WEBVTT - Field Yates: People and Process 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:15.960 That's wrong Field touchdown, Miami a drawn? What is up? Dolphans? 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.319 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:24.680 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.520 How's it going? Everybody is Tuesday? Season is in the books. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.640 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.880 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.280 on today's show, the season is a wrap. The Buccaneers 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.600 are world champions. We're gonna welcome in Field Yates of 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.640 ESPN to talk about next steps for the Miami Dolphins. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.599 Will look back at the first two years under Chris 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.680 Greer and Brian Flores and project where this team is going. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.280 All of that and more on this Tuesday, February, the 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:02.000 ninth edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Miami Times And So, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.920 the Super Bowl is in the books. It's a rap 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.880 not the game. I think from a competitive standpoint, the 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.039 neutral observer typically roots for. I was personally pulling for 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.960 the a f C side, because typically I do root 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.399 for the conference the Dolphins are in, unless it's been 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.760 a division opponent over the last several years. But the 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.920 Chiefs come up short to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tom 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.720 Brady's first year in Tampa Bay yields a Lombardi Trophy 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.560 number seven for Brady all time. What a heck of 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.400 a run he's had, What a heck of a career 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.160 he's had with that Buccaneers team. Thought it was kind 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.440 of cool to seeing Dominican Sue get his first ring. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.080 A guy that's been a productive player in league for 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.959 a long time, was a member of the Miami Dolphins 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.840 for quite some time as well, he gets his first ring. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.360 So congratulations to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They pull off 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.440 the upset in the Super Bowl. I you know, I 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.000 thought the Chiefs were gonna win that game, and they 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.080 just were sloppy from the start. It seemed like in 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.360 terms of the penalties, how many flags came out in 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.040 that game. They had double digit flags for over a 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.120 hundred yards in that game. Patrick Mahomes on the move 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.640 constantly throughout the course of the night. Some of the 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.760 incompletions he had in that game were, I mean, the 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.280 highlights of the game because of how impressive they were 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.840 throwing the ball falling to his side. One of the 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.079 best memes I saw on Twitter on Super Bowl Sunday 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.480 was a side by side shot of that incomplete past 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.760 that Mahomes through on fourth down where he's basically parallel 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.560 to the ground falling to the ground side by side 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.400 with White Goodman from Dodgeball, Ben Stiller's character and that 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.959 great Vince Fawn movie back in like two thousand and five, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.600 pretty much the exact same throw there from Patrick Mahomes. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.239 So he remains ridiculous despite the fact that he and 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.840 the Chiefs are now one and one in Super Bowls 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.440 with that collection of players. But that means the end 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.880 of the season now, it means it's all about one 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.519 free agency on the periphery draft season, well within draft 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.520 season right now. And I put the off season calendar 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.640 for the NFL up in Monday's Blitz article up on 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.640 Miami Dolphins dot com, where we look at the timeline 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.720 for and events to occur around the league. Of course, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.800 this year we're not going to have the scouting combine 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.360 with everybody descending onto Indianapolis, but there is the window 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.560 for the franchise and transitional player that is from February 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.400 to March ninth, where teams can designate one franchise or 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.120 transitional player. From March fifteen, through seventeen. Those are the 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.480 three days before free agency begins where clubs are permitted 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.160 to contact and enter into contract negotiations with players with 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.120 agents of players rather who will become unrestricted free agents 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.480 on the new league year. And that new league year 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.880 starts on March seventeenth at four pm Eastern. Set your 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.240 calendars right now, set your alarm clocks for March seventeenth, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.240 the start of the new league year. That's when everything 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.560 really gets going here and that's on a Wednesday for 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.640 you guys here. So free agency, we're gonna have that 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.840 covered on Drivetown at Miami Dolphins dot com in depth. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.600 Every signing, every action we take will be all over that. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.480 So the official start of the new league year March seventeenth, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.800 Wednesday at four pm Eastern. And on April nineteenth, offseason 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.119 workout programs can begin, and on a bull the last 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.280 day for restrictive free agents to sign their offer sheets occurs. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.920 And then finally we have the draft on April through 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.640 May one, and the draft is scheduled to take place 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.280 this year in Cleveland, Ohio. All R, let's go ahead 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.120 and get to my guest now on this edition of 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.080 the Drivetime podcast, the Tuesday, February the ninth edition. Field 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.960 Yates of ESPN and writing Shotgun Now on the Drivetime 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.520 podcast is Field Yates. He's an NFL insider for ESPN 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.760 and co host of the Fantasy Focus Football podcast and 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.480 Field I think you're missing one major skill set here 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.919 from the Twitter bio man Senior Bowl anchor extraordinaire. I 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.120 had a lot of fun down there in Mobile. And 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.720 you know, I'll go through the usual and say thank 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.600 you for the opportunity to my employer. But I'm easy 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.960 to see when I say that, right, the ESPN put 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.800 some faith in me to go down to Mobile and 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.320 be a part of the tremendous coverage. Such a fun 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.560 event though in so many ways, you know, I think 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.760 in any year it's fun. But you know, I was 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.000 talking about this with some of my colleagues that were 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.760 down there in Lewis Red, my pant About and Todd McShay. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.919 Just so good to be on a football field. You know, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.279 many of us have not been in the football stadium 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.600 for close to a year. Much has been on the 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.080 field to be a ground level to be amongst not 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.960 just the players, but the two great coaching staffs, the 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.960 Miami Dolphins and the Carolina Panthers. Was that's a pretty 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.640 special opportunity to be Okay, Yeah, the things that we 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.520 that we took for grant in the past, right, we 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.040 no longer do. Like you mentioned that, there was actually 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.400 the Week two Dolphins and Bills game. I was there 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.320 in the press box and the CBS feed had got 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.720 cut for like three or four minutes, and so I 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.839 was literally like tweeting out my fan base and they're like, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.159 Travis's Twitter's timeline is where we're gonna find the place 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.120 for the game today. So it's has been a crazy year, man, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.240 But I thought you killed it and and you mentioned 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.279 McShay and Riddick and tannem baumb man, I wanted to 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.320 ask you this because those are three, you know, heavy 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.960 hitters in terms of football knowledge and football insight and 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.240 resumes in the in the league. What is it like 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.440 being around those guys when you're evaluating a hundred and 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.960 thirty five prospects, like you have to soak up some information, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.200 I'd imagine. Yeah, it's so unique because each one of 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.240 them brings a different perspective as well. Right, you know, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.360 Mike Cannon almost start there obviously very familiar to Dolphins fans. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.720 He was, you know, either a GM or the e 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.720 DP of football Operations for basically twenty years. Obviously led 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.880 the show in Miami, led the show in New York. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.800 Yet and of course in the fact that it was 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.920 a Dolphin staff mean there were time people that Michael 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.880 is very familiar with. I felt like I was walking 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.159 around with the Mayor of mobiles when you were near 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:32.160 Mike tannonbomb. But Mike has basically seen every single situation. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.200 Lewis Riddick did not just play the game. He also 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.360 was a scout for many years, a working personnel for 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.320 many years of both Washington football team and the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.920 And now he's evolved into one of e fpn's foremost 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.240 game analysts. Obviously part of the Monday Nights Football Books broadcast, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.960 and you can tap into all the different uh tenets 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.360 of his coverage. I think you've got Todd McShay whos 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.240 still library and I'm fortunate to do the podcast called 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.920 The First Draft with Todd McShay and mel kiper Jr. Ever, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.160 single two they would drop an episode for PM E. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.240 Sterns I'm fired from the shameless plug and it never 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.000 ceases too amazing that these two have an energy that 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.520 is unmatched and a passion that's unmatched, rollnecks of information 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.800 that's unmatched about these prospects. There thousands, and I'm not exaggerating. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.600 There are players they are responsible to be somewhat familiar with. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.040 By the time the draft rolls around. Each of them 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.240 could basically, uh discuss those players as if they were 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.600 their own children. They have such good knowledge of them. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.920 I love working with all those guys. That's what makes 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.920 the draft, watching the entire seven round, you know, extravaganza 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.600 for a week and an ESPN does such a great 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.080 job on the coverage because you get these inside stories 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.560 on these kids that you probably didn't know beforehand, like 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.200 for instance, last year Solomon killing the big fish the 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.080 lifeguard for the Miami Dolphins and that great story that 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.360 that provided us so much content this year for Miami 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.560 Dolphins dot Com and here on Drive Time that we 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.000 didn't know about before the ESPN shared that story. So 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.560 that was that was really cool to see. And you mentioned, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.600 you know, being down there on the field and mobile 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 for the press for the Senior Bowl, for all those 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.400 practices and feel I think my favorite part of the 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.680 coverage was the mic up segments with the coaches, like 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.080 what was that from your what was that like from 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.400 your guys perspective? As far as getting those coaches miked 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:11.840 up and just hear what they had to say on 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.920 the practice field. Yeah, there's no two ways about it. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.880 That's the best part. And you know when we go 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.960 down there at the four hours, well two hour broadcast, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.360 thirty minute breaks and then two hours more for each 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.800 of the practices. And in speaking with our producer Brian 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.600 Rider going into the event, you know, I was hammering 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.280 him with questions like, what are you gonna do here? 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.400 Is We're good, We're gonna hang for two hours. We're 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.800 gonna watch football for two hours and talk about it. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.480 And it's unlike anything else that we do, at least 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.520 in terms of my response building the b SPN everything else. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.960 You know, you spend a day working on NFL Live 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.840 Rundown and you know starts at seven am that morning 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.880 until you go on the air at four pm. That's 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.320 just so great about Senior is that the best part, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.240 without question is when the coaches are animated, the coaches 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.720 are giving you sounds, you get to see the passion 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.200 of East coaches, and there's not one way to skin 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.439 the cat when it comes to coaching. Not every coach 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.040 has to be you know, in your face. Not ever, 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.160 your coach has to be sort of this quiet, stoic leader. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.839 Not every coach has to be a guy who you know, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.880 doesn't with energy or enthusiasm or positivity or you know, criticism. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.360 Everybody is different, and that's what I really enjoyed watching 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.199 both the Panthers and of course the Dolphins staff, as 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.320 we got to see a handful of different Dolphins coaches, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.800 Mike up and um. You know, it was great to 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.640 be able to chat with them a little bit, you know, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.400 between drills and before practice as well, but to hear 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.880 that sound when they're on the field doing what they love. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.520 I think it's the coolest part of the broadcast. Because 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.320 football coaching sounds like a dream job to a lot 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.360 of people, and it is for many. It's also a 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.880 life that is incredibly demanded. You might as well basically 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.599 say good body to your family from the time of 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.920 your report to training camp until the time the season 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.200 is over. But the reason why they do it is 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.880 not just because they want to feed their family and 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.839 they want to provide you know, great life for their 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.800 family is that they can. But it's because they love teachings. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.520 They love to be teaching, they love to be on 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.559 the field with the players. And that's the sound that 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.160 you get. You can see how contagious their energy is. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.200 I've I've written so many pieces this year, Field about 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.760 how Emmanuel Agba had a breakout season, or how Eric 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:12.880 Row and you know, you're number six is having the 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.920 best year of his career at a new position, or 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.640 Bobby McCain moves to safety a new position and has 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.920 you know, kind of a resurgence in his career as well. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.040 So it's not just exclusive to rookie's first year player 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.080 second year players. I mean, guys developed all the time 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.640 at different stages of their career. And you know that 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.920 brings me back to kind of an interesting point about 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.440 where this Dolphins team is right now today. Field, you 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.320 talk about the morning after the Super Bowl in one 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.360 compared to where they were. Let's go back to when 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.480 Brian Floors was hired the day after the Super Bowl, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.160 back after the eighteen season, where this team was coming in. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.440 They knew they had some contracts to get off the books. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.000 They had to kind of restock the draft capital. Like 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.280 where was your thirty thousand foot view be of where 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.720 this team has? Like how far they've come in those 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.920 twenty four months from the day Brian Floors was hired 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.480 with Chris Careers the GM to now where they are 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.559 with all this draft capital. They're they're in good shape, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:02.120 cap Y, They've got a much better roster. How would 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.359 you say they've kind of grown those twenty four months masterfully? 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.360 And I'm not trying. This is not one of those 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.120 where you go on a podcast that runs on the 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.600 team's website and you do your best to say as 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.040 many nice things so it sounds like a great interview 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.120 and you get a bunch of listons and clicks and 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.120 retweets and all that. I'm saying this because it's back 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.080 and and maybe Dolphins fans don't want to revisit this 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.640 two years ago, less than two years ago. At this point, 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:34.240 the Dolphins were losing games and historic fashion. There's always 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.240 that joke that rears itself on Twitter. Could Alabama beat 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.000 the worst team in the NFL. That's and it's always 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.840 lame and it's obviously never gonna happen, And would the 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:48.960 Dolphins at the time would have creamed the Alabama Crimson time. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.120 But the point is that this team reached about as 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.400 low of an on field performance point as you could 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.280 in the NFL. We haven't seen and and we all 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.520 understand this was you know, short term pain for long 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.640 term game. But I wasn't expecting that long term game 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.559 to happen a year later, right, And so we got 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.280 to address a few things. The people and the people 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.040 are unquestionably the right ones in place. You know, Brian Flores, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.520 you know we didn't did not win it, but it's 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.599 you told me, Brian Flores, with the nfls Coach of 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.040 the Year the past year, I would have said, good, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.679 he deserved it. Chris career, phenomenal job, outstanding person, level 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.720 head and leaders process. How's the process been? Have they 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.800 made investments that have proved worthwhile? We just mentioned Emmanuel 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.240 as an example. Guys really good maybe and Howard a 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.520 players they've developed themselves by the way, the second round 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.199 tack and I know that was the previous regime, but 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:42.719 still player who was right there in the stick of 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.320 the defensive Player of the Year conversation. Guys on the 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:47.280 offensive side of the ball that we're rookies that were 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.880 contributing right away, Salm and Kamley, Robert Hunt playing something 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.760 this past year. Guys like Jesse Davis who are under 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.720 the radar acquisitions in time that have evolved into other 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.120 team fastins or useful pieces. So process, I am on 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.640 board with people. I on board with. The big question 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.640 is simply going to be and I'm not trying to 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.440 make this about one person, but as you know, the 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.880 quarterback German League too makes that next step watch out. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.040 It's just a fact and you and obviously there's some 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.240 pieces you gotta probably reinforced. I think you could stand 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.840 at a little more size at wide receiver, um, but 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.520 this is a team but I think is equipped to 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.199 make more strides going forward. As as you kind of 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.760 gather the you know, to go back to the quarterback position, 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.760 like you mentioned their fields, you kind of gauge the 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.840 temperature of the league. Is that a pretty general expectation 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.640 for the quarterback from year one to year two to 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.080 make that jump? Like why for fans that maybe don't 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.640 understand the difficulty of going from college to the NFL 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.520 At that position where lights, camera, action, man, everything's on you. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.240 There's thirty two faces of the franchise when it comes 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.080 to the quarterback position, what's the biggest challenge for that 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.720 big step And is there a league wide expectation Like, yeah, 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.440 once the guys out of that rookie season, especially in 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.839 a pandemic driven off season where there is no off 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.120 season where this guy's coming back off of a hip 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.520 injury that basically he had to rehab the whole off season, 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.880 is there a general expectation for a pretty big leap there. Yeah. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.920 I don't know that I've heard this specifically from Brian 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.600 flores Um, but I know that I heard this for 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.800 many years when spending a lot of time around the 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.560 Patriots and also spending a little bit of time covering 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.880 them too. Is Bill Belichick has always remarked on how 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.320 typically the player's biggest leap in his NFL career is 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.320 going to be from year one day year two. You know, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.920 I always laughed at like people ask what happens during 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.520 rookie mini camp when these guys arrived from the facility 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.440 under normal circumtas for the first time, and it's like 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.640 they teach them where about the locker roommates and like 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.800 what the person who, like, you know, the security guards 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:38.360 name is right, it's not like they're getting right in. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.360 So here's how we're gonna play cover two and just 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.560 you know, down in distance. It's no, no, no no, not 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.640 like it's fundamentally you're learning. Like I know this sounds ridiculous, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.680 but one of the first installs you'll have is for 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.600 offensive players, how do we huddle up? Where's the left tackle? 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.320 Where's the right tackle? Some guys obviously never huddling college, 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.640 and sometimes it's a little bit different than how other 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.680 guys who did huddle in college. So my point is 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.000 that typically that jump happened between the first and second years, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.320 that we've also seen it between years two and three 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.520 we thought was somebody like Josh Josh Allen, excuse me. 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.960 And then there are other players who it might happen later, 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.040 like Sam Donald might be an example of the guy 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.880 that circumstantially hasn't had quite the same pieces around him. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.520 So that's why I think this upcoming year could potentially 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.560 be one that we have all eyes on Tom because 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.400 let's let's just operate unto this presumption he's the guy 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.560 going into the season, and that the Dolphins used some 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.080 of their resources available to maybe pad the offensive playmakers 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.880 a little bit, whether that's addressing as I mentioned, wide 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.480 receiver to me is an area they could add some depth. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.000 And then I don't know that running backs is a 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.280 need or if it's not a need. The reason why 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.800 I say that is that on the one hand, Miles 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.840 Gaskin seventh round pick and Savan Akhmed, a waiver wire 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.840 add play tremendous when given the opportunity. On the other hand, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:54.320 the Dolphins also turned to five running backs this year. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.320 For stretches between those two players, plush Jordan Howard before 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.680 he was waived, but Matt Brita, who's gonna be a 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:04.880 free what Patrick Lair? So maybe the team says, hey, guys, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.920 let's streamlined, let's go to you know, let's let's find 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.320 one work back for lacking better a term. So if 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.360 those pieces are put in place, I think that two 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.320 could be primed for quite elite this year. Now, I 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.120 did see the Fantasy the Fantasy Focus Football podcast love 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:24.080 for both Gasking and Akmed fields. We appreciate that definitely 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:28.040 here on the Drivetime podcast. And you know, I'm glad 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.520 you mentioned the story about having the rookies find the 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.440 locker room, for instance, because I got a good story 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.600 for you real quickly. Here. This was my first year 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.480 in Miami covering the team, and my first week in 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.520 the building. You know, our old practice facility, which will 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.120 be we will move to the stadium this year at 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.160 in Miami Gardens. With the practice facility and Davy the 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.080 upstairs hallways, it's amaze. It's an absolute maze. And if 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.120 your first time up there, you do not know where 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.320 you're going. And it was like my third day on 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.480 and I was still trying to find the kitchen, where 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.200 the bathroom was and stuff like that because you just 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.600 get lost up there. And ray Kwon Davis. So you've 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.600 got hundred and fifty pound me and three thirty pound 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.840 ray Kwon Davis comes intersection and we I saw him 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.040 in the in the lobby earlier and he's like, where 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.399 the hell am I going. I'm like, I think you 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.080 turn around and go that way, but I'm not sure. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.080 Luckily I was right, so it looked like I knew 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.960 what I was doing. But just a fun little story 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.840 about how you know, you gotta find your way around 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.960 the building first before you can worry about playing three 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.480 technique right totally. I mean, I know what you're talking 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.800 about I mean, it's much different scale and not that 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.919 being in the SPN employee is it's physically demanding as 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.120 being an NFL player. But I remember I first got here. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.880 I showed up to the gym first time I get 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.960 there and they're like, oh, you gotta bring your own power. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.720 So like I just finished up with workout and I'm like, great, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.080 where is it? You know? Much mean, you know, I'm 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.480 like walking back into U into the office with the 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.720 sweaty forehead. It's like these a little filly you know, 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:49.359 tiny steps that you gotta take that that impact your 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.040 day to day that you gotta learn in your a 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.800 rookie or a new person on the job. Yeah, exactly. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.000 You You mentioned the Super Bowl happened on Sunday, And 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.040 remember Chris Godwin on Hard Knocks one time, they of 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.359 coaches were so impressed, like this guy wouldn't guys own apartment. 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.919 He went and took care of his own things. Like 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.080 it's it's a different a different world for a rookie 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.119 coming into the league, especially you know, guys that are 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.479 going out on their own for the first time. So, uh, 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.720 you know, speaking of that Super Bowl, I wanted to 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.159 ask you kind of you know, going back to the 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.280 Chris Career and you talked about the people in the process. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.440 I thought that was a great quote. Field you mentioned, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.399 you know, Chris Career putting together this his personnel staff. 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.800 I I've known that he's he's good at delegating. He 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.679 has plenty of people that he puts into position of 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.040 power to to make these decisions and help them kind 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.480 of collaborate on a team effort. But we just saw 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.800 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers shut down what, in my opinion 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.639 is the greatest offensive engine of all time, and and 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.159 Indie Reid and Patrick Mahomes and all those guys, And 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.240 we saw the Chiefs get there because of that offensive 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.520 engine and that quarterback. So when you consider the end 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.800 of the season and how far teams that one ten 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.280 games like Miami are to these teams that are competing 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.720