Speaker 1: Factors are textown What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, another edition of Fins Flashback, as
Speaker 1: we are going back to opening day and a thrilling
Speaker 1: Dolphins thirty nine to thirty five victory. Dan Marino, fresh
Speaker 1: off the Achilles injury, throws for five touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: pouring rain, three of which went to my guest today,
Speaker 1: Irving Fryar. We'll talk to him about Marino playing in
Speaker 1: the mud against his former team and all those long
Speaker 1: scoring plays. On this Friday, May the fifteenth edition of
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, and we are going back in
Speaker 1: time to n four on today's edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, and as the broadcast of that particular game says,
Speaker 1: this was the first game of Marino's career where he
Speaker 1: was coming off a prolonged absence in his career because
Speaker 1: of that Achilles injury. It was the first time he
Speaker 1: really missed significant time in his entire career, and the
Speaker 1: nineties were just a different time when it came to sports.
Speaker 1: This wasn't a time where a c L injuries were
Speaker 1: essentially a six to eight month prognosis. This wasn't a
Speaker 1: time where quarterbacks played well into their forties, and it
Speaker 1: certainly wasn't a time where players coming off a serious
Speaker 1: injury on the wrong side of thirty just returned to form.
Speaker 1: But Marino did, and it started in that game. You
Speaker 1: watch that game and he is laboring throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's actually kind of painful to watch. He's got that
Speaker 1: clunky brace on every step comes with a significant hunch
Speaker 1: favoring one side of his gait. They played an interview
Speaker 1: on the telecast with Marino from training camp where he said,
Speaker 1: at this point he's just tired of talking about the injury.
Speaker 1: And in the midst of the Michael Jordan's documentary and
Speaker 1: that mentality that I'm just gonna go win games no
Speaker 1: matter what it takes. I mean, there were certainly elements
Speaker 1: of that there in Marino's game, and you kind of
Speaker 1: sense that from that interview. So it's season opening game,
Speaker 1: the Patriots and Bill Parcels and second year quarterback Drew
Speaker 1: bledsoe Go Coogs are coming to town. This was also
Speaker 1: just after the Marlins moved in to what we now
Speaker 1: know as hard Rock Stadium Joe Robbie Stadium at the time,
Speaker 1: and the rain had been pretty steady for about two hours,
Speaker 1: maybe ninety minutes before kickoffs. So you've got this whole
Speaker 1: mess of a football slash baseball conversion field. When the
Speaker 1: Dolphins lined up for point after tries after touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the infield dirt and there were plenty of those, they
Speaker 1: snapped it from the left hash and the holder even
Speaker 1: moved over just enough to be able to place the
Speaker 1: ball on the grass for Pete so Yanovitch to kick from.
Speaker 1: When they pay into the sun eideline shots, it looks
Speaker 1: like they're on a beach. The sideline just has excess
Speaker 1: dirt and mounds of mud. And I'm not talking that
Speaker 1: nice hard sand that is hardened by the tide of
Speaker 1: the ocean. We're talking back of the beach sand where
Speaker 1: you can build up some nice Johnny Drama calf muscles.
Speaker 1: Within just one workout session, the Dolphins come out of
Speaker 1: the gates a little bit slow in the game, and
Speaker 1: even the broadcast booth mentions that the previous two preseason
Speaker 1: games were not the Dolphins sharpest, and I think that
Speaker 1: showed early on. Marino was a little bit off. Some
Speaker 1: passes were dropped, but things eventually got turned around and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins rip off a thirty nine thirty five victory.
Speaker 1: There were three lead changes in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: they scored four touchdowns in the second half, and three
Speaker 1: of those touchdowns went to wide receiver Irving Fryar, who
Speaker 1: joins me now on the Drivetime podcast and joining me
Speaker 1: now on the Drivetime Podcast is Dolphins wide receiver from
Speaker 1: through He went to two Pro Bowls in those three years,
Speaker 1: including four season. It started off with a victory and
Speaker 1: the opener he is Irving Friar. Irving, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining me today. Good to see you, good to be here.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how we have to do these kinds of
Speaker 1: things now online, podcast and zoom. It's it's uh different
Speaker 1: times now isn't. Hopefully someday in the future we can
Speaker 1: have you into the actual studio at the facility, but
Speaker 1: for now we have to make do with what we
Speaker 1: have and I want to start kind of in that
Speaker 1: area Irving, Because first thing, I always like to ask
Speaker 1: the alumni, if you will, what are you up to
Speaker 1: these days? And obviously right now it's a little bit different,
Speaker 1: But let's say, pre COVID, what have you been up
Speaker 1: to in your post post playing career. I was going
Speaker 1: to say, I'm staying stay, staying home. That's going to business.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing right now. But prior to COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen UM, I am the chief operations coordinator at the
Speaker 1: Youth Challenge Academy. I don't know if you know what
Speaker 1: that is all about. There's about thirty six of them
Speaker 1: around the country. It's a quasi military UH setting where
Speaker 1: we bring in UH somewhere between anywhere between eighty five
Speaker 1: to a hundred UH youth there ages sixteen, eighteen, male
Speaker 1: and female. They're they're they're not they're disconnected you, they're
Speaker 1: not troubled youth. They come from obviously dysfunctional backgrounds, difficult backgrounds,
Speaker 1: and we house them in a military base. UH. They
Speaker 1: put on they have uniforms UH and they're in danger
Speaker 1: of not graduating from high school. So what we do
Speaker 1: in a five and a half month period of time
Speaker 1: twenty two weeks. We uh we educate them the basic skills,
Speaker 1: you know, the English, the math, science, the history, all
Speaker 1: of that. And at the end of the five and
Speaker 1: a half months they take their g e D test
Speaker 1: pastor g e D tests. They don't get a g D.
Speaker 1: They actually get a New Jersey a State of New
Speaker 1: Jersey UH high school diploma, and then we engage them
Speaker 1: with uh other entities to keep them moving in the
Speaker 1: right direction. So I am the chief operations with NATOR
Speaker 1: for that facility and UH proud, proud of it because
Speaker 1: we do a lot of great work there. You challenge, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's certainly something to be proud of. And
Speaker 1: as far as a post playing career, one of the
Speaker 1: more unique answers I've heard so far. So congrats to
Speaker 1: you and all that success. That sounds really cool and
Speaker 1: very admirable. Definitely, and h kind of kind of hard
Speaker 1: to transition out of that into football, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try my hardest here and and and ask you. You know,
Speaker 1: we we were talking about you and I were talking
Speaker 1: about how we watched the season opener Dolphins and Patriots,
Speaker 1: one of the classic games and team history, and the
Speaker 1: first thing I wanted to ask you on here, Irving,
Speaker 1: was how important was it? I know it was your
Speaker 1: second year in Miami, but how important was it for
Speaker 1: you to have a big game against your former team?
Speaker 1: Little important? What do you mean? It meant the world?
Speaker 1: I mean, I U. I had been traded, asked to
Speaker 1: be traded to Miami and that and that's just there's
Speaker 1: a story behind that. I had been trying to get
Speaker 1: out of New England for years and it just so happened.
Speaker 1: Every time we will played Miami. We played Miami twice
Speaker 1: a year, probably going back six years before I actually
Speaker 1: came to Miami. Every time we played Miami, I would
Speaker 1: go up to coach Shula after the game and shake
Speaker 1: his hand and say, Coach, you gotta get me out
Speaker 1: of here. You gotta get me out of here. You
Speaker 1: gotta get me out of here. And he would laugh,
Speaker 1: he would laugh. And finally, when we asked to be traded,
Speaker 1: we called Miami and they pulled the trigger. So sorry,
Speaker 1: that's all that's my working. I asked to be traded
Speaker 1: and they traded me. So yeah, I wanted to play
Speaker 1: well for sure. Well, I gotta ask you, I gotta
Speaker 1: kind of pill the onion back. Can you give us
Speaker 1: some more on those conversations with Shula and the reception
Speaker 1: of the of that request. Well, I mean it was
Speaker 1: basically just that it wasn't It wasn't a whole lot
Speaker 1: of back and forth. It was, you know, after the
Speaker 1: game of guys come up and they shaved one another hand.
Speaker 1: It's not a whole lot of conversation. But I would
Speaker 1: always make it a point to make sure I found
Speaker 1: Coach Shula, go up to him and shake his hand,
Speaker 1: say a good game, and let him no listen, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get out of here. Can you can you
Speaker 1: help me out? And we all he didn't get it together.
Speaker 1: So it was just it was just a pleasure to
Speaker 1: be able to come down there. And you know, uh,
Speaker 1: he was a great man. We know he passed away
Speaker 1: just recently. Um our condoles just to his whole family,
Speaker 1: to his wife, but man, he was. He was the best.
Speaker 1: He was the goat. You know, forget Tom Brady, You're
Speaker 1: you're preaching to the choir here, sir. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's what we talked about all last week on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and so many great comments and just notions and stories
Speaker 1: about Coach Shula over the last week here on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot Com, drive Time podcast and everywhere you can
Speaker 1: find all of our content. And you talk about a goat.
Speaker 1: Now you come down to South Florida and link up
Speaker 1: with another goat at the quarterback position. You said, forget
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I agree Marino is in fact the goat.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you this question. He got
Speaker 1: injured your first year here, So what was your thoughts
Speaker 1: when you finally get to Miami. You get to play
Speaker 1: with this legendary Hall of Fame quarterback and a few
Speaker 1: games into the season he's out. I must I thought
Speaker 1: it was me. I said, I must be like slip
Speaker 1: where anybody thinking go wrong it will. Yeah. When I
Speaker 1: got there, he had never been hurt before, he never
Speaker 1: missed a game before, and I come into town and
Speaker 1: he busts his achilles. What does that? I mean? I
Speaker 1: mean that's a that's an injury where a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't come back. So it didn't look good, it
Speaker 1: didn't sound good, it didn't feel good. So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was I was very uh not disappointed. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't get hurt on purpose, but I just I
Speaker 1: didn't think things were gonna go You know, when that happened.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were gonna go as well as
Speaker 1: they did. He was walking around that day five touchdown performance,
Speaker 1: so obviously it didn't affect him all that much. But
Speaker 1: he had a really pronounced limp. Is that something that
Speaker 1: he was doing throughout the course of training camp in
Speaker 1: the preseason? While he did that for the rest of
Speaker 1: my time there. I think even now when you see
Speaker 1: him walk, he still has a little bit of a
Speaker 1: hitch in his gudea. So, um, I think that just
Speaker 1: never went away. Um. I don't know that it's painful
Speaker 1: for him. I just think maybe that there's just a
Speaker 1: space there or whatever causes him to have that definite limp.
Speaker 1: But he he carried that limp, you know, from the
Speaker 1: time he came back until the time I left Miami,
Speaker 1: and even now I think I saw him a few
Speaker 1: months ago, doubt actually his last year down in Miami.
Speaker 1: I think he still doesn't limp from that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: he definitely carried for the rest of his career. But
Speaker 1: he did have a long career after that too. And
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know when did you guys know, Like,
Speaker 1: obviously you go through practice in the entire entire offseason program,
Speaker 1: you get the preseason, you finally get out there for
Speaker 1: opening day. When did you know, like, okay, Dan's Dan again? Um,
Speaker 1: when he came back. You know, when he came back,
Speaker 1: we knew, or at least I knew that he would
Speaker 1: not come back. Uh, and he would not play if
Speaker 1: he wasn't right. Um, though he did have the limp.
Speaker 1: Dann wasn't a great mover anyway. He's not a fast guy,
Speaker 1: but he's he's a lucid. I can remember times Dan
Speaker 1: saying to me, watching me make this guy missing the pocket,
Speaker 1: watching and it's just a step or moving the shoulders.
Speaker 1: But he was very, very creative when he came to that.
Speaker 1: He was very elusive when it came to just making
Speaker 1: the right step in the right direction, knowing where guys
Speaker 1: were around him, knowing where the soft spot in the
Speaker 1: pocket was, and being able to get there to buy
Speaker 1: a little more time to give us an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get over. That's a perfect transition. And my next question
Speaker 1: for you here, because he has a run for a
Speaker 1: first down right at the end of the first quarter
Speaker 1: there and he kind of dives into the mud and
Speaker 1: it looks kind you know, Dan doing his thing. How
Speaker 1: how fast was your heart beating on that play? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, now, you gotta understand when quarterbacks ran. When
Speaker 1: I played, that was a part of the game. It's
Speaker 1: it's people didn't worry about them getting hurt. You didn't
Speaker 1: worry about Dan getting hurt or hurting his befoot again,
Speaker 1: or hurting his achilles again. I'm sorry, um, that was
Speaker 1: a part of the game. That's what we did. Now,
Speaker 1: just like playing tat flag football, you don't want the
Speaker 1: quarterback to run and don't touch the quarterback. So no,
Speaker 1: I didn't. Uh, it didn't bother me at all. And
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, it was encouraging just to let
Speaker 1: me know that Dan was engaged, that Dan was you know,
Speaker 1: he's all out, he's all in. Let's get it going.
Speaker 1: It almost seemed like the moment when the offense kind
Speaker 1: of started to get things clicking a little bit, because
Speaker 1: you guys don't score any points in the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and then from there it was on. And so I
Speaker 1: was curious to ask you because it was a little
Speaker 1: bit sloppy at first, and the weather could have had
Speaker 1: something to do with that first game of the season,
Speaker 1: first game back for him. There was a couple of
Speaker 1: drop passes, some off target throws, and he he looked
Speaker 1: like he was getting frustrated. And so that makes me curious, irving,
Speaker 1: what's it like to be on the other end of
Speaker 1: a Dan Marino ash chewing. I never did get a
Speaker 1: Dan Marino, Uh, asked Joy, Yes, you would call it.
Speaker 1: I've seen him try. I think that changed a little
Speaker 1: bit when we got there, myself and mark Ingram and
Speaker 1: Keith Jackson and Keith Buyers. Um. I think Dan knew
Speaker 1: that we were a little bit different than the guys
Speaker 1: that he had been dealing with prior to us coming there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Dan, we'll get upset. And and that just
Speaker 1: meant he really was into what he was, you know,
Speaker 1: he he cared about what we were doing. He wanted
Speaker 1: to win. He's a competitive We all get upset, we
Speaker 1: all get mad. Nobody makes mistakes on purpose, at least
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Um, but that really never happened
Speaker 1: while I was there. Um, it may have happened with
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that may have not been starters,
Speaker 1: like in practice, doing something stupid, running into a starter
Speaker 1: and maybe hurting a start. I remember one day I
Speaker 1: got poked in the eye by one of the dvs
Speaker 1: who weren't uh wenna starter and everybody was upset with
Speaker 1: a guy because I had to miss practice and and
Speaker 1: you know I was. I couldn't see for a little while. So, um,
Speaker 1: but I never I never was on the other end
Speaker 1: of that. Um. I don't think it would have turned
Speaker 1: out too well if it If it did never happen, Uh,
Speaker 1: it would have turned out too well for Dan. So
Speaker 1: is that something you would tell him today? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he and he knows he he knew me. I wasn't
Speaker 1: you know? I was a kind of receiver. Yes, I
Speaker 1: did catch balls, I could run, but I was I
Speaker 1: just wanted to go out there and knock somebody's head off.
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to do. Every game. I would
Speaker 1: tell receivers, when you kissed the ball, run my way,
Speaker 1: and whoever chasing you is not gonna catch you because
Speaker 1: I'm taking them off your shoulder. Um. That's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. That's that's how I prepared myself for
Speaker 1: the game to be physical. Hans Ward is not the
Speaker 1: first receiver. He's not the one that invented the physical receiver.
Speaker 1: That was That was me. That was me. Uh. And
Speaker 1: I think if you ask guys that I played with
Speaker 1: or played against, they'll tell you the same thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I love it, and that's part of a sixteen year
Speaker 1: career for you. There earning which I mean, you missed
Speaker 1: one seventeen. Don't start me. I wouldn't dare my apologize.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think Dan was seventeen two. So there, you
Speaker 1: got a good company there. One more Dan question for you,
Speaker 1: then we'll get to your game. Here. He threw his
Speaker 1: three hundred touchdown pass of his career in that game.
Speaker 1: You obviously were part of a lot of special moments
Speaker 1: in your career as well. Where does that rank for
Speaker 1: you in terms of all time like teammate accomplishments that
Speaker 1: you were very happy to be a part of. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't catch three hundred. I called three O one
Speaker 1: three or two um three or three UM. I mean
Speaker 1: it was just a part of history. I'm a part
Speaker 1: of history. I'm I'm I am honored uh that you
Speaker 1: have me on your show. Uh. Reflecting back on a
Speaker 1: game that I played in that's considered a classic, I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was a classic or considered a classic game.
Speaker 1: I was watching TV the other night and my cousin
Speaker 1: text me and he said, the class of the game.
Speaker 1: It's on Miami Patriots, first game of the season, whatever
Speaker 1: it was, and so I turned it on and watched
Speaker 1: it myself. I didn't know it was a classic. So
Speaker 1: it's just an honor to be connected with with moments
Speaker 1: like that, with people like that Damn Reno, coach Shula,
Speaker 1: people that played with over the years. Uh, it's just
Speaker 1: it's just great to be able to say I know
Speaker 1: those people and they know me. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: a fun story that you'll appreciate here. I saw. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Washington State and a Dolphins fan my
Speaker 1: entire life. But I used to get VHS copies mailed
Speaker 1: to me from a friend who had all the Dolphins
Speaker 1: games on VHS, and he sent me that back in
Speaker 1: like two thousand and five, and I popped it on
Speaker 1: and watched that thing religiously. I loved that game because
Speaker 1: you guys were so explosive and so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: So it definitely is a classic. Irving, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: you are very well aware of that at this point.
Speaker 1: And part of the reason for that was because all
Speaker 1: those touchdown passes. The touchdown pass was the second of
Speaker 1: the day for Dan. Then you go four or three
Speaker 1: more after that, all of them to you, and the
Speaker 1: first one an absolute bomb for fifty four yards, almost
Speaker 1: hit you right and stride. And that was the second
Speaker 1: time you got behind the defense. What was it about
Speaker 1: the coverage that allows you to keep getting behind them
Speaker 1: like that? Well, I just I knew those guys. I
Speaker 1: played with those guys. I knew I could outrun all
Speaker 1: of them. I didn't have to give any moves. I
Speaker 1: didn't have to do a whole lot. I just knew
Speaker 1: once I got an opportunity to be one on one
Speaker 1: with any of them. And damned that too, because I
Speaker 1: told him that I could outrun them. All you have
Speaker 1: to do is throw the ball up and I could
Speaker 1: get get to the ball before they did. So, Uh,
Speaker 1: they knew it. Again, Like you said, early in the game,
Speaker 1: we were just, I guess we were a little bit sloppy,
Speaker 1: trying to get it together. It was the first game
Speaker 1: of the season. Um, there was an unexpected, uh glitch
Speaker 1: with the field. You know, the field had been rained on,
Speaker 1: it wasn't covered, so it was a quagmire in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. So that was something that we
Speaker 1: didn't anticipate. Something that we didn't expect, and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: even that may have thrown us off a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we we started out a little bumpy, but
Speaker 1: then thanks certainly got cranking. The next one was a
Speaker 1: flee flicker where you go all the way across the
Speaker 1: film like a deep over route and Maurice Hearst gets
Speaker 1: caught peeking in the backfield the big no no there,
Speaker 1: And I was curious, was that something you guys saw
Speaker 1: on film, like, hey, we can go after him right here.
Speaker 1: Wasn't an in game adjustment or how did that call
Speaker 1: come to fruition? Well, that was something we saw on
Speaker 1: field film, just like we saw We played them another
Speaker 1: time up in New England and they were running a
Speaker 1: corner blitz and people were adjusting to the corner blitz
Speaker 1: by running a hitch with the receiver. So we decided
Speaker 1: we're going to run a hitch and go because the
Speaker 1: safety had to come down to cover the corner where
Speaker 1: the corner was leaving to come to the corner of
Speaker 1: the receiver. I'm sorry, So we do a hitch and
Speaker 1: he comes flying down, hits and go and I scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown on that in New England. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: It was also the fact that I was running in
Speaker 1: and and blocking the safety on most of the runs.
Speaker 1: So I would leave where the corner was and take
Speaker 1: an inside release and run at the safety like I
Speaker 1: was going to block him with the With the running
Speaker 1: back receiving the ball from the quarterback in the backfield,
Speaker 1: the safety starts coming down, he's trying to beat me,
Speaker 1: trying to get to the runner. I'll just take off
Speaker 1: right behind it. It was all work together, to all
Speaker 1: work together. It was so perfectly the way you mentioned
Speaker 1: it was. It would just look perfect on on the
Speaker 1: replay on the actual broadcast version. And then though, Irvan,
Speaker 1: you get into the end zone and you hit him
Speaker 1: with a dance. Now you told me there was a
Speaker 1: story behind that dance. Let's go ahead and hear that
Speaker 1: well that it wasn't actually a dance it was I
Speaker 1: would imitate. That's what my pastor Robert RCI Stanley and
Speaker 1: Pablo Beach at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, he would do
Speaker 1: that in the pool pit when when he gets excited
Speaker 1: or when the holy ghosts would hit him, he would
Speaker 1: he would stop his feet and shrugging shoulders. Yeah, shrugging
Speaker 1: shoulders like that, so I was, I was doing my
Speaker 1: imitation of him. Uh, in honor of him, in honor
Speaker 1: of the church. And that's what a what a great ode.
Speaker 1: That was a great I should be paid there. I
Speaker 1: loved watching it. And then finally the fourth and five
Speaker 1: game on the line, you guys are behind at the
Speaker 1: stage of the game late and there goes number eighty
Speaker 1: again behind the defense. What like, when did they how
Speaker 1: come they didn't learn their lesson there? Well, uh, you guys,
Speaker 1: I guess you guys don't know about that play. This,
Speaker 1: This is what that play really let me know. I
Speaker 1: had been released from Hill when I left New England
Speaker 1: and came to Heaven in Miami. Now in New England,
Speaker 1: we did whatever whatever play was calling in the huddle,
Speaker 1: that's what we had to run. If it just so
Speaker 1: happened to be the wrong play, we chalked it up.
Speaker 1: And this is my whole time and doing it all
Speaker 1: the different coaches. It happened to be the wrong play,
Speaker 1: we just chalked it up as a win for the defense.
Speaker 1: But we never were able to make audibles. You had
Speaker 1: to hurry up and do things as it received, hurry
Speaker 1: up and get open straight line, whatnot. And so forth.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was called. That's where we ran. I came
Speaker 1: to Miami and we had situations where Dan could come
Speaker 1: up to the line scrimmage and give me a signal
Speaker 1: and whatever play was called was off. It was just
Speaker 1: he and I at that point, and that's what happened.
Speaker 1: In that play. We had a different play called. In
Speaker 1: the huddle. We come up to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: It's fourth and five games on the line. We don't
Speaker 1: get the first down. Game is over for us. Dan
Speaker 1: comes up to the line scrimmage and gives me a
Speaker 1: go and it's me and him ran by him called
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Games over. Thank god. I'm watching the game
Speaker 1: the other day. The there was a triplet set on
Speaker 1: the left side. I was on the right side, and
Speaker 1: the triplet said, none of those guys got open. Thank
Speaker 1: god they did hand through the ball because there was
Speaker 1: nothing on the other side. I don't know what those
Speaker 1: guys were doing. They none of them got open. None
Speaker 1: of them were open. I saw, I saw what I saw.
Speaker 1: What I was watching. It was every single time you
Speaker 1: got deep, they were giving you that outside release, and
Speaker 1: you were just see every single time I was taking
Speaker 1: the outside release. Yeah, I mean exactly, I was taking it.
Speaker 1: It was just um, you know, it was fun. It
Speaker 1: was like I said, it was a matter. It was
Speaker 1: just a split second then comes up and gives me
Speaker 1: the go and then you don't think about it. You
Speaker 1: just do it. Just do it. We We've done it
Speaker 1: time and time and time again. So that's why it
Speaker 1: becomes second nature and that's why we perform on the field.
Speaker 1: So we talked about you guys kind of exploded in
Speaker 1: that second quarter. Then things really got rolling on the
Speaker 1: second half of you offensively. Was there like a halftime
Speaker 1: adjustment or an adjustment you guys had to make in
Speaker 1: the game that maybe had to do with the weather,
Speaker 1: the mud on the field, like what what was the
Speaker 1: what are the circumstances caused the offense to change? If
Speaker 1: at all? I think it was just we kept playing.
Speaker 1: I mean, we knew, uh, we had the ability to score.
Speaker 1: We knew that we had the talent to school, we
Speaker 1: knew we had practiced together, we knew we were sync together.
Speaker 1: It was just a matter. It's like any other game
Speaker 1: where things aren't going the way you want them to
Speaker 1: go because you got somebody across on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Trying to stop you, whether you're the
Speaker 1: offense or the defense, Do you have an opponent who
Speaker 1: is talent, who has ability, who has a game plan
Speaker 1: trying to stop you. So you just keep plugging, You
Speaker 1: keep plugging, and usually the stronger team wins, the ones
Speaker 1: who can keep plugging and keep their intensity and keep
Speaker 1: their consistency in terms of pushing and pushing and pushing
Speaker 1: near the end of the game, near that when it
Speaker 1: starts getting towards the fourth quarter, that's when they start
Speaker 1: to prevail. And then and then also for us to remember,
Speaker 1: it was the first game of the season, so it's
Speaker 1: hotter in Miami than it is in New England, so
Speaker 1: the heat probably played a little factor in it too
Speaker 1: in terms of them not being uh as spry as
Speaker 1: they were earlier in the game. And we love having
Speaker 1: that home field advantage. I'll leave you with this question, Irving.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to at your take because that day it
Speaker 1: was a sandbox. I mean that that infield dirt was
Speaker 1: just so messy and clunky, and I mean, i don't
Speaker 1: know how you get your footing in that, but I'm
Speaker 1: curious to ask you it's either that or the typical
Speaker 1: like you mentioned the September heat in Miami is is
Speaker 1: brutal and you get that basically concrete infield dirt surface,
Speaker 1: which one of those two is worse. Well, you know
Speaker 1: what what is hard? Your your please don't dig in
Speaker 1: and sometimes you you gotta slide across the the dirt
Speaker 1: when it's soft like that, when it's real soft like that,
Speaker 1: then obviously it's muddy. You can't really make cuts, accumulate
Speaker 1: the mud and it gets heavy and it gets dirty. Um.
Speaker 1: I guess if I had to have my choice, I
Speaker 1: would take the harder surface for sure. The harder surfaces sure.
Speaker 1: Either way, the advantage goes to the offense, because the
Speaker 1: offense knows where they're going, particularly receiver. The receiver knows
Speaker 1: where he's going, and the defensive back doesn't know where
Speaker 1: he's going. So the defensive back has to react, and
Speaker 1: reaction always takes a little bit longer than bash, and
Speaker 1: their reactions were definitely slow on that day. Five catches
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards, three touchdowns. Irving, We really appreciate
Speaker 1: your time, man, This was awesome. You're you're the man.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Well, I appreciate uh, Travis, take
Speaker 1: care of yourself all right, you as well, Thanks, and
Speaker 1: away he goes. Irving Friar N three arrives in Miami,
Speaker 1: two Pro Bowl seasons, leaves for Philadelphia after the nine
Speaker 1: five season started. All forty eight games that he was
Speaker 1: here with the Miami Dolphins, caught a bunch of footballs.
Speaker 1: One hundred ninety nine catches and three years, three thousand,
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety yards, twenty touchdowns. He was a production machine.
Speaker 1: I short changed him one year in his career. He
Speaker 1: did play seventeen years in his NFL career, because well,
Speaker 1: I can't add up nine plus three plus three plus
Speaker 1: two nine years in New England, three in Miami, three
Speaker 1: in Philly, and two up in Washington. But seventeen year
Speaker 1: professional career for Irving Friar. What a great guest. He was.
Speaker 1: Some great stories there about Marino and Shula, the infield
Speaker 1: dirt there at Joe Robbie slash Pro Player Stadium slash
Speaker 1: now hard Rock Stadium. Just a really fun interview. We
Speaker 1: have the article up on Miami Dolphins dot com, and
Speaker 1: my goodness, he dropped a perfect quote to start that
Speaker 1: story off with so Irving Friar flashback Friday, Patriots and
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