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Speaker 3: And on today's variety show for week number six, we
Speaker 3: welcome in Daniel Oyafusi of the Miami Herald. We're gonna
Speaker 3: talk some schematics Dolphins at the five game mark. I
Speaker 3: guess the new quarter poll?
Speaker 6: Ish?
Speaker 3: I guess the quarter polls after four games and a quarter, right,
Speaker 3: We're gonna go ahead and do it. After this game,
Speaker 3: talk some defense and offensive schematics and where things could
Speaker 3: get even better for your Miami Dolphins. Plus Kyle Krabs
Speaker 3: for five on Finch Draft, We're gonna hear from Deshaun Elliott,
Speaker 3: Emmanuel Agba, as well as Cedric Wilson and a whole
Speaker 3: bunch more. Our Friday detour takes us into an in
Speaker 3: depth look at Deshaun Elliott's presence in that defensive backfield
Speaker 3: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Draft Time podcast. Heye Gaffe, as we
Speaker 3: do every Friday, Let's welcome in my guest Daniel Oyafusi
Speaker 3: of the Miami Herald. Joining me now on this Friday
Speaker 3: variety show ahead of the Week six matchup against the
Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers here at hard Rock Stadium is the great
Speaker 3: Daniel Oyuafussi from the Miami Herald.
Speaker 6: Daniel, welcome back in, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having Travis.
Speaker 3: Always happy to do that, and you know we I
Speaker 3: think the last time you came on the podcast was
Speaker 3: back in training camp. We discussed some of the you know,
Speaker 3: new schematics you might expect from Vic Fangio's defense and
Speaker 3: just general expectations of the Dolphins team in general. Before
Speaker 3: we get to the defensive chatter here, because no, you're
Speaker 3: a big defense guy, a big offense guy. I'm just
Speaker 3: curious to get your overall bird's eye view what you've
Speaker 3: seen through five weeks this year from the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's definitely been a fun start to the season.
Speaker 8: I know, you know, from the last time I was
Speaker 8: on the pod, I said that I was very bullish
Speaker 8: on this team on both sides of the ball. But
Speaker 8: starting with defense studient, starting with the offense, I'm not
Speaker 8: sure anyone could have foreseen, you know, this type of
Speaker 8: historic start to the season. I thought that with the
Speaker 8: continuity of you know, Tua and another same seat schemes
Speaker 8: from year one to year two, Mike m Dane was
Speaker 8: play caller and a lot of the core guys being back,
Speaker 8: I thought that we could expect very big things. But again,
Speaker 8: most yards through the first five games NFL season, I
Speaker 8: don't know if anyone predicted this type of historic start,
Speaker 8: but we do have that history and that trend of
Speaker 8: year two Shanahan style of offenses, where whether you look
Speaker 8: at year two of the Rams going to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 8: year two of the Atlanta Falcons, when Kyle Shanahan was
Speaker 8: the OC going to the Super Bowl. I think even
Speaker 8: the first full year of Jimmy Garoppolo with the San
Speaker 8: Francisco forty nine ers going to the Super Bowl, even
Speaker 8: that before with the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers winning
Speaker 8: MVP in a second season, you have this trend of
Speaker 8: those offenses really taken off.
Speaker 2: But to say that they were going to be top
Speaker 2: one and.
Speaker 8: All these major statistical categories, I think even you know,
Speaker 8: the most bullish fan with I said, maybe that's.
Speaker 2: A little bit over zealous.
Speaker 8: So yeah, definitely definitely been exciting to see the way
Speaker 8: this offense has grown in terms of scheme of personnelities,
Speaker 8: the little nuances and rinkles that they're instituting every single week.
Speaker 8: It's really fun to break that down. On the defensive
Speaker 8: side of the ball, yeah, I think we've seen a
Speaker 8: little bit of growing pains. We've seen some really strong
Speaker 8: performances mixed in with some unexpected and maybe disappointing performances
Speaker 8: against some of the better offenses, better quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 8: I again was very bullish on this defense. I thought
Speaker 8: that this was a unit that has had and still
Speaker 8: had the potential to be a top ten unit.
Speaker 2: I thought they were going to hit the ground running.
Speaker 8: Obviously, the injury to Jalen Ramsey kind of was tough,
Speaker 8: tough below for that unit, but you know, you have
Speaker 8: seen some encouraging signs. It's just a matter of all
Speaker 8: that coming together, guys kind of sailing into those new
Speaker 8: roles in it's a completely different scheme from what they're
Speaker 8: being expressed them to.
Speaker 3: I couldn't speak enough this offseason about an expectation of
Speaker 3: growth in the second year of the offense. And you
Speaker 3: mentioned all the stops they had previously, like even that
Speaker 3: second year of the Browns, like they were substantially better,
Speaker 3: And I go back to the Niners. I'm glad you
Speaker 3: mentioned that with Garoppolo because he came in I think
Speaker 3: it was the second year right of Shanahan being there
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, and they got off to a really
Speaker 3: rocky start, but he won the final five games there
Speaker 3: as the starting quarterback. But I remember in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 3: I was operating a quarterback evaluation website and I was
Speaker 3: one of the art I wrote was how Brian Hoyer
Speaker 3: was going to shock the football world and take a
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen nine Ers team to New Heights, and I
Speaker 3: was a little bit premature on that with my Niners
Speaker 3: hype that year. I think that once I got their
Speaker 3: quarterback in place, that kind of changed the landscape for them.
Speaker 3: But you also make an interesting point about the offense,
Speaker 3: you know, hitting the ground running with the continuity they
Speaker 3: have this year. Obviously, the first game of the season two,
Speaker 3: it goes for four to sixty six. The offense goes
Speaker 3: for over five hundred, and that's been their average so
Speaker 3: far this season. But I thought you you kind of
Speaker 3: saw that last year in terms of, you know, the
Speaker 3: first game of the year not their best performance offensively
Speaker 3: against the Patriots. Then it was a slow start against
Speaker 3: the Ravens before you had that explosion, and then you
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, Tua gets injured, comes back, The
Speaker 3: first game against the Steelers is not ultra explosive, but
Speaker 3: then you hit that stretch of games where it was
Speaker 3: just fireworks, fireworks, fireworks, And now from week one you
Speaker 3: see that kind of take hold already. So I think
Speaker 3: that speaks to the continuity offensively, And the reason for
Speaker 3: this long winded rebuttal to you, Daniel is to kind
Speaker 3: of take us into the defensive side of the football.
Speaker 3: You mentioned being bullish on that side, and you know,
Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey, everyone knows who he is his career accomplishments,
Speaker 3: but I almost feel like because of his versatility and
Speaker 3: the defense and just the skills that he offers and
Speaker 3: the way he can expand your scheme, I would almost
Speaker 3: compare it to like losing your quarterback on offense in
Speaker 3: a lot of ways. And so the reason I want
Speaker 3: to get into that is because I'm curious to hear
Speaker 3: about how you think this defense and the team in general,
Speaker 3: but specifically the defense can kind of have an offensive
Speaker 3: like surge if that makes sense, Like can they put together,
Speaker 3: you know, the continuity within the same season, get this
Speaker 3: scheme down and expand and become the defense like you
Speaker 3: mentioned that a lot of folks were bullish.
Speaker 2: On Yeah, well that's the hope.
Speaker 8: I mean, the one thing that you want to kind
Speaker 8: of put things in perspective, you would hope that Again,
Speaker 8: I think Dick Dangel is definitely still experimenting. We've seen
Speaker 8: some changes in the secondary, not only in terms of injury,
Speaker 8: not only Jalen Ramsey not playing at all this season,
Speaker 8: but you know, they haven't played a lot Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 8: who's kind of dealt with some nagging injuries that's forced
Speaker 8: Adrey Van Ginko to step up into some different spots
Speaker 8: and he's been great a revelation so far this year.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I think the addition of Ramsey honestly could
Speaker 8: probably or possibly change the kind of the complexion of
Speaker 8: this unit, especially what you do in the back end.
Speaker 4: You know his.
Speaker 8: Obviously, you know that he's a shutdown corner in previous
Speaker 8: stops in this similar to a style of defense. He's
Speaker 8: played that star role in the nickel spot. So again,
Speaker 8: it just adds to the to the flexibility that you
Speaker 8: have in there. And again, I think that when we
Speaker 8: entered this season, we started open training camp, the expectation
Speaker 8: was that in most cases you're exaving Howard On, who
Speaker 8: I think has had a pretty solid strong start to
Speaker 8: the year. I saw some next Gen stats the sampley
Speaker 8: has given up like tenth viewist.
Speaker 2: Yards and zone coverage. So he's actually had a pretty.
Speaker 8: Nice adjustment and a man had these games to more
Speaker 8: of his own scheme. And then you expectations that you're
Speaker 8: going to have Jaylen Ramsey, you know, to top ten
Speaker 8: cornerbacks on the outside kind of on their own islands,
Speaker 8: and then your clear.
Speaker 2: Kohu and the nickel.
Speaker 8: And the fact of the matter is, you know, nobody's
Speaker 8: making excuses, but when you lose a guy like.
Speaker 2: Jamal Ramsey, you have to make some adjustments.
Speaker 8: So we saw Eli Apple on the outside to start
Speaker 8: the season, and then they moved Cater out there. Tough
Speaker 8: game against Stefan Daks, a really tough matchup, and then
Speaker 8: they move him back inside when you see some better results.
Speaker 2: So they're still figuring things out on the back end.
Speaker 8: Up front, you know, they're doing some different runs. I
Speaker 8: think that that is a bit of adjustment for guys
Speaker 8: like Christian Wilkins and Zach Seeler, and then even at
Speaker 8: the linebacker position with Jeron Baker in new addition David Long.
Speaker 8: So again there is an adjustment period. Like nobody wants
Speaker 8: to use excuses, it's the NFL and whatnot, But yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean when you have a lot of guys, a
Speaker 8: core group of guys that have done something so completely
Speaker 8: different from what they you know, what they've done from
Speaker 8: the first four years of the first couple of years
Speaker 8: of their career, there is a bit of an adjustment period,
Speaker 8: So I think that over time Banjo will figure out
Speaker 8: what you know, fits his player's best he'll put them
Speaker 8: in those roles consistently, and then we should see better
Speaker 8: play and better improvement from that unit.
Speaker 3: I think that the adjustments in the lineup we saw
Speaker 3: after the Buffalo game against the Giants was was really
Speaker 3: impressive and just kind of tells you that there is
Speaker 3: a finger on the pulse of what's working in terms
Speaker 3: of the coaching staff and decisions, because I thought those
Speaker 3: adjustments really had a big impact in that Giants game.
Speaker 3: And you allude to the entire group there front, back
Speaker 3: and second level of the defense, but I want to
Speaker 3: go back to the front part because you mentioned a
Speaker 3: couple of guys there that I thought had their best
Speaker 3: games of the year on Sunday against the Giants. And
Speaker 3: you know, albeit a banged up offensive line and a
Speaker 3: group that has surrounders so many sacks this year, and
Speaker 3: they're struggling offensively, but like Christian Wilkins's first step quickness,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter who he was facing, it was impressive.
Speaker 3: Zach Seeler's strength and the arsenal of moves he has
Speaker 3: where he can kind of you know, chop rip and
Speaker 3: do all the swim moves and stuff that he does
Speaker 3: and really utilize the length and leverage that he plays with.
Speaker 3: And then David Long, I thought, also had his best
Speaker 3: game of the season. And I think that Daniel, I
Speaker 3: want to hear your opinion. I think those three guys
Speaker 3: could be really big keys to get in the defense
Speaker 3: to play at the level we saw against the Giants,
Speaker 3: against the Broncos, against the Patriots, because with this defense
Speaker 3: that we talked about this summer so much, the light
Speaker 3: boxes you want to operate from to give you more
Speaker 3: help on the back end. Those guys' ability to you know,
Speaker 3: four double teams anticipate plays and win they're one on
Speaker 3: one matchups, I think could go a long way. So
Speaker 3: I just want to kind of get your feeling on
Speaker 3: do you agree with that and how do you think
Speaker 3: those three guys alone could really help create a positive
Speaker 3: ripple effect across the rest of the defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think the hallmark of like the vic Bangel defensive though,
Speaker 8: the two high structures and what they do on the
Speaker 8: back end in terms of post snap rotations and whatnot.
Speaker 8: But the bedrock of the unit is having a solid
Speaker 8: front and really a solid front seven, so to speak,
Speaker 8: that can really maintain that line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know.
Speaker 8: Vic said, you know, they're just looking for consistency in
Speaker 8: those guys. You know, it's tough on guys like Christian,
Speaker 8: Wilkins and Zach. So those guys are taking on double
Speaker 8: teams I think at a higher rate than maybe they
Speaker 8: have in years past of having these lighter boxes and whatnot.
Speaker 8: And then you know, I think that there is a
Speaker 8: lot more responsibility on the linebackers inside guys to kind
Speaker 8: of diagnose their gaps and to make sure that they're
Speaker 8: in the right spots as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that it definitely starts upfront.
Speaker 8: It was a very good signed to see Christian, especially
Speaker 8: you know, he had a hit a great rep.
Speaker 2: I think he was kind of on like a shade
Speaker 2: technique game.
Speaker 8: He just had a great like swin move and I
Speaker 8: think he got to the to the quarterback and like
Speaker 8: like less than precent, like listen, two point five seconds.
Speaker 2: It was just incredible.
Speaker 8: So seeing stuff like that, especially with you know, moving
Speaker 8: guys around and maybe planning some uh some techniques that
Speaker 8: they maybe they're not used to or customs to That
Speaker 8: was a good sign as well. But it really does
Speaker 8: start with those guys having that consistency upfront because Vic
Speaker 8: like he wants, he wants to stay in those two
Speaker 8: hot structures he wants, especially pre snap, so it is
Speaker 8: important to maintain that line of scrimmage. And again a'lbeit
Speaker 8: against an under man and banged up offensive line, it
Speaker 8: was good to see him do what they were expected
Speaker 8: to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that we've seen the results against the
Speaker 3: teams they faced have essentially kind of reflected the performance
Speaker 3: of the opposing quarterbacks this season. You know, Justin Herbert
Speaker 3: and Josh Allen have both been so good this year
Speaker 3: and it's been a struggle for you know, the Patriots,
Speaker 3: Broncos and Giants, and the Dolphins defense has made sure
Speaker 3: those offenses didn't get against them. You have another offense
Speaker 3: coming in here this week and the Panthers who have
Speaker 3: been struggling mightily, and so we'll see how the results
Speaker 3: go there. But I think folks will be kind of
Speaker 3: waiting for the Philly and Case games to really gauge
Speaker 3: how far this defense has come. And then even then
Speaker 3: you have a bye week and kind of splits the
Speaker 3: season and a half right there, and you have eight
Speaker 3: more games after that, so a lot of time to
Speaker 3: get you know, the I guess your identity down as
Speaker 3: a defense and figure out exactly who you are and
Speaker 3: what you want to be going forward. The offense obviously
Speaker 3: already has that stuff. Lockstock and Barrel are ready to go.
Speaker 3: Highest scoring offense in the National Football League. And so
Speaker 3: as we have this entire conversation, Daniel just curious because
Speaker 3: you know, the fans hear my excitement about this team
Speaker 3: every day going back to February, whenever the off season
Speaker 3: really begins. But from someone that you know can be
Speaker 3: maybe a little more levelheaded than than I am, I
Speaker 3: just wanted to gauge how you think this team has
Speaker 3: performed based upon your expectations back in September, and how
Speaker 3: you think you maybe have changed those expectations from here
Speaker 3: going forward.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say definitely overall, they've they've exceeded my expectations.
Speaker 8: And I got to say, if you if you had
Speaker 8: seen some of the text messes I've gotten from friends,
Speaker 8: especially after that Denver game, man, then yeah, OUs, there's
Speaker 8: a lot of excitement after seventy point outing, but you
Speaker 8: know it's a marathon not a sprint, but yeah, I
Speaker 8: mean entering the season, I saw this team as a
Speaker 8: as a playoff team. I saw them as a team
Speaker 8: that could contend for the division talent wise, I saw
Speaker 8: them as a team that could stack up against any
Speaker 8: team of the AFC.
Speaker 2: And I think that five games is the season. I'm
Speaker 2: not wavering off of that obviously.
Speaker 8: I think I'd like to see a little bit more
Speaker 8: from the defense as a whole, but I think that
Speaker 8: they can get there, especially as they get Jalen Ramsey back,
Speaker 8: they get Jalen Phillips back, and they just kind of
Speaker 8: overall figure out what they want to do. Like you
Speaker 8: mentioned identity as a unit, they hone in on that
Speaker 8: over the second half of the season. I think that
Speaker 8: we'll see more improvement offense wise. I mean, this is
Speaker 8: clearly the best offense in the NFL. And I say like,
Speaker 8: I think that there's certain matchups that could test them
Speaker 8: a bit. Like you mentioned matchups against Kansas City Philly
Speaker 8: with strong defensive fronts and strong defenses. I'm really curious
Speaker 8: to see how they match up and what changes and
Speaker 8: improvements they make from the Buffalo game where they kind
Speaker 8: of stumbled a bit. But I mean, it's tough to
Speaker 8: match up with the you know, the electricity and the
Speaker 8: explosiveness of this offense. So yeah, I mean I still
Speaker 8: see them. I think that the overall expectations have changed
Speaker 8: a bit. You know, I think that I kind of
Speaker 8: view them in higher regard than I did entering the season.
Speaker 2: I think that they're a legit super Bowl team.
Speaker 8: So again, every game counts the most, but you do
Speaker 8: kind of look at some of those matchups with more
Speaker 8: of the heavyweights and kind of put a little more
Speaker 8: stock to that to see how they how they measure up.
Speaker 3: When you talk like that, it makes me look ahead
Speaker 3: to like, man, I can't wait for this game and
Speaker 3: this matchup and this potential maybe.
Speaker 2: Even play week a time.
Speaker 6: But that's the thing, man, Like.
Speaker 3: I got to enjoy this and you know, really be
Speaker 3: present in each single week because like I think that
Speaker 3: you know, for a Dolphins fan, you haven't been spoiled
Speaker 3: like you have been through the first five games of
Speaker 3: this season in a long time. So to be present
Speaker 3: to really enjoy these games and not lose sight of
Speaker 3: a three score victory that you know you expect maybe
Speaker 3: but you got it, Like, still enjoy it every minute
Speaker 3: of those games, Daniel. The reason we have you on
Speaker 3: is to make us smarter as football fans. The secondary
Speaker 3: reason is to promote your work here. What do you
Speaker 3: got coming on the pipeline here for the Miami Herald
Speaker 3: and otherwise.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So, first off, and then thanks for having me.
Speaker 8: You can check out all my work at Miami hero
Speaker 8: at Miami herol dot com for one subscription to Miami
Speaker 8: Herald as well. Yeah, I mean, we've had a bunch
Speaker 8: of stories this week on the new edition of Chase
Speaker 8: Claypool Vic Dangel's commence on the Defense as well. I
Speaker 8: got a fun story coming out about the speed debate
Speaker 8: in the locker room. That's always a fun topic of
Speaker 8: in Tyree Jalen Wadoor. He mosted Devanie Chan as well
Speaker 8: some other guys who are kind of contending for that.
Speaker 2: Top spot as well.
Speaker 8: So yeah, and then as well as the Dolphins of
Speaker 8: Death podcast comes out every week everywhere you get podcasts
Speaker 8: as well as on YouTube.
Speaker 3: Daniel O Yafusi, Miami Herold, keep doing your thing, man,
Speaker 3: love your coverage. Likewise, thank you man, and away he goes,
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 3: and come back on the other side and get you
Speaker 3: soundbites from coach McDaniel's Friday media availability and also welcome
Speaker 3: in my guest, the great Kyle Krabs. That's Next Draft
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Speaker 6: By I don't know.
Speaker 3: As of this taping, I do not yet have the
Speaker 3: Dolphins injury report. By the time you guys hear this,
Speaker 3: you probably do, so go on over to at Wingfield
Speaker 3: NFL to find who is up, who is down. I
Speaker 3: think we have a pretty good idea based upon who
Speaker 3: will be available. From coach McDaniel's Friday morning press conference,
Speaker 3: Rob Hunt good to go, Like he mentioned, sounds like
Speaker 3: Connor Williams could be questionable, and a lot more there.
Speaker 3: We'll come back and get some more audio here from
Speaker 3: coach McDaniel on Connor Williams, who spoke about that injury
Speaker 3: and how they're kind of getting through the process of
Speaker 3: determining what's best for Connor here in terms of playing arresting.
Speaker 3: But we do have a Panthers injury report, and man,
Speaker 3: it's not good for the Panthers. Running back Miles Sanders
Speaker 3: is down. Safety Von Bell and Xavier Woods are both down,
Speaker 3: So their top two safeties in addition to their top
Speaker 3: cornerback and the top linebacker all going to be out
Speaker 3: probably a problem when you're facing the best offense in
Speaker 3: the National Football League.
Speaker 5: So too is.
Speaker 3: Guard Chandler Zavalla, and then questionable are Derek Brown and
Speaker 3: Brian Burns. If they don't have those two guys, Gosh,
Speaker 3: could be a lot of points on Sunday for the
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. Let's go back to us, though, because coach
Speaker 3: was asked about the Connor Williams injury, and he gives
Speaker 3: you a really good kind of timeline here of how
Speaker 3: they've played this thing out, why he was down for Buffalo,
Speaker 3: up for the Giants, not practicing this week.
Speaker 6: Let's go to Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 7: You know, when we made the decision for him to
Speaker 7: play last week, we knew there'd be residual effects from that,
Speaker 7: just because you know, that's the that's why we're so
Speaker 7: overly cautious about soft tissue stuff, and so it's we
Speaker 7: expected it to be hurting him and it has h
Speaker 7: and so we've been, you know, adjusting on the fly,
Speaker 7: and he'll, uh, he won't practice today, but he'll be
Speaker 7: doing stuff with with the trainers and you know, kind
Speaker 7: of like our normal process with guys that we don't
Speaker 7: want to We need to find out more information, but
Speaker 7: we don't want to put them through the rigors of
Speaker 7: the entire practice. So he'll be doing that. We'll we'll
Speaker 7: assess that and then make a call on his his
Speaker 7: game day status.
Speaker 3: And as it stands right now, the Dolphins are up
Speaker 3: to seven players who have been or gone to the
Speaker 3: injured reserve or inactive part of the roster that will
Speaker 3: require a designation to return, and you only get eight
Speaker 3: of those. And so with Azukama and Craig Craft being
Speaker 3: potentially six and seven, after Nick Needham, Rob Jones, Jeff
Speaker 3: Wilson have all been designated for return, you will certainly
Speaker 3: get Jalen Ramsey and Tron Armstead. That means, of course
Speaker 3: craig Craft Asukama could be six and seven, and then
Speaker 3: Devon ah Chan would be number eight. Right, So you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to make a decision at some point to
Speaker 3: save one of those returns because what if something happens
Speaker 3: to Tua or Tyreeker, whatever the case may be. So
Speaker 3: coach was asked about that. Here's his answer on how
Speaker 3: they decipher roster moves. Based upon those eight designations you
Speaker 3: get for return.
Speaker 7: Of course, that's a that's a huge you know, it's
Speaker 7: a huge part of the decision making process that we're
Speaker 7: very aware of. And you know that factors into how
Speaker 7: many how many players you put on i R, and
Speaker 7: that was you know.
Speaker 2: You do the the.
Speaker 7: Best thing that you can for the team, knowing all
Speaker 7: the information, so that that's on the front end of
Speaker 7: those discussions is okay, well, who's going to potentially be
Speaker 7: available from a physical standpoint, what implications does that have
Speaker 7: on the rest of the roster if we didn't put
Speaker 7: them on IR or if we do, and then the
Speaker 7: obvious rules and regulations of of the i R system
Speaker 7: and in present day, so that the you don't have
Speaker 7: concerns with with you know, best best judgment decisions that
Speaker 7: are of the appropriate intent and you know, really thought through.
Speaker 7: So it's definitely on our radar.
Speaker 3: Finally, well, Chase Claypool play on Sunday. What have the
Speaker 3: discussions been around the possibility of him getting a workload?
Speaker 6: Here's coach.
Speaker 7: Really, there's a there's a third day of evaluation, which
Speaker 7: is today that because I don't want to get ahead
Speaker 7: of myself, but I've been very pleasantly optimistic. You know,
Speaker 7: he's done an impressive job. You know, we we have
Speaker 7: a very are The system that he's he's going in
Speaker 7: is very specific, a lot of different words that mean
Speaker 7: different things, and he's he's definitely hungry and ready to
Speaker 7: contribute it. Just you know, there's a lot of things
Speaker 7: in play there in terms of the specific defense and
Speaker 7: what we actually need in this in this particular game.
Speaker 7: But you know, it's really just evaluating that and what
Speaker 7: he what he offers to the to the team, you know,
Speaker 7: in his current state relative to to the other guys,
Speaker 7: and what roles would those be. So a lot of
Speaker 7: that intentionally has to be cloudy for you know, competitive purposes.
Speaker 3: So that's the head coach of your Miami Dolphins football team.
Speaker 3: We usually do Kyle Krabs a segment at the end
Speaker 3: on Friday, but I wanted to save the dtour for
Speaker 3: the end of the podcast here because I think it's
Speaker 3: a perfect way to go into the weekend ahead of
Speaker 3: the Carolina game. So without further ado, let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and welcome in my weekly guest to break down the
Speaker 3: weekend in college football, the great Kyle Crabs joining us
Speaker 3: as he does every single Friday. Here to give us
Speaker 3: a preview ahead of the college football landscape is the
Speaker 3: great and very tired Kyle Crabs from Locked on NFL Scouting,
Speaker 3: Locked on Dolphins.
Speaker 6: Kyle, what is it about three hours of sleep these days?
Speaker 6: With a newborn around the house.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is I did take the first
Speaker 1: shift of one dad duty last night because of Thursday
Speaker 1: night football, so I was up from ten to one,
Speaker 1: and then my wife took one to four. So that's
Speaker 1: exactly what it is. It is three hours of sleep
Speaker 1: is what we're working with right now.
Speaker 6: But that's okay. We're doing well.
Speaker 1: And if if you can't get up for this weekend
Speaker 1: of football, then you gotta do what Mike McDaniel says
Speaker 1: and check your pulse. So we're alive and well here.
Speaker 3: For some reason, I didn't know that you were going
Speaker 3: to go check your pulse there, and I was going.
Speaker 6: To jump in and say it, but that's bad on me.
Speaker 3: Bad hosting job for not knowing my guests well enough
Speaker 3: to know that he knows to check your pulse. Moniker
Speaker 3: round here.
Speaker 2: I mean, ready, let's.
Speaker 6: Go, baby, So let's talk about some college football this weekend.
Speaker 3: And I understand that your eyes are affixed as the
Speaker 3: rest of the nation will be.
Speaker 6: Kyle, I'm so excited.
Speaker 3: That College Game Day is in Seattle this weekend, where
Speaker 3: the majority of the Washington State Cougar fan base resides
Speaker 3: post college.
Speaker 6: Go get Pat McAfee, Go get them boys, Go Koog's.
Speaker 3: Kyle tell us about the game on Saturday because this
Speaker 3: is a fun one man looking forward to.
Speaker 1: It that said, how can I make this about me? Last,
Speaker 1: and now all of the Washington Fates State fans said, Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're going to make it about us since he
Speaker 1: made about you. This game's got a lot of NFL
Speaker 1: talent on it. When you I mean you look at
Speaker 1: both teams with Washington and their passing game with Michael
Speaker 1: Pennix and obviously his career revival after being at Indiana
Speaker 1: and dealing with some injuries, and the wide receivers of
Speaker 1: Rome Adonze and Jalim Polk and Jalen McMillan like that
Speaker 1: trios is good with any wide receiver trio that you
Speaker 1: will find in college football. And then on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, they got guys like Braylan Trice
Speaker 1: and Zion to pull a Fatui who's been there for
Speaker 1: a few years. And the linebacker number five, who I'm
Speaker 1: still working on perfecting the pronunciation on and I don't
Speaker 1: want to say his name wrong. So number five the
Speaker 1: linebacker too. There's significant talent on Washington side of the ball.
Speaker 1: And then oh, by the way, Oregon has Bonix their
Speaker 1: own quarterback eligible who has made waves since transferring over
Speaker 1: from Auburn, and Troy Franklin at wide receiver as a
Speaker 1: big time, highweight, speed guy who's capable of making big
Speaker 1: plays down the field. And then they themselves have this
Speaker 1: talent on the defensive side of the ball. Jordan burch
Speaker 1: is physically talented, Brandon Dorless like, there's there's a lot
Speaker 1: to like about this matchup with these two teams, and
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a great showcase for college
Speaker 1: football in the three thirties league.
Speaker 6: They need their own Brett breck Heisen out there.
Speaker 3: To go ahead and give us a by name pronunciation
Speaker 3: audio file on the website to help you out with that,
Speaker 3: because that's tough man fun story for you.
Speaker 6: Ahead of you, dub Orgon.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw Javon Holland a very
Speaker 3: spirited Orgon supporter and alumni tweet a certain moniker that
Speaker 3: we abide by in eastern Washington and apparently now in
Speaker 3: Eugene as well.
Speaker 6: But he got it wrong. So it's huck the f
Speaker 6: you skis right.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say on the podcast. This is
Speaker 3: a clean show. It's a family show. But he said
Speaker 3: huck the and then just said the word keep like
Speaker 3: I can't say it, but you can understand what I'm
Speaker 3: going with. And so Savon Achmed's walking buy me the
Speaker 3: locker room, and I say, hey, Savon, come get your boy.
Speaker 6: He's it's it's hucked the Fuskies.
Speaker 3: Man, It's not what he said, and so Savon goes
Speaker 3: over there and correct him, and Javonn's like it is
Speaker 3: and then he deleted the tweet. So hey, he's keeping
Speaker 3: the rivalry fresh, he's keeping it going. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: You got to understand that the Washington State fans know
Speaker 3: exactly what the saying is. Javon does now too as well,
Speaker 3: So those guys are fired up. I think they t
Speaker 3: shirt bet on the games. That's fun to fun to
Speaker 3: follow there. What about a game either before or after that?
Speaker 3: You get your your main course at three thirty. These
Speaker 3: games typically are at the eight o'clock or seven o'clock hour,
Speaker 3: but three thirty on the East coast out here for
Speaker 3: Washington and Oregon.
Speaker 6: What else you got on this slight this week you're
Speaker 6: looking forward to, my friend?
Speaker 1: I look at USC and Notre Dame and that's another
Speaker 1: game that's a later game than the three thirty kick
Speaker 1: for Washington. That game kicks off at seven thirty on NBC,
Speaker 1: and USC, ironically enough, not known for defense, but they
Speaker 1: do have a safety, Kaylin Bullock, who I really like,
Speaker 1: long rangey, athletic type, good ball skills. So he's somebody
Speaker 1: who I'm eager to watch against this Sam Hartman Notre
Speaker 1: Dame offense where they can play balanced. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see how he plays the run because he is a leaner,
Speaker 1: lighter guy. That's a matchup that I think has some
Speaker 1: NFL ramifications as well that I'll be really dialed in.
Speaker 3: On Sam Hartman's hair. Just if it falls off, does
Speaker 3: it just like regrow back into place?
Speaker 1: I would assume. So that thing is impressive, that maine
Speaker 1: of his and he's got and he pairs it with
Speaker 1: the beard now too, like he literally looks like the
Speaker 1: West Virginia Mountain.
Speaker 6: Your mascot at the wrong school for that, my friend,
Speaker 6: it's impressive.
Speaker 3: It's funny, man, because, like I remember watching him on
Speaker 3: that Netflix show that followed around high school quarterbacks, and
Speaker 3: he was on some like really really downtrodden program, Like
Speaker 3: I think it was a new program, and they had
Speaker 3: like fourteen kids and they were just awful, and he
Speaker 3: looked like he was about eleven years old even as
Speaker 3: a high schooler. So it's weird to see him now
Speaker 3: going from that show to this like grown ass.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty damn good football player too. Kyle, you
Speaker 3: said it off for the college landscape. What are you
Speaker 3: looking forward to this weekend here at hard Rock Stadium?
Speaker 3: I know you were supposed to be down this weekend,
Speaker 3: but I know you're not making it because life gets
Speaker 3: in the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that's what happens when you kid doesn't sleep,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get the household green light to leave.
Speaker 1: As far as Miami looking looking forward to, seeing is
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson going to be activated this week? What is
Speaker 1: the running game going to continue to look like? Obviously
Speaker 1: Miami has had so much success running the ball this
Speaker 1: year and that was what we were all interested in
Speaker 1: seeing as far as the evolution of this offense and
Speaker 1: a little bit of adversity with Devon A. Chang going
Speaker 1: on observe and obviously excited to see him back as
Speaker 1: soon as possible within what he's able to do and
Speaker 1: be healthy and be the best version of himself. But
Speaker 1: keeping that momentum rolling right because after this one, you've
Speaker 1: got a couple heavyweight opponents looming on the schedule. And
Speaker 1: being balanced offensively I think is really going to be
Speaker 1: something that Miami would benefit from in those matchups, and
Speaker 1: you want to see that continue this week with the
Speaker 1: momentum that they've had the last few weeks.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to look ahead in the schedule here,
Speaker 3: but man, I can't wait for that case game. I
Speaker 3: think it's going to be such an important one in
Speaker 3: terms of these teams competing for hierarchy in the AFC
Speaker 3: and just the matchup alone. Like watching the game last
Speaker 3: night against the Broncos, I don't know if the Chiefs
Speaker 3: offense is you know what it used to be when
Speaker 3: they had Tyreek Hill running around there. But I mean
Speaker 3: they did win a Super Bowl last years. Maybe I'm
Speaker 3: way off base. On that one, But anyway, that's down
Speaker 3: the road Panthers this weekend. Is there a game that
Speaker 3: you may be circling? Like I said, I know it's
Speaker 3: tough in your situation to really make any plans, but
Speaker 3: is there a game you're possibly circling here?
Speaker 1: I would feel very confident in saying that I will
Speaker 1: be down for the game after the bye nice the
Speaker 1: Raiders game. Believe it's the first home game after the
Speaker 1: bye week eleven?
Speaker 6: Correct?
Speaker 1: Is that that one is almost a definite? And I
Speaker 1: would like to try to make New England, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna be a wait and see mode on.
Speaker 5: That one as well.
Speaker 3: You've got a couple of games in the Northeast as
Speaker 3: well that you can maybe go and be a road
Speaker 3: I will be at Philadelphia in week so, oh silly,
Speaker 3: perfect tough man. Well, I know there's lots of for
Speaker 3: some reason, that's a PA Dolphins fans, So go enjoy
Speaker 3: it with those guys, and hopefully stay away from the
Speaker 3: Eagles fans that chant the spell their name of their
Speaker 3: team at you as you walk into the building.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 3: Kyle Krabs locked an NFL scouting lockdown, Dolphins appreciate it,
Speaker 3: my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Thanks kras Away.
Speaker 3: He goes, let's go ahead and take our last break
Speaker 3: right there. We'll come back on the other side. We'll
Speaker 3: talk to Deshaun Elliott, Emanuel Agba, and Cedric Wilson about
Speaker 3: the DCC Heavy Hitters event and also our Friday D
Speaker 3: Tour looks at Deshaun Elliott's presence in the defense and
Speaker 3: why he might be the key for how this defense
Speaker 3: can grow and evolve. That's next Draft Time podcast to
Speaker 3: your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 3: So one of the themes on the show today for
Speaker 3: our Friday D Tour is taking a look at the
Speaker 3: impact of Deshaun Elliott and why his presence and his
Speaker 3: inclusion in the defense I think ultimately will take this
Speaker 3: defense where it wants to go. When they get Jalen
Speaker 3: Ramsey back, that obviously, clearly, very clearly changes things, right,
Speaker 3: And I think you could look at this one of
Speaker 3: two ways. You could say the statement I'm about to
Speaker 3: make is that I think this defense is constructed to
Speaker 3: have Jalen Ramsey in order to operate at its best.
Speaker 3: And you could say, well, hey, don't put together a
Speaker 3: d defense that relies upon a twenty nine year old
Speaker 3: cornerback staying healthy. If you don't have him, you're not
Speaker 3: going to be anywhere near the same. But also, that
Speaker 3: guy's been pretty durable his entire career. He's one of
Speaker 3: the best players in the National Football League. Why not
Speaker 3: construct your scheme around your best player the way you
Speaker 3: do an offense around your quarterback?
Speaker 6: Right makes sense.
Speaker 3: But what I'm here to tell you is that Javon
Speaker 3: Holland has taken on some of that responsibility in terms
Speaker 3: of varied zone looks and different responsibilities that kind of
Speaker 3: see him scavenge the entire defensive backfield and even the
Speaker 3: second level of the defense to hunt for opportunities to
Speaker 3: make plays. And when they get Ramsey back, I believe
Speaker 3: they will have the ability the capability of doing that
Speaker 3: to either side. And why is that because they have
Speaker 3: a center field safety that they didn't have last year
Speaker 3: or really any of the prior years going back to
Speaker 3: when three coaches ago. You know what I'm saying, before
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, and yeah, they did have one guy, but
Speaker 3: he was Javon Holland, and so you limited the ability
Speaker 3: for number eight to play make because they didn't have
Speaker 3: the range the guy that could keep the cap on
Speaker 3: top of the defense, the sheer tackler on the back end.
Speaker 3: And as much as I love Brandon Jones and think
Speaker 3: that he has a very specific role that can be
Speaker 3: accentuated in a National Football League defense, I don't think one.
Speaker 6: Of those roles is playing center field safety.
Speaker 3: And so when you had that combination, Holland was a
Speaker 3: little more geared towards getting away from the football playing
Speaker 3: that deep center field position on the field, and that's
Speaker 3: just not gonna create many opportunities to make plays because
Speaker 3: go back to what Lance Zerline, the great scout for
Speaker 3: NFL dot Com, always says his least favorite position to
Speaker 3: scout in college is safety because you have to watch
Speaker 3: the entire game tape, and the chances are when you
Speaker 3: have a post safety you're gonna wind up seeing maybe
Speaker 3: eight plays where that player was an impact in the game.
Speaker 3: But you have to have it because if it's one
Speaker 3: play that they break, you have to make that play
Speaker 3: on the back end to prevent a long touchdown. A
Speaker 3: lah wasn't a touchdown, but the long Latavious Murray touchdown
Speaker 3: or the long Latavious Murray play in the Buffalo game
Speaker 3: not good tackling in the third level and it goes
Speaker 3: for a thirty four whatever yard game. It was to
Speaker 3: set the Bills up to score one of their many
Speaker 3: many touchdowns in that game. And of course, without Deshaun
Speaker 3: Elliott in that game, you allowed a season high forty
Speaker 3: eight points. And I thought Deshaun Elliott's worst game was
Speaker 3: the opener against the Chargers and we allowed thirty four points.
Speaker 6: But since he's.
Speaker 3: Been back and playing at a high level, seventeen twenty
Speaker 3: and sixteen points allowed and technically nine points allowed last week.
Speaker 3: When you take out the factor of the defense for
Speaker 3: the Giants scoring a touchdown. So the entire Friday detour
Speaker 3: here is to tell you that Deshaun Elliott's presence and
Speaker 3: his growth and his maturity and everything he offers in
Speaker 3: the back end will accentuate what this defense can do
Speaker 3: for me disguise from an execution standpoint with number eight
Speaker 3: alongside him. But when number five gets back, that is
Speaker 3: when the fireworks begin. So let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 3: from Vic Fangio on how he's seen Deshaun Elliott develop
Speaker 3: and grow and his knowledge of the defense now that
Speaker 3: he has five games, or rather four games under his belt,
Speaker 3: but five games for the team.
Speaker 6: Here's coach Fangio.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree with that. I think he's, you know,
Speaker 9: played played well here of late. I think he's improved
Speaker 9: from week to week, which is what you would expect
Speaker 9: and hope for. I think he's very diligent in his preparation,
Speaker 9: takes a lot of pride in his performance, and it's
Speaker 9: reflecting that he's been improving.
Speaker 3: Kind Of funny when you can leave a SoundBite in
Speaker 3: for a SoundBite where coach says that he agrees with
Speaker 3: what you just said, so kind of plays off of
Speaker 3: my entire Friday detour that Deshaun Elliott could be the
Speaker 3: key to unlocking this defense's ability to ballhawk and playmake.
Speaker 3: But the reason he said I agre is because I
Speaker 3: told him I talked to de Shaun Elliott in the
Speaker 3: locker room and he told me that he feels he
Speaker 3: now has a better understanding of the defense and what
Speaker 3: he's asked to do. So Fangio agrees. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and roll that interview here with the Shawn Elliott. We're
Speaker 3: gonna start talking about the Dolphins Challenge Cancer Heavy Hitters
Speaker 3: event that occurred earlier this week. That was the theme
Speaker 3: of these three chats I had in the locker room,
Speaker 3: but with the Shawn, I didn't want to bypass the
Speaker 3: opportunity to talk about this because it was where I
Speaker 3: wanted to go with the detour today. So here's Deshaun
Speaker 3: Elliott talking about both the DCC Heavy Hitters event but
Speaker 3: also his presence in the defense and kind of what
Speaker 3: the role that he sees himself playing here and really
Speaker 3: good selfless, good teammate stuff here from the Dolphins safety
Speaker 3: to Seawan Elliott. The first thing I want to start
Speaker 3: with is you were at the DCC Heavy Here's event
Speaker 3: last night?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 10: How was that?
Speaker 11: It was amazing? My first event playing for the Dolphins,
Speaker 11: So I felt like it.
Speaker 4: Was some guy needs to go to just because.
Speaker 11: Like I heard about mister Dinkins what happened to him
Speaker 11: last year, So that nothing why I went, and knowing
Speaker 11: that JP was the president of it is also realis
Speaker 11: out with being able to go there and mingle and
Speaker 11: talk people that I've never met before and just like
Speaker 11: making connections.
Speaker 4: It's really cool, had great food, might.
Speaker 11: A laughing So I think I think it was great.
Speaker 11: I will will again if I read you a chance
Speaker 11: to go again.
Speaker 6: Do you think to ride next.
Speaker 11: Year about what ride? Yea God blesses me to be
Speaker 11: here another year. I definitely ride.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how far did they keep?
Speaker 4: Ji Bro tell me it was like thirty five miles.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing better.
Speaker 11: My peloton a most I've done this quote. So if
Speaker 11: I'm doing one peloton with the Florida Son, I'm probably
Speaker 11: probably gonna do six.
Speaker 3: In real life, it goes my pretty fast, pretty quick.
Speaker 6: Uh So, what was the event all about? Like just
Speaker 6: kind of mingling with with fans and people have.
Speaker 4: Been connected by Yeah, I mingle with fans.
Speaker 11: It's kind of like me people who have some type
Speaker 11: of hand in the organization.
Speaker 4: And it's meaning so different people who you wouldn't even
Speaker 4: think I had to hand in an organization.
Speaker 5: It's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: It's like white people by our lives.
Speaker 11: Someone's really loved the Dolphins and just being able to
Speaker 11: just to set out of your comforign.
Speaker 6: So with the top plunder music event in the National football.
Speaker 4: That I heard, yeah cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well pivot to football.
Speaker 6: Now if you don't mind.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 6: I think last time I spoke to he was training camp.
Speaker 6: We did a little one on one and he talked
Speaker 6: about getting more and.
Speaker 3: More comfortable of defense. Yeah, I just kinda want to
Speaker 3: get a progress report on that. Five weeks into the season,
Speaker 3: you've played a few games. Now, how do you think
Speaker 3: you're coming along with just knowledge and communication and defense.
Speaker 11: I think that I'm trying to get the ins and
Speaker 11: outsid of defense. I think that overall we can do better.
Speaker 11: Given with myself, it's like working together as all eleven
Speaker 11: sometimes if maybe we're out there playing at the eight men,
Speaker 11: playing as nine and mostly bring out a way to
Speaker 11: play all as eleven, I think we can be in
Speaker 11: the league defense. I think that it's gonna take a
Speaker 11: little while, but we're all eager.
Speaker 4: To get it done right now.
Speaker 11: You know, our offense is being known as being a
Speaker 11: highly tied them more offense in NFL, and we haven't made.
Speaker 4: That much noise.
Speaker 11: But I think that as the season goes on, I
Speaker 11: think we can keep up with them, going to get
Speaker 11: our name out there too as well. We just got
Speaker 11: to keep doing what we want to do through our
Speaker 11: hands down make plays.
Speaker 3: Have you played this much center field or half field
Speaker 3: safety in your career? Really showing your range this season.
Speaker 4: I did my.
Speaker 11: Third year, my first year starting for the Ravens, I
Speaker 11: did which was different from me, But I think now
Speaker 11: it is different because I know a lot more ball,
Speaker 11: so I.
Speaker 4: Can get to certain places, but.
Speaker 11: I have certain momentations I know I have, and I
Speaker 11: can get certain places that I couldn't do when I
Speaker 11: was younger, when I was more physically gifted.
Speaker 4: Than I am now.
Speaker 11: But I think now it's a lot more easier, just
Speaker 11: because seeing schemes whatnot, knowing what the offense is gonna
Speaker 11: run if you're gonna get at the right time, and
Speaker 11: also just playing off a ball like he as me
Speaker 11: a lots on communication on my back end really improving,
Speaker 11: so that feels good.
Speaker 3: It seems like and this is going back to last
Speaker 3: year's tape which you probably don't even haven't probably seen,
Speaker 3: but it seems like Jabond's and more positions to be
Speaker 3: around the football because last year was playing so much
Speaker 3: twenty yard post. Yeah, do you kind of take a
Speaker 3: lot of pride in being the guy that can freak
Speaker 3: him up to do that stuff.
Speaker 11: I would do whatever the defensive coordinator wants me to do.
Speaker 11: And I told myself I first got here, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 11: bus spencing the.
Speaker 4: Game of my love.
Speaker 11: And yes I want to get paid, but I also
Speaker 11: want to make sure Jamon Howell gets good, gets to
Speaker 11: notoriety needs and get some money there. I feel like
Speaker 11: he deserves and that means I gotta do whatever he's
Speaker 11: not doing.
Speaker 4: I'm okay with it. I'm down to do whatever.
Speaker 6: So my predictions, you guys get a couple of picks
Speaker 6: this weekend.
Speaker 4: We need you.
Speaker 11: We were in a negative last week, so I think
Speaker 11: we need at least two picks this week.
Speaker 4: Who's gonna get him? God bless us. I hope he's mean.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you, man than it's good stuff. I said
Speaker 6: it was gonna be Javaon and Cater.
Speaker 3: I would love to see it be DeShawn, especially after
Speaker 3: I propped him up like that. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: hear from two more guys on attending d c C
Speaker 3: heavy hitters. It was Emmanual Ogba and Cedric Wilson. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and start with the massively tall Emmanual Ogba.
Speaker 6: I wanted to ask you about the event. How how
Speaker 6: was how was it? And uh did you learn anything
Speaker 6: to do anything?
Speaker 5: Oh? No, the event was awesome. It was amazing.
Speaker 12: On just to see how many you know donors donated
Speaker 12: to the I think.
Speaker 5: It was like ten point four millions.
Speaker 12: I know, I know, it's it was crazy just to
Speaker 12: see you know, all the donors us have met a
Speaker 12: lot of diehard fans. I met the lady named Lisa.
Speaker 12: I believe that's my man.
Speaker 5: I met your name.
Speaker 6: She's a big fan of traftime podcast much.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, so yeah, she's awesome.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 12: I did tell her I was going to say a
Speaker 12: hot wave to her coming out to a tunnel next
Speaker 12: home game. But it was awesome me and all those
Speaker 12: great people, and you know, it's all the money went to.
Speaker 12: It's going to a great cause then, and I appreciate
Speaker 12: you know, the invites to go witness, you know, the.
Speaker 5: Donuts being there.
Speaker 6: Why is that so important to you?
Speaker 12: It's important to me because I know my dad had
Speaker 12: posstay cancer, so I know he beat it, but you know,
Speaker 12: just to bring awareness into cancer. You know, they're helping
Speaker 12: you know, cancer patient. Also, the the ride, you know,
Speaker 12: the my ride or is it a one hundred miles?
Speaker 3: So Deshaun said he like six with his Max said,
Speaker 3: was telling me thirty five on.
Speaker 6: Be like powered by. That's like basically cheating.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 12: No, I did make some promises knowing that I was
Speaker 12: going to do thirty five everything.
Speaker 6: That's pretty good.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so but now it's just awesome me and
Speaker 5: all those people.
Speaker 6: Did you grow a chance to meet mister Jenkins Jason Jenkins?
Speaker 12: Of course I met him a couple of times, you know,
Speaker 12: RP time. But it was a great dude from Houston. Yeah,
Speaker 12: so it was. It was awesome me and him. But
Speaker 12: you know, you know, his dream got to live on.
Speaker 12: You know, you got to keep helping put out your dreams.
Speaker 3: So his wife Liz the chair, now, right, was it
Speaker 3: pretty empowering seeing her bee?
Speaker 5: So yeah, was definitely.
Speaker 12: She got on stage, I know she was, she was
Speaker 12: a little nervous, but she got on stage, you know,
Speaker 12: present the award to like the top donors and all that.
Speaker 5: That was awesome to see her to step up and
Speaker 5: do stalk like that.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you, man, Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank big shout out there to Lisa Siegel, a big
Speaker 3: fan of the Drive Time podcast and of her Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: If you don't know who she is, you're probably not
Speaker 3: paying attention on social media. One of our greatest fans
Speaker 3: and biggest supporters. Lisa, You're the best. Appreciate you and
Speaker 3: the players do as well. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 3: from wide receiver Cedrick Wilson Junior, who also attended the
Speaker 3: event and talked a little bit about the expectations of
Speaker 3: the bike ride.
Speaker 6: Come March first, stop by and ask you like about
Speaker 6: the event?
Speaker 11: How was it?
Speaker 6: What did you guys do there?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 10: It was It was a smooth, nice event, a set up.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure I didn't know really much about it
Speaker 10: until I didn't find out about toil last minute, but
Speaker 10: I guess they were showing the new where DCC would
Speaker 10: be holding their new area for the F one event,
Speaker 10: and just having all the donors in there.
Speaker 5: It was a pretty nice.
Speaker 4: Turnout, a lot more, a lot more people than.
Speaker 10: I saw at the event last year, and then I
Speaker 10: mean most of a lot of familiar faces because I
Speaker 10: did the bike ride, So that was that was nice
Speaker 10: to see those people again because I haven't seen them
Speaker 10: since the bike ride, and just it kind of like
Speaker 10: takes your mind away from just pure football and puts
Speaker 10: your mind towards like what the rest of the world's
Speaker 10: problem has going on, and just a little small things
Speaker 10: that we can do to help.
Speaker 3: Missing a crackback block now so important when you got
Speaker 3: other pickres coming on like that, right.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, crack back blocks are easy compared to what.
Speaker 4: Some people were battling.
Speaker 6: How hard you ride?
Speaker 11: Last year?
Speaker 5: I did the what's the levels?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 4: I think I did it? Thirty five? I think I.
Speaker 10: Think I did thirty five. I kind of I did
Speaker 10: it more so with enjoyment. It was because I had
Speaker 10: the electric bike. I had the Yeah, I'm not really
Speaker 10: a big bike rider, so I don't think I could
Speaker 10: have pulled it off like some of the guys like JP.
Speaker 5: I'm not as one hundred.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he does one hundred.
Speaker 6: I think it is he does a real bike.
Speaker 4: I think I don't. I don't don't think I can
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 3: That's a different level of condition that you really can't get,
Speaker 3: like on a football field, right on the bike.
Speaker 10: To get that type of condition, yeah, you have to
Speaker 10: ride the bike to be able to do that.
Speaker 4: And I'm definitely not a bike rider like that.
Speaker 3: Everyone has a connection to cancer in some way. Do
Speaker 3: you have something like that, a story that's personal to
Speaker 3: you about cancer?
Speaker 10: I don't necessarily, but I mean I did have a.
Speaker 5: Previous college teammate that passed.
Speaker 4: Away that at a younger age.
Speaker 10: I think he was only like row around my age
Speaker 10: like twenty seven in that past. But so that was
Speaker 10: probably the closest connection that I have. But I know
Speaker 10: a lot of my teammates in the past, teammates.
Speaker 4: That they battle with it.
Speaker 10: So I mean, it's just like it's just like I'm
Speaker 10: going through one of my brothers is going through it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I appreciate it, man, No, no problem. The
Speaker 6: whole locker room setting is funny.
Speaker 3: Man Like, it feels like it's unapproachable, but then I
Speaker 3: get to the guys and talk to him and they're
Speaker 3: always so great with me. So I hope to get
Speaker 3: more audio on the podcast as we go along. It's
Speaker 3: my favorite part I think of putting the podcast together
Speaker 3: is talking to the guys one on one. So there
Speaker 3: you go, Cedric Wilson, Emanuel Ogbad, Deshaun Elliott, thank you
Speaker 3: to all those guys. And if you haven't registered yet
Speaker 3: or given you a donation to one of your favorite
Speaker 3: riders at DCC, go ahead and do that because it's
Speaker 3: such a fun evet and really the thing that we
Speaker 3: pride ourselves on most down here in South Florida. You
Speaker 3: also support the membery of Jason Jenkins and of course
Speaker 3: his wife Liz Jenkins, who is now on the chair
Speaker 3: of the DCC. So good stuff there all around. Let's
Speaker 3: go beat the Panthers on Sunday. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: get out of here, and I'll come back with you
Speaker 3: guys on Sunday night to recap that game. And then
Speaker 3: we have a primetime game the following week, so late
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