarterbacks were going and both teams
Speaker 1: didn't have their injuries, although I don't care to see
Speaker 1: the Cleveland quarterback ever again, but in terms of the
Speaker 1: competitive aspect of it could have been a cool matchup.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Houston here because I think the Cleveland magic
Speaker 1: carpet right.
Speaker 3: Has to end at some point, and I think that
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 1: Don't think there are ten or five football teams like
Speaker 1: they could get the win very easily because Texans aren't
Speaker 1: very good without C. J.
Speaker 3: Stroud.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna have Houston in this one to be
Speaker 1: able to pull this one off. Green Bay over Carolina,
Speaker 1: I think that's self explanatory. Seahawks over Titan, although I'm
Speaker 1: not as convicted in this one because I think the
Speaker 1: Seahawks in a short week after an emotional victory against
Speaker 1: a Titans team that can beat you up and play
Speaker 1: bully ball, fun matchup, But give me the Seahawks because
Speaker 1: they are a better team.
Speaker 3: Colts over Falcons.
Speaker 1: So a lot of these teams in the AFC, right,
Speaker 1: I put it on Twitter last week, you're rooting for
Speaker 1: some of these teams in the AFC with lower records
Speaker 1: to hopefully bump out Buffalo, because ideally, the scenario that
Speaker 1: I want to see a play out and you want
Speaker 1: to see play out is we win the next two
Speaker 1: games and clinch the division, and then a week eighteen,
Speaker 1: you're playing for the one seed against Buffalo, and if
Speaker 1: you beat them, there's a possibility at ten and seven,
Speaker 1: a very very real possibility at ten and seven Buffalo
Speaker 1: doesn't get in. And now you're talking about Cleveland, Houston, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: Indy for these potential late or you know, wildcard seating
Speaker 1: spots in the AFC, And if you get one upset
Speaker 1: in the wildcard round and you're over one seed, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we're playing at home in the division
Speaker 1: round against Gardner Minshew and go Coog's. I love you,
Speaker 1: but I'm taking Miami in that game. Big, So root
Speaker 1: for these teams, Root for the Colt, root for the Broncos,
Speaker 1: root for the Texas and all these games. I'm taking
Speaker 1: the Colts over the Falcons because the Falcons are a
Speaker 1: bit of a mess right now.
Speaker 3: In Tampa Bay over Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Unless Trevor Lawrence starts the game, he probably will because
Speaker 1: that seems to be how it goes, even though I
Speaker 1: saw his head bounce off the freaking turf on Sunday
Speaker 1: night like a like a balloon, Like I can't believe
Speaker 1: he stays in that game. But if he starts the game,
Speaker 1: I'll take Jacksonville. If not, I'll take Baker and the Bucks,
Speaker 1: Dolphins over Cowboys. Listen to the Wednesday podcast if you
Speaker 1: want to know why I'm taking.
Speaker 3: The Bears over the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Broncos over the Patriots. How funny is
Speaker 1: it that they've been running that promo on NFL Network
Speaker 1: about these the Christmas Eve Holiday series is back again?
Speaker 3: Oh is it? Broncos and Patriots?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 3: Two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: Chiefs over the Raiders on Christmas Day? And that's a
Speaker 1: big one there. If the Chiefs can get picked off
Speaker 1: one of these games, there's a little bit of wiggle
Speaker 1: room here for Miami. So all these games are important
Speaker 1: going forward, obviously, just win, but Raiders.
Speaker 3: Over Chiefs will be nice.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pick it in Arrowhead, especially Eagles over Giants, duh.
Speaker 1: And then the funnest game of the year probably that
Speaker 1: does not involve Miami, San Francisco and Baltimore.
Speaker 3: I think San Francisco is.
Speaker 1: Gonna roll up these next three games and into the
Speaker 1: postseason as being known as one of the greatest teams
Speaker 1: of all time despite that three games slid slide they
Speaker 1: had back in October. But man, San Francisco is rolling.
Speaker 1: I think they beat the Ravens handily on Monday night.
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore has a short week to come back
Speaker 1: and play us after traveling all day Tuesday morning, They're
Speaker 1: gonna be a day and a half behind us in
Speaker 1: preparation for that game. So go beat the Cowboys. Get
Speaker 1: that result. Maybe you get a Buffalo upset. I doubt it,
Speaker 1: but maybe you get that. Either way, win the game,
Speaker 1: you'll be in cood position to go make your own
Speaker 1: money in week seventeens with Dolphins are concerned.
Speaker 3: Those are my picks. That's the podcast. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and get out of here.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow I'm gonna do a fun segment on two a
Speaker 1: tongue of Bai Looa taking more Darryl Bebble quotes and
Speaker 1: talking about big games in December, so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 1: We'll also have the great Greg Olsen on the podcast.
Speaker 1: He's on the call on Sunday for Fox and also
Speaker 1: on Drivetime on Friday, so don't miss any of that.
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