Speaker 1: All right, the audible back on the air. Common characters here,
Speaker 1: John Kill, Jimmy Kim, we're fixtures here, you know. Every
Speaker 1: now and then we get somebody. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: maybe got Jerome Baker coming in from As. Finally you
Speaker 1: got the O t a S going on. You got
Speaker 1: the veterans and the rookies together, Rookie Minicamp last weekend,
Speaker 1: and then now you've got the beginning of the O
Speaker 1: t A S, the O t A season. If you
Speaker 1: schedule started this week. Uh, they've been at since Monday. Tuesday.
Speaker 1: They'll come back I believe Thursday. Uh, and then uh
Speaker 1: and then next week. Kind of a bouncy schedule. It's
Speaker 1: kind of week to week to say exactly what days
Speaker 1: are gonna go. But they'll practice. They'll work three days
Speaker 1: a week. And uh, John, I missed. I missed Monday,
Speaker 1: and I was out of town, and uh, I spend
Speaker 1: a little guy out here a little bit for the
Speaker 1: practice the other other practice, and and the first thing
Speaker 1: that struck me watching this practice, and look, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't care how you know Ryan Fitzpatrick throws. I'm
Speaker 1: not care how Josh Rosen, how many interceptions he throws.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, Christian Wilkins out what you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I want to look at the coaches and see how
Speaker 1: they're um, how it's different, how it's different, and what
Speaker 1: they're doing, and what kind of personality this team has.
Speaker 1: And and just in the brief time watching John when
Speaker 1: I saw is I saw no wasted time. You know,
Speaker 1: when you when this this drill ends and this one starts,
Speaker 1: you better get your ass over there because you no
Speaker 1: loafing there's because it's it's gonna start. It's gonna start
Speaker 1: right away. It's on one man's watch, and that's the
Speaker 1: head coach, Brian Flores. And it's good to see, you know,
Speaker 1: guys with urgency, even at this time of the year
Speaker 1: when you're just trying to get through and learn systems
Speaker 1: you learn, trying to learn new plays and schemes and
Speaker 1: where to line up and what leverage you need and
Speaker 1: where the ball needs to be located and how how
Speaker 1: the running back is gonna run this route on on
Speaker 1: zone or versus man coverage and little things. They're going
Speaker 1: at a pretty good clip. And they're going because the
Speaker 1: head coaches demand ending that they hustle. The head coaches
Speaker 1: demanding that their discipline. The head coach is demanding and
Speaker 1: all the coaches, you know that filters down from one man,
Speaker 1: and that's Brian Flores, but all the coaches, from coordinators
Speaker 1: to two guys that are offensive assistance, they have to
Speaker 1: be accountable for the tempo and the pace and the
Speaker 1: and the culture that's trying to be instilled in O
Speaker 1: t As. That carries over into the summertime when you start,
Speaker 1: you know, training camp. It's funny, John, because you you
Speaker 1: look at you know, we're we're kind of looking at
Speaker 1: players and coaches. Well there's coaches and coaches too. You know.
Speaker 1: Brian has to stand in front of his group and say,
Speaker 1: this is what I expect, this is how we're gonna
Speaker 1: run our drills. This is how I don't want to
Speaker 1: I wante guy's lollygagging out there. It's time to get
Speaker 1: your drill, sprint and get your ass over there. Let's
Speaker 1: get to work. And I think so. So the coaches
Speaker 1: have to the coaches that haven't been around Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and or been around that that that that organization that
Speaker 1: he's come from. Um, they gotta they gotta understand what
Speaker 1: his parameters are, what he wants for them to drive
Speaker 1: his players by, and so you can see it out there.
Speaker 1: And then the next thing I saw is, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a price to be paid out there. There's a
Speaker 1: little price, you know, if a guy jumps off side
Speaker 1: or whatever, there's a price to be paid out there.
Speaker 1: Guys are take off, take off, And that's what I've
Speaker 1: seen coaches running with the group and stuff. So he's automatically,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's beginning from day one. You know, you
Speaker 1: can talk about, you know, curtailing penalties, you can talk
Speaker 1: about curtailing mental errors, you can talk about doing your
Speaker 1: job and not trying to freelance, not trying to do things.
Speaker 1: But until there's a price to pay, it's easy to say, well,
Speaker 1: he won't do it next time. We'll get him in
Speaker 1: the meeting room. Yeah, well we will get that cleared
Speaker 1: up the meeting room. And I like to I kind
Speaker 1: of like that instantaneous Hey, you know, you screwed up,
Speaker 1: get going. You're held accountable for your mistakes. And and
Speaker 1: I don't want it to make it sound like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a massive chaos that guys are running around there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of teaching going on in the midst
Speaker 1: of having a up tempo, high energy practice because he's
Speaker 1: not afraid these this coaching staff is not afraid to
Speaker 1: pe to play, to go over a play because of
Speaker 1: a mistake. They're not not gonna say, like you we
Speaker 1: just talked about. Hey, we'll take care of it in
Speaker 1: the meeting room in the next install. Hey, we don't
Speaker 1: want you to do this. Do it over again, do
Speaker 1: it right, and now get back in the huddle for
Speaker 1: the next play, because we gotta get going. We can't
Speaker 1: we can't keep the other eighty nine guys on hold
Speaker 1: for you to have this repeat every every so often.
Speaker 1: So make a mistake, correct a mistake, get back into
Speaker 1: the script, and get back into what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: You know, he reminds you. It kind of reminds me.
Speaker 1: And look it's early on, I mean, but you know,
Speaker 1: he reminds you. One of my favorite movies, this movie
Speaker 1: Crimson Tide Um Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman and they're
Speaker 1: on there and and and there's a there's a fire
Speaker 1: in the in the in the kitchen, and and there's
Speaker 1: chaos and then Gene Hackman puts a throws a throws
Speaker 1: a disaster drill on him in the middle and Denzel watching,
Speaker 1: Well why did you do that? He goes, You know what,
Speaker 1: anybody can do these things when they're not under durest.
Speaker 1: I want my guys to be able to do it
Speaker 1: when they're under durest and they've got to react and
Speaker 1: they've got to do something, and not that, but but
Speaker 1: I think that's the kind of mentality that this coaching
Speaker 1: staff has bring. I think there's gonna be situations out
Speaker 1: there where they put him in pressure situations and it
Speaker 1: doesn't go to hey, get well, get you know, feel
Speaker 1: comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. Right. That's where it all
Speaker 1: comes down to, because in a game, there's not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of times where if you've played or I've
Speaker 1: played in a game where wow, this is going so nice,
Speaker 1: that's exactly the way I dreamt about it. This is
Speaker 1: exactly way I went through walkthrough. It's mass chaos. You
Speaker 1: guys are running all over the place and you're trying
Speaker 1: to make plays, but you're still discipline enough to stay
Speaker 1: within the system throughout all these bodies flying around you
Speaker 1: or motion. You know, you're acting to motion. What leverage
Speaker 1: do I have? Oh? I missed him because he got
Speaker 1: outside of me. There's a lot of things that happened
Speaker 1: on every play in the National Football League, but you
Speaker 1: have to be able to be under control when everything's
Speaker 1: hit in the face. And I think that's the type
Speaker 1: of practice and that's the type of mentality that he
Speaker 1: wants to instill, even even the in these O t
Speaker 1: A s where it's voluntary, but if you're out there,
Speaker 1: it's mandating that you do your job, and you can
Speaker 1: there's a you can kind of tell there's an era
Speaker 1: of pressure out there. There's a little bit of you know,
Speaker 1: a little and look, I think the good thing about
Speaker 1: it from a from a if you're a fan and
Speaker 1: you're looking at this and say, well, what can we
Speaker 1: get out of this? I think the good thing about
Speaker 1: this is that all these players, every single one of
Speaker 1: these players out here, for the most part, are new
Speaker 1: to these Most of these coaches. There's a couple that
Speaker 1: stuck around, a couple that had been here before and
Speaker 1: in this and that, but for the most part, they're
Speaker 1: new to these guys. So they've they've got no they're
Speaker 1: they're not they're there's not card boss. First time first
Speaker 1: time you you I gotta I gotta you know what
Speaker 1: if I'm if I'm a five year veteran and I'm
Speaker 1: out there and I've been starting every game for five
Speaker 1: years and this staff comes in the first time, I
Speaker 1: was gonna I gotta prove myself from these guys. They
Speaker 1: don't know anything about me. Guys that are kind of
Speaker 1: in that that frame, you know, Laramie Tunsel, Guys that
Speaker 1: are in that three, four or five years, Avian Howard,
Speaker 1: and they know you're good. But I want to know
Speaker 1: what you do under can trust, you want to know
Speaker 1: what you do under Duret. I want to know what
Speaker 1: you do in terms of, hey, hop in there at
Speaker 1: free safety and run a couple of reps and you're
Speaker 1: a corner, you're a nickel, you know, let's see how
Speaker 1: you do. I want to put you in that situation
Speaker 1: because you might have to play there, and I think
Speaker 1: that's exactly what this team needs. I think the other
Speaker 1: thing to John is I think the youth in this team.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good group youth wise for for
Speaker 1: Brian and his staff to really influence them, because they're
Speaker 1: not looking. If you had a bunch of guys in
Speaker 1: here there seven, eight, nine, ten years in the league,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go, especially if they've been through a number
Speaker 1: of staffs. I've heard it, been there, done that. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna do the same shit I do. It served
Speaker 1: me well for eight years. I'm gonna keep doing the
Speaker 1: same stuff I used to do, just thinking I've got
Speaker 1: young guys that that that they're just trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, like these guys were drafted this year and
Speaker 1: some of the guys who were drafting that they're still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what life's like in the NFL.
Speaker 1: How are I And now you've got a group that
Speaker 1: they can mold these guys, I think a little bit
Speaker 1: more than a veteran laden roster. When when you're coming
Speaker 1: into this situation, just think about what you've heard over
Speaker 1: the past week. When you hear quotes like from Joe Flacco,
Speaker 1: it's not my job to get this rookie ready, well
Speaker 1: kind of it is. You know, I don't think that
Speaker 1: you have to, you know, play by play and rep
Speaker 1: by rep kind of critique him. But he's looking at
Speaker 1: you on how you do your reps. I'm sure that
Speaker 1: Jake Rudoc and Josh Rosen are looking at every rep
Speaker 1: that Ryan Fitzpatrick takes and whether Ryan Fitzpatrick is offering
Speaker 1: information or being helpful, that's not the important thing. The
Speaker 1: important thing is if they ask, you're there to give feedback.
Speaker 1: But watch how I do it, you know, watch how
Speaker 1: I go through these things and try to mimic me.
Speaker 1: Because I've been through six or seven offenses. I've been
Speaker 1: in the league fourteen years going into your fifteen season,
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've been around the block. I've been
Speaker 1: around good coaches. I've been around great coaches. I've been
Speaker 1: around some mediocre guys. Here's what I'm here's why I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do it this way. You know, this is
Speaker 1: what this staff wants. This is how I'm gonna adapt
Speaker 1: my wisdom. And it's your job, as a rookie or
Speaker 1: first year or second year guy, to kind of mimic
Speaker 1: me if you see me do something that's positive, because
Speaker 1: that's the way I wanted I wanted taught. So so
Speaker 1: you're learning on the job. So I think that you know,
Speaker 1: whether you're a second year, first year, third year guy,
Speaker 1: or you're a fourteen year guy, you're trying to do
Speaker 1: your job to the best of your ability to mimic
Speaker 1: what they've done. In the classroom to bring on the
Speaker 1: field because the guy behind you needs to do it
Speaker 1: that way too. And you know, it's a funny thing
Speaker 1: about the National Football League. You know John is in
Speaker 1: football in general, because I saw it in college a
Speaker 1: little bit too, but not not so much as is
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But you know, you come in here,
Speaker 1: and I remember when I came in, I was drafted.
Speaker 1: I was the first round draft pick. I come in
Speaker 1: Larry Gore and they drafted two line who outside linebackers,
Speaker 1: Larry Gordon one side, me on the other side. And
Speaker 1: and I came in and Bob Mathison was the incumbent.
Speaker 1: Bob Mathison was the guy that was that's they they
Speaker 1: want to practice. I lined up behind Bob Mathison right.
Speaker 1: I was number two in line. He was number one.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, that guy spend as much
Speaker 1: time helping me, you know, he and he knew down
Speaker 1: well here I was standing there for I was standing
Speaker 1: there to take his job. And and that guy couldn't
Speaker 1: have been more helpful, more supportive, more just from whatever
Speaker 1: I needed and really became a very very close friend
Speaker 1: of mine. And and as I looked around on that team,
Speaker 1: Now remember a lot of these guys on that team
Speaker 1: were guys that were kind of at the end of
Speaker 1: that arc of the seventh because I was in there
Speaker 1: with you know, Jake Scott was here, Dick Anderson was here,
Speaker 1: Larry Little, Kuchenberg, Langer Greasy. I mean, I came in
Speaker 1: with that whole towards the end of that that group's career.
Speaker 1: And and so those guys had no reason to to
Speaker 1: help guys. And and I'm watching and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Bob helping me, and I'm looking at someone talking to
Speaker 1: Larry Gordon and helping Larry. And then the next year A. J.
Speaker 1: Dewey and Bob bomb Hora comes in and I see
Speaker 1: Manny Fernandez, they're working with him, and I see Stanfield
Speaker 1: working with and I see these guys. They didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that. But and I but I think that's
Speaker 1: part in parcel of what what what will and can
Speaker 1: make this franchise get it back to where it was
Speaker 1: if you've got that kind of a mentality going into it,
Speaker 1: and it seems to be something of at least look,
Speaker 1: you can talk about all you want until you see
Speaker 1: it on a regular basis. They in games in situations,
Speaker 1: you know, when that guy gets pulled out of the game,
Speaker 1: does he go mope on the bench or do you
Speaker 1: come over and try to support the guy that they
Speaker 1: just went in, take the criticism and wait for his
Speaker 1: next opportunity. And I think that that goes back to
Speaker 1: the way the culture was built with those teams in
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, with the organization. I mean, that was
Speaker 1: just a given. And I think that happened more in
Speaker 1: that era than it does now because everybody is so
Speaker 1: individualistic in terms of my brand and the way I
Speaker 1: do it, Whereas if the organization or the culture takes
Speaker 1: care of it, you're morph into that once you become
Speaker 1: a member of the fabrica that football team. Because look,
Speaker 1: because you you you know that that's all you know.
Speaker 1: You come in to the league and that's what's going on.
Speaker 1: That's all you know. You don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: and somewhere else Cleveland or whatever, you know. It's like
Speaker 1: when I came in the league, there was when I
Speaker 1: came in the league, steroids were just coming onto the scene,
Speaker 1: and there was no rules against steroids, and and and
Speaker 1: there were teams that were steroid teams, and there were
Speaker 1: teams that weren't steroid teams. You know, don't don't. Shula
Speaker 1: was a you know, he was he was a stickler
Speaker 1: for the rules. These are the rules, these are rules.
Speaker 1: No well no, no, no, you know we're we're not
Speaker 1: we're not going out of the bat And it wasn't illegal,
Speaker 1: but it was you know, it was gray. Then there
Speaker 1: are other teams you go, you go there, you know,
Speaker 1: free Wheel, you're freewheel and everyone knew and you knew
Speaker 1: and and so you know, I always felt myself lucky
Speaker 1: to go to a team that more then I got
Speaker 1: to the other one. Who knows. I'll tell you a
Speaker 1: funny story. So I played in Toronto my first five
Speaker 1: or six years in Canada. So I get traded to Ottawa.
Speaker 1: And Ottawa was always a team that we had a
Speaker 1: really good record against, especially you know, whether they had
Speaker 1: equal talent or more talent. That year, we found a
Speaker 1: way in the second half to win. So I remember
Speaker 1: going in and and at halftime one game, you know,
Speaker 1: we were having our way with this team. And at
Speaker 1: halftime I see all these guys, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: taking whenever they were taking and and and it was okay.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden we started getting worn
Speaker 1: down as the season went on. I got mad one
Speaker 1: game and I said, why did you guys start taking
Speaker 1: that ship at the beginning of a game. We're getting halftime,
Speaker 1: and halftime hasn't been a problem the second half. The
Speaker 1: first half we're having a problem, right, So start taking
Speaker 1: that stuff earlier. But it's right, It's it depends on
Speaker 1: culture and where you're at and who's accustomed to, you know,
Speaker 1: doing whatever it is that's out there. See we're you know,
Speaker 1: me coming to the Dolphins and and having that kind
Speaker 1: of tutelage and that kind of atmosphere in there. I
Speaker 1: I could, I could, you know. And over the years
Speaker 1: that I played, the guys that played for the forty
Speaker 1: niners had the same kind of conversations with them, guys
Speaker 1: that played for the Charges when don Koreyelle was there
Speaker 1: and they were rolling pretty good without same kind of thing. Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You know those teams, those teams that were constant he
Speaker 1: win and all Pittsburgh, they all had that same mentality whereas, hey,
Speaker 1: you know this guy's you may not like this guy
Speaker 1: that we just drafted, but at some point he's gonna
Speaker 1: be he's gonna have to help us win a game,
Speaker 1: and if he's not ready then then then then it
Speaker 1: affects all of us. And so there's that now that
Speaker 1: there was the other things at the time. Cincinnati wasn't
Speaker 1: a good football team, Green Bay wasn't a good football team,
Speaker 1: and you talked to the guys there and they're like,
Speaker 1: jeeus a free for all up there, knowing you know, guys,
Speaker 1: guy in front of me there right, you know, I
Speaker 1: asked him one time once something. I just turns and
Speaker 1: walking away from me. So, you know, different franchise, different things,
Speaker 1: but kind of getting taken it back to where the
Speaker 1: conversation started. I just think that the mentality of this franchise,
Speaker 1: with the age group of people and with some of
Speaker 1: the veterans sprinkled in there. Keiko is a good example.
Speaker 1: You know, Keiko is a guy that's gonna any one
Speaker 1: of those linebackers. I don't care who he is, it
Speaker 1: comes up to him, is going to get an education.
Speaker 1: He gonna, Hey, this is this, this is how I
Speaker 1: do it. This is what I'm looking at. LOO got
Speaker 1: to look for this because if you see this, it
Speaker 1: means that you know, I think you know, I think
Speaker 1: he's and I think there's plenty of those guys out
Speaker 1: there in this football there's a lot of teaching going
Speaker 1: on and I really got to commend, you know, the
Speaker 1: staff for the way they're going about, you know, the
Speaker 1: work that they're putting in in the O tas and
Speaker 1: the attention to detail, because they know it's those little
Speaker 1: things that end up getting you in the end. It's
Speaker 1: those little things, that little mistakes that they're trying to correct.
Speaker 1: When you're trying to build a football team, you're trying
Speaker 1: to get to a point where these types of things
Speaker 1: are second nature to you. You don't have to think
Speaker 1: about them because they're already expected and you've wrapped them
Speaker 1: and you've done it, and you're not gonna do those
Speaker 1: types of things again to beat yourself. Those are the
Speaker 1: things that you can get done in O t A
Speaker 1: s and those are the things you can try to
Speaker 1: make it happen on a regular basis. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where the staff's going. And that's why you saw
Speaker 1: maybe all eleven guys taken off and running and the
Speaker 1: coaches running, because the attention to detail and all the
Speaker 1: stuff that you need to do to try to build
Speaker 1: that culture. So it's it happens second nature to you.
Speaker 1: Those are the things that that build winning franchises and organizations,
Speaker 1: I think, and it's it starts with O T A S.
Speaker 1: I might tell we got someone just off hot off
Speaker 1: the practice field. He's running, he's been running. I saw
Speaker 1: him out. It is hot off the practice field, too,
Speaker 1: isn't It definitely is Jerome Baker joining us here in
Speaker 1: the in the program, and Jerome it's you know you
Speaker 1: it's gone through the draft, has come through the rookie minicamp.
Speaker 1: Now everyone's together and really getting your first couple of
Speaker 1: practices under this uh, under this new h new coaching
Speaker 1: staff out here. What what's the what's the tempo, what's
Speaker 1: the mentality? Uh? As you guys got ready to get
Speaker 1: started these O T A s um just go out
Speaker 1: there improve it every day. Uh that's kind of what
Speaker 1: we just you know, do saying every day. So it's
Speaker 1: definitely being a hot one. It's definitely been tough, but
Speaker 1: I'm just constant gotta get better at something. You're not
Speaker 1: not for nothing to my brother, but you you're got
Speaker 1: a little pumped up there. You know. You spend a
Speaker 1: little time in the weight room this offseason. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: this year. Uh, you know, I definitely spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time in the room. So I'm definitely did you
Speaker 1: have a goal in your mind? And what did you want?
Speaker 1: What you want to do? Did you want to gain
Speaker 1: more weight? Did you want to just what? What? What
Speaker 1: was your what would you what do you? What do
Speaker 1: you want? And you still got still out of time
Speaker 1: doing it? But yeah, I just wanted to, um, just
Speaker 1: build a lot of a lot more body mass. Uh
Speaker 1: you know today I waited at so I want to
Speaker 1: play at two or third year on that ring? So
Speaker 1: uh what I was eighteens definitely spent some time away
Speaker 1: from Joan. What you learned about yourself after, you know,
Speaker 1: your first year, your rookie year, because for us watching
Speaker 1: you play, it seemed like you got better as the
Speaker 1: season went along, You got more comfortable, more familiar with
Speaker 1: where you needed to be in your drops or how
Speaker 1: you were gonna attack a running play when you watched
Speaker 1: yourself on film? What did you learn about yourself? A
Speaker 1: lot of time. I know what I have to do,
Speaker 1: I know what I you know would it be? But
Speaker 1: I just didn't have that confidence confidence of you know, um,
Speaker 1: letting others know speaking what I speaking out on what
Speaker 1: I see? UM and this shot. You know, I took
Speaker 1: that role head on and uh, um, just you know,
Speaker 1: be more vocal, be more of a later role. So
Speaker 1: so basically half of the equation is is the physical
Speaker 1: and mental, but a lot of it is communication when
Speaker 1: you're on the field. Because we were just talking about
Speaker 1: how practice is kind of like organized chaos and you
Speaker 1: have to kind of be comfortable when things get uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: That's where the communication on the field helps. I would
Speaker 1: assume right and communication kind of you know, uh relaxes
Speaker 1: everybody and gets everybody in that you know, the right page.
Speaker 1: So um, that's how I've really been focusing on this
Speaker 1: whole you know, O t a s uh and you know,
Speaker 1: just constantly get better at that, and that comes with
Speaker 1: a new system. I would assume a lot of different asks,
Speaker 1: I guess for you know, all eleven on defense, how's
Speaker 1: the scheme coming with with you and the defense? Are
Speaker 1: you guys getting used to calls and and different and
Speaker 1: familiarizing yourself with you know, just a little changes maybe
Speaker 1: on the defensive side. Yeah, you know, you just gotta
Speaker 1: learn the concepts uh. And the great thing about this
Speaker 1: defense you kind of just got learned the defense. You
Speaker 1: can't just learn where you're at in your spot. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's definitely easier on pretty much any player.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely been fun and I'm just constantly get better.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of how practice out there this
Speaker 1: afternoon or this morning, and uh, you've got a little
Speaker 1: running out there to do every now and then. Every
Speaker 1: now and then you gotta run in touch the wall
Speaker 1: over there. Yeah, it's a little a little kind of reinforcing,
Speaker 1: reinforcing rules and whatnot. Oh yeah, definitely, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Coach Floyd, he prized himself on being the best conditioning team,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we're gonna follow this lead and
Speaker 1: definitely go out there and you know, be the best conditions.
Speaker 1: And I saw so I don't know what they don't
Speaker 1: know what, I don't know whatever what someone did or
Speaker 1: whatever that they had a little run over. I saw
Speaker 1: coaches running. I thought I saw Josh boy Hamstring, the
Speaker 1: damn Traders jumping anybody. Renzo I thought wasn't running. It
Speaker 1: was not running walking over there and turned around back
Speaker 1: everyone everyone gets caught up in the in the running
Speaker 1: thing out here. Yeah. Yeah, if you you know you're
Speaker 1: part of the defense, you all got run, so pretty
Speaker 1: much everybody had to run how much? How much? Scheme
Speaker 1: wise on defense? Um, do you feel you guys have
Speaker 1: put in so far? Um? You know the great thing
Speaker 1: about that is, uh, you know, putting a lot of schemes.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just you kind of got to
Speaker 1: learn the concepts and you can, you know, change it
Speaker 1: as you go. So, uh, it's definitely a lot. But
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot we're seeing enough in the
Speaker 1: defense to kind of get a feel for what the
Speaker 1: concept is gonna be overalls as you move along. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can definitely start to feel how the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna be. Um. And now it's just really folcus on
Speaker 1: your technique and um taking ownership of it. So it's
Speaker 1: definitely all good. You had your rookie season last year
Speaker 1: and now you gotta hold new cropper rookies in here.
Speaker 1: You you kind of eyeball them a little bit. Let
Speaker 1: me take a look at this guy and see what
Speaker 1: he's all about. And some guys come in with some
Speaker 1: pretty heavy reputations in here. I mean, when you come
Speaker 1: to the NFL, your reputation kind of you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, so um, you know, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: teach as much as I know. It's kind of cool
Speaker 1: to see, you know, one of my old teammates here,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know, you kind of just trying to
Speaker 1: teach as much as you can. Uh. I know where
Speaker 1: they at their position as far as just you know,
Speaker 1: O T A S. They still got to stay here longer. Um,
Speaker 1: they're still going back to the hotel. So just kind
Speaker 1: of giving them much advice you can. And I'm trying
Speaker 1: to help him along the way. John Jenrey, We're just
Speaker 1: we're talking before you came, and we were talking about
Speaker 1: that that it's kind of an oddity in the NFL
Speaker 1: where you got you guys that come in they're standing
Speaker 1: behind you in line. They want to take your job,
Speaker 1: but you're helping him do You're helping them get better
Speaker 1: each and every day. That's a that's a pretty odd
Speaker 1: situation I think in the work environment where you sit
Speaker 1: there and you help some guy that that all he
Speaker 1: wants to do is beat your ass out and take
Speaker 1: your job from you. I mean, that's all about the
Speaker 1: compare to you are me. You know, I go out
Speaker 1: there every day and uh, I just try to be
Speaker 1: the best I can be. Um, you know, just helping
Speaker 1: the team as much as I can and helping a
Speaker 1: guy behind me. God forbid something happening to me, but
Speaker 1: that next guy behind me got to step in. So
Speaker 1: that's how I just go out there and play and
Speaker 1: just do my thing and uh, just try to be
Speaker 1: the best I can be. You know, we've asked a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys we had a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to about, you know, the different mentality uh that that
Speaker 1: your new head coach brings to the table. And then
Speaker 1: in the new staff, what has it been like for
Speaker 1: the players embracing a new message, embracing a new uh culture.
Speaker 1: I guess on defense, on offense, on special teams, getting
Speaker 1: getting all ninety guys going in the same direction. How
Speaker 1: has it been for you guys receiving the new messages
Speaker 1: and new new things up on the wall? Because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things that when you think about them,
Speaker 1: they're simple when you read them, but they mean a
Speaker 1: lot to you. I mean, the cool thing about us,
Speaker 1: we're very very young. Um so you know, we have
Speaker 1: a few veterans, um Bobby and all those guys, but
Speaker 1: but the most part we're pretty young. So we kind
Speaker 1: of just followed a coach flow lead and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he shown an NFL he can win. So who just
Speaker 1: follows leading and get to he and that means something.
Speaker 1: I would think when when you get a guy that's
Speaker 1: been with an organization that's once championships, that's been successful,
Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side, because you know, over the
Speaker 1: last few years you feel like you're in an offensive
Speaker 1: minded team and now you've got a guy that has
Speaker 1: led defenses to championships. That's got to mean something for
Speaker 1: you guys on that side because you know that that
Speaker 1: magnifying glasses on you pretty good right now. Oh, it
Speaker 1: definitely is. I mean coach flow. He'll walk in pretty
Speaker 1: much anybody position room. He's gonna ask you questions, he's
Speaker 1: gonna coach you up. Uh. You know, he really knows
Speaker 1: the defense to a t. So when he, you know,
Speaker 1: walks into the meeting room, he walks to the drill.
Speaker 1: Gotta be your a game that you know, it just
Speaker 1: sets the caution of our defense. You know, I have
Speaker 1: to play well and um, you know take your defense.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you saw the Christian Wilkins when the draft
Speaker 1: night jumps up, when jumps on Roger Goodelly, so you
Speaker 1: can see his his personality as soon as they mentioned
Speaker 1: his name as a as a draft pick for the
Speaker 1: Miami offense. Now you've been around him a little bit,
Speaker 1: is he that kind of Is he that does that
Speaker 1: his personality or he's a fun young guy? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he just go out there with most He really goes
Speaker 1: out there and play hard. But um, you know he's
Speaker 1: not afraid to less person out of the shows. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know that just brings energy to you know, the defense,
Speaker 1: so you know, we all take it. And that's just
Speaker 1: who he is. And it's that kind of I had
Speaker 1: guys who I played with him and then they a. J.
Speaker 1: Dowey was a good example. He comes in and I
Speaker 1: just kind of sparked our whole defense and kind of
Speaker 1: lifted you up. It seems like he might be one
Speaker 1: of those kind of guys that you know, has that
Speaker 1: personality and and has a game to go with it.
Speaker 1: Uh to totually carry a lot of guys along with him. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean he definitely got the game go with it. So, um,
Speaker 1: he can bring all energy one as long as you
Speaker 1: make plays. He he's a big athletic guy, and it
Speaker 1: seems like when you look at your defense the way
Speaker 1: you want to be multiple on defense. You need guys
Speaker 1: to play maybe you know the drop of that different
Speaker 1: position than you're accustomed to. And that is that what
Speaker 1: you were talking about about learning all eleven positions and
Speaker 1: how you're going about learning the defense because you never
Speaker 1: know where you're gonna maybe ask to be played. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what I'm talking about. You just got
Speaker 1: to learn the concepts of the defense. So if you
Speaker 1: plug anybody anywhere, they understand what's happening. Um. So he
Speaker 1: definitely can play multiple, multiple positions. So it's definitely watch.
Speaker 1: You've been busy during the offseason, get ready for for
Speaker 1: camps and get ready for the for the season everything.
Speaker 1: You're also been busy up in Cleveland. You're putting together
Speaker 1: a foundation up there. Microsoft's helping you out with that.
Speaker 1: With that, why don't you why don't you tell us? Uh,
Speaker 1: first of all, why why why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: And what is your foundation? Who do you expect to
Speaker 1: benefit with this foundation? Um? I mean since I was
Speaker 1: a little kid, I always wanted to just give back
Speaker 1: as much as I can. Me going to NFL it
Speaker 1: was just a blessing. But um, I definitely want to
Speaker 1: bless other people. So I had the opportunity with Microsoft
Speaker 1: to throw an event. Um, and it was similar to
Speaker 1: like a shark tank type of deal. They come up
Speaker 1: with the idea or business and uh, you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of just grow them and teach them little tips.
Speaker 1: It was definitely a cool experience of you know, you
Speaker 1: can just hear kids just wild imaginations. But um, it
Speaker 1: was kind of cool just to you know, help them
Speaker 1: know that it's possible. Like whatever you think of, it's
Speaker 1: definitely possible. And after words, and I got the chance
Speaker 1: to play mad with if you guys, Uh I won.
Speaker 1: But it was definitely fun. No, I don't take a
Speaker 1: lot on anybody now. Three definitely funny. So what did
Speaker 1: you see? How the kids that you're working with up there?
Speaker 1: They what are they looking for? What are were they
Speaker 1: looking for? Out of you people? Um? So somebody just
Speaker 1: to believe in them. Uh that's pretty much only thing
Speaker 1: they want, somebody just to say I believe in you
Speaker 1: and I can help me anyway you can't, I can't.
Speaker 1: And uh you know that's that's what I all I
Speaker 1: wanna do is just know that they have somebody you know,
Speaker 1: to look too, and I believe in whatever it is so.
Speaker 1: Um that was kind of like my whole mission of
Speaker 1: you know, my nonprofit. So that's definitely you hook up
Speaker 1: with Microsoft, certainly somebody that there's certainly uh you know,
Speaker 1: do a lot of things with youth and help them
Speaker 1: from everything they do with sorts of good A good
Speaker 1: partnership between you and them though, Oh yeah, definitely. I
Speaker 1: mean growing up in Cleveland, I always passed my soft
Speaker 1: store and uh, just to get a chance to actually
Speaker 1: work with them is definitely a blessing. Um. And they
Speaker 1: helped me so much and I definitely appreciate them. Remember
Speaker 1: any of the crazier ideas or some of the ones
Speaker 1: you said, man not be a pretty good idea, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: it was one. I mean a lot of them do
Speaker 1: with animals. You can tell like a lot of the
Speaker 1: kids was very passionate about animals, um. And at one
Speaker 1: point they were talking about just animals, animals, animals, and
Speaker 1: it was like, uh, the one kid just screamed out,
Speaker 1: why don't you just get a zoo? It was like
Speaker 1: so so it was like, yeah, that kind of is
Speaker 1: like what you're saying. They were definitely passionate about animals,
Speaker 1: and I never forget that. So are you happy to
Speaker 1: be back out in the back out back in back
Speaker 1: in business out here. You got a field, getting around
Speaker 1: getting to it. And how anxious are you for having
Speaker 1: gone through your rookie year, going through the going through
Speaker 1: the off season, kind of doing an inventory of Jeez,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was gonna be like this, or
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, or oh that's that was That's
Speaker 1: easier than I thought, all those things that you go
Speaker 1: through your rookie year, getting a foundation to move forward.
Speaker 1: Are you looking forward to getting back to the regular
Speaker 1: season and being able to put some of those things
Speaker 1: you learned both playing last year and as many games
Speaker 1: as you played in and what you've been able to
Speaker 1: do during the off season to try to improve in
Speaker 1: the areas that you want to improve, and you're looking
Speaker 1: forward to getting back and seeing how you can run
Speaker 1: down of the field. Oh yeah, definitely, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. I mean, last year, you know, I learned
Speaker 1: a lot as far as like the little things matter, um,
Speaker 1: as far as just eating right, I'm going to sleep early,
Speaker 1: I'm watching a little film. Um, no matter what is,
Speaker 1: those little things really add up un towards the end
Speaker 1: of the year. That's when you see the effects of it,
Speaker 1: if you like me, a whole bunch of honey buns,
Speaker 1: and towards the end of the season, it was like
Speaker 1: my body just couldn't hold up to it. Uh, So
Speaker 1: this show, I definitely just want to, you know, focus
Speaker 1: on the little things, the right things, and um, awesome,
Speaker 1: you just play you know my best ball thing. I
Speaker 1: lived on Hamburger helper and it wasn't helping anybody, helping anybody.
Speaker 1: The only person was helping was a guy was playing.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, man, I know you're busy out there
Speaker 1: and I got a let a lot of stuff going on,
Speaker 1: but it's great to see you guys back out in
Speaker 1: the field and uh really looking forward to seeing what
Speaker 1: this football team is gonna be like and really really
Speaker 1: kind of I think John I were talking what this
Speaker 1: team is gonna look like from the standpoint of what
Speaker 1: coaches expectations are and how that translates over into what
Speaker 1: kind of team you guys can be. Oh, you're definitely
Speaker 1: I'm definitely excited. I appreciate you guys for having me. Thanks.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Man, A good stuff. It's it's just
Speaker 1: like I said, good you had the things, though, too
Speaker 1: stayed bad. We did. We did. The thing was learning
Speaker 1: me Tounco last week with the chicken wings, and Renzo
Speaker 1: stayed back in a few years. It was extra yeah,
Speaker 1: off color. I saw him the next day and he said,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, that didn't look like fun. That was it. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I didn't eat much, I didn't need much,
Speaker 1: but I felt him later on. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that I had had, I had, I had two b
Speaker 1: two bites out of one. Yeah, and I felt that.
Speaker 1: So But anyway, good to see, you know, I think
Speaker 1: to me, I look at Jerome and I look at
Speaker 1: ray Kwon McMillan's two guys. I'm really I'm really expecting
Speaker 1: to see a big lead. And I think one of
Speaker 1: the big things that you I mean, he looked different.
Speaker 1: Look he looked at you know, you look at it.
Speaker 1: You look at his arms, you look at his shoulders.
Speaker 1: He may not have gained that much weight, but he's
Speaker 1: he's thicker than he was. And you know the other
Speaker 1: guy that to me that I think is is it
Speaker 1: is paramount for him two have and and I haven't
Speaker 1: had a chance to see him out there yet, but
Speaker 1: paramount to to follow that path. Is Mike Gasecki. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think Mike. I think like Mike, he
Speaker 1: didn't I know, he didn't have this season that he
Speaker 1: expected last year or wanted. I know he probably didn't
Speaker 1: have the type of season that the team wanted. But
Speaker 1: I think the team understands it. Hey, your rookie, I understand.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's you're thrown in, let's reconnect here. And
Speaker 1: and I know I've I've heard from Mike that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he knew he needed to get stronger, he
Speaker 1: knew he had to be a bigger, more physical guy
Speaker 1: out there. So he's gone in and and and gone
Speaker 1: to work at it. So it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what his body makeup is going to look like
Speaker 1: as as we get to training camp, because look, I
Speaker 1: know we're talking about O t as now, but there's
Speaker 1: still still too much to two and a half months
Speaker 1: for these guys to to go. So there, he's not
Speaker 1: like not like Dad works over for Jerome or for
Speaker 1: Gaseki or any of those young guys that that need
Speaker 1: to get in that weight room. So but but I'm
Speaker 1: really interested in seeing how Mike um looks and how
Speaker 1: he because I'm expecting big things out of out of
Speaker 1: Gasecki this year. I think there's two things and he
Speaker 1: nailed one of them. Bo about when you think about
Speaker 1: Mike Kisicki, what he needed to improve on strength and
Speaker 1: overall strength. Number one, you know, being able to do
Speaker 1: everything as a tight end. You don't have to do
Speaker 1: it exceptionally well in terms of blocking, but you need
Speaker 1: to have the ability to block and and be able
Speaker 1: to get informations where it's just not a stand up
Speaker 1: kind of slot receiver. And two, I think explosiveness, being
Speaker 1: able to have that quicker twitch getting down the field,
Speaker 1: getting in and out of routes, being able to explode
Speaker 1: off the ground, which we saw him to catch the
Speaker 1: football and come down with it. Not so much when
Speaker 1: he has the football, because we saw him do that
Speaker 1: a few times too many, getting up in the air
Speaker 1: and getting exposed. You know, in terms of big hits,
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that. But attacking the football
Speaker 1: and coming in and out of routes, that gives the
Speaker 1: quarterback a little bit more room and a little bit
Speaker 1: more anticipation on where you can expect the ball to come.
Speaker 1: He's almost got to change just looking this is from
Speaker 1: where I sit and watch, it's almost gotta change his
Speaker 1: running stuff because he's that, you know, his thing. He's
Speaker 1: got that long stride and that long strides alright as
Speaker 1: you get down the field, but getting off the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage are you've gotta have that shortest, quicker, choppier.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna assuming that that's kind of one
Speaker 1: of the things that they're looking at with him too,
Speaker 1: because you know that, you know that, you know that
Speaker 1: that that old college and they think that one big
Speaker 1: step inside and go outside where you stand stiffs out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do that and the guys come on over. I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for you. You know, That's one of those kind
Speaker 1: of things. So but I think there's and I think
Speaker 1: that you look at all these young guys, I think
Speaker 1: you can still look at Gotscha, Vincent Taylor, all those
Speaker 1: young guys, Jesse Davis, all those guys that are that
Speaker 1: are expected to be better this year than they were
Speaker 1: last year, expected to be type of players that make
Speaker 1: this team better than they did last year. Seeing how
Speaker 1: all those guys have really you know, progressed and moved on,
Speaker 1: uh with an offseason. Wait wait working And you know
Speaker 1: I always say go back and look at your mistakes
Speaker 1: and then let me let me see how may these
Speaker 1: mistakes I can I can overcome in a six month
Speaker 1: period before we get back at it again. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's critical. You mentioned a lot of those guys
Speaker 1: and getting back to Jerome and being versatile on defense side.
Speaker 1: There's there's none better. There's no better example of being
Speaker 1: able to stick a guy in at outside linebacker and
Speaker 1: then maybe move him to the strong side and drop
Speaker 1: him in space and then being able to rush him
Speaker 1: off the edge. You know, if he's at two to
Speaker 1: thirty two thirty two and still has that speed and
Speaker 1: can do multiple things. Now in year number two for
Speaker 1: this defense, it just gives you more flexibility and you're
Speaker 1: not worried about getting the right personnel in the game
Speaker 1: where he's already in the game. You know, you flip
Speaker 1: from a four three three four and he's one of
Speaker 1: those outside guys that could either rush, that could drop,
Speaker 1: that can hang on the tight end, that can cover
Speaker 1: back out of the backfield. You feel like you're more
Speaker 1: multiple with your with your base eleven out there. If
Speaker 1: Jerome can you know, fit that bill along with McMillan,
Speaker 1: as we talked about in Kiko and the rest of
Speaker 1: that lineback and talked about in the past here offensively, right.
Speaker 1: You know, I like that, you know, I like that
Speaker 1: situation where you have two running backs back there where
Speaker 1: you can you know, one of those guys is a
Speaker 1: guy you can send out in the slot and now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you go from a base, You
Speaker 1: go from a base to back offense. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're in a four wide or maybe a five wide
Speaker 1: with with somewhere the one sliding out and back up.
Speaker 1: You keep killing in the backfield, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: drake goes out and to one side and you go
Speaker 1: mismatch exactly and you can do that, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins are starting to get that type of
Speaker 1: mix of guys where you can do that. On the
Speaker 1: defensive side of football, you can be in a three
Speaker 1: four quarterback comes up, then you can switch over to
Speaker 1: a four three, drop one guy down, and you know,
Speaker 1: and and give those looks that that that I think,
Speaker 1: you know, when when you look at that, you look
Speaker 1: at the franchise up north, you look in New England
Speaker 1: early on, and and and just look at Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: I think over his career as a defensive guy. You know,
Speaker 1: the one thing that was always every time you played
Speaker 1: against a Bill Belichick defense, you knew that it was
Speaker 1: gonna be different than it was the week before. He's
Speaker 1: gonna change something to make you and and very similar
Speaker 1: back to when back in the day when when Bill
Speaker 1: Arnsberger was I remember talking to quarterbacks after I retired,
Speaker 1: and we'd be at a golf tournament or whatever, and
Speaker 1: so they're having a couple of beers with her talking.
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing that always pissed me off
Speaker 1: about you guys is it we always felt like we
Speaker 1: had to play defense on offense for the first first
Speaker 1: half the game to figure out what figure out what
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be doing to us. And then
Speaker 1: by that by the time we figured out we're two
Speaker 1: touchdowns down, you guys go back and now we've got
Speaker 1: to go back and just you know, and so you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about offense is dictating you know, a multiple
Speaker 1: defense and can give you different looks, show you different things,
Speaker 1: have different guys be the key guy weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: When one week and maybe Rakkwan blitzing or the next
Speaker 1: week and maybe you know, maybe maybe maybe because your
Speaker 1: guy this point, you know, and and when you gotta
Speaker 1: be able to fare out. Now Jesus, all right, let
Speaker 1: me see we're gonna go in this game. We think
Speaker 1: you're gonna do this, but we we gotta try to
Speaker 1: figure out, you know, and then before like I said,
Speaker 1: if you can do it right and your offense kicks in,
Speaker 1: then then you're always ahead of the game. And I
Speaker 1: think that I think with this group and with someone
Speaker 1: look at look at like Wilkins. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: with an offense drafted Christian Wilkins. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: great player, but where where I said, you know, we
Speaker 1: we you know, we've we've got defensive tackles. Are really
Speaker 1: need was for that edge edge rusher out there. And
Speaker 1: then you start looking to go, wait a minute, you
Speaker 1: can play. You can line up out there. He's he's
Speaker 1: got the speed, he's got the quickness to go out
Speaker 1: there yet. Or he could be a nose tackle, or
Speaker 1: he could be a tackle, or he could be a three,
Speaker 1: you know, a defensive end in the free man line
Speaker 1: or kick out in the fore man like so another
Speaker 1: guy that gives you multiple options. That a good defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator that's going to adapt his offense his defense around
Speaker 1: his players, rather than make his players adapt to his defense.
Speaker 1: I think you've got a multitude of those guys on
Speaker 1: this defense. As you move forward and as they understand
Speaker 1: the game, that can really give you a lot of
Speaker 1: options to look a lot of different ways. Well, you hope,
Speaker 1: so you hope that this defense can be able to
Speaker 1: keep people out of the end zone and kick field goals,
Speaker 1: because that's the name of the game. On defense, it
Speaker 1: seems like the advantages on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: football with all the rules and all the passing that
Speaker 1: you see in the National Football League, and it's the
Speaker 1: team that, hey, we may give up a ton of yards,
Speaker 1: and we may give up some first downs, and we
Speaker 1: may give up some explosive plays, but all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, you're kicking the field goal instead of you know,
Speaker 1: kicking an extra point in the second half of a game,
Speaker 1: and that means a lot. You know, you don't think
Speaker 1: about it at the time. I was good, you know, good,
Speaker 1: we gave up three, But that's okay. You give up
Speaker 1: a couple of threes instead of six. Those things add up,
Speaker 1: and especially for a team offensively, at least last year,
Speaker 1: you know that struggled to score with consistency. You hope
Speaker 1: that you have a defense that has answers, especially when
Speaker 1: they get inside the twenty yards. John, one thing we
Speaker 1: haven't talked about, and let's let's do it here is
Speaker 1: is the quarterback situation. You've been out there, you watched
Speaker 1: a couple of practices. Now you have a chance to
Speaker 1: see these guys a little bit and then look it's
Speaker 1: it's you're barely scratching the surface, is you know, So
Speaker 1: there's a very premature conversation, but just early on when
Speaker 1: you have a chance to to look at the first
Speaker 1: thing when I see when I when I really look
Speaker 1: at um at Ryan Fitzpatrick, and I don't know why
Speaker 1: it strikes me is because I've seen him play played
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins when he's a Buffalo, and I think
Speaker 1: I remember the thing the same thing. I saw that
Speaker 1: guy smaller than I thought he was, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean when I first when I first saw him,
Speaker 1: and you kind of have an image of him and
Speaker 1: where you don't see him in person. You know, I
Speaker 1: sixturely got six three six four, big strapping guy back there.
Speaker 1: He's short, he's he's probably short. His quarterback to have
Speaker 1: out there right now. Probably, yeah, I think he might be.
Speaker 1: And you know, the one thing that strikes me about
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is that he doesn't look like he's going
Speaker 1: into his fifteen season in terms of arm strength, in
Speaker 1: terms of velocity, in terms of recognition, in terms of anticipation,
Speaker 1: all the things you would say, Well, that guy's gonna be.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a young guys. He's his arms still alive,
Speaker 1: and he's got quick feet and everything matches up, everything
Speaker 1: matches up. He is, he's very sound in terms of
Speaker 1: being able to deliver the football. So those are good things.
Speaker 1: You know. You think a guy like that, so many
Speaker 1: years in the league, so many camps, so many reps,
Speaker 1: he still looks like he throws it very well. Well,
Speaker 1: look at everything I've been told, and I've talked to
Speaker 1: people excuse me, didn't know Ryan pretty well or been
Speaker 1: around him enough, and they say, this guy's will workout.
Speaker 1: Feend he's gonna come in. He's gonna be I don't
Speaker 1: know what kind of shape I know they're talking about
Speaker 1: him earlier. He's eating donuts or whatever. But but he's
Speaker 1: gonna come in in shape and ready to go. And
Speaker 1: so he's gonna send an example there and he's done.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't stand in this league for fifteen
Speaker 1: years without having the goods to get the job done.
Speaker 1: Now let's switch over to Josh Rosen. You had a
Speaker 1: chance to look at him a little bit, um, What
Speaker 1: are your first thoughts about seeing him out there? Same?
Speaker 1: Pretty much the same thing I thought the day we
Speaker 1: got him and I got to watch the tape live.
Speaker 1: Arm a lead arm uh, good velocity, good location. I
Speaker 1: think he's adapting to playing in South Florida, right. I
Speaker 1: think that that's probably the biggest change for Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: is you know, humidity, getting getting through things, uh ball
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, having a little uh dampness
Speaker 1: or wetness on it. You know, like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that people take for granted. What why did
Speaker 1: he you know, why was there a bobble there on
Speaker 1: a center quarterback exchange? Or why did that ball come
Speaker 1: out a little bit high or low? Uh? It's it's
Speaker 1: because it's different. It's a lot different, and I think
Speaker 1: he's probably adjusting to those things. But what I've seen
Speaker 1: in terms of a bill, you like, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of head nodding going up and
Speaker 1: down and going, wow, that was pretty good. You know
Speaker 1: that that looks like an NFL arm. That looks like
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback. So I would say there's a lot
Speaker 1: there's just scratching the surface. You know. He played four
Speaker 1: teen games as a rookie on a on a very
Speaker 1: mediocre team, and that's why they had the first pick
Speaker 1: overall this year and took another quarterback. But I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be able to fit this system a heck
Speaker 1: of a lot easier than he will that he would
Speaker 1: have in Arizona running kind of a no huddle, up
Speaker 1: tempo quarterback having to move type of offense. Not saying
Speaker 1: that Josh doesn't move well. He has good feet, Everything
Speaker 1: matches up well, good drops on the move, so I
Speaker 1: throw the football, so he checks all the boxes as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. It's just about opportunity and how he's going
Speaker 1: to improve in this system once they have a full
Speaker 1: installed because right now, you know, I would say Jake
Speaker 1: Rudoc and Ryan Fitzpatrick a little bit more ahead of
Speaker 1: the curve in terms of installing the offense and being
Speaker 1: able to know exactly what they're doing on everything and everything.
Speaker 1: They've had a couple of months, a couple of months
Speaker 1: ahead start even with him on this system. So they
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's funny because you mentioned that the uh,
Speaker 1: the climate change coming from you know, and he's, you know, don't.
Speaker 1: People don't, people don't. I was just talking to somebody
Speaker 1: this weekend and and they said, well, you know, yeah there,
Speaker 1: I said, Jesus, you know, I said, I'm not humid here.
Speaker 1: It's human Florida where you're adding, no, no, this is
Speaker 1: a humidity, you know. And and growing up in northern California,
Speaker 1: so he's a guy that he's an l a guy
Speaker 1: Arizona to places where there's no humidity whatsoever, and no
Speaker 1: humidity speak of. And you come out here in the
Speaker 1: heat and the humidity. And I've told people, I said,
Speaker 1: look at it was never the heat that bothered me.
Speaker 1: It was that humidity that jumped on my back and
Speaker 1: I tried to carry it. Took me almost two years
Speaker 1: to get acclimated to to playing in the hut and
Speaker 1: humidity down here. And again it's not the heat, it's
Speaker 1: just had humidity that just it, I said, takes your
Speaker 1: legs out from under you. And you know, you you
Speaker 1: feel good about it. I feel like I'm running around
Speaker 1: two two pieces exactly, So that certainly is gonna be
Speaker 1: something for him. Yeah, I think I think it's imperative
Speaker 1: for Josh to be in the best shape possible when
Speaker 1: he comes back for a training camp, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to worry about. That's one thing he can put
Speaker 1: aside and say, you know, I've given myself the best
Speaker 1: opportunity to go out and compete to be the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Miami Dolphins because I'm in shape and
Speaker 1: I know what I need to do. Now, I just
Speaker 1: let my ability take over. We're coming out here, and
Speaker 1: I got drafted in coach and we got mini camp
Speaker 1: this week because we had pushed our draft back. It
Speaker 1: was a whole fiasco. So so I got drafted on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday or Wednesday, whatever day it was, and we
Speaker 1: had mini camp that Friday. And the last thing he
Speaker 1: said before and you're better be ready for the twelve
Speaker 1: minute run. I hadn't run because you know, my year
Speaker 1: of the draft was supposed to be in April, like
Speaker 1: it always is, and someone was trying to trying to
Speaker 1: uh someone. Someone started a lawsuit to make it the
Speaker 1: draft illegal based on based on flood anti Uh what Uh?
Speaker 1: I knew that. No, So we didn't know what it was.
Speaker 1: They said the draft being canceled, been postponed. We didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what week it was in May,
Speaker 1: and they go, okay, draft next Sunday. So you know,
Speaker 1: you're out there drinking beer and doing everything. Everything in
Speaker 1: the NFL is so planned out. Now, well, well there was.
Speaker 1: There was. It was a class action lawsuit against its
Speaker 1: antitrust that they know. They're they're trying to claim that
Speaker 1: it was illegal, legal to force you to go someone
Speaker 1: that you were driving. So they're trying to ball like
Speaker 1: Kirk Flood with the free agent stealing baseball. So it
Speaker 1: was the same kind of a deal. So it was
Speaker 1: we're just in a stand still there. So all of
Speaker 1: sing get draft and I hadn't worked out, I hadn't
Speaker 1: done anything, you know. I'm like, oh, you're so we
Speaker 1: can I get down here. The day before minicamp, they
Speaker 1: put me up at the Miami Lakes in the beautiful
Speaker 1: because we're practicing at St. Thomas Biscay and calls at
Speaker 1: the time and I said, God, damn, I go, what
Speaker 1: the hell man, it was hot and muggy, and I said, man,
Speaker 1: I better go out and run a little bit. I
Speaker 1: went and round about a block and I was sweating.
Speaker 1: I don't even make it a full block. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to make it. So so the first
Speaker 1: day of first day of min camp, so they had
Speaker 1: two first round picks. Larry Gordon was the seventeenth pick
Speaker 1: in the draft. I was a nineteen. So they bleft
Speaker 1: both of us. So so I said, well, show, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna hang with Larry. You know, I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: stayed by Larry. As long as I'm with Larry, I'm okay,
Speaker 1: you know. And so I'll never forget Larry had uh.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, Larry played the Arizona State. He had
Speaker 1: a little he had little bells on his shoes, right,
Speaker 1: a little little bell, I asked, a little bells? He
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just like it. And so so
Speaker 1: we start running and I'm about a little bit ahead
Speaker 1: of of of Larry, but I can hear himcause I
Speaker 1: hear the bells. Right. So running and I'm dying, man,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm lap two laps in. I
Speaker 1: gotta get like five laps and two laps in. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna but I still here. All of a sudden about
Speaker 1: the third laugh, and you think they're getting no more well,
Speaker 1: so I look back. I look back and Larry's walking shot.
Speaker 1: I'm okay. It's like I started took a couple of stuffs. Man,
Speaker 1: you'd have thought Mount Vasuvi's exploded coach what he started
Speaker 1: going crazy? I'm looking at it. You can't even you know,
Speaker 1: So it was. It was a miserable first day of me.
Speaker 1: But but that, but and Larry is the same guy
Speaker 1: who's the Arizona guy. So you come out here in
Speaker 1: the human and I and I was just I was
Speaker 1: in pretty good so I was in good shape. But man,
Speaker 1: the humidity just sucked it right out of me. Man,
Speaker 1: it makes a coward of a lot of people because
Speaker 1: you can go through going I feel pretty good right now,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know, five or
Speaker 1: ten minutes later, you know, the piano jumps on you.
Speaker 1: You're going, I can't move, and that's why you know,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I gotta feeling this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a regime that's gonna be saying we're gonna be outside.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be we're gonna be outside, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be and and because to me, I still say
Speaker 1: it's it's for the first half of the season. It's
Speaker 1: the greatest home field advantage that there is in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. I know we've got it. Tampa may
Speaker 1: have a to a degree, jack, but not to degree
Speaker 1: that is down here, you know. And so it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, I know in that first half of the
Speaker 1: season when people we never lost down here, in the
Speaker 1: first half the season that people feared, they were so
Speaker 1: worried about coming down and having to play the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins at one o'clock in the month of September and
Speaker 1: and in October, and you knew they were They knew
Speaker 1: they were gonna be in their darks. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: in their dark jerseys. And I remember playing the Bears
Speaker 1: and and what are you telling about the two tackles?
Speaker 1: The real story of North Jackson also the guy one
Speaker 1: of the guy the tackle I'm playing against, and it
Speaker 1: was it was one of the real hot days. And
Speaker 1: I'd rush him and as we'd walk him, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of walking back, and I go, man, jeez, it's
Speaker 1: hot out here for me. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can stand it. You know, every I just give a
Speaker 1: little every now, just give a little little reminder you
Speaker 1: get out of man it's hot, okay, coach, you may
Speaker 1: get this guy out of here. Bring school you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big dis It's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see. Another thing about do they still have Do
Speaker 1: they still have the if you're drafted a PAC ten
Speaker 1: the quarter rule out there? I think it's different. I think.
Speaker 1: I think because when they drafted, like a couple of guys,
Speaker 1: they've drafted from the West Coast and don't come out
Speaker 1: until which usually is June. So you miss, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they've corrected that. I'm not sure, you know, so,
Speaker 1: I think it's school by school, but definitely in the
Speaker 1: in the PAC twelve where you kind of miss out
Speaker 1: on on the beginning part of of the ot you're
Speaker 1: still in school. Yeah, there's nothing they can do about it.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think that rule changed over
Speaker 1: the last handful of years that because it was really
Speaker 1: it was a detriment to the point where I at
Speaker 1: one point I singing, you know, I'm not gonna wouldn't draft.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't draft a guy unless he was just or
Speaker 1: if you knew you were coming out, you just wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to school anything exactly. Just get out, That's what
Speaker 1: I do. I just so I got drafted, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if I the jury still out on me.
Speaker 1: And it's about thirty some years later, forty years later. Uh, alright,
Speaker 1: So here we are week one of mini camps, John,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you what do you expecting
Speaker 1: this team to look like? Uh? When when you come
Speaker 1: back to training camp as you kind of as we
Speaker 1: follow them through these next this month or so of
Speaker 1: of these O t A s and getting acclimated to
Speaker 1: all the climate, new people around you, new surroundings, new
Speaker 1: locker room, new places to go, new you know, trying
Speaker 1: to find places to live, all that, new coaching staff,
Speaker 1: A lot, a lot of a lot of change in
Speaker 1: this organization that needs to be stabilized come come July
Speaker 1: and certainly going into September. I think it is on
Speaker 1: on the fast track to being stabilized right now. I
Speaker 1: think that the expectations of this new staff have fully
Speaker 1: been implemented in terms of every day you have to
Speaker 1: go prove it. Every day you have to come out
Speaker 1: out and be ready every day that there's something out
Speaker 1: on the football field that's being taught a different way
Speaker 1: that you better catch onto because if not, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be in the back of the line. I just feel
Speaker 1: like this team will be better mentally prepared to play.
Speaker 1: I think physically, and we talked about that a lot today.
Speaker 1: I think this team will be one of the best
Speaker 1: teams in in terms of being in shape, in terms
Speaker 1: of being able to run and hit, in terms of
Speaker 1: being able to not be uh cowards of fatigue. I
Speaker 1: think that this team will have have that instilled fully
Speaker 1: instilled as it gets to training camp, because there are
Speaker 1: no no shortcuts right now in O. T A s.
Speaker 1: They are working hard, they are running from drill to drill,
Speaker 1: and if not, they're gonna do it over again. And
Speaker 1: if you make a mistake, you're gonna do it over again.
Speaker 1: So I think I think the discipline that we've kind
Speaker 1: of been yearning for over over the last three or
Speaker 1: four years in terms of personal discipline, each player taking
Speaker 1: it upon themselves to be disciplined is being influence and
Speaker 1: re emphasized on a daily basis by this coaching staff.
Speaker 1: And I think if there's one thing I can take
Speaker 1: away from o t as this team will not beat
Speaker 1: themselves in two thousand and nineteen in terms of fatigue
Speaker 1: or in terms of mental or physical mistakes. Those things
Speaker 1: are being emphasized right now. I look around the roster
Speaker 1: and another um, running back, Mark Walton, comes. He's had
Speaker 1: a little tryout and and and hung on here. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see how Mark Well, he
Speaker 1: had a kind of you know, a hot and cold
Speaker 1: career at the University of Mind. Me saw him do
Speaker 1: a lot of really good things for the Hurricanes, So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see, uh, if he can
Speaker 1: kind of meander his way through a pretty pretty crowded
Speaker 1: room in the locker room, especially when you throw the
Speaker 1: fullback in there. There's a couple of guys on the
Speaker 1: constan that's kind of gonna be an interesting watch too.
Speaker 1: I think Mark Mark Walton is one of those guys
Speaker 1: that you know off the field, got into a little
Speaker 1: bit of trouble, trying to straighten it out, trying to
Speaker 1: get back, you know, second third chance. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: the this is the team, this is the roster where
Speaker 1: his speed and his quick twitch gets you a little
Speaker 1: bit something different in the backfield. He will have a
Speaker 1: chance to compete a guy like Preston Williams, a big
Speaker 1: wide receiver from Colorado State, kind of the same similar situation,
Speaker 1: had something happened to him off the field where got
Speaker 1: in trouble trying to fight back from that. A big body,
Speaker 1: uh in terms of height at six four, a good,
Speaker 1: good looking receiver. So there's a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: are on this roster that are young guys that are
Speaker 1: gonna get a chance to have a second chance at
Speaker 1: a career in in the National Football leagu So it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting following a couple of guys like that. I
Speaker 1: don't that that meeting room for the defensive back A
Speaker 1: lot of guys, em dB, are you looking at rosing Man,
Speaker 1: A lot of guys in that in that defensive backfield
Speaker 1: room in there A lot of competition, a lot of
Speaker 1: competition and being able to play corner, being able to
Speaker 1: play nickel, being able to pinch it at safety. If
Speaker 1: you can do those kind of things in this defense.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked a little bit about the defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: kicking outside of the end, but at defensive back, if
Speaker 1: you can do two of three positions, what's you're strange things,
Speaker 1: your your chance to have opportunities. Yeah, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see. You got another uh they gotta
Speaker 1: finish up this week and then next week another three
Speaker 1: more three more days of meeting and they go back
Speaker 1: to back after that, they go straight through all the
Speaker 1: way through mandatory, which I believe is the fourth, fifth,
Speaker 1: and sixth or somewhere in there of June Junior. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they're done on the on the sixth, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then it's and then they're offense. Yeah. So that's
Speaker 1: uh so there's still a lot to see, still a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of guys to kind of evaluate
Speaker 1: a little bit. And you look, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, you walk in all the newspaper, guys
Speaker 1: are here, so it's it's it's it's fun now because
Speaker 1: you open the newspaper and a lot of dolphin talk,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of information out there, a lot
Speaker 1: of misinformation floating around and and this and now. But
Speaker 1: it's it's fun to you know, it's funny for this one.
Speaker 1: To me, it's it's it's interesting because not only you're
Speaker 1: looking at the new players and guys that can help
Speaker 1: this football team and free agents that have signed. Draft
Speaker 1: choices that have been in, uh, free agents from you know,
Speaker 1: from post draft that have come in and if there's
Speaker 1: any moves that will be made now as well as
Speaker 1: the coaching stuff. There's a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: really things that are interesting to look at with his
Speaker 1: football team besides coming out and going on this guy
Speaker 1: through two interceptions today and that guy through a nice touchdown.
Speaker 1: And it's good to watch your draft choices too. You know,
Speaker 1: you talked a little bit about Christian Wilkins today being
Speaker 1: able to kick around at different positions. They threw Michael
Speaker 1: Dieter in right away at left guard and getting him opportunities.
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle he's been at with the rush ends, he's
Speaker 1: been with the linebackers. He's he's kind of doing a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. You know, Prince at tackle getting
Speaker 1: the chance, and then Cox in the backfield being able
Speaker 1: to play a little bit of of of full back,
Speaker 1: a little slash tight end. You know, you've got Gaskins
Speaker 1: that gives you a little bit of that twitch like
Speaker 1: like a Mark Walton from the running back position. So
Speaker 1: not only looking at guys that are on the roster, young,
Speaker 1: young guys that are on the roster, but the the
Speaker 1: rookie draft choices and seeing how they've been able to
Speaker 1: uh get their traits out on the football fields at
Speaker 1: multiple positions. All right, John, that's gonna do it for today,
Speaker 1: John k Jimmy Kimbo Camper. We'll be back with you
Speaker 1: next week. So so join us in and we'll have
Speaker 1: a little bit more and uh probably a little bit
Speaker 1: more to talk about with some of the guys after
Speaker 1: watching them out there. Unna work a little bit and
Speaker 1: things always shake up out there. Get a couple of guys,
Speaker 1: uh maybe to join us as well. Alright, guess only
Speaker 1: we'll catch you next week. We'll see on the audible, Okay,