WEBVTT - 2021 Schedule Release | The Audible Episode 155 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.680 All right, welcome back to the Audible Kimboat Caper, John, 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.000 come Jemmy with you, and it's always the Audible is 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.160 predentify our good friends at Automnation Americans most questi Automotive dealership. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:15.239 Just go to Automation dot com and stopped by the 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.920 dealership and pick up your a new car and uh youo. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.000 You can listen to us here on the Audible on 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.120 on all your screen platforms, minding Dolphins dot com, anywhere 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.800 you catch your your podcast. But John, it's gonning to 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.319 be the good time of the year now the draft 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.880 draft is over. We kind of restocked a little bit, 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:34.320 going through some free agency, gone through some some unrestricted 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.199 free agents on college free agents coming in and now 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.279 you've got guys on the field and John, it's uh, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.720 it's really a good time of year. Now. It seems 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:42.960 like it's always a good time of year for the 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.360 NFL football. But now now are you getting closer and 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.680 closer to the real thing and guys on the field. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.080 And it's nice to see the Dolphins back in practice, 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.240 uh at their for Sylvian Davy it is it's it's 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.160 good to hear and see video of Miami Dolphins out 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.240 on the practice field. Coach client Brian Flores in his 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.560 coaching sound being able to get their arms around the 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.600 guys and be able to go out and actually implement 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:09.040 an offense and a defense and and special teams because 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.039 it gets back closer to real football. You know, we 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.959 had all the excitement of the NFL Draft, and we 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.600 had you know, we had our first round was was 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.120 was unbelievable at hard Rock Stadium for our draft party. 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:22.960 And now we get to see the guys in a 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.639 jersey and identify them with the number, you know, Jalen 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.720 Waddle was seventeen, and Jalen Phillips wearing fifteen, and and 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.319 Hollands in the secondary and and all those guys being 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.960 out on the field integrated with the veterans on this team, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.960 with the guys that have been there and done that, 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:43.160 with Avante Parker and William Fooler coming over and Xavian 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.840 Howard and Byron Jones. So it's it's a lot of 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.440 exciting times in Davey right now because I don't know 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.160 if the guys are going at it, you know, on 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.120 the field, because they it's more of walkthroughs and more 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.720 of your installing offense and defense and special teams. But 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.200 it's guys being around of guys and trying to get 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.080 this team to become one. So you're in a better 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.080 position when training camp hits, when the preseason hits, and 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:11.240 ultimately when September twelve hits. You know. The the other thing, John, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.440 I think when you look at this situation where they're 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:18.360 at now and you continue to see other steps in 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:23.720 the growth process of Brian Flores as a head coach, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.080 Chris Greer as a general manager, working together in unison 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.880 with those guys, and really for Brian Flores to kind 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.400 of talk to his guys and say, hey, look, you 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.959 know we'd like to it's it's a voluntary camps out 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.560 here other than these rookie minicamps in the in the 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.720 main mini caamp, we like to have as many people 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:42.160 as you can if we back off on the work 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.560 a little bit, you know. They and so they kind 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.880 of came to some kind of agreement. It seems like John, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.399 for everything that I've been able to gather that uh, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.720 they've kind of they've bought into seventy people out of 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.400 on the on the voluntary workouts. When when it started 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.800 in the beginning of the week and uh and and 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.680 I there's harmony there, and these guys love being out 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.560 in the field with Brian and and and with the 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.400 with Flow and so I think you're starting to see 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.400 more of that thumb print that those two guys have 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.080 put on this football team. I think negotiating a deal 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.200 with your players to be there, I think to me, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:17.960 it was a brilliant move by this foot, by this 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.840 football team. And I know, I know other teams have 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.760 people there at varying degrees, but I don't really don't 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.800 care about them right now. I just care about this 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.120 with fall team. That's right a bow. I think we 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.760 need coach Flowdan negotiate our new contracts when they come. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.560 Get us a couple more dollars. Huh. He seemed like 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.640 he did a pretty good job of getting the guys 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.160 into the building and getting guys to buy in, isn't it. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:42.320 You know that that's what it's all about. It's about 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.120 doing it as a team, about doing it and getting 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.400 on that same page. You know we've heard about the 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.600 changing philosophies and changing mindset. Well, there's gotta be one 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.720 voice ultimately that's that's doing that, and it's got to 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.880 get you have to have buy in from the best player, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.840 and you have to have buy in from the bottom 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.040 of the roster. You have to buy it from everybody. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.200 And I think he's been able to achieve that, and 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.120 his assistant coaches have been able to achieve that. This 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.760 is a really important offseason for the Miami Dolphins. The 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.800 growth of this team and the success of this team 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.120 is going to be, you know, everybody being on the 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.680 same page. But you have to have to a tong 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.599 of Ioloa getting to know this offense like it's the 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.560 back of his hand, like he's been in this system 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.040 for ten years. And it only happens with guys being 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.320 around and being out on the field and going to 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.400 walk throughs and being able to communicate and being able 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.200 to be in those meeting rooms and say, no, this 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.200 is how we want it done, and this is how 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.960 I'd like it done, or maybe we change something here 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.560 because I don't like that as a quarterback as to us. 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.520 So you only get that by being in the room 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.000 and being able to go out on the field, watch 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.480 it on tape, and then come back and say I 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.640 liked it, I didn't like it, Let's try it again. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.240 And the same thing with defense, you know, you have 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.960 guys that can play multiple positions, but maybe Andrew and 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.760 Giagle says, you know, I really like me being out 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.360 on on the perimeter and a few points stands in 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.400 that blitz, or you know, I like being down low 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.719 and Christian Wilkins, you know, moving around the center. You 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.599 only get that by being out on the field and 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.599 getting that instant feedback. So I think this is a 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.680 really crucial time for the Dolphins, a young roster. Again, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.440 it gets to know what they what they like, what 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.160 they don't like. So they're in a better position come 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.359 late July and early August. They're already ahead of the 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.919 game in terms of we've we've already gotten rid of 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.280 the stuff we don't like, where let's concentrate on what 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.520 we do like and build from there. Yeah, you know 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.800 the other thing to it, it gives you know, this 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.279 is the this is the first offensive coordinators stoods villain 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.480 Godzi and and it gives it's gonna give them a 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.520 chance to work with those guys and and go through 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.520 that motion solute of being a two headed offensive coordinator. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.920 Because it's just's you know, it's it's it's not very 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.520 often you see it in this league. So it's it's in. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.279 It's a new situation for these guys, so it's important 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.960 for them to go through this, these motions with these 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.640 players there, uh to to to get to where they 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.840 want to be when the season rolls around. And then 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.840 the other thing John too is you know, it's it's 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.920 easy to get the rookies in. It's easy to get 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.599 the rookies to buy in, to come in because because 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.400 they're chopping at the bit to be here anyway. But 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:14.880 but yeah, but to be able to get some of 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.480 the veterans to to to buy in and say, Okay, 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.440 if you're gonna back off a little bit, yeah, we'll 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.640 come in and do it. And And because I I 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.640 think in the back of their minds, if if if 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.400 they let their agents get out of their head, they 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:27.880 don't they all want to be out on the field, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.160 practice and play because that's what you do and that's 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.200 what you look forward to. So I think it's I 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.800 just think I just said what they've been able to do, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.479 communicating wise with their team and getting them to a 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.919 position where everybody is comfortable with having that many people 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.440 these types of practices, Uh, it's just gonna be it's 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.960 gonna be good for everybody. Well, it's just sharpening your 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.719 skill set. I mean, you've got multiple people on that 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.359 offensive line. I'm looking at names. Austin Jackson might be 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.680 the only guy that's gonna play you know, his position. 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.040 You know, you don't know where see Davis or d J. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.480 Fluker might end up Robert Hunt and solemnly killing. They 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.800 may be on opposite sides of the line of scrimmage 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.800 from from Matt Scurrow on the right side of the 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.960 left side. No one really knows. So you get a 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.800 young guy like Eckenberg who might be able to play 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.520 both tackles. Well, let's see, let's see his footwork. Let's 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.240 let's put it on tape and be able to be 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.200 that far ahead of the game. When July comes around 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.360 and and the coaches, the coaching staff has a better 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.840 understanding of what they do better, how that unit works 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.800 better together, and how the pieces kind of fit moving forward, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:36.920 and and all of a sudden bow, they probably go 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.720 through what happens if X y Z goes down. Let's 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.840 put Jesse Inside back at guard. Let's put Robert Hunt 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.640 back at tackle. Let's put Fluker at guard. You know, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.040 let's let's mix and match and see what our best 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.640 combination is if we do have some injuries along along 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.320 the line and get them reps. Even though it's on air, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.480 even though they're in T shirts, it doesn't matter. It's 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.680 the foot or it can stay hand placement. It's the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.840 play calling. It's the new terminology for the whiteouts, the 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.360 running backs and the quarterbacks to kind of go through 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.560 those hand signals and those motions that you can you 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.800 can dress, rehearse for when it really matters in the fall. Yeah, 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.600 and it's you know, and to me, it's all it's 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.840 also you don't you don't need to hit anybody out there, 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.800 but it's but but it's it's it's much better received 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.640 when you're on the field that than over a zoom call, 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.760 even if you're even if you're just walking through. It's 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.600 just it's it's it's leaps and bounds hit. So so 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.320 kudos to kudos to the staff were getting that done 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.800 and getting those right down and getting credit these guys 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.520 for coming out and saying, yeah, yeah, we're we know 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.840 how important this year is for this football team and 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.040 and uh and so let's go out and get this 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.040 going again. You know, you keep looking at at this 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.120 football team and the improvements they made, and like you 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.880 talked about offense defense, whether it's Jalen Phillips, whether it's 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.240 that NERK McKinney, who whoever it is, you talked about 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.440 the offensive linement. You know, they want it seems like 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.719 they want everybody on this football team to be able 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.760 to play at least two positions or multiple. They won't, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:06.560 you know, and I think that was part of their 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.040 draft process. I mean, look at you, look at uh, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.080 look at Jalen Phillips. You know, here's a guy that 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.160 can he can stand up as an outside linebacker. He 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.080 can blitz, he can put his hand in the dirt, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.040 he can be a three technique guy. He can you 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.080 can be an edge rusher were with his hand. You 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.840 can do a lot of different things, and they're gonna 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.480 use them different ways as well as just about everybody 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.720 in this roster, especially that whole that glut of defensive 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.280 backs they got at their safeties and corners where you 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.120 know those guys are gonna be I think every one 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.800 of those guys is gonna have to play probably three 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.520 positions across that board. Um as they get out and 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.040 then the season begins. I agree with that, Bob. I 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.559 was just looking at Jason mccordie's name. You know, you 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.760 almost he's on he's a member of the Miami Dolphins, 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.720 that he might play safety. You know he could play outside. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.120 You know you have Eric row, you have Brandon Jones 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.079 had a hell of a first year as a rookie, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.720 and opinion, you have Nick need him back there, You've 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.280 got I Donogny. I mean there's a there's a array 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.400 of different skill sets that these this coaching staff and 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.600 Josh Lawyer as the defensive coordinator coming into his second year, 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.080 he wants to plug and play with some of these guys. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.640 You know, you need to know where he can put 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.640 the best eleven And like I said, but the offensive line, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.520 if Eric Rohwe goes down, do you kick Brandon Jones 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.559 in that spot? Do you Accordy there? Do you keep 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.160 keep needing at the nickel? Is Igbanomony have enough of 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.559 a skill set to be able to play inside or outside. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.560 So these are the things that you go through knowing 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.480 you have Howard and Jones as your premier corners on 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.360 the outside, so give you that flexibility to be able 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.360 to go into a season knowing that, you know, I've 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:45.079 got multiple talents that that can play different positions and 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.000 different roles on this team, and you just gotta see 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.080 what fits best for the Miami Dolphins. The two thousand 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.800 twenty one version of the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, no doubt. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.720 It's uh, it's uh. I like, what's shapen up, like 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.480 the like like the cast of characters they got out there. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:02.520 Now we just gotta see him, see him kick the 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.360 ball off and talk about that. John, we come back. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.040 Schedules out. You know where they're playing, you know when 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.160 they're playing, you know where they're going. I have to. 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:10.800 I happen to be in Las Vegas for the last 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.160 few days, and everywhere I go, everybody I see this, 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:16.880 they say they're they're fans of the Buffalo Bills or 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:19.640 their fans of whoever's coming to Las Vegas. They're coming 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.800 to watch their team. So Vega is gonna be pretty 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.920 hot spot I think for NFL football. Satndays out here, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.280 Hey John talking about the guys in camp and what 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.000 they're doing. But uh, you know, the season's not too 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.600 far off here, and schedule comes out, so you know 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:34.880 you know who you're playing. But it's always exciting to 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.440 see the scheduling and where you're going. And I don't know, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.560 you know, I don't know about you, but for for me, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.920 my first thing when I my perusal is schedule usually 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.640 deals with the road games and where we're gonna eat 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.480 dinner when we get there. That's kind of my field. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.920 You gotta have priorities, right, I mean, you gotta know it. Sushi, 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.719 you know, the barbecue. Where where are we going? You 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.320 gotta know you gotta plan those out. You know, it's 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.920 any and any good freeloader on on a football team, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.400 you know, and those nose that's the that's the real deal. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:04.960 You gotta you gotta figure out all those things. So 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.839 you have to have the right crowd because you don't 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.400 have to go in your pocket too many times. No no, no, no, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.760 no no no no. You get you get on that plane, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:17.120 in your pockets seal up. They don't they don't open 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:21.920 up again until you get round back in for a lot. Hey. Yeah, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.719 So so let's take a look at the schedule, John, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.360 You know the I was expecting a little more from 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:30.880 the schedule in in this way because you know, to me, um, 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:32.599 you can look at your schedule and tell what the 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.760 league thinks about you and your football team. Right, And 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.559 you look at the Dolphins, and they've got they get 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.600 one Monday night football game December twenty seven in New Orleans. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.600 They got a Thursday night game at home against Baltimore 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.080 November eleven, they got the London game, and and they've 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.880 got to four o'clock games. Now, one of the four 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.680 o'clock games is because it's out in Las Vegas in 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.559 that time zone. And but to me, John, sorry, I 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.880 look at I look at prime time games, but but 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.439 I look at four o'clock games for East coast team, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.120 for an Eastern team, because to me, a four o'clock 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.240 game is is it's a national game because it's gonna 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.560 be seen on the East and West coast. And so 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.800 to me, those are those to me are as much 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.880 of an indication of what the schedule makers think about 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.480 your football team. And a little surprised that they only 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.920 have the the two prime time UH prime time games 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.120 and the two um four o'clock games, again one being 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.400 a Las Vegas game, which probably which is the equivalent 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.240 of a one o'clock game. But a little bit surprised 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.040 that they didn't have a little more four o'clock games 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.600 in the schedule. You know, the one that surprises me, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.520 I understand. The opening weekend Yere at New England. I mean, 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.440 that's gonna be an unbelievable setting because I think the 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.680 Dolphins had one win in the last decade there, um, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.960 and you don't know who's gonna be playing quarterback there 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.480 for New England, Mac Jones or Cam Newton. But the 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.160 second week, you know, week to September nineteen, Buffalo at 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.720 one o'clock. I'm almost glad it's at one o'clock game, 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.040 you know, because you get him in the heat. But 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.319 that would have been my my thought. I thought that 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.360 was gonna be. Look, look, don't get me wrong. I 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.160 you know, I take those early one o'clock games in 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.560 September all year, every every year. But as the season 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.880 goes on, uh, you know, it's it's it's that I 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.680 don't know. To me, it's just that it's you know, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.640 I remember I remember looking at our schedule when we 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.760 were playing, and you're looking, you have three Monday and 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.920 I put our two or three Monday night football games, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.000 maybe a Thursday game, and and four four o'clock games. 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:28.880 And you knew you were, and you you were in 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.000 the hut every year when when you saw the schedule, 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.480 you know, and I expect you'd be a little closer 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.680 to that with this schedule than these guys. But that's 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.440 that's just my that's just my bone to pick. Well, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.880 you hope some of you know the tvds down the 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.480 stretch when they have the flex games, that the Dolphins 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.080 are in a position that they are being flexed and 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.040 they are at you know, eight or nine wins as 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.840 they're deep into December, you know, trying to get to ten, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.760 eleven and twelve. That that's the scenario that you hope 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.120 the Dolphins are in. But you know, for me, looking 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.720 at the schedule and Shlibo, I think it's it's a 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.200 tough start. Yeah, well look at the over those first 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.720 five games in New England on the road, which is 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.760 I don't care what you said, I don't care what's 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.840 Cam Newton, I don't care who's throwing football. They're they're 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.400 gonna be a tough They're gonna be a tough gift 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.640 there because that team wants to bounce back. Buffalo at home. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.400 Good thing you got him at home. Then you gotta 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:22.640 come to Vegas and away a week later. And and 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.840 you know, I, this is a team, this Vegas team, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.120 I I can't kind of get. I don't have an 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.920 I don't have feel one way other on how good 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.320 this team is gonna be. Then you got Indie at home. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.160 INDI's gonna be a very good football team. And uh, 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.280 and then you got Tampa Bay away. Five games the 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.200 first five games you really could define what your season 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.880 is gonna look like beyond those five games the next 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.480 next twelve weeks. And that was my thought coming out 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.280 of the gate. Boy, the Miami Dolphins better play good 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.000 football and they better be at their best early because 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.880 you don't want to fall behind early and then have 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.480 to catch up, you know, as you go to London 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.800 against Jacksonville, or you get at Lanta at home and 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.920 weeks seven, because then you're back on the road at Buffalo, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.560 which is always a tough environment, whether it's the last 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:07.440 game of the year or in the middle of the season. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.000 And and the way I look at this Bowl, you know, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.280 it kind of softens up as it goes. But the 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.800 bye week is until week fourth. Now this is going 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.120 to be a marathon for this football team. You add 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.680 in the three preseason games and you don't know how 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.040 coach Flores is going to play as starters, you know, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.640 because usually the third game is an indicator that there 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.720 are only three games, so you know at Atlanta and 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.320 when when Atlantic comes to hard Rock Stadium, do the 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.320 starters get an extended play there? Because you have a 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.160 prime time you know game against Cincinnati as your last 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.880 preseason game and you're trying to figure out who's gonna 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.880 be on the roster. That that's a tough call because 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.400 if you add those those weeks in, you're going sixteen 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.760 football games before you have arrest and health becomes a 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.680 major issue to get through early have success and be 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.320 a healthy enough football team to win the games you're 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.320 supposed to. And as this as the schedule turns and 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.680 gets a little softer. Yeah, that that first, those first 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.280 five games, and you kind of Jacksonville and you know, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.919 you expect Jacksonville, you know, you know they you know 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.600 they you know what they've got talent talent wise, but 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.439 I don't think that football team is gonna be at 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.640 their peak for another year or so. If they get there. Uh, 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.280 Atlanta is a good football you know, Houston's another team 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.840 that's there's probably gonna be one of the seller dwellers 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.280 in there. So you've got a couple of soft games 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.480 maybe between Jacksonville and Houston, but really they're they're not 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.159 a whole lot of breathing room in this in this 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.359 schedule top to bottom. The other thing is, you know, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.080 for the last number of years the Dolphins have played 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.520 a lot of an f C East games in the 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.040 final months. You know they've been scheduled that way. But 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.080 now you've got you know, with their with their late 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.840 by you know, you've got you've won, You've got two 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.880 a f C easton off all, you've got New York 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.399 and New England and the season both of those of 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.560 the good things about both of them are at home 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.800 for the Dolphins. But you know, you've got New Orleans 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.240 and Tennessee in between those two and and and you 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:58.920 know what's New Orleans gonna be. You know, Tennessee is 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.160 gonna be a tough out right and when they come 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.679 in that that being said, John, you know the one 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.840 thing that I don't thing about the schedule, and always, 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.720 you know, it's always that, oh do you get the schedule? 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.199 Do you put ws and l's along the board? You know, 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.440 and I know a lot of people do that, but 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.720 you know, I've always thought and evenly like, even looking 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.920 at this schedule where you've got a tough start, well, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.680 what happens if you open up the season and Josh 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.640 Allen's hurt for Buffalo not playing? That makes that whole 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.959 game completely different? Yes, rightly agree, Yeah, I mean it's 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.159 because to me, I've always said, looked at the the 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.360 schedule is as flexible as the health of the players 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.080 on the teams you're gonna face. And so to sit 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.119