Speaker 1: I thought about podcast. We're here a second time out.
Speaker 1: This is we're gonna call this audible podcast Season one
Speaker 1: episode to Kimbo Camper, Joe Rose, John Conjemmy with us.
Speaker 1: And since our last podcast dropped last week, been a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. Me and Joe were on
Speaker 1: a cruise. By the way, I heard MSc Seaside Joe
Speaker 1: and I when we we took our sea legs and
Speaker 1: went out on the MSc Beautiful Cruise, beautiful boat out
Speaker 1: there the seaside went to the Bahamas um seven day cruise.
Speaker 1: Joe and I got off after three days. We went
Speaker 1: to St. Thomas and flew home. So we can get
Speaker 1: that way to do it. Though, you guys are dedicated.
Speaker 1: We were thinking about standing, but most of the people
Speaker 1: in the cruise go. Get rid of those assholes. Now
Speaker 1: I'm tired of hearing them, I'm tired of seeing them.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, you had to wear the jerseys.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm gonna ask. You know, I got
Speaker 1: one night, the second night we're there, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: take pictures. We gotta wear jerseys. I thought it was
Speaker 1: dress up night, so I put a nice share on
Speaker 1: a pair of slacks there, I slipped that jersey off.
Speaker 1: For about two hours of taking pictures, I took that
Speaker 1: shirt off. You could see my hairy ass back right
Speaker 1: through my shirt. It was one of the biggest massive sweat.
Speaker 1: He must lost five pounds. And by the way, night
Speaker 1: boy went right down to the bar after they refill
Speaker 1: up a little bit of those coupons. You're daring, right,
Speaker 1: But anyway, I want to thank EMCs Cruise. It was
Speaker 1: a good time, really good people, wonderful people. The staff
Speaker 1: was excellent, the ship was beautiful, the weather was awesome.
Speaker 1: The weather was awesome. By the way that the ocean
Speaker 1: was like a lake, I thought it might be a
Speaker 1: little chopp he was beautiful. So anyway, so that's what
Speaker 1: Joe and I have been doing. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff on the program tonight. Our featured interview is
Speaker 1: gonna be Mike Tannebaum, the executive vice president of football Operations.
Speaker 1: Will Will, Joe John and I'll discuss what's going on
Speaker 1: with the state of the Dolphins right now. Been something's happened,
Speaker 1: uh since our last podcast. We'll get into that. And
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Speaker 1: Do do whatever you want to get it on and
Speaker 1: we'll get to those questions. But a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going on, Joe, uh and John this year and and
Speaker 1: this this week. You know, last week was an active
Speaker 1: week in free agency. That that that that that that waterfall,
Speaker 1: that that that that the tsunami of free agent signings
Speaker 1: and stuff is dried to a trickle. Now, well, there's
Speaker 1: so much going on right and think about last week,
Speaker 1: why we're doing this, why we're doing this thing, taping this.
Speaker 1: We we get a new center, we get a new
Speaker 1: guard signed, and we lose our old center who's now
Speaker 1: with the San Diego Chargers, Mike Pouncey. That all happened
Speaker 1: within Yeah, that was with us. It happened within an
Speaker 1: hour or two when we're doing the podcast, it popped up.
Speaker 1: And so so Mike, Mike Pouncy, a guy that I
Speaker 1: think he's universally uh really loved in this franchise and
Speaker 1: liked on this team. Uh. He he makes the move,
Speaker 1: he goes out and gets a new job with the
Speaker 1: Sandy or the l A Chargers. He's out in l A. Uh.
Speaker 1: We get Daniel Kilgore from the San Francisco forty Ninersoe
Speaker 1: who the forty Niners are just signed h a month ago,
Speaker 1: a month ago to a nice contract, and so you
Speaker 1: know he's not a guy they were ready to dump
Speaker 1: off to kick off board. Uh, they just happened to
Speaker 1: get another player. He became available, and the guys upstairs
Speaker 1: jumped all over that. Yeah, they're talking about him if
Speaker 1: if he didn't play, center's gonna be the backup center
Speaker 1: and moved the guard. But they really liked him in
Speaker 1: that package. And I just want to say this about
Speaker 1: Mike Pouncey because talked about it on the radio as
Speaker 1: well as how about Mike and what he was able
Speaker 1: to get from the charge at surprise, I didn't know
Speaker 1: how the physical is gonna go with the hip problems
Speaker 1: he's had, but he got ten million guaranteed and taking
Speaker 1: more money. Now. Yeah, and you know, I'm good friend.
Speaker 1: I'm with Joe. I'm going man, you know, because look,
Speaker 1: I like Mike. Mike has been nothing but great. And Joe,
Speaker 1: You've been in the same situation whenever we've needed Mike
Speaker 1: for a charity event or anything. Always they're always first
Speaker 1: and foremost, always does the right thing. And so I
Speaker 1: have a lot of admiration from Mike Pouncey. Uh And
Speaker 1: and I'm glad he found a job out there. But
Speaker 1: I was worried that, you know, with this hip thing,
Speaker 1: all the procedures he's gone, the question can you practice
Speaker 1: or not. I thought it was gonna be tough for
Speaker 1: him to get a job. But the Chargers evidently did
Speaker 1: their homework, went and say hey, hey, said, hey, you
Speaker 1: made it last year. They must have a game plan
Speaker 1: for him. And this is Mike Pouncey's healthy. He pretty
Speaker 1: damn good. There's a road map out there for how
Speaker 1: to treat Mike Pouncy going forward. And the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: did that last year. You got sixteen games out of
Speaker 1: Mike Pouncing. Now did that hurt any synergy. Not practicing
Speaker 1: weekend in week out. Did that hurt a young offensive
Speaker 1: line that was going through a lot of issues, Maybe,
Speaker 1: but it sure helped one guy in the middle. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a Pro Bowl center. When he's at his best,
Speaker 1: he's a nasty individual that can get out in front
Speaker 1: of stuff. So hey, the Chargers went through their evaluation,
Speaker 1: they felt like they could sign him. They paid him
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Two years down the line, let's
Speaker 1: see how it goes. But for what Mike gave to
Speaker 1: this organization, all you can say is thank you. And
Speaker 1: the good thing is, we gotta we gotta starting we
Speaker 1: gotta starting center and started a lot of games for
Speaker 1: the forty Niners come here and then they go out
Speaker 1: and get Josh Sitton, who played for the Green Bay Packers,
Speaker 1: played for the Chicago Bears, multi time Pro Bowler, an
Speaker 1: All Pro player, a guy that comes in and it
Speaker 1: should solidify that guard on the left side next to
Speaker 1: Laramy Tunsil, and all of a sudden, offensive line you know,
Speaker 1: you know what was what? It was a question, a
Speaker 1: big question mark about two weeks ago, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're looking at you bring Jown James back. If you
Speaker 1: can get him playing the level you want. Hey, it
Speaker 1: might not be a very bad my money might not
Speaker 1: be a bad mix of guys to start to see
Speaker 1: a solid group. Man, You've got some really good veterans.
Speaker 1: I I like the group too. I think it's a
Speaker 1: better offensive line right now than it was a year
Speaker 1: ago when we were trying to figure out who is
Speaker 1: gonna win all these different battles at guard and everything
Speaker 1: else with guys injured. Right now, on paper, that offensive
Speaker 1: line with with Jesse Davis potentially starter. Or you go
Speaker 1: out and you maybe signed Sam Young again. You still
Speaker 1: got Larsen around, You've got a lot of option you
Speaker 1: you've increased your your quality of play at the at
Speaker 1: the at the starting spot, and you've increased increased your depth,
Speaker 1: which we've seen over the years. You need that offensive
Speaker 1: line is of most important. Some other news here in
Speaker 1: the program to uh de Marco Murray uh from the Titans.
Speaker 1: Dolphins worked him out. Not sure what the outcome of
Speaker 1: that is. And also it looks like Baker Mayfield is
Speaker 1: being reported that is going to get a private workout
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins and somewhere sometime uh that that may happen.
Speaker 1: So obviously the Dolphins still in line looking for a quarterback.
Speaker 1: But the New York Jets may have thrown the biggest
Speaker 1: monkey wrench in the in the draft out there when
Speaker 1: they traded to move up to the third pick. Certainly's
Speaker 1: gonna affect what the Dolphins do when it comes to eleven.
Speaker 1: And boy, I'll tell you what if there was a
Speaker 1: team that thought they were in a pretty good position
Speaker 1: with when it came to a quarterback with the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, now they might be sucking
Speaker 1: high and tent with these guys behind the corner, and
Speaker 1: think about the Bills moved up and we're feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1: And then the Jets jump up a couple of spots
Speaker 1: to three. The Bills know that if they're gonna get
Speaker 1: into this, I still think they can jump up. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to give up a lot of picks. And
Speaker 1: by the way, they got a lot. They got two ones,
Speaker 1: two twos, and two threes. And then you can throw
Speaker 1: in future picks as well. They may have to. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of free agency and all the guys that are
Speaker 1: coming going, the guy that's pulling the trigger on this
Speaker 1: besides Chris Greer, is the executive vice president of football Operations,
Speaker 1: Mike Tannebaum had a chance to catch up with him
Speaker 1: joining us now Mike Tannebaum the executive vice president of
Speaker 1: football Operations and Mike, uh got nothing to do these days? Huh.
Speaker 1: Hasn't been much going on in the last couple of weeks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been hectic, but it's been I think really good
Speaker 1: for the organization. Um. You know, we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of strech tch meets with Steve Ross, our owner, coach,
Speaker 1: gaze Chrisker, our GM and you know, look, we went
Speaker 1: six and ten and six and ten wasn't good enough
Speaker 1: for anybody, and uh, it starts with us, and you know,
Speaker 1: we felt like it was a great opportunity. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the word we keep using. We have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to get better. Um. With that, you have to make
Speaker 1: hard decisions, and sometimes players move on that have contributed
Speaker 1: and help get the program going. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: our charge is still to do what's best for the organization.
Speaker 1: And you know we've made some of those decisions all
Speaker 1: with the view of what's best for us and and
Speaker 1: moving forward and we're we're excited about the direction we're going. Well,
Speaker 1: let's take a few steps back, Mike and kind of
Speaker 1: go through the process here of of where we're at
Speaker 1: now and what's going to be coming up with the
Speaker 1: draft and everything. And I always look at the guys
Speaker 1: like yourself, Chris Career, the general manager, mostly organizations in
Speaker 1: the now. You guys are always looking into the future.
Speaker 1: You guys are two, three, four steps ahead of what's
Speaker 1: going on with the season. And when you start going
Speaker 1: through the free agent stuff, including your guy and guys
Speaker 1: that are out there that you may be interested in,
Speaker 1: when does that research, When does all that stuff take
Speaker 1: place so that when it comes time when the gates open,
Speaker 1: that that you're ready to make the break out of
Speaker 1: the gates. Yeah, I mean it really goes back probably
Speaker 1: several years to be candid. You know, you signed guys
Speaker 1: like Ryan Tannhill to an extension or guys like Kiko Alonso,
Speaker 1: and it's all for trying to plan proactively literally, like
Speaker 1: you go out a couple of years to try to
Speaker 1: keep your nucleus together and you try to project cat
Speaker 1: numbers and brand insure who heads up our contract negotiations
Speaker 1: does a great job, and we try to put a
Speaker 1: big picture plan of like hey, who can we keep
Speaker 1: and and who you know maybe too costly? Where do
Speaker 1: we have to draft? And then you know you can
Speaker 1: talk about free agency, Kim. You know, the first means
Speaker 1: we're back in December. You know, it's fight with scouting,
Speaker 1: like you're talking about a guy you're really interested, it
Speaker 1: sounds great. And then science an extension was on team
Speaker 1: all right, crossing, and so it's really a process that
Speaker 1: goes on. And like you said, I know, the coaches
Speaker 1: are in the here and the now and we're you know,
Speaker 1: curtainly trying and do as much strategic planning as possible.
Speaker 1: I would like to know, Mike, and I'm sure fans
Speaker 1: would like to know how much different is the process
Speaker 1: for free agency compared to when you're getting into the draft,
Speaker 1: because it seems like they're both fluid. But yet, like
Speaker 1: you said, the meeting started for free agency in December.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the draft kind of goes year round as
Speaker 1: you're evaluating different positions and different players, right, yeah, John, Um,
Speaker 1: So the two thousand eighteen draft preparations started last May
Speaker 1: when Chris took you know, most of the scouts and
Speaker 1: went to the national meetings where we get like the
Speaker 1: initial list for the following year, and like for us,
Speaker 1: we're adding players the whole year and look, unfortunately we
Speaker 1: had the injury. You know, J. Cutler was signed in August.
Speaker 1: But that's just illustrative of like the offseason sometimes like
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker for us in terms of like, hey, when
Speaker 1: we're gonna sign a player in free agency, maybe like
Speaker 1: well if we hit pause here, we think it's pretty
Speaker 1: deep in the draft. And again, you know it's there
Speaker 1: an exact science, so they are both fluid. John, I
Speaker 1: think that's a great way to put it, and we
Speaker 1: just try taking as much information as possible. And then
Speaker 1: with that said, we also try to be opportunistic. And
Speaker 1: a good example that was a J. Derby. So A J.
Speaker 1: Derby was on the waiver wire back in the fall.
Speaker 1: We were able to claim him and he's a guy
Speaker 1: that you know, we think can really contribute this year.
Speaker 1: You know, that may make the difference between you know,
Speaker 1: signing another player. Yeah, exactly. So again that's just a
Speaker 1: lutionship of the fact that you know, this goes on
Speaker 1: the whole offseason. You so at just points with free
Speaker 1: agency going on, certainly that's what's at the forefront right
Speaker 1: now with the draft following soon behind does the draft
Speaker 1: you put on the shelf for a little bit right now,
Speaker 1: as far as probably you and Chris, I'm sure your
Speaker 1: college scouts guys are still doing their stuff, but from
Speaker 1: your standpoint, let's put this on the shelf. Let's get
Speaker 1: through this period of a couple of weeks, and then
Speaker 1: we'll bring that back down and refine our focus back
Speaker 1: on that again. Yeah, they both actually go on. Um,
Speaker 1: so you know Pro days are going on. We're covering those.
Speaker 1: You know, we try to watch you know games, you
Speaker 1: know when we can. You know, it's there's a lot
Speaker 1: going on though, you know, a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts this time of year. But we have
Speaker 1: the scouts coming back in, you know, in another ten days,
Speaker 1: and um, the draft will be here before we know it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the guys in free agency.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of them around the NFL, not
Speaker 1: only with the Miami Dolphins, but when you focus in
Speaker 1: on what we're concerned about a lot of key signings.
Speaker 1: You get Albert Wilson, you get Danny Amndola at the
Speaker 1: slop position. Uh, you get a couple of linemen and
Speaker 1: sitting and kill Gore, Robert Quinn comes over in a
Speaker 1: trade before free agency. So there's a lot of interesting
Speaker 1: parts to this team, a lot of new faces that
Speaker 1: are gonna hopefully build upon what's what's left in the building. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, just we could touch on these guys.
Speaker 1: You know, we wanted to bring in guys that were accomplished.
Speaker 1: We had a number of guys that playing the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and sitting at Amadola had actually won Super Bowls
Speaker 1: that that was important to us. But you know, starting
Speaker 1: with Amadola, obviously he was a guy that we struggled
Speaker 1: defending for a number of years, a very talented and productive,
Speaker 1: you know, slot receiver. Obviously, with Jarvis Landry moving on,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be a need. And you know, Jarvis
Speaker 1: was obviously super productive for us and played well here
Speaker 1: for a number of years. Um, so we felt fortunate
Speaker 1: to get Danny Um. You know, in terms of Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: maybe not a household name, but he's young, he's fast,
Speaker 1: he's ascending, he's versatile, he could play inside it out.
Speaker 1: It will be a lot of fun to see how
Speaker 1: the coaches use him. And again that's a position where
Speaker 1: the way we'd like to play, like having depth of
Speaker 1: that position is really important. So to King Grant's coming
Speaker 1: back and he stills back to pante Parkins coming back
Speaker 1: like that. That group is one that you know, you
Speaker 1: always feel like you can't have enough depth. It gives
Speaker 1: you flexibility terms of formations, in terms of what Adam
Speaker 1: wants to do offensively. Uh, you can play with the
Speaker 1: tight end and some of the times you might not
Speaker 1: with his many guys we have that play at a
Speaker 1: high level. That's right. Like you talked about some of
Speaker 1: the guys with some of the guys that have gone.
Speaker 1: You talked about Jarvis and Dominican Sue, Mike pouncey. Um,
Speaker 1: those are moves that I'm assuming you you don't take lightly. Um,
Speaker 1: how does that conversation? Who's involved in that conversation? When
Speaker 1: when you look at these guys and there's look like
Speaker 1: every like anything you do in life, whatever you do,
Speaker 1: there's certain things you do well, there's certain things you don't.
Speaker 1: Sue do well. Does this over overcome this? Does that
Speaker 1: overcome that? How do you guys go through that evaluation
Speaker 1: on somebody that you know extremely well? It's been productive
Speaker 1: for you, They're quite Frankie might look at you, I
Speaker 1: like this guy like the way he plays. I like
Speaker 1: the way he does this, but right now, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: whether it's financial, whether it's something else, it's just not
Speaker 1: the right fit for where we want to go. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be a pretty that's gotta be a pretty
Speaker 1: uh difficult conversation we have with those guys. Some guys
Speaker 1: pretty easy. Yeah, this guy's kind of you know, he's
Speaker 1: run his course, would go. But guys like that who
Speaker 1: are key players and going to be key players somewhere else,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough decision for you guys to
Speaker 1: uh to to work through. Yeah, yeah, no question. Steve
Speaker 1: Kerr so and I've had the pro game to know
Speaker 1: pretty well. You know, he talked about it from a
Speaker 1: player and coach standpoint. He goes, you know, the great
Speaker 1: parts of these jobs you do for free. You know,
Speaker 1: when you play in an arena, everyone's cheering for you.
Speaker 1: You do do those things for free. You get paid
Speaker 1: all that money when it comes to the responsibility of hey,
Speaker 1: a player gets traded, like those hard conversation that that's
Speaker 1: that's what you get paid to do. Like And I
Speaker 1: was thought that was like great context. And Mike Palency
Speaker 1: and Dominan, Sue, Jarvis Landry. You know, those were guys
Speaker 1: that were productive here. A couple of those guys were
Speaker 1: drafted here, played a long time, Mike and Jarvis in particular.
Speaker 1: You know, we're here for a long time. Played hurt
Speaker 1: helped us get to the playoffs two years ago, and
Speaker 1: we have a lot of respect for what they accomplished.
Speaker 1: With that said, we have to make decisions that's best
Speaker 1: for us, and we know sometimes they're not gonna be
Speaker 1: the most popular decisions. But as you mentioned earlier, John,
Speaker 1: like sometimes you have to look at, hey, where you're
Speaker 1: gonna be in six months, where you're gonna be in
Speaker 1: a year, um, And what can we get to replace
Speaker 1: the player? What resources are gonna have to be allocated,
Speaker 1: And these are really really hard decisions and communicating those
Speaker 1: decisions are hard. And I always say to myself, like
Speaker 1: that's okay, you know, like when you make those calls
Speaker 1: and it hurts, like you know, we're humans, Like we're
Speaker 1: making decisions as professionals and we've got to make the
Speaker 1: right decision, but as human being, like sometimes those those
Speaker 1: are hard conversations to have. We always talk about like
Speaker 1: the labor Day weekend, you know when your roster gets
Speaker 1: cut down, like, those are difficult conversations to have. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's part of the business. And you know, the fans certainly,
Speaker 1: they're they're they're all over this thing. And and you
Speaker 1: can find yourself in an in a no win situation
Speaker 1: and give him Dominan sue because I've heard this conversation
Speaker 1: over and over again. Geez, you know, Dominican sue. Great player, Uh,
Speaker 1: paying too much money for that position, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: this and that and this and that, and then the
Speaker 1: moment that you let him go, jeez, he's our mess
Speaker 1: player him. What are we doing? I mean, so it's
Speaker 1: you know, I think, but but I mean, look, look,
Speaker 1: fans are fans and and and they love the team
Speaker 1: and they want to support the team and this and that,
Speaker 1: and they embrace guys that are here, but sometimes they're disgruntled.
Speaker 1: But then when they leave on well, why are you
Speaker 1: getting I don't envy the position you're in sometimes because
Speaker 1: quite frankly, it really is a knowing situation until six
Speaker 1: months down the road when you find out that, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, those are pretty good moves now, but
Speaker 1: you know it's a knee jerk kind of a situation.
Speaker 1: It's a knee knee jerk world that we live in
Speaker 1: in this environment. Yeah, and one thing I would like
Speaker 1: to add guys to this conversation, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: we have a ninety man roster right now, we're talking
Speaker 1: about five six seventy players. The greatest improvement our team
Speaker 1: will have this year is from the players that are
Speaker 1: in the building that will get you get coached and developed.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of unsung stories that will come out,
Speaker 1: you know, when we get to training camp and the improvement.
Speaker 1: Like so, if we were sitting here a year ago,
Speaker 1: we would say, well, Xavian Howard boy, you know, he
Speaker 1: flashed them, but we really don't know. Well, yeah, we
Speaker 1: felt really good and and and and Xavians a piece
Speaker 1: of our team that should be foundationally here for a
Speaker 1: long time. And there's a couple of guys that we feel,
Speaker 1: in particular, have a chance to really take the next step.
Speaker 1: And that's maybe hard to explain in March, but when
Speaker 1: we put the pads on in August, you know where
Speaker 1: you know, we're encourage where the trajectory of some of
Speaker 1: these young players are going. And those are our factors
Speaker 1: because you've got to fill a lot of these needs
Speaker 1: from within. That's the only way to have sustainability in
Speaker 1: our system. And that leads me to a question that
Speaker 1: in a title in Miami Dolphins tender three exclusive rights
Speaker 1: free agents. So a couple of days ago, Mike call,
Speaker 1: Jake Brendall, Jordan Lucas. What does that mean, Mike, exclusive
Speaker 1: right free agents? And how you keep those guys? How
Speaker 1: how you offer them or protect from others? Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's a great question. So base Lee, Uh, that's what
Speaker 1: we're simp fire things. But like three big buckets of players,
Speaker 1: so unrestricted free agency. So that's the player that's been
Speaker 1: the league for four more seasons whose contract has expired
Speaker 1: to go to the market restricted free agent, and someone
Speaker 1: who has three accrued seasons who their contract has expiring,
Speaker 1: and we could put a tender on them depending on
Speaker 1: what round they've you know, came in, or you can
Speaker 1: actually enhance a tender depending on how the value. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: And then if a player has been the league has
Speaker 1: less than three accrued seasons but his contract has expired,
Speaker 1: you could keep him basically at his minimum, but you
Speaker 1: have to tender him. And that's what we did with
Speaker 1: those three guys, and in talking about building within, he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys you resigned Walt Aikin's you get
Speaker 1: William Hayes back. So you've got to keep that nucleus
Speaker 1: because it's just not all free agency or the draft.
Speaker 1: You have to build your team from the roster that
Speaker 1: you have from last season. Yeah, and again, you know
Speaker 1: Iffi Hunt our pro personel director. He does a great job.
Speaker 1: And again, when you pick up a guy like a J. Derby,
Speaker 1: it's not a household name, it's not a huge but
Speaker 1: you know he's going to serve a role, and that's
Speaker 1: a role. That's one less resource we have to go pick,
Speaker 1: you know, in the draft or sign in free agency.
Speaker 1: And again it really takes like the whole year in
Speaker 1: terms of the approach of like claiming players, signing players late,
Speaker 1: and then you know, try to keep them, you know,
Speaker 1: for as long as you can, as long as it's
Speaker 1: you know, makes sense. And guys like that, you know,
Speaker 1: I would think the coaching staff and the scouts and
Speaker 1: your personnel that report to you did a really good
Speaker 1: job finding a guy like that because he he was
Speaker 1: inserted right away into the lineup last year. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's on the fast track to learn the offense,
Speaker 1: he gets put in games, and he's at a position
Speaker 1: where everybody's focusing at. Well, maybe we need a tight
Speaker 1: end in free agency, maybe we need a tight end
Speaker 1: in the draft, and maybe there's a guy there later on.
Speaker 1: But when you have confidence in a guy like a
Speaker 1: j Derby who's proven it elsewhere. I think he was
Speaker 1: in New England and he was in Denver potentially came
Speaker 1: to us, you have confidence and maybe the fan doesn't
Speaker 1: realize he's on your roster already. That's right now exactly.
Speaker 1: You know, Jesse Davis is another guy. Jesse has a
Speaker 1: great future with us. And you know, again, you just
Speaker 1: can't go out there and say, hey, where you go
Speaker 1: get spent all this money on guards? Like you know,
Speaker 1: Jesse was a guy that you know, we were able
Speaker 1: to sign um. He was kind of under the radar
Speaker 1: and then he was on a practice squad. We got him. Uh,
Speaker 1: he had to try out, and he's he has a
Speaker 1: great future with us, great flexibility, yes, yeah, tackle guard
Speaker 1: flex and uh, you know again another maybe not a
Speaker 1: household name, but by the time we get to August September,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Jesse Davis will be yeah, that's right. Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you go you go into free agency with
Speaker 1: a roadmap, um and and that roadmap as soon as
Speaker 1: the bell ringing, that roadmap starts changing and this guy's gone,
Speaker 1: that guy's available, this guy's that um and then that's
Speaker 1: gotta be uh. I mean, I mean that that's gotta
Speaker 1: be a minute by minute, hour by hour, uh, constant
Speaker 1: job of keeping up with. And a good example is
Speaker 1: a is a kid from uh that you got from
Speaker 1: San Francisco killed. Here's the guy that just kind of
Speaker 1: popped up because they went out and got they went
Speaker 1: out and paid for another center. Here is a guy
Speaker 1: that they had just given a contract to that's available
Speaker 1: out there. And so that that quick change creates opportunities
Speaker 1: or can put you in in a bad situation based
Speaker 1: on your guys. You know that someone goes out and
Speaker 1: and makes a play for that, then maybe you didn't
Speaker 1: quite expect. That's Kim. That is incredibly well said. You know,
Speaker 1: going back a couple of weeks before that. You know,
Speaker 1: if we sat here in January and you guys would
Speaker 1: say that Robert Quinn and Daniel Kilgore would be you know,
Speaker 1: like you guys are crazy, especially in Kilgore's case. You
Speaker 1: sign an extension with with San Francisco a month ago.
Speaker 1: So one of the things we're always preaching is we
Speaker 1: need flexibility, flexibility, flexibility. So having that flexibility allows to
Speaker 1: go get Quinn, you know, young pass Rusher under contract
Speaker 1: for the next couple of years. Those guys are impossible
Speaker 1: to find, and we were like, wow, this is a
Speaker 1: great opportunity for us. Guy like Kilgore. We get a text,
Speaker 1: you know, Kim you talking about Then in mind minute,
Speaker 1: we get a text, it was late late at night saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we just got you know, another center Western rich Burg. Uh,
Speaker 1: this guy is unexpectedly available. You know, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: So Chris and I scramble quickly get together, look at it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're trying to talk to you know, Josh Sitton,
Speaker 1: and it kind of all all the pieces, you know,
Speaker 1: you try to put them together and make the best decisions.
Speaker 1: And then likewise, you know, guys that we have, you know,
Speaker 1: are gonna take visits and sign other places. You know,
Speaker 1: Corode Parky signs a contract with Chicago and you know,
Speaker 1: we thank him for last year, and you know, now
Speaker 1: we've gotta move on to the you know, the next kicker. Mike.
Speaker 1: You talk about flexibility in terms of being able to
Speaker 1: make decisions, like you said, in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: somebody gives you a text and you're trying to make
Speaker 1: and evaluate and an educated decision. But what happens with
Speaker 1: flexibility when you have guys on the roster and you're
Speaker 1: going to Rashad Jones, You're going to Ryan Tanniel and say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: we need to tweak something because it's gonna give us
Speaker 1: more flexibility to make our team better. How does that
Speaker 1: process work? Because I think the fan doesn't really know
Speaker 1: how that works, right, So that's all part of a
Speaker 1: longer term plan in terms of like how dollars are counted,
Speaker 1: either like in a basel or you can parade it
Speaker 1: out which would lower your cap number for this year
Speaker 1: and added in future years. And so we're very careful
Speaker 1: how we do that because we have certain sort of like, um,
Speaker 1: we kind of put like I would say, like kind
Speaker 1: of check marks and like baselines of where we want
Speaker 1: to be in terms of dollars. So we always have flexibility,
Speaker 1: and that's something we always talk about is making sure
Speaker 1: that we don't have too many cap charges in any
Speaker 1: one year, and we try to balance it out. So again,
Speaker 1: if you look at our cap situation last year for
Speaker 1: this year, people will be like, oh, that could be tight.
Speaker 1: And we knew there was gonna be certain opportunities and
Speaker 1: that's why you know we're sitting here able to you know,
Speaker 1: go get yeah, and go get Robert Quinn. Right. Likewise,
Speaker 1: you know, for next year, we've already kind of built
Speaker 1: in like, Okay, here's what we think is gonna happen.
Speaker 1: This player's contract is gonna be up that, you know,
Speaker 1: and start looking at those variables and candidly, like even
Speaker 1: in the draft, like hey, if we get this player,
Speaker 1: he can sit on the bench for a year and
Speaker 1: then he has to go in and play, you know,
Speaker 1: And you see that all the time, you know, around
Speaker 1: the league in terms of you know, draft choices. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you know they're not evaluated, you know, publicly, because you know,
Speaker 1: play in year one, all of a sudden, the guy
Speaker 1: in front of them leaves to become a free agent. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Speaking of the draft, you know, when you
Speaker 1: kind of go through the the free agent process, when
Speaker 1: it's all said and done and you know, it becomes
Speaker 1: a trickle rather than a you know, a flood of
Speaker 1: free agents out there, and you kind of start going
Speaker 1: back to the draft. Does your draft board change based on, hey,
Speaker 1: look we filled this new you know that we got
Speaker 1: a center, we've got a guard. We feel like we've
Speaker 1: got a center. We feel like we've got a guard.
Speaker 1: We feel like we found this position. Um. Does that
Speaker 1: does your does your your draft board become a little
Speaker 1: more fluid at that point? Yeah? So you know, philosophically,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to leave the grades the way
Speaker 1: they are, and Chris and I talked about that all time,
Speaker 1: and Chris has a fantastic job, but you know, like
Speaker 1: we want to give them the grades that they deserve.
Speaker 1: The coaches getting involved this time of year, of course,
Speaker 1: we want to get their thoughts and views on things. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think to your question, Kim, like it does
Speaker 1: affect your strategy and look, in a perfect world, if
Speaker 1: you want to take the highest rated guy and a
Speaker 1: position and need but to be you know, like I
Speaker 1: always like to say, if it's close or the tiebreaker
Speaker 1: is going to be based on need, but you know
Speaker 1: you're not gonna take a third round tight end over
Speaker 1: a first round guard because you need a tight end.
Speaker 1: Like that's just not you know that that doesn't make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense, but you do want to use
Speaker 1: it as a tidebreaker. And those are you know, the
Speaker 1: conversations will be having like for the next month for sure.
Speaker 1: Like one of one of the things the words that
Speaker 1: uh that it has been floated around since free agency
Speaker 1: was culture. You know, change of culture, change of things.
Speaker 1: And and I you know, at least when I try
Speaker 1: to to to kind of figure out what that is. Um,
Speaker 1: it's funny because I was with I was with Larry's
Speaker 1: uncle last week and talking to him about some stuff,
Speaker 1: and he said, he said, you know, you know what
Speaker 1: what makes a winning team? When you get players where
Speaker 1: winning football games is more important than how much money
Speaker 1: they make, then you've got something going for you. Is
Speaker 1: that kind of where you're looking at when you talk
Speaker 1: about culture change? Give me those guys you just love
Speaker 1: to play football, that want to be out here and
Speaker 1: then have the philosophy that to me, I think is
Speaker 1: a philosophy. Look, let me just go and play the
Speaker 1: best I can and if I play good enough, the
Speaker 1: money's gonna follow me. Right that that will take care
Speaker 1: of its own self, right. Yeah, Well, a couple of thoughts.
Speaker 1: You know. First of all, like I think there is
Speaker 1: a good foundation here. You know, we want ten games,
Speaker 1: you know, with with this coach, with this quarterback, we're
Speaker 1: really excited about that um obviously last year and go
Speaker 1: the way we did. And I'm always like focused on
Speaker 1: moving forward. So I'm about let's keep bringing the guys
Speaker 1: that we were we're looking for. And I know I've
Speaker 1: heard other people use those terms, Kim, but I'm much
Speaker 1: more about looking forward and let's just keep doing it.
Speaker 1: And I'm telling like Chris and Adam are both outstanding
Speaker 1: at this, like the guys we've brought in, like the
Speaker 1: guys we've drafted. There's a great young nucleus of good
Speaker 1: people and we're just gonna keep adding to it. And
Speaker 1: some people are gonna leave, and they leave because for
Speaker 1: a myriad of reason. Some we can control, some we
Speaker 1: can But I'm much more focused on moving forward. And sure,
Speaker 1: you know, I think in pro football, you know, there
Speaker 1: there's a balance, like we all have families defeat, Like,
Speaker 1: this is a business, this is how people are in
Speaker 1: a living. With that said, you also want to be
Speaker 1: able to tell are somebody in a half and you
Speaker 1: want to see what oozes out there, and you hope
Speaker 1: the first thing you see his competitiveness, because you know,
Speaker 1: and that goes to a little bit to Zaka's point,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with want to make a lot
Speaker 1: of money, like again, this this is a profession. But
Speaker 1: with that said, you also want people that love football,
Speaker 1: are tough and smart, and you're right when when when
Speaker 1: the team successful, that's gonna benefit everybody. Well, you've been around.
Speaker 1: I mean they looked quite frankly, and I've seen guys
Speaker 1: this team, other teams over there over the last decade
Speaker 1: or two decades since free agency came in. You know,
Speaker 1: there's certain guys that you you, you you put some
Speaker 1: money in their pocket and they kind of shift into neutral.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, I got my money. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I won't stay out dextra longer practice or I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go work out this day. And then there's
Speaker 1: the other guys out there that you could give them.
Speaker 1: You can give them ten billion dollars and they're gonna
Speaker 1: work as hard and is is and and be as
Speaker 1: competitive and do everything's finding those guys more of those guys,
Speaker 1: then those other guys is seems to be the key
Speaker 1: to the game, no question, and we spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time on that. And you know, one of the
Speaker 1: things that we talked about is, uh, you know, especially
Speaker 1: like with these colleges, like with the draft of college preparation,
Speaker 1: is how they treat the guys that can't help them.
Speaker 1: So like our scouts are talking to the trainers and
Speaker 1: the equipment guys, like that's really important to us. Mike,
Speaker 1: you've been at this a long time. Is it tough?
Speaker 1: Sometimes too temper your excitement about you feel really good
Speaker 1: about what you're doing, but you still know that there's
Speaker 1: more work to do. Is that a tough thing to gauge? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's just kind of like you have to
Speaker 1: be a little you know, coach parselves. You to say
Speaker 1: like this is a for profession for the not normal
Speaker 1: don't And I would just say, you know, it takes
Speaker 1: a certain personality of never being satisfied, you know. So hey,
Speaker 1: look when you when you do something and you get
Speaker 1: you know, and you're in a competitive situation and you're
Speaker 1: trying to get you know, Josh Sitting, or you're competing
Speaker 1: with two other teams to get Robert Quinn like yeah,
Speaker 1: do we fist bump, Yeah, yeah, And that feels good
Speaker 1: for ten to fifteen seconds, and then you're done and
Speaker 1: then you're like, oh no, what's next? You know, like
Speaker 1: what's the next opportunity, what's the next decision, what's the
Speaker 1: next meeting? You know, the draft to someone the way
Speaker 1: you know, and there's a lot of the things going
Speaker 1: on in your building with you know, your staff, and
Speaker 1: you know there's you know, there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: going on. So you know, like I said, you get
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen seconds of joy and elation and that's right.
Speaker 1: Basically you basically turned into a coach at after a
Speaker 1: win during the season, you kind of celebrate, you kind
Speaker 1: of go around and get your thoughts out, and then
Speaker 1: you're moving on to the next one. Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think it's just the mindset, you know, goes back
Speaker 1: to coach park Parcels. He talked about a lot. It's
Speaker 1: just a mindset of saying like, Okay, what's next, and
Speaker 1: really never to be satisfied and look, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of work for us to do. You know
Speaker 1: what I saw Coach Parcel's last weekend. I was playing
Speaker 1: golf up at MacArthur, up a hope sound and he
Speaker 1: refers to me as as a thief because of the
Speaker 1: company that I keep. So he he recited something something
Speaker 1: it took him about twenty seconds to say, and I
Speaker 1: looked at my partner and said, I think he was
Speaker 1: talking to you because he wasn't talking to me, because
Speaker 1: he's great at that. He's when I've played golf with him,
Speaker 1: he doesn't talk to his partner the opposition for at
Speaker 1: least four or five holes, and if you talk to him,
Speaker 1: he's mad at you. He said, don't talk to them.
Speaker 1: We're that was at your opponent. So he's great. It's
Speaker 1: funny you say that. And I followed this to this day,
Speaker 1: which was you know, I was around coach in my
Speaker 1: formative years and very fortunate that he gave me a
Speaker 1: chance much earlier than I ever deserved. And he used
Speaker 1: to talk to us in the staff about how one
Speaker 1: of the things that really annoyed him was the pregame routine.
Speaker 1: And to this day it's still instilled to me, like
Speaker 1: I don't go over and say hello to the opponent.
Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of my peers are
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, and it was just something he taught
Speaker 1: me on like, we're there to beat him. We're not
Speaker 1: there to fratt nize. It's we're here to beat him.
Speaker 1: You can talk to him after the game, but why
Speaker 1: are you talking to somebody that you're trying to beat?
Speaker 1: And like to this day, that's like been instilled in me.
Speaker 1: And that was my first thought when you when you
Speaker 1: signed Danny Danny Amondola. So I hated that guy for
Speaker 1: five years standard for five years. Now I love him.
Speaker 1: That's how I love the guy. And in fact, that's
Speaker 1: the first thing I said to him that when I
Speaker 1: met him. We've talked about about you were talking about
Speaker 1: Chris and players and personnel. Where do the coaches get
Speaker 1: involved in this? Now you go out and uh, you
Speaker 1: get a Robert quinn Um, you you take away in
Speaker 1: and Dominican Sue. You've got Charles Harris coming back, you
Speaker 1: got Andre Brandts come back, You've got the young defensive tackles.
Speaker 1: But do you do you do at some point do
Speaker 1: you sit down with coaching the coaches say, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what we we somehow we need to find more
Speaker 1: pass for us. We need to be we need to
Speaker 1: put more pressure on the quarterback and so that the conversation, Okay,
Speaker 1: does that mean, okay, we go more defensive ends. I
Speaker 1: remember watching the Giants when they think when the Giants
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, I think for a lot of
Speaker 1: time they line up with four or five defensive ends,
Speaker 1: you know, in the passing situations. I think I think
Speaker 1: we played against the Giants one year. The Dolphins, I
Speaker 1: think they put six defensive ends out in the football
Speaker 1: field at one time and they were all coming. So
Speaker 1: that's a philosophical thing. Do you how does that conversation
Speaker 1: go with the coaches during or a while this process
Speaker 1: is going on, Yeah, no question, Like uh, And and
Speaker 1: I'm just a great job with the staff, get their
Speaker 1: feedback and understand like how they see things, and that
Speaker 1: helps formulate, you know, our ability to make the best decisions. Um,
Speaker 1: because like you said him, like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways to you use guys and people. When I say, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just signed you know William Hayes and he's a
Speaker 1: defensive and well you know, maybe there's a package where
Speaker 1: he's gonna gonna be move around and you know, our
Speaker 1: competitors can see that. Come September, Mike, uh drafts coming
Speaker 1: up after this draft comes up, uh, and draft creates
Speaker 1: other other situations. Are there fluidity within the draft of
Speaker 1: of players. Are you looking for players getting picked, players
Speaker 1: taken before you expect them to come, waiting for them
Speaker 1: to fall down, trying to decide do I move up?
Speaker 1: All those things that, uh, certainly come into fruition. And
Speaker 1: I think in most fans mind it's all they all
Speaker 1: they see is the first round and after that it's
Speaker 1: you know, let me, let me, let me go about
Speaker 1: my business. But it's something that goes on from the
Speaker 1: first pick in the draft to the very last pick,
Speaker 1: then into the free agency coming out of out of
Speaker 1: the draft, the college free instead are out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. And uh, you know other things I've learned
Speaker 1: is if you're drafting out eleven, there's guys you have
Speaker 1: to have, if you're if you're you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: something that you can certainly bank on every year. And look,
Speaker 1: this may be a great year of trade back. You
Speaker 1: never know, you just never know. Um, we want to
Speaker 1: leave ourselves flexibility. We have five picks in the first
Speaker 1: four rounds. Um, that was important to us and we'll
Speaker 1: see how it goes. You know, could we move up
Speaker 1: three four spots. Absolutely, can we move back you just
Speaker 1: we'll see how that sorts out. Um. You know, there's
Speaker 1: always been a lot of talk about you know, you know,
Speaker 1: all these quarterbacks this year, and I'm sure there will
Speaker 1: be a big part of the narrative as we get closer.
Speaker 1: But you know, for us, we at this point, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing you know, a little over a month away, we
Speaker 1: just want to be prepared, put our roster get the
Speaker 1: best wee can. I always say, hey, can we go
Speaker 1: out and go play a game before the draft? You know,
Speaker 1: can we go line up and go play with with
Speaker 1: a roster that we like? And then what that does,
Speaker 1: guys is and I think this is important, is you
Speaker 1: want to operate in the draft from a position of strength,
Speaker 1: because if you go in there and say, like, oh
Speaker 1: we need yeah, like we just lost John James and
Speaker 1: like are starting right tackles in the draft, Like, that's
Speaker 1: not a good feeling going in there, because there's so
Speaker 1: much you can't control that has to be I would
Speaker 1: think that's one of the main things as an organization
Speaker 1: you want to feel. You go into the draft night
Speaker 1: thinking we're okay, that's right, okay with this scenario, We're
Speaker 1: okay with that. That's exactly you have Plan A B
Speaker 1: C all the way down. Feeling you know you're you're
Speaker 1: okay because you did enough with your core players, resigning
Speaker 1: your core guys and being able to be flexible in
Speaker 1: free agency to maybe mask some things you don't have
Speaker 1: to depend on come April. That's right. I totally agree
Speaker 1: with that. It's just you. You wanna not be beholden
Speaker 1: to any one situation if you could avoid it. Hey, Mike, uh,
Speaker 1: where we sit right now? Um uh? And when you
Speaker 1: take a snapshot of your football team right now and
Speaker 1: you talk about the free agent changes that have made
Speaker 1: prior to the draft. Um, you got Ryan Tannehill coming back,
Speaker 1: you re Kwon McMillan coming back, you resigned William Hayes. Um,
Speaker 1: you talk about a J Derby what you did. And
Speaker 1: you talk when we first started talking having this conversation,
Speaker 1: you said, you know everyone, you know, you're looking at
Speaker 1: the top five or ten guys on your roster, but
Speaker 1: it's the guys that are down there from you know,
Speaker 1: from from eleven to fifty three that are probably gonna
Speaker 1: shape what your football teams about. When you take that
Speaker 1: snapshot now of what the projected fifty three might be
Speaker 1: right now after what you've done, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about where your organization and your football teams at Again,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, you know, coming off of six
Speaker 1: and ten, there's a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 1: We're excited about the new additions, Kim, like, we think
Speaker 1: they're good fits for us for the reasons we've talked about.
Speaker 1: And again we can celebrate that for a second, and
Speaker 1: there's just more work to be done. And I think
Speaker 1: that's just our personalities and that's what we owe, you know,
Speaker 1: to Steve Ross, That's what we owe to our fans
Speaker 1: that you know, there there's we're gonna keep working and
Speaker 1: to be candidate. It was really the mindset after you know,
Speaker 1: go in the playoffs, Like that's just the mindset we're
Speaker 1: always gonna have here, you know, not to be complacent, um,
Speaker 1: be opportunistic when we can, and keep identifying the right
Speaker 1: types of guys for us, and that doesn't mean the
Speaker 1: guys you know can't for other places, and keep working
Speaker 1: hard to look for good opportunities. When do you get
Speaker 1: a break? When do you get a little vacation here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the reason I'm asking because John and I want to
Speaker 1: get you quick when you when when you first get
Speaker 1: your your first trip out of the golf course. I
Speaker 1: think it'd be easy money. Yeah, you know, kay, maybe
Speaker 1: we could, uh, you know, get out the weekend after
Speaker 1: the draft. There you go, there you go. You talk
Speaker 1: about a one armed paper hanger. Over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks with with him and Chris Greer and and
Speaker 1: and everything they've been going through. That that's free agent frenzy.
Speaker 1: Gotta be pretty gotta be pretty testy times, testy times
Speaker 1: for those guys. Well, you think all all the pressure
Speaker 1: that's on you year round and produce a winner. You
Speaker 1: have to find guys. You have to find synergy, not
Speaker 1: only in the front office, but you gotta make that
Speaker 1: translate in getting the right people on the field. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, but
Speaker 1: that's what you sign up for when you when you're
Speaker 1: getting the big bucks and you're sitting at the top
Speaker 1: of an organization, that's the opportunity for you to make
Speaker 1: a change and make a change in a positive direction.
Speaker 1: So you go out and you get guys like Danny
Speaker 1: Amadol and Albert Wilson and sitting and and Kill Gore
Speaker 1: you trade for Quinn. You try to get the best
Speaker 1: mixture of talent on your roster and then who works
Speaker 1: well with others. You know, I know we're gonna get
Speaker 1: into some other topics on the defensive side, but on offense,
Speaker 1: it looks like the moves that the Miami Dolphins made,
Speaker 1: we're good ones. You have to replace Jarvis Landry, you
Speaker 1: have to replace all those catches. Well, maybe it's not
Speaker 1: one guy, maybe it's two, maybe it's four, maybe it's
Speaker 1: it's a tight end that's not on this roster yet,
Speaker 1: but you have to be able to produce and be
Speaker 1: able to make Ryan Tannehill feel comfortable. I think as
Speaker 1: a quarterback, you feel better with the offensive line that
Speaker 1: that's on paper in front of you. You feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about what you have at wide receiver. You know
Speaker 1: you've got a starting running back back there, uh In Drake.
Speaker 1: So on offense, you feel pretty good. Defensively, well, the
Speaker 1: biggest the biggest question is Ryan how's his health. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to go sixteen games? Is gonna
Speaker 1: be able to elevate his play and make those guys
Speaker 1: around him better? Defensively? You know, the jury is still
Speaker 1: out on a lot of issues right now. I just
Speaker 1: happened to run into R. Tannehill walking into the building
Speaker 1: and and talk to him. He seemed really upbeat, and
Speaker 1: how you're doing, feeling really good? He's excited. I tell
Speaker 1: you know what he's excited about. He's excited about getting
Speaker 1: back on the field and and and starting to move around,
Speaker 1: starting to throw the football and doing those things. And
Speaker 1: it's it's his team. It's his team, and uh, and
Speaker 1: he's got to run with this. But look, especially with
Speaker 1: all the talk that's been about we need to draft
Speaker 1: a quarterback, we need to have draft a quarterback, Joe,
Speaker 1: it's certainly got to be weighing in the back of
Speaker 1: his mind. But you know, from from my experience with Ryan,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the guy that turns away from that.
Speaker 1: I think he meets that challenge head on. He's a
Speaker 1: very competitive guy. Um, he's quiet, but he's very competitive
Speaker 1: and he's gonna want to win this. He's gonna want
Speaker 1: to show everybody. I think we've seen it change in him,
Speaker 1: even going back and when he was healthy that year
Speaker 1: when the when the Dolphins went to playoffs before he
Speaker 1: got injured, he he had a little something different to
Speaker 1: him as far as this is my team and this
Speaker 1: is do you know you started see him in the
Speaker 1: huddle kind of you know, not not pointing guys, I've
Speaker 1: been pulled going on the guys, Hey, you need to
Speaker 1: do this, you know what I mean? And that to
Speaker 1: me is when when you see a quarterback that's got
Speaker 1: the confidence to do that, you can tell John you've
Speaker 1: been in that position that Hey, when people get in
Speaker 1: that huddle and you say something, they listen. We just
Speaker 1: think about where he is mentally. I mean, uh, he's married,
Speaker 1: he's got a kid. Now, he's out different, he's been
Speaker 1: out for over twenty months, and he's been able to
Speaker 1: look on the sidelines and maybe take a peek at
Speaker 1: others that have played the position in his absence and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, I might not have done that there.
Speaker 1: I might not have handled that that way, or you
Speaker 1: know what, I like what he did there. There. There's
Speaker 1: other ways of going about learning your craft and learning
Speaker 1: your position, especially when you haven't done it since you
Speaker 1: were eight years old and being born and bred to
Speaker 1: be a quarterback. This is a guy that's played multiple
Speaker 1: positions as a young guy. He kind of thrust it
Speaker 1: and found himself at Texas A and m he gets
Speaker 1: drafted very high as as a member of the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and he's expected to be the savior right away or
Speaker 1: the guy that is supposed to be that guy to
Speaker 1: take us where we're gonna go. It didn't happen for
Speaker 1: him right away, and I think he's learned a lot
Speaker 1: in the process, and hopefully when he comes back this year,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be healthy enough to stand in there and
Speaker 1: do all the things he did when he was there.
Speaker 1: We remember, this is a guy that is a tough
Speaker 1: s ob. He got his aspeat for a couple of years. Okay,
Speaker 1: His durability before this last day, right and toughness for
Speaker 1: the mount of hits he took was and mentally he's
Speaker 1: got to be the same way. Now. Can you surround
Speaker 1: him and give him a chance to come back and
Speaker 1: make it all the stuff he's learned, all those lessons
Speaker 1: he's learned on the sidelines. Can can he turn that
Speaker 1: into victories and turn that into production as a quarterback? Hey,
Speaker 1: you guys want to knock out some of these questions
Speaker 1: by the fans. Great, you know what, I want to
Speaker 1: thank the fans that that sent questions and This is awesome,
Speaker 1: UH to turn out for these questions and UH, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna again encourage you to send your questions in.
Speaker 1: We'll get to him on our next podcast. You can
Speaker 1: go through Twitter, you can go through Facebook, and you
Speaker 1: go through Miami Dolphins dot com. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if there's an outlet there. You can do all those
Speaker 1: kind of things and and get I don't know. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, right Logan, A lot of lots
Speaker 1: of way am I missing? Any ways to get on here?
Speaker 1: You can call Logan at for a good time. If
Speaker 1: you want to get Logan's number, just go to any
Speaker 1: any any bar in UH in South Florida and go
Speaker 1: into the ladies room and look on the wall. You'll
Speaker 1: feel you'll find his phone number in there somewhere, so
Speaker 1: you can just get ahold of him that way. Let's
Speaker 1: go to right here Twitter at cimony. Do you this
Speaker 1: is a pretty good question. Do you guys think we do?
Speaker 1: You think we have too many defensive ends? And how
Speaker 1: do you envision we use all of them? It's funny
Speaker 1: because we were talking about that a little bit. When
Speaker 1: you look at all the changes and Dominican Sioux leaves,
Speaker 1: and you're looking at the defensive tackles, and you got
Speaker 1: all these defensive ends right now. You look at what
Speaker 1: we've got. You got Robert Quinn, the kid they got
Speaker 1: from the Rams. You got Andre Branch who's coming back
Speaker 1: from from surgery during the off season. William Hayes. So
Speaker 1: I'm very happy that they resigned William. He was one
Speaker 1: of a player and I was just hoping that they
Speaker 1: would resign him. They did that Cam Wake would they
Speaker 1: gave a little extra dollars to put a little money
Speaker 1: in his pocket. Charles Harris, Terence Forday who's still a
Speaker 1: free agent out there, and the one guy that kind
Speaker 1: of is flying under the radar as a defensive end.
Speaker 1: I thought I did a lot of good things last year.
Speaker 1: They're like, is Cameron Malvo the young kid that came
Speaker 1: out at it really got the playing time. It did
Speaker 1: pretty well. But Joe, that is a lot of defensive ends.
Speaker 1: And you look at the tackles and now you're really
Speaker 1: you're looking at you look at Devin Gotschaw, you look
Speaker 1: at Vincent Taylor, and you look at Jordan Phillips. Those
Speaker 1: are your guys, those are your core guys in there.
Speaker 1: Is it outweighed too much? Joe defensive end of defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: My only my only thought is this, Charles Harris was
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round last year with the thought
Speaker 1: of upside and being a big time having a chance
Speaker 1: to be a double digit sack guy. And bo, I
Speaker 1: know everybody wants depth, but if we draft this guy
Speaker 1: in the first round, line them up out there as
Speaker 1: a starter and let them play, I'm just afraid. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this, and I'm looking at it early, and
Speaker 1: I see Cam Wake and I see Quinn as starters.
Speaker 1: That's what I see. So I just wonder, like, well,
Speaker 1: you may sup first round pack, Joe, you may see
Speaker 1: that now. But look, I saw Charles Harris get better.
Speaker 1: I saw him close a lot last year. And I
Speaker 1: think that knowing Charles Harris from what I know about
Speaker 1: him since he's been here, this guy's busting his ass
Speaker 1: right now to be the best player that he can get.
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say that. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give Look, I'm Cameron went Cam wait hard
Speaker 1: not to give him. But look, Cam, maybe a guy
Speaker 1: that they say, look, maybe maybe you're the guy. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're the third down guy, and maybe it's Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: and maybe it's Charles Harris. I don't know, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give Charles Harry. I'm gonna put Charles Harris in
Speaker 1: one of those starting spots because I expect him to
Speaker 1: go out there and bust his ass to see if
Speaker 1: you can do that. Maybe he can, maybe not. And Joe,
Speaker 1: I'm different than you. I don't care if he's a
Speaker 1: first round draft pick. Put the best two guys out
Speaker 1: there defensive end. And I've told I've said this before
Speaker 1: in the show. You give I get for for a
Speaker 1: league that demands you to rush the pastor and put
Speaker 1: pressure in the pastor give me as many defensive ends
Speaker 1: as you got that can rush the passer and just
Speaker 1: put them all out there and see how and see
Speaker 1: how much pressure you can get on him. That's my
Speaker 1: thought on it. I just don't want our first round
Speaker 1: picks are special. Your first round pick. I think first
Speaker 1: round picks gotta be a little more special than being
Speaker 1: in a rotation with everybody else. That's just me personally.
Speaker 1: I don't get a guy. We've had too many guys
Speaker 1: come through here, too many first round picks. They're rotational
Speaker 1: or don't play well. I want him to be a
Speaker 1: franchise kind of player. Both if he can do that
Speaker 1: rotating in and out and we can get the production
Speaker 1: and he's a starter. And but if he's not in
Speaker 1: there on second and long and third and long, I
Speaker 1: think he will be in those packages that they can run.
Speaker 1: But I just expect that guy. I thought this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a breakout year for him to move ahead
Speaker 1: and very well be I mean, you're you're kind of
Speaker 1: you're kind of throwing him at the end of the
Speaker 1: pile before he's even got a chance to get out there.
Speaker 1: Who do you think right now? On paper? Let's just
Speaker 1: epen round the kick you guys, who do you think
Speaker 1: it is starting? Ends right now? I would say that
Speaker 1: for me, okay, I would put Quinn, Branch, Wake and
Speaker 1: m Charles Harris all in the mix. Two of those
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be your defense man's I'm not discounting
Speaker 1: defense in fact, that Charles Harris, I'm not discounting fact
Speaker 1: that Andre Branch maybe that guy. I think that if
Speaker 1: he gave to me of the guy to me of
Speaker 1: the guys that that I mentioned in that group before,
Speaker 1: I would say Cam Wake, maybe is not the starter.
Speaker 1: I would say Cam Wake maybe becomes the situational guy,
Speaker 1: the third down guy that leaves Quinn branch and uh
Speaker 1: and and Charles Harris to battle it out for those
Speaker 1: two spots for a starting and quite frankly, every freaking
Speaker 1: team in this league is rotating their defensive fronts to
Speaker 1: keep guys, keep guys uh. You know where they're not.
Speaker 1: They're not dead on their feet. I know, I know
Speaker 1: that Charles Harris wasn't the guy that I thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna be in his rookie year. I thought he'd
Speaker 1: get a little bit more playing time. I thought he'd
Speaker 1: be a little bit more productive. Now. The staff liked
Speaker 1: all the intangibles he did, all the stuff that he did,
Speaker 1: but I kind of put him in the bucket almost
Speaker 1: with xaviing Howard xaviing Howard and drafted in different spot.
Speaker 1: Granted pretty close, but let's draft it in different in
Speaker 1: different spots. But that guy came along in year two
Speaker 1: and was a different player. I think at the end
Speaker 1: of year one and more in year two. Let's see
Speaker 1: where Charles Harris comes back and l T can't tell
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but let's see where he is in
Speaker 1: training camp. Let's see what he's been able to do,
Speaker 1: because the one thing that we all can agree on,
Speaker 1: this guy has been working and he's he's a hard worker.
Speaker 1: This guy he wants to be the guy. Let's see exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's see where he's at during training camp. Let's see
Speaker 1: how this rotation comes out, and let's see where this
Speaker 1: defensive scheme comes into fruition. Are we going to be
Speaker 1: the Giants of two thousand eighteen for a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of passing, paying three defensive ends. We might
Speaker 1: have to be. We might have to be everybody's nick.
Speaker 1: Let's see Mark grim comes in from Facebook. We should
Speaker 1: be trying to copy what the Pats do. Isn't everyone
Speaker 1: trying to do that? If they're not, they're idiots. It
Speaker 1: would be awesome to draft Miami wide receiver Braxton burials
Speaker 1: Now on day three and pair him up with Wilson
Speaker 1: and Amundole in the short passing spread game. Spread system
Speaker 1: used Drake in the same manner. Get that guy in
Speaker 1: space because the speed agree with that. Let's Stills and
Speaker 1: a Parker pulled the downfield back, uh the d back
Speaker 1: down field played if Tannehill strength, he's a great intermediate
Speaker 1: pastor not a great vertical passer. I wouldn't I wouldn't
Speaker 1: go quite that far. H is say that about him.
Speaker 1: But but getting to the point of his question, Uh,
Speaker 1: I got a local guy, Braxton Burrios, a guy that
Speaker 1: really didn't come into his own at u M until
Speaker 1: he was until he's senior season, and really did a
Speaker 1: lot of good things for him. I wouldn't mind seeing
Speaker 1: him on the roster. I wouldn't mind seeing him A
Speaker 1: guy that a date the late day two, day three
Speaker 1: or a Day three I mean day three pick up,
Speaker 1: not a second round guy, but a Day three pick up.
Speaker 1: If he ends up on this roster, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: disappointed with that at all. Well, I think he's got
Speaker 1: a place in the league because the things he can do.
Speaker 1: He's a slot receiver, really good hands on punt returns,
Speaker 1: really guy, a guy you can really trust. Uh inside
Speaker 1: actually and get to finish his workout the combine. He
Speaker 1: got injured a little bit. But yeah, I think we're
Speaker 1: all big Braxton burials fans. I I really like it.
Speaker 1: And of course everybody's got him going to New England
Speaker 1: because he's a short wi Yeah, yeah, and he fits
Speaker 1: in like a glove there. Uh, Jeff Thomas on Facebook,
Speaker 1: I'll have Damni Dannie Mendolas signing. Sure we lost some
Speaker 1: big names, but they're also contribute to a six and
Speaker 1: ten season. That's the other thing you look at. You
Speaker 1: you look at the guys that are leaving and go
Speaker 1: why are we or require crying over spilled milk over
Speaker 1: a six and ten season after that with those guys
Speaker 1: in the line if I understand that, But that's just
Speaker 1: my talk. Anyway, our fins needed to shake up. We
Speaker 1: filled most of those souls with some big time key players,
Speaker 1: just a few more pieces of puzzle. I like the
Speaker 1: direction we're heading in, all right, That's that's fair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I look at it not for production of how
Speaker 1: how good those guys. We lost some good players. No
Speaker 1: matter what the record was, they were good players. That's
Speaker 1: not up for debate. But if the money's an issue,
Speaker 1: which I understand on both guys, then then we got
Speaker 1: to get that thing back in order so we can
Speaker 1: get more players. I agree with that. Joe. You look
Speaker 1: at the roster and you take a look. If you'd
Speaker 1: told me Jarvis Landry and Domagan's who and Mike Pouncey
Speaker 1: wouldn't be part the two. I would have said, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: But that's reality now, and now the Dolphins have to
Speaker 1: move on. I think. I think so far in free agency,
Speaker 1: on paper, they've addressed a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: the losses. But by the way, everybody else, just to
Speaker 1: be fair was part of the six wins to not
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, that's ever the reality. Look around the league.
Speaker 1: This is the reality of the league, not just some
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. You guys from the Philadelphia Eagles that they
Speaker 1: just won a Super Bowl, they're leaving. You gotta you know.
Speaker 1: You look at the Rams, look at the year the
Speaker 1: Rams had, and look at they get rid of Quinny
Speaker 1: when they're defensive backs. So it doesn't it. I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know that. You're looking New England.
Speaker 1: New England's jettison players. It doesn't matter what your record is.
Speaker 1: The league is gonna be from this is what it is.
Speaker 1: This is the new league right now. You I don't
Speaker 1: care if you won ten games or lost ten games.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a bunch of people coming and growing.
Speaker 1: That's something going. You try to get rid of guys
Speaker 1: before they make too much money. And by the way.
Speaker 1: Nobody does it better in New England. When he thinks
Speaker 1: you're making too much money, no matter what your name
Speaker 1: is except Brady, you're gone, or the age or the
Speaker 1: age kind of creeps up there and you see, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't need him anymore. That's what
Speaker 1: somebody in the rot Bell Belichick reminds me of Wayne Hysinger.
Speaker 1: Knows when to buy. More importantly, knows when to sell right,
Speaker 1: when to get rid of them, when when they still don't,
Speaker 1: when they don't have much left Another Facebook, Robert Man.
Speaker 1: As you can see a lot of people coming in
Speaker 1: through Facebook. So, like I said, when you want to
Speaker 1: send your questions, and it looks like Facebook is a
Speaker 1: pretty good than Yeah, because logan using misspell stuff and
Speaker 1: I can't read it properly. Robert Man. Robert Mann with
Speaker 1: two ends, I would not be angry who pick up
Speaker 1: a tight in the first round. I wouldn't be. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem like it could happen. We have we've
Speaker 1: we've not had a pass catching tight end since Joe Rose.
Speaker 1: Oh no, since Clay went to Buffalo. Put that in there,
Speaker 1: but was that Joe Joe got into the notes. These
Speaker 1: freaking guys wouldn't let it go Logan, how about Joe
Speaker 1: before the show? Hey, can I use that pen for
Speaker 1: a second? What do you need a pen for? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I like, I like, he says. I like Mike DASICKI
Speaker 1: from Penn State. Good guy. They're the kid from the
Speaker 1: kid from Wisconsin was starting Carolina Carolina. Ye. So so
Speaker 1: there's a number of out there they okay, just because
Speaker 1: of these guys, don't count on. No, I don't want
Speaker 1: to block. Don't give me a blood no, No, resign
Speaker 1: Facon if you want to block, you know what. But
Speaker 1: the way the way the first round is shaping up
Speaker 1: right now, I think the chance of the Dolphins taking
Speaker 1: a tight end in the first round are becoming more
Speaker 1: distant as we look forward. The quarterbacks are kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, stacking up on the top with the Jets
Speaker 1: moving up at all that, and so that means you've
Speaker 1: got defensive players that maybe falling down in the in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins lap when it comes to eleven. I don't
Speaker 1: know that there's a tight end out there, Joe and
Speaker 1: John if the Dolphins states seven, that there's anybody out
Speaker 1: there that requires there's Howard out there in this draft
Speaker 1: at some point there's certain positions. We gotta stop just
Speaker 1: getting free agents for him, putting a band aid on
Speaker 1: some of these positions and grows some of your own
Speaker 1: through the draft. We have done very good at guard.
Speaker 1: You had to go out and get We don't have
Speaker 1: homegrown guards, so we got we gotta get some other
Speaker 1: positions over where we hit and tighten might be one
Speaker 1: where you find it tight end. And we know Adam
Speaker 1: Gate is gonna use him. He likes to flex him
Speaker 1: out inside the twenty. Different stuff. Get him one on
Speaker 1: one against safeties and linebackers. Get your own guy. You
Speaker 1: like another one from Facebook, Lithaya knowledge. I like what
Speaker 1: Josh Sitton brings to the Miami Dolphins. We didn't talk
Speaker 1: about Josh as much as we talked earlier about Kilgore.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about him a little bit here. Uh. He's
Speaker 1: a solid offensive lineman. Uh. And and they're picking up
Speaker 1: pieces and putting them together. Now we have a solid
Speaker 1: center who's healthy, a Pro Bowl left guard. Now they
Speaker 1: need to draft the right tackle and a right guard.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna happen. The offensive line
Speaker 1: is going to be nasty. Um. I like this sign
Speaker 1: of John Josh sitting and you got a chance to
Speaker 1: talk to him, John, I talked him on the phone. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's an offense alignment as order bag, nasty, sloppy,
Speaker 1: it's not come out of your nose offensive lineman. What
Speaker 1: you said someone asked about moving from left to guard
Speaker 1: left or right. It's like Samuel, Well, try wiping your
Speaker 1: ass with your opposite hand now, see, Or you can
Speaker 1: be like Jay bro when you have both hands and casts.
Speaker 1: See who's gonna wipe your app for you? When every
Speaker 1: time j would get up and go to the bat
Speaker 1: head towards the bathroom, everybody that's turned in head in
Speaker 1: the other draft, no one wanted to be in the
Speaker 1: No one wanted to be in the bathroom. When Josh
Speaker 1: broke friends, that was a special girlfriend special How did
Speaker 1: come in here? But you just ring the bell? But
Speaker 1: but anyway, so Josh and he's a colorful character, obviously
Speaker 1: coming out with with something like that. But I think
Speaker 1: Josh Sitton is one of those guys, a veteran guy,
Speaker 1: pro bowler. I think I think between he and Kilgore,
Speaker 1: they're gonna bring that long hair, nasty toughness, beards. You know,
Speaker 1: they're those guys. I didn't know if I wanted to
Speaker 1: kiss him on the forehead just to say thank you
Speaker 1: for being on the buy him a beard, you know.
Speaker 1: At the same time, he looks like an offensive talks
Speaker 1: an offense line. And what is he going to bring
Speaker 1: to the table for the guy next to him? I
Speaker 1: mean in touncil, if he's on the left side, how
Speaker 1: is he going to bring him along? Because I think
Speaker 1: you've got eyes that have experienced. You've got guys that
Speaker 1: have made Pro Bowls, You've got guys that have played
Speaker 1: at a lot of games in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: They're not old by any stretch. They're experienced. They're right
Speaker 1: in between. And I think that's a good fit for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins because they like the guys that are
Speaker 1: being coached by Jeremiah Washburn. They like they just like
Speaker 1: being offensive lineman. And what do those guys do. They
Speaker 1: share ideas they're in that room. No one has more
Speaker 1: fun in a room than the offensive line, right, So
Speaker 1: those guys exactly can't control themselves. Part of it. I
Speaker 1: think that's part of it. They don't have to get
Speaker 1: up to go to the bathroom, they just go right there.
Speaker 1: So I think that's part of it. That's what you
Speaker 1: get when you get veteran guys in the room and
Speaker 1: Juwan James on one side Larry Tunso on the other.
Speaker 1: How can they bring those two guards can if it's
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis or it's Ted Larson. I tend to think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Jesse Davis. If those two guys can
Speaker 1: make those tackles a little bit better, then then then
Speaker 1: you really got some The other thing Joe does by
Speaker 1: by going ahead signing those two guys, it throws out
Speaker 1: the entire question of drafting a guard in the first
Speaker 1: That's that. That's done. And by the way, nobody got
Speaker 1: more talent on this offensive line than Laramie Tonsil at
Speaker 1: left tackle. He's got the footwork of a wide receiver
Speaker 1: running back. He just gotta put it together and maybe
Speaker 1: having a veteran next to him, he'll just will help
Speaker 1: him just get better and better. Twitter at Arcane twelve
Speaker 1: nine first rounder. Get a monster linebacker that looks like
Speaker 1: maybe maybe may more and more be the reality now. Second,
Speaker 1: go to a tight end. Third, get a defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: If they get the right players, all could start year
Speaker 1: one and then try for some depth in the rest
Speaker 1: of the draft and Hill, we'll get the issue to
Speaker 1: see what he is. If he's not a top ten
Speaker 1: quarterback next year, then draft for future quarterback. I agree
Speaker 1: with all those things, but I think the quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think that quarterback is still gonna be somewhere in the
Speaker 1: second or third round for this football team. Doesn't look
Speaker 1: like first round is gonna be gonna be available, but
Speaker 1: who knows it. But I think second or third round
Speaker 1: you still gotta walk with with a quarterback. You gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta find. I think it would be a rookie
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. But I'll tell you what, he hit it
Speaker 1: right on. I'm with those positions and and that that
Speaker 1: big stud linebacker that looks like you know, if if
Speaker 1: that's what you want, I think right now it's probably
Speaker 1: to me. Then when the Dolphins drafted eleven, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good linebacker there and they may jump on
Speaker 1: unless it's the kid Vida, the kid from where he
Speaker 1: washing question via Vida that uh he's a Simone kid, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's big. Simone defensive alignment, very very high in my book. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. They don't get hurt, they don't break
Speaker 1: down on the West Coast. If you're not in a way,
Speaker 1: if you never played football on the West Coast, I
Speaker 1: don't think you know the smon. I mean, I played
Speaker 1: with a lot of Simone guys over my career. I
Speaker 1: love playing with every one of them. Everyone was a
Speaker 1: tough s O B. And every one of them you
Speaker 1: if you go into battle, you want them sitting you want.
Speaker 1: I can still remember were coming out of the huddle
Speaker 1: playing B y U when they in college, when they
Speaker 1: won the national title in eighty three or four. Was
Speaker 1: and I'm looking across and everybody looked like they were
Speaker 1: forty years old. And they all went on missions. They're
Speaker 1: all some and they all had beards. That's all said.
Speaker 1: They all have five kids already. I said, don't let
Speaker 1: him hit me. All had that wild hair sticking out
Speaker 1: of their coming out of someone. Come on, where did
Speaker 1: they get this guy from? You know? Yeah, they got
Speaker 1: them from some boa That's where they got them from
Speaker 1: El Chapol juniors. I'm about rounds back in with it.
Speaker 1: With the pickups in free agency so far, which position
Speaker 1: do you think we should target now in the draft.
Speaker 1: You're talking about tight end, you were talking about line
Speaker 1: back and backer, you're talking about maybe defensive line in
Speaker 1: terms of tackle. I mean those positions right there. I think,
Speaker 1: oh Bau might want to take another defensive end. Let
Speaker 1: me check, well, let me go back and check the tape.
Speaker 1: I don't think let me the only The only way
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Dolphins should take a deep that's
Speaker 1: a end in the draft is if they draft me again,
Speaker 1: let me sign. Let me sign one of those goddamn contracts.
Speaker 1: If these guys are signed right now and you you
Speaker 1: were wrapping the seventh I'll take seventh round money right now.
Speaker 1: Seventh round money maybe more money than I made my
Speaker 1: entire career. They're all getting paid now. You're not kidding, no,
Speaker 1: I like those positions. I really do. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got a linebacker, you got tight end, I think defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: and I think the Dolphins may end up getting a
Speaker 1: running back somewhere. Running back the other thing in terms
Speaker 1: of being able, I mean, there's a lot of running
Speaker 1: backs in this draft. They're gonna get fourth, fifth, and
Speaker 1: sixth round that are pretty darn damn good catchers. The
Speaker 1: other thing that seems to keep floating around too, is
Speaker 1: maybe another cornerback out there. If there's some guy down
Speaker 1: the road a little bit, but I'm pretty Look I
Speaker 1: look at our secondary, especially with Tony Lippett coming back,
Speaker 1: they resigned Walt Aitkins. You know you've got You've got
Speaker 1: your your two cornerbacks, your Tank and your Xavian, who
Speaker 1: really are really Xavians certainly came into his own. If
Speaker 1: Tank can have that kind of improvement that Xavian have
Speaker 1: from year one, pretty good. And then with her Shod
Speaker 1: and teach A back there, well you feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about that starting group. Other side of x and Bobby,
Speaker 1: Bobby inside is Bobby played some outside with good but
Speaker 1: he made a big step forward last year, I think,
Speaker 1: and he gives you so much versatility if somebody goes down,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go. Chris Williams from Facebook to me,
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson is a faster Landry. He was third in
Speaker 1: the league and broken tackles with a lot less catches
Speaker 1: than the top two guys. Uh number two was Landry. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know what. To be honest with you, if I
Speaker 1: was to tell you I watched all of Albert Wilson's
Speaker 1: play game, I I'd be lying to you. I know
Speaker 1: he's a fast kid. I know he's a tough kid,
Speaker 1: he's a smart kid. Had a chance to talk to him,
Speaker 1: and I really liked the conversation I had with Albert Um.
Speaker 1: But look, he's gonna have to go a long way
Speaker 1: to be close to Jarvis. Let's not kid each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, for the inside, for the slot thing,
Speaker 1: I get there. Everybody wants the extra speed, and you know,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna break down Jarvis Landry, I would like
Speaker 1: to see Jarvis Landry run four fours instead of four sevens.
Speaker 1: But that guy, no matter what anybody wants, Steve is
Speaker 1: a really good slot receiver. Move on. But you don't
Speaker 1: have to bring up Jarvis Landry. You can get guys,
Speaker 1: you can spread out. I get that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: those hundred and sixty UM targets that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: are gonna get spread out with everybody, and I'm all
Speaker 1: for that, man. I think that should happen, and I
Speaker 1: think it's good for morale. I think it's just good
Speaker 1: for business. Look at look at New England. Look at
Speaker 1: New England. They started who they started with. Danny Woodhead
Speaker 1: was or No West Welcome was the first of the ILK.
Speaker 1: Then it was Danny Woodhead, then it was Edelman, and
Speaker 1: then it was Amndola. If anybody's gone through good slot
Speaker 1: receivers and let him move on and then showing that
Speaker 1: you can find someone else to do it, it's certainly
Speaker 1: has been doing it. And maybe and maybe that that,
Speaker 1: maybe that constant of of that guy, Tom Brady, maybe
Speaker 1: that has something to do with I think receivers play
Speaker 1: in New England that haven't done better than their careers
Speaker 1: after playing with Brady. Yeah, I think they. I think
Speaker 1: you know, with Tom Brady, they won Super Bowls with
Speaker 1: a bunch of receivers. As he said, who is there
Speaker 1: were those guys it didn't matter. Uh. James Cheatham on
Speaker 1: Facebook as a Dolphin fan living in Missouri Chiefs Country.
Speaker 1: I see Albert Wilson play. He's flown under the radar,
Speaker 1: but he's actually pretty good, a pretty good route runner
Speaker 1: and gets separation. I usually fear the worst with Dolphin acquisitions,
Speaker 1: but I'm holding out hope that's he's gonna surprise some
Speaker 1: people when I have a chance to talk to him,
Speaker 1: and John, you have a chance to talk to him,
Speaker 1: really comes across as a good guy. He's been through
Speaker 1: a lot in his life that he's bought battle through
Speaker 1: and I think he carries out with him and he's
Speaker 1: a guy that he's one of those guys he just
Speaker 1: I just want to go out there and show people
Speaker 1: what I can do. And he thinks his time is
Speaker 1: right now, and hopefully it is, so he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance. I mean, he's signed a three year deal.
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, two years of exposure for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. When you take a look at the numbers
Speaker 1: and where he's at, he's gonna have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: to make a home in South Florida. He's a South
Speaker 1: Florida native of Port St. Lucy High School. So a
Speaker 1: guy that's a tough guy and when you watch him
Speaker 1: on film, he does make people miss when he gets
Speaker 1: his opportunities. He's got that that jump step in the
Speaker 1: middle of traffic that he's able to allude tackles and
Speaker 1: and move the ain't So you hope that that carries over.
Speaker 1: Uh with this offense and where Adam Gates wants to
Speaker 1: take the targets that Joe talked about and spread those
Speaker 1: targets out, You're hoping that he gets his share. I
Speaker 1: look at the money he's playing absolutely I can tell
Speaker 1: you the first four receivers are unless he get injured.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's pretty clear. The two here last
Speaker 1: year and and two new guys, the amount of money
Speaker 1: they got, I mean, the the guy that's gonna have
Speaker 1: to come in and play like Superman from from the
Speaker 1: first practice out. Here's crew of those. And I agree
Speaker 1: with that. That's the pecking order in that. Where do
Speaker 1: you throw Jakim in on that ahead of Carew. He's
Speaker 1: a fifth guy that can do and he's got that
Speaker 1: extra gear and actually Finnish strong. My god, I called
Speaker 1: it the speed package. I want, I want more him.
Speaker 1: He may get more play. He's on the outside, right,
Speaker 1: everybody forgets. Everybody figured out, not know he's an outside guy.
Speaker 1: Let him make somebody miss and threaten and let me ask.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget. You got still got your key him
Speaker 1: as a punt return you got Danny Amendole, you got Wilson.
Speaker 1: You know you've increased your special teams, You've increased your
Speaker 1: your skill on special teams with those guys. When it
Speaker 1: comes to kick returning. Yeah, well listen, I see a
Speaker 1: Mendola where they're inside the tenant. It's super high. He's
Speaker 1: gonna get out there. He's gonna catch him. When you
Speaker 1: got open field long kid Jarvis, I mean Jachim. Jachim
Speaker 1: will be back out, no doubt, no doubt. Twitter. If
Speaker 1: you there's a number of people have got in with
Speaker 1: this question, who's been your guy's favorite signing so far
Speaker 1: this year? Sitting? You like Sitting? You like that? You
Speaker 1: like that offensive guarden there. I think a nasty that
Speaker 1: h I have to go offensive line too. I'm saying
Speaker 1: Kilgore as well. I mean, if you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: guy that that that's that good and healthy at his
Speaker 1: age and be able to come in and replace a
Speaker 1: guy that you were crossing your fingers with you know
Speaker 1: every day at practice that he's gonna play and he's gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, be there because if he goes down right now,
Speaker 1: uh it, Pouncy a week ago went down, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: didn't have a really an answer. You know, they got
Speaker 1: they got they got some trying guys in there, but
Speaker 1: they don't have a guy that's proven. Now you've got
Speaker 1: a guy that's proven. They're they're they're one A and
Speaker 1: one B for me. Both those guys sitting, Sitting and
Speaker 1: Kilgore both those guys, because those two guys come in
Speaker 1: at the same time, and it completely revamps your offensive line.
Speaker 1: And and and and John you you've mentioned this when
Speaker 1: when you talk about sitting and kill Gore's say they
Speaker 1: bring a real tough They don't. They don't, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not. They're not the the guy that's puffing out
Speaker 1: his chest walking across the street. They might kind of
Speaker 1: walk slump shoulder a little bit. But if you if
Speaker 1: you push your button the wrong way, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: your asking. Let me tell you a quick story. So
Speaker 1: I I look at Daniel Kilgore's you know, bio, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking on Wikipedia trying to find out a little
Speaker 1: bit about him. And he's from a little town in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking on the map and it's real close
Speaker 1: to Tri Cities Airport. This is, uh next to a
Speaker 1: golf course called the Old Farm that I'm a member at.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna talk to Daniel and interviewing for the
Speaker 1: one on one and say, hey, I saw your you
Speaker 1: know from a little town. Uh, that's right next to
Speaker 1: Tri Cities Airport. He goes, can't this my house? If
Speaker 1: you're flying in there? It's got like a copper roof.
Speaker 1: You'll be able to see it all the time. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm a member at this place called the Old Farm
Speaker 1: in Bristol, Virginia. Actually, Damn Reno's remember there too. He goes,
Speaker 1: I know it well, he said, next time, when you
Speaker 1: guys go up there, don't call for the shuttle, call me.
Speaker 1: I'll come pick you up. That way, I'll get to
Speaker 1: play the course with you. I said, I like you
Speaker 1: already the way you think. But you know, he's only
Speaker 1: a little genuine guys that he said, you know what,
Speaker 1: forget that, I'll come pick you guys. Yeah. And they're
Speaker 1: both excited about being here. Man. They just seem like
Speaker 1: they want to be part of this thing. And well
Speaker 1: you look at Sitt and he's he's a he's a
Speaker 1: Florida guy. His wife's a big dolphin fan, and he's
Speaker 1: he's he's thrilled about coming down here, you know. And
Speaker 1: some of these guys you would think, like like Kilgore
Speaker 1: would be a guy to me that you would think, Man,
Speaker 1: I just signed with these guys, the forty niners, that
Speaker 1: you think there would be a little ANIMALSI there. He's
Speaker 1: just excited about being here. And get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: come and really changed his franchise around in starting center. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's his. Hey, you know what, There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about leadership with with with guys coming
Speaker 1: in and trying to bring guys, and I think you
Speaker 1: look at all these guys Amndola, Quinn, Sitting Kill Gore,
Speaker 1: I think they all bring that that leadership to How
Speaker 1: important you think that is or is that just is
Speaker 1: that just a catchphrase being thrown around this year. I
Speaker 1: think it's important, But Bo, we play with guys that
Speaker 1: aren't great team, guys that don't show up all the time,
Speaker 1: but they play their ass off on Sunday and without
Speaker 1: going into all the old names on our forty five
Speaker 1: man roster, and you you got to have those guys.
Speaker 1: I think this culture thing that's stone out, that's leaked
Speaker 1: out of Davy is important, But Bo, you still gotta
Speaker 1: have guys that make plays game changers on on Sunday
Speaker 1: and Monday night and Thursday night. And we got to
Speaker 1: have those guys because or that culture that you talked about,
Speaker 1: that culture is great. Your fans will never get to see.
Speaker 1: It's one spoke on the wheel for me. I mean
Speaker 1: you need it, how important it is, it depends on
Speaker 1: how good you are. I think it comes down that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I look, I think to me, Uh, you gotta have
Speaker 1: we guys, not me guys. And I don't care about
Speaker 1: you know, Leadership to me is is to me, tends
Speaker 1: to be an overblown thing. But you just gotta have
Speaker 1: guys who want to play and win football games. Well,
Speaker 1: probably one of the great leaders that we we had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to play with, Joe barely said a word.
Speaker 1: Dwight Stevenson and and but when Dwight said something, everybody
Speaker 1: listened to what he said everybody. And he was that
Speaker 1: guy that led by example, by go out, practiced hard,
Speaker 1: worked hard. No one worked harder than him, no one
Speaker 1: practiced harder on him, and no one played better than him.
Speaker 1: And that that comes across uh in another way. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be a verbal guy to be a leader,
Speaker 1: but you got if you're not, you respected and he's
Speaker 1: out there doing stuff, you got a big balls to
Speaker 1: not do the same thing. But you know that's I
Speaker 1: start to say their names. I don't want to throw
Speaker 1: guys under the bus. But we had guys who were late,
Speaker 1: guys like don't you would go if I could touch now,
Speaker 1: And the player told him back, I know, but you
Speaker 1: don't have any better and you won't for a while,
Speaker 1: so you won't be cutting me. Well, I'm gonna leave you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave you with my only, my only don
Speaker 1: Shola cutting the guy on the spot moment. We're we're
Speaker 1: training camp at St. Thomas University with beautiful facility, potholes
Speaker 1: in the parking lots, staying the dorm on one side,
Speaker 1: had our locker room on the other side, and just
Speaker 1: to the west of that was our practice field, and
Speaker 1: all surrounding the practice field where a bunch of trees
Speaker 1: was like a little mini forest out there. And we
Speaker 1: had one kid who was a rookie overslept, overslept for
Speaker 1: a training camp, and you can see the parking lot
Speaker 1: from the practice field. All of a sudden, you see
Speaker 1: this guy bobbing and weaving between the cars right, and
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna say with hey, what's that over there? You know?
Speaker 1: Now next you know, everybody's looking. So the guy, the
Speaker 1: guy's late, obviously bobbing and weaving through the cars, gets
Speaker 1: into the locker room, puts his ship on, puts his helmet,
Speaker 1: and pads on. Comes running back, dodging the weaving through
Speaker 1: the cars, goes through the dorm, goes remember how you
Speaker 1: go through a little walkway, comes through the back, goes
Speaker 1: through the forest, comes out right behind practice, climbs over
Speaker 1: the fence, climbs over the fence, gets on the field
Speaker 1: and kind of snuggles up behind everybody. As you're standing
Speaker 1: there in the group, you all the offensive guys, and
Speaker 1: you know they've got their backs to the fence. He
Speaker 1: kind of crawls and gets in the fence there, and
Speaker 1: you know, for a little bit, and and you see
Speaker 1: him all of a sudden he starting to get a man,
Speaker 1: Who I made that? I made that? And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden she was es, where the hell you been, coach,
Speaker 1: I'm right here. Was Oh, don't don't give me that crap.
Speaker 1: I saw you running across the park. A lot I
Speaker 1: got he goes. He says, get out of here. He goes,
Speaker 1: we don't need guys like you. You're cut get out
Speaker 1: of here. So guys turns around, starts walking on the field.
Speaker 1: Shows no, no, no, no, you go out the same
Speaker 1: way you came to hop over the fence again, going
Speaker 1: back through the trees, go back through the thing. The
Speaker 1: only thing you did do He didn't surf and tie
Speaker 1: through the parking a lot this time, he just walks. Ready,
Speaker 1: that's that crappy way by having to climb over the
Speaker 1: fence to go home. Time for us to climb over
Speaker 1: the fence and go home right now. That's gonna do
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