Speaker 1: Fractors, Patric throwing high park touchdown. What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up, Dolphans? And
Speaker 1: welcome in to the newest podcast on the official podcast
Speaker 1: network of the Miami Dolphins, covering your Miami Dolphins. It's
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast and as always, I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, here to bring you your daily dose of
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. Now, this show will be a little
Speaker 1: bit different from our regularly scheduled programming going forward, and
Speaker 1: we're taking a different approach to get you familiar with
Speaker 1: what you can expect going forward here on Drive Time.
Speaker 1: And for those of you that were with me on
Speaker 1: the Locked On Dolphins podcast know how thorough and in
Speaker 1: depth I tend to be with my podcasts, and that's
Speaker 1: my intention here now under the umbrella of the Official
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast. And while you're here, don't forget to subscribe, rate,
Speaker 1: and review the show, and not just Drive Time, but
Speaker 1: our other fantastic podcasts, The Audible with John con Jenny,
Speaker 1: Joe Rose, and kim Bo Camper, as well as the
Speaker 1: other new addition to the Miami Dolphins catalog of podcasts,
Speaker 1: The Fish Tank with Juice O j McDuffie and Seth
Speaker 1: Levitt on this edition of the Drive Time podcast. I
Speaker 1: want to tell you who I am, what you can
Speaker 1: expect going forward on this podcast, and what this new
Speaker 1: job means to me. A lifelong Dolphins fan now working
Speaker 1: for the organization I have grown to love and know
Speaker 1: my entire life. So who am I? A tried and
Speaker 1: true Dolphins fan that was converted to the aquaand Orange
Speaker 1: at age six. The deciding factor for me the visible
Speaker 1: from Space starter jacket that was so prevalent on playgrounds
Speaker 1: across America in the nineties. Even from a young age,
Speaker 1: my daily goal on the playground was to persuade my
Speaker 1: classmates that those twilight Marino year Dolphins were an operation
Speaker 1: fit for the Super Bowl every single year. In fact,
Speaker 1: the first game I recall watching was the playoff heartbreaker
Speaker 1: against the San Diego Chargers, and yeah, I'll admit it,
Speaker 1: tears were shed that day. And at the time, we
Speaker 1: were a spoiled fan base, going to the playoffs nine
Speaker 1: times out of twelve years from nineteen nine through two
Speaker 1: thousand one, and for me, the most memorable moment being
Speaker 1: that Lamar Smith wild card winning run over Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: And the Indianapolis Colts in the two thousand playoffs. Pandoff,
Speaker 1: Lamar wrapping up the ball with both arms and he
Speaker 1: just gets one of everybody touch down. Bay Lamar Smith
Speaker 1: tears away from tackles. He won this game. The Dolphin
Speaker 1: took on the Oakland. The Dolphins have done it. They
Speaker 1: have won this game. The fans here at Pope Players
Speaker 1: Stadium ourck And that was the moment I knew that
Speaker 1: I wanted to be associated with this football team in
Speaker 1: some former fashion. And back then all I could do
Speaker 1: with select the Finns and Madden and create the dynasty
Speaker 1: and franchise mode that I always coveted for this Dolphins
Speaker 1: football team. And as I got older, I took up
Speaker 1: writing and eventually podcasting. I've only ever cared about this
Speaker 1: football team from that Lamar run, to the wild Wildcats season,
Speaker 1: to the nine in two finish and eventual playoff birth.
Speaker 1: And now with coach Flores at the helm and all
Speaker 1: the draft capital and available cap space, what a time
Speaker 1: to be joined this organization just as things are about
Speaker 1: to get very very exciting for the Dolphins, both on
Speaker 1: and off the field. And with that, what you can
Speaker 1: expect from this podcast, passion and honesty. Nothing in my
Speaker 1: life drives me more than my passion and that resonates
Speaker 1: through when talking about this football team, and maybe even
Speaker 1: more so than what you can expect what you can
Speaker 1: expect me to avoid our hot takes with little to
Speaker 1: no substance. I've never been one to say things just
Speaker 1: to say them, So we're going to utilize all the
Speaker 1: resources we have here with the Dolphins and this incredible
Speaker 1: team of social, video, audio and print media that I
Speaker 1: am so so so very proud of and thrilled to
Speaker 1: be a part of this franchise, in this organization to
Speaker 1: bring you the best podcast on your Miami Dolphins. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get in depth research based in film study and
Speaker 1: analytics and connecting the dots. Over the last three years,
Speaker 1: I've written over three hundred articles for locked on dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com and posted over six hundred podcast on Locked
Speaker 1: on Dolphins as part of a locked on podcast network,
Speaker 1: and my goal here is to develop that same trusted
Speaker 1: resource that you can count on for your daily Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins coverage. We're gonna have interviews with players, coaches, people
Speaker 1: that work in the organization behind the scenes. If you
Speaker 1: thought my previous podcast was in depth. Well then, baby,
Speaker 1: you ain't seen nothing yet. We have some big, big
Speaker 1: plans in store for this podcast and I'm itching to
Speaker 1: get it cranking and bringing you that daily dose here
Speaker 1: on the Drive Time Podcast with Travis Wingfield. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be theorizing commentary talking about which direction the Dolphins could go,
Speaker 1: both in the off season. In season, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: riding up on Miami Dolphins dot com from yours truly.
Speaker 1: We'll have reporting from games and practices and training camp.
Speaker 1: We're gonna cover the draft. If you followed along with
Speaker 1: me in twenty nineteen, we had weekly articles on Saturdays
Speaker 1: talking about the star players in college football that might
Speaker 1: be of interest from the Dolphins. We had videos up
Speaker 1: on the Twitter timeline at Wingfield NFL breaking down the
Speaker 1: film of all the players both in college football as
Speaker 1: well as the professional ranks with your Miami Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: the in season coverage will be recapping the games, the players,
Speaker 1: and the stories from the locker room, from the press box,
Speaker 1: on the road, at practice, and at training camp. If
Speaker 1: you came to love Locked on Dolphins, this podcast is
Speaker 1: going to be like Locked On Dolphins, but with even
Speaker 1: more access to the football team than ever before. I
Speaker 1: want to get the mailbag segments going. We want to
Speaker 1: engage with the fan base. I don't want to just
Speaker 1: publish my articles and pod cast and have a set
Speaker 1: and forget to borrow a football term mindset. I want
Speaker 1: to hear from you, the fan, and that's on all
Speaker 1: social platforms on Twitter at Wingfield NFL, the same name
Speaker 1: on Instagram, and mainly in the specific threads where I
Speaker 1: put the call out for your questions here on the
Speaker 1: Drive Time podcast, but also in depth film reviews as
Speaker 1: well as previews of the upcoming opponents that coming Sunday.
Speaker 1: And best of all, this podcast has an unbelievable amount
Speaker 1: of support from research to graphics to production. We have
Speaker 1: a world class team working on this show from the
Speaker 1: world class organization that is your Miami Dolphins. My goal
Speaker 1: is to get you the information that you covet, that
Speaker 1: you desire, to give you more access to your favorite
Speaker 1: football team than you've ever had before, and to do
Speaker 1: it in an informative, entertaining fashion. This this show, right here,
Speaker 1: this game, this team is my passion, it's my dream
Speaker 1: job and it means everything to me, which leads into
Speaker 1: my final bit for this kickoff episode on the Drivetime podcast.
Speaker 1: What exactly this does mean to me? Because I grew
Speaker 1: up a Dolphins fan. We talked about the Madden games
Speaker 1: previously on the show here, But the first actual writing
Speaker 1: gig I had, was, of course, an unpaid job writing
Speaker 1: for a Dolphins fan blog. And I'll never forget my
Speaker 1: first piece writing about Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown back
Speaker 1: when they shared the backfield in two thousand five. I
Speaker 1: was on Dolphins message boards typing out long form persuasive posts,
Speaker 1: trying to find the upshot to any in all situations
Speaker 1: regarding this Dolphins football team, and trying to go the
Speaker 1: optimistic route. I attended games in two thousand three and
Speaker 1: two thousand eight in Miami, coming all the way across
Speaker 1: the country from Washington State. In addition to experiencing the highs,
Speaker 1: I've also experienced all the lows. The devastation of the
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams retirement back in two thousand four, the shock
Speaker 1: and awe of the Ted Gin draft pick over Brady Quinn.
Speaker 1: I remember running around my house and telling all my
Speaker 1: roommates about my A hat that I earned in two
Speaker 1: thousand eight as a fan of the A F C
Speaker 1: East champion Miami Dolphins. And when it comes to Sundays
Speaker 1: in the fall and the winter, anyone who knows me
Speaker 1: knows better than to expect me to be anywhere else
Speaker 1: besides watching my Miami Dolphins. That is not negotiable. I'm
Speaker 1: watching the greatest football team every time they buckle the
Speaker 1: Chinche traps. And it's been that way since two thousand
Speaker 1: five and before that. Who out there remembers following the
Speaker 1: games on NFL Game Center where they showed you the
Speaker 1: little graphic of a football field and the team's helmet
Speaker 1: moving the football down a simulated field with no visual
Speaker 1: evidence of what was going on. Quite a far cry
Speaker 1: from the last couple of years. When I had a
Speaker 1: chance to come to Miami for a pair of games
Speaker 1: in ten and twenty nineteen, was there in attendance to
Speaker 1: watch the Dolphins beat the Buffalo Bills on that Charles
Speaker 1: Clay dropped to end the game. I was also there
Speaker 1: for the Miami Miracle, the craziest sporting event I think
Speaker 1: I've ever seen live, will probably ever see live. Was
Speaker 1: there this year for both the Bengals and Jets victories,
Speaker 1: the Adam Gates return and that crazy overtime finish over
Speaker 1: the Bengals as I have enjoyed covering this team from
Speaker 1: afar for the last three years, but now the opportunity
Speaker 1: to cover this team up close and bring you guys
Speaker 1: that same passion, honesty and integrity that we had in
Speaker 1: previous podcast and previous stops here before the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Some quick hitting facts about me before we get out
Speaker 1: of here for our first official episode. I am very
Speaker 1: happily married to my beautiful wife and we are expecting
Speaker 1: our first child, a daughter, on the way in May.
Speaker 1: We have two cats, ConA and Wilson. And yes, Wilson
Speaker 1: was named after Albert Wilson, as we adopted him right
Speaker 1: after that overtime thriller against the Bears. My vices are
Speaker 1: diet coke, but only from McDonald's. How do they get
Speaker 1: to taste so crisp? I never understood that, as well
Speaker 1: as energy drinks, particularly the Bang brand. I enjoy the
Speaker 1: occasional Scotch on the rocks. I'm an absolute television and
Speaker 1: film buff. My favorites are Breaking Bad and pretty much
Speaker 1: anything Leonardo DiCaprio does, and growing up in the Pacific
Speaker 1: Northwest in the nineties, I am a die hard Mariners
Speaker 1: fan through and through, going on twenty years now without
Speaker 1: a postseason birth. I am a Washington State alump go Coog's,
Speaker 1: and since the SuperSonics broke my heart more than a
Speaker 1: decade and moved to Oklahoma City, I am here by
Speaker 1: adopting the Miami Heat in the NBA. Let's go Heat,
Speaker 1: And on top of that, I'm ready to fully inundate
Speaker 1: myself with the South Florida lifestyle. My wife and I
Speaker 1: cannot wait to call the greater Miami area our new
Speaker 1: home and start this next chapter of our lives. So
Speaker 1: that should just about do it for our first edition
Speaker 1: of Drive Time. We are developing some new content for
Speaker 1: future podcast this week and will be on the ground
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis to cover the media availability of coach Brian
Speaker 1: Flores as well as general manager Chris Career. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to some of the players, watch their on field workouts,
Speaker 1: and simply provide the most comprehensive coverage on the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins that you're going to find out there anywhere. I
Speaker 1: can outwait. Fins up, everybody, don't forget to subscribe, rate
Speaker 1: and review the podcast. Follow me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL.
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