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Speaker 1: I'm kim Bo Camper. Week one is in the books
Speaker 1: and I'm glad Week one is over. John's It was
Speaker 1: a you know, you try to you you go through
Speaker 1: a game like that and you try to pluck out
Speaker 1: some positives and uh, well you gotta search, You really
Speaker 1: gotta search for positives in that game. Is certainly not
Speaker 1: what Brian Flores expected. I don't think it was anything
Speaker 1: that that we expected. I don't think it was anything
Speaker 1: that Dolphin fans expected. But at this point, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. The Dolphin has just got man handled
Speaker 1: from the opening kickoff until the game ended. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, you know, give them credit. They were prepared
Speaker 1: to do in every aspect of the game, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams. When all those battles and so now it's
Speaker 1: it's regroup time. But you know, you look at that game, John,
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's it's really it's tough to
Speaker 1: gauge only because I've never been You've been around this
Speaker 1: league for a long time. You've been around football a
Speaker 1: long time, being around this league for a long time,
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of college football. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen a team go into an opening game
Speaker 1: with so many changes within seven days of kickoff, and
Speaker 1: in some cases only only a few days of the
Speaker 1: game being kicked off. And it's just not at one spot,
Speaker 1: one position. It was all over is littered on the
Speaker 1: football team. You have offensive lineman starting, you know, they've
Speaker 1: been in camp for practice for four days. You've got
Speaker 1: defensive linemen that are starting that have been here for
Speaker 1: maybe a week if that. And that filters into your
Speaker 1: special teams. You know, all those guys that haven't been
Speaker 1: there are now asked to do more on special teams.
Speaker 1: So kind of it was a snowball effect from the
Speaker 1: opening gun, you know, mark Ingram forty nine yard run
Speaker 1: to open the game, and it was downhill from there
Speaker 1: and we made uh, you know, Lamar Jackson given credit,
Speaker 1: but he looked like a Hall of Fame corp. He's
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl right now, I mean, and he
Speaker 1: had four or five six seconds to throw the football
Speaker 1: so there was a lot of issues that the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins are gonna look at tape this week and go, wow,
Speaker 1: can we correct this? You know, can we correct that?
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's a lot of mental and physical
Speaker 1: mistakes that were made when you when you lose to ten,
Speaker 1: but you've got to be able to jump back and
Speaker 1: not let that loss really turn into two losses in
Speaker 1: terms of playing the same way. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what Brian Flores and this coaching staff really have to decipher.
Speaker 1: Who can do what really well and how can we
Speaker 1: get into better positions as a defense, as an offense,
Speaker 1: on special teams too. Don't allow ourselves not to give
Speaker 1: us the best chance at at a winning result, you know.
Speaker 1: And they're going up against the team that if you
Speaker 1: thought Baltimore was good, this team is that much better,
Speaker 1: no no doubt about it. But you've got a week
Speaker 1: bund we punt week under your belt. Some of these
Speaker 1: new guys that have come in have been there for
Speaker 1: a while. Um. But the conversations I've had with people
Speaker 1: John after watching the tapes is a lot of the
Speaker 1: things that there were the mistakes were made are correctable mistakes.
Speaker 1: You know, Guys, you know, being not being in the
Speaker 1: right place or choosing the wrong you know, Eric row
Speaker 1: In in the back of the end zone, you know,
Speaker 1: instead of looking at the quarter back and when the
Speaker 1: when the receiver just turns around and and finds wide
Speaker 1: open space. Those things are fixable. But the things that
Speaker 1: sometimes aren't fixable fixable or when YouTube to get physically
Speaker 1: dominated by people guys are pushing around. And don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, there were some guys out there that physically
Speaker 1: got dominated during the course that football game. And they're
Speaker 1: either gonna have to get better or if somebody else
Speaker 1: is gonna have to step in and take that charge.
Speaker 1: But I think one of the to me, one of
Speaker 1: the difficult things and really that that uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if I put a spotlight on one thing that that
Speaker 1: going into that game, that that I thought was was
Speaker 1: really gonna be tough to begin with, was we were
Speaker 1: talking about it seven days prior about the offensive line
Speaker 1: and how they're gonna have to play better. And then
Speaker 1: you go into the game and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've got Danny as a Dorian. Their Shaq Calhoun was
Speaker 1: was there all preseason, he's out. Now you take Jesse Davis,
Speaker 1: you put him at left tackle where he hasn't played.
Speaker 1: You bring in the new guy gaving for it, You
Speaker 1: put him at at at right tackle, and so you
Speaker 1: got guys playing out of position. You got two guys
Speaker 1: playing on the right side that weren't in the that
Speaker 1: that haven't gone through training camp. We've only been here
Speaker 1: for three or four days. And John, you know, in
Speaker 1: a in a position like that, in a in a
Speaker 1: group like that where communication is so vital to to
Speaker 1: to success, how how can you have communication when you
Speaker 1: got two guys in there that weren't even here a
Speaker 1: week ago, and you're trying to and you're playing against
Speaker 1: a damn good football You have dotted a lot of
Speaker 1: different looks, doing a lot of different things. Blitz is
Speaker 1: all different kinds of things and taking advantage of it.
Speaker 1: It's hard to it's hard to blame him, but but
Speaker 1: look at it is what it is. They gotta line
Speaker 1: up and the playing they have a lineup and play
Speaker 1: this week against another very good defense is going to
Speaker 1: show him a lot of different things. And you know
Speaker 1: what it's. It's it's that old you put your big
Speaker 1: boy pants on, because it's not gonna change from here
Speaker 1: going forward, you're gonna be the guys lining up. You
Speaker 1: gotta figure it out. You gotta figure it up and
Speaker 1: figure it out in short order, you know. I think
Speaker 1: the one thing that wasn't a surprise was the play
Speaker 1: of the offensive line when you talk about Isadora and
Speaker 1: Davenport on the right side, because you limit your offense,
Speaker 1: you limit your cadence, you limit what you want to
Speaker 1: do pre snap because you don't want to trigger these
Speaker 1: guys or put them in a worse position than they're
Speaker 1: already in with a limited access to a playbook that
Speaker 1: has been installed from last spring, you know, so you're
Speaker 1: trying to spoon feed these guys and and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they were overwhelmed at some point during the week trying
Speaker 1: to get ready and on Sunday and we saw that.
Speaker 1: But the biggest surprise to me, Bo was I know
Speaker 1: that Baltimore is explosive on offense with the run game,
Speaker 1: with the zone read, with all that stuff, But it
Speaker 1: wasn't Lamar Jackson's legs that beat the Miami offense. It
Speaker 1: was his right arm, and it was the lack of
Speaker 1: coverage in the secondary where we felt talking you know,
Speaker 1: on the audible multiple times that that's one of your
Speaker 1: strengths of the defense. You really felt like going in, well,
Speaker 1: let Lamar stay in the pocket and make him beat
Speaker 1: you with his arm. But that wasn't the case in
Speaker 1: terms of having it work out for the Dolphins. It
Speaker 1: really played into the hand of the Baltimore Ravens and
Speaker 1: they were able to make one explosive play after another.
Speaker 1: There was three plays of over you know, thirty yards. Uh,
Speaker 1: and the tight ends. The tight ends had third. Three
Speaker 1: tight ends had four teen catches for over a hundred
Speaker 1: forty yards in the game. I mean, and you've got
Speaker 1: one of your best players that seemed like trying to
Speaker 1: track down tight ends but he couldn't, you know, could
Speaker 1: He was always a step behind or two steps behind.
Speaker 1: So those are the things you want to get corrected.
Speaker 1: Because when you think about where the Miami Dolphins, if
Speaker 1: you feel like you can hang your hat on stuff,
Speaker 1: you thought it was the secondary. You thought Baker and
Speaker 1: Aguabin would be able to handle that linebacker spot. And
Speaker 1: then you've got new guys front that maybe didn't fit
Speaker 1: exactly the way you thought it would fit in the
Speaker 1: run game. So my concern is you've got an even
Speaker 1: more explosive offense coming to town with one of the
Speaker 1: best to ever play the game and Tom Brady, and
Speaker 1: if you don't get pressure on that guy, you are
Speaker 1: going to be in fron another long day. Well that
Speaker 1: that's the other thing when you look at that game,
Speaker 1: you talk about the backside of the defense, you mean,
Speaker 1: I mean Lamar Jackson, he didn't need to run because
Speaker 1: he he you know, he had he could just stand
Speaker 1: back there with impunity and look around the field and
Speaker 1: throw the ball where wherever you want to do. And
Speaker 1: when you've got that much time, and it makes it
Speaker 1: that much easier for the receivers to get separation, makes
Speaker 1: it tougher on those defensive backs to cover, especially in
Speaker 1: today's day and age, with the rules and the way
Speaker 1: you play a lot of freedom. Well, you've got to
Speaker 1: have somebody putting that quarterback under duress so he doesn't
Speaker 1: he can't just sit back there and pick you apart.
Speaker 1: And I don't, John, I'm I'm kind of I've been
Speaker 1: trying to go through every go through the whole name
Speaker 1: in my mind and think, was there one time where
Speaker 1: they had Lamar Jackson in the situation where he had
Speaker 1: a panicker, ramble or move out of the pocket or
Speaker 1: buy time, or yeah, you have plenty of time. You
Speaker 1: didn't have to buy any time. He kept all his
Speaker 1: money in his pocket, wasn't having to buy any time.
Speaker 1: The only time he did he retreated about ten yards
Speaker 1: and through a lollipop in the end zone and to
Speaker 1: an open receiver for a touchdown. I mean that was
Speaker 1: the only time he looked like he was under durest
Speaker 1: and really he was just buying himself some time because
Speaker 1: he knew if he didn't find anybody, he could allude
Speaker 1: the three or four guys that were, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to pass rush and buy some more time, you know,
Speaker 1: to the wide side of the field. So I just
Speaker 1: think that, you know, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are correctable, but for a home opener at hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: I think these guys have to have the attitude this
Speaker 1: week that they're gonna have their another chance to make
Speaker 1: a first impression in terms of being able to play
Speaker 1: with a lot more energy, a lot more efficiency, a
Speaker 1: lot more uh organizational wise. You know, it just seems
Speaker 1: like the schemes are in place, but we kind of
Speaker 1: went off the reservation a little bit with maybe first game.
Speaker 1: You know, jitters with a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: young players out You look at early in the game,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I think it was the first
Speaker 1: play Fitzpatrick Audible's or you know, changes them to play
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and Preston Williams doesn't doesn't get it,
Speaker 1: and and he's blocking and and and fits throws him
Speaker 1: the ball. And that was the beginning of seeing a
Speaker 1: team that, Look, the coaching staff has prepared this football team.
Speaker 1: They they've gone through all these situations, they've done all that.
Speaker 1: But you had a lot of guys out there playing
Speaker 1: in that in a game for the first time the
Speaker 1: national football it's allowed. You know, you've got all the
Speaker 1: excitement going, you got all the adrenaline going, you want
Speaker 1: to play well, you're you're behind the eight ball right
Speaker 1: off the bat. And so you know, it's tough situation.
Speaker 1: Tough situation where a guy has been in the league
Speaker 1: for five, six, seven, eight years, when you've got a
Speaker 1: number of guys that are first time players in there,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's easy to get off the tracks,
Speaker 1: off the rails, and uh and and and they just
Speaker 1: weren't able to get back on. Now the train's not
Speaker 1: stopping because like you said New England's coming up this week,
Speaker 1: you got Dallas the next week, and so on down
Speaker 1: the line. So it's not gonna get any any easier.
Speaker 1: And I know going through the I know going through
Speaker 1: the film session on Monday wasn't a pleasant situation. I
Speaker 1: think they stayed in there a long time, a lot
Speaker 1: of work to get over, a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of things to cover, a lot of things get done.
Speaker 1: And John, I know from my experience the times that
Speaker 1: we played and played poorly and winning that meeting room
Speaker 1: and basically just got shredded. You know, you came back
Speaker 1: with a vengeance, and you may not have played you know,
Speaker 1: you may not play your best game the week after.
Speaker 1: But I would expect improvement in a lot of areas
Speaker 1: from this football team. That being said, the opponent also improves.
Speaker 1: As you said, coming into this stay you have the
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champions, made the steels a whole and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady looking like he's hasn't hasn't skipped a beat.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, let's strow Antonio Brown in
Speaker 1: there on you who they've got listed in their depth
Speaker 1: chart as their starting wide receiver. Already on Monday they
Speaker 1: had him listed as a starting wide receiver. So it
Speaker 1: kind of tells you what we can expect out of
Speaker 1: this football team comes Sunday. Well, there's so many weapons,
Speaker 1: and it starts obviously with Tom Brady. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a guy that has seen everything, done everything one
Speaker 1: you know, multiple champions World championships, and he's a guy
Speaker 1: that just can beat you anyway you want to defend him.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna crowd the box, he's gonna
Speaker 1: find a guy in isolate Edelman. If if he's got
Speaker 1: some zone, he's got a cross here with Gordon. If
Speaker 1: you want to go deep, you know, he finds a speedster,
Speaker 1: you know. And now he's got brown on the outside
Speaker 1: as well. So you've got a lot of weapons. And
Speaker 1: that's not even getting to the Sony Michelle's and the
Speaker 1: James Whites and the Rex Birkheads and and those types
Speaker 1: of women and Julian right. Yeah, I mean you look
Speaker 1: at this lineup with it and you talk about Josh Gordon.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I'm not funny, but I remember, I
Speaker 1: believe it was two years ago when Josh Gordon came
Speaker 1: back from a lengthy suspension number of two and a
Speaker 1: half years. I think somewhere along thatlines. He had been
Speaker 1: in and out of the league, played a few games,
Speaker 1: and just so happens he gets activated. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: when the Dolphins pulled into town and and he just
Speaker 1: you know, I hadn't said there, I haven't seen him
Speaker 1: playing per and he's a big talented wide receiver, and
Speaker 1: you thought, wow, but now you have another guy like
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, you know, and hopefully on Antonio. Hopefully after
Speaker 1: Antonio misses a practice or or or a meeting or
Speaker 1: the plane or something, so we don't have to see him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and that not being done, we're gonna see
Speaker 1: him on the other side. And look, he's ready to play.
Speaker 1: He's been working out, he's been training, haven't been a
Speaker 1: training cam much, but he's ready to go. So uh,
Speaker 1: you know, And then you talk about the Julian Edelman's
Speaker 1: and Sony was Schill and James White and Philip Door said,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's a that's a I mean you
Speaker 1: and you talk about getting pressure. You know, you could
Speaker 1: be twice as good, you could do twice as you
Speaker 1: could be twice as effective as you were last week,
Speaker 1: even though they weren't very effective at all. But you
Speaker 1: can be twice as effective and still lose ground because
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the ball out of there so quickly
Speaker 1: that that if you don't get if you don't if
Speaker 1: you don't make him move within his second or third step,
Speaker 1: you you got no shot to get to him a way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a challenge. It's an uphill battle for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: especially if you feel like you've got so much to
Speaker 1: correct in terms of offensive line and defensive secondary and
Speaker 1: trying to create pressure and when you're displacing guys to
Speaker 1: add another guy to the pass rush, well that kind
Speaker 1: of plays into Tom Brady's hand a little bit because
Speaker 1: he's got so many answers, you know, just not you know,
Speaker 1: focused on one or two receivers. It's across the board
Speaker 1: and it's backs coming out of the backfield that can
Speaker 1: be hurt you just as badly as a guy you know,
Speaker 1: going you know, running as deep crossing route or a
Speaker 1: deep outcut. So the Dolphins definitely number one. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's make no mistake about it. Number one. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: have to worry about the Dolphins right now, and they
Speaker 1: have to be able to correct what they can control
Speaker 1: on on each and every practice leading up to Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then you've got you know, the Patriots on the
Speaker 1: horizon that you've got to You've got a monster coming
Speaker 1: in the hard Rock Stadium that likes to play a
Speaker 1: certain way. And the Dolphins. You know, if you ever
Speaker 1: want to either get a stalemate after a quarter or
Speaker 1: a couple of series, that's the week they have to
Speaker 1: do it. Because you don't want to fall behind the
Speaker 1: team as quickly as you did the Ravens and it
Speaker 1: seemed like it was there was no end in sight.
Speaker 1: You don't want to have Tom Brady get the ball
Speaker 1: the first time, whether you received or they received whoever,
Speaker 1: first time they get the ball in their hands, you
Speaker 1: don't want them to go down the field eighty nine
Speaker 1: yards down the field and put points on the board,
Speaker 1: because then you're back, well, here we go again. Can
Speaker 1: we're right back in the same situation. So somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: they've got to slow down this offense and find a
Speaker 1: way to oh, by the way, you know, get get
Speaker 1: past the defense that's gonna show you a lot of
Speaker 1: different looks that's gonna try to confuse you. And you
Speaker 1: look at their secondary with the McCardy brothers, back there,
Speaker 1: Patri Chunk, Kyle Van Noy, I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: football team. Pante High Tower, Michael Bennett up there. They's
Speaker 1: there is loaded on that at the football almost as
Speaker 1: they are on the on the offensive. So well, there
Speaker 1: look defending Super Bowl champions. That's all you have to
Speaker 1: say about this team. But you're right, I think the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: whether they win this game or not, you've got to
Speaker 1: see a and I'm not talking about a little bit, uh,
Speaker 1: a noticeable amount of improvement on this football team, because
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a journey for these guys after starting
Speaker 1: the season like that. This isn't gonna be a one
Speaker 1: week fix. It's not gonna be a two week fix.
Speaker 1: But if you can see them every week getting a
Speaker 1: little better and moving on and just tightening things up,
Speaker 1: then I think you can then you know, then you
Speaker 1: can start feeling good about it. But uh, right now,
Speaker 1: I think that the most important thing besides looking at
Speaker 1: New England getting ready for that football team, going through
Speaker 1: your practices, they've got to shut their ears off to
Speaker 1: the to the outside. You know, the outside is good.
Speaker 1: They gesn't buried worst football team ever. You're hearing all
Speaker 1: these types of things about the Dolphins. Um, and so
Speaker 1: they they've gotta they've got to forget about that. They
Speaker 1: can't listen to that, they can get involved with that,
Speaker 1: and all the you know the people that are nowhere
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Oh, you know, people want to they
Speaker 1: want to get out of the team. They're looking there.
Speaker 1: You know, where some of the ship comes from is
Speaker 1: beyond me. But it get out, gets out there, and
Speaker 1: once it gets once it once it's once it gets
Speaker 1: its its tentacles in there, it just festers and gets
Speaker 1: bigger and bigger and bigger. And and you know, these
Speaker 1: unnamed sources and this guy or that guy or this agent.
Speaker 1: You know, it certainly doesn't help. It doesn't help this
Speaker 1: football team. But there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna, they're gonna say what they want to say. Anyway,
Speaker 1: these guys have to concentrate on on on what they've got.
Speaker 1: Who's my man? Where do I gotta be? How do
Speaker 1: I block him? How do I get off the block?
Speaker 1: How do I tackle him? How do I cover him?
Speaker 1: All those types of things? How do I get open
Speaker 1: if I'm receiver, if there's no hold and I'm running back,
Speaker 1: how do I find a crease, How do I find something?
Speaker 1: You know? And we can talk about offensive scheme and
Speaker 1: defensive philosophy and special teams. How you know two plays
Speaker 1: you know, you drop a punt, you have a fake punt,
Speaker 1: go for I don't know, sick the plus yards to
Speaker 1: go down to pen yard line. Yeah, but but I
Speaker 1: think the one, not the most thing that gets stuck
Speaker 1: in in head coach Brian floores that makes them frustrated.
Speaker 1: But I think it added to it was the nine
Speaker 1: penalties for for sixty or four yards. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: so much the yards, it was the nine you know,
Speaker 1: the nine penalties that if you if you're preaching to
Speaker 1: your team all camp and now granted probably uh of
Speaker 1: the players who weren't here that actually played in the game,
Speaker 1: but still you've got to think that that that's one
Speaker 1: area that you can you can control and you can
Speaker 1: improve on in week two, that you know, those hidden yards,
Speaker 1: those sixty or seventy yards somewhere is gonna help you
Speaker 1: and it's gonna add to the improvement on on your
Speaker 1: scheme wise, what you do defensively, it's gonna add to
Speaker 1: your execution on offense and how you can move the football,
Speaker 1: because I just think that's one thing that they can
Speaker 1: definitely control and the coaches can kind of monitor that
Speaker 1: during the week to get them to the point where
Speaker 1: they're making two or three that I can live with
Speaker 1: at but not you know, six going to nine. You
Speaker 1: know that that that doesn't work that way, and you know,
Speaker 1: you look back. And then there were there were some
Speaker 1: guys that did you looked at that played well in
Speaker 1: the game. Preston Williams, a guy that played with park
Speaker 1: dropped the park ball in the end zone. You know,
Speaker 1: should have had it when I got his first touchdown.
Speaker 1: Had some nice places. Davante Parker came out and played
Speaker 1: a good game ball. Ryan Fitzpatrick did Yeoman's work to
Speaker 1: get the football out of the pocket and and make
Speaker 1: some completions down there. I mean, for what he want
Speaker 1: to add that little spin, Well you don't have to
Speaker 1: do it before, you multiple times before just to avoid
Speaker 1: in the pocket. But I mean he was fourteen and
Speaker 1: twenty nine. He had to pick yes, trying to make
Speaker 1: a play. I had to touchdown, which was good, but
Speaker 1: on a number of those completions. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of quarterbacks in this league that
Speaker 1: have been sacked six times in that game probably would
Speaker 1: have had more than one interception and definitely would have
Speaker 1: had just as many quarterback hits. So you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta tap your app to the way the courage, what
Speaker 1: he played with, and the smarts and you know the
Speaker 1: experienced factor of being able just to get the ball
Speaker 1: out the other guy. I tell you that that you're
Speaker 1: we're starting to see some life out of is tight
Speaker 1: end Mike Gasecky. You know, Mike got a nice cat
Speaker 1: down down the sideline there and made a play, made
Speaker 1: a couple of plays in the football game. We saw
Speaker 1: start to see his him coming out as uh you
Speaker 1: know during the uh during the preseason, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of putting last year behind him and improving on
Speaker 1: his game. And I think I think we're starting to
Speaker 1: see the Mike Gasecki that we thought we might see
Speaker 1: when when they draft him out of Penn State. And
Speaker 1: so that's helping and and Mike, actually it's gonna gonna
Speaker 1: join us right now and we'll we'll have a chance
Speaker 1: to sit down with Mike and hear what he had
Speaker 1: to say. Joining us now, tight in Mike Gasecky and Uh, Mike,
Speaker 1: it's been. Um, it's been. It's been a long run.
Speaker 1: You have a long year last year, you get a
Speaker 1: break and come back here and going through training camp
Speaker 1: and O t s and all that stuff, trying to
Speaker 1: get yourself improved or are you happy with where? You're
Speaker 1: never happy with where you're never satisfied worth your at
Speaker 1: but you like the progress that you've made from your
Speaker 1: first season to your second. Absolutely. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it was you know, good or bad from last year,
Speaker 1: I was able to learn from, you know, all the
Speaker 1: all the things that are kind of throwing at you
Speaker 1: during that rookie season, and uh, you know, I've been
Speaker 1: able to take that into the offseason get better, you know,
Speaker 1: get bigger, stronger, faster, you know, all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that everybody always talks about. And then come into
Speaker 1: a year two a little bit more prepared and you know,
Speaker 1: starting to pick up a new system again all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. But for the most part, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident and I just remember back and
Speaker 1: it was a long time ago, but it seems like
Speaker 1: it took me like a couple of years just to
Speaker 1: figure out kind of kind of figure out what this
Speaker 1: league's about, you know, because it's a lot of about them,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it's a lot about the players
Speaker 1: you're playing. It's a lot about the job you gotta do,
Speaker 1: but it's a walking a lot about just learning how
Speaker 1: to play in this league and learning how to be
Speaker 1: comfortable in the environment. You're you're facing the same type
Speaker 1: of situation. Yeah, absolutely, you know, I think that there's
Speaker 1: definitely a you know, there's like that you know that
Speaker 1: that gap between college the NFL and and you know
Speaker 1: in your first year, Um, you know you're kind of
Speaker 1: trying to you're trying to you know, shorten that gap
Speaker 1: as much as you can. But you know, ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: these guys have been playing for a long time and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent up at this level, so
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to you know, make up the
Speaker 1: most ground that you possibly can. And then, like you said,
Speaker 1: you know, still trying to figure out, you know, how
Speaker 1: people play in this league and you're trying to get
Speaker 1: more comfortable as this way you know you can you know,
Speaker 1: continue to play fast and you know play up to
Speaker 1: you know, your highest level. And let's let's talk about
Speaker 1: the game last week and certainly It's just one of
Speaker 1: those games that it happens, as you know, doing the
Speaker 1: Coaches Show with the Coach Flow, and it's just kind
Speaker 1: of like kind of like a snowball. Once it starts rolling,
Speaker 1: it's tough to stop. And then that's that's exactly what
Speaker 1: that game kind of looked like. You know, get a
Speaker 1: couple of couple of couple of mistakes early on, and
Speaker 1: it just got pounded on and pounded on and then
Speaker 1: just made for a long day out there. And there's
Speaker 1: no fund for everybody in those games. How how did
Speaker 1: you how did you come out of that one? And
Speaker 1: and and how do you look back at it and
Speaker 1: and try to get better both individually and as a
Speaker 1: team going forward. Yeah. Absolutely, you know, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: first and foremost, you gotta tip your hat to Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You know, they played you know, extremely uh you know,
Speaker 1: you know, they played an extremely effective game. They were
Speaker 1: they were great in all phases and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Um, you know, but ultimately, you know, Coach
Speaker 1: Flow kind of said it best right after the game
Speaker 1: and he kind of just said, hey man, just just
Speaker 1: let that sink in and you know, remember this feeling,
Speaker 1: remember this moment and let's grow from it. Uh So, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, you're if you handle adversity
Speaker 1: the right way, then you know you'll be able to
Speaker 1: bounce back and become better because of that. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody in locker room today, you know, I
Speaker 1: was able to take the coaching points and you know,
Speaker 1: just get better overall because there was a lot of
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things to learn from, but there
Speaker 1: was also you know, some good stuff on the tape
Speaker 1: that you know, you continue to build on and then
Speaker 1: just you know, move on. That's that's the great thing
Speaker 1: about this game. You know, we got we got another
Speaker 1: opportunity this week. It's an old cliche when you look
Speaker 1: at the tapes, never as bad as you thought it was,
Speaker 1: never as good as you thought it was. You know,
Speaker 1: I would assume that was the same case for this one.
Speaker 1: But I know, talking to some people, you know, there
Speaker 1: a lot of the mistakes were made were fixable mistakes.
Speaker 1: One thing, if you're getting man you know, you get
Speaker 1: man handled and run over. It's another thing when because
Speaker 1: there's mistakes that you can look out on tape, see
Speaker 1: what what what was done wrong and do it. And
Speaker 1: it seemed like that be that was the case with
Speaker 1: that game on on Sunday. Yeah, absolutely, you know that
Speaker 1: that was the thing that you know, when we got
Speaker 1: in the offense room, you know, coach O'sha kind of
Speaker 1: said to us, said, you know a lot of the
Speaker 1: stuff that um that went that went on in that game,
Speaker 1: it can be easily corrected. Um. You know, there's just
Speaker 1: that That's kind of the big thing in this league.
Speaker 1: It's it's all the it's all the minor things. It's
Speaker 1: it's the small details that make you know a huge difference. Um. So,
Speaker 1: especially on you know, the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, it really takes all eleven and U. So
Speaker 1: I think that that's something that you know, well, continue
Speaker 1: to focus on and uh and harp on each and
Speaker 1: every day to you know, just continue to move forward.
Speaker 1: You get better. Did you look at this football team
Speaker 1: and then you guys are a young football team and
Speaker 1: it got younger a week before a week before the
Speaker 1: season began. And so you look around and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys that are really still still,
Speaker 1: like we said earlier, kind of trying to find their
Speaker 1: way through the league. I really think until you get
Speaker 1: to your third, third, fourth, year when you're really getting
Speaker 1: your traction. Um, and so there's gonna be some growing
Speaker 1: pains with this football team. Yeah, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely something that you know, I mean, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know, whoever's in that
Speaker 1: locker room that that's that's the team that that we have,
Speaker 1: and you know, the guys that we're gonna go out
Speaker 1: with and you know, compete and go out and win with.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know, I think that I think it's
Speaker 1: awesome to kind of see, um, you know, the the
Speaker 1: level of the age of you know, in our locker
Speaker 1: room and kind of you know, grow and get better
Speaker 1: each and every week because at that level, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm still in it right now. I'm only
Speaker 1: in year two, but you know I kind of lived
Speaker 1: through it, you know last year, my first year, and
Speaker 1: you kind of get thrown into the fire and you
Speaker 1: start learning faster, and you know, you gotta start understanding
Speaker 1: things quicker. Um. So I think it's only gonna benefit
Speaker 1: as you know, I'm moving forward. You know, some people's
Speaker 1: think I'm crazy You're talking about this team, and I said, look,
Speaker 1: I like this, this is a young nucleus of this
Speaker 1: football team that that can grow together, and that's how
Speaker 1: you become a team. Just like your college, if you're
Speaker 1: with a team with guys for four years, you get
Speaker 1: that fourth year and you guys are you're cranking because
Speaker 1: you know, you're communication, you know all these things, and
Speaker 1: I think it's no different in this league. But it's
Speaker 1: it's so times it's painful and don't get any more
Speaker 1: painful than last week. But you put it behind you
Speaker 1: and you move forward, and this doesn't get any easier.
Speaker 1: You look around the corner and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know you got new England Patriots coming to town,
Speaker 1: and they get another big time receiver in Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: makes that challenge. He's more tougher than it it would
Speaker 1: have been before. But it's a National Football league and
Speaker 1: in every game, they're not not gonna run across. Show
Speaker 1: me an easy game in your schedule this year and
Speaker 1: we'll we'll stack it on there. But I don't think
Speaker 1: there is one. Yeah, absolutely, um, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: Like I said, that's that's kind of the great thing
Speaker 1: about this league is you know, we got another opportunity
Speaker 1: this week, and uh, you know, we got an extremely
Speaker 1: talented you know, well coached, tough, physical team coming in
Speaker 1: and you know we got to do our best to
Speaker 1: you know, kind of put last week behind us, Um,
Speaker 1: learn from it, and then you know, put it behind
Speaker 1: us and move forward because uh, you know, you can't
Speaker 1: let one turn into and let it snowball. Uh. So
Speaker 1: you know you just gotta continue to you know, focus
Speaker 1: on our on our role, our assignment and our job.
Speaker 1: Go out and go out on the field and use
Speaker 1: our fundamentals and technique and you know, execute the best
Speaker 1: of our ability. Like you're you're used you a lot
Speaker 1: of different player You're moving around a lot of during
Speaker 1: coming up coming, off of running routes, off of motion,
Speaker 1: all those different types of things. What are you doing
Speaker 1: differently than than what you did last year? Um? I
Speaker 1: think honestly, it's just kind of you know, kind of
Speaker 1: growing and developing and letting the game around me kind
Speaker 1: of slow down. Um. You know, at the at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, football's football, So I mean,
Speaker 1: the the calls are going to be the same, and
Speaker 1: you know, the plays can only change so much. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's up to you
Speaker 1: to go out and execute. So I think that you know,
Speaker 1: our coaches are doing a great job and you know,
Speaker 1: not only putting myself, but putting everybody in position to
Speaker 1: be successful. And then you know, when when your number
Speaker 1: is called, you know, you gotta go out there and
Speaker 1: you know, excut to the highest of your abilities. And
Speaker 1: what is it, Uh, what is it that you want
Speaker 1: to get better at? What do you think that that
Speaker 1: that for you to be where you want to be
Speaker 1: that you've got to figure out in this league? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, um, the main thing for me is just
Speaker 1: to be more of a complete player. Um, I think
Speaker 1: that that's kind of the obvious one right there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I know what I'm capable of to do
Speaker 1: in the past game, and um, you know, just continue
Speaker 1: to get more reps and get more comfortable in the
Speaker 1: run game and you know they're blocking and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, because you know, the more that I
Speaker 1: can be on the field and in those aspects of
Speaker 1: the game, I think it will benefit me. And you know,
Speaker 1: the receiving aspect as well. You take a look at
Speaker 1: the opponent coming up in New England Patriots, and you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about just the history of of high level
Speaker 1: success in the league, and they change players around but
Speaker 1: it seems like the results always become are always the
Speaker 1: same with that football team, and they challenge you because
Speaker 1: there they are so disciplined, smart, play their assignments, play
Speaker 1: their techniques and do everything. And it's almost like a
Speaker 1: plug and play with those guys you put them in.
Speaker 1: If they buy into the system, that they're gonna play
Speaker 1: pretty well for him. So it makes a game like this,
Speaker 1: uh you almost have to play a perfect game in
Speaker 1: order to get them down with a with a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes left where you got a chance to win
Speaker 1: the football game. Yeah, I mean, obviously New England has
Speaker 1: a you know, a very rich history and that in
Speaker 1: that organization. You know, they've had a lot of success,
Speaker 1: so you know, going up against team like that, it's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for you know, our team to continue to
Speaker 1: grow and develop. And uh, you know, I mean coming
Speaker 1: here with with coach Flores, you know, he kind of
Speaker 1: holds us all to a really high standard and he's
Speaker 1: kind of, uh you know, developed a culture here that
Speaker 1: you know, is um something that you know, we're excited
Speaker 1: about moving forward. So uh, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: going out there this Sunday, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: you you know, a great test and a great matchup.
Speaker 1: You you saw him a couple of times last year.
Speaker 1: What is it about them when you when you play
Speaker 1: them that that you notice about what makes them so successful? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's the little things and the details. Um,
Speaker 1: like I was talking about earlier, Um, you know, just
Speaker 1: the minor techniques and the minor you know, phases of
Speaker 1: the game that kind of add up to be the
Speaker 1: big pieces. So I think that those are the things
Speaker 1: that they do really well. Um. You know Coach Flows
Speaker 1: talks about all the time. You know that the stuff
Speaker 1: that kind of takes no talent um, So you know,
Speaker 1: doing all that kind of stuff too, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of put yourself in a position to be successful. I
Speaker 1: think that that's something that they do really well. So
Speaker 1: you've you've been down here in South Florida now a
Speaker 1: couple of years. How do you How do you like
Speaker 1: living down here? I love little hot during the summertime.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah definitely. I mean the heat's definitely an
Speaker 1: adjustment for you. But uh, I mean, but once like
Speaker 1: no November to sever hits. You know, everybody back up
Speaker 1: north they're dealing with snow and I'm dealing with seventy
Speaker 1: five degree weather. So I love it down here in
Speaker 1: South Florida. Has been great. And what do you what
Speaker 1: do you try to do when your time when you
Speaker 1: got time to relax. Uh, you know, honestly, you know,
Speaker 1: our days on Tuesdays are kind of like is the
Speaker 1: off day. You know, we got a little uh time
Speaker 1: to ourselves. So when I'm not in the building, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of taking that time to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, recover and uh, you know, just get just
Speaker 1: get back because it is a long season, long run.
Speaker 1: But you know, I do like to enjoy myself and
Speaker 1: kind of you know, get away from the game. So
Speaker 1: those two those days off for valuable, aren't they Definitely
Speaker 1: you almost count the hours on him and you wish
Speaker 1: it was that's the clock was slow down a little
Speaker 1: bit once on those days off. Yeah, once once once
Speaker 1: you get out of the building on Monday, it's that
Speaker 1: that's kind of when it starts. So you know, you
Speaker 1: definitely want to take advantage of the time that that
Speaker 1: that that you do have. UM, but you know, ultimately,
Speaker 1: it is a long season and it's it's a grind.
Speaker 1: But you know, something that we're all looking forward to
Speaker 1: you a beach guy, you're like you hanging down with
Speaker 1: a beach and all that that offers up down there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely do uh I do love the beach. And then honestly,
Speaker 1: at my building, there's a there's there's a pool. Always
Speaker 1: go to up there just kind of hang out and
Speaker 1: just kind of relax, and uh I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a great place to be
Speaker 1: around here. And uh I remember getting down the ocean.
Speaker 1: You have you got a chance to during the off
Speaker 1: season to get out to why. I would say the
Speaker 1: Bahamas have, but you know, God bless them what they've
Speaker 1: gone through. It's well, it's a tough thing to see.
Speaker 1: But I've been the Keys and done those types of things.
Speaker 1: I haven't really done too much exploring outside of you know,
Speaker 1: the actual you know South Florida of the you know
Speaker 1: the Miami and for lauderd and all that kind of stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, definitely something on the on the wish
Speaker 1: that's moving forward, all right. I appreciate you stopping buying man.
Speaker 1: Good luck, good luck this week, good luck for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season, stay healthy and and keep getting better. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Appreciate it, appreciate it all right. Well,
Speaker 1: Mike is one of those guys that you know, he's
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, trying to improve every every aspect
Speaker 1: of the game. I know he's got a little bit
Speaker 1: bigger out there. Uh, he's working on his blocking. But
Speaker 1: you know, John, I'm I'm still in the at least
Speaker 1: in my camp. I'm in the I really don't care
Speaker 1: if Mike blocks or not. I you know, to me,
Speaker 1: he's a guy. Let Durham Smith do the block and
Speaker 1: let let let O'Leary, you know, let let uh, let's
Speaker 1: let Cox. You know, there's a fullback come in his wife,
Speaker 1: bring in, bring in another tackle and and use him
Speaker 1: as a tight end. I want to see Mike where
Speaker 1: he's moving, moving at the line of scrimmage, where you
Speaker 1: can get off the line of scrimmage, get down the
Speaker 1: field and and and challenge down the seams, Challenge the
Speaker 1: safety is out there, challenge linebackers to cover him, and
Speaker 1: make him be a guy that teams have to respect
Speaker 1: each and every down when when he's on the football field,
Speaker 1: he's he's a long way from that, but we're certainly
Speaker 1: seeing the improvement in Mike. A second well, he might
Speaker 1: be a long way from that, but he's a long
Speaker 1: way from where he was when he's when we saw
Speaker 1: him at this period last year, because you know, last year,
Speaker 1: we saw a guy that you know, looked like he
Speaker 1: was slow getting out of breaks. It looked like he
Speaker 1: wasn't strong enough to play in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: looked like he didn't have that quick twitch you were
Speaker 1: looking for, and all those things aren't a finished product,
Speaker 1: but they're a hell of a lot better than where
Speaker 1: they started out last year. So you have to give
Speaker 1: him credit number one for working his tail off in
Speaker 1: the off season to prepare himself, and number two, taking
Speaker 1: and accepting the coaching and taking accepting the resource of
Speaker 1: being able to play in him the amount of games
Speaker 1: and played in last year, knowing where he was deficient
Speaker 1: and being able to work on the things he needed
Speaker 1: to be to be a better, better source, to be
Speaker 1: a better uh you know, target as a tight end,
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver, as wherever you want to play
Speaker 1: and put him in motion, get him in the flat,
Speaker 1: get him in the red zone activity. When you get
Speaker 1: down there, throw him up the ball and have confidence
Speaker 1: he's gonna be strong enough and smart enough to go
Speaker 1: up and catch the football. John I was asked in
Speaker 1: the post game after Sunday's game about the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. And you know, we've seen him do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things during the during the preseason. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I was asked the question, Hey, is this is
Speaker 1: it time maybe for them to maybe boiled down, boil
Speaker 1: that down a little bit, maybe maybe try to get
Speaker 1: go back to the basics. And and you know, I
Speaker 1: think there's some merit to that, maybe some merit to
Speaker 1: just saying, hey, let's let's go back to the basics.
Speaker 1: Let's get lined up, Let's know who our guy is
Speaker 1: in front of us, Let's get ourselves in position to cover,
Speaker 1: and let's just cover. Let's not get let's not get crazy,
Speaker 1: let's not go exotic. Let's play some good, basic sound football,
Speaker 1: and let's not let's not create too much confusion within
Speaker 1: our within our own huddle that that we that we
Speaker 1: leave leave crevices in the in the defense, whether it's
Speaker 1: in the passing game or in the running game. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do, excuse me, on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, but I don't see
Speaker 1: a problem with boiling things down. You know, as it said,
Speaker 1: old thing. You know, an offense at the offense that
Speaker 1: does so many things that they can't do anything, give
Speaker 1: me that that team that says we do. Let's take
Speaker 1: the ten things that we do. Let's take the ten
Speaker 1: plays that we run best, and we're gonna run them.
Speaker 1: We run them out of different positions or different formations,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna run these ten plays and we're gonna
Speaker 1: run them every time and over and over and over
Speaker 1: again because we know we can get these these done
Speaker 1: and these are bread and butter. You know, you may
Speaker 1: have to. You may end up doing that both on
Speaker 1: offense and on defense, where you just pick the best
Speaker 1: things you can do and do them, and then as
Speaker 1: a season goes on, add to it, add to it,
Speaker 1: add to it until you get to where you want
Speaker 1: to be. To your point on defense, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: opposed to having I don't know, fifty percent of the time,
Speaker 1: let X play man to man on one guy and
Speaker 1: that's your guy and keep them on a basket and
Speaker 1: just like they used to do with Sam Madison, put
Speaker 1: him out there. He that's his g When you got
Speaker 1: you know the problem is when you when you're facing
Speaker 1: teams like the New England Patriots, I'm not so sure
Speaker 1: you can pick a guy because there's so many and
Speaker 1: you put them on Antonio Brown, you got Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: on the other side exactly, and you put them on Josh,
Speaker 1: you got d Antonio Brown, and then you got Edelman
Speaker 1: on coming boat. So I'm not opposed to having a
Speaker 1: little bit of fla fiver of that because now at
Speaker 1: least you're gonna play zone, You're gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit more protected in the back end, so the ball
Speaker 1: is not going over your head as much, and make
Speaker 1: them go seventy eight five yards. You know, do you
Speaker 1: have a chance to score instead of those three plays
Speaker 1: eighty yards, sixty yard touchdown, forty five yard touchdown. And
Speaker 1: it's deflating, it's demoralizing to a defense. And you noticed
Speaker 1: when they finally did go at exit against Brownie almost
Speaker 1: came up with the interception on Sunday. So I'm not
Speaker 1: opposed to maybe having a little bit of flavor of
Speaker 1: that type of defense or that style of defense for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. Now, on the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: you've got to find a way to get your running
Speaker 1: game going or at least extension of your running game,
Speaker 1: and that's throwing it to Kenyan Drake because this guy
Speaker 1: is explosive. We saw him in the open field. He
Speaker 1: makes guys miss. I just think that, you know, Blage
Speaker 1: did what he could for the room that he had.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was running hard. But there's gotta be
Speaker 1: a way to get Kenyan involved, to make it easier
Speaker 1: for Ryan Fitzpatrick, to make it easier for the guys
Speaker 1: on the perimeter to get a little bit more rhythm going.
Speaker 1: And I think that's your guy, that's your most explosive player.
Speaker 1: I think you have on offense in terms of either
Speaker 1: handing it to him or sending guys in routes and
Speaker 1: being able to check it down to him to make
Speaker 1: it easier for Fitzpatrick. And and and they gotta get that.
Speaker 1: That offensive line has to got to create something. They've
Speaker 1: got to create some kind of uh separation in there.
Speaker 1: They've got to get turned on their blocks and get
Speaker 1: and get between that. You know, the the have some
Speaker 1: defense and then you know, and then the ball of
Speaker 1: the lane where you want the ball carry to go
Speaker 1: do something like that. But uh yeah, it's look, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge for these guys again, it's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be a challenge for this coaching
Speaker 1: staff a to get these guys back to back to
Speaker 1: feeling good about themselves being so when they line up
Speaker 1: on Sunday, it's let's go. We're ready to go kick
Speaker 1: some mass out here and play a good football game.
Speaker 1: But they've also get them gotta, they've gotta they've got
Speaker 1: a short period of time to solve resolve all the mistakes.
Speaker 1: Now we go back what we said earlier, a lot
Speaker 1: of these a lot of the things that we're a
Speaker 1: lot of the breakdowns or fixable breakdowns, just guys being
Speaker 1: in the wrong place, not not playing their technique, freelancing
Speaker 1: a little bit, whatever, whatever you want to say. You
Speaker 1: know you can do a lot of that, but there
Speaker 1: was so much of it. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: you can get completely. But you got to get that done.
Speaker 1: But then, you know, it's there's a big, big challenge
Speaker 1: for these this staff to to get this team with
Speaker 1: a mindset going into the game that that's behind us,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get better. And even if they don't come
Speaker 1: away on the winning end of this thing, the fact
Speaker 1: that they've played better and they felt that they're you
Speaker 1: know there, that they are becoming a team that's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to challenge each and every week. Is is
Speaker 1: that's to me, is the job of this staff getting
Speaker 1: them mentally to that point and physically to that point.
Speaker 1: I watched that game on Sunday as a fan, and
Speaker 1: when you got into hard Rock Stadium, there was a
Speaker 1: good energy in the building. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: good energy by by the Miami Dolphin fans, and you
Speaker 1: felt like you were excited. You were you were sitting
Speaker 1: up with your backup right. You wanted to see what
Speaker 1: this team was gonna look like. You're excited to see
Speaker 1: because it's known, it's unknown what type of team you're
Speaker 1: going to have. Now this is a second opportunity, and
Speaker 1: there's a big gap from where they left off after
Speaker 1: sixty minutes of football to to their next opportunity, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of room for improvement. So for me,
Speaker 1: as as a fan of football, as a fan of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, I'm looking for that that that's the
Speaker 1: first thing I'm looking for. I want to see more effort,
Speaker 1: I want to see more execution, but I definitely want
Speaker 1: to see that gap close from where they left off
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens. There's so much room for improvement.
Speaker 1: I want to see where they start. How hard are
Speaker 1: they going to be able to you know, attention to detail,
Speaker 1: all all the little things that you kind of take
Speaker 1: for granted. But now you're kind of putting a magnifying
Speaker 1: glass on because now you have a barometer of where
Speaker 1: they left off and it wasn't pretty. So now you've
Speaker 1: got room for improvement. So as a fan, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm looking to see. I'm looking to see that defense,
Speaker 1: you know, get a couple three and ounce and and
Speaker 1: flip the field a little bit, make it easier for
Speaker 1: the offense. I'm looking for the offense to take a
Speaker 1: drive sixty seven yards, get it into the end zone,
Speaker 1: and be competitive. Not in the third quarter when maybe
Speaker 1: it might not matter, or the fourth quarter, but right
Speaker 1: from the first quarter. I want to see this team
Speaker 1: start a little a lot faster than it did against
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ratings. And it's uh, look, it can be done.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take work this week. And you know, you
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised at how much you can change a
Speaker 1: football team or their attitude in a week's time. And
Speaker 1: and this look, this team is down in the dumps.
Speaker 1: I mean on Monday Sunday after the game, I mean
Speaker 1: just looking at the looking at the faces of these guys,
Speaker 1: and and then Monday seeing them on Monday after they've
Speaker 1: gone and watched the tapes and uh yeah, they they were.
Speaker 1: They're down in the dumps. And so they've gotta gotta
Speaker 1: pull themselves up by the bootstring bootstraps and and get
Speaker 1: themselves going. If not, it's gonna be like you said,
Speaker 1: you're you know, if you're not ready to play, you've
Speaker 1: already lost your second game. Uh you know, before you
Speaker 1: even before you exactly. So that those are the things
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of things to look for
Speaker 1: where when you're looking for improvement for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: this year. But there you can control mental mistakes, you
Speaker 1: can control the way you play. You can control the
Speaker 1: effort that you give. And I'm not saying there wasn't
Speaker 1: a lot of effort given on Sunday, but it didn't
Speaker 1: match up with the execution. Sometimes you can go play
Speaker 1: as hard as you want. If you're not doing the
Speaker 1: right thing, it's really not gonna matter. So I want
Speaker 1: to see those things kind of get closer together in
Speaker 1: terms of given the effort, but the execution and the
Speaker 1: attention to detail on your assignment base on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you're starting points are better. On the defense, I want
Speaker 1: to be able to see guys not running Scott free
Speaker 1: in the secondary. I want to see some penetration or
Speaker 1: some pressure on Tom Brady on Sunday. I don't care
Speaker 1: where it comes from, but you've got to change what
Speaker 1: you did in week one because what you did in
Speaker 1: week one wasn't close to where this coaching staff needs
Speaker 1: this team to be. Yeah, and the defensive wise, I
Speaker 1: mean coach talked about it is this Monday press conference.
Speaker 1: I think they got to tackle better, and they've got
Speaker 1: to tackle better. They've got to be able to step
Speaker 1: up and and fill those gaps in the running game,
Speaker 1: and they can't. They just can't. I can't have big
Speaker 1: gashing runs effect them, especially against this team, because once
Speaker 1: you once you, once they get a run or two
Speaker 1: often and play action becomes a viable option for him,
Speaker 1: then then you're really you're you're really in that in
Speaker 1: that sling where where you know they've got you coming
Speaker 1: and going and and and you don't know what to
Speaker 1: do and you're out of position and all those types
Speaker 1: of things. So from a defensive standpoint, certainly that and offensively,
Speaker 1: like you said, you know, John, the two the two
Speaker 1: areas of this football team that probably were the most
Speaker 1: disturbing was the offensive line, the defensive and and you know,
Speaker 1: the lack of pressure really the lack of of much
Speaker 1: stopping of the running game, you know, not making it
Speaker 1: tough for them to you know, there's forty nine yards
Speaker 1: in the first carry the game, a number of other
Speaker 1: long long runs and you know, when you forget long
Speaker 1: runs four yards, five yards, six yards, I think that
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens had one negative play in the
Speaker 1: football game, and that was kind of a gimme yeah
Speaker 1: with with Jackson being caught as he was moving around,
Speaker 1: no doubt. So there's, uh, there's a lot of work
Speaker 1: to be done. There's a short time to get there.
Speaker 1: But but the show is not gonna stop for him.
Speaker 1: You're gonna gotta jump in there and get on it
Speaker 1: and make it happen. The good thing. I mean, even
Speaker 1: though you get beat by the score, you get beat
Speaker 1: by it counts as one loss. And there's fifteen other
Speaker 1: teams right now trying to figure out how we can
Speaker 1: get back to one and one, and the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: are one of them. They just happen to be playing
Speaker 1: the World Champs, which makes the mountain a little bit
Speaker 1: tougher to climb, you know. John. The other thing is
Speaker 1: is you know this whole Antonio Brown situation. Uh, normally
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bring it up, but but it's but it
Speaker 1: affects us now, you know, as you go up to
Speaker 1: play the New England Patriots with with him on the roster, now,
Speaker 1: you know, a few days before Sunday and a lot
Speaker 1: of as we can saw for the weekends, a lot
Speaker 1: of things can happen when Antony Brown when you see him,
Speaker 1: when you see him, you see him when he lines up,
Speaker 1: he lines up, But for all intents and purpose, it
Speaker 1: looks like it looks like he's gonna be there. And John,
Speaker 1: to me, it's just uh, you know, to me, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a it's a it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a scar in the National Football League. So it's
Speaker 1: a bit of a scar in the Oakland Raiders. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a scar on the way young kids,
Speaker 1: high school kids, um, are allowed to watch somebody has
Speaker 1: been well chronicled. Allowed to watch somebody manipulated that and
Speaker 1: be that much of a of a me me, me
Speaker 1: me kind of a guy who, by the way, he
Speaker 1: is getting paid a lot of money to show up
Speaker 1: and over the course of his time in Oakland, showed
Speaker 1: up when he wanted to show up, and he'd show
Speaker 1: up and not practice and and this and that and
Speaker 1: become a distraction for the entire football team. Uh only
Speaker 1: to get rewarded with a new contract somewhere over somewhere else.
Speaker 1: To me, it's um, you know it, just it disgusts me,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, when you think about the
Speaker 1: way this this all went about. In the beginning, when
Speaker 1: the Steelers, you know it, finally had enough. The only team,
Speaker 1: the only team maybe really wanted to go to, was
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. He wanted to go to a
Speaker 1: chance to win a championship, a chance to be with
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the National Football League. Oakland.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that so Oakland? You know they are, they work
Speaker 1: out a deal, they are from tons of money. How
Speaker 1: does you know? Because he was never he was rarely
Speaker 1: there were really there for for anything going on for
Speaker 1: for me, maybe It's a crazy thought, but I just
Speaker 1: think that this guy had it in his mind the
Speaker 1: whole time where he wanted New England's where he wanted
Speaker 1: to be. I don't think he planned to hurt himself
Speaker 1: with his feet and however that happened. But just staying
Speaker 1: away from the Raiders, staying away from training camp to
Speaker 1: kind of set the stage that I'm I want out,
Speaker 1: I want out and to be rewarded at the end
Speaker 1: for that, You're you're right, just doesn't sit well with anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't think any logical any anybody that's ever played
Speaker 1: a team sport. It can't sit well. And I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure. I mean, the Patriots might be happy, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's good. At some point it's gonna turn.
Speaker 1: You know, at some point the worst type of virus
Speaker 1: is now embedded in one of the best organizations, uh
Speaker 1: in terms of winning, in terms of the way the
Speaker 1: culture and the way they want to do things. And
Speaker 1: you can only hope for the other thirty one teams
Speaker 1: or at least the guys in the a f C.
Speaker 1: That's something. You know, there's not a happy ending to
Speaker 1: this in terms of being success. I remember when they
Speaker 1: got when they got to the kid from the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle from Albert Haynesworth, you know, and Albert was a guy,
Speaker 1: but trouble guy, guy that you know, cause problems where
Speaker 1: he was from Washington, went from Washington and then goes
Speaker 1: to uh goes to New England. And Bill Belichick the
Speaker 1: same thing, say, look, we're gonna give you an opportunity,
Speaker 1: but you don't go by our rules. And I think
Speaker 1: he was out in three weeks. Well I think he
Speaker 1: came in out of shape and just you know, and
Speaker 1: so not get out. You're not you're not helping, at
Speaker 1: least from that standpoint, I think he's going somewhere where
Speaker 1: if he doesn't tow the line, and I mean to
Speaker 1: the to the max, then then he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: there for very long. And to your point about setting
Speaker 1: an example, you're exactly right. From kids that are playing
Speaker 1: Optimist League football in South Florida. You know, guys you
Speaker 1: know from here, but high school football. You know, I
Speaker 1: do what I want, you know, and I'm gonna rewarded
Speaker 1: if I play well, I can do what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get my money. I'm gonna be able to do what
Speaker 1: I want. I just I just think it's sets a
Speaker 1: just a horrible precedent in terms of now we're praising
Speaker 1: a guy that did it all the wrong way and
Speaker 1: ends up looking, you know, ends up being rewarded in
Speaker 1: the end, smelling like a role. It just doesn't. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't sit well. And it's it's disgusting to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. Yeah, I do, Well, we'll see. You know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, you know, I mean you know the
Speaker 1: policy that uh that the flow house here, it's you know,
Speaker 1: if you're not five minutes earlier, you're late. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're on time, you're five minutes you're you're you're
Speaker 1: here five minutes earlier on time. If you're on time,
Speaker 1: you're five minutes late. And if you're late, you're you're,
Speaker 1: you're out, you're forgotten. That's gonna be a tough that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough Uh, that's gonna be a tough
Speaker 1: rule for for him to abide by. So well, will see.
Speaker 1: I think this story is far from over. But I
Speaker 1: know this guy's goddamn good football player. And he can
Speaker 1: he's a great route runner, catches everything and uh and
Speaker 1: and boy, you hate seeing Tom Brady. You have another
Speaker 1: threat like that, a guy that can can go the
Speaker 1: distance at any point, and then rich get Richard. It
Speaker 1: seems like in terms of talent, that's for sure. We're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap this thing up. John uh Dolphins in New
Speaker 1: England Patriots, hard Rock Stadium, Sunday, another one o'clock game.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's gonna be hot, and hopefully that that
Speaker 1: helps a little bit. The Dolphins have had some success
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, especially down here when they come and
Speaker 1: play and got him early in the season, So you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully some of that luck will rub off and and
Speaker 1: they'll get something going. And but I do I do
Speaker 1: expect that we said before, I do expect this team
Speaker 1: to be much more representative than than what we saw
Speaker 1: on opening Day against the Baltimore Ravens. So you sure hope,
Speaker 1: So you sure hope that the effort that they put
Speaker 1: in during the week, the corrections that they make, have
Speaker 1: a result some sort of positive outcome, some you know,
Speaker 1: you close the gap from where you left off too
Speaker 1: closer to where you want to be, if not there
Speaker 1: in week too, if you listen to this podcast, we
Speaker 1: hope to see at the stadium on Sunday, It's NFL
Speaker 1: football Dolphin football. And if you're a Dolphin fan, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, come back, come by support this football team.
Speaker 1: And because no matter what, they're out there busting their bus,
Speaker 1: trying to find to put the best they can on
Speaker 1: the field, and uh and and and uh, it'd be
Speaker 1: nice to have everyone stand behind them when they walk
Speaker 1: into their own stadium. So but that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for John Kijimmy, I'm Kimbo Camper. That's gonna for the audible.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you next week, hopefully we're talking about it.
Speaker 1: Big win over to dranted New Eddan, New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: When we come back to you next week, we'll see
Speaker 1: you there.