WEBVTT - Jets-Dolphins Game Preview with Chad Pennington (9/22) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.120 Like gare on the world. You play to win the game, 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:17.880 Dotta a Jet touchdown, chet win. You're listening to the 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:25.119 Official Jets podcast Jets three sixty Production. Welcome inside the 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.280 Jets Official podcast, Ethan Greenberg and Eric Allen here bringing 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.200 you the Jets and Dolphins game preview the Friday podcast 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.720 here whereas we got two other ones. Make sure to 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.440 subscribe on your phone on the podcast at You can 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.800 check us out on New York checks dot com. You 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.120 can check us out on SoundCloud. We got you covered. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.760 But right now, Jets Dolphins Sunday, one o'clock the home opener, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.000 the Jets finally playing in front of the green and 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.160 white crowd at Mattlife Stadium after two weeks on the road. 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.360 So he a first off, what are some of the 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.600 things that as Jets team, he's gonna need to do 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:07.640 that they did in Oakland and transition that success against 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.800 the Dolphins on Sunday greens. This is the eighth time 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.240 the Jets and Dolphins have played in a green and 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:21.000 white home opener. UH, long time division rivals, and you 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.840 know the fan base doesn't have much love for the 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.320 Fish as Miami comes up here after a season opening 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.959 win out in l A over the Chargers. That's a 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.319 team as continues to find ways to win. That's what 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.160 we saw from them in two thousand and sixteen. When 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.800 you're asking me what they have to build on from 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.120 last week in Oakland, I think they gotta finish. You know, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.520 we look at the first two games. Obviously the Jets 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.240 have started zero in two, but they've been in those 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.920 ball games late fourteen to twelve with the under the 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:58.279 third quarter in Buffaloe to thirteen last week, late third quarter, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.800 four minutes left in the black hole, a place where 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.040 nobody gave them a chance. No moral victories, but that's 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.320 a ballgame. And if you had told me that was 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.040 the situation going in it's a one possession game late 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.760 in the third in Oakland, I would have said sign 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.120 me up for that. With all that being said, I 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.680 like where the offense is starting to go, and I 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.280 think they're taking a lot of steps forward. We saw 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.680 them say, hey, we gotta get the run game going. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.160 They got the run game going a little bit last week. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.960 Interesting John Morton using the three back rotation is Eli 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:37.280 McGuire got some work. We're seeing Jermaine Curse and Josh 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.240 McCown hook up quite an here early in the season, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.919 and then Austin Sofari and Jenkins was on his way 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.120 back as well. But defensively, I think you gotta limit 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.800 the big plays. He can't have so many big plays, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.040 and the tackling has to be better. Every week in 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.880 the National Football League, it seems like there is a 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.600 star running back you're playing against, and this week no different. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.640 Green Jets face Lea Shawn McCoy. Then it was Marks 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.240 Shawn Lynch. Now it's Ji, a guy who's a budding 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.680 star in the National Football League. So defensively, the Jets 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.200 have to do a better job against the run every play, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.240 every single play. Last week, I thought again small steps 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.559 because twenty five carries three point four yards of rush 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.320 versus two explosion carries for ninety five yards and two touchdowns. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.720 You can't have those in the National Football League if 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.639 you expect to win. You mentioned Jagi Now last year 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.960 he was the fifth leading rusher in the NFL, and 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.720 he gets a heavy workload and he's someone that prided 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.160 himself on his strength and he said, I remember this 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.960 from last year in the press conference, he said that 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.560 I'm my best in the fourth quarter when the defense 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.680 starts to wear down, that's what really excites him. So 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.640 it'll be interesting to see in Week one for the Dolphins. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.200 Remember that Dolphins didn't play Week one of the NFL 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.400 because of Hurricane Irma, so their bye week in effect 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.120 was there was the NFL opening week in Week one, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.720 So they're playing sixteen straight weeks of football. And our 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.320 thoughts are to all the people down in South Florida 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.120 who were impacted by the hurricane, because I know there's 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:13.080 some Dolphins fans trying to get some football in uh 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:17.000 this week as they recover and they take their mind off. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.200 So maybe some some folks are listening to the Jets 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:26.159 official podcast. So I hope everybody is doing well, doing 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.280 as well as they can. Last week in the and 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.719 the Dolphins season opener in l A against the Chargers 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.320 squeaked out in nineteen seventeen win. But a g I 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.280 had twenty eight carries for a buck twenty two on 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.719 the ground. Now that's not a great average, that's you know, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.960 I think about three and a half, But twenty eight 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.520 carries is a lot. That means you're controlling a football 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.719 eight times. That means you're controlling the ball, and that's 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.960 keeping your defense off the field. All right, let's go 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.800 down to southern Florida and bring in John Congemmi of 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.720 Dolphins dot Com. John, thank you so much for joining us. 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.280 We really appreciate it. Of course, hope everyone, including yourself, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.160 is doing well after Hurricane Irma down there. But you know, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.480 let's talk some Jets Dolphins football because Sunday, of course, 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.560 these two teams meet for the first time in the 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.479 regular season. And first off, I think a lot of 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:20.839 people from our perspective have questions regarding Jay Cutler because 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.240 he was late acquisition to the team with Ryan Tannehill 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.240 going down and practice and through one game and through 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.599 preseason and what what have you seen from Jay Cutler 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.960 who has been reunited with Adam Gaze. Well, you know, 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.000 I guess the first thing that jumped out to me 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.960 was how well he was able to adapt to the system. 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.640 I mean, when Jay got into building the next day, 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.760 he was on the practice field running no huddle. And 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.039 that just doesn't happen if you don't have familiarity with 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:53.599 the system, in the in the terminology and the play 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:57.159 calling mechanisms, and the vast experience he's had with Adam 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.040 Gates when he was at Chicago. So it couldn't have 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.760 been a better fit for the Miami Dolphins that Jay 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.680 Cutler on the street, being available and still wanting to 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.000 play number one, and then being able to jump right 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.600 in and take over the reins of a football team 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:18.920 that feels like they're ready to win and they need 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.880 consistency from the quarterback position. So I thought it was 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.200 that was the thing that caught me on day one, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.920 and it continued to progress in day two and day three, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.360 and you you've seen that now in in week one 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.400 for the Dolphins being able to come true on the 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.960 field where he was able to protect the football. They 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.559 went no huddle, they used tempo, They spread the football around, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.320 although Jarvis Landry caught the majority of the passes. Uh. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.400 They changed up a little bit in the second half, 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.440 and I think it was they were able to get 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.720 to other things in the playbook because of Cutler's familiarity 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.000 and now being in this system, this system for about 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.760 three and a half four weeks. John, stinking of the 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.240 offensive to the ball with the Dolphins, how do you 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:06.799 approach defunding this team? Because you mentioned Landry thirteen catches 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.000 that jumps off the page to me and then j 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.640 I G I E. Who got a boatload of Carri's 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.120 last week against the Chargers. With that being said, you 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.240 would figure those guys are going to be featured in 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.120 each and every game plan. So like a team like 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.080 the Jets, do you just say, hey, listen, they're gonna 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.000 get the ball. You have to contain them because it's 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.960 gonna happen because they're going to rely on those guys 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.640 and then take those shots down the field with Stills 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.320 and DeVante Parker. Yeah, I think you have to go 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.320 in if you if you're the Jets, in my opinion, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.560 you know that Jarvis Landry is going to be a 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.040 focal point for the Miami Dolphins. What do you want 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.800 to do? And maybe you can live with him catching 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:55.840 six yard passes and he has a good nact for 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.040 breaking cackles, but if you can come up and tackle him, 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.760 you know, maybe you limit the explosive plays and you 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.400 give that to Landry and and you kind of make 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.600 sure that Stills and and Devonte Parker don't beat you deep. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.240 And with the running attack of JGI, he's going to 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.160 get his carries as well. So the one thing I 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.320 would say, looking at the Dolphins, you're going to You're 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.280 going to get those playmakers involved. Whether those five and 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.520 ten yard past plays turned into twenty yard plays is 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:28.520 really on the ability of the Jets to come up 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.240 and tackle. Whether jig I, who I think last season 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:38.160 hadn't extremely uh large amount of yards after first contact 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.680 and he did it again against the Chargers. Whether the 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.880 Jets defense can come up and rally around the football, 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.360 or is Jgi gonna break a couple of arm tackles 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.559 and make a five yard run into a twenty five 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.160 yard run. Those are the things that I believe that 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.040 keep the Dolphins offense on the field, and opposing defense 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.160 is scratching their heads saying, we've got guys in the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.400 right position, but we've got to come up and make 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.040 plays when they're afforded to us. That means tackling people, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.400 getting off the field on third down, doing the things 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.560 that the normal mechanics of the defense would allow you 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.200 to do. Yeah, I'm going to turn it over to 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.360 Green's here in a second, but to me, that's the 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:19.560 key point in this matchup is that the Jets, who 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:23.320 have not been good at tackling so far through two 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.959 weeks and Todd Bull said those mistakes are correctable. Well, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.320 they're gonna have to do it Sunday because the gi 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:36.000 E and Lantry can kill you with their yards after contact. Alright, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.520 So yeah, I think that's that's that's definitely you know 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.480 that will hold true. You know the remainder of the 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.199 season at the Dolphins have success, all right. So John, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.120 let's defensively speaking, when you think of the defense, the 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.720 Dolphins defense, as you think of a dominicansou down there 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.800 in the middle, and you think of Caeron Wake who 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.320 never seems to get old even though the number keeps 0:09:55.360 --> 0:10:00.480 going up. But from a secondary perspective, you know when 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:04.199 when you look at the box score from the Dolphins 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.480 Chargers matchup a week of a week ago, you see 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.360 that Philip rivers through for over three yards. So what 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:15.680 is the state of the Dolphins secondary? Well, I think 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.559 right now they want to obviously be able to tighten 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.920 up coverage. I think listening to Matt Burke today when 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.959 they he met with the local South Florida media and 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.800 talking and listening to him, that's one of the things 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:30.840 they want to be able to correct. They felt like 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.040 in the secondary there was way too much cushion given 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.960 on you know, simplistic ten yards speedouts or a checkdown 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.840 where you you kind of give the linebackers have too 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.200 much cushion, or you don't run with coverage and you 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.360 lose leverage and a guy catches the football where all 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.400 he has to do is turn and run and he's 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.920 got ten yards of green grass in frontal. So I 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.199 think that's the thing the Dolphins, from their perspective defensively, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.880 want to improve on. They want to tighten up cover, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.199 They want to close the distance between where the receiver 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.880 is in the positioning of the defensive back or the linebacker. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.480 Those things need to improve. I think you can see 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.280 that on film. You can watch it when you were 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:17.000 watching Philip Rivers dissect the Dolphins secondary. He was getting 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.880 rid of the football with quickness. I mean, I think 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.000 the average time was maybe two point eight seconds where 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.320 he was able to catch, look, read it, and throw it. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:31.200 So Cam Way Godominant, Sue Andre branch Uh, you know 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.520 guys like that, William Hayes, they didn't have a chance 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.960 to really get Philip Rivers off his rhythm because the 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:41.479 ball was gone. So I think that that really dictated 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.920 time and space in the back end of the Dolphins 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.199 defense as well. We're speaking to John Knjemmy Dolphins analysts 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.280 on the Jets Preview podcast on official Jets Podcasts Not 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:57.040 Worth John, what do you make of the Dolphins run defense? 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.040 Obviously last season last than the NFL in terms of 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.880 yards per carrying almost five yards of pop. But Week 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.160 one at least we just mentioned the secondary. Uh, you know, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.520 the other part of that equation was Anthony Lynn, the 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.520 Charger's head coach, said, I didn't like what was happening 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.160 early when we tried to run by Zen Dominkan. Sioux 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.480 was being so disruptive as a five time Pro bowler 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.480 can be at times, and they just completely went away 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.959 from the run. So do you think this is an 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.199 approved run defense here in two thousand seventeen. I think 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.560 there's still, you know, a question mark out there. There's 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.040 no doubt that the Miami Dolphins did a better job 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.360 at the line of scrimmage against the Chargers, that they 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.559 did a terrific job in the Dominican Sioux was in 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.160 the backfield I think probably three or four times in 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.760 the first couple of series, just shoving guards in the 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.199 backfield and finding the ball carrier. I think it was 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.480 Gordon and getting him to the ground. So they definitely 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.679 improved in that area and there was nowhere to go 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.520 but up. You know, it was horrible last season. What 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.560 the Dolphins didn't against the run. They couldn't off anyone 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.160 and they gave offenses a two way go whichever, you know, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.400 picked your poison, you want to run it, play action. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.480 Everything was there because of the run. I think the 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.640 Charges ran into problems that they became one dimensional. I 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.439 think they had one big run in the in the 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.079 day of over twenty five yards, but that was it. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.240 You know, it was more Philip Rivers catching and throwing. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.199 So I do think guys, the Dolphins defense has improved. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.559 A fifth round draft choice to having got Chow at 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.800 defensive tackle has been a very consistent a guy. Maybe 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.040 the Dolphins were expecting to play twelve and fifteen snaps 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.439 per game. I think that is going to go north, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.679 uh into the at least the twenties or thirties as 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.600 the season moves along. But you know, the the king 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.160 finds up front the Dominicans who has to be dominant. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.199 Cam Wake has to force pressure from the edge, and 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.679 I think that helps out the linebacking corps that is 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.559 in a bit influx with you know, the absence in 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.400 the suspension of Lawrence Timmins. So there's a lot of 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.800 things that have to improve and keep improving on that 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.480 side of the football. But for the first game for 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.000 the Dolphins, was any indication they've spent some time against 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.480 you know, offensive runs and doing some things and holding 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.079 true to what they're supposed to be defensively, and it 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.640 came came true in Week one for them. I think 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.120 the Jets offense showed a lot of balance against the Raiders. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.800 They definitely took a big step in improvement from Week 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.880 one to Week two, averaging five yards per carry on 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.040 the ground. Josh McCown has been effective passing the ball. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.400 He gets a weapon back in Austin's Ferry and champions 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.280 this week. So an interesting matchup when the Jets offense 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.200 is on the field against the Dolphins defense. Let's talk 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:45.040 about the resourcefulness of the Dolphins and that belief right 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.000 now that's happening under Adam Gates. It seems like this 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:52.520 team last year was in a lot of fourth quarter 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.240 games they found a way to win, and then here 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.680 on Sunday they start the season that way. What can 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.320 be said for where that uh, that that what Gaze 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.960 is building right now in terms of culture and belief 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.200 that these guys think they're gonna win in a close game. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.280 Adam Gaze has has built a mindset for this team 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.160 that they believe they're gonna walk out and win every week. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.920 They feel like they're gonna walk out and win every practice, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.560 They're gonna walk out and win every press conference. You know, 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:28.040 everything has changed, it seems like since his arrival, and 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.840 it filters down guys to the coaching staff, you know, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.280 to the training staff, to the equipments. I mean, it's 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.480 it's not a cockiness. It's just a belief about what 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.200 the work we're putting in is going to lead us 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.480 to victory. And that starts at practice, it starts a 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.240 film study, it starts off the field. Guys are doing 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:51.440 the right things and if not, you know, they're not 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.000 going to be around. I mean, he basically has two 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.840 rules on this football team. Show up on time and 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.680 play as hard as you can. And they're not that 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.120 of the goal to follow. And I think the leaders 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.800 of this team, when you talk about a Dominican Sus 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.760 and Cam Wake and Mike Pouncy and and guys like that, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.920 Mike Thomas, They they really have taken the lead in 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.480 the locker room and spread that belief. So I think 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.280 it almost feels it feels for me like a college team, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.320 to be honest with you, it feels like that that excitement, 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.200 that exuberance that you would have. I would think pro 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.040 guys will probably be a little bit happier because you're 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.200 getting a paycheck at the end of it. But but um, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.280 you know, I just it has that feel, guys, It 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.960 has that feel of there's just an ultimate belief that 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.600 the Dolphins have been in really close games over the 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.200 last year in one game and in the majority of 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.600 those situations, they've been able to find a way to win, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.880 whether it's by those guys making plays or forcing mistakes 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.400 on other teams, or just being you know, unfortunate situations 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.840 where teams miss a kick. Things have to happen for 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.400 that chain of events to occur, and they've leave that 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.480 through the way that they're working, in the way that 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.920 their mindset is, they're helping those things along. Someone that 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.280 I'm that I want to touch on his DeVante Parker, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.640 and that he's someone that was the first round pick 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.560 a couple of years ago, always been kind of in 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.800 the shadow as the guy that has the potential, has 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.120 the frame, the talent to be a dominant receiver. Last 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.920 week against the Chargers, you saw that one tremendous catch 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:30.639 where he plucked the ball over Chargers defender. So is 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.920 do you think that he's finally taking that step to 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.720 become the guy that the Dolphins drafted a couple of 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:41.639 years ago. He's pretty darn closed. The improvement DeVante Parker 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.840 made in the off season was extraordinary. He looked like 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.560 a different person during ok A s during minicamp, he 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.240 was he was stronger, he was finally healthy Number one. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.720 I think that's the major contributor to why he's going 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.920 to have success this season. But I also think the 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.840 other thing was he started are taking care of his 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.440 body off the field. I think he was getting more rest, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.760 he was eating right, he was doing things off the 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.399 field that you have to do when you're a professional 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.720 to set yourself apart um. And he did those things 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.520 and when he came back, he was able to run 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:19.639 full speed, not just you know, half the time every play, 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.480 and it made him a better player. And I do 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:27.000 believe going up against Xavian Howard every day, two young 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.320 guys trying to battle, trying to find their way through 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.200 how good they can be in the National Football League. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.720 Improved both guys. But Davante Parker, I would say, number one, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.080 he took care of his body and number two, his 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.959 body is now allowing him to make those types of catches. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.159 John Conjemmy, he can find him on Twitter. He's a 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.120 Dolphins analysts. You canna watch him on Miami Dolphins dot Com. 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.960 You also can watch him on ESPN because you cover 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.960 a little college football as well. Last week you wear 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.680 a Nashville ton of see where the Vanderbilt Commodores pulled 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.480 off an upset over Kansas State. So a bonus question 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.639 as we get you out of here, John, does Vanderbilt 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:15.600 keep a close Saturday against the Alabama Crimson Tide they're 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.840 fighting Commodore's. I don't know, guys, they got a good 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:24.679 football team, and I do believe that the athletes ad 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.520 Vanderbilt will surprise you. They have talent, especially at wide receiver. 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:31.800 They have a good running back, a very good quarterback 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.080 in Shermer. But Alabama's got so much talent. I don't 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.960 even know what the spread is, but I would I 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.200 would venture to say Alabama is gonna be in for 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.680 a football game for the first quarter and then and 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:48.000 then kind of take that one over. John, Thank you 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.480 so much. We look forward to seeing it up here 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.359 on Sunday. Hey, thanks guys, thanks for having me, and 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.120 good luck with the rest of the year. All right, Gran, 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.760 it's great speaking to John kN Jemmy, who I've covers 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.280 the Dolphins and then does a little college football. I'd 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.440 love to see Vanderbilt pull off the upset, you know, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.879 I like, you've gone two for two in your upset 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.840 picks the past two weeks. Yeah, so we gotta look 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.639 at the slate later. But Jon K Jemmy a lot 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.200 of great information there. What I take away from what 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:24.280 he just said was this is a team that has 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.800 a lot of belief. They think every time they walk 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.879 on the field under Adam Gates, they're gonna come away 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.360 with the victory. I thought that was a tremendous point. 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.600 He said that it felt like a college team even 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.160 though the players are getting paid because you're in the NFL. 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.320 They're a bunch of professionals, and you can kind of 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.000 tell that the Dolphins have that swag to them that 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.400 they truly do believe that they're gonna win every game. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.359 But something that I was intrigued about it I asked 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.280 him about it, Conjemmy, is about Davonte Parker, because clearly 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.920 he's a talented receiver who has the frame in the 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.280 bill to be dominant, and he just hasn't reached that 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.160 point yet. So I'm very curious to see on Sunday, 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.880 Let's say, hypothetically the Jets shut down a JI because 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.960 he's listed on the injury report, but Conjemmi says he's 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.560 probably gonna play. He'll play either way, maybe a little 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:14.840 banged up. Whatever it is. Let's say hypothetically the Jets 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:19.520 shutdown a GI. Is is Jake Cutler ready to sling 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.800 the rock around to try to beat the Jets defense 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.959 through the air, And furthermore, do they have the talent 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.000 in the receiving corps to do that. Obviously, Kenny Stills 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.400 is a big play threat. He's a he's a vertical guy. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.119 But so far, through two weeks of the season, the 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.240 Jets secondary has not really let up any big passing plays. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.760 It's more so been on the ground You're right, they 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.960 haven't let the ball go over their heads. Michael Cradtree 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.560 got nine song in a couple of times last week. Um, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.240 but yeah, the Jets have kept the pass in front 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.160 of them. Uh. The one thing that Conjemmie did say 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.879 is that you have to tackle with Jarvis Lantry. He 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:01.720 excels in yards to the catch. It's like having a 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.560 J J. I E basically as a receiver. No, I'm 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:08.520 not saying he's a running back. My thing is he's 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:12.879 gonna take short passes and then he's going to break 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.760 tackles if you don't remain sound in your fundamentals. You 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.920 mentioned the passing game. Jay Cutler, he's really familiar with 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:25.119