WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 12 Variety Show with Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.760 You are listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:14.680 to a looking clips about the wide Dolphin touchdown time recall. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.280 Uncolievable, just blue fire for a second time. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.000 Don't know where he was going right away? Want to 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:21.919 hit that man. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:23.079 I'm gonna help you. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:24.520 Someone step on your bandwagon. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:29.080 Wattle Wattle to a shotguns back to throw, looking at them's. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:34.400 Up fires touchdown It's waddle his six touchdown pass. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.040 This thing. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:40.400 Now let me. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.559 Check your pulse if enough for. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:45.720 What is up? 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:46.479 Dolphins? 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.400 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.400 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:55.680 How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.760 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.360 a Thanksgiving special episode of the Draft Time Podcast, We're 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:06.280 gonna hear from former Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Caroline is 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.960 here in the house. Say hi, ha, she's here with 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.600 me right now. We're gonna also pick the week twelve games. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.600 We will also hear from assistant coaches and Mike McDaniel 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.240 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Trading Complex. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.320 This is the Draft Time podcast. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:25.399 Maybe, Jeff, let's go ahead and get to my guest today, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.560 the great Ryan Fitzpatrick. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is a 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:32.640 tradition unlike any other. And I can't imagine anybody'd rather 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.000 go back to my local bar with than former Dolphins 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.440 quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Fitz you are looking as quafft as ever, 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:39.920 my friend. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.399 How are you doing this one? 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.080 I'm doing great? Thank you. Yeah. I was getting poured 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.640 on last night in New York City, so the hairs 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:47.880 still got some water in it. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.520 I always tell you this every time I see each other. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.600 I think that your beard gets all the attention, but 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.760 the hair up top is is what really steals the show. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.360 So that's my intro every single time we do this 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.720 podcast together. Pivoting here to Thanksgiving. The Dolphins gifted their 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.040 employees the annual pies last last night, and I cracked 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.800 in the mind ahead of Thanksgiving for the Hard Knocks 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.200 episode of the Dolphins premiere down here, and I'll just 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.440 say an elite key line, pie to me is unstoppable. 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:14.000 Fit. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.720 You once made headlines talking about a different dessert birthday cakes, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.280 but I'll give you the chance here to do it 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.480 again with Thanksgiving dessert. What's your go to Turkey Day dessert. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.520 I'm not a key line guy. I'm just not. I 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.919 don't know why, but I I don't know for the 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.320 people pecan or pekan, but I'm gonna go. I'm gonna 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:39.440 go with pecan pie. That is my absolute favorite. My 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.200 grandma made a great one. And you know, my birthday's 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.600 coming up on Friday, the day of the game, and 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.600 so before we left, we had a Fakesgiving and so 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.440 we did the turkey. We did a few desserts, but 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.680 that's always my request. So on Fakesgiving the other day, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.120 I got a peak on pie. It was unbelievable. But 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.240 that's definitely my go too. 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.120 That's a new twist. I haven't heard you. I know 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.120 friends Giving, but Fakesgiving is a new one for me. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.600 That's two my kids came up with the name. But 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.440 I thought it was pretty good. I like Bryan and 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.839 Turkey every year, and you know we're going to we're 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.040 in the city, we're going to do Thanksgiving somewhere else. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.280 So I still wanted the opportunity to fry the bird. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:20.920 So that's why we put it on there. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.880 Well, it sounds like a fun little tradition for you guys, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.239 but also a little bit of twist being up in 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.080 New York obviously, and happy birthday. My friend wasn't aware 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.160 of that, so happy birthday coming here. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.040 Yeah, I'm getting old, geez. 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:33.919 I just told some one other day I'm the same 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.520 age as to Ron Armstead, and they that like blew 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.040 them up blew them away for some reason. I'm not 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.400 really sure why, but I fell you man, I'm approaching 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.760 that that forty mark as well myself. So I mentioned 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.480 Hard Knocks just a minute ago in the episode they 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.880 covered another fun new tradition there where coach Campanelli, our 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.880 linebackers coach who you know in the turnover cakes, Speaking 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.360 of Hard Knocks fits, I mentioned this to you before. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.440 I think one of my favorite Hard Knocks moments of 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:01.120 all time was you evaluating a speech from quarterback Jamis 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.640 Winston like I was just fit his character perfectly and 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.600 fit your character the way they got that moment there 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.920 on camera. What do you remember most about being on 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.240 Hard Knocks with the Bucks that year? 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.839 Uh? So, that moment definitely went viral. But you know 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.800 the thing, the thing I'll say, Hard Knocks does a 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.920 great job. They're they're there, but they do a great 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.960 job and not getting in the way. They do a 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.440 great job of presenting it the way it should be presented. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.000 You know, I think you always go into that as 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.159 a player a little bit worried about, you know, the 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.000 access that they have and the things are going to 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.159 show and what it's going to make you look like. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.240 But they do a really, really great job. So I 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.000 was really impressed with their staff, and you know, you 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.000 end up becoming friends with them because you're seeing them 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.119 every day, seeing them in the meal room and everything else. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.240 But I walked away from it very impressed by the 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.320 way that they operate. And then you know, just the 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.279 fact that it wasn't in your face, you kind of 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.159 get comfortable with it because you know they're around and 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.920 they're trying to do right by you as well. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.039 That's impressive because you were with him for what I 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.839 guess five weeks and now it's going to be the 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.080 whole season, hopefully into a deep playoff run here for 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.839 these Dolphins, and you know, Hard Knocks, I'll call it 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.880 the green Bean cast role of this interview will very good. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.120 The main attraction is still, of course the bird or 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.440 the ham, depending on what you go with. Are you 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.159 a hammer Turkey Gey, No. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.320 We're definitely Turkey family. We'll do a ham on Christmas, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.159 but definitely a Turkey's family. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.640 Makes a lot of sense to put the media's feet 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:35.760 to the fire at his press conference this week, saying 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.240 that ham and pineapple is the way to go. Kind 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.920 of fitting for a kid from Hawaii, but no one 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.040 really knew about the Hawaii Are the pineapple ham mixed there? 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:44.839 Have you ever gone that way? 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.800 I haven't. I mean, my wife's favorite pizza is the 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:54.559 ham and pineapple, and I just can't. I just can't 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.840 do it. Love to if I was going to his 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.240 house for Thanksgiving, to be on board, but if he 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.200 came to mind, I think we have to be the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:03.920 Friday Turkey. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.440 That's classic. I'm a big pepperoni pineapple guys, so I 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.280 love it too. I'm with your wife on the pizza idea. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.960 I know most folks disagree with that, but good company there. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.960 Maybe you chose will, but Dolphins and Jets coming up 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.440 here on Friday first, I wanted you to give me 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.719 your ten thousand foot view of two teams you played 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.080 for here and played very well for late in your career, 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.440 facing off in a spotlight game with the entire nation watching, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.240 I'm so fired up. Like I mentioned to you face, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.320 I love Jets Week. It's my fair week of the year. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.280 How fired up are you for this game on Friday? 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.919 I mean it is awesome And for us at Amazon, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.839 this is like a new holiday, is what we're looking 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.760 at it as this Black Friday game. I mean, we 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.120 found another space where the NFL could squeeze a game in. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.680 Why it hasn't been on this day yet, it's surprising, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.360 but the synergies with Amazon being in New York City, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.520 I think we're really fired up with this on and 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.640 it's going to be you know, for us, the pregame show, halftime, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.919 post game, there's going to be great deal. There's going 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:02.520 to be a lot of fun. There's going to be 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.880 a little bit of talking about football. But you know, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.360 it's a great game. It's a great new holiday to 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.040 think we're starting the Jets. You know, I think it 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.800 starts that quarterback. You know, we're going to talk about 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.640 that a little bit. You know, they finally decided to 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.600 make a change from Zach Wilson. They've been in a 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.760 tough spot all year. I mean, their defense has been 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.840 absolutely lights out all year. So you know that as 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.720 the season wears on, the divide into the locker room, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.200 when you have one side of the ball, it's outperforming 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:36.760 the other side of the ball, you know, and you 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.640 feel like the offense has been holding him back. It's 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:43.080 something I'm always interested in seeing that dynamic because their 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.840 defense has been great this year. With Miami, it seems like, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.920 you know, the narrative of well, they haven't been any 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.800 good teams yet, and when they don't play good teams, 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.480 they blow them out. When they play the good teams, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.640 they can't get over the hump. This is a great 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.000 defense and the Jets, aside from last week with Josh 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.560 Allen did to them, they really had a number of 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.200 all these great quarterbacks. They've done a great job all year. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:10.680 So I feel like Miami's offense has slow down a 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:15.120 little bit. You know, the run game hasn't been as dynamic. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.040 I don't know what the status of Ashan is, but 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.920 you know he'll be a huge us for anathon back. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.920 But it just comes down to can you stop Tyreek Hill. 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.280 I mean, wow, it's a consistency that he has shown 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.920 all year, and it's just, you know, it's it's plays 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.400 like that first touchdown last week where he catches the ball. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.880 There's four guys around him, and somehow he, more than 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.160 anybody in the league, has the ability to turn on 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.079 the Jets and just go and score. I can't wait 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.960 to see him play. I can't wait to see Tua. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.040 I know Tua's got a new hairstyle. You know, I'm 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.600 a little confused, but I can't wait to see him 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.880 and talk to him about that. So there's a lot 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.280 of things I'm pumped about going into this game. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.520 I could do a full fight minute podcast with you 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.360 and two just talking about Harold Loan. That would be 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.920 great to me. So you mentioned you mentioned the Jets 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.959 quarterback situation, and that's kind of something I want to 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.080 follow up on there because you've been in both situations 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.320 right where you've come off the field and come into 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.880 the game and really sparked a team and rejuvenated, you know, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.679 life into an offense that maybe previously didn't have that life. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.800 What do you think that the Jets are experiencing right 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.760 now as they pivot to a quarterback and hasn't seen 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.560 a lot of action in this league on a short 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:24.960 week against a good team like Miami. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.680 Yeah. Well, and that's the other thing is Miami's defense, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.000 who's been playing great. They're really the big Fangio style, 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.600 you know, Jalen Ramsey back. I think they're they're starting 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.560 to really figure it out. So this isn't going to 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.840 be an easy game for a young quarterback to step into. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.400 You know, it's hard the quarterback position when you get 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.679 to a point where he's got a great defense, and 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.400 basically the narrative is, okay, just don't turn the ball 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.480 over and you know, don't put your defense in bad 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:01.319 spots and we're going to be fine. To get too conservative. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.600 So you know, for this Jets offense, it's been a 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.480 huge struggle and if you look at some of the stats, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.199 amount of time I think, you know, the scoring drives, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.960 the drought that they've had, they haven't had the ability 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.439 to take the ball in for ten or twelve plays, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.200 bring it down and put a touchdown the incident. So 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.079 if i'm them, I'm talking about how do we generate 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.640 the big plays? And you can't be conservative when you 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.520 have a chance to take a shot. It doesn't matter 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.599 if it's Jalen Ramsey or Xavien Howard. You've got to 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.520 put the ball down the field because it had such 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.400 a hard time sustaining drives. But I think there's probably 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.960 a little bit of optimism just because it's something new. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.680 You've got a new quarterback. You know, there's some intrigues 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.560 and interest. How is it going to be different? But 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.720 it's been really bad on that side of the football 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:55.760 this year for the Jets. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.440 Yeah, and then to your point of it impacts the 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.400 defense too because they're going back out there after those 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.600 three and now it's that's just consistently being put in 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:03.880 spots where you have to get critical stops time and 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.440 time Againnick, and where you're down, I'm sure on that 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.320 side of the football. On the other side of the 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.280 Dolphins offense, you know, we talked in May for the 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.800 schedule release, we talked about Tua in the first year 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.719 of Mike McDaniel, how impressed you were by the way 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.880 they had put together, you know, a relationship and really 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.360 kind of taken off in that first season together. Now 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.800 with ten games into the second year in this offense, 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.800 his first time having the same play caller and back 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.800 to back years since high school, what have you seen 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.240 in terms of Tua's growth and just the overall stass 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:28.800 of where he is with his game right now. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.400 Yeah, it's been awesome and I'm really excited. I'm really 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.640 excited to see it because he's been so consistent, and 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.880 I think first and foremost the health of Tua, Like 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.000 he's been very healthy. He's been able to avoid the hits, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.760 he is getting the ball out. That stuff has all 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.120 been really good. But he's such a great quarterback when 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.839 he threw the rhythm, you know, and we've seen that 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.360 for the last two years now when he hits that 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.760 back foot and the ball's coming out. He has some 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.079 special weapons and in this offense set at time and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.480 time again. But it's tailor made for him because it's 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.880 a rhythm offense. It's hitting these guys on the end, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.640 breaking routes and letting them catch the ball and run 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.440 with it. So you know, it's also a reason why 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.640 brock Purty is playing so great in San Francisco is 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.520 because he's so good at anticipate, anticipation and throwing the 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.440 football accurately and on time. So great for Tua. You know, 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.680 this this is going to be a enough balance for him, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.680 you know, because this defense is really good, they're going 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:28.600 to try to get after him. They rush to pass 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.320 it really well. You know, it's going to be more 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.280 the same for Tua. Can he make those quick decisions? 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.240 Can he put a ball in Tyreek's hands or Model's 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.640 hands where they're going to be able to catch him 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.680 running hill? But everybody in the league is afraid of 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.160 those two in their speed. Uh and two it does 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:46.000 a great job and get involved in the offense. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.400 That's a great little transition to this next question. I 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.000 wanted to ask you here too, because Fitz, you know, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.520 when I was you know, before I got to the 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.320 team your first year at the Dolphins, I was doing 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.600 analysis for a different you know, publication, and when I 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.400 put your tape on, like, man, you balled for the 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.520 Bucks when you were with them. Then you came down 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.000 to South Florida and had a really good twenty nineteen 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.120 season as well, where anticipation throws and going into spots 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.520 and just these really high level processing type of actions. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.079 And you played so fast, so aggressive, so confident when 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.439 you were here. I'm wondering, you know, because you just 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.679 talked about two was processing and decision making and all 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.240 that stuff. How does processing for a quarterback become maybe 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.680 not easier as the term, but I guess more second 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.000 nature as you begin to rack up years of experience 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.080 and multiple reps. Like do you feel like late in 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.040 your career that you were just a better player because 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:30.280 you've seen a lot more? 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.640 Yeah? I think so. You know, confidence is always a 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.160 big thing too, And I think two is right and 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.120 high right now with this confidence, and Mike McDaniel's on 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.360 a great shove of that and trying to allow him 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.400 to regain and find that. But for me, I think 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.800 the later I got in my career, it wasn't you know, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.240 after the ball was snapped, how fast could I get 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:58.080 through my progressions? It was more before the ball was snapped? 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.439 What can I cancel out? Where do I the ball 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.160 is not going? And once I figured that little tid 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.480 bit out and was able to you know, let's say 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.640 on every play, you've got five guys that you can 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:12.400 throw the ball to, and I'm able to eliminate two 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.440 guys from that too, Like could say, look, defense isn't 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.000 great for these two guys. I love these three guys. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.040 I think once I figured out that, and before I 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.680 had the ball in my hand. I was already able 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.200 to only have you know, two or three guys that 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.600 had the opportunity to get the ball. That was when 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.080 I really started processing fast. And the other thing for 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.400 me everywhere I went was always you know I was 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.120 talking about earlier in this but giving guys chances. You know, 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.560 when I came to Miami, DeVante Parker, I'm sitting there 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.480 scratching my head like, how has this guy not been 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.640 you know, a thousand year receiver every year, so great 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.960 with the fifty to fifty ball. Mike is SICKI you know, 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.040 was a guy that was like how is he more 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.160 passes than in the field? And so trying to unlock 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.520 the confidence and those guys has always been a big 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.640 part of where I've in my game. And man, it 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.160 makes me smile because I loved. I love my time 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.960 in Miami thinking about those guys. And I got my 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.000 old my old ear on right here. But tell you what, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.040 when I'm when I go and now as an analyst, 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.240 but I go to these games and I get to see, 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.320 you know, the players, it's great, but I mean the 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.360 equipment guys, it's trainers, Like I am so excited to 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.240 see the staff on Miami because these are some of 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:26.480 my best friends in the world. 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:29.800 I was gonna say, I recognize the travel gear anytime 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.200 I see it, So I'm glad to see you rocking 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.120 out right now in New York City. Pretty cool to 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.200 rep that on a Dolphins Jets game week for us 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.560 here and you mentioned Devonte Parker, They're like, I think 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.720 I think it was at the Giants you had a 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.680 twenty five yard touchdown pass to him that was one 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.400 of the just the prettiest touchdowns I've seen in the 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.560 Miami Dolphins game ever, where you threw up the scene 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.240 and like you let that thing go before he was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.280 even off the press of the last scrimage, and man, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:52.840 it was fun to watch twelve hundred yards for him 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.240 that you're like you mentioned, you know, after not having 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.920 a thousand. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.040 Yard season prior to that. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.080 I'm gonna ask you the same question I asked Trent 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.880 Green on the podcast last week. Fits So apologies for 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.680 redundancies here for the audience, but I think that it 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.640 would be a miss to not ask you this as well. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:05.680 It's a hypothetical. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.400 So you're twenty eight years old again, whatever you considered 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.040 the prime of your career, we talked about how good 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.920 you were in your late thirties, but maybe you want 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.960 to go back to a Times No. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.600 Thirty. I'm thirty seven. Okay, go ahead. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.680 So the hypothetical is you just found out you're right 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.440 where you want to be in your pro career, and 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.360 you found out you're going to be quarterbacking of Mike 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.960 McDaniel offense. What would your reaction to that be just 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.240 in terms of how excited you are about getting to 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.120 work with coach as a quarterback. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.880 Well, I'd have to work through the Harvard Yale thing 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.040 first off, you know, that would be a big sticking 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.080 point for us. I'm actually going to avoid them before 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.320 the game because ZL did just beat Harvard. Definitely will 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.080 be avoiding him. I've seen these pretty fast though. I 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.960 would be so fired up. I think you know all 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.280 quarterbacks watching the success that Too has had the last 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.200 two years, the amount of his coach believes in him, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.240 and for me, the workiness, like I think I get 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.080 a kick out of, just like a lot of other 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.040 people do, is press comferences and Wake carries himself and 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.960 it's just so different from and refreshing from a lot 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.040 of the head coaches that you've seen and that I've 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:18.399 played for them. But his ability to marry up a 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:22.320 run game with the play action the past game is awesome. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.800 It looks like a master class every week, and so 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.760 I would be so fired up, you know, if I 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.840 ever had that opportunity to do that the last couple 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.600 of years. I'm telling you people, every game, somebody gets here, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.800 Hey you coming back. I am retired, and I'm so happy. 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:42.280 Seventeen years was enough, but you know, I'm loving life 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.479 right now. But that would have that would have been 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:45.920 a great opportunity at some point. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.320 It feels like a like a buddy cop movie or something, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:50.320 you and him hanging out together. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:51.880 It would be perfect. The Harvard yelping. I didn't even 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.320 think about that. It's a great connection there. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.240 Good on you for acknowledging that, and then the fact 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:57.920 that you how to avoid him despite the fact that 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.320 he could chase you down like he did on that 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:00.840 great Snday night football run. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.640 Back to the locker room. A few weekspect Ryan. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.520 Fitzpatrick, my guest from the Draft Time podcast, a couple 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.000 of questions about the defense for the Dolphins here. We 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.480 talked about it earlier, but just curious when you plug 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.600 the tape on our watched this team play, like Jalen 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.159 Ramsey came back three games ago and they averaged just 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.120 allowing fourteen points per game in the game since he returned. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.439 How does his presence change what coach Fangio and that 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.879 zone heavy, you know, light box defense and all the 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.040 things that he does that really well across you know, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.760 a long football career. How does Ramsey really help this 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.440 defensive scheme go to the next level. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.879