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Speaker 1: a look back at the game against the Denver Broncos today.
Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and have a sit down with the
Speaker 1: linebacker Landing Roberts, Roberts who seems to be blowing people up,
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. And then we'll, uh, we'll go
Speaker 1: behind the enemy lines, take a look at the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, the opponent this week, and then we'll have
Speaker 1: some xs and bows when we get to the end.
Speaker 1: But to get started off with Morgan and Morgan Law,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our look back and John looking back
Speaker 1: at that game, and well, it looked like it looked
Speaker 1: like three of the last five games. Uh. In that
Speaker 1: first quarter when first series you go three and out
Speaker 1: and then you you're forced to turnover X comes up
Speaker 1: with the interception, You're punch it in you Here we
Speaker 1: go again. It's gonna be another one of those games.
Speaker 1: But after that, uh, everything kind of fell apart. And John,
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I just felt like
Speaker 1: this football team, the Dolphins football team really never got
Speaker 1: into sink on either side of the football. Special teams
Speaker 1: played well enough, but on either side and football offense
Speaker 1: and defense, I think they were I think they lost
Speaker 1: the battle with the line of scrimmage both ways, and
Speaker 1: it just seemed like it was a a disjointed effort.
Speaker 1: To me. Well, I agree with you, bo, I think
Speaker 1: it was a flat effort. After the initial interception and
Speaker 1: the touchdown throw from to Ah to Parker in the
Speaker 1: end zone, I think the Dolphins got off to that
Speaker 1: start would made you feel like, here we go again.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be set up by defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: The offense is gonna get get it done just enough
Speaker 1: to be able to keep that touchdown or ten point
Speaker 1: lead and maybe expound upon that in the second half.
Speaker 1: But this is how the Dolphin are gonna win games.
Speaker 1: And then I believe you know it was it was
Speaker 1: funny because Drew Lock, who's thrown the most interceptions in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Denver has given up the football
Speaker 1: more than anybody in the National Football League. They all
Speaker 1: of a sudden turned into you know, the grinch. They
Speaker 1: didn't give anything up and and he was, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting on big plays in the passing game. They had
Speaker 1: a one to punch in combination with Lindsley and Gordon
Speaker 1: being able to run the football. And as you said,
Speaker 1: bo I thought the Miami Dolphins the poorest outing, I
Speaker 1: think by the offensive line not being able to win
Speaker 1: their one on one matchups, not picking up you know,
Speaker 1: simple twists that the line of scrimmage. And then on defense,
Speaker 1: if it was like the Green Bay Packers were, you
Speaker 1: know it was it was the college sweep. You know,
Speaker 1: it was like here comes the counter, here comes the counter.
Speaker 1: You can't stop, but we're gonna run it again. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Denver did. They went old school on
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins with a couple of explosive plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game and that was enough. And you know
Speaker 1: when they kept running them over and over, it's one
Speaker 1: of those since you said, look we're gonna run it.
Speaker 1: We'll run to both sides until you stop it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna keep running it and you know it. You know,
Speaker 1: this team the defensively, this team has gotten better over
Speaker 1: the last handful horse last month or so. It's setting
Speaker 1: the edges and playing perimeter defense. Well that went out
Speaker 1: the door yesterday because you know, it seemed like every
Speaker 1: time that Denver ran it, and no matter who was
Speaker 1: was running it, you know, whoever whoever it was running
Speaker 1: the football always seemed to have that two way go.
Speaker 1: You know, there was you know, if that if that,
Speaker 1: if that that ed got said, the edge got up
Speaker 1: the field, there was nobody to take the cut back
Speaker 1: and cuts back and picks up big yards. And if
Speaker 1: they if they played the cut back, there was nobody
Speaker 1: out there setting the edge to turn it back in.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I thought it was a uh probably
Speaker 1: the poorest effort we've seen out of the defensive front
Speaker 1: and the offensive line. I thought, well, I'm right with you.
Speaker 1: The games. The games just confused these guys. They were
Speaker 1: you know, there's a couple of times where Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: they needed they need to know whether a man to
Speaker 1: man or whether there was zone block because one bumped
Speaker 1: each other off and one bumped the other guy off.
Speaker 1: Other times they both went for the same guy something
Speaker 1: else come So, yeah, I was just an uneven record, John,
Speaker 1: and John, you know what I was thinking. And I
Speaker 1: don't I still think they played hard. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I agree with that. I've got nothing to
Speaker 1: say about their effort. But you've won five games in
Speaker 1: a row. All of a sudden, the national media is
Speaker 1: on and I watched I watched all the pregame shows
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Everybody's picking the Dolphins. Everyone's got co coach flows,
Speaker 1: the coach of the Year. I mean, this was the
Speaker 1: crescendo at the end of the day. Everyone's going, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Just all of that. And and I've been
Speaker 1: in those situations before, John, I've been in situation where
Speaker 1: you've played real well and all. And I always say,
Speaker 1: you know you, I find myself in a situation before
Speaker 1: where you before you prepare like you do eight each
Speaker 1: and every week, right, do the same things do your
Speaker 1: preparation game day, get up at the same time, getting
Speaker 1: the car, drive to the state at the same time,
Speaker 1: with your shoes and socks at the same time, and
Speaker 1: then you get out of the field and go, Man,
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't I don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go here, you know, so you try to try,
Speaker 1: and you try, and then you get in the huddle
Speaker 1: and you look around and everybody's got the same look
Speaker 1: in their eye that you got, and you go, oh,
Speaker 1: we're in trouble today. And I think that was one
Speaker 1: of those days maybe that the Dolphins had. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think to it probably felt a lot of that too,
Speaker 1: because you know, quarterbacks deal with pressure, and they deal
Speaker 1: with free guys coming all the time. They have to,
Speaker 1: you know, either get rid of the football, throw it away, sidestep,
Speaker 1: buy some time and make a play. But when you're
Speaker 1: a young quarterback and you have so little starts underneath
Speaker 1: your belt and you're trying to grow the offense and
Speaker 1: try to come into your own as the fifth pick
Speaker 1: overall in last year's draft, um, you kind of have
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on your shoulders. Not that he
Speaker 1: didn't never had it at Alabama. He had the world
Speaker 1: on his shoulders at Alabama because everybody was watching them.
Speaker 1: But as you said, five wins in a row. You're
Speaker 1: in the National Football League now and you're expected to
Speaker 1: keep elevating your game each week. And I think you
Speaker 1: know some of those orange flashes of different colored jerseys
Speaker 1: were actually, you know, bothersome to the entire offense. It
Speaker 1: was bothersome to the timing in the past offense. It
Speaker 1: was bothersome to Akman who couldn't really get started other
Speaker 1: than a couple of runs. And I think it was
Speaker 1: bothersome to to Or to a certain extent, because it
Speaker 1: threw off the overall timing. You know, there wasn't a
Speaker 1: whole lot of wide open windows for him to deliver
Speaker 1: the football. When he was finding DeVante Parker, they were
Speaker 1: covered and most of the time he was covered, and
Speaker 1: he put the ball in a good spot for Davanta.
Speaker 1: Davante could handle it, make a reception and really fall down.
Speaker 1: There was no run after catch opportunities, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: in that game. So I think everybody kind of felt
Speaker 1: that heat. Everybody had that feeling that you expressed about.
Speaker 1: You know, you went through the same things to get here,
Speaker 1: but you're just not having it done. It's just not
Speaker 1: working for some reason. And it was just one of
Speaker 1: those days. And Denver found a way to click from
Speaker 1: off to on in the beginning of that game, and
Speaker 1: they found a way to get their traction going and
Speaker 1: get what they needed to do, make the plays they
Speaker 1: needed to make to win a football game. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: biggest story coming out of the game is the uh,
Speaker 1: the decision by coach Flores late in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: You still got an opportunity to tie the football game up,
Speaker 1: uh and then force over time or maybe go for
Speaker 1: the win. Uh. And he chooses to go ahead and
Speaker 1: and pull to at Fits in and at the time,
Speaker 1: you know that last play that to us and he
Speaker 1: kind of got he got sacked and his kind of
Speaker 1: his foot kind of got tweaked. And I thought maybe
Speaker 1: that was part of the reason he said no, and
Speaker 1: to us said no, that wasn't the reason. They just
Speaker 1: brought fits in to get a spark. And and I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with it, um John, But well
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. The the national the national voices, Boy,
Speaker 1: he really jumped all over this, the same the same
Speaker 1: voices that we're calling for coach Flores to be as sure,
Speaker 1: you know, coach of the year. You know, he give
Speaker 1: go ahead and give the trophy. Now now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they're going, I don't understand that. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I made that decision. What were your thoughts
Speaker 1: when you saw uh Fits go in that late in
Speaker 1: the ball game. Listen my gut feeling. I wanted to
Speaker 1: to play so well, and he didn't get it done,
Speaker 1: and the team didn't get it done. It just wasn't
Speaker 1: one person. But I thought it was the right and
Speaker 1: correct call to put Ryan Fitzpatrick in because the things
Speaker 1: that to wasn't doing really well in the game, Fits
Speaker 1: does extremely well. He feels pressure before it comes, he
Speaker 1: moves his body and moves the protection away from that pressure,
Speaker 1: and he's able to anticipate it and get rid of
Speaker 1: the football before guys are even open. And that's what
Speaker 1: you needed to have happened. And he wasn't greedy. He
Speaker 1: started cherry picking underneath, you know, checking down, checking dow,
Speaker 1: until all of a sudden some of that stuff opened up.
Speaker 1: And I thought he did a really nice job of
Speaker 1: showing too a by example, how he could have attacked
Speaker 1: the Broncos, but he had to get out there to do.
Speaker 1: You can only say so much, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was a good decision by coach Flores that to really
Speaker 1: give the Dolphins one more chance, to give him their
Speaker 1: best chance to win. At the end of the game.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a knock on toa. It was. It was
Speaker 1: a praise for a guy that really has played well
Speaker 1: and has seen at all kind of defenses that you
Speaker 1: can insert him into a game with very little reps
Speaker 1: during the week of practice and think that he could
Speaker 1: be successful and rally your team. He was a player
Speaker 1: too away bow from either tying the football game or
Speaker 1: winning it with the two point conversion. You no doubt
Speaker 1: he goes down and and uh and puts that ball
Speaker 1: in the end zone, goes for a two point conversion,
Speaker 1: wins it, and coach Florence's smartest coach in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and Ryan's the best backup in the in the National
Speaker 1: Football Football League. That's we're talking about. But look, I
Speaker 1: understood the move and and and looked at that offensive
Speaker 1: line hadn't protected to a all day long. He's under
Speaker 1: durest the whole time. They got hit ten times. He
Speaker 1: was sacked six times, and that wasn't gonna change if
Speaker 1: he went back in there. So uh and and look,
Speaker 1: I think to you when you heard from two afterwards,
Speaker 1: Look this guy is mature behind his years, and he
Speaker 1: understands a situation, understand exactly instead of I was fine
Speaker 1: with it. That's what fits is here for let's move on.
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna go ahead and move on. And
Speaker 1: now it's time for a sit down with a Lamb
Speaker 1: and Roberts. Today it's gonna be amplified by hard rock,
Speaker 1: hotel and and and John Lamb is one of those
Speaker 1: guys that, uh, you know, when he gets an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play, I'll tell you what you talk about. A
Speaker 1: guy that comes through the line of scrimmage and and
Speaker 1: carries a carries a load with him. When he hits somebody,
Speaker 1: they stay hit. Yeah, he's a guy that you're you
Speaker 1: want on your team and at middle linebacker. He's a
Speaker 1: good communicator, he's a terrific leader, and he's productive, you know,
Speaker 1: not only in stopping the run, but being able to
Speaker 1: be a force in pressuring the pocket, being able to
Speaker 1: get his hand in the way in past coverage. He
Speaker 1: does a lot of really good things. But his leadership
Speaker 1: and his production have been really what the Dolphins needed
Speaker 1: in the middle of that defense. You've been nicked up
Speaker 1: in their h Van Noyd's being in and out, so
Speaker 1: so having a land and Robert be able to come
Speaker 1: in and and really step into that inside roll and
Speaker 1: get Van Ginkel on the outside when you know, taking
Speaker 1: over that spot for Van Noyd. But nice to have
Speaker 1: those guys on and it's nice to see uh, you know,
Speaker 1: short yardage and everything. But I tell you you can
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't even have to look at it. You
Speaker 1: can hear the hits from the landing and know where
Speaker 1: they're coming from. So let's see what he had to say.
Speaker 1: We just spoke to him. John happy to be joined
Speaker 1: by Miami Dolphins linebacker and landing Roberts and at lantin
Speaker 1: the game in Denver. Wasn't the result of Miami Dolphins wanted,
Speaker 1: but the start was and it seemed like it was
Speaker 1: the same script from the past couple of weeks. The
Speaker 1: defense gets out, they get an interception, a turnover by X,
Speaker 1: and provide the offense with excellent field position to against
Speaker 1: Parker in the end zone. You guys were off for
Speaker 1: the races. Did you guys feel like that early momentum
Speaker 1: was something you were gonna build on? Oh, of course,
Speaker 1: you know, you always want to have fast starts and games.
Speaker 1: You always want to you know, if you can't have
Speaker 1: a fast start, even with a turnover, that's always you know,
Speaker 1: a plus, you know, and um we we we had
Speaker 1: you know, great momentum. You know what I'm saying at
Speaker 1: the beginning, Yeah, it seemed like you guys really did.
Speaker 1: It was one of those games that we're gonna hold
Speaker 1: true to the script over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: where you either's defense or special teams are offensively something
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. You made a couple of big stops
Speaker 1: in the game at one on fourth and one, Can
Speaker 1: you take us through that that play, you came like
Speaker 1: a rocket from the linebacker position into the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: That was a big momentum change for the Dolphins on defense. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, our front seven been playing, you know,
Speaker 1: our nose and our tackles, they've all been playing good football.
Speaker 1: And just on that play, you know, if you see
Speaker 1: you know, ray Corn Davis did a good job you know,
Speaker 1: one on one on that nose and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And I knew backside that them guys are gonna do
Speaker 1: a good job. So I just trusted my teammates fit
Speaker 1: and we all was able to make that fourth and
Speaker 1: want to stop. You know, I know a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, players you know, get the credit for it,
Speaker 1: But the bigger picture, it was a whole front seven
Speaker 1: we we all you know what I was able to execute.
Speaker 1: You know what a boy you call and get that
Speaker 1: fourth now stop? Yeah, you're right, you know what. It
Speaker 1: isn't always one player on a big win or or
Speaker 1: a loss. Like in Denver, you guys lose twenty to thirteen,
Speaker 1: and it seemed like defensively you just couldn't slow down
Speaker 1: Gordon or Lindsay on the ground, especially on the edge
Speaker 1: of the defense. When you take a look back at
Speaker 1: the game and when you go through it in your mind,
Speaker 1: what was the biggest difference for you guys not being
Speaker 1: able to slow those guys down with that rushing attack
Speaker 1: they had. Um, I just think, uh, you know, just
Speaker 1: because it's fresh right after the game and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: that we just gotta dig in, do wash the firm,
Speaker 1: you know, see what's causing what and stuff like that
Speaker 1: and then correct it. You know, uh, you rather have
Speaker 1: them type of games early in the season, that eight
Speaker 1: in the season. So you know, of course it was
Speaker 1: a tough loss or you know, the whole team hate
Speaker 1: to lose, you know, but now you see the corrections
Speaker 1: that you need to make. That's gonna take you into
Speaker 1: later on in the season where you know them, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying them, corrections is made and that
Speaker 1: you can execute it when it's you know, saying called
Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta, And seems like when you get later
Speaker 1: in the season, no matter what level football, especially at
Speaker 1: the National Football League level, games are harder to win.
Speaker 1: If you found that in terms of your progression in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, where when you get deeper in
Speaker 1: the season, no matter who the opponent is, no matter
Speaker 1: what the record is, it's always about you guys, you know,
Speaker 1: doing your job because those guys are either fighting for
Speaker 1: the playoffs or they're fighting for their jobs. It doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter what the scenario is. It just tough to
Speaker 1: win games late in the season. Yeah, And like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, that's why I'm glad yesterday happened, you know,
Speaker 1: because we're able to fix that as a defense and
Speaker 1: fix you know what teams are trying to do, so
Speaker 1: later on in the season, they won't be able to
Speaker 1: do it because we alreadyn't seen what we need to
Speaker 1: do to make sure, you know, these players don't leak
Speaker 1: out on it and stuff like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's a tough loss, but I take the positive from
Speaker 1: it and you know, now you're able to learn from
Speaker 1: it and move on and like every week. This this
Speaker 1: a one game season, man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So you gotta you gotta take it one game at
Speaker 1: a time, because you start looking too far ahead. Then,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, you run into run into
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that you ain't trying to run into.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that, because I would think there's
Speaker 1: no better way to bounce back from a loss and
Speaker 1: get to one to know this week then against an
Speaker 1: a f C East rival in the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: you go on the road. Um, it's one of those
Speaker 1: games where you feel like, all right, let's correct what
Speaker 1: we can correct from Denver. Let's get back to playing
Speaker 1: our our style, our schemes the way we're a custom
Speaker 1: of doing it and getting back on that winning track. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, it's always good to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: get back on the winning track. You know, we we
Speaker 1: gotta dive in as week, you know, the just the
Speaker 1: good team. You know, you can't look at the record
Speaker 1: and stuff like that and whatnot to think that you're
Speaker 1: going to be able to execute just because off of
Speaker 1: a team director. Everybody's in the NFL. So we gotta
Speaker 1: prepare hard this week, and we gotta you know, put
Speaker 1: all out, you know, after today, after we make these corrections,
Speaker 1: we have to turn the page and put a great
Speaker 1: weekend for the New York Test Atlanta. Lastly, do you
Speaker 1: prepare any differently when facing a veteran like Joe Flacco
Speaker 1: than maybe a younger guy and Sam Donald other than
Speaker 1: Donald might have a little bit more movement skills and
Speaker 1: able to tuck it and run. Are there little things
Speaker 1: that you kind of put in your memory chest on
Speaker 1: how you're trying to prepare for each different style of quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to. You know, if somebody got him here
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, I kind of just look at them
Speaker 1: all the same, It's it's no way, you know, because
Speaker 1: Donald bring a certain aspect that and Donala bring a
Speaker 1: certain aspect that Flacco don't. And Flacco bring a certain
Speaker 1: aspect that uh Donald don't. You know, they both have
Speaker 1: their own Tennessee. So you have to dive in and
Speaker 1: know that, you know, know that the game can change
Speaker 1: when it is Flacco or with Donald, you know, so
Speaker 1: you just have to pre path for both well Land
Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us today. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: one and oh this week against the Jets and get
Speaker 1: back on that winning track. Good luck to you up
Speaker 1: up in New York. Thank you man. Now stop go
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Speaker 1: the New York Jets. And one thing hasn't changed, John,
Speaker 1: you still haven't won a game. Well, you take pleasure.
Speaker 1: You take so much pleasure in saying that that's great.
Speaker 1: They's still got that big old for hanging over there,
Speaker 1: hanging over their heads right there. And John, I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you there's nothing more beautiful than that throw fireman
Speaker 1: in right in there too. But that fireman and I
Speaker 1: just get Jay, you can go. This fireman in may
Speaker 1: have quit again. He quit one year about five years ago,
Speaker 1: he quits, I've had enough, I'm not coming back. And
Speaker 1: then when they got Sam Darnald, he was back in
Speaker 1: the front road back. Yeah, he's back in uh in
Speaker 1: total one, New Jersey or somewhere now. I ain't even
Speaker 1: still so I don't think he's back but this football team,
Speaker 1: John Well, I'll tell you, I I don't know what
Speaker 1: you say about these guys. Joe Flacco, you know, Darnald
Speaker 1: still out, Joe Flacco is there? Uh And you know,
Speaker 1: I've never seen I don't know if I've ever seen
Speaker 1: a football team in the NFL as inept as this
Speaker 1: Jet team has been this year. That fair. I think
Speaker 1: that it's fair. Their record proves that. Um, they've been
Speaker 1: in some games, but not a lot of games. And
Speaker 1: it seems like it's always the back door cover. You know,
Speaker 1: it's always the Jet scoring points at the end of
Speaker 1: a game where you kind of go, well, that game
Speaker 1: was pretty close, but then you kind of watched the
Speaker 1: game and see the highlights and it was a two
Speaker 1: touchdown game for you know, the majority of sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: And then again that happened, you know, against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: You know, offensive league. Who are you gonna see? Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be Flacco? Probably Sam Donald's still nursing an
Speaker 1: injury to the shoulder, so you may see him, you
Speaker 1: may not. Might be a game time decision, but you
Speaker 1: know you've got you've got Frank Gore still trying to
Speaker 1: get it done in the backfield. You've got, you know,
Speaker 1: an offensive line that's kind of been hit or miss,
Speaker 1: and you've got a defense at ranks kind of in
Speaker 1: the middle to the end. You know, every every statistic
Speaker 1: meaningful statistics, statistic in the National Football League on both
Speaker 1: sides of the football are deep into the twenties and
Speaker 1: in the in the thirties. And if you're in the
Speaker 1: thirties in the National Football League, it's not very good.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a clear indication of your record.
Speaker 1: And right now, you know, Adam Gates has his hands
Speaker 1: full just trying to feel a healthy football team, get
Speaker 1: a team out there that's competitive and has a chance
Speaker 1: to win every week. He's gotta spend some time beating
Speaker 1: the wolves off and jumping off his back either because
Speaker 1: you know they're all over him up in New York.
Speaker 1: But you look at this football team and and there's
Speaker 1: no one really jumps out of you talk about Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: your Denzel Mims, a nice guy. Jamison Crowder has done
Speaker 1: some good stuff for him, Quinn and Williams their first
Speaker 1: round draft pick last year. He's a beast back there.
Speaker 1: But but really it's just you know, this is a
Speaker 1: football game. You know, John, I think when I look
Speaker 1: at this game, you know, you've got to prepare for
Speaker 1: the Jets. You've got a game plan there. There are
Speaker 1: a National Football League team, no doubt about that. You
Speaker 1: can't overlook them. But to me, this is more about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins getting back into their own heads and getting
Speaker 1: back to where they were two three, four weeks ago,
Speaker 1: where the defense was playing tough, they were getting pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. Guys were getting off of their blocks,
Speaker 1: you know, disengaging and making plays. You know, offensively, that
Speaker 1: line was protecting the quarterback, whether it was whether it
Speaker 1: was Uh, you know, whether it was Ta or whether
Speaker 1: it's Fitzpatrick. And the running game still wasn't what you
Speaker 1: want to be, but at least it was giving you
Speaker 1: a little bit of something there. And and so somehow,
Speaker 1: some way this week in the Metal Lands, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: need to get their focus back on themselves and and
Speaker 1: playing the straight mistakes three football as close as they can,
Speaker 1: because look, don't, don't, don't don't. If the Dolphins gone
Speaker 1: play like they did Uh in Denver, you know, they
Speaker 1: just may get their first win this weekend. And why
Speaker 1: would as much as I'm happy to see him floundering
Speaker 1: in the in the in the muck of the metal lands.
Speaker 1: I don't want him to come up and get healthy
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. No, that's the last thing. The Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins one. I agree with you both. There should be
Speaker 1: a lot more thumbs pointing at individuals that are wearing
Speaker 1: the aquand orange than index fingers, you know, looking at
Speaker 1: the Jets and what they can do to you. I
Speaker 1: think there's enough on the Miami Dolphins played after going
Speaker 1: over the Denver Broncos film. You know, by Wednesday and
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday, they had to get that out of
Speaker 1: their system. They have to get back to playing efficient football.
Speaker 1: On offense, they have to be able to make sure
Speaker 1: there's of a hat on a hat at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. They have to be able to pressure the pocket,
Speaker 1: no matter if it's Donald or Flacco. You know, if
Speaker 1: it's Donald, you maybe rush him a little bit different
Speaker 1: because he has a little bit more mobility than Joe.
Speaker 1: But both guys can you know, beat you from the pocket.
Speaker 1: And they do have some playmakers if you give them
Speaker 1: some confidence, if you give the Jets a reason to participate,
Speaker 1: they're going to participate. They can still get after you.
Speaker 1: On defense, It's not a bad defensive eleven when you
Speaker 1: look at the names and you look at some of
Speaker 1: the guys and what they're capable of. But it's all
Speaker 1: up to the Dolphins. If they allow them to stay
Speaker 1: in the football game, it will be a sixty minute game.
Speaker 1: If the Dolphins can get out and do what they
Speaker 1: do best, get out to us a quick start and
Speaker 1: a fast start in all three phases, be able to
Speaker 1: score some points and and dictate how the temple and
Speaker 1: the pace goes, in the rhythm of the game goes.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be okay on on the road. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing John I touched on a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. I really would love to see this
Speaker 1: running game try to get a little more trash. And
Speaker 1: you'd like to see a game where you've got a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty a hundred and fifty yards rushing and look,
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's three running backs to get
Speaker 1: you there, but you know, you've you've you've got to Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to run the football to
Speaker 1: make this offense work, especially with two in it, as
Speaker 1: efficiently as possible, because if you can't, then then you're
Speaker 1: gonna see more and more teams do the same thing
Speaker 1: that that Denver did is just tee off on him
Speaker 1: and and just just come after him and uh and
Speaker 1: run all kinds of games. And and quite frankly, even
Speaker 1: the games that are running on there were nothing that
Speaker 1: you don't see each and every week. There were a
Speaker 1: t you know, T and E games and simple stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, guys, guys need to get there in
Speaker 1: their heads and the shooting. Look, I don't, it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, I told you we were eleven and oh
Speaker 1: one year and went to San Diego to play and
Speaker 1: and stunk up the holes and sunk stunk up to
Speaker 1: Murphy in a in a really big way there. And
Speaker 1: so it can happen to anybody. And and sometimes you
Speaker 1: start reading your your your your own clippings and and
Speaker 1: it's easy to start feeling better about yourself. And maybe
Speaker 1: you don't give the you don't maybe you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you kind of cut corners a little bit. Uh, I've
Speaker 1: maybe you know, you mentioned that running game. I think
Speaker 1: Akmen has done a terrific job for what he's been
Speaker 1: asked to do, and I think he's gonna continue to
Speaker 1: do that. He's John. I think he's gotta be more.
Speaker 1: You've gotta be you gotta be more consistent. It's gotta
Speaker 1: be you know. You can't. You can't bust off a
Speaker 1: run for nine, ten, twelve yards one run and then
Speaker 1: have three through the next three runs where you get
Speaker 1: a yard. You know. Yeah, that's a shared responsibility. And
Speaker 1: and I think up front those guys would attest to that.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's just nowhere to go. And anytime you see
Speaker 1: that colored jersey in the backfield, you've got a reroute
Speaker 1: before you almost you know, or at the you know,
Speaker 1: getting the football from the quarterback, that's a tough you know,
Speaker 1: and that that exchange point, that's a tough deal for
Speaker 1: running back to to kind of get positive yards on
Speaker 1: that run. So I think two things need to happen
Speaker 1: in this offense. Up front, they've got to fix uh,
Speaker 1: the protection, and they've got to be able to get
Speaker 1: off the football in the running game. If those things happen, Two,
Speaker 1: is gonna be able to navigate the rest, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to throw guys open. He's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to buy some time and make some plays and extend
Speaker 1: some plays. But if those first two things don't happen,
Speaker 1: You'll see this team continue to struggle and you're looking
Speaker 1: for the defense and you're looking to win field position
Speaker 1: on special teams to make it easier to find points.
Speaker 1: They have to fix those two things going in not
Speaker 1: only against the Jets, but it gets tough to win
Speaker 1: late in the season in the National Football League. You
Speaker 1: better be able to do that against Cincinnati and especially
Speaker 1: when you get to New England and Kansas City down
Speaker 1: the road. Yeah. Look, I'm not turning on this team.
Speaker 1: I think they're a good football team, and uh, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be uh. We we still got a
Speaker 1: lot of good things to look forward to. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think they just maybe got
Speaker 1: ahead of themselves for a week. Let's kind of reel
Speaker 1: it back in. Just get back to doing the basics
Speaker 1: and and get that done. Uh and then when we
Speaker 1: want to move on from there out, why not talk
Speaker 1: about it Thanksgiving week and Thanksgiving is always a great
Speaker 1: day for the National Football League. A lot of turkey
Speaker 1: to eat, a lot of games to watch. And you know,
Speaker 1: the only thing I miss about Thursty about Thanksgiving Thursdays
Speaker 1: now is not not having Barry Sanders on the Detroit lines,
Speaker 1: because that in itself used to be one of the
Speaker 1: biggest treats on Thanksgiving. You're right, that was entertainment because
Speaker 1: you knew he was gonna pull off a probably a
Speaker 1: fourteen to sixteen yard run and probably run for about
Speaker 1: sixty five yards to get those fourteen or sixteen yards,
Speaker 1: and you could always count on him having a leg
Speaker 1: of the turkey at the end of the game because
Speaker 1: he was probably the start of the game. Yep, no
Speaker 1: doubt about my my uh Thanksgiving Day experience. We played
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving Day nineteen seventy seven, which was my rookie year,
Speaker 1: was actually my my second year, but I was injured.
Speaker 1: I was an injured reserve my whole rookie years, So
Speaker 1: that was my rookie and we went up there and
Speaker 1: we had four defensive, four defensive rookies starting that game, myself,
Speaker 1: Norris Thomas, A. J. Dewey, and Bob bomb Howard. At
Speaker 1: the time St. Louis was the hottest team league. They
Speaker 1: had won six or seven in a row. And there's
Speaker 1: two riders down here in South Florida had place dead
Speaker 1: who wrote for the Hollywood Son Tattler. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone even has ever even heard of that newspaper and
Speaker 1: Bernie Lindscomb, who was writing for the Fort Laude Noo
Speaker 1: Sun Sentinel at the time, and both of them said,
Speaker 1: I don't even know the Dolphins are going up there.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be the Thanksgiving dinner for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And and in the Hollywood paper put a pitch had
Speaker 1: a picture drawn in of a turkey with all a
Speaker 1: bunch of next coming and had all of our heads
Speaker 1: sticking out dinner. So so so we go up there
Speaker 1: and and uh, very good football team. And that team
Speaker 1: was an offensive line was Conrad Dobler, Tom Banks, Big
Speaker 1: Bob Young who was the strongest player in the National
Speaker 1: football and Dan dear do Orf was on that team.
Speaker 1: Jim Hart was a quarterback, Terry Metcalf. They were a
Speaker 1: really good football team. And we went up and just
Speaker 1: tore him apart. Greece Grease drew six touchdown passes, three
Speaker 1: of them and that more. And we just harassed them
Speaker 1: all day. So during the game game a J a
Speaker 1: JS instigating Dobbler and Bob Young, and they could Bob
Speaker 1: Bomb Howers, a rookie playing nose tackle, and a J
Speaker 1: keeps going, Hey, Dobbler Dad, rookie is kicking your butt.
Speaker 1: There he con come back the huddle, Bob and go
Speaker 1: a j shut up, man, because every time you yell
Speaker 1: at him, then they tripled to man. Yeah, I'll hit
Speaker 1: his knees and stuff. So we're going on on. So
Speaker 1: not the middle of the third quarter in the game,
Speaker 1: Steve toll Are starting linebacker, goes down on the field
Speaker 1: vern Den Herder blue and blown his knee out. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the game, Steve told goes down with an injury
Speaker 1: and while they're dragging him off the field, he says,
Speaker 1: take me by the huddle, right, So he dragged him
Speaker 1: Draghim by the huddle and he sticks his head and
Speaker 1: he goes it was double blur. It was everybody. On
Speaker 1: the next play, you know, we need a linebacker because
Speaker 1: Steve he's hurt. And all of a sudden, I look
Speaker 1: over and we have this offensive lineman from Kentucky who
Speaker 1: looked like uh who looked like he looked like Satan,
Speaker 1: and so Coach Sula sent him in. He was an
Speaker 1: offensive guard, Wally Pursuit was his name, so he was
Speaker 1: in defense, mated hockey coming in and settled the score.
Speaker 1: That's right, hem in and said, line up over Dobler.
Speaker 1: And so this is Thanksgiving Day, everyone's having their turkey dinner,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I'm playing outside linebacker when
Speaker 1: he dropped. We have a double zone. I dropped into
Speaker 1: my zone and kind of settling about eight to ten
Speaker 1: yards and I looked next to me, and I see
Speaker 1: Wally pursued. He's got Conrad dover by the face man.
Speaker 1: He's jerking it back and forth, and he's running past me.
Speaker 1: That bulldogs him. I went and jumped on him, and
Speaker 1: next you know, both branches cleared. The The game was
Speaker 1: stopped for about a half hour. I think everybody on
Speaker 1: the team on both sides got fined. And and the
Speaker 1: one thing we watched I remember are watching the tape
Speaker 1: or watching the film afterwards of it, and and all
Speaker 1: you could, you know, you're seeing all the fights and
Speaker 1: the skirmishes all over the field. And we saw Dan
Speaker 1: dow our equipment guy walking around the field picking up
Speaker 1: all the St. Louis elbow well the equipment in his
Speaker 1: bag and bringing over the art. We need a couple
Speaker 1: of extra neat pads, a couple of elbow pads. Probably
Speaker 1: the next week we had guys wearing them where we playing,
Speaker 1: they're wearing red elbow. But that was that was my
Speaker 1: lone experience with with with playing on the on Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: and and it certainly was a very memorable one that
Speaker 1: that sounded like it was a lot of fun to
Speaker 1: partake in, especially the next day watching it on film
Speaker 1: had to be outstanding. Well, well, I tell you the
Speaker 1: kicker to it was that before we went out for
Speaker 1: the game, Bob Kuchenberg and Jim Langer said, Hey, when
Speaker 1: the game's over, when we win, nobody talked to place
Speaker 1: Stead or Bernie Litzko. So, you know, so game's over,
Speaker 1: we win, We're in the locker room jumping up and down.
Speaker 1: Here was happy, and all of a sudden Cooch looks
Speaker 1: over and he sees someone talking to ed Place dead
Speaker 1: and ed ed Place staid was about he was probably
Speaker 1: five six maybe five seven, shaped like a bowling ball,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, but there was about yea y
Speaker 1: screen and so so cooching Cooch and lang Or see him.
Speaker 1: They go over. They picked Place that up, carry him
Speaker 1: towards the shower. Coach was doing his press conference right
Speaker 1: next to sharers. Hey, where is it? Where are you
Speaker 1: guys going with him, carried him, shower him in the showers,
Speaker 1: give in the shower, turned the showers on, and wouldn't
Speaker 1: let him out. So it was the way that one ended.
Speaker 1: It sounded like a perfect day. It's giving to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you know, I think everyone, I think we
Speaker 1: all enjoyed it. I'm not sure about that. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure about the Saint saying Louis Cardinals and in place
Speaker 1: that those those those guys didn't enjoy it much. That's great,
Speaker 1: but no, no, no, but uh yeah, it's it's Uh.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: always fun and it greats means I don't know, John,
Speaker 1: I mean you guys down at St. Thomas of climates,
Speaker 1: I always have a Thanksgiving uh where you can go out,
Speaker 1: want go watch practice, and you just gonna put a
Speaker 1: good group alumni heaving back there, don't you. Yeah. Usually
Speaker 1: guys come back from I don't know how many years,
Speaker 1: as far as probably when I played football even before
Speaker 1: at St. Thomas, and they're always in the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: you always get to go down on a Thursday night
Speaker 1: after you have your Thanksgiving meal and kind of watch practice.
Speaker 1: If you have a son on the team or you
Speaker 1: know you're an uncle of a player or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: if you played there, you can go watch and uh
Speaker 1: those are always uh fun times to reminisce with other
Speaker 1: players and and get to meet some of the current
Speaker 1: guys that are on the team and wish them well
Speaker 1: in their game uh the next night. So that's always
Speaker 1: a nice tradition. They they started and continue to this day. Awesome,
Speaker 1: good though, Well, John's it being with you again this week? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. Let's hope we are
Speaker 1: celebrating next week both, I hope, so no no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. So have a good week and we'll catch
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