WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 54 | Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:09.200 All right, here we go, Kimbo Cambra, John Condjemmy, the Audible. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.119 It's a it's a rainy day. I don't know wherever 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.200 you are in the country, around the world. You know, 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:14.800 it's funny. I ran I ran into some people. I 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.239 was on a cruise. I ran in some people that, 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.920 uh from Canada, that that listened to The Audibles. It's 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.680 the only chance we're gonna Yeah, I listened to It's 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.640 it's pretty good. You know good people. Yeah, you got 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:31.600 that guy that played due quarterback play for the least. 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.360 So anyway, we're kind of spreading around here a little 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.320 bit and talking about spreading around John, it's you know, 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.839 it's coming to the point now, well you know it's 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:47.000 it's it's funny to meet John. How how much movement 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.080 goes on now in free agency? And I know I'm 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.960 talking about obviously the top tier guys are going, but 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.880 with the lower tier, the mid tier, lower tier guys 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.200 moving around and and all that, and it's uh been 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.000 an interesting thing. And you look at the Dolphins and 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.520 and really when you you kind of look at free 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.200 agency and you kind of look at the landscape of 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.680 the league and free agency and say, Wow, the Dolphins 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.039 have been and they've been kind of low keyed on 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.600 this thing, and I think that's certainly by design. And 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.520 I think is when we talked about in the last show, 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:18.240 we talked about you know, it's gonna take time for 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.840 us to kind of watch how Chris Greer goes about 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.520 his business, watch about watch how Brian floor is, what 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.240 his influence is on on on player personnel and what 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.640 you do there and and so I think we're starting 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.840 to see but you know, I think we're seeing a 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.399 little bit of a puzzle John, But He's gonna take 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.759 a while for all of us and all the Dolphins 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.160 fans to really get a good feel for how this 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.120 puzzle is going to shape up. Because, you know, we 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.360 got a whole new staff of coaches, we've got new 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.720 personnel guys, We've got players coming and going. So we 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.680 we've been around this team a lot, and we've been 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.160 know a lot of and kind of but I'm having 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:54.520 to look at this thing and trying to figure out 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.520 what this puzzle is gonna look like. When we get 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.480 that last piece and stick it in there, it's gonna 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.000 be pretty cool. I think once at last piece does 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.720 finally arrive. But remember, and you know as well as 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.840 any Dolphin fan, the Dolphins have had both feed in 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.120 the water for a number of years. When it comes 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.079 to free agency in terms of big salaries, a lot 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.280 of cap space, Let's go spend it. Let's get that 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.200 premier defensive tackle, Let's get that two or three linebackers. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.680 Let's go get that wide receiver that everybody covets. And 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.720 where are we? You know? So this is a complete 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.320 one eight in terms of how you're going to shop 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.520 in free agency, how you're going to shop for the 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.480 bargains and try to get and pick off pieces here 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.840 or there, because I don't think the Dolphins want to 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.840 figure out the puzzle in one year. This is not 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:47.280 a UH constructing a team that's gonna happen overnight. This 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.679 is going to be pieces of of the puzzle that 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.000 you have to get rid of that don't fit any longer. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.120 That you have to kind of go out and reinvent 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.880 what you need to to make this engine go to 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.320 to make this team more of a team for the 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.320 long haul. And I think that's what Chris Sker is 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.280 doing right now. He's getting a lot of help from 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.480 UH money that he's putting aside possibly for two thousand 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.440 and twenty by maybe taking a step a couple of 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.320 steps back in two thousand nineteen in free agency, still 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.760 going in and trying to get pieces that you need 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.520 to function to make this team a team and function 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.600 as a team and be competitive. But you don't want 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.400 to put push all those chips in the middle of 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.000 the table because you don't have them. You don't have 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.040 the engine. Right now they feel like, hey we can, 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.240 we can go out and compete for a Super Bowl. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.000 You want to be able to be competitive. You want 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.880 to be able to try to win each and every week. 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.080 But I'm not quite sure when you look around and 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.960 what other teams have done that are in better positions 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.119 financially to go ahead and make that run. Right now, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.760 the Dolphins were there, they took their swings, they didn't 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.920 get there. Now they have to take a step back 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.280 and kind of construct a team that's built to win 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.119 every year, just not maybe this year or or two years. Yeah, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.600 it's just all about the long haul. It's all about 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.560 being and I'm gonna look, I'm gonna use the team. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.840 It's all about being the New England Patriots. And I'm 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.160 not saying going to six winning six super Bowls, I'm 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.040 not I'm not talking about Look, obviously your goal is 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.120 to be to go to a super Bowl. But to me, 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.160 you're you're not gonna get to a super Bowl by 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.479 going to the playoffs once every five or six years. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.840 You know, you gotta be in that hunt. And it 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:22.560 looks sometimes it's it's a situation where you know, if 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.400 you're a team that's that's let's just go back to 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.360 the Dolphins of the past, where where you just knew 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.760 they're gonna be in the playoffs every year, and and 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.200 and if you get in the playoffs, you know, jeez, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.039 you get a home especially if you get home field advantage. Man, 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.080 you win a game, well, there's an FC Championship game. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.520 Were one game from a super Bowl, you know. So, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.000 so I think it's the the idea is to have 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:48.279 this team being a playoff caliber team each and every year, consistently, 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.320 always in that hunt, always in the thing, because you 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.320 never know when she when you Once you get in, 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.280 you win two games, man, and you're you're right there 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.520 on the either either right on the doorstep or or 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:00.880 you're in a super Bowl. And so but that's where 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.480 this team needs to be and and and John, you know, 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.760 for me, and I've used this term a lot about 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.760 this team over the last decade, two decades, we've been 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.760 in a quagmire. You just feel like you're in mud 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.640 and you're you're moving, but you're you can't get anywhere. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.880 And you take two steps forward and let's get rid 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.920 of this coach. All of a sudden, you slide back 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.560 and you're climbing back, trying to climb out of the 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.480 mud again. And and so I think, I think what 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.800 we're seeing is this team that finally said, you know what, 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:31.360 enough enough, let's get ourselves, Let's get all this mud 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:34.000 out of the hole, and let's build the foundation of 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.679 concrete so we can be a solid foundation going forward. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.039 And it's and look, it's is it gonna be? And 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.800 that's why they gave the head coach five year dealt. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.359 I mean, you don't you don't come in that that 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.440 three year and rinse and repeat is not good for 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.000 for the continuity your staff, the continuity of your roster, 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.920 the front office, the scouts, Hey, what type of player 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:56.480 are we looking for to fit to play defensive end? 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.560 Do we need a guy that's versatile do we need 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.839 a guy at linebacker that can rush the path? You know, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.680 all those things come into play, So I think it 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.799 goes from the top. You have to have clear direction. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.040 I think the Dolphins have clear singular voice in Chris 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.520 career on how he wants to build a team. He's 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.920 kind of given his orders through the scouting department, uh, 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:17.720 through through all the people that need to go out 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.680 and find the pieces. And I think coach Flores is 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.360 doing the same thing with his staff. This is what 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:23.880 we're how we want to coach him, this is how 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:25.480 we want to do it. This is how we want 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.640 to be versatile on defense, this is what we want 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.560 to be on offense. I think all those things will 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.120 will fall into place. It's not gonna happen overnight, but 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.080 I think at least you've got a game plan, You've 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.159 got a roadmap for success and how to get there. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.600 Because all these guys that are coming from other places 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.960 and primarily primarily New England, they know how to do it. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.039 They had a coach in a quarterback and they built 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.159 around it. So you have to find it. You have 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.599 to get to that spot eventually. I think also too, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.240 when you look at you know from a from a 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.800 from a top down standpoint, you know, you've made it 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.679 clear that Chris Greer is the guy that's just running 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.520 the show. The buck stops on on his desk and 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.920 then it filters his way down, and and and and 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.240 with the changes they've made, I've I've there there's been 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.680 a lot of times where I've felt like, if this team, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.800 if this team and in the in their in their 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.320 front office from a football standpoint, was in a canoe, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.240 not everyone was paddling in the same direction. Not everybody 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.520 had a paddle. No, not everyone had a paddle. And 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.280 some of those people people had had the paddle, they 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.600 wanted a bigger paddle than the paddle was that they had, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.040 you know what I'm saying. So, and I think they've 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.960 cleared all that out. So it's where I think the 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.880 focus now on this. There's no political I don't I 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:41.320 don't see any posture politics and posturing out of the 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:46.040 equation with the they've streamlined the group less coaches, let 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.600 you know, And and so I think they're in the 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.760 right direction. And now it's just about you know, staying 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.240 on that on that page and not having those disruptions. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.320 But so, so let's let's kind of look at where 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.040 we're at now, you know, with with free agency and 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.120 where we're at, and everyone knows, okay, so so the 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.640 so the guys that have gone, Ryan Tannehill goes this way. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.800 And and you know, Ryan Tannehill, this guy came in 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.040 here for seven years, busted his ass, did everything this 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.360 team asked of him. You know, you can't question his 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.840 work ethic, you can't question his toughness. I appreciate what 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.680 he did. And I said, look, I like Ryan, I 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.880 like him as a quarterback. But whatever it is that 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.320 gets you over the top, I just think he was short. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.840 That that chromosome, he just didn't didn't have that thing 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.160 to get you over the top. But you know, I 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.120 hate I can't say a bad thing about Ryan. I 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.560 I Ryan gave you everything that he could to be 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.120 the best he could be, and it didn't work out 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.160 for him. It didn't work out for the franchise. And 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.240 I wish him, wish him the best. Echo that you know, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.960 great guy, great competitor. Uh needed probably a new a 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.120 new scenery, he needed new scenery, a new change for him. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.760 And he gets an opportunity to go in as a backup. Now, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.840 So there's there's an opportunity for him in Tennessee and 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.480 it it helps out not only the Titans, but it 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.400 helps out the Dolphins as well. In the long run, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.000 We're gonna get into some of that stuff. I think 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.680 we got, uh. I think Ryan Fitzpatrick, Dolfin's new quarterback 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.800 speaking of coming and going, I think he's gonna join 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.960 us here. So let's let's go ahead and pick him up. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.840 All right for joining us now, the new Miami Dolphin quarterback, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.440 Ryan Fitzpatrick. And uh right, first of all, welcome to 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.080 Miami and uh, just just your thoughts and and and 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.600 and what take us through the process of that got 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.400 you here to Miami and this opportunity you've got to 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.640 uh to be the quarterback of this football team. Well, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.200 thank you. I'm excited. I'm excited to come. And uh, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.680 you know, the good thing for me when I started 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:48.520 getting calls kind of in a second way the free agency, Um, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.840 this was an opportunity I'll tell I couldn't pass up. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.079 And in terms of, you know, one of those thirty 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.240 two jobs to be a starting quarterback and the leaguing 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.679 intall football team, and that was the appeal to me. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.560 It was kind of the one job that was left 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.880 and um, so that that part of it made me 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.520 really excited. And then you know, I know three guys 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.280 already pretty well that I've worked with before on staff 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.480 and get the Meat, Coach Flow and uh so many 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.560 other guys on staff that just got me excited. You 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.120 know what they're trying to build and obviously a winning 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.720 culture that Coach Flow has been around for a long time. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.760 Use all that stuff really added up to me wanting 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.600 to come and for me to be real excited about it. Right, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.680 you come in the league as a seventh round draft 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.600 choice and here you are fourteen years in. Did you 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.720 ever think that when when you when you heard your 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.920 name called or when you got drafted, that uh, that 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.280 fourteen years later you're still gonna be uh working in 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.240 this business and working in this league. No. I think 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.680 when I got drafted in two thousand five and was 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.840 sitting there in training camp as the fourth stringer behind 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.200 Death Smoker at a Michigan State, I didn't I didn't 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.040 think I'd even make it one here. So uh, I've 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.880 done an amazing ride for me and for my family, 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.040 and we've met so many good people along the way. Um, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.679 but I've I've enjoyed it. I've enjoyed it so much. 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.480 I'm just gonna continue to play until. Well, it looks 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.959 like Ryan, it looks like you've enjoyed it, especially the 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.000 last couple of years. You know, listening to you talk 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.520 to the local media. Uh, you said that physically, number one, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.600 you feel great, which is always good with a quarterback 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.679 coming into his fifteenth season. But the last two years 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.319 you mentioned that energized you, and you could tell by 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.520 your your stats and the way you've thrown the football. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.000 I mean, four hundred yards and four of your seven 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.640 starts at least four hundred yards and four of your 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.440 seven starts in two thousand eighteen. Uh, what what's what's 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.160 it like at at a guy with a lot of 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.560 experience around a lot of young guys. Does that energize you? 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.520 Or is it energize you that you feel so good 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.080 that you can perform at the level you're you're expecting 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.160 of yourself. I think part of it is the youthful 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.400 energy being around you guys that are closer in age 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.280 to my kids and me and Uh, but part of 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.720 it is just the joy love for the game. I mean, 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.080 I love being out there, and you know, really, I 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:21.960 think since you know, when I left Buffalo UM after 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.959 the twelve season and my career was kind of in 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.280 limbo and that I didn't know, you know, where we 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.000 go from there. Signed in Tennessee and then when I 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.760 got the chance to be to start on Houston, and 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.920 that kind of jump started me and and put me 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.360 on I think a better path maybe the second career 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.160 for me in terms of being able to sustain some 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.120 success and had some success in New York, especially that 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.880 fifteen year. And I think, you know, those last five 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.360 years Pampa, in Houston and New York, I've been playing 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.760 the best football my career. So I'm excited to continue 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.240 to do it. And i just love playing the game. 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.120 And I'm sure that you're excited about getting into the 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.200 building and getting into the offense. You've seen and been 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.720 exposed to probably just about every offense you can imagine 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.199 through your career in college in the NFL. About having 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.720 some input and seeing what's going to be on the 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.560 table and and really getting to learn your teammates, I 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.880 would think, yeah, that's the that's the most exciting part 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.360 for me, is just being able to the launch room, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.400 sit down to guys, you know, getting known on coaching 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.960 the level and then you know, working together and trying 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.240 to take the things out on the field. Those relationships 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.720 are you know, and with the with the coaches as well. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.120 That's the kind of stuff that that I really enjoy 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.760 and in the off season, things that you can really 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.600 build upon, build strong foundation. So the XS and oes 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.200 are what they are. You know, to have been in 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.880 a similar system at Easton what everybody does it a 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.640 little bit differently, So it'll be fun to kind of 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.280 grow together and learning the system as we go here 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.319 from bottomout. But I'm just excited out there and like 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.640 I said, get getting that lunch room and just hang 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.440 out with the guys and get it all a little bit. 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.640 And you you mentioned that there's a couple of guys 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.520 on the on the Dolphin staff that you know, I'm 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.440 looking at you. You you've been here for fourteen years 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.720 in this league. You've been in seven different teams. Is 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:23.320 there anybody in this league that you don't know? I mean, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.240 with with the way with the way players and coaches 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.240 come and go, I would assume that your knowledge of 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.120 or know or the people that you know in this 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.920 league is a pretty it's a pretty thick, uh, pretty 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.920 pretty thick address book if you will, Yeah, you're, I mean, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.000 you definitely lie on that. And the last few teams 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.640 I've been on of have kind of you know, I've 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.160 run into guys from previous length experiences that, Yeah, that's 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.840 one I had. I was with him in Buffalo and 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.520 called the well, as with him in New York, bord 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.160 god as between in Houston. So there's there's different guys 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.000 along the way, But yeah, I think it's it's collective 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.480 all at this point. And how do it help you 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.360 coming into a situation? Look, you you've you've come into 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.440 situations seven times prior to this. But how much does 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.160 it help when you walk in and you see familiar faces, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.840 whether it's from a coaching staff standpoint, whether it's from 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.280 a front office standpoint, or certainly from a from a 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.120 player's standpoint, a teammate standpoint. Well, I think it helps. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.760 It helps a little bit. But uh, you know, I 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.760 always think when I got a new place, I was 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.840 thinking about my kids. They think about my oldest son. 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.680 It's well now and every time we pick up the move, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.960 you know that that first day of school for him 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.840 walking in and not knowing anybody, and it's that's still 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:36.560 even though I know if you gotta get a little 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.720 bit like that. For me, I'm not familiar with a 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.000 lot of the players on the team, and so you 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.960 still have those first age utters when you're walking into 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:47.800 your the middle school or high school and not a 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:52.520 lot of people. So, um, you know, I actually I 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.760 love the way that he approaches it. And and here's 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.520 a monstail, that's that's kind of way what I do 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.440 is well, I kind of learned the rom been around 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.320 so much. Ryan. How's the game changed for you personally 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.560 since you came into the game learning the game the 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.840 NFL game as a quarterback compared to now mentally physically? 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.640 With rule changes, has it changed a lot the way 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.320 you play the position? I mean, the the game has 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.000 changed with some of them, some of the rule changes, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.960 um and and look, I think I think a lot 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.240 of the most of it, especially stuff that goes in 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.640 line with players safety, has been changed for the better. 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.960 Uh being said, you know, some of those head shots 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.840 and knockout shops that have been taken out of the 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.240 game completely, and it opened up the mod the field 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:41.760 a little bit. I think I think that's definitely the case. Um, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.040 but look when when they have the player's safety uh 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.200 in the you know, they're keeping players on the fields 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.080 in the best interest of everybody before the game. It 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.320 just makes every better. And so um that the rule 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.960 change a little bit, you know, and then obviously some 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.080 of the other stuff. There's been a lot s you 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.360 know over time, we were changes and things like that 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.240 that has kind of changed the structure and strategy of 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:08.119 the game a little bit in general. You know, we 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.879 keep playing the games evolving and every one of the 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.320 areas or anything. Also, let me watched teams going the 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.080 last years into sequel Bowl. We you know, a lot 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.800 of some of their stuff they're going was in twenty 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.280 one personnel with the fullback on the field, which which 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:26.160 was that you know. And so the more the more 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.359 things that change, uh, you know, the more things that 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.640 are also gonna go back and do the same. It's 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.040 just ever evolving thing and you kind of end up 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.840 where you started because there's a simplicity this game, um 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.040 in a parading this game that I don't think they'll 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.840 ever really change. And you know, at the heart of that, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:44.960 you still gotta be able to stop the offense and 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.080 on offense, You still gotta be able to run the 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:52.000 ball or they think that change. Yeah, you know what, tackling, blocking, 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.240 all those simple things in football you still have to 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.000 do and and until you do that at a high level, uh, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.600 you're not gonna win on a consistent basis. I know, 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.119 I heard you talking to the local media, and I 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.200 thought it was really impactful for me to hear you say, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.760 you know, there's only thirty two of these jobs, and 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.240 I had other opportunities. They had other guys penciled in, 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.680 but this was an opportunity for me to go out 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.080 and compete and be able to be the starting quarterback. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.240 Did that stoke your fire a little bit? Did that 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.240 kind of pump your chest out a little bit to say, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.240 you know what, this is the right opportunity. I'm playing 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.359 at a high level right now. I have experience, and 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.880 I feel like this is the right opportunity to join 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:34.200 the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think I think 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.159 there are a lot of guys that that appreciate it. 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.399 But I don't know if there's there's many guys that 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.440 appreciate it as much as I do. You know, in 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.600 terms of having around as much as I have Um, 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.880 that the game you've got done through in my career. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.840 To be able to you know, step out uh that 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.240 opening a can and and be the starter in one 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.120 of the thirty two starters at quarterback for and Altaine 0:18:56.200 --> 0:19:00.119 is such a special honor and special extension. Um. That's 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.399 not that's not something that I'd take lightly, you know. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.639 And so to be able to give um, to be 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.520 given an opportune to at least compete for that, uh, 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.080 you know I was, I was really uh and excited 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.240 to join Lanny. You know, you've traveled around a lot, 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.720 and you had the opportunity to spend some time up 0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:21.199 in Boston while you're at Harvard, and while you're up there, 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:23.840 somehow you got tied in with the Celtics and read 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:25.399 our buck. Can you take us through that story a 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:27.600 little bit, which had to be pretty you know, of 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.560 of of the things that have gone on in people's lives, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.040 there's there's always those things that really stick out when 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.879