Speaker 1: All right, welcome to another edition of the Audible John
Speaker 1: kN Jemmy Kimbo camera, same castic characters were showing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're showing up. We're gonna show up each and every
Speaker 1: week throughout the course of the season. And you know it,
Speaker 1: you know, our our our audible day is starting to
Speaker 1: feel like Groundhog Day a little bit, right, you know,
Speaker 1: you're looking at your notes too. Pretty good in the
Speaker 1: first half half a whole different story. And that was
Speaker 1: the story again this week. But and we talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, incremental growth and this and that, and really
Speaker 1: I think that's what we have to look forward to
Speaker 1: with this football team. Um and you really felt good,
Speaker 1: you know in the first half because you saw the
Speaker 1: offense start moving the ball down the field. You know,
Speaker 1: defense made it tough on on on the Chargers and
Speaker 1: we're able to make them work to put points on
Speaker 1: the board. And so you know, I was I was
Speaker 1: a It was a great concern to me going into
Speaker 1: that football game, understanding that when I first found out that,
Speaker 1: um uh, that we were gonna have j Davis and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking Isaiah Prince gets his first start, and then
Speaker 1: Jamacus Webb and then then then web has to flip
Speaker 1: over the left side. You put Isaiah and on the
Speaker 1: right side. And I'm looking Joey Boza and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at Melvin Ingram, and I'm going both of them have
Speaker 1: one sack through four games or three games, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna want to get healthy. Be like going to Bonanza exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, going up all you can eat, Yes, exactly right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like smorg going in there. I think I
Speaker 1: saw Joey Bosa salivating as he was going through pregame
Speaker 1: warm up. But but I gotta tell you that offensive line,
Speaker 1: I thought they played extremely extreme and and you know what,
Speaker 1: look there, there's no question they you know, they stacked
Speaker 1: it up. You know, they multiple tight ends in the game,
Speaker 1: got help for everybody. Help Like if you got if
Speaker 1: that's if that's the if that's the part of the
Speaker 1: game they're off their their their pressure again, well then
Speaker 1: then count you counteracted with multiple tight ends in the game,
Speaker 1: somewhat chipping. All these types in there where helping, and
Speaker 1: it worked out well for him. I thought. I think
Speaker 1: Bosey had a couple of rushes that affected Rosen in
Speaker 1: a big way, But other than that, I think they
Speaker 1: pretty held that pass rush in pretty good check. I
Speaker 1: thought they did a really good job of controlling the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage because we saw the running game make
Speaker 1: an appearance. We saw Kenyan Drake be able to not
Speaker 1: get contact behind the line of scrimmage and if he
Speaker 1: had a chance of that, at least he had room
Speaker 1: to jump cut, be able to use that vision and
Speaker 1: that elusiveness to get away and get productive yards. We
Speaker 1: saw Balage do the same thing. Both guys had big
Speaker 1: runs early in the game called back uh you know
Speaker 1: due to penalties. One was a holding, one was a
Speaker 1: legal formation. I believe that was a kind of a
Speaker 1: bigger play in the running game. Uh So I like
Speaker 1: what I saw out of the young guys. And then
Speaker 1: movement around the off some line you talk about web
Speaker 1: going from you know, one side of the offensive line
Speaker 1: to the other, and then you have prints come in
Speaker 1: at right tackle. Uh you had some flux at the
Speaker 1: guard position. You had some you know, guys moving in
Speaker 1: and out. But I think Deeter played well again, so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of growth coming from the from the
Speaker 1: young guys. I think when you look in the interior
Speaker 1: that line there, you know, you like you said, you
Speaker 1: have babe moving in there and guys coming in and out.
Speaker 1: But but watching the game last week, I thought there
Speaker 1: was good movement or was in the center between the guards.
Speaker 1: In the center, you get a lot of good moving
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and some of those some of those
Speaker 1: blocks where the blocks will allow these guys to to
Speaker 1: get some running room, to pick up some yards and
Speaker 1: to see our running game come alive a little bit
Speaker 1: in that foot Well, you need that. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't put it solely on Josh Rosen. If he's gonna
Speaker 1: be your starting quarterback from here on out and he's
Speaker 1: gonna take the range, he needs a running game. All
Speaker 1: quarterbacks really you'd like to, you know, turn around and
Speaker 1: run a draw, run a screen some semblance of a
Speaker 1: long handoff, to take some pressure off the pocket, to
Speaker 1: take some pressure off of the past protectors. Because those
Speaker 1: guys are going up against quite frankly, could be the
Speaker 1: best athletes of all twenty two that are out there.
Speaker 1: Those defensive ends, those linebackers, they can run like wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Some of them they can run like running backs. They
Speaker 1: have the strength of of alignment, and they're they're trained,
Speaker 1: uh to go to meet at a point and that's
Speaker 1: where the quarterbacks trying to set up and do business.
Speaker 1: So I thought they did a pretty good job, if
Speaker 1: not the best job of the year in terms of
Speaker 1: four games, being able to hold up at least through
Speaker 1: two and a half to three quarters uh of being
Speaker 1: able until the Dolphins were predictable at the end of
Speaker 1: that game where they're throwing it and throwing it and
Speaker 1: throwing it so much. Much like the previous couple of games,
Speaker 1: missed opportunities played played big in this. I think the
Speaker 1: two miss field goals, you know, put you in a
Speaker 1: situation where if you make those two make kick those
Speaker 1: two field goals, you know you had a fourth and
Speaker 1: sixth stop on them to get the ball turned over
Speaker 1: on downs, which was big for you short field there
Speaker 1: you missed the field goal all and then you miss
Speaker 1: another field goal as it goes, and those are opportunities
Speaker 1: to go and you could you get this team again,
Speaker 1: like we talked about Dallas, you know that they were
Speaker 1: in a position where they could have gone in into halftime,
Speaker 1: down wide or down one. You know, if you're able
Speaker 1: to punch one in or kick a field goal, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just but those are but those are the issues.
Speaker 1: Those those are those missed opportunities that you know, there
Speaker 1: weren't as many drop balls as there were as we've
Speaker 1: seen in the last two games, but there were significant draws.
Speaker 1: It led to a fifty plus yard attempt where you
Speaker 1: could have had a forty five or forty three yard
Speaker 1: or or maybe you continue on that drive. You know,
Speaker 1: there's no same pressing Williams doesn't catch the ball, break
Speaker 1: a tackle and getting ten or fifteen yards. Now the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are in scoring position for six instead of the
Speaker 1: you know the try at three. Yeah, Blage has one,
Speaker 1: they got it, looks open for him and he leaves
Speaker 1: the ball in the ground. So again less less missed ball,
Speaker 1: less miscatches, but still too critical, too many, too many
Speaker 1: for a football team like this where look, it's clear
Speaker 1: that they're an undermanned football team. Every team they're gonna
Speaker 1: play against this year, they're gonna be undermanned place. And
Speaker 1: if you're that team and you want to win games,
Speaker 1: you just you can't have those errors. Well, the margin
Speaker 1: of error and the margin of the magnify everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you go into games knowing that we have to play
Speaker 1: damn near perfect. We we can't beat ourselves. Number One
Speaker 1: you can't come away with nine, ten eleven penalties what
Speaker 1: they haven't done. I'm not saying they've done that on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis, but when you add the drops, when
Speaker 1: you add the miss tackles, when you add the missed
Speaker 1: assignments up front, and you cut guys loose, those all
Speaker 1: add up into mistakes that you're trying to prevent. And
Speaker 1: I think that the Dolphins did a pretty good job
Speaker 1: from week one now to week four. Hasn't shown up
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard, hasn't shown up in the wind column,
Speaker 1: but they're they're trending in a direction where you can say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we might be undermanned, but this team is learning how
Speaker 1: to play together, learning how you know, the guy next
Speaker 1: to him does something, uh that that will help me
Speaker 1: out as a guard, or help me out as an
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, or you know, the game upfront that cuts
Speaker 1: Charlton loose and he gets another sack, and maybe that
Speaker 1: that helps in week six, now, when you play at
Speaker 1: home against the Washington Redskins, you're getting used to guys
Speaker 1: playing next to you, so you're hoping that the level
Speaker 1: of consistency and execution start to marry. The guys that
Speaker 1: are out there you know, start to you know, feed
Speaker 1: off of each other. Where where teams start to come together.
Speaker 1: You know there there's a couple of things. One of
Speaker 1: the things that that John just it sticks out in
Speaker 1: my mind is is because you're looking at you're looking
Speaker 1: at and you're seeing some you know, some guys are
Speaker 1: playing better, Preston Williams better game. Maybe you know it's
Speaker 1: maybe he's he's he's kind of feeling his way out
Speaker 1: getting You're seeing other things. Some of those offensive lineman
Speaker 1: they're getting stuck in there with short time, with little
Speaker 1: notice or doing some good things. But the one thing
Speaker 1: that has been consistent with this football team that they've
Speaker 1: got to find some solution to or it's really gonna
Speaker 1: be a long sea, and they gotta find some way
Speaker 1: to put pressure on a quarterback. They have not put
Speaker 1: pressure on any quarterback in any of these four games.
Speaker 1: And I mean you watch, look we saw Dak last
Speaker 1: week just standing back there and just waiting and waiting,
Speaker 1: patting the ball, waiting for Lamar. In game one, I
Speaker 1: mean he had five, six, seven seconds at some point.
Speaker 1: And then you look at this game and I don't
Speaker 1: think Philip Rivers, you know, you had one sack. Carl
Speaker 1: Charlton got another sack. But other than that, I I
Speaker 1: don't recall a time where he was harassed at all.
Speaker 1: He wasn't flustered, he wasn't harassed, he wasn't hurried, and
Speaker 1: he knew that every ball didn't have to be a
Speaker 1: line line drive shots. He threw some really good touch
Speaker 1: passes over the under coverage of the linebacker and in
Speaker 1: front of the safety coverage, and it looked, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: it looked like a seven on seven performance. And guy
Speaker 1: was coming back and he was just kind of picking
Speaker 1: and choosing. It wasn't one guy. One guy had five catches,
Speaker 1: another guy at five, the running back had four or five.
Speaker 1: You know, It's just it was a dinking duck. And
Speaker 1: if he needed nineteen, he got twenty. If he needed eleven,
Speaker 1: he got thirteen. You know. It was one of those
Speaker 1: games where Philip Rivers was just on his game and
Speaker 1: he didn't have to really work at it. All he
Speaker 1: had to do was keep his two feet underneath them,
Speaker 1: kind of get guys going with his eyes, and then
Speaker 1: trust his receivers that they were gonna win one on
Speaker 1: one matchups when they had him, and he he just
Speaker 1: you know, really picked the dolphin secondary part, the thing
Speaker 1: that the pressure and I just all day you said,
Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm just you gotta find it. You gotta
Speaker 1: find it somehow. You gotta fight for guys, gotta get
Speaker 1: off blocks, guys gotta you, guys gotta find a way.
Speaker 1: They gotta get hungry and want to get it because
Speaker 1: especially when you it's exacerbated in this first month because
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Again, every one of those quarterbacks knows
Speaker 1: their offense like the back of their hand, knows where
Speaker 1: the mismatches are, know where they want to go. And
Speaker 1: certainly in the case of of of of Brady and Philip,
Speaker 1: Rivers and and and Zach are act probably in the
Speaker 1: same mode. Maybe not quite because he hasn't just because
Speaker 1: he hasn't played. As long as those guys, those guys
Speaker 1: get the line of scrims, they probably know where they
Speaker 1: want to. They probably know exactly where they want to
Speaker 1: go to before that ball snap, you can see the mismatch,
Speaker 1: see this guy, They know how this guy plays it
Speaker 1: plays a loose a little bit of this that I'm
Speaker 1: going And so so if if you can't get pressure
Speaker 1: and you've got cornerbacks that are that astute, and they're
Speaker 1: they're that good, and including Lamar, including Dak Prescott, boy,
Speaker 1: it makes it near impossible to to to slow down
Speaker 1: an offense for sixty minutes of a game. You can't
Speaker 1: physically cover that long in the defensive secondary if you
Speaker 1: if you're giving you know, if you're not really affecting
Speaker 1: the pocket the timing of the ball coming out of
Speaker 1: the pocket, which the Dolphins haven't done. They haven't been
Speaker 1: able to hurry or harass or rush a throw. And
Speaker 1: when in the times that they do, it might be
Speaker 1: you know, on a second down opportunity where they come
Speaker 1: right back on third down and make a play. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times have we seen the Miami Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: being a really positive situation second in twenty one, first
Speaker 1: and twenty and all of a sudden, you know, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady stays on the field, Philip Rivers stays on the field,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott keeps his offense on the field, Lamark Jackson
Speaker 1: finds a touchdown. You know, those are the situations where
Speaker 1: you're thinking, as a defense and we've got we've got
Speaker 1: to get off the field in a three and out
Speaker 1: here because you're you're the numbers favor you. You can't
Speaker 1: allow three straight completions when you know a team is
Speaker 1: gonna throw a three straight times in the first twenty situation.
Speaker 1: Talk about earlier you get back, they get back up
Speaker 1: twice seven yard line, but seven yard line they go,
Speaker 1: they get a big third down and they get the
Speaker 1: first down, but there's a penalty, take them right back
Speaker 1: and they come right back, do it again, and do
Speaker 1: it again. To you, you just can't. You can't allow
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks at that time. I mean, that's gotta be
Speaker 1: the time when, man, if you're those defensive ends, man,
Speaker 1: you you you're up on your toes, you got you know,
Speaker 1: your goot white knuckles because you're you're coming after these guys.
Speaker 1: And that's where you should be. That's where you enjoy
Speaker 1: playing because you got him where you want them, instead
Speaker 1: of being in a situation where you get you get
Speaker 1: stalemated again. Guy stands back there, picks and chooses and
Speaker 1: and you and you you pick up the first down,
Speaker 1: which which just kind of deflates that he does. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not only the defense. It rolls over. It gets contagious,
Speaker 1: you know, And and how about the job. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what type of back Eckler was before
Speaker 1: the game. But uh, you know, Melman Gordon could could
Speaker 1: have stayed out another month, two months, I mean until
Speaker 1: somebody got hurt. Because this guy, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know how you how you get him out out of
Speaker 1: the lineup? Well, you know, and then they have said
Speaker 1: that the coach and their coach said he when when
Speaker 1: he's ready, he's there our guy. But boy, after the
Speaker 1: game of you because he look, he's not tough runner,
Speaker 1: he's got good he's got good catch and you could
Speaker 1: catch the ball, and well you look at a guy
Speaker 1: like that, and you know, if if if, if I'm
Speaker 1: if I'm the Los Angeles Chargers, I'm looking, hey, we
Speaker 1: got our guy, we got our number one guy come back.
Speaker 1: How can we get these two guys in the field?
Speaker 1: I know it, I know it. Hey, now that you
Speaker 1: say l A Chargers, how about the red ref yesterday
Speaker 1: was brutal? He kept saying, San Diego, I think I
Speaker 1: said it all. I'm not saying that. I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not guilty of it, but I just thought it was
Speaker 1: funny that could make fun of somebody else and said,
Speaker 1: because I said it all pre game, I'm going on
Speaker 1: San Diego, and I'm going going just call them chargers, John,
Speaker 1: don't don't make it complicated. And the first time that
Speaker 1: the p A system comes on with the lead official egos,
Speaker 1: San Diego will not be charged at time. It's hard
Speaker 1: not to look at those funiforms, I know, especially the throwback,
Speaker 1: especially exactly the powder blues, no doubt about it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was but but but you know, I say that,
Speaker 1: but I still call the the I still called the
Speaker 1: Cult of Baltimore, I know, And so I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 1: pretty far, pretty bad and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was, Uh, it's you know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's tough. We're gonna get a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to Evan bam here a little bit, a guy that
Speaker 1: really is is coming and you know, you had a
Speaker 1: good game, and you know, and and you got some
Speaker 1: experience behind him, and it was nice to have him
Speaker 1: over by over with Isaiah, that's right. I think it
Speaker 1: helped Isaiah to have Beam over there. Guys had some experience,
Speaker 1: has been in games and and and they helped. They
Speaker 1: they both double teamed on Joey and they did a
Speaker 1: handful of times. So we'll kind of talk to them,
Speaker 1: but um, not nice to see him get in and
Speaker 1: do it. And and you know, you'd like to see
Speaker 1: this offensive line get a chance to be the five
Speaker 1: guys for forget about three weeks straight, give two weeks straight.
Speaker 1: I'm the same five guys in the same positions on
Speaker 1: the field. I don't know if there's any I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've ever been in a situation where I've
Speaker 1: seen so many such a revolving door on a position
Speaker 1: that is so demanding of continuity and communication. Uh, just
Speaker 1: be like, you know who's in there, and who's the
Speaker 1: guy in there? You know? The good thing? The good
Speaker 1: thing about it is, you know you're on a team
Speaker 1: that has a lot of youth. You're you're on a
Speaker 1: team that needs to find out who are the guys
Speaker 1: that are gonna be able to stick when when the
Speaker 1: you know, the calendar turns and it's all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it's the two thousand and twenty season and you're
Speaker 1: looking around and saying, oh, who's gonna be a right tackle?
Speaker 1: You know, is Jesse Davis a better guard than he
Speaker 1: is a tackle? Uh? You know, where where do the
Speaker 1: guys plug and play the best? And I think you're getting.
Speaker 1: You got a nice chance to see Isaiah Prince, who
Speaker 1: was a draft choice. You've got a really good chance
Speaker 1: to see Webb play both tackle positions over the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And then you got to see some
Speaker 1: of the guys like like Baying with experience in the
Speaker 1: league come in and filling to do a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: You see the growth of Deader at left guard. You
Speaker 1: feel like, you know what, he's gonna pretty much cement
Speaker 1: himself in there, and if he if he can keep
Speaker 1: playing at the level and keep improving on a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a guy in there for for a
Speaker 1: number of years. Yeah. Right, I mean the way he's
Speaker 1: going away, he's trending right now and everything that he's
Speaker 1: shown kicking out to the left tackle in the in
Speaker 1: the spur of moment in Dallas, and a very versatility
Speaker 1: going out there and play. You're really that. You know,
Speaker 1: they hit a home run with the kid in the
Speaker 1: third round wherever they got him. But uh and and
Speaker 1: you're starting to see you know, Isaiah Isaiah Prince. But
Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm I would have hate to
Speaker 1: be in Isaiah Prince during training camp because Google's got
Speaker 1: you know, he got on pretty good. Showed him a
Speaker 1: lot of tough love out there, you know, and some
Speaker 1: of it wasn't so much love. But and you know,
Speaker 1: and then you see him in the game and you're thinking, oh, Jesus,
Speaker 1: could be a disaster, and the guy holds up pretty well.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, sometimes you need to find something.
Speaker 1: You know, there are guys that are practice guys and
Speaker 1: the guys are gamers. You know, maybe maybe he's a gamer,
Speaker 1: maybe he plays better in game situations he does in practice.
Speaker 1: But you got to see it yesterday. You got to
Speaker 1: see it against uh probably with one of the best
Speaker 1: pass rushers certainly in the in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Un Fortunately Melvin Ingram on the other side got hurt
Speaker 1: handstring or something and so but but still, Joey Bose
Speaker 1: is coming on both sides of the boat, right side,
Speaker 1: left side. He's switching back and forth, and for the
Speaker 1: most part, the guys did a pretty good job against him.
Speaker 1: And and so to see guys like that, like Isaiah
Speaker 1: getting his first start, I guess a guy like that
Speaker 1: and and and and you know, certainly there's plays that
Speaker 1: he would want back to do better. But he had
Speaker 1: to feel pretty good when you look at the overall
Speaker 1: picture of what he was able to do. I think
Speaker 1: so and not knowing, you know, the uncertainty of coming
Speaker 1: in on a on a Tuesday and not knowing if
Speaker 1: you're gonna get your number called to start, And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden that Wednesday at practice, you're getting
Speaker 1: more reps and you're moving around, you know what, you're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I get a chance, maybe you know, to play.
Speaker 1: And then your Thursday comes along, you're you're still getting
Speaker 1: some reps and you're saying, well, you know, no one's
Speaker 1: made a decision yet. You know, I gotta gotta stay ready,
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, you know it's game day
Speaker 1: and and Jesse's not gonna go, and and he's the
Speaker 1: guy that gets to call up and he played quite well,
Speaker 1: and I'm I was just thinking, you know, watching Boza
Speaker 1: and Prince interact during a TV time out, if you
Speaker 1: know maybe that when he was a freshman and Joelia
Speaker 1: was a senior, that he was that Scout team tackle
Speaker 1: or you know, that Scout team player that had to
Speaker 1: go up against him because they gave each other a
Speaker 1: little hug, and you can tell him going back and
Speaker 1: forth if maybe he had a little bit of confidence
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, I know this guy. You know,
Speaker 1: I've I've had his best when I wasn't my best,
Speaker 1: and now I feel like I'm a better player. Maybe
Speaker 1: he gained a I don't know, mental mental edge or
Speaker 1: mental confidence, and if that happened, I was just kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, going through the memory banks and see if
Speaker 1: that might have happened. But I was proud of the
Speaker 1: way he played as a as a as a guy
Speaker 1: that watched him in in the training camp and a
Speaker 1: guy watched him in preseason. I was a little skeptical
Speaker 1: of saying, is this guy doesn't does football mean a
Speaker 1: lot to this guy? Or is he is he? Is
Speaker 1: he one of those guys that can't get yelled at
Speaker 1: because he goes into a shell. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: he's on the wrong team and he's playing the wrong position.
Speaker 1: But I got to see him, and I got more confidence.
Speaker 1: The more he played, the more I think, ISAI He's
Speaker 1: gonna be good? You know, I think he's okay. You know,
Speaker 1: he looked big, he didn't look out of place, he
Speaker 1: didn't get out of out of position. You look at him,
Speaker 1: John and and to me. He looks like a prototypical tackle.
Speaker 1: He's tall, he's got long arms, he's not a fat guy.
Speaker 1: He's athletic, he can move, he can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things. And so I think maybe he just needs to,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of kind of get like his getting
Speaker 1: his feet. But yeah, I I was. I was very
Speaker 1: impressed with him yesterday and what he did from a
Speaker 1: standpoint of looking forward, Hey, can he be a guy
Speaker 1: that you stick out there and you got him over
Speaker 1: there for six, seven, eight, nine years? Is that going
Speaker 1: to be the worst If that's his worst performance, like
Speaker 1: the first one out of the gate, you're going home. Man,
Speaker 1: anything can happened. If that's gonna be one of his
Speaker 1: lower or or bottom performances, that this guy is looking
Speaker 1: better for him, you know that the upside is looking
Speaker 1: much better. Friday a prince for me anyway, As a
Speaker 1: as an evaluators, you're you're just kind of watching him
Speaker 1: grow from you know, maybe July to now. You go, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy's got more of a chance than I thought. No,
Speaker 1: No day during training when we're in Tampa, I'm going on,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this guy's even gonna I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna make this team. You know you
Speaker 1: got a guy to your draft, I don't know you're
Speaker 1: gonna make the team. And and and here he is.
Speaker 1: You look at this and you feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: about what he did out there. Let's you always got
Speaker 1: to talk about the quarterback situation, Josh Rosen. I think
Speaker 1: you can see Josh Rosen growing. You know that that
Speaker 1: the touchdown class touchdown play where you know he went
Speaker 1: through his progressions. This guy's not there, this guy's not there.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake gets knocked out trying to run his route.
Speaker 1: He gets he gets knocked down, and he finds the
Speaker 1: arrow take off the wheel rout route and and and
Speaker 1: he hits it. And uh and that was nice to
Speaker 1: see going through progressions, getting to the guy that's open,
Speaker 1: getting the score. And but I'll tell you what I
Speaker 1: for the first time in a month, I'm really happy
Speaker 1: for this. I was happy, fans were happy, but man,
Speaker 1: I was more happy for those guys on that offense
Speaker 1: because it's just been it's been such a grind for
Speaker 1: those guys to get to to get a touchdown on
Speaker 1: the board, to take a lead in the game. All
Speaker 1: of those things I thought were you know, a little
Speaker 1: payback for these guys for what's been a really, really
Speaker 1: tough tough it's been a it's been a real tough stretch,
Speaker 1: and it was really good to see h a play
Speaker 1: executed so well where Rosen gets back clean pocket had
Speaker 1: plenty of time to kind of, as you said, you know,
Speaker 1: proves where he wants to go with the football, and
Speaker 1: then he had DeVante run a really discipline route with
Speaker 1: his head turning back like he's gonna stay in the flat.
Speaker 1: He turns it upfield, King bites on it and and
Speaker 1: then Josh lays a perfectly placed pass, uh for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: You kind of like even the crowd, you know, I
Speaker 1: felt instant uh, you know, excitement, and you could tell
Speaker 1: the crowd was waiting to cheer something offensively, and it
Speaker 1: was it was nice to see. Uh. You'd like to
Speaker 1: see a little bit more of it on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: But early in that game, I think he was four
Speaker 1: for four for seventy five yards on that On that drive,
Speaker 1: Rosen looked sharp, the ball was coming out on time. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the couple of plays later in the game
Speaker 1: he'd love to have back when he was backed up
Speaker 1: on his own end and he'll learn, He'll learn, you know,
Speaker 1: the more experience he gets in those situations, the better
Speaker 1: he's gonna be for it. But I thought he threw
Speaker 1: the the football, you know, for the first part of
Speaker 1: that game pretty well well. You know what we I
Speaker 1: think what we've seen now in two starts for Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen is his ability to throw the ball deep down
Speaker 1: the field, and he throws it in good spots. Uh,
Speaker 1: he gets the ball down there. He gives guys opportunities
Speaker 1: to make plays. It's kind of that intermediate part of
Speaker 1: the game that that he's got to get a little
Speaker 1: bit a bit, a little bit tighter on um and
Speaker 1: and you know reading you know, you know, talking to
Speaker 1: the coach, doing a coaching show with the coach, Flora
Speaker 1: isn't talking about Rosen. You know. One of the things
Speaker 1: that they worked on, one of the reasons that they
Speaker 1: kind of held him out until until last week, was
Speaker 1: he you know, getting him more acclimated to reading defense
Speaker 1: and seeing things, seeing those mismatches, being able to look
Speaker 1: we talked about Philip Rivers and and and Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and and and Brady. Those guys line up, they know
Speaker 1: the missman, they know where they want to go. But look,
Speaker 1: you're talking about other than than Dak Prescott. You're talking
Speaker 1: about guys that have played twenty years whatever, and so
Speaker 1: you know those guys struggled early on their career, but
Speaker 1: they got there. Now Doc, you can see Dak. You
Speaker 1: know he he's getting there and he's gonna eat The
Speaker 1: longer more he plays, the more he's gonna be that
Speaker 1: kind of quarterback. And you see that in him. And
Speaker 1: and that's where Josh has he needs to make. That's
Speaker 1: where he needs to make those He needs to understand,
Speaker 1: be able to read the defenses, understands where that soft
Speaker 1: spot is to take advantage of that. Well how many
Speaker 1: times boa in the month of July or the beginning
Speaker 1: of August where you asked, Hey, Rosen gonna start right amy,
Speaker 1: how does he look? How? And I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: I don't see it right now. I think Fitzpatrick's the starter.
Speaker 1: And I think everybody that came out to watch practice,
Speaker 1: if you're a fan, if you were a scout of
Speaker 1: whatever it was, it was clear cut that Josh it
Speaker 1: wasn't his job yet and he had to do certain things,
Speaker 1: as coach Flores said, he had to improve in certain
Speaker 1: areas so that you feel like you could trust his
Speaker 1: ability to throw the football, you could trust his decision making,
Speaker 1: you could trust his identification, so the lineman don't cut
Speaker 1: somebody free, that he's gonna get blindsider, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: somebody in his lap on every other play. So there
Speaker 1: were different hurdles he had to overcome to be in
Speaker 1: a position not only to compete on an equal footing,
Speaker 1: but to be able to allow his true ability to shine.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes if you didn't get through the first
Speaker 1: part of of getting through the play calling and identification
Speaker 1: and calling you know, a blocking sequence or getting out
Speaker 1: of a bad play into a good play, Uh, you
Speaker 1: can't allow your ability to shine through. And I think
Speaker 1: he did that. Uh. And then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you could see that ball came out on time, or
Speaker 1: that was a cleaner read, or that was that was
Speaker 1: down the field with no you know, flick of the
Speaker 1: wrist and a lot of his natural physical talent started
Speaker 1: the show. And I think you saw, you know that
Speaker 1: on display over the last couple of weeks, you saw
Speaker 1: glimpses of that maybe that maybe this guy can just
Speaker 1: get better from this point on, and the guys around him.
Speaker 1: You know, he they he elevates their game as well.
Speaker 1: And I give you Brian Floores a lot of credit
Speaker 1: for for you know, because I remember talking to him about,
Speaker 1: you know, rosen Is, you know, as he ready, he's not.
Speaker 1: He said, look, we're not gonna put him in there
Speaker 1: until we feel he's ready to be able to play
Speaker 1: his best. In other words, if you put him in
Speaker 1: the game one of the season he's still having a
Speaker 1: hard time understanding defense, reading, that's not gonna give him.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna see him in his best life. And
Speaker 1: I give him credit for for having the patients to
Speaker 1: get to the point where he felt the Dallas it
Speaker 1: was a time where you know, it felt like he's understanding,
Speaker 1: he's seeing things, and you saw it almost immediately when
Speaker 1: he stepped on the field. You could see a lot
Speaker 1: more confidence in him when he stepped on the field
Speaker 1: in Dallas. And I think he saw it in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game against the Challengers, a little more confidence,
Speaker 1: a little more you know, it's willingness to throw the
Speaker 1: ball and do things. So I think the progression with
Speaker 1: with Josh rosen Is uh Is is on a good track.
Speaker 1: It is, and it's not all about him throwing the
Speaker 1: football down the field. It's it's about getting up to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and keeping pressure on the defense.
Speaker 1: It's about finding a window to throw a screen pass
Speaker 1: you know that goes for nineteen yards early in the game,
Speaker 1: that acts like a big running play that gets you
Speaker 1: a lot of chunk yards that you know, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now instead of on your own twenty two,
Speaker 1: you're at the forty. You know, you're at the forty
Speaker 1: five yard line. You're feeling like you've got some confidence
Speaker 1: about things that you're calling, or things as a even
Speaker 1: as a play caller, bow that you can get to
Speaker 1: on your list that you go, you know what, he
Speaker 1: can handle this Now I can give him. I don't
Speaker 1: have to spoon feed it anymore. I can get into
Speaker 1: the game plan. And because if he executes this, this
Speaker 1: is the right play call. So even even the simplistic
Speaker 1: things of holding plays back because you're not sure. I
Speaker 1: think you're starting to see a little bit more in
Speaker 1: the I mean, and I think we're gonna see better
Speaker 1: things out of out of Josh. I think that we're
Speaker 1: just kind of scratching the surface with him. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the one thing is you know, you can you
Speaker 1: can tell he's a little you know, like post game
Speaker 1: and look, I understand the games. You know. It's it's
Speaker 1: tough to stand up there. As as a head coach.
Speaker 1: It's tough to stand up there's a quarterback. And but
Speaker 1: he's a little sheepish up there, you know. And I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him be a little bit more, a
Speaker 1: little more bravado, you know, say hey, look, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think he's afraid to you know, I asked
Speaker 1: a question. If I asked a stupid question, I prefer
Speaker 1: him and say, hey, you know, no, that's not right,
Speaker 1: you know, or be a little more forceful at me.
Speaker 1: But that's all, you know, that's his personality and that's
Speaker 1: what it is. But that's all part of being that
Speaker 1: the leader that that that leader. Yeah, that guy is
Speaker 1: going to go out there and you know that that
Speaker 1: guy that can walk in the huddle. And if a
Speaker 1: guy guy makes a bad place that you know you
Speaker 1: do it again, just tell you get out of here,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean on the whole, or or I
Speaker 1: don't say, hey, I know you screwed up, don't do
Speaker 1: it again. Let's go. We need you, you know, don't
Speaker 1: let that affect you. Let's go. And I think we
Speaker 1: saw I think we saw some of that in in Dallas.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, that was a big step forward with
Speaker 1: him in Dallas to to be able to do some
Speaker 1: of that. And uh, you know I kind of you
Speaker 1: know that. You know, there's a long long way to
Speaker 1: go for him, and he's got a long way to go.
Speaker 1: But it's it's nice to see each and every week
Speaker 1: you feel a little bit better about where he is
Speaker 1: that we have been be him coming in so Gonnana.
Speaker 1: We're gonna stop and talking to him for a little bit.
Speaker 1: All right, we're here with Evan. Let me get it right,
Speaker 1: Evan dam right, man, I tell how many different ways
Speaker 1: is uh hasn't been pronounced? You know at restaurant. I know,
Speaker 1: I grew up with the name of bow Camp. I've
Speaker 1: had different a lot of different restaurants. We pitt B
Speaker 1: A M E, so they say it right. So like
Speaker 1: we've been out of restaurants boheim bomb, Like there's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different Well, well you're here now. It's
Speaker 1: great to have you and uh, you kind of reunited
Speaker 1: with one of your guys schools coaches. You know he's
Speaker 1: he's been here a couple of times now, and he's
Speaker 1: kind of got a reputation around here. But as we're talking,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a he's a dyeing the hard old
Speaker 1: school offensive line coach he is, and and I love it.
Speaker 1: I like it that way. Um. I grew up a
Speaker 1: coach's kid. My my dad was a head football coach
Speaker 1: in my high school. UM. So so my offensive line
Speaker 1: coach in high school who played his names Chris Barrows.
Speaker 1: He played offensive line the University of Missouri. UM. But
Speaker 1: I mean not you, only him, But I think every
Speaker 1: coach had free rein to just jump on me and
Speaker 1: when I when I when I did something wrong. So
Speaker 1: there's been times where I was woken up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night when all the coaches were downstairs
Speaker 1: watching film, pulled out of my bed and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: what happened on these two plays? Explained me your thought process?
Speaker 1: So so I kind of got it at an early age.
Speaker 1: But you know, good Good does it in a way
Speaker 1: to where he makes it so hard during the week
Speaker 1: and during practice to where when you go out on
Speaker 1: Sunday you don't really think. You just go out there
Speaker 1: and play and and you do what Google has been
Speaker 1: harpened on because because we just talked about in the
Speaker 1: meeting room is when when we watch our film and
Speaker 1: we see like if we're supposed to post up on
Speaker 1: on something and we drop our inside foot worse thinking
Speaker 1: it before he says something, and so he drills it
Speaker 1: into your mind so much to where you're sitting there like, well,
Speaker 1: the good is gonna get me on that one? For sure?
Speaker 1: Well you know you guys, get you guys, I say,
Speaker 1: you get the benefit of watching the game tapes the
Speaker 1: day after the game. Yeah, you know when I played,
Speaker 1: we had Monday off. We didn't watch him till Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So your whole day off, you're sitting there and you
Speaker 1: know how it is. You know every play that you messed,
Speaker 1: you know, whether whether it was a small whether it
Speaker 1: was a wrong step with you, you know that play.
Speaker 1: So that day off wasn't such a good day off
Speaker 1: because in your mind, jeez, I'm gonna get my ass
Speaker 1: ripped for this and that one and this playing that play.
Speaker 1: And so it's a I would prefer it to have
Speaker 1: have been Mondays, but they're never fun. Those names there,
Speaker 1: but you know they're there. It's a you know, it's
Speaker 1: a necessity. You know, you gotta gotta learn it, gotta
Speaker 1: move and and the best way to learn is to
Speaker 1: see it on film. You do it because in your mind,
Speaker 1: you're doing it one way. You look at your edge.
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't realize I was doing that because like
Speaker 1: last week we or this past week, we were emphasizing
Speaker 1: staying on the double teams, double team, double team, double team.
Speaker 1: And and at the beginning of the week, and you
Speaker 1: have me slotting in the right guard for the first
Speaker 1: time this year, and you're bringing up Isaiah Prince, the rookie,
Speaker 1: first first ever start in the NFL, and so we've
Speaker 1: never played next to each other. So that was one
Speaker 1: thing that him and I was fitting in. And do
Speaker 1: I need to give him more to hit on the
Speaker 1: double team or does he need to take this step
Speaker 1: to get over there more? Like so during the week,
Speaker 1: I mean, we were getting ripped on just because not
Speaker 1: really ripped on, but coached coach coach to be great
Speaker 1: at the double team. And and I think Sunday we
Speaker 1: had quite a few double teams that that were really good.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's still a couple that we need
Speaker 1: a fix. But at the same time like that brings
Speaker 1: it back to the googe coach in your heart. The
Speaker 1: old school coaching way is we got it so many times.
Speaker 1: We got to drill it into our heads so many
Speaker 1: times of this is a step it needs to take.
Speaker 1: This is how much I need to give Prince. This
Speaker 1: is how much he needs to give me in order
Speaker 1: to make it a successful double team touchdown. I think
Speaker 1: Isaiah kind of got bounce, got off bounce a little bit.
Speaker 1: You're able to come out and take out Bosa, give
Speaker 1: him time to throw the ball down the field right,
Speaker 1: you know, touchdown. And then there were some plays during
Speaker 1: the course of the game running plays with the double
Speaker 1: teams allowed Drake or the running backs to find decrease
Speaker 1: and so all that we're going it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough coming into a situation like this where the offensive
Speaker 1: line is not set. It hasn't been set one week
Speaker 1: this season. Every week it's a new guy in or
Speaker 1: at a different place or whatever. And for a unit
Speaker 1: like yours, or like an offensive line that that demands
Speaker 1: so much of knowing what the other guys doing, communication continuity,
Speaker 1: well that's it's gotta be tough on you guys. To
Speaker 1: to get that in in in short short order to
Speaker 1: be it'd be nice. Get your five guys and let's
Speaker 1: let's get three weeks at least together, which is not
Speaker 1: a long time, but to really understand what you want
Speaker 1: to do or how how how you react with the
Speaker 1: other guys that are around. And that's that's what a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand about the offensive line. It's
Speaker 1: it's five guys doing one job. It's five guys who
Speaker 1: have to beat together and in the right sink, in
Speaker 1: the right formation to make a successful play. You can't
Speaker 1: if it's I can I compare to a chain, you
Speaker 1: have one week link in that chain. The chains I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hold up. And and that's the same way with
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You have five guys doing one job
Speaker 1: together and if one messes up, it's it could be
Speaker 1: a severely devastation play. It's a negative play. And and
Speaker 1: that's one thing I think if you go back over
Speaker 1: the last four weeks, we've we've started to correct those
Speaker 1: things and more and more and more, and we left
Speaker 1: a lot we did. We did leave some plays out
Speaker 1: there on the field last week, and and that's tough
Speaker 1: to see when you go back and watch film. But
Speaker 1: that goes back to watching the film and learning from
Speaker 1: your mistakes from the film, from practice from Wednesday to Friday,
Speaker 1: going out there Sunday and seeing that, Yeah, we did
Speaker 1: make progress in that area, but we still have some
Speaker 1: progress to go. You come, you know, you go back
Speaker 1: in your Kansas city guy right there, and they had
Speaker 1: a big, big high school career in Kansas State. And
Speaker 1: you not only played football, but you you're a heavyweight wrestler,
Speaker 1: and you through the discus and and you were you
Speaker 1: were state champions everywey wrestler. I was a state champion
Speaker 1: all three my junior year. Yeah, we won't talk about
Speaker 1: the senior year. But so so high school football, wrestling
Speaker 1: in the disc case. And so your your favorite thing
Speaker 1: was football for sure. Yeah, well I grew up. I
Speaker 1: grew up like I said, I grew up in football. Um,
Speaker 1: but my dad was also a wrestling coach. So I
Speaker 1: grew up on a football field and a wrestling coach.
Speaker 1: And he was a girl's shot and put hardest practice,
Speaker 1: hardest practice in high school football ar wrestling. My first
Speaker 1: two years I wrestled, and I couldn't wait to stop.
Speaker 1: Those are those practices where the most miserable in that
Speaker 1: hot gym, sweaty, smelly garbage cans to puke in. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: by far, wrestling is the toughest. And but but I
Speaker 1: love it, man. I mean and and I didn't start
Speaker 1: playing football on seventh grade, and I was a soccer player.
Speaker 1: And so you put the footwork and the balance from
Speaker 1: from from wrestling into what I'm doing now. I'm always
Speaker 1: bending my knees in the wrestling stance, trying to find
Speaker 1: a leverage, trying to find something stay in balance. It's
Speaker 1: the same thing in the offensive line. It's finding that leverage.
Speaker 1: And and me, I'm a shorter guy, so I kind
Speaker 1: of get some natural leverage. But still if you see
Speaker 1: I need to play lower. I still need to get
Speaker 1: and get in there and do that. You know, It's
Speaker 1: funny because I talked a lot of parents and they
Speaker 1: asked me about you know, and now there's this in
Speaker 1: this at day and age, it's you know, your kid's
Speaker 1: gonna play baseball and that's all he's gonna do. And
Speaker 1: I always telling me, say, you know what, I I
Speaker 1: played whatever sport it was, it was baseball season, played
Speaker 1: baseball with basketball season, basketball, football season. I wrestled. I
Speaker 1: you know, I did a lot of different things, and
Speaker 1: I keep trying to tell me, you know, every one
Speaker 1: of those different sports you can take something from that
Speaker 1: score to to adapt to football right now, like basketball,
Speaker 1: you know, the you having to square up, be able
Speaker 1: to move, move laterally and defend, you know you you
Speaker 1: do that in football. So all those things. But it's
Speaker 1: funny how pep parents get so tied in with getting
Speaker 1: their kids into one sport when they're seven, eight, nine
Speaker 1: years old and going forever. And I keep trying to
Speaker 1: tell them and I'm I'm you're you're another example of
Speaker 1: play different things and all like just like you said,
Speaker 1: the things that you learned from one one sport, it adapts,
Speaker 1: it it's it's it's meaning. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing that like my parents did with my brother
Speaker 1: and I. It's you're going to be a three sport
Speaker 1: athlete and we're not gonna stick you in football and
Speaker 1: you're gonna live in the weight room and not do
Speaker 1: anything for the rest of the rest of the school year.
Speaker 1: It's if it's like you said, if it's football season,
Speaker 1: it's football season, and when that's over, you're going into wrestling.
Speaker 1: And when that's over, you're going into the into the track.
Speaker 1: And you know, we made a deal, my parents, and
Speaker 1: we were fortunate enough to to make this deal, my
Speaker 1: brother and I with our parents is when we turned sixteen,
Speaker 1: we had to have an above three point five g
Speaker 1: p A and be a three sport athlete, and they
Speaker 1: would take care of our car, our car insurance, and
Speaker 1: our gas. And if we weren't, we had to get
Speaker 1: a job and and make sure we make the money
Speaker 1: to pay for the car and then the gas and
Speaker 1: the insurance and stuff like that. And and so we
Speaker 1: were fortunate enough to do that. But my parents really
Speaker 1: pushed a three sport athlete. And my dad as a
Speaker 1: head football coach, he goes and when he met with
Speaker 1: families and like we did that big introduction of preseason,
Speaker 1: like this is what we expect. He straight up said,
Speaker 1: you're a student athlete. You're expected to be good as
Speaker 1: great in your classroom as you are in the football field.
Speaker 1: But I don't want your son to be in win
Speaker 1: or weights. He said, he can be, but I want
Speaker 1: your son to be in other sports. To learn other sports,
Speaker 1: to to pick up your speed and track, to to
Speaker 1: work on your balance and basketball or wrestling and work
Speaker 1: on that lateral quickness and stuff like that. And he
Speaker 1: really pushed that and that was fun. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: it keeps it unboring. It keeps you active where you're
Speaker 1: doing different things. You will because so many kids know
Speaker 1: how don't I keep going into that. But so you
Speaker 1: go to so you played you played center pretty much
Speaker 1: all through high school. Now it was a left tackle left.
Speaker 1: Let you go to Missouri, your center, your rookie, your
Speaker 1: freshman left guard. My my freshman year and you played center,
Speaker 1: the guard, your your freshman moved the center the spring
Speaker 1: ball of my rookie and the University of Missouri and
Speaker 1: that and and so you you I'm out of college,
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna be a center somewhere and now
Speaker 1: you're playing guard. Yeah, I think, uh, the only the
Speaker 1: only starts at center I've gotten. I've been last year
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis for four center starts and everything else has
Speaker 1: been at right guard. Yeah, but again it goes back
Speaker 1: to that multiple things, different things you can do. I'm
Speaker 1: sure if there's a situation center, you're gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the guys they look at and say, hey, let's
Speaker 1: let's plug him in. There. Um, But like c Kilgore,
Speaker 1: stay healthy and like see everyone to stay healthy and
Speaker 1: keep going. So how's your time been here? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's it's it's a different year, different
Speaker 1: thing going on here. Um, it's a necessary evil and
Speaker 1: at least in my mind, And so it makes it
Speaker 1: tough for for for everybody in that locker room changes
Speaker 1: different thing and and and and struggling in games is
Speaker 1: never fun, no, And and you know, coming in as
Speaker 1: a new guy, he don't know really what to expect.
Speaker 1: And and so I'm learning a whole new offense. And
Speaker 1: one of my first week here, my first week and
Speaker 1: a half, it was a whirl in my head was spinning.
Speaker 1: I gotta be here at this time. I gotta do this.
Speaker 1: I got to learn these players at this time and
Speaker 1: do this and that. But it's all settling down for
Speaker 1: me and and I think it's starting to settle down
Speaker 1: for everybody else. And and I think Coach Flow said
Speaker 1: it's the right way today, And it's where a couple
Speaker 1: plays away and every and every aspect of the game
Speaker 1: and the special teams in the offense and the defense,
Speaker 1: where a couple of plays away, you look at the
Speaker 1: first first half in this game compared to the first
Speaker 1: half in the last three games. I mean, we're right
Speaker 1: there and and and we still left players out on
Speaker 1: the field. And it's the same way. We just gotta
Speaker 1: we we gotta pick like and we're doing a good
Speaker 1: job of it, of of staying positive and going out
Speaker 1: there and just working as hard as we can to
Speaker 1: become a better football team. Because if we clear those
Speaker 1: eight nine ten plays up throughout the game, these ball
Speaker 1: games are gonna be different. A drop ball here turns
Speaker 1: into a catch this turns into you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of different things that it's just some so small details.
Speaker 1: But as you keep those things keep minimizing, you do
Speaker 1: see the growth in this football team. But it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: I know it's tough, and just kind of keep your
Speaker 1: nose to the grindstone. But you've got some good guys
Speaker 1: in that meeting room and googs for for all of
Speaker 1: his bluster and and all of his things, he wants
Speaker 1: the best for you guys, and you know that. And
Speaker 1: that's that's the big thing. And he tells us, and
Speaker 1: he tells us during the week, I am going to
Speaker 1: be an asshole coach. I'm going to stick to everything
Speaker 1: that I believe in because I know it works. So
Speaker 1: they've done it for fifteen years, and I think you
Speaker 1: start to see what we're buying into the techniques and
Speaker 1: everything that he's teaching more and more and more, and
Speaker 1: we're giving Josh more time, and we're we're creating holes
Speaker 1: in the run game and and we're just doing taking
Speaker 1: those steps. But instead of taking these baby steps each week,
Speaker 1: we gotta start taking some grown men steps to to
Speaker 1: correct everything. The bye week coming in as it does
Speaker 1: right now. You know, a lot of guys, you know,
Speaker 1: you maybe like a little later on, but I think
Speaker 1: for this team right now, it's a good's going in.
Speaker 1: It's it's a good spot. You know. We were talking
Speaker 1: about a little earlier in the show. You gotta get
Speaker 1: away a little you know, it's to give you a
Speaker 1: chance to get away kind of you know, reflect, decompress
Speaker 1: a little bit, reflect back, but also get some time
Speaker 1: away from the game. Yeah, and be just just be guys,
Speaker 1: and to be with your family and be with your friends,
Speaker 1: or do something to get you away and just just
Speaker 1: to clear your mind. I would think that's that's gotta
Speaker 1: be something that you're really looking forward. It is and
Speaker 1: and you gotta especially for the new guys that have
Speaker 1: came in, and this first four weeks have been super hectic,
Speaker 1: and mind like your rolling, your rolling, your role, and
Speaker 1: you're you're pretty tired right now. And like you said,
Speaker 1: this is a perfect time for us to to just
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and relax, evaluate ourselves on how
Speaker 1: we did the first four weeks and how are we
Speaker 1: going to change that for the next eleven. I honestly,
Speaker 1: I remember doing the postgame show for week one and
Speaker 1: they're talking about the offensive line. I said, oh, you
Speaker 1: gotta understand there are two three guys in this offensive
Speaker 1: line didn't even know where the stadium was. Do you
Speaker 1: know how to drive to the state. I mean still
Speaker 1: I still type it into my yeah, And so you
Speaker 1: know that that's that, and it's off is you know,
Speaker 1: you people don't think about that. They don't think about
Speaker 1: living in in in the day to day. And then yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been here for three days. I gotta
Speaker 1: go to the game. What hell is the game at?
Speaker 1: You know? And and and like that's it's exactly right.
Speaker 1: It's the people don't know a lot of people think
Speaker 1: we just show up on Sundays, get paid and and
Speaker 1: and play football and get paid. And that's not it
Speaker 1: at all. It's we come in and we're trying to
Speaker 1: learn these offense. We're trying to learn these plays and
Speaker 1: in these schemes. And then on the flip side of
Speaker 1: learning all of our stuff, we're watching film on them
Speaker 1: and seeing what they do and trying to pick up
Speaker 1: on their keys and and what protection fits best against
Speaker 1: this this type of front versus that type of front,
Speaker 1: and and so it was hectic, but you were slowing
Speaker 1: it down. The game, the plays, and the game is
Speaker 1: starting to slow down for everybody, I think, and I
Speaker 1: think last this past week was the first time that
Speaker 1: all five guys stayed out there and there was no
Speaker 1: change since I mean Baltimore week it was like that,
Speaker 1: but this week, like it was like that, and you
Speaker 1: saw the progress it took from from practice to to
Speaker 1: now and and where we are. So we we just
Speaker 1: gotta keep on taking those steps for sure. So last November,
Speaker 1: you're in you're playing with the Colts. You get your
Speaker 1: first started center against the Dolphins in November game the
Speaker 1: quarterback A big game that was that was that was
Speaker 1: a tight game and you had a big game, three
Speaker 1: touchdowns for Andrew Luck and uh you remember that game.
Speaker 1: And I know at that point you have you're you're there,
Speaker 1: but here here, you are now and now here. And
Speaker 1: it's just the way the league is these days. And
Speaker 1: it is and and uh, you know, I give credit
Speaker 1: to good Um, you know, Googe Googes helped me out.
Speaker 1: And even last year Slawson and Goode and and Bobby Johnson,
Speaker 1: who's now the onlyine coach in Buffalo. Uh, they brought
Speaker 1: me in week six and you know, I'm thinking I'm
Speaker 1: playing that same week and I have to learn these
Speaker 1: plays and do all this stuff and and learning the
Speaker 1: techniques that Googe wants because you know, every'all offense, I
Speaker 1: mean it's essentially all the same, but every offensive line
Speaker 1: coach and the National Football League has different ways of
Speaker 1: how they want different things blocked. You know, essentially, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have an outside zone, you're gonna have an inside zone,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a pool, you're gonna have a counter,
Speaker 1: you're gonna trap. But the way they want it is
Speaker 1: totally different. And so you have to learn that and
Speaker 1: pick up on that as quick as possible. And um,
Speaker 1: you know I'm I'm happy to be here. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to be here. I wanna I want to be a
Speaker 1: part of this team and help them win football games
Speaker 1: and do them do the right thing and show the
Speaker 1: show them that you know, I'm not I'm not just
Speaker 1: some guy off the street who can't play football. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go and I want to be a
Speaker 1: dominant physical force in in the football game. Look, this
Speaker 1: is a fan base that, uh, you know, I've been
Speaker 1: I've been here in good times. I've been here bad
Speaker 1: times and then in the good times. Um, and they've
Speaker 1: been a lot of bad times here for a while.
Speaker 1: But then when it turns around, this fan base is uh,
Speaker 1: is really gonna be a lot of fun to for sure.
Speaker 1: And you could see that ye last week with I
Speaker 1: mean we went in a halftime seventeen ten and and
Speaker 1: the fan base was there and they were a routing
Speaker 1: and it was fun to be a part of. And
Speaker 1: and you here when you nothing better, if if nothing
Speaker 1: feels better as a player, and you can probably attest
Speaker 1: to this too, is is when that big play is
Speaker 1: made and you just hear an uproars the fans and
Speaker 1: you don't know what's going on, but you know, something
Speaker 1: really good happening, and that makes you want to go
Speaker 1: out there and play even harder and better and put
Speaker 1: on a show for for the people that showed up
Speaker 1: and supported you. I'm glad you're here. We're glad you're here,
Speaker 1: and appreciate your stopping by. Wish you the best of
Speaker 1: lux State. Appreciate and keep going keeping these guys. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you guys can can get you know, start racking up
Speaker 1: some games together. You can get to where you want
Speaker 1: to be in and I know you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: end up in a good unit. So appreciate you. Thank
Speaker 1: you for I appreciate it very much. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: a good Thank you. Kevin Bam. You know, we talked
Speaker 1: about it, and it's it's you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: funny John, It's not funny. But well, every week you
Speaker 1: just gotta looking at all the new guys. Where's he had,
Speaker 1: he's in his normal position, is he's somewhere else? But
Speaker 1: I thought him him putting him in there next Isai
Speaker 1: And we talked about that early in the show. Um
Speaker 1: was good for it was good for both of them,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think Evan first play out one
Speaker 1: of the first players out the fact a touchdown play,
Speaker 1: a Joey gets up field and looks like, you know,
Speaker 1: I say, it's a little off balance. Bab comes out
Speaker 1: and and and really gave him the time to throw
Speaker 1: the football. So nicely see him in there. And uh,
Speaker 1: and you know, another guy's a good guy. Having a
Speaker 1: team that's got some experience, and you know, it gives
Speaker 1: you some good work when he when he shows up,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a chance to play. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance to contribute on this football team
Speaker 1: because there's so much uncertainty upfront and you never know
Speaker 1: week to week and game to game. Injuries always play
Speaker 1: a role on the offensive line. It seems like it
Speaker 1: has really bit the Miami Dolphins in terms of either
Speaker 1: you have rookie talent that you're trying to evaluate, or
Speaker 1: you have veteran guys that can play multiple positions. And
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that have seen a lot
Speaker 1: of football. There's not a whole lot of uh experience
Speaker 1: up up front other than Kilgore at center when you
Speaker 1: talk about guys that have played in multiple years and
Speaker 1: multiple games. So it's nice to have the security of
Speaker 1: a guy that has had experience with different teams and
Speaker 1: different schemes, and he knows Googles what his expectations are
Speaker 1: and how he's gonna coach you and what what where
Speaker 1: you have to play, where your level needs to be
Speaker 1: consistently uh to to have opportunities to be in the
Speaker 1: starting lineup. And I thought he did really well. Google
Speaker 1: some he had him in and so he knew about
Speaker 1: him and coach, here's a guy that that we can
Speaker 1: work with, that can fit in here and and help
Speaker 1: us out. And he certainly did that. So good to
Speaker 1: have them. Hey, so now you're going to BUYE week, John,
Speaker 1: And this is a week that you know, I think
Speaker 1: for this team right now. You know, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of guys might like a bye week a little
Speaker 1: later on the season. Pretty good time, I think for
Speaker 1: this week for this football team, because you know, training
Speaker 1: camp is tough, and then and then the first four games,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's time to get away from it
Speaker 1: a little bit, kind of clear your mind a little
Speaker 1: and get with your family, do what you're gonna do,
Speaker 1: get a little rest, heal up a little bit. And
Speaker 1: you know, you got some guys, you know, Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: and the guys were hurt last week that that that
Speaker 1: didn't play. Um, get them back healthy again, Robert Wilson,
Speaker 1: get him, Jesse Davis, he'll be back. Jesse Davis, we're back.
Speaker 1: And some of those other guys got they're dinged up
Speaker 1: a little bit. Get them back and really get your
Speaker 1: full compliment back. Uh, as you get ready and move
Speaker 1: on to some games quite frankly that that you know
Speaker 1: that are winnable. You mean you got Washington coming in
Speaker 1: the Redskins, and and who knows where they're gonna be
Speaker 1: in in in two weeks. They've got a question whether
Speaker 1: their coach is gonna get fired. Uh, they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: in a new quarterback, brought they brought brought Hasking in
Speaker 1: and and that was no there was no better Roses there.
Speaker 1: So you know there's an opportunity. But I think there's
Speaker 1: bye week is important and I know talking to UH
Speaker 1: to coach Flores, and it's it's a lot of self scouting,
Speaker 1: scouting players. Every everybody in this building. Everybody in this building,
Speaker 1: whether you're a player or a coach, is going to
Speaker 1: be reevaluating over the course of this bye week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it does come as a at a good time. Bo.
Speaker 1: You talked about the injuries, but I just think it
Speaker 1: was devastating the way the Dolphins started this season against
Speaker 1: the Ravens, that that felt like, you know, I know,
Speaker 1: only one game counts, is one win or one loss,
Speaker 1: but that felt like a multiple game flurry. That just
Speaker 1: was a flurry of of touchdowns and big plays that
Speaker 1: continued to knock the Dolphins down. And it might be
Speaker 1: Owen one at the at the end of that game,
Speaker 1: but it felt heavier than that. And um, and then
Speaker 1: you couple the three losses after that, and now you're
Speaker 1: sitting at ohen four. You just want to you need oxygen.
Speaker 1: You're looking for You're looking for some life into the organization,
Speaker 1: into this football team, and the best way to do
Speaker 1: that is to maybe take a step back, get away
Speaker 1: from football, let the coaches kind of evaluate what they've
Speaker 1: seen over the first month of the season, get a
Speaker 1: better plan for what they want to move forward with
Speaker 1: in weeks six when Washington comes to town. And maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you're you're also when you self scout, you're subtracting
Speaker 1: some of the stuff you're asking your team to do
Speaker 1: that maybe they just quite frankly can't do on defense,
Speaker 1: maybe you're looking for different types of schemes to get
Speaker 1: after the quarterback for sure, because that's been the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: So I think in terms of offense, now you've got
Speaker 1: a quarterback that you know, you want to feel like
Speaker 1: he's gonna go the rest of the way. If he's
Speaker 1: healthy enough, he's gonna start the rest of the way,
Speaker 1: do what he does. Well, let's accentuate some of the
Speaker 1: positive us you've seen over the last two weeks offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. Either you need other bodies to come in
Speaker 1: and rush the passer, or you've got to coach differently
Speaker 1: with different schemes and in different ways of getting after
Speaker 1: the opposing quarterback because what has happened over the first
Speaker 1: four weeks really isn't good enough to go through the
Speaker 1: next stretch of the season. And and that's a tough
Speaker 1: that's a tough ask. I mean it is you know,
Speaker 1: if it's the same guys, same guys, same results, you
Speaker 1: bring in other guys, is that going to be better? Um?
Speaker 1: But you can't, you know, you can't become I don't
Speaker 1: think this team is good enough on the back end
Speaker 1: to be just a multiple mean and then because now
Speaker 1: you're putting the pressure on the guys in the back.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do it, you gotta get there because
Speaker 1: if you don't, boy, you're putting those guys in the
Speaker 1: back in a very, very vulnerable state. Well, I I
Speaker 1: will say this though, if they go up against Washington
Speaker 1: and Haskins is the quarterback, I'm coming. I'm coming with
Speaker 1: some exotics. I'm coming on some different things that at
Speaker 1: least well, you know, we gotta try something, okay, and
Speaker 1: then you know, you get Donald down the road. He's
Speaker 1: a talented quarterback, but he's only in his second year,
Speaker 1: you know, so I'm sure that there's some things that
Speaker 1: you can get after him. You know, as the season
Speaker 1: moves along, and I know you've got still Tom Brady
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, and you're still gonna
Speaker 1: have to go against the Bills, who look like a
Speaker 1: very formidable team. But but the immediate teams that you're playing,
Speaker 1: I think you might have a chance to to maybe
Speaker 1: change up what you're doing a little bit defensively. Self
Speaker 1: scout yourself obviously, pick out some of the things you like,
Speaker 1: some of the things maybe weren't done execution wise. But
Speaker 1: I still think you gotta you gotta try to throw
Speaker 1: a wrinkle war two in there that you haven't done,
Speaker 1: or that you've picked up from other teams that might
Speaker 1: fit your players or your skill set on this team.
Speaker 1: And and for the coaches, they'll they'll look at themselves,
Speaker 1: look at themselves, what they've called. They'll go over every
Speaker 1: play that they've called, every defense they've called, everything they've done.
Speaker 1: Uh and and and you know, it's fortunate that you
Speaker 1: know that the players are gonna probably have four days
Speaker 1: off on what their what their schedule is, but there'll
Speaker 1: be a couple of days in there where they don't
Speaker 1: have to go out to the practice field. So they'll
Speaker 1: sit in there and they'll they'll evaluate themselves as much
Speaker 1: as they'll evaluate the players. And the coaches will value
Speaker 1: with other coaches, and so you know, they're you know,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll find some things that you know, to me,
Speaker 1: it's to me, this is it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: let let's boil down a little bit. Let's boil down.
Speaker 1: Let's the things that we've tried multiple times that don't work.
Speaker 1: Let's throw them throw them off the ship. Throw them
Speaker 1: off the ship. And those things we've we've done really good.
Speaker 1: Let's let's put them into more. Let's let's let's let's
Speaker 1: go to those things a little more. And it's continued.
Speaker 1: You know, it's that old give me the six best
Speaker 1: running plays you got, and give me the eight best
Speaker 1: passing plays you got, and let's let's let's run them
Speaker 1: to perfection and see if they can stop us. Exactly.
Speaker 1: And while yourself scouting yourself, I'm sure you're perusing the
Speaker 1: league and saying, well, you know, I bet we could
Speaker 1: do that. You know, you see that something that Detroit
Speaker 1: did against you know, so and so, or something that
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys did after we played them, and
Speaker 1: I really liked or or the Saints or whoever, whatever
Speaker 1: team it is that you're looking at. I think that
Speaker 1: that's the time where coaches pick up that copycat league
Speaker 1: type of mantra that you know, you like that route combination,
Speaker 1: I like that coverage. I like the way they disguise this.
Speaker 1: I think our guys could do that really well. It
Speaker 1: fits our skill set, you know, so I think that's
Speaker 1: where you get a couple of new wrinkles as well.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a valuable week in a lot of ways. Rest,
Speaker 1: get the guys healthy a little bit, get their mind
Speaker 1: away from the game. Yeah, find somewhere to go away,
Speaker 1: and and then just so you know, be with your family.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't don't even think about football. Come
Speaker 1: back when you're fresh. The coach is probably a lot
Speaker 1: of less time to do that than than the players.
Speaker 1: But but they'll get a little opportunity to and John,
Speaker 1: you and I can get a little opportunity to take
Speaker 1: take a little time off in this bye week before
Speaker 1: we get ready to come back and and see Washington
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. So anyway, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us today. For John Kjemmy, I'm Kimbo Camper.
Speaker 1: Will catch you in the audible next week. Have a
Speaker 1: good bye week off and we'll talk to you next time.