Speaker 1: Practice. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow,
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. How's it going, Everybody
Speaker 1: Happy Monday? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I
Speaker 1: am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, we are talking about
Speaker 1: assistant coaches, both a flashback edition and a Lifetime Achievement Award,
Speaker 1: as well as the current rendition of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Will honor the recipient of the doctor Z
Speaker 1: Lifetime Achievement Award, And since we talk so much about
Speaker 1: Brian Flores and his defensive staff, will flip it over
Speaker 1: to the other side and take a look at the
Speaker 1: histories and statistics of Miami's remade offensive staff lens of
Speaker 1: a twenty nineteen season rewatch by yours truly all of
Speaker 1: that more on this Monday during the twenty ninth edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast, And you jumped into the show
Speaker 1: with some fantastic news. Friday before last, on the flashback
Speaker 1: episode of the Drivetime Podcast, I was lucky enough to
Speaker 1: get a long conversation in with former Dolphins linebacker and
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year A. J. Dewey. If you haven't
Speaker 1: checked out that episode, go ahead and scroll back to
Speaker 1: the Friday, June nineteenth edition of the Drivetime podcast. And
Speaker 1: the purpose of that show was to go more in
Speaker 1: depth on the highly underrated career of longtime Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Bill arns Barger. Arnsbarger was the architect of many
Speaker 1: a great Dolphins defenses and the ultimate balancing mechanism for
Speaker 1: coach Sula in those days and all those Dolphins wins
Speaker 1: and championship titles. So arns Barger was up against some
Speaker 1: stiff competition for this award, the Paul Zimmerman dot ter
Speaker 1: Z Award, a lifetime achievement awarded each year to one
Speaker 1: of the league's legendary assistant coaches, and among his competition
Speaker 1: was a few other defensive coordinators, five to be exact,
Speaker 1: including Buddy Ryan of the famed eighty five Bears defense,
Speaker 1: the Monsters of the Midway, and co winner Romeo Crenell.
Speaker 1: So Bill Arnsberger and Romeo Crenell were announced just a
Speaker 1: little bit ago at one o'clock eastern on Monday, as
Speaker 1: the co winners of this award, and for some reference points,
Speaker 1: there are almost always multiple winners per year for this award.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got what twelve to fifteen assistants per
Speaker 1: staff per team across the league, and that's not counting
Speaker 1: quality control or positional assistance within the position group thirty
Speaker 1: two teams, fifteen of them per team, give or take.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of assistant coaches out there in the
Speaker 1: history of the National Football League. But the names on
Speaker 1: this list I think really bring a great deal of
Speaker 1: respect and honoring to the late great Bill Arnsparger, back
Speaker 1: to team Jim Johnson, Howard mud Fritz Schermer, and Ernie's
Speaker 1: dam Peas a lot of you die hearts probably recognize
Speaker 1: all of those names as legendary assistant coaches. As we
Speaker 1: go further down this list, some even more recognizable names
Speaker 1: like in ten Dick Lebou, Tom Moore, Dante Scarneckia. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tom Moore and Dante Scarneckia are synonymous with terrific offensive
Speaker 1: line coaching, and Dick le Beau was what, for forty
Speaker 1: fifty years a great defensive coordinator in the NFL. Seen
Speaker 1: Monty Kiffen, one of the pioneers of the Tampa two defense.
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips. We know plenty about him, so you're kind
Speaker 1: of starting to recognize this pattern of when these coaches
Speaker 1: get honored here for this award seventeen Bud Carsoneen, Joe Bugle,
Speaker 1: and Emmett Thomas, and then last year nineteen Gunther Cunningham
Speaker 1: and former Dolphins special team's assistant Mike west Off. And
Speaker 1: then Bill Arnsparker joins Elite Company along with Romeo Crannell,
Speaker 1: bringing a spotlight to Arns Barger's elite resume and winning
Speaker 1: just came with the territory for Arns Barger. He had
Speaker 1: a twenty one year run as an NFL assistant, a
Speaker 1: couple of stops in Miami. He was there with the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Colts with Don Shula and then went to a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl again with the Chargers in nine. He had
Speaker 1: a regular season mark of to fourteen eighty five and six.
Speaker 1: That's a seven twelve win percentage. He averaged ten wins
Speaker 1: per year, and remember a lot of those seasons were
Speaker 1: in seasons where the NFL only played fourteen games. His
Speaker 1: team earned trips to the NFL Championship Game or Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in seven of his twenty one seasons as a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, three thirty three batting average on getting to
Speaker 1: the championship game, including one trip to the NFL's Final
Speaker 1: Four with each of those teams that he coached in
Speaker 1: the Colts, Dolphins, and Chargers. He was the architect of
Speaker 1: not one, but two defenses that had legendary nicknames, both
Speaker 1: the No Name Defense and the Killer B Defense, and
Speaker 1: that No Name defense in nineteen seventy two and nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three brought back two Super Bowls, lost only two games,
Speaker 1: and allowed an average of just eleven point five points
Speaker 1: per game over the course of those two seasons cumulatively.
Speaker 1: He also was the innovator of the three four defense.
Speaker 1: His five three defense name for Bob Mathieson was basically
Speaker 1: a precursor to what became known as the three four
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. A. J. Dewey told me he
Speaker 1: thinks the Arnsbarger invented the zone blitz. We talked about
Speaker 1: him being more of a chalkboard guy over a screamer.
Speaker 1: Because of that, he earned the nickname one More Real
Speaker 1: for his desire to get back into the film room
Speaker 1: and just watch more tape on defense and offense, pick
Speaker 1: out tendencies and be the great coach that he was.
Speaker 1: We also had a great story on that podcast on
Speaker 1: the June nineteenth edition of the Drive Time podcast where
Speaker 1: Dewey told us about a time when arnst Burger stood
Speaker 1: up to Shula, which just didn't happen back in those days.
Speaker 1: You did not dare come out the late great Don Shula.
Speaker 1: So those two guys together legends on the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Bill arnst Barger co recipient of the doctor
Speaker 1: Z Lifetime Achievement Award for NFL Assistant Coaches. Cheers to you,
Speaker 1: coach Arensberger. You definitely earned it with that phenomenal resume. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and fast forward here a few decades
Speaker 1: and dive into something that struck my fancy over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Can you tell yet that I'm a new dad that
Speaker 1: pretty much just sits around on weekends researching football information
Speaker 1: in between diaper changes and very very successful burpings. More
Speaker 1: on that in just one moment. So, as you well
Speaker 1: know by now, I'm getting extensively back through the nineteen
Speaker 1: season as I can, and this weekend brought a pair
Speaker 1: of games back in front of my eyes for the
Speaker 1: first time since I did the film breakdown on the
Speaker 1: Tuesday after the game, so I watched the broadcast version.
Speaker 1: Then they all twenty two and that was it. I
Speaker 1: stored those tapes away forever because they just weren't fun tapes.
Speaker 1: I wasn't intrigued to dive back in well until now,
Speaker 1: because I'm a completist and I have to get through
Speaker 1: every game or else I find myself. I find it
Speaker 1: as a failure of an experiment. So it's always nice
Speaker 1: to put those ones away for some time and then
Speaker 1: circle back. So that's where we are right now. And
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know it, I came away with another lesson,
Speaker 1: perhaps a theory, or actually maybe let's just go ahead
Speaker 1: and call it general information that we can gleam, always
Speaker 1: be learning, and nothing teaches you about yourself better than
Speaker 1: a little bit of self scouting. Right, that's true in football,
Speaker 1: it's true in life. So we do it here with
Speaker 1: the nineteen season. So the hypothesis after watching these two
Speaker 1: games it was home for Buffalo and at Cleveland in
Speaker 1: November last year, and the hypothesis was that the lack
Speaker 1: of balance on offense led to the handful of games
Speaker 1: last year from Miami where they just were not all
Speaker 1: that competitive on the scoreboard. We've raved on and on
Speaker 1: on this show about the strong finish and the fact
Speaker 1: that Flora has helped rally the squad together along with
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick's galvanizing force in the locker room, and to
Speaker 1: dig out of that O and seven start and finish
Speaker 1: the final nine game games with a winning record over
Speaker 1: that period. We have given praise for that several times,
Speaker 1: and well deserved. But before I went and looked into
Speaker 1: the detail, I hypothesized that the offensive resurgence last year
Speaker 1: was directly correlated to some semblance of balance on the
Speaker 1: Miami offense. All coaches want that want that balance, all
Speaker 1: coaches preach that balance, and I think that's a semblance
Speaker 1: of what Miami got to help them get into the
Speaker 1: top half of the league an offensive rank. And again,
Speaker 1: the offensive resurgence was due mostly in large part to
Speaker 1: the work of Ryan Fitzpatrick, and you watch the way
Speaker 1: he played. I tweeted about it over the weekend. I
Speaker 1: will continue to to really corroborate Pro Football Focuses ranking
Speaker 1: of Ryan Fitzpatrick as a top ten graded passer last
Speaker 1: year from the time he came back in against Washington
Speaker 1: to the end of the season. It just beared out
Speaker 1: on tape. You go back to my twenty nineteen film review,
Speaker 1: and this was up on locked on Dolphins dot com
Speaker 1: where I said that Ryan Fitzpatrick's greatest strength was the
Speaker 1: trust in his eye. He's talked about this at that
Speaker 1: stage a fourteen year NFL career, how there just isn't
Speaker 1: a whole lot he hasn't seen, both in the way
Speaker 1: coverages will attack him and play him, and by the
Speaker 1: terminology and the different schemes and different systems on offense.
Speaker 1: There just isn't a whole lot that Ryan Fitzpatrick hasn't seen.
Speaker 1: So he comes in here, digests the offense, gets it
Speaker 1: down pat and starts making plays and ripping the football
Speaker 1: with confidence and assertiveness and putting the football on spots
Speaker 1: based upon his knowledge of the offense and man. It
Speaker 1: just it bared out on film all throughout the back
Speaker 1: half of nineteen. And you look at some of the
Speaker 1: pressure numbers that Fitzpatrick dealt with last season and the
Speaker 1: way he was able to get rid of the football
Speaker 1: by throwing it to a spot, by extending plays, doing
Speaker 1: that little shoulder role where he got out of pressure
Speaker 1: and escaped and made plays off script that way. It
Speaker 1: was pretty constant in ten. So let's not take anything
Speaker 1: away from what Ryan Fitzpatrick did at quarterback last year
Speaker 1: for Miami. It was a massive ingredient in the resurgence
Speaker 1: to finish out the year five and four over the
Speaker 1: final nine games. But he was also the team's leading
Speaker 1: rusher in nineteen And I want to point back to
Speaker 1: a couple of quotes from Brian Flora's last year in
Speaker 1: training camp talking about what he likes on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: what type, what brand of football he wants to play
Speaker 1: on the offensive side, And here's a quote about an
Speaker 1: offensive line change that was made last year in camp. Look,
Speaker 1: we want a tough, smart, physical offensive line. Philosophically, that's
Speaker 1: what we're looking for. We can get into techniques if
Speaker 1: you want, but it boils down to hand placement, footwork,
Speaker 1: getting your hands inside and protecting inside out. All of
Speaker 1: those things are just the basic basic fundamentals of offensive
Speaker 1: line play. That is what I'm looking for. Communicating that
Speaker 1: along with the communication along the offensive line, combination, blocks
Speaker 1: in the run game, passing off twist in the past game,
Speaker 1: all of those things go into it. Then the overall
Speaker 1: communication along the offensive line, that's what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: We're really looking for that at all positions, offensively, defensively,
Speaker 1: and in the kicking game. There's a few different things
Speaker 1: that play there, but tough, smart, discipline, and fundamentally sound
Speaker 1: that's what I'm looking for out there out of the
Speaker 1: offensive line group. And that was a few days into
Speaker 1: training camp. But here's a quote from the first day,
Speaker 1: right before the Dolphins hit the practice field on a
Speaker 1: Saturday morning for some physical practice, some padded practices, the
Speaker 1: first padded practice and training camp under Brian Floors with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and the question a follow up question
Speaker 1: to another I guess inquiry about the fundamentals of the
Speaker 1: game and playing with pads on for the first time
Speaker 1: at practice. The follow up question was, so, when the
Speaker 1: pads go on, does that begin to separate who the
Speaker 1: physical guys are and who needs to be more physical?
Speaker 1: And coach's answer was absolutely. I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, in football, you can never forget about
Speaker 1: the physicality of the game. It's something that from the
Speaker 1: early days, from the beginning of the game, that's really
Speaker 1: what it's all about. It's a physical sport. It's about
Speaker 1: being tough, being gritty, but at the same time being smart,
Speaker 1: being disciplined. And then the conversation went on to more
Speaker 1: aspects of how they want to teach about defeating blocks
Speaker 1: before you actually get there to make the tackle, because
Speaker 1: you can tackle all you want, coach says, but if
Speaker 1: you can't beat the block, you're not gonna get there
Speaker 1: for the tackle. So he talks about that physical aspect
Speaker 1: of the game and how for him as a player
Speaker 1: when he was at Boston College, taking on a fullback
Speaker 1: and adding another layer to the physicality of the position
Speaker 1: playing inside that box as a linebacker really added an
Speaker 1: extra element and made things more tough on him as
Speaker 1: a player. So you see that experience bear out there
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins and the way they want to be
Speaker 1: a physical team upfront. Flores did not beat around the
Speaker 1: bush about that fact. They want to be a physical team,
Speaker 1: as coach laid out here at this press conference. So
Speaker 1: the physicality of the game, running the football, playing inside
Speaker 1: with linebackers, defensive lineman, fullbacks, all this stuff, it's very important.
Speaker 1: And so what I did was go back and look
Speaker 1: at some of the coaching changes and look at some
Speaker 1: of the ranks associated with those coaches on staff now
Speaker 1: and how they produced in the running game or their
Speaker 1: teams produced in the running game. And I started with,
Speaker 1: of course, chan Gaily, because how else would you start
Speaker 1: other than the guy that calls the plays, the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and how it might create more balance on offense, so
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and the quarterbacks can do their thing along
Speaker 1: with the running backs creating positive yardage in the running game.
Speaker 1: Because the games where Miami was competitive and efficient on offense,
Speaker 1: there was a semblance of balance in the running game
Speaker 1: along with Fitzpatrick doing his thing, and the games that
Speaker 1: were not that way early in the season especially, there
Speaker 1: was no balance in the running game. And the two
Speaker 1: games that I thought were kind of quote unquote stinkers
Speaker 1: late in the season, after Miami kind of got things
Speaker 1: figured out and got themselves dug out of that initial
Speaker 1: hole to start the year, those two games against Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Buffalo provided a far greater challenge to run the
Speaker 1: ball than the other games laid down the stretch at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. So when you really split
Speaker 1: the season into two halves, you basically have that first
Speaker 1: portion of the year where I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: use the Buffalo game at Buffalo. From that Buffalo game
Speaker 1: onto New England, the Dolphins average three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six yards per game. If you remove the Buffalo and
Speaker 1: Cleveland games, the home Buffalo game and Cleveland in November,
Speaker 1: they had eighty three point three rushing yards per game
Speaker 1: in those games, but the three that would have ranked
Speaker 1: fifteen in the NFL. And actually, if we pushed that
Speaker 1: date range back to those final nine games when Miami
Speaker 1: did finish five and four, it's right in that same range.
Speaker 1: They would have been the seventeenth ranked offense over those
Speaker 1: final nine games. And the inspiration for this little research
Speaker 1: study was watching the second Buffalo game. And really those
Speaker 1: two Buffalo games serve as a perfect measuring stick, a
Speaker 1: perfect juxtaposition for how the offense functioned from from one
Speaker 1: portion of the season or from one style of game
Speaker 1: to the next. And ironically, and this is where I
Speaker 1: love context, the scores weren't that different at the end
Speaker 1: of those games thanks to a ridiculous onside kick return
Speaker 1: for a touchdown in the game at Buffalo. I mean,
Speaker 1: how often does that happen, especially in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: in the game in Buffalo, the Dolphins rushed for one
Speaker 1: hundred and nine yards, and it wasn't throw away yardage
Speaker 1: late in the game. It was early down success. It
Speaker 1: was success in the first half, keeping the offense on
Speaker 1: the field, giving the defense rest, all those things that
Speaker 1: come with a positive running game, and that game saw
Speaker 1: the Dolphins enter the fourth quarter with a lead. It
Speaker 1: also saw the Dolphins on the doorstep first and goal
Speaker 1: from the two yard line away from making it a
Speaker 1: twenty one to nine game late in the third quarter
Speaker 1: against a team that was four and one, so they
Speaker 1: were really playing well that day. Then the game in
Speaker 1: Miami against Buffalo was only a seven point difference in
Speaker 1: terms of the end result from the game in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: This one in Miami was thirty seven to twenty, where
Speaker 1: Buffalo score late again to kind of put the game
Speaker 1: out of reach, but the game was never really that close.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins did make it close at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half with an onside recovery, but then they
Speaker 1: fumbled the very next play, and then Miami bounces back
Speaker 1: again with a long Jakeem Grant one hundred and two
Speaker 1: yard kickoff return for a touchdown. So credit Miami for
Speaker 1: fighting back in that game. And they would fight back
Speaker 1: as well in the Cleveland game. But the point of
Speaker 1: all of this was to discuss early down run success
Speaker 1: because in this game, Miami just could not get it
Speaker 1: going on the ground. You've got negative four yards on
Speaker 1: five runs on first and second down. That with that
Speaker 1: minimal production thanks to holding the Buffalo offense to field goals,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were down just six zero. So it got
Speaker 1: me curious about run game success the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Kind of a war and Sharp type of rundown on
Speaker 1: early down run success. As Warren Sharp, for my money,
Speaker 1: is the czar of analytics, and he talks about this
Speaker 1: stuff all the time, how you can give yourself more
Speaker 1: of a chance through analytics and play calling decisions to
Speaker 1: set yourself up for success. So I kind of took
Speaker 1: that same approach the next week against Cleveland. We have
Speaker 1: five yards on five carries on first or second down
Speaker 1: to put you in a position where you're down zero.
Speaker 1: And I chose these games because they were the outliers
Speaker 1: of those final nine games. The games were Miami just
Speaker 1: weren't competitive on the scoreboard. And yes, the Giants game
Speaker 1: got out of hand late, but Miami did have a
Speaker 1: second half lead in that game and drove the length
Speaker 1: of the field throughout the course of that game. They
Speaker 1: just bogged down in the red zone. So I didn't
Speaker 1: consider that one to be a severely outmatched game, both
Speaker 1: on the field and the scoreboard. And this is not
Speaker 1: some form of excuse making, just illustrating the point that
Speaker 1: early down run success was a major factor, probably the biggest,
Speaker 1: second biggest factor, rather aside from fits just playing really
Speaker 1: really good football during Miami's turnaround. So how do we
Speaker 1: fix that? Well, A good start is signing the NFL's
Speaker 1: third leading rusher since he entered the league in in
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. It's trading for a running back that averages
Speaker 1: over five yards per carry in his career in Matt Brita.
Speaker 1: It's signing to quality free agent offensive lineman and drafting
Speaker 1: three guys at the same spot. Three of those five
Speaker 1: total editions weighing in at three hundred and thirty pounds
Speaker 1: or more. So, they make some personnel changes, they make
Speaker 1: some changes to the coaching staff, and really what sparked
Speaker 1: all of this, what really brought this all together, was
Speaker 1: a comment by Jay Fiedler on the Fish Tank podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network talking about Chan
Speaker 1: Gailey when he was with the Dolphins back in the
Speaker 1: early two thousands and those run games with Lamar Smith
Speaker 1: behind Jay Fiedler there with the Dolphins, and we talked
Speaker 1: about being a teacher and teaching the running game and
Speaker 1: really paying attention to the fine details and all the preparation.
Speaker 1: Get a load of this quote from Jay Fiedler on
Speaker 1: the Fish Tank podcast talking about his former o C
Speaker 1: and now current Dolphins o C Chan Gailey. Yes, you
Speaker 1: know what Chan Chan was, you know, tremendous a teacher
Speaker 1: the game. Uh, you know, just the fundamental I mean
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, the first thing I kind of
Speaker 1: uh noticed when we were going through install and everything
Speaker 1: was you know how precise he was in the run
Speaker 1: game with run blocking. And I learned a ton just
Speaker 1: on how run schemes, uh, you know operate it. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just going through uh you know, with with
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey on that just you know where where a
Speaker 1: fullback should fit in on a block against the linebacker.
Speaker 1: You know how how the running backs should read those
Speaker 1: And it certainly helped as a quarterback knowing you know,
Speaker 1: when you do at the audible between different runs. You
Speaker 1: know what what's your best look, you know, going against
Speaker 1: a certain defense, and what's your best run to get
Speaker 1: to with that? And then you know, the next thing
Speaker 1: that you know, impressed me a great deal about Chan was,
Speaker 1: you know, his ability to game plan and create matchups. Uh. Look,
Speaker 1: he kept a lot of the stuff that we did
Speaker 1: pretty simple. Uh in terms of the plays that we
Speaker 1: had going you know, we didn't have uh, you know,
Speaker 1: ninety five players going into a game, but you know,
Speaker 1: he made sure that that we were scattered out so
Speaker 1: well that you know, he created the right formation and
Speaker 1: motion to get a great matchup on a simple play.
Speaker 1: And uh. You know, So there's Jay talking about Chan
Speaker 1: Gailey kind of his approach to the game and the
Speaker 1: way he taught Ja so much about the running game.
Speaker 1: And so I wanted to go back and look at
Speaker 1: some of the ranks of Chan gailey led offenses in
Speaker 1: the rushing department. And luckily for me, my buddy Kevin Dern,
Speaker 1: former co host of the analysis podcast Good Friend of Mine,
Speaker 1: he compiled Chan Gailey's offensive numbers from the times he
Speaker 1: was a head coach and o c recently in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And we go back to Sten with the Jets one
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve point six yards per game. That was
Speaker 1: twelve for a five and eleven football team, and granted
Speaker 1: they were the twenty seventh ranked team in passing that year,
Speaker 1: so the rushing offense really carried the water for their offense.
Speaker 1: The Jets in one hundred and sixteen point eight rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game that was eleventh in the NFL for
Speaker 1: a ten and six team. That created balance for the
Speaker 1: thirteenth ranked passing offense in the NFL. With the Bills
Speaker 1: for three years two thousand twelve, one thirty eight point
Speaker 1: six yards per game that was six in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Five yards per carry they were twenty five in the past,
Speaker 1: so again the running game carries the water for a
Speaker 1: six and ten team two thousand, eleven hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: point six yards per game that was thirteen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Four point nine yards per carry for a six and
Speaker 1: ten team that ranked fifteen in passing, So again more
Speaker 1: balanced there. And then his first year in Buffalo one
Speaker 1: oh seven point five eighteen ranked rushing offense, four point
Speaker 1: three yards per carry, twenty four ranked passing offense a
Speaker 1: four and twelve football team. And then we go back
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs in two thousand eight with Tyler Thigpen.
Speaker 1: You all recall that great Dolphins Chiefs game from Week
Speaker 1: sixteen where Miami rallied from behind. He was the o
Speaker 1: C for that Chiefs club that had a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen rushing yards per game, sixteenth in the NFL, four
Speaker 1: point eight yards per carry for a four and twelve
Speaker 1: team that was twenty four in passing. So the running
Speaker 1: game consistency for Chan Giles offenses has always been there.
Speaker 1: You bring him in hopefully he can get some of
Speaker 1: that production here with Miami in twenty and beyond. And
Speaker 1: Chan was not the only addition to the offensive staff
Speaker 1: this year, as we continue on with offensive line coach
Speaker 1: Stephen Marshall, who was with Chan Gailey from and seen.
Speaker 1: He also was there in New York in seventeen when
Speaker 1: Chan had already moved on, so three year stint there
Speaker 1: with the Jets, and in his last six NFL seasons,
Speaker 1: chant or Stephen Marshall Rather's offensive lines ranked top ten
Speaker 1: and sacks allowed on four of those six occasions and
Speaker 1: another another year in the top fifteen, so consistently top
Speaker 1: half of the league offensive lines and past protection. He
Speaker 1: was promoted to full time offensive line coach in Houston
Speaker 1: two thousand five, after serving as an assistant for three
Speaker 1: and a half years there. In two thousand seven, he
Speaker 1: was hired as the Browns offensive line coach. They ranked
Speaker 1: tenth and rushing that year. He would then return back
Speaker 1: to college before joining on with the Packers for a
Speaker 1: year before he got to that Jets job. In total,
Speaker 1: he's been coaching offensive lines for forty years. Tons of experience,
Speaker 1: tons of different scheme knowledge and experience there as well
Speaker 1: for Stephen Marshall Josh Grizzard, he now steps into the
Speaker 1: vacancy left by Carl Durrell who took a head coaching
Speaker 1: job with Colorado. Out Here in the Pack twelve and
Speaker 1: we had Jachem Grant on interview which will be on
Speaker 1: the podcast later this week, I believe, where he talked
Speaker 1: about Josh Grizzard being there since Joachim was drafted, and
Speaker 1: Jachim talked about how instrumental Josh Grizzard has been in
Speaker 1: teaching the receiver's certain techniques, certain fundamentals, understanding the comprehensive
Speaker 1: notes behind the offense so he can relay it to
Speaker 1: those receivers, and Joachim mentioned that Grizzard was always available
Speaker 1: no matter what time of night he was in the playbook.
Speaker 1: He would send a quick text and he would get
Speaker 1: a reply instantly with a good answer for his question.
Speaker 1: So that bears well for the whole teaching aspect of
Speaker 1: this Dolphins coaching staff. And then we take a look
Speaker 1: at new Dolphins quarterbacks coach Robbie Brown, and you look
Speaker 1: at coach Brown's resume, it's widespread. He served on special
Speaker 1: projects between coaches and the analytics departments. He was a
Speaker 1: defensive assistant, he was offensive quality control. He's been an
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, so doing a little bit
Speaker 1: of everything on the offensive side of the staff. And
Speaker 1: now he'll come to Miami as a Dolphins new quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach under Brian Flores. Okay, one quick story that just
Speaker 1: has to be told before we sign off for the day.
Speaker 1: I mentioned diaper changes and burping as a father, which
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, my least favorite part of this whole
Speaker 1: parenting thing is the actual burping aspect of having a
Speaker 1: new child. I can take the thirty minute scream session
Speaker 1: in my ear because she wants to be with her mother,
Speaker 1: But burping is just a lose lose for everybody involved.
Speaker 1: It never gets on. The intended rag gets up to
Speaker 1: our laundry duties tenfold here in the Wingfield house, and
Speaker 1: it just perpetuates a cycle of feeding, burping, sleeping, and
Speaker 1: you do it all over again, seven or eight times
Speaker 1: every single day, it seems. So. My daughter had an
Speaker 1: upset stomach on Saturday and it was coming out like
Speaker 1: a fountain. She got it on her mom on one side,
Speaker 1: then round two gets the other side. So Mrs Wingfield
Speaker 1: sitting in her chair, the rocking chair is just covered.
Speaker 1: It's all over the chair. The baby is lying there
Speaker 1: on the bopy, the thing the support her while she feeds,
Speaker 1: and my wife asked me for some help, just to
Speaker 1: pick up the baby so she can get cleaned up
Speaker 1: and get herself situated. As I bend down and mind you,
Speaker 1: literally every single burt rag we own at this point
Speaker 1: is in the hamper. I'm convinced she's all out of
Speaker 1: materials to give, so I dive in fearlessly. I put
Speaker 1: both hands around her back so I can support her
Speaker 1: neck and lift her up off the bobby, and like
Speaker 1: some sort of jet fuel propulsion, the pressure on her
Speaker 1: back brings about round three, and now normally it just
Speaker 1: kind of falls out right, like isn't that how it
Speaker 1: is for other parents? It just comes out of their
Speaker 1: mouth and you clean it up well. In the words
Speaker 1: of the great lead corso not so fast, my friend.
Speaker 1: As I'm hunched over lifting her towards me, a fire
Speaker 1: hose explodes out like cam wake, coming out of the
Speaker 1: four point stance in the wide nine, like a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame athlete. In that moment, it all slowed down
Speaker 1: for me. I can see the stream of freshly ingested
Speaker 1: milk charging towards my face with the ferocity of the
Speaker 1: Persian army in the film three hundred. But I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be able to spartan kick this Xerxes away. I'd
Speaker 1: have to go full Keanu Reeves and avoid that shot
Speaker 1: with elusiveness, and I did. At its peak. I swear
Speaker 1: it was within one inch, maybe even less, of my nose.
Speaker 1: My wife and I laughed about it afterwards. I was
Speaker 1: able to get myself composed and get to work on
Speaker 1: changing the poor kids soaked onesie. I told my wife
Speaker 1: if that would have hit me, we'd have a much
Speaker 1: bigger mess on our hands, a grown man size mess.
Speaker 1: If you know what I mean, because I would not
Speaker 1: have be able to handle that situation had that stream
Speaker 1: hit me in the face. So that was my weekend,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be our time for this show today.
Speaker 1: Father's parents out there, hit me up on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: want to hear all your close call stories or even better,
Speaker 1: your stories where you are not as fortunate as me
Speaker 1: in that moment on Saturday. In the meantime, you all
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