Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Kimbo Cambra, John Condjemmy, the Audible.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a rainy day. I don't know wherever
Speaker 1: you are in the country, around the world. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I ran I ran into some people. I
Speaker 1: was on a cruise. I ran in some people that,
Speaker 1: uh from Canada, that that listened to The Audibles. It's
Speaker 1: the only chance we're gonna Yeah, I listened to It's
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. You know good people. Yeah, you got
Speaker 1: that guy that played due quarterback play for the least.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we're kind of spreading around here a little
Speaker 1: bit and talking about spreading around John, it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's coming to the point now, well you know it's
Speaker 1: it's it's funny to meet John. How how much movement
Speaker 1: goes on now in free agency? And I know I'm
Speaker 1: talking about obviously the top tier guys are going, but
Speaker 1: with the lower tier, the mid tier, lower tier guys
Speaker 1: moving around and and all that, and it's uh been
Speaker 1: an interesting thing. And you look at the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: and really when you you kind of look at free
Speaker 1: agency and you kind of look at the landscape of
Speaker 1: the league and free agency and say, Wow, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have been and they've been kind of low keyed on
Speaker 1: this thing, and I think that's certainly by design. And
Speaker 1: I think is when we talked about in the last show,
Speaker 1: we talked about you know, it's gonna take time for
Speaker 1: us to kind of watch how Chris Greer goes about
Speaker 1: his business, watch about watch how Brian floor is, what
Speaker 1: his influence is on on on player personnel and what
Speaker 1: you do there and and so I think we're starting
Speaker 1: to see but you know, I think we're seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit of a puzzle John, But He's gonna take
Speaker 1: a while for all of us and all the Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans to really get a good feel for how this
Speaker 1: puzzle is going to shape up. Because, you know, we
Speaker 1: got a whole new staff of coaches, we've got new
Speaker 1: personnel guys, We've got players coming and going. So we
Speaker 1: we've been around this team a lot, and we've been
Speaker 1: know a lot of and kind of but I'm having
Speaker 1: to look at this thing and trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what this puzzle is gonna look like. When we get
Speaker 1: that last piece and stick it in there, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty cool. I think once at last piece does
Speaker 1: finally arrive. But remember, and you know as well as
Speaker 1: any Dolphin fan, the Dolphins have had both feed in
Speaker 1: the water for a number of years. When it comes
Speaker 1: to free agency in terms of big salaries, a lot
Speaker 1: of cap space, Let's go spend it. Let's get that
Speaker 1: premier defensive tackle, Let's get that two or three linebackers.
Speaker 1: Let's go get that wide receiver that everybody covets. And
Speaker 1: where are we? You know? So this is a complete
Speaker 1: one eight in terms of how you're going to shop
Speaker 1: in free agency, how you're going to shop for the
Speaker 1: bargains and try to get and pick off pieces here
Speaker 1: or there, because I don't think the Dolphins want to
Speaker 1: figure out the puzzle in one year. This is not
Speaker 1: a UH constructing a team that's gonna happen overnight. This
Speaker 1: is going to be pieces of of the puzzle that
Speaker 1: you have to get rid of that don't fit any longer.
Speaker 1: That you have to kind of go out and reinvent
Speaker 1: what you need to to make this engine go to
Speaker 1: to make this team more of a team for the
Speaker 1: long haul. And I think that's what Chris Sker is
Speaker 1: doing right now. He's getting a lot of help from
Speaker 1: UH money that he's putting aside possibly for two thousand
Speaker 1: and twenty by maybe taking a step a couple of
Speaker 1: steps back in two thousand nineteen in free agency, still
Speaker 1: going in and trying to get pieces that you need
Speaker 1: to function to make this team a team and function
Speaker 1: as a team and be competitive. But you don't want
Speaker 1: to put push all those chips in the middle of
Speaker 1: the table because you don't have them. You don't have
Speaker 1: the engine. Right now they feel like, hey we can,
Speaker 1: we can go out and compete for a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to be competitive. You want
Speaker 1: to be able to try to win each and every week.
Speaker 1: But I'm not quite sure when you look around and
Speaker 1: what other teams have done that are in better positions
Speaker 1: financially to go ahead and make that run. Right now,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were there, they took their swings, they didn't
Speaker 1: get there. Now they have to take a step back
Speaker 1: and kind of construct a team that's built to win
Speaker 1: every year, just not maybe this year or or two years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just all about the long haul. It's all about
Speaker 1: being and I'm gonna look, I'm gonna use the team.
Speaker 1: It's all about being the New England Patriots. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying going to six winning six super Bowls, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not talking about Look, obviously your goal is
Speaker 1: to be to go to a super Bowl. But to me,
Speaker 1: you're you're not gonna get to a super Bowl by
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs once every five or six years.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be in that hunt. And it
Speaker 1: looks sometimes it's it's a situation where you know, if
Speaker 1: you're a team that's that's let's just go back to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins of the past, where where you just knew
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in the playoffs every year, and and
Speaker 1: and if you get in the playoffs, you know, jeez,
Speaker 1: you get a home especially if you get home field advantage. Man,
Speaker 1: you win a game, well, there's an FC Championship game.
Speaker 1: Were one game from a super Bowl, you know. So,
Speaker 1: so I think it's the the idea is to have
Speaker 1: this team being a playoff caliber team each and every year, consistently,
Speaker 1: always in that hunt, always in the thing, because you
Speaker 1: never know when she when you Once you get in,
Speaker 1: you win two games, man, and you're you're right there
Speaker 1: on the either either right on the doorstep or or
Speaker 1: you're in a super Bowl. And so but that's where
Speaker 1: this team needs to be and and and John, you know,
Speaker 1: for me, and I've used this term a lot about
Speaker 1: this team over the last decade, two decades, we've been
Speaker 1: in a quagmire. You just feel like you're in mud
Speaker 1: and you're you're moving, but you're you can't get anywhere.
Speaker 1: And you take two steps forward and let's get rid
Speaker 1: of this coach. All of a sudden, you slide back
Speaker 1: and you're climbing back, trying to climb out of the
Speaker 1: mud again. And and so I think, I think what
Speaker 1: we're seeing is this team that finally said, you know what,
Speaker 1: enough enough, let's get ourselves, Let's get all this mud
Speaker 1: out of the hole, and let's build the foundation of
Speaker 1: concrete so we can be a solid foundation going forward.
Speaker 1: And it's and look, it's is it gonna be? And
Speaker 1: that's why they gave the head coach five year dealt.
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't you don't come in that that
Speaker 1: three year and rinse and repeat is not good for
Speaker 1: for the continuity your staff, the continuity of your roster,
Speaker 1: the front office, the scouts, Hey, what type of player
Speaker 1: are we looking for to fit to play defensive end?
Speaker 1: Do we need a guy that's versatile do we need
Speaker 1: a guy at linebacker that can rush the path? You know,
Speaker 1: all those things come into play, So I think it
Speaker 1: goes from the top. You have to have clear direction.
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins have clear singular voice in Chris
Speaker 1: career on how he wants to build a team. He's
Speaker 1: kind of given his orders through the scouting department, uh,
Speaker 1: through through all the people that need to go out
Speaker 1: and find the pieces. And I think coach Flores is
Speaker 1: doing the same thing with his staff. This is what
Speaker 1: we're how we want to coach him, this is how
Speaker 1: we want to do it. This is how we want
Speaker 1: to be versatile on defense, this is what we want
Speaker 1: to be on offense. I think all those things will
Speaker 1: will fall into place. It's not gonna happen overnight, but
Speaker 1: I think at least you've got a game plan, You've
Speaker 1: got a roadmap for success and how to get there.
Speaker 1: Because all these guys that are coming from other places
Speaker 1: and primarily primarily New England, they know how to do it.
Speaker 1: They had a coach in a quarterback and they built
Speaker 1: around it. So you have to find it. You have
Speaker 1: to get to that spot eventually. I think also too,
Speaker 1: when you look at you know from a from a
Speaker 1: from a top down standpoint, you know, you've made it
Speaker 1: clear that Chris Greer is the guy that's just running
Speaker 1: the show. The buck stops on on his desk and
Speaker 1: then it filters his way down, and and and and
Speaker 1: with the changes they've made, I've I've there there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of times where I've felt like, if this team,
Speaker 1: if this team and in the in their in their
Speaker 1: front office from a football standpoint, was in a canoe,
Speaker 1: not everyone was paddling in the same direction. Not everybody
Speaker 1: had a paddle. No, not everyone had a paddle. And
Speaker 1: some of those people people had had the paddle, they
Speaker 1: wanted a bigger paddle than the paddle was that they had,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, and I think they've
Speaker 1: cleared all that out. So it's where I think the
Speaker 1: focus now on this. There's no political I don't I
Speaker 1: don't see any posture politics and posturing out of the
Speaker 1: equation with the they've streamlined the group less coaches, let
Speaker 1: you know, And and so I think they're in the
Speaker 1: right direction. And now it's just about you know, staying
Speaker 1: on that on that page and not having those disruptions.
Speaker 1: But so, so let's let's kind of look at where
Speaker 1: we're at now, you know, with with free agency and
Speaker 1: where we're at, and everyone knows, okay, so so the
Speaker 1: so the guys that have gone, Ryan Tannehill goes this way.
Speaker 1: And and you know, Ryan Tannehill, this guy came in
Speaker 1: here for seven years, busted his ass, did everything this
Speaker 1: team asked of him. You know, you can't question his
Speaker 1: work ethic, you can't question his toughness. I appreciate what
Speaker 1: he did. And I said, look, I like Ryan, I
Speaker 1: like him as a quarterback. But whatever it is that
Speaker 1: gets you over the top, I just think he was short.
Speaker 1: That that chromosome, he just didn't didn't have that thing
Speaker 1: to get you over the top. But you know, I
Speaker 1: hate I can't say a bad thing about Ryan. I
Speaker 1: I Ryan gave you everything that he could to be
Speaker 1: the best he could be, and it didn't work out
Speaker 1: for him. It didn't work out for the franchise. And
Speaker 1: I wish him, wish him the best. Echo that you know,
Speaker 1: great guy, great competitor. Uh needed probably a new a
Speaker 1: new scenery, he needed new scenery, a new change for him.
Speaker 1: And he gets an opportunity to go in as a backup. Now,
Speaker 1: So there's there's an opportunity for him in Tennessee and
Speaker 1: it it helps out not only the Titans, but it
Speaker 1: helps out the Dolphins as well. In the long run,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into some of that stuff. I think
Speaker 1: we got, uh. I think Ryan Fitzpatrick, Dolfin's new quarterback
Speaker 1: speaking of coming and going, I think he's gonna join
Speaker 1: us here. So let's let's go ahead and pick him up.
Speaker 1: All right for joining us now, the new Miami Dolphin quarterback,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick. And uh right, first of all, welcome to
Speaker 1: Miami and uh, just just your thoughts and and and
Speaker 1: and what take us through the process of that got
Speaker 1: you here to Miami and this opportunity you've got to
Speaker 1: uh to be the quarterback of this football team. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm excited. I'm excited to come. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the good thing for me when I started
Speaker 1: getting calls kind of in a second way the free agency, Um,
Speaker 1: this was an opportunity I'll tell I couldn't pass up.
Speaker 1: And in terms of, you know, one of those thirty
Speaker 1: two jobs to be a starting quarterback and the leaguing
Speaker 1: intall football team, and that was the appeal to me.
Speaker 1: It was kind of the one job that was left
Speaker 1: and um, so that that part of it made me
Speaker 1: really excited. And then you know, I know three guys
Speaker 1: already pretty well that I've worked with before on staff
Speaker 1: and get the Meat, Coach Flow and uh so many
Speaker 1: other guys on staff that just got me excited. You
Speaker 1: know what they're trying to build and obviously a winning
Speaker 1: culture that Coach Flow has been around for a long time.
Speaker 1: Use all that stuff really added up to me wanting
Speaker 1: to come and for me to be real excited about it. Right,
Speaker 1: you come in the league as a seventh round draft
Speaker 1: choice and here you are fourteen years in. Did you
Speaker 1: ever think that when when you when you heard your
Speaker 1: name called or when you got drafted, that uh, that
Speaker 1: fourteen years later you're still gonna be uh working in
Speaker 1: this business and working in this league. No. I think
Speaker 1: when I got drafted in two thousand five and was
Speaker 1: sitting there in training camp as the fourth stringer behind
Speaker 1: Death Smoker at a Michigan State, I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: think I'd even make it one here. So uh, I've
Speaker 1: done an amazing ride for me and for my family,
Speaker 1: and we've met so many good people along the way. Um,
Speaker 1: but I've I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it so much.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna continue to play until. Well, it looks
Speaker 1: like Ryan, it looks like you've enjoyed it, especially the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. You know, listening to you talk
Speaker 1: to the local media. Uh, you said that physically, number one,
Speaker 1: you feel great, which is always good with a quarterback
Speaker 1: coming into his fifteenth season. But the last two years
Speaker 1: you mentioned that energized you, and you could tell by
Speaker 1: your your stats and the way you've thrown the football.
Speaker 1: I mean, four hundred yards and four of your seven
Speaker 1: starts at least four hundred yards and four of your
Speaker 1: seven starts in two thousand eighteen. Uh, what what's what's
Speaker 1: it like at at a guy with a lot of
Speaker 1: experience around a lot of young guys. Does that energize you?
Speaker 1: Or is it energize you that you feel so good
Speaker 1: that you can perform at the level you're you're expecting
Speaker 1: of yourself. I think part of it is the youthful
Speaker 1: energy being around you guys that are closer in age
Speaker 1: to my kids and me and Uh, but part of
Speaker 1: it is just the joy love for the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love being out there, and you know, really, I
Speaker 1: think since you know, when I left Buffalo UM after
Speaker 1: the twelve season and my career was kind of in
Speaker 1: limbo and that I didn't know, you know, where we
Speaker 1: go from there. Signed in Tennessee and then when I
Speaker 1: got the chance to be to start on Houston, and
Speaker 1: that kind of jump started me and and put me
Speaker 1: on I think a better path maybe the second career
Speaker 1: for me in terms of being able to sustain some
Speaker 1: success and had some success in New York, especially that
Speaker 1: fifteen year. And I think, you know, those last five
Speaker 1: years Pampa, in Houston and New York, I've been playing
Speaker 1: the best football my career. So I'm excited to continue
Speaker 1: to do it. And i just love playing the game.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that you're excited about getting into the
Speaker 1: building and getting into the offense. You've seen and been
Speaker 1: exposed to probably just about every offense you can imagine
Speaker 1: through your career in college in the NFL. About having
Speaker 1: some input and seeing what's going to be on the
Speaker 1: table and and really getting to learn your teammates, I
Speaker 1: would think, yeah, that's the that's the most exciting part
Speaker 1: for me, is just being able to the launch room,
Speaker 1: sit down to guys, you know, getting known on coaching
Speaker 1: the level and then you know, working together and trying
Speaker 1: to take the things out on the field. Those relationships
Speaker 1: are you know, and with the with the coaches as well.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that that I really enjoy
Speaker 1: and in the off season, things that you can really
Speaker 1: build upon, build strong foundation. So the XS and oes
Speaker 1: are what they are. You know, to have been in
Speaker 1: a similar system at Easton what everybody does it a
Speaker 1: little bit differently, So it'll be fun to kind of
Speaker 1: grow together and learning the system as we go here
Speaker 1: from bottomout. But I'm just excited out there and like
Speaker 1: I said, get getting that lunch room and just hang
Speaker 1: out with the guys and get it all a little bit.
Speaker 1: And you you mentioned that there's a couple of guys
Speaker 1: on the on the Dolphin staff that you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at you. You you've been here for fourteen years
Speaker 1: in this league. You've been in seven different teams. Is
Speaker 1: there anybody in this league that you don't know? I mean,
Speaker 1: with with the way with the way players and coaches
Speaker 1: come and go, I would assume that your knowledge of
Speaker 1: or know or the people that you know in this
Speaker 1: league is a pretty it's a pretty thick, uh, pretty
Speaker 1: pretty thick address book if you will, Yeah, you're, I mean,
Speaker 1: you definitely lie on that. And the last few teams
Speaker 1: I've been on of have kind of you know, I've
Speaker 1: run into guys from previous length experiences that, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: one I had. I was with him in Buffalo and
Speaker 1: called the well, as with him in New York, bord
Speaker 1: god as between in Houston. So there's there's different guys
Speaker 1: along the way, But yeah, I think it's it's collective
Speaker 1: all at this point. And how do it help you
Speaker 1: coming into a situation? Look, you you've you've come into
Speaker 1: situations seven times prior to this. But how much does
Speaker 1: it help when you walk in and you see familiar faces,
Speaker 1: whether it's from a coaching staff standpoint, whether it's from
Speaker 1: a front office standpoint, or certainly from a from a
Speaker 1: player's standpoint, a teammate standpoint. Well, I think it helps.
Speaker 1: It helps a little bit. But uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: always think when I got a new place, I was
Speaker 1: thinking about my kids. They think about my oldest son.
Speaker 1: It's well now and every time we pick up the move,
Speaker 1: you know that that first day of school for him
Speaker 1: walking in and not knowing anybody, and it's that's still
Speaker 1: even though I know if you gotta get a little
Speaker 1: bit like that. For me, I'm not familiar with a
Speaker 1: lot of the players on the team, and so you
Speaker 1: still have those first age utters when you're walking into
Speaker 1: your the middle school or high school and not a
Speaker 1: lot of people. So, um, you know, I actually I
Speaker 1: love the way that he approaches it. And and here's
Speaker 1: a monstail, that's that's kind of way what I do
Speaker 1: is well, I kind of learned the rom been around
Speaker 1: so much. Ryan. How's the game changed for you personally
Speaker 1: since you came into the game learning the game the
Speaker 1: NFL game as a quarterback compared to now mentally physically?
Speaker 1: With rule changes, has it changed a lot the way
Speaker 1: you play the position? I mean, the the game has
Speaker 1: changed with some of them, some of the rule changes,
Speaker 1: um and and look, I think I think a lot
Speaker 1: of the most of it, especially stuff that goes in
Speaker 1: line with players safety, has been changed for the better.
Speaker 1: Uh being said, you know, some of those head shots
Speaker 1: and knockout shops that have been taken out of the
Speaker 1: game completely, and it opened up the mod the field
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think I think that's definitely the case. Um,
Speaker 1: but look when when they have the player's safety uh
Speaker 1: in the you know, they're keeping players on the fields
Speaker 1: in the best interest of everybody before the game. It
Speaker 1: just makes every better. And so um that the rule
Speaker 1: change a little bit, you know, and then obviously some
Speaker 1: of the other stuff. There's been a lot s you
Speaker 1: know over time, we were changes and things like that
Speaker 1: that has kind of changed the structure and strategy of
Speaker 1: the game a little bit in general. You know, we
Speaker 1: keep playing the games evolving and every one of the
Speaker 1: areas or anything. Also, let me watched teams going the
Speaker 1: last years into sequel Bowl. We you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of some of their stuff they're going was in twenty
Speaker 1: one personnel with the fullback on the field, which which
Speaker 1: was that you know. And so the more the more
Speaker 1: things that change, uh, you know, the more things that
Speaker 1: are also gonna go back and do the same. It's
Speaker 1: just ever evolving thing and you kind of end up
Speaker 1: where you started because there's a simplicity this game, um
Speaker 1: in a parading this game that I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: ever really change. And you know, at the heart of that,
Speaker 1: you still gotta be able to stop the offense and
Speaker 1: on offense, You still gotta be able to run the
Speaker 1: ball or they think that change. Yeah, you know what, tackling, blocking,
Speaker 1: all those simple things in football you still have to
Speaker 1: do and and until you do that at a high level, uh,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna win on a consistent basis. I know,
Speaker 1: I heard you talking to the local media, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was really impactful for me to hear you say,
Speaker 1: you know, there's only thirty two of these jobs, and
Speaker 1: I had other opportunities. They had other guys penciled in,
Speaker 1: but this was an opportunity for me to go out
Speaker 1: and compete and be able to be the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Did that stoke your fire a little bit? Did that
Speaker 1: kind of pump your chest out a little bit to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is the right opportunity. I'm playing
Speaker 1: at a high level right now. I have experience, and
Speaker 1: I feel like this is the right opportunity to join
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think I think
Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys that that appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if there's there's many guys that
Speaker 1: appreciate it as much as I do. You know, in
Speaker 1: terms of having around as much as I have Um,
Speaker 1: that the game you've got done through in my career.
Speaker 1: To be able to you know, step out uh that
Speaker 1: opening a can and and be the starter in one
Speaker 1: of the thirty two starters at quarterback for and Altaine
Speaker 1: is such a special honor and special extension. Um. That's
Speaker 1: not that's not something that I'd take lightly, you know.
Speaker 1: And so to be able to give um, to be
Speaker 1: given an opportune to at least compete for that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know I was, I was really uh and excited
Speaker 1: to join Lanny. You know, you've traveled around a lot,
Speaker 1: and you had the opportunity to spend some time up
Speaker 1: in Boston while you're at Harvard, and while you're up there,
Speaker 1: somehow you got tied in with the Celtics and read
Speaker 1: our buck. Can you take us through that story a
Speaker 1: little bit, which had to be pretty you know, of
Speaker 1: of of the things that have gone on in people's lives,
Speaker 1: there's there's always those things that really stick out when
Speaker 1: you've met somebody or some icon or whatever that you
Speaker 1: had that opportunity, and you know, for me be kind
Speaker 1: of been a long time Celtics fan and to meet
Speaker 1: the guy with a big cigar had to be pretty
Speaker 1: fun for you. Yeah, that that was that was pretty
Speaker 1: that was running up there for me. So I when
Speaker 1: I was growing up in cover to Arizona, my high
Speaker 1: school basketball team had a couple of guys with the
Speaker 1: last name of Age Austin and Tanner Ange or Danny
Speaker 1: Danny Ainge, you boys, um, and Austin was a year
Speaker 1: older and Tenner was a year younger, and so I
Speaker 1: played with them, and uh, we're on the high school
Speaker 1: basketball team together, um, and so I got to know
Speaker 1: their family a little bit. When I was out at
Speaker 1: Harvard UM. It was between my sophomore and junior or
Speaker 1: junior and senior year, I interned for the Celtics. You know.
Speaker 1: I called Danny and asked him if I could help
Speaker 1: out in any way, And so part of it was
Speaker 1: picking guys up from the airport and you know, shuttling
Speaker 1: players to work out some things. But one day I
Speaker 1: was sitting in the UH in their basketball offices and
Speaker 1: I just smell cigars smoke, and everybody knew what that
Speaker 1: men And it was my first experience with it. But
Speaker 1: exactly man and the red was in the building and
Speaker 1: I got to go pick up a prescription for him
Speaker 1: and bring it back, so I felt I felt pretty special.
Speaker 1: Could be able to do that? Sounds good? Hey? Were
Speaker 1: the Angel Boys any good? Or or could you take
Speaker 1: you take them down in a game of horse pretty easily?
Speaker 1: Or what I'll tell you? Austin Austin, And I think
Speaker 1: he for the Celtics out but least single hand. And
Speaker 1: he brought the Highland Hawks to the state champion year.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Tanner, I had that whole age
Speaker 1: thing on. So, uh, he could definitely shoot better than
Speaker 1: I could. But you know, I could probably outfitsical and
Speaker 1: down low as long as long as the Highland Hawks
Speaker 1: got in what state championship? You got something to boast
Speaker 1: about the rest of your life? Right, Hey, Ryan, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us. I know it's been a busy day
Speaker 1: for you and we look forward to seeing you out here.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Miami, and uh, let's go out and have
Speaker 1: some fun this year. Okay, thanks, I appreciate it. Thanks right,
Speaker 1: Not Ryan Fitzpatrick Dolphin's new uh starting quarterback John and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, not nice to have nice to have a
Speaker 1: guy like that come in, a guy that look certainly
Speaker 1: understands this league he's been and you know, you look
Speaker 1: at it and when I look back at Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: you know that guy's had some really you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, four or four hundred yard games, or he
Speaker 1: has eight career touchdowns of fifty yards. Well, he guys
Speaker 1: got thirty passing yards, got a are ninety touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: I've seen him. You know the thing when I when
Speaker 1: I think of Ryan Fitzpatrick, I think a guy that's
Speaker 1: either really good or or or you know, kind of
Speaker 1: in that mid tier. I'm not gonna say horrible, but
Speaker 1: you know, he he you know what I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this last night. He he to me, is very
Speaker 1: similar to I think he's a step up Matt Moore guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a gun slinger. Yes, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna do whatever it takes to win a football game. Hey,
Speaker 1: some days he's gonna throw three interceptions and you might
Speaker 1: be on the losing end, but he's gonna try to
Speaker 1: throw the fourth one. You know, he's gonna get He's
Speaker 1: gonna try to go out and fit the football into
Speaker 1: a tight window to try to make your team score
Speaker 1: points to get into the end zone. And then some
Speaker 1: games it's gonna work out really well for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I would think down the road. So and we've seen
Speaker 1: that throughout his career. When you're in a good team
Speaker 1: and a good environment, things are going on on a roll.
Speaker 1: I mean, he started last year with Tampa Bay. It
Speaker 1: was an unbelievable start to the season. And then you know,
Speaker 1: Jamis came back from suspension, he got another shot, turned
Speaker 1: it over a couple of times, and then you know,
Speaker 1: Jamie's got the job back. But it's exactly the way
Speaker 1: he wanted to start the season. And I think that
Speaker 1: adds to his fire, that adds to his competitiveness of
Speaker 1: wanting another opportunity at this point, in this stage of
Speaker 1: his career to get back out and prove it. Hey,
Speaker 1: that wasn't a fluke. I'm playing my best ball right
Speaker 1: now as a fourteen year veteran going into my fifteenth season,
Speaker 1: and I want another opportunity, another chance to prove it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I think I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of people talk to, you know, prior to his signing,
Speaker 1: what a they gonna do with the quarterback? Because everyone
Speaker 1: everyone knew Ryan, you know, every new one everyone knew
Speaker 1: Ryan was was was out the door, and you had
Speaker 1: a couple of young guys you had five attempts out
Speaker 1: there on your roster, and you're going, who's gonna be
Speaker 1: the quarterback? And I said, look, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know who it's gonna be, but I can guarante
Speaker 1: guarantee this before they go to the draft. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have some vep some guy who's got some some pelts
Speaker 1: on his on his belt there he's gonna come in
Speaker 1: and that can come in understands the NFL. And right now, look,
Speaker 1: is is Ryan Fitzpatricks gonna win ten twelve games? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Is he gonna win three or four games?
Speaker 1: I don't know, But I know this. I feel more
Speaker 1: comfortable going into this season, going into the draft with
Speaker 1: this ross right now, knowing that you've got a veteran
Speaker 1: quarterback that's put up number thirty thousand yards a hundred
Speaker 1: ninety touchdowns and that can play, And yeah, is it
Speaker 1: gonna be? Is he gonna be up and down his
Speaker 1: whole career as as most quarterbacks are around the National
Speaker 1: Football League in their whole career? Uh? But you know,
Speaker 1: I think we can feel comfortable going in with him
Speaker 1: and then seeing where the chips fall beyond the draft,
Speaker 1: when Chris Career started this search for a guy with experience,
Speaker 1: for veteran leadership, for a guy that's played and had
Speaker 1: snaps in the NFL. You know you started with Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: The rumors were out there. He decides to go and
Speaker 1: be a backup and get paid handsomely to do so.
Speaker 1: Then it was Teddy Bridgewater, a hometown talent. You think
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back to the Miami Dolphins. You make
Speaker 1: a very competitive offer, but Teddy feels like his future
Speaker 1: might be better backing up Drew Brees and going in
Speaker 1: and and getting seven and a half million guaranteed without
Speaker 1: having to play a snap next year. Maybe it it
Speaker 1: helps him become healthier, you know, than he is right now,
Speaker 1: give him another year to get feeling good about what
Speaker 1: he wants to do. But I think Ryan Fitzpatrick was
Speaker 1: in a situation where he mentioned it, there's only thirty
Speaker 1: two of these jobs, and I want one of them,
Speaker 1: and I don't care where it's at. Give me an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Let me go to uh bring my talents with a
Speaker 1: skill set. With guys, you can throw a four yard
Speaker 1: past two, make somebody miss, and turn it into a
Speaker 1: forty yard touchdown. He has that ability on this roster.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the offense is gonna look like
Speaker 1: in terms of schematically with with new philosophy, new new
Speaker 1: staff in defensively, you hope it improves offensively. You hope
Speaker 1: you get out of the doldrums of the red zone problems.
Speaker 1: You hope you you get rid of the pre snap penalties.
Speaker 1: You hope you get rid of a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff that holds you back other than next is and ohs.
Speaker 1: But with a veteran guy like Ryan Fitzpatrick, at least
Speaker 1: you feel like you've got a guy that's seen just
Speaker 1: about everything in the National Football League can throw at.
Speaker 1: You don't gonna surprise him. And look, you're you're on
Speaker 1: a team for you're one two three teams for a
Speaker 1: year or so. You better learn offense as quickly. And
Speaker 1: it looks curtly guy doesn't go to Harvard with being
Speaker 1: a knucklehead, I mean and so, and he's shown the
Speaker 1: ability to to to get in and and take over.
Speaker 1: So um, feel better about the quarterback spot right now,
Speaker 1: But uh, look there's still a lot and we're we've
Speaker 1: kind of talked to before talking he came out he
Speaker 1: had no, no doubt about, there's gonna be someone else
Speaker 1: in this roster, on this roster that wants to take
Speaker 1: that one of those thirty two jobs and make it
Speaker 1: his own. Going in, let's kind of get back to
Speaker 1: where we were kind of talking. We're just talking about
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill and and and you're wishing him the best
Speaker 1: of luck and uh in Tennessee. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's gonna get a chance of
Speaker 1: battle there. I would think that Mariota is the guy,
Speaker 1: but he's been injured, He's had his ups and downs.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be an opportunity for for Ryan
Speaker 1: to play and and and and I wish him, like
Speaker 1: I said, I wish him nothing but the best he's
Speaker 1: he gave. He gave this, he gave this franchise every
Speaker 1: you'd ask, kept his nose clean. Never you know, never
Speaker 1: never heard anything problem. Neverber was a problem. And just
Speaker 1: so you know, which it's a good situation for him too.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, you know, Mariota up and down with injuries.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill has been up and down over the last
Speaker 1: three years with injuries. But if you're gonna find a
Speaker 1: guy with the experience of of Oryan Tannehill going into
Speaker 1: a situation where you have to bridge for a quarter,
Speaker 1: two quarters a game, two or three games. He has
Speaker 1: to do it, and you know he'll probably have the
Speaker 1: horses to do it in Tennessee, no doubt. Also with
Speaker 1: Cam Wake, another guy ten years here with his football team,
Speaker 1: did some remarkable things. Kid comes out of undrafted, out
Speaker 1: of Penn State. He ends up working in the working
Speaker 1: in hardware stores or whatever, goes up to Canada, comes
Speaker 1: down here and turns into a you know, a borderline
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame guy for you uh and a guy
Speaker 1: that really meant a lot to this organization with his
Speaker 1: sacks and and just you know, he was a leader
Speaker 1: on this football You know, he's a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: everyone looked for from a standpoint of enthusiasm and and
Speaker 1: get you going. And another guy that again goes up
Speaker 1: to Tennessee. Continuous career and I know this, you know, Cam, Cam,
Speaker 1: Cam give everything. I think the last I think the
Speaker 1: last year and a half, kind of playing on one
Speaker 1: leg a little bit. You know, I'd watched Cam these
Speaker 1: last last two years and still still a hard a
Speaker 1: tough guy to block. But but I think some of
Speaker 1: his lateral movement kind of escaped him with some of
Speaker 1: those knee issues, and he became a kind of a
Speaker 1: bull rusher and still had his sacks. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I I you know, just not the same guy that
Speaker 1: that he was. And I can understand the Dolphins moving forward,
Speaker 1: but again wish him the best of Danny Amendola comes
Speaker 1: in and spends a good year here and I was
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised by by that move, and but
Speaker 1: it kind of tells you of these things are money
Speaker 1: and a lot of that stuff. I think with Danny
Speaker 1: amnd Dola give you the experience you needed in the
Speaker 1: slot receiver. Tough catches, can catch punts, reliable, all the
Speaker 1: things that at that time Adam Gates was looking for
Speaker 1: in a slot receive. We're in a punt returner. And
Speaker 1: you know, he probably I think he was four point
Speaker 1: five million he signed for Detroit, So you know, he'll
Speaker 1: get that money back that he probably would have lost
Speaker 1: in bonuses, I'm sure, But for right now, the Miami Dolphins, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's too much for for that type of player. And
Speaker 1: he and he lead the team and catches Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: you know Frank Gore uh, you know, he picks up
Speaker 1: and moves on to other things, and boll, I tell
Speaker 1: you what a breath of fresh year he was. He's awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome guy to be around, great team make, great locker
Speaker 1: room guy, great, great example to to everybody out there,
Speaker 1: whether you were running back or a or a defensive back.
Speaker 1: I mean the example that he set for you, I
Speaker 1: think really stimulated a lot of guys in this franchise.
Speaker 1: And what a combo with Shandy McCoy. Now we're gonna
Speaker 1: see him twice a year. So you look at Frank.
Speaker 1: You know, Frank had was seven hundred some odd yards
Speaker 1: missed the last what or two games, And you know
Speaker 1: a guy was he was. He was pretty close to
Speaker 1: being a thousand yard guy for being a part time back.
Speaker 1: And um so he had much more than I ever
Speaker 1: thought Frank Gore would do Last year. I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought Frank was gonna be a lot more of a
Speaker 1: spot spot player, but a guy that was gonna be
Speaker 1: in that weight room and in that locker room teaching
Speaker 1: guys how to be a pro. And he certainly did
Speaker 1: that on the field, and much more as a guy
Speaker 1: and and and just a fun guy to have. So
Speaker 1: I hate to see I hate to see Frank go,
Speaker 1: but you know, it is what it is. Joan James
Speaker 1: looked like Joan was gonna hang around for a while.
Speaker 1: It looked like for a while there they were gonna
Speaker 1: do what they could to try to keep him here.
Speaker 1: And then once you go to free agency, you know,
Speaker 1: once once you walk out that door to free agency,
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. You know, the grass
Speaker 1: is always greener, you know, in that situation most of
Speaker 1: the times. And there's someone on the other side of
Speaker 1: the grass is willing to pay you more money. And
Speaker 1: and they jumped up with it, and more than the
Speaker 1: Dolphins wanted to pay. And so John James is gone. Uh.
Speaker 1: Ted Larson was let go, Josh Sitton let go. And
Speaker 1: it looks like Robert Quinn is a guy that even
Speaker 1: they paid him that million dollar million half roster bonus. Um.
Speaker 1: I know he was shopping around with the Cowboys a
Speaker 1: little bit, Dolphins kind of shopping him. Uh don't see
Speaker 1: him coming back. And I like Robert, but you know,
Speaker 1: the more I watched of Robert Quinn, the more I
Speaker 1: could see that he was a bit of a liability.
Speaker 1: When it came to a couple of things. One run,
Speaker 1: you know, I I think he was a very wasn't
Speaker 1: a very disciplined guy playing against a run. He would
Speaker 1: freelance a lot. And then I think to also on
Speaker 1: on on, you know, in in pass wresting situation. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you gotta contain, you gotta contain one spin
Speaker 1: inside and and and and and then have that guy
Speaker 1: break contain and and and you know, and and so
Speaker 1: flashy guy made, you know, put some pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I think I think his liabilities were probably equal
Speaker 1: to to what he gave you on a you know,
Speaker 1: On a positive side, I don't expect Robert Quinn to
Speaker 1: be on the roster come opening day with with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and as you said, he maybe the rumors
Speaker 1: out there trading, you know, to the Cowboys, and it
Speaker 1: might be much like a Ryan Tanniel situation where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins may have to pick up some of that salary
Speaker 1: or in some capacity to to have Robert Quinn be
Speaker 1: a member of another team. I love the effort, love
Speaker 1: the way he played football, but as you said, at
Speaker 1: some point, I think on this new scheme of defense,
Speaker 1: you have to have a lot of versatility to go
Speaker 1: from a four three three four, And I kind of
Speaker 1: think that was where he ran out of time in
Speaker 1: l A when they when they made some changes with
Speaker 1: their defense and being able to be more discipline, as
Speaker 1: you said, being able to wear multiple hats is that
Speaker 1: defensive end. Uh So, so Robert Quinn may may find
Speaker 1: greener pastors. Look and I think in this defensive scheme
Speaker 1: and look where we speculate, we're speculating on this defensive
Speaker 1: scheme that's gonna be some kind of a hybrid hybrid
Speaker 1: three four four three. I think you're gonna see times
Speaker 1: when where you're gonna have the line and you don't
Speaker 1: know who's coming, You're gonna do a lot of those things.
Speaker 1: But but if you're gonna do those things, you know,
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator has to know that those eleven guys
Speaker 1: out are going to do and be where they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be, not see something and go I can I
Speaker 1: might be able to make a big play here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go that way, and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: you're the guy that leaves the door open for everybody.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I think Quinn, Robert was
Speaker 1: I think he was a little bit of a freelance
Speaker 1: guy and and liked the guy, liked him on the team.
Speaker 1: But you know, so he's don't don't expect him back.
Speaker 1: The one guy that that the one guy think of
Speaker 1: of the word you know, of of what we've gone
Speaker 1: through so far with free agency, that surprised me was
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker. You know, here's a guy, that boy, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, you from a from a standpoint of what
Speaker 1: he could be at such a high level. But the
Speaker 1: frustration of him not ever really getting there. I think
Speaker 1: that weighed to me, weighed a lot in the organization.
Speaker 1: But obviously Chris greer Uh and Brian Flores feel like
Speaker 1: he's a guy that maybe they can be the guys
Speaker 1: that that get him to that level. You know, I
Speaker 1: expected it last year, you know I I I thought
Speaker 1: last year the writing was on the wall for DeVante today,
Speaker 1: put up or shut up. This is it. We've we've
Speaker 1: talked about it, We've worked with you. You've had injury problems,
Speaker 1: you had this and that, and you've had some effort problems.
Speaker 1: Um and so I think I think everybody for the
Speaker 1: most part, thought they're gonna get rid of a salary,
Speaker 1: let him go on and and and you know, and
Speaker 1: go wherever he goes. But they resigned him, and and
Speaker 1: and that tells you that To me, it tells you
Speaker 1: that you know, he had to be taking less, take
Speaker 1: a little less money. You took some money away from him,
Speaker 1: which which you know, if that doesn't motivate you in
Speaker 1: this league, then I don't know what does. But it
Speaker 1: also but also I think it sends a message from
Speaker 1: Chris Grey and Brian Flores that hey, we we believe
Speaker 1: in you. We believe and you, we believe they're still
Speaker 1: more in the tank, and we think we can get
Speaker 1: you there. And I think it's a good deal for
Speaker 1: both sides. You know, you take a look at DeVante Parker.
Speaker 1: He probably you know, wanted to be more available to
Speaker 1: do more for the Miami Dolphins over his tenure here. Uh,
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries as you mentioned, a lot of
Speaker 1: knicks and that you know didn't make him always go
Speaker 1: one in terms of being able to be reliable and
Speaker 1: where you're supposed to be. And on the other side,
Speaker 1: you know, the Dolphins said, we're not gonna pick up
Speaker 1: that option. We're gonna rewrite a contract. I mean, give
Speaker 1: you four point five. This is really a one year deal.
Speaker 1: This is approve it now. Now that now it's approve
Speaker 1: it deals because they're out of of two thousand and
Speaker 1: twenty if it doesn't happen in two thousand nineteen. So
Speaker 1: there there's an opportunity on both sides. One for the
Speaker 1: player in terms of DeVante Parker showing his value on
Speaker 1: a sixteen game schedule, and hopefully it's more to be
Speaker 1: able to be reliable and one of those traits you
Speaker 1: have to be as healthy and be on the field.
Speaker 1: And for the Miami Dolphins, it's it's one year. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll see what you got, what you give us, and
Speaker 1: if not, we'll move on at the appropriate time, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And then look, I wouldn't be surprised if they see
Speaker 1: him in training camp and they're not getting it and
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, the gate, we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 1: now you hope the best because you've seen at his best.
Speaker 1: You've seen it and you go, wow, we're that that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Why can't that be a regular occurrence? Yeah, and look
Speaker 1: and we've seen him at that level and you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is you know, so we'll see on the other side,
Speaker 1: you know those are those are the deletions other than
Speaker 1: than DeVante there. But you look at the coming the
Speaker 1: guys coming in and it's funny because you know, you
Speaker 1: go out and you get Dwayne Allen, uh a tight end.
Speaker 1: We talked to him last week on the program, and
Speaker 1: then you got Clive Walford, and boy, I tell you
Speaker 1: if that doesn't, if that doesn't raise a neon sign
Speaker 1: to the other four that are in that in that
Speaker 1: meeting room, you know, and you you talk about Gasecki
Speaker 1: and Durham Smith in particular, two guys were drafted at
Speaker 1: pretty high, pretty high level last year. They were expected
Speaker 1: to do things. If if that doesn't tell you that, hey,
Speaker 1: they're not real happy we're bringing these guys in that
Speaker 1: you better find some way, some way to you know,
Speaker 1: if you want your career to be career, you might
Speaker 1: you need to find a way to to realize what's
Speaker 1: expected of you, what's demanded of you, and what you
Speaker 1: need to do to make the impact on this football team.
Speaker 1: You just look at the way New England played with
Speaker 1: Duyne Allen. You know, all the balls in the passing
Speaker 1: game went to Gronkowski and Duyne Allen what he catch
Speaker 1: three pass work. He did all all the dirty work,
Speaker 1: all the blocking all and really did a good job
Speaker 1: against defensive ends, against linebackers, whatever he was asked to
Speaker 1: do in the run game. You know that that was
Speaker 1: a big part of what the Patriots did on the
Speaker 1: ground was being able to have that balance when they
Speaker 1: needed to and rely on the run game. So now
Speaker 1: you you cup compliment that with Clyde Walford, who's really
Speaker 1: uh speed and strength guy to the outside that can
Speaker 1: run routes. That it gives you a big catch radius
Speaker 1: that can do a lot of things in the past game.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a really good combination and it
Speaker 1: throws caution, you know, to everybody else that's in that
Speaker 1: tight end meeting room that Eric Rowe comes in cornerback,
Speaker 1: and and and two young guys are Aaron Eric Rowe
Speaker 1: comes in and then Chris Read the offensive lineman, the
Speaker 1: Jackson Jacksonville can play just about every position on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, starting the interior, all three interior positions for you.
Speaker 1: And the thing I like about those guys, you know
Speaker 1: that they're not five six seven year guys, have been
Speaker 1: the league for three years type guy. He's still got
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of meat on the bone there,
Speaker 1: especially from Eric Rowan. John. I watched the uh the
Speaker 1: little you did with him, and it showed a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, it showed a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know what, you know what, you
Speaker 1: know what I took out of that, John. I don't
Speaker 1: know if if you guys haven't seen it, you can
Speaker 1: see it. I go to Dolphins dot com and and
Speaker 1: see it. Um is you know, you talk about him
Speaker 1: lining up in a in an outside technique and in
Speaker 1: the back, you know, and then the receiver comes in,
Speaker 1: so he's got to take it. But and then you know,
Speaker 1: and he replaces back to them. And to me that
Speaker 1: that goes back to what we talked about when when
Speaker 1: Brian Flores came in discipline being where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: If you got outside technique, take outside technique and you
Speaker 1: see it, and you know, not only do you see
Speaker 1: his ability to run and to run and tackle, to
Speaker 1: to to cover the ball, to to to to play
Speaker 1: off against the ball, but to play the details of
Speaker 1: the of the defense which has made New England what
Speaker 1: they are, both on both sides of the football. So
Speaker 1: you see a little more of that kind of creep
Speaker 1: and into this dolphin organization. And for me, the more
Speaker 1: of that that we see, um, I think that the
Speaker 1: better it is for us. Well, I think it shows
Speaker 1: a lot from this guy was their third corner, competed
Speaker 1: to be the second corner. Uh was able to run
Speaker 1: with white outs on the perimeter. Tough has good size
Speaker 1: at six one two oh five, can come up and
Speaker 1: tackle at or behind the line of scrimmage, and he
Speaker 1: can turn and run and he and he played with discipline,
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably most important. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for a guy opposite of Xavian Howard that's going to
Speaker 1: get not a whole lot of attention the way he's
Speaker 1: played over the last year and a half. The other
Speaker 1: side is so you have to have dependability. You have
Speaker 1: to have a guy in the right spot, not guessing,
Speaker 1: being able to be really good against the run, but
Speaker 1: more most importantly, be able to run and cover. So
Speaker 1: you've got a guy now with a chance, and Eric
Speaker 1: rode to do that. And I like to, you know,
Speaker 1: I like what you talked about with Eric is the
Speaker 1: uh uh the patients, you know, patients to you know
Speaker 1: it it's it's so sometimes sometimes it's some most difficult
Speaker 1: thing in that game to be is patients. Be patient
Speaker 1: because things happen fast, and things happen in a in
Speaker 1: a Floria things. You know, you're you got your thing here,
Speaker 1: but meanwhile there's ten other, ten other you know. I
Speaker 1: always say, it's like it's like it's eleven individual skirmish
Speaker 1: on every play. And so you've gotta be able to
Speaker 1: know when to I gotta stay away from that. Let me,
Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta be in my place,
Speaker 1: I gotta. And sometimes that takes that patience of you know,
Speaker 1: let me see where this guy's gonna go, when he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up, and and you know all these types
Speaker 1: of things that come along with it. So I thought
Speaker 1: that was a nice a nice little a little picture,
Speaker 1: a little snapshot of who he is, one type of
Speaker 1: player he is, and where he fits in to this organization.
Speaker 1: And one thing I like about these Walford Alan Erico
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick read, all these guys that they're bringing in to
Speaker 1: me are all fundamentally sound, solid players that can come in,
Speaker 1: step in and help your football team. They're not the
Speaker 1: big name free agents, they're not the guys, but but
Speaker 1: it puts the Dolphins both in a fiscally sound position
Speaker 1: while adding players to the roster that are gonna that
Speaker 1: are going to bring stability and I think going I
Speaker 1: think to me going forward with this team John this year,
Speaker 1: stability and being smart are probably the two things that
Speaker 1: need to be accomplished most in my eyes. Well, the
Speaker 1: good thing, too, Bow is to add to your point,
Speaker 1: coaches on his staff have had experience with a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys that we brought in. Chris Reid, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he played for Pat Flattery up in up
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville for a few years. Ryan Fitzpatrick, he talked
Speaker 1: about George Gotzy being with him and a couple other
Speaker 1: coaches on his staff and being under Bill O'Brien with
Speaker 1: the Texans. A lot of that synergy and a lot
Speaker 1: of that uh you know, offense that you're gonna see
Speaker 1: installed here for the Dolphins gonna have the same terminology.
Speaker 1: Eric Row you know, he he played for the head
Speaker 1: coach up there. He played for the defensive pass specialist
Speaker 1: and Josh Boyer. You know, there's a lot of synergy
Speaker 1: in terms of having experience with these guys, so they're
Speaker 1: not gonna come in walk in the first day without
Speaker 1: the expectation of knowing what he is expected of each
Speaker 1: individual on this call and this defense, on this offense,
Speaker 1: and and overall how you handle yourself and how you
Speaker 1: go about your business and within the building and on
Speaker 1: the practice field. So there's a lot of good things
Speaker 1: about knowing the player and the player knowing the coach
Speaker 1: and the coach reverse knowing the plane. And look, if
Speaker 1: you're if you're a guy in this football team, or
Speaker 1: whether you're a player or whether you're a coach on
Speaker 1: this football team, and you've got all these people players
Speaker 1: coaches coming in from that New England franchise, you know
Speaker 1: you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't pull him
Speaker 1: aside at some point and getting there, Hey, how did
Speaker 1: you guys do this in New England? What what made
Speaker 1: you guys special New England? And for a guy like
Speaker 1: that to come in that knows the defense, that that
Speaker 1: they know him, that can talk to X, that X
Speaker 1: can say, hey, how did you guys? What are you
Speaker 1: know to me? There's that factor too, I think, or
Speaker 1: bring along that knowledge, bring along and look, there there
Speaker 1: been we've we've look, we've talked about it for a
Speaker 1: number of years here everybody else talking culture, environment, whatever where,
Speaker 1: whatever spin you want to put on it. You know,
Speaker 1: your your your locker room has to be a locker
Speaker 1: room that that guys want to play for each other,
Speaker 1: that doesn't have in fighting and I think bringing these
Speaker 1: guys in and that influence. Look there, there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be times during the course of a year, you're in
Speaker 1: there with these guys every day all day. You know
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna be skirmishes, and there's gonna be guys
Speaker 1: you know, MF and this guy and that guy. But
Speaker 1: but when But that's that's all well and good as
Speaker 1: long as when you get together on Sunday, it's every man.
Speaker 1: Every man has got every other man's back. Everyone's in
Speaker 1: the same fox all together, and I'm gonna cover you,
Speaker 1: whether I like you or not, I'm gonna cover you
Speaker 1: as as if you were my own, my own son
Speaker 1: or daughter. And most importantly, sometimes Bo, those guys that
Speaker 1: are out playing have to have the respect of the
Speaker 1: head coach and those coordinators and those position coaches that
Speaker 1: you feel like, you know what, I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: that guy down. He's coached me hard all week, told
Speaker 1: me exactly what he wants me to do. And at
Speaker 1: some point, you have to have accountability, no matter if
Speaker 1: you're getting paid at the National Football League level or
Speaker 1: you're playing Pop Warner football, you're playing high school football,
Speaker 1: you have to have that respect of why you're going
Speaker 1: out number one for your team and number two not
Speaker 1: to let the guy next to you down. But most importantly,
Speaker 1: these guys have put in all the work and trying
Speaker 1: to get us ready. Why can't we go out and
Speaker 1: execute a scheme at least gives us the best chance
Speaker 1: to win a game. Yeah, I don't know what this
Speaker 1: team is gonna look like, John, I really don't. And
Speaker 1: and and you know, and I'm saying this because I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm answering the question on on this podcast that
Speaker 1: I get twenty times a day. How much are we tanking?
Speaker 1: How people I don't even know what they're wrong to hand,
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. I look, I wish I could
Speaker 1: tell you get tanking one all the time. And I
Speaker 1: have never in my life played a game of professional
Speaker 1: sports where I've not tried to do my best to
Speaker 1: win a game. I don't think you can do that, John.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you what I used to play scrabble
Speaker 1: with my us competitive when when when when my daughter,
Speaker 1: my oldest daughter was probably eleven years old, my youngest
Speaker 1: daughter was probably six years old or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: the difference, and I'd be playing scrabble with him, and
Speaker 1: I always take that one piece that I need to
Speaker 1: turn it over, turn it over, so I got a blank,
Speaker 1: you know, just so I can win the game. And
Speaker 1: that didn't count the five letters you have in your
Speaker 1: pod right now. So it don't matter, you know, you
Speaker 1: just get you get out there and compete and and
Speaker 1: and get the job done. So so and I think
Speaker 1: those are the guys. I think if you look at
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, hey, do you ever do
Speaker 1: that to your kids or anything or your wife? You're
Speaker 1: darn right I did give him an elbow and I
Speaker 1: one on one basketball game, throw them in the bush
Speaker 1: is absolutely doubt about that. But anyway, so here we are,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're kind of getting into it now
Speaker 1: and uh, starting to kind of see a little bit
Speaker 1: about what this team needs. And and look, we're all
Speaker 1: gonna be in there. We're all gonna be in this
Speaker 1: ride together. Many it's changed changes on and uh and
Speaker 1: and and and know to me, just stability, stability, stability, stability,
Speaker 1: stability to me, that that that's the keyword for this.
Speaker 1: Not not I'm not forget the team, the football operations.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a franchise staff from We have a
Speaker 1: plan from top to bottom. Stick with the plan. You know,
Speaker 1: you'd like to in five years say, man, this is
Speaker 1: you know, this is reminds me of that old the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers and in the New York Giants, in the
Speaker 1: San Francisco, you know, those those organizations that have had
Speaker 1: staying power because the continuity at the top has been there,
Speaker 1: stayed there and demanded excellence. Not not that people haven't
Speaker 1: demanded excellence from this football team, but I think this
Speaker 1: is I think they're I think they're way of going.
Speaker 1: They're doing more than they're doing, more than just talking.
Speaker 1: Yeah that you can have a plan, but if you
Speaker 1: don't execute it, it's not worth anything, you know. So
Speaker 1: now they have a plan and they need to stick
Speaker 1: to it and execute on that plan. And I think
Speaker 1: you know the start of that is you have to
Speaker 1: find out who needs to leave and who needs to
Speaker 1: come in, and and how many years it's gonna take,
Speaker 1: and how many drafts and how how many free agency
Speaker 1: periods and maybe you know, maybe this squad surprises a
Speaker 1: few people this year. It might happen. You don't know
Speaker 1: until you play the games. But I can get te
Speaker 1: you one thing. There's a new plan in place with
Speaker 1: new guys running it. And there's a new voice at
Speaker 1: the top. That's the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: That's gonna try to execute that plan. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: through the players and and see we'll see the results
Speaker 1: on the field. You know what I I I always
Speaker 1: run too these people. That's it. I'm done. I'm not
Speaker 1: watching anymore. And you know what, don't watch. That's really
Speaker 1: how I feel about it, because you know what, if
Speaker 1: you're if you're not, if you're not while you're not
Speaker 1: a fan, that's all right, you're not a fan, that's fine,
Speaker 1: Go be a fan of somewhere or something else. But
Speaker 1: next to those people walk in and talk and question.
Speaker 1: But I love, I love when I go to places.
Speaker 1: Now I'm done. I'm done. I said, Okay, we'll see
Speaker 1: when September comes around and you're texting me going hey,
Speaker 1: so I usually answer, well, then you're not much of
Speaker 1: a fan. Well I am a fan, No, you're not
Speaker 1: jumping off the ship. Yeah, you know, you'll go go
Speaker 1: up to Detroit, You'll go to some of those places
Speaker 1: that have lived through one win Sea and look, we
Speaker 1: had our one win season. But and I know this
Speaker 1: team has been disappointing, but you know, we've had one
Speaker 1: year where it's been very bad. Other than that, we've
Speaker 1: been the middle of the road. The middle. In the
Speaker 1: middle of the middle of the road is no better
Speaker 1: than being the last because it doesn't get you, get
Speaker 1: you anywhere. For that Cleveland fan that thinks he's going
Speaker 1: to the Supervis May, they might who knows, who knows,
Speaker 1: but they've been living through hell for the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Are anyway, Well, we've been living through our own little deal.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but hey, what I'm saying is stick with us, man,
Speaker 1: stick with us. At some point, John and Jimmy, Kimbo
Speaker 1: camper with you. I want to thank Ryan Fitzpatrick for
Speaker 1: a joined us looking forward to to seeing him, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him. And I know I
Speaker 1: heard him in the Compress conference talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: I've had this beard up in Tampa and this and that,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he's had it down here
Speaker 1: in South Florida. So we'll see how that. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: see how the maybe we'll see how that thing go.
Speaker 1: And that's what I say, A little bit surprised. That
Speaker 1: is it's a lot more it's a lot more quaff.
Speaker 1: It's groom. It's a lot more groom. And it was
Speaker 1: it was, it was a little bit, uh, it was wild.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit out there. I guess it
Speaker 1: was like I was watching guns smoke the other day
Speaker 1: and I saw a tumbleweed come rolling right down the
Speaker 1: middle of tackle. Damn, that looks like logan, logan in
Speaker 1: the face flipping around. That's gonna do it for the
Speaker 1: odd We we'll catch you next week.