Speaker 1: Fractors were Dolphins faffords growing touchdown? What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow me? What is up? Dolphans?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each
Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, I'm just gonna be honest, whoa
Speaker 1: it is? Football season tonight? Baby? I mean, doesn't that
Speaker 1: December trip to Foxboro feel like it was twentysomething years ago?
Speaker 1: We've got Chiefs Texans tonight on your television, but we
Speaker 1: are focused on Dolphins and Patriots on Sunday. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from coach some players, update, the injuries, and in
Speaker 1: between all of that. Really get into the weeds on
Speaker 1: this game. All of that and more this Thursday, September
Speaker 1: tenth edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Season opening game
Speaker 1: is always a tradition unlike any other, and I continue
Speaker 1: that tradition of saying the home team finds victory. You
Speaker 1: just don't go against the defending champs, raising the banner
Speaker 1: in their own building on opening night. Not to mention,
Speaker 1: we do own the Texans first and second round draft picks,
Speaker 1: so technically a loss on Thursday from Houston puts those
Speaker 1: draft picks right at the top of each round, straight
Speaker 1: out of the gate. That's something we're gonna monitor throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season, heading into Draft season one.
Speaker 1: But I've got the Chiefs tonight, and it's largely because
Speaker 1: of their quarterback, of their m v P, of their
Speaker 1: Super Bowl m v P, and Patrick Mahomes. And I'll
Speaker 1: say this just before we get into coaches media for
Speaker 1: Thursday morning. I understand that most of the time when
Speaker 1: we talk about the all time grades, you have to
Speaker 1: support those claims with a body of work. Right, people
Speaker 1: want to know about the number of years of production,
Speaker 1: maybe x number of championship rings. And if you dare
Speaker 1: propose that a player under the age of might be
Speaker 1: the best of all time, then you're gonna be greeted
Speaker 1: with the backlash of slow your roll, their son. But nah,
Speaker 1: my eyes don't deceive me. My eyes have never seen
Speaker 1: somebody do what Patrick Mahomes can do on a football field,
Speaker 1: even though it's only been two years of course, he's
Speaker 1: going to have to sustain that level of play. But
Speaker 1: what I've seen so far in twenty five years of
Speaker 1: watching this game, he's the best I've ever seen. That's
Speaker 1: why I've got Chiefs tonight in the season opener. But
Speaker 1: that is tonight. Sunday is our main focus here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. And with that we turn now to
Speaker 1: Coach flores Is Thursday morning media availability and up First,
Speaker 1: Coach was asked a two pronged question about the decision
Speaker 1: to bring in Antonio Callaway, the receiver on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: and also the health status of cornerback Byron Jones staff
Speaker 1: Chris Marvin Brandon. Um, you know, in our starting department
Speaker 1: obviously does a lot of We did a lot of
Speaker 1: work on Antonio Is along with a lot of other players.
Speaker 1: We felt like it was an opportunity to had a yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, a player, a talented player. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: work with him over the next few weeks um in
Speaker 1: the capacity that we can. Obviously not you know so
Speaker 1: much because of the suspension, but when we can, we
Speaker 1: will work with him. We'll see where it goes. Uh.
Speaker 1: The first part of your question with Byron Um Byron's working, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, extremely hard to um, you know, rehab and
Speaker 1: we'll see where he is for for for a game time,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, something he's been dealing with and
Speaker 1: but he's working to get back out there as quickly
Speaker 1: as you can, and you know to day to day
Speaker 1: to kind of the day to day thing and next
Speaker 1: for coach a question that I thought was really good
Speaker 1: just asking him about season opening game tonight, how everybody
Speaker 1: around the country is so pumped to have football back.
Speaker 1: Can a football coach truly sit back and maybe crack
Speaker 1: open one and just enjoy a football game? Or is
Speaker 1: he always on with the football? What do you think?
Speaker 1: Coach says here he is when I watched the game,
Speaker 1: it's you know, you can try to relax, but you know,
Speaker 1: what would you do in third down? What would you
Speaker 1: do in this situation? Too? And you just your mind
Speaker 1: kind of goes And I think that's how every coach is,
Speaker 1: uh you know, Pop Warner, high school, uh college, national
Speaker 1: football leg Once you get into um, you know list
Speaker 1: profession and those types of situations, your mind kind of
Speaker 1: it goes there regardless. So you can try, but that
Speaker 1: is relaxing in a lot of ways. For for coaches.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, it's it's, it's, it's it's it's nice
Speaker 1: to sit and watch a game. But yeah, your your
Speaker 1: mind starts to wander a little bit and start to
Speaker 1: work out how would you handle this situation? Of that
Speaker 1: situation still, but it's it's it's gonna be fun to
Speaker 1: have again to watch, you know, it's been such a
Speaker 1: long time, whether it's pre season. I mean, like like
Speaker 1: a lot of people, Um, you know, I love the sports,
Speaker 1: so um, I'll be watching you. I'll be working as well.
Speaker 1: So it's a nor with Thursday night ones back into
Speaker 1: kind of a normal routine in season. And I'm with
Speaker 1: coach on that. Obviously I'm not a football coach, but
Speaker 1: that's why I watched the games to kind of trying
Speaker 1: to put myself in the situation of how would I
Speaker 1: do this, How would I handle this spot? What should
Speaker 1: this team do? Right here? And again, obviously coach sees
Speaker 1: the game in a different way than all of us do.
Speaker 1: But I do find that answer very intriguing because I've
Speaker 1: always wondered that myself, like what is it like for
Speaker 1: a coach to watch another game on television or why
Speaker 1: they're getting ready for you know, the opponent that week.
Speaker 1: Is it enjoyable? Is that something they don't even think about?
Speaker 1: But obviously Coach tells us there that he does, in
Speaker 1: fact watch the game with a different eye, a different
Speaker 1: lens than your average fan. Up next, Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about the leadership on this football team, and notably the
Speaker 1: three captains who are here with the Dolphins who were
Speaker 1: with him previously in New England. Here's Coach talking about
Speaker 1: his leaders on this football team. Well, I mean I
Speaker 1: think they're all you know, good players are. They're smartt tough, Um,
Speaker 1: they care about the game. The team first to think,
Speaker 1: you know, they tried to relationships, Um, you know throughout
Speaker 1: in the locker room and you know, on defense, on offense,
Speaker 1: on special teams. Um, there are guys who care about
Speaker 1: those relationships. But um they also there's there's also a
Speaker 1: number of other guys who who are very similar. Um,
Speaker 1: guys want former Patriots like Bobby like uh, fits like
Speaker 1: gotcha out. It's always good to have those types of
Speaker 1: players on the team. And you know, I'm happy to
Speaker 1: have you know that the reformer Patriots, but also the
Speaker 1: other guys we have it captains as well. And of
Speaker 1: course heading into a season without preseason, without the benefit
Speaker 1: of having the off season program, all the uncertainty we've
Speaker 1: talked about all week long, annually, all month long. In
Speaker 1: the lead up to this kickoff, this season opener on September,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins coach was asked about are there any
Speaker 1: benefits or anything that he likes about the uncertainty of
Speaker 1: this game one as they can maybe go into the
Speaker 1: matchup and maybe have some advantages that way. You know,
Speaker 1: there's uncertainty for everyone. Well, the thing I like about
Speaker 1: it is, you know, you just go back to you know,
Speaker 1: your rules, your reads, um, your fundamentals, your technique, see
Speaker 1: how how far you come along from from that standpoint.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when it comes in football, when you're you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different schemes, concepts, you know, defensive structures
Speaker 1: and eventually you'll you'll see something that you haven't seen before. Um,
Speaker 1: and you have to rely on your rules and your keys,
Speaker 1: and if you do that, you should be okay. So
Speaker 1: that part of it I like there that that unknown
Speaker 1: is something that you know. A lot of players, uh,
Speaker 1: they need to feel that, the coaches need to feel
Speaker 1: that also how to respond to that will well, well, well,
Speaker 1: I think you know, help us moving forward, Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up with this one here from yours
Speaker 1: truly good morning, coach. Earlier this week, Jesse Davis told
Speaker 1: us that he thinks whoever makes in game adjustments the
Speaker 1: best would be the one that comes away with a victory.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, are those mostly code observations player observations?
Speaker 1: And how long does it take to make those adjustments?
Speaker 1: If you could just talk about the communication and the
Speaker 1: process of in game adjustments, I mean it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of both player and coach. I think that you know,
Speaker 1: the players are out there on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: they hear things, they see things. Uh, And if you
Speaker 1: can get the players and the coaches on the same page,
Speaker 1: then you can make some adjustments. Now, there have been
Speaker 1: times where everybody's getting doubled. You know, there's only so
Speaker 1: many people on the field. So you know, this guy
Speaker 1: got doubled and I got double that I got double.
Speaker 1: They don't, they don't. They just don't have that many guys.
Speaker 1: So I mean, there's gotta be some honesty and transparency
Speaker 1: there on both friends, you know, and then you look
Speaker 1: at the tablet and we have films, so we just
Speaker 1: try to tell them. Let's be honest, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you screwed up a play, then you know, tell
Speaker 1: us about it, what happened, and you know we'll get
Speaker 1: it fixed. I got cut, I got doubled. Eight guys
Speaker 1: got doubled. You know. I mean, it's just just it's
Speaker 1: not you know, that's I've been a game when that's
Speaker 1: happened too, and that's it's not funny in the moment,
Speaker 1: it's funny the day after after you watch the tape
Speaker 1: and you see the one guy in that double, the
Speaker 1: guys whore just you know, could beat the block. But yes,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, Travis, you know the end game adjustments,
Speaker 1: you can make them, but it's got to be the
Speaker 1: communication on both sides has to be uh, it has
Speaker 1: to be transparent, has to be honest. That that would
Speaker 1: be my first time. But you know, thank you remind
Speaker 1: our guys on that too. Hey, anyway I can help out,
Speaker 1: I'm more than happy to do it. So now you
Speaker 1: have Brian Flores is Thursday morning media availability. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get into the game on Sunday. I've been
Speaker 1: waiting for nine months to preview a football game, and
Speaker 1: I just got chills, Like just saying that into the
Speaker 1: microphone gave me chills. And before we talk about Dolphins Patriots,
Speaker 1: let's first talk about some of the new changes to
Speaker 1: I suppose league rules roster rules this year. And one
Speaker 1: of those changes is, of course, the teams can now
Speaker 1: activate forty eight players on game day. It used to
Speaker 1: be forty six. You had to get down from the
Speaker 1: fifty three down to forty six, but now you can
Speaker 1: activate forty eight players on game day, so long as
Speaker 1: you have eight offensive linemen on that grouping. If you
Speaker 1: don't have eight lineman, if you dress only seven on
Speaker 1: game day, then you can have forty seven active. But
Speaker 1: I really can't imagine a team would do that, like
Speaker 1: why not have the extra body out there for your
Speaker 1: forty eight players. We also know about the six team
Speaker 1: man practice squad this year, we of course, with Dervall,
Speaker 1: have the exemption, so we have seventeen on our practice
Speaker 1: squad and you can protect four of those players each week,
Speaker 1: and that means you can protect them from Tuesday through
Speaker 1: game day. But once Monday comes around, those players are
Speaker 1: then eligible to be poached by other teams. Once again,
Speaker 1: as the rule has been in the past, you can
Speaker 1: sign a player off another practice squad onto your own
Speaker 1: active roster. That changes for game preparations this year under COVID,
Speaker 1: and you can also dress two players from the practice
Speaker 1: squad on Sunday. Whereas in the past you had to
Speaker 1: sign them off your own practice squad and get them
Speaker 1: up to your active roster to dress them, this year,
Speaker 1: you can call up to players from the practice squad
Speaker 1: to dress on Sunday. Unique season and one of my
Speaker 1: favorite podcast out there, the Move the Sticks podcast with
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. They talked about the practice
Speaker 1: squad and something that Jeremiah has kind of been hinting
Speaker 1: at now for what seems like forever, with the idea
Speaker 1: of development and having a secondary process for development developing
Speaker 1: players on your roster, and he mentioned on the podcast
Speaker 1: earlier this week, how maybe some teams view this thing
Speaker 1: as like a Triple A roster where you have, you know,
Speaker 1: in Triple A Baseball, you have your guys who are
Speaker 1: basically big league ready at a moment's notice if somebody
Speaker 1: goes down. How maybe some teams might treat the practice
Speaker 1: squad that way, where you have veteran guys stashed on
Speaker 1: that protected portion of the practice squad, so that when
Speaker 1: somebody does get injured, maybe it's a positive test or
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, you can pull guys off that roster.
Speaker 1: And how he says, other teams maybe treat up more
Speaker 1: like a developmental system like your double A single, a
Speaker 1: team where you want to develop players. Get them into
Speaker 1: your building every single day, have them practice, work on
Speaker 1: techniques you want to teach them, have them watch film.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's strength training, whatever it might be. There are
Speaker 1: so many different approaches to practice squad this year, all
Speaker 1: fascinating points, and I think it all just reminds us
Speaker 1: once again that football season is back. And with that,
Speaker 1: how about our first preview of the season. We have
Speaker 1: the piece on Miami Dolphins dot com as well Dolphins
Speaker 1: and Patriots Week one preview. The O and O Dolphins
Speaker 1: up against the O and O Patriots on Sunday, September
Speaker 1: one o'clock kickoff in the East Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass
Speaker 1: Seventy four degrees, partly cloudy, chance of rain on this
Speaker 1: Thursday as we check the weather report, and so much
Speaker 1: has changed since that Week seven team game nine months
Speaker 1: after Ryan Fitzpatrick finds Mike Gasicki for that go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 1: The last time the Dolphins took the field, we've seen
Speaker 1: coaching changes, a draft and free agency hall and all
Speaker 1: of that crammed around a global pandemic. But thanks to
Speaker 1: the incredible work and unprecedented precautions here taken by the NFL,
Speaker 1: we have football once more. A very different looking Dolphins
Speaker 1: team in year two under Brian Flora's travels to New
Speaker 1: England to face a Patriots team with plenty of new
Speaker 1: faces of their own. For Flores and the Dolphins, twenty
Speaker 1: four of the fifty three players on the roster. We're
Speaker 1: not here in twenty nineteen for that finale, with some
Speaker 1: coaching turnover as well, with eight new assistants in charge
Speaker 1: of their respective rooms. And the theme of change continues
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball as New England
Speaker 1: replaces one former m VP quarterback with another in Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: Eight of the Patriots fifteen scheduled free agents for signed elsewhere,
Speaker 1: three of them with the Dolphins, prompting New England to
Speaker 1: sign six free agents away from other clubs of their own,
Speaker 1: and all of that before selecting ten new players in
Speaker 1: April's draft, so plenty of change on both sides. The
Speaker 1: coaching staff in New England remains largely intact. There was
Speaker 1: some shuffling on the positional roles there in the Patriots staff,
Speaker 1: but the most notable change was the addition of longtime
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach offensive coordinator really offensive guru both in college
Speaker 1: and the NFL in Jet Fish and establishing continuity amidst
Speaker 1: the significant change will be one of the early season
Speaker 1: storylines across the NFL. As both Brian Flores and Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick stated and their media availability this week, both teams
Speaker 1: will throw new looks at one another in the absence
Speaker 1: of traditional off season programs and preseason The mystery really
Speaker 1: amplifies the intrigue of this game and talking about the
Speaker 1: Patriots and the personnel change, no team did have more
Speaker 1: opt outs for COVID nineteen than New England. Among the
Speaker 1: eight players who did opt out where some of their
Speaker 1: top snaptakers in nineteen. Marcus Cannon played a thousand eight
Speaker 1: snaps last year, linebacker Dante hi Tower played seven dred
Speaker 1: and twenty three snaps. Safety Patrick Chung played six hundred
Speaker 1: forty two and tied end Matt Lacosse played four hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three. Those are four of their eight opt
Speaker 1: outs for this season. But in the end, no team
Speaker 1: demonstrates the understanding of next man up more than this
Speaker 1: Belichick led Patriots team, and that will have to be
Speaker 1: the approach here in the opener. For the Patriots last
Speaker 1: two years, they had off ball linebackers finished one and
Speaker 1: two and then two and three in quarterback pressures among
Speaker 1: off ball linebackers according to Pro Football Focus. High Tower,
Speaker 1: who of course opted out, was in both of those pairings,
Speaker 1: and one year Kyle van Noid was part of that pairing.
Speaker 1: He then transitioned to more of an edge position, playing
Speaker 1: more snaps down on the line of scrimmage for the
Speaker 1: Patriots last season, So then to replace him on that
Speaker 1: off ball rushing position at the linebacker was Jamie Collins,
Speaker 1: so he and Dante high Tower finished at two three
Speaker 1: that following season. And the forward thinking team they are
Speaker 1: the Patriots, they have reinforcements ready to take on bigger
Speaker 1: roles in the middle of that defense. As is the
Speaker 1: case they planned for the next year, the next game,
Speaker 1: the next week, whatever it might be, as well as
Speaker 1: anybody in the National Football League they went out and
Speaker 1: drafted rookie josh j from Michigan who had a twenty
Speaker 1: three point three pressure rate as a pass rusher his
Speaker 1: final season in college there at Michigan, he was under
Speaker 1: coach Campanelli here who coach line actors at Michigan, and
Speaker 1: he talked very highly. Gave a lot of high praise
Speaker 1: to coach Campanelli at the scouting combine back in February.
Speaker 1: Josh U j also has a former college teammate there
Speaker 1: with Wolverines at Michigan and Chase Winovich, who was a
Speaker 1: third round draft pick of the Patriots in twenty nine team.
Speaker 1: He played two snaps last year for the Patriots, had
Speaker 1: a little bit of injuries and Nixon bruises, but he's
Speaker 1: due for a larger role this year. He registered twenty
Speaker 1: three pressures on two hundred and thirty four pass rush
Speaker 1: reps as a rookie last year, so that's kind of
Speaker 1: an idea where the replacements might come for that. They
Speaker 1: do have guys like John Simon Dietrich Wise up front.
Speaker 1: You heard coach reference Adam Butler earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: They have some good depth and some good bodies up
Speaker 1: front in that front. Seven to replace that production they've
Speaker 1: gotten from previous guys who are no longer on the team.
Speaker 1: And then in the secondary, stylistically, Patrick Chung one of
Speaker 1: the opt outs. He and Kyle Dugger are just flat
Speaker 1: out different players. But the rookie safety just oozes the
Speaker 1: traits that we've heard Brian Floors and both Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: talk about in the secondary, athletic ability, ball skills, the
Speaker 1: ath this is him that he has features, range, and
Speaker 1: coverage that Belichick will cover it out there. Dugger registered
Speaker 1: Scouting Combine testing metrics incentile or better in the ten
Speaker 1: yards split, the vertical jump, and the broad jump, so
Speaker 1: he is definitely a freak athlete. And despite all that change,
Speaker 1: the two main stays that really drove the Patriots success
Speaker 1: in twenty nine, team remained largely intact. That secondary we
Speaker 1: talked about, led by Defensive Player of the Year Stefon Gilmour.
Speaker 1: It's just chock full of athletic, aggressive cover guys that
Speaker 1: can locate the football and take it away. Nobody had
Speaker 1: more takeaways last year than New England with twenty five
Speaker 1: interceptions on defense, and few teams, really, if any, can
Speaker 1: claim a better offensive line than New England even without
Speaker 1: right tackle Marcus Cannon and the opt out on the interior,
Speaker 1: they are loaded with guys. They they thought that Joe
Speaker 1: Tuney was valuable enough at left guard and he would
Speaker 1: have cashed in big time on the open market, but
Speaker 1: he was franchise tagged this offseason. Center David Andrews is
Speaker 1: back after missing last season with some blood claw and
Speaker 1: his lungs. Great to see him back in healthy playing again.
Speaker 1: He has surrendered only seven sacks over a four year career.
Speaker 1: And right guard Shack Mason, once upon time, got a
Speaker 1: big contract extension in New England. One of the best
Speaker 1: right guards in all the National Football League. He's allowed
Speaker 1: only three sacks over the last two seasons combined. Some
Speaker 1: matchup highlights I want to talk about in this game
Speaker 1: the Dolphins run defense versus the Patriots run offense. We
Speaker 1: know by now Cam Newton has over five thousand career
Speaker 1: rushing yards if you include the playoffs. He's moved the
Speaker 1: chains just shy of four hundred times and has sixty
Speaker 1: touchdowns on the ground. Again, all those stats playoffs included,
Speaker 1: and their backfield is deep. It produced the fourth most
Speaker 1: two back sets in the NFL last year and running
Speaker 1: back Rex burkehead average four point five yards per carry
Speaker 1: and three point three two yards after contact. He led
Speaker 1: the Patriots in both those departments according to Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have a plethora of new bodies on their
Speaker 1: defensive front to help combat that Patriots run game. We
Speaker 1: know about rookie ray Kwon Davis seventy three career run
Speaker 1: stops at Al Obama. On the interior of that defensive line,
Speaker 1: veteran Emmanuel Ogba has a PF career run stop rate
Speaker 1: of eight point six percent. One of the better ones
Speaker 1: at his position group, Shack Lawson had thirteen tackles for
Speaker 1: lost last year that was top ten among defensive ends
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The Dolphins also added linebackers e Land
Speaker 1: and Roberts, formerly of the Patriots. He has a ten
Speaker 1: point eight career run stop rate on Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: and Kyle van Noy had thirty three run stops last
Speaker 1: year again with the Patriots, and COMMU grug Hill played
Speaker 1: more special teams than linebacker in his career so far,
Speaker 1: but he has eleven career tackles for loss in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The next matchup Dolphins offensive line versus the Patriots rush
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick schemes pressure as well as anybody, any of
Speaker 1: the defensive masterminds really in the history of the National
Speaker 1: Football League. You think about Buddy Ryan in the past,
Speaker 1: maybe some Dean Ps and those Ravens defenses for so
Speaker 1: many years there you go back to Dick Lebau with
Speaker 1: the Steelers, Bill Belichick's right, and that entire group, and
Speaker 1: probably the top of that group, of course, with the
Speaker 1: six six Super Bowl championships and having a up six
Speaker 1: scoring defense each of the last four years. It's not
Speaker 1: all about getting sacks on the quarterback, which of course
Speaker 1: are big game changing plays most of the time, but
Speaker 1: making the quarterback feel uncomfortable disrupting the offense is timing,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of been the theme of their past
Speaker 1: rush the last few years. They get tons of pressures.
Speaker 1: They don't leave the league in sacks, but they get
Speaker 1: so many pressures to force the quarterback into being uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And that last year led to the lowest passer rating
Speaker 1: against in the NFL for opposing quarterbacks going into the
Speaker 1: page or playing up against the Patriots, I should say.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins are working in four new starters on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. We know Jesse Davis is the loan incumbent.
Speaker 1: We'll find out the four starters along with Davis on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and communication will be the key to thwart the Patriots
Speaker 1: multiple look defense that features waves of games, stunts, twist, slants, overload,
Speaker 1: blitz is pressure looks from anybody and everybody in the box.
Speaker 1: They can walk up five, six, seven, eight, nine guys
Speaker 1: in that box, send four of them unpressure, drop the
Speaker 1: other ones into coverage. You never know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: It's like a box of chocolates Forrest Gump style. You
Speaker 1: have to commute Kate, you have to pass off, you
Speaker 1: have to be aware for everything and anything they might
Speaker 1: throw at you. I'm very excited we have Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: out there to kind of communicate those protection calls and
Speaker 1: get these guys in the right looks. Each of the
Speaker 1: last two years, again the Patriots had loftball linebackers finished
Speaker 1: top three at their position group in quarterback pressure, So
Speaker 1: finding out who's coming getting them blocked that can be
Speaker 1: a big key to the game. Dolphins receivers versus Patriots
Speaker 1: secondary Stefan Gilmore reigning Defensive Player of the Year J C.
Speaker 1: Jackson had a lower completion rate allowed than Stefan Gilmore
Speaker 1: by one point three percent percentage points. His was forty
Speaker 1: seven point four compared to Gilmore's forty percent completion allowed.
Speaker 1: The mccordy twins, both Jason and Devon won a corner.
Speaker 1: Devon the safety created thirteenth overall at their respective positions.
Speaker 1: Jason was thirteenth best in coverage. Devon was the thirteenth
Speaker 1: best overall safety according to Pro Football Focus. So they
Speaker 1: can come at you, and Waves didn't even mention Jonathan
Speaker 1: Jones in that bit. There are plenty of guys that
Speaker 1: can attack you on that secondary in the Patriots defense.
Speaker 1: And Davante Parker on our side of the football was
Speaker 1: fifth in the NFL last year in receiving yards with
Speaker 1: twelve hundred and two yards, fourth and touchdowns with nine,
Speaker 1: and he capped off a very strong finish to the
Speaker 1: season with one of his best games to date as
Speaker 1: a pro, as he caught eight passes for one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty seven yards, and seven of those catches and
Speaker 1: one hundred nineteen of those yards, according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: came against Gilmore and coverage. Now, Gilmore did win the
Speaker 1: week to showdown, holding the entire Dolphins team to just
Speaker 1: two catches on six targets for thirty two yards to
Speaker 1: pass breakups and an interception. We'll see where Preston Williams
Speaker 1: factors into this, because he wasn't there for that Week
Speaker 1: seventeen game, and Gilmore obviously the best cover corner in
Speaker 1: the league really for all purposes, intents and purposes. We'll
Speaker 1: see who he draws in that game. Gonna be an
Speaker 1: intriguing matchup there on the outside, inside or outside as well.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Ford finished his late season surge last year with
Speaker 1: seven catches and fifty four yards against the Patriots. Those
Speaker 1: career highs in that Week seventeen game, and four of
Speaker 1: those five catches came with J. C. Jackson and average,
Speaker 1: including three of those for a first down, So almost
Speaker 1: double the percentage allowed of completions for J. C. Jackson
Speaker 1: against Isaiah Ford in that final game. A good matchup
Speaker 1: to watch their Jackson never allowed more than fifty nine
Speaker 1: yards receiving all last season, so he too, is one
Speaker 1: of the best cornerbacks in all of National Football League.
Speaker 1: The Patriots system continuity is really their cornerstone when it
Speaker 1: comes to the coaching staff and offensive and defensive systems.
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels returns for his ninth consecutive season here as
Speaker 1: the Patriots o C. It's his second stint with the team.
Speaker 1: Of course, he spent four years previously, so thirteen years
Speaker 1: as the o C in New England. Under McDaniels, the
Speaker 1: Patriots are ultimate chameleons, able to really morph the system
Speaker 1: weekly to best attack the oppositions weaknesses. In the Patriots
Speaker 1: were one of two teams to run more than fifty plays.
Speaker 1: They ran sixty one plays from twenty personnel. That's two backs,
Speaker 1: no tight ends, three receivers, so they're really willing to
Speaker 1: adapt to a personnel package that's just not that common
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He also dialed up twenty one personnel.
Speaker 1: It's two bad as, one tight end, two receivers ninety
Speaker 1: one times. That's thirteenth most in the NFL. So two
Speaker 1: backs in the game for one hundred and fifty two
Speaker 1: snaps last year out of just over a thousand, so
Speaker 1: they will utilize that deep backfield as they see fit.
Speaker 1: They also deployed one of the league's most popular packages,
Speaker 1: eleven personnel, which is one back, one tight end, three receivers.
Speaker 1: The thirteenth fewest number of times at five hundred ninety
Speaker 1: two plays last year, So they will go against the grain. Defensively,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick finds a way to facilitate production. Every single year.
Speaker 1: They are always at the top of the leaguer board
Speaker 1: and scoring defense. They had top scoring defense and total
Speaker 1: defense last year. In twenty nineteen, had the second ranked
Speaker 1: past defense and sixth ranked run defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: As far as the coverage calls, according to PFF, no
Speaker 1: team played more snaps and Cover one last year. That's
Speaker 1: where you're in man coverage with a single high safety
Speaker 1: up top than the Patriots, and that goes back to
Speaker 1: so they utilize Cover one a whole bunch, and they
Speaker 1: played more Cover zero, which is man across the board,
Speaker 1: no safety help. It's do or die. Everybody's coming, everybody's pressing.
Speaker 1: You have to beat us quickly. We're gonna get pressure
Speaker 1: on you. They played more Cover zero with sixty seven
Speaker 1: snaps last year in that look, the most in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and again the most interceptions in the NFL with twenty
Speaker 1: five and lowest passer rating against a sixty seven point three.
Speaker 1: Tough order for Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Dolphins passing offense.
Speaker 1: According to Pro Football Reference, the Patriots blitzed opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: thirty seven point one percent of the time and that
Speaker 1: produced a top ten pressure rate and they tied for
Speaker 1: seventh in the NFL in sacks last season. Now, some
Speaker 1: other nuggets about this game. The Patriots are one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty and thirty, so out of a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty games, they've won a hundred and thirty of them
Speaker 1: under a Bill Belichick. In that home building, the all
Speaker 1: time Dolphins Patriots series goes fifty six from Miami fifty
Speaker 1: three For New England, Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick can surpass a
Speaker 1: trio of Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Troy Aikman, y A. Tittle,
Speaker 1: and Steve Young if he passes for two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight yards and the opener he enters play as
Speaker 1: the thirty ninth highest yardage passer in the history of
Speaker 1: the league with thirty two thousand, eighty six career yards.
Speaker 1: So plenty of look at here for this Dolphins team
Speaker 1: heading into New England. Now, as far as taking away
Speaker 1: with the Patriots do best, their best player on offense
Speaker 1: probably gonna be Julian Edelman. Flores talked about him earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, so you've probably got to find a
Speaker 1: way to contain that guy. Will be curious to see
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins get that accomplished on Sunday. I'm also
Speaker 1: intrigued by the tight end position again without the without
Speaker 1: having Matt lacost there. They have two rookies and Devon
Speaker 1: as c and Dalton Keene. Ryan Izzo rounds out the
Speaker 1: tight end group there, so that tight end position can
Speaker 1: be a little bit overwhelming at times for rookies. We
Speaker 1: talked to Mike Asiki earlier, I think it was last
Speaker 1: week about all the responsibilities they have in past protection,
Speaker 1: running game, grunning pass routes as well. I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to see how Miami attacks those tight ends and how
Speaker 1: the Patriots utilize those tight ends. We talked about the backfield.
Speaker 1: There's not gonna be any Damian Harris for this game.
Speaker 1: He is on i R to start the season. But
Speaker 1: you always have to account for James White as a
Speaker 1: pass catcher out of the backfield. He is as dangerous
Speaker 1: as anybody in that regard. They called up j A. Taylor,
Speaker 1: who was at Arizona last year in college. He was
Speaker 1: on the practice squad gets the call up. He was
Speaker 1: a guy I'm intrigued by. He's very shifty, very speedy,
Speaker 1: kind of think of Jachem Grant that way. So keep
Speaker 1: an eye on number forty two J J. Taylor the
Speaker 1: receiving corps to kill Harry. We'll see how he looks.
Speaker 1: And your number two a former first round draft pick
Speaker 1: who is physical and tough to get down after the catch,
Speaker 1: so tackling has to be on point there. We talked
Speaker 1: about the offensive line, talked about the defensive line. The
Speaker 1: linebacker position with Josh ch Anthony Jennings is another guy
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see come up and play his first
Speaker 1: career game out of Alabama. He's a long, strong, athletic
Speaker 1: player who can play a hard edge as an outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: And we also cover the defensive backfield there as well.
Speaker 1: So not gonna be an easy contest on Sunday. Dolphins
Speaker 1: have to bring their a game. We've heard Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: talk about it. We've heard Kyle van Noy talk about
Speaker 1: it the entire Dolphins roster saying if we don't play
Speaker 1: our best game, we will get beat. So Sunday up
Speaker 1: in Foxboro, one o'clock eastern kickoff. It's here, baby, Football
Speaker 1: season is here. And with that, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: turn now two player media availability on this Thursday, here
Speaker 1: from Davy, and we start with Dolphins running back Jordan Howard,
Speaker 1: who first was asked about the depth chart the importance
Speaker 1: of starting, and how it's not that important because you're
Speaker 1: gonna get your touches, your carries, and you feel your
Speaker 1: role regardless of where you are on the depth chart.
Speaker 1: I'm not that there's a really mean anything because we
Speaker 1: all gonna have a role. I'm gonna have our plays
Speaker 1: what we're getting, so it doesn't really matter as long
Speaker 1: as we all get to play. So and how about
Speaker 1: the perception that Jordan maybe isn't a pass catching back,
Speaker 1: which I strongly disagree with that impression to begin with.
Speaker 1: But here's Jordan talking about the initial impression players getting,
Speaker 1: how those impressions kind of stick with you throughout the
Speaker 1: course of your career and talking about being a past
Speaker 1: receiving running back. I feel like it's important because I
Speaker 1: feel like this is trying to focus in on that.
Speaker 1: But you know, you get dis label placed on you.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to shake, you h just try
Speaker 1: to do the best I can try to take advantaging
Speaker 1: our terms that have in the passing game. But you know,
Speaker 1: once you get the labels, kind of like hard to
Speaker 1: say good once people get a former opinion on your
Speaker 1: stuff like that, we're this fair now, but let's just
Speaker 1: try to take a mantage out of our terms, like
Speaker 1: get in the past again. Hey, Jordan's coach talked this
Speaker 1: morning a little bit about end game adjustments, and I'm
Speaker 1: curious from your perspective, how you process the flow of
Speaker 1: the game, maybe whether it's guys are jumping gaps, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. How do you process the flow of
Speaker 1: the game and then communicate those adjustments to your coaching staff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like the first few players is the first few
Speaker 1: series you see with this showing and stuff like that. So,
Speaker 1: um me tell your coach what you're saying out there,
Speaker 1: and then we make adjustments. Maybe a halftime. Sometimes when
Speaker 1: you come out of halftime may bring you something to
Speaker 1: new because they make adjustments as well. So just constant
Speaker 1: communication with the coach and telling them what you're saying
Speaker 1: and stuff like that so he can relay it to
Speaker 1: he needs to relay it to so we can make
Speaker 1: the proper adjustments and proper fits and when it comes
Speaker 1: to having an actual football game on television tonight, Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard is just like you and I I'm looking very
Speaker 1: forward to. Uh. I just love watching football, not even
Speaker 1: it's like a player, just as a fan. Huh. So
Speaker 1: I'm not really gonna be like scouting the teams. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna be watching as a fan. So I'm excited. Uh,
Speaker 1: same like you took a while to get here. Uh.
Speaker 1: And first thing like, we didn't know if we're gonna
Speaker 1: get here, but now that we're here, everybody's decided. So
Speaker 1: there he goes Dolphins running back Jordan Howard. Up next,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from Dolphins safety and team captain, the
Speaker 1: longest tenured member of this Dolphins defense, Bobby McCain, And
Speaker 1: we start first with a question for Bobby from yours truly.
Speaker 1: Coach talked this morning a little bit about end game
Speaker 1: adjustments and how players might have a tendency to kind
Speaker 1: of stretch the truth about what might have happened on
Speaker 1: a given play. I'm curious to ask you how difficult
Speaker 1: is it to process and recall how a particular play
Speaker 1: went in the heat of the moment. And how do
Speaker 1: you escalate that knowledge or that concern to the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can understand that because sometimes like you may
Speaker 1: have a team plate drive to play drive. I've had
Speaker 1: even eight team played drive before, where you know, you
Speaker 1: to ask you what what happened on play three? And
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll play through his fifteen plays ago. So
Speaker 1: it's it's tough to reurgitate like what happened exactly. But
Speaker 1: you know, the one thing that will help you as
Speaker 1: a defense and one thing that offensive as a team
Speaker 1: is if you're coming off and like not necessarily lying,
Speaker 1: but if false information is the worst information. So if
Speaker 1: you're giving good information when you come on to off
Speaker 1: to the sideline, um, that helps us to be able
Speaker 1: to get his adjusted and helps people. It helps everyone
Speaker 1: around you to be able to play better. And who
Speaker 1: better to hear from on evaluations for the young guys
Speaker 1: than the safety A captain back there on the defense.
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain here evaluates the playoff second year cornerback Nick
Speaker 1: need Him and rookie Noah eg Monogamy. Nick is, uh,
Speaker 1: he's definitely, He's definitely the game is Yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 1: slower tune. You can see that and he's understanding his
Speaker 1: techniques better things. He's taking that that year to jump
Speaker 1: the jets. You should. Um, he's got everybody's just gotta
Speaker 1: keep pushing everybody like we're gonna kee getting better each
Speaker 1: and every day. Um. And that's what I tell him,
Speaker 1: the same thing, and just keep doing what you're doing
Speaker 1: and keep getting better and things are all everything to
Speaker 1: work out. As far as Noah, you know, he's a
Speaker 1: young guy. He's he's a good football player, but he's smart.
Speaker 1: Guys well, he's not. He's not somebody that you know
Speaker 1: that that that doesn't understand. He understands once he gets
Speaker 1: he makes a mistake, probably won't make the mistake twice.
Speaker 1: And that's good. That's what you that that keeps you
Speaker 1: in the league. Um and um, you know those two
Speaker 1: guys that can be real good for us this year.
Speaker 1: And how about an evaluation on himself and if he
Speaker 1: finally feels like a safety now and you're number two
Speaker 1: after transitioning from the quarterback spot for the first four
Speaker 1: years of his NFL career, I was, I would say, yes,
Speaker 1: you know, understanding the defense is really what I would
Speaker 1: or the part that I would take you Understanding my
Speaker 1: role and where I fit in the defense, and knowing
Speaker 1: like that that I'm able to make plays on the
Speaker 1: ball from even at free safety, whether I'm at free corner, Nicol,
Speaker 1: no matter where I'm at. Um, just understanding that it's
Speaker 1: a game everybody has. Everybody has their piece of the puzzle,
Speaker 1: and you gotta do You gotta do your piece, specially
Speaker 1: your ability. My guy Cam Wolf over at ESPN has
Speaker 1: been sneaking my questions all week long. He has a
Speaker 1: good question here for Bobby about the challenges of defending
Speaker 1: Cam Newton from that deep safety position and how much
Speaker 1: that can change the defense and the way you approach
Speaker 1: it every single play. Just understanding that he's effective in
Speaker 1: both ways and the game in the past game and
Speaker 1: uh making plays outside of the pocket, you know, play
Speaker 1: for the play breaks down. You know, him being the
Speaker 1: athlete that he is, he can get out of the
Speaker 1: pocket and and throw the ball downfield. So you have
Speaker 1: to understand that the safety has neat defenders its corners
Speaker 1: and you gotta plash on to you guys, and I
Speaker 1: understand that the play is not over to us. So
Speaker 1: until the plays, day is not over. Because he is
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he is cam he's he's a good
Speaker 1: athlete and use his feed. He's he's mobile, and he's
Speaker 1: got a good strong arm. And now in his sixth season,
Speaker 1: his third as a captain, Bobby McCain talks about how
Speaker 1: much of an honor it is to be a captain
Speaker 1: of this football team. Um, just honest, man, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's my honor. It is my privilege to be a captain,
Speaker 1: and especially leave these guys, Um, you know, they just
Speaker 1: knowing that they trust me and they have my back,
Speaker 1: I have their back. That's big for me, that's big
Speaker 1: for the team. You know, there's seven other captains, a
Speaker 1: couple of new guys, and uh, you know, they're all
Speaker 1: good leaders, are all good veterans on this and they
Speaker 1: all they all play in the league and they understand that.
Speaker 1: You know, if they at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we've all got one in go and that's to win
Speaker 1: football game. Man. If we do that, there's you know,
Speaker 1: you know, they're all use our end goals to win
Speaker 1: football games. That's that's all I'm saying about that. Hey, Bobby,
Speaker 1: kind of on that same note about being a captain,
Speaker 1: and we know how important communication is on this defense
Speaker 1: and on this team. Uh, coaches talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about how there might be more rotation based on this
Speaker 1: opening day without the preseason games to kind of ramp up.
Speaker 1: How much more does that add to your play as
Speaker 1: far as like communicating to guys that might be coming
Speaker 1: in and out of the game more at the cornerback
Speaker 1: and underneath spots. Just just make sure we're all on
Speaker 1: the same page, because uh, one thing like we're all wrong,
Speaker 1: We are right right, because you know, at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we can get other play and we
Speaker 1: can play the play, and but we don't don't want
Speaker 1: to be wrong, but you know, things happen in the
Speaker 1: in the heat of the battle. And understanding that guys
Speaker 1: may be rotate and understand that guys maybe coming in
Speaker 1: up front, in the back end, no matter where, no
Speaker 1: matter where it's happening. Um, guys got to be on
Speaker 1: the same page. And uh, you know that's me as
Speaker 1: a communicator, as a as a signal caller, understanding that,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to have the guys on the
Speaker 1: back end on the same page. Really good stuff here
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins players today and we're gonna finish up
Speaker 1: on this Thursday. Media availability before we get to the
Speaker 1: injury report, with a word from Dolphins defensive tackle Devon Gotcha,
Speaker 1: and we start with the van with a question about
Speaker 1: his leadership role on the team. He's not a team
Speaker 1: captain this year, but he still takes that leadership role
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins defensive line very very seriously. I mean,
Speaker 1: I taking the type away. I mean it's just a
Speaker 1: team boat, you know, it's with these voting on. But
Speaker 1: I still feel like my leadership ros is a big
Speaker 1: part of his team as the deepest alignment, you know,
Speaker 1: being my fourth year, you know, coming on, coming on,
Speaker 1: so I stepped out like my leadser bro was very important,
Speaker 1: you know, just focusing on you know, the team, just
Speaker 1: focusing on you know, having a great season. Hey, Devon,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of going with the theme here with the
Speaker 1: questions today. Coach talked this morning about in game adjustments
Speaker 1: and how players might have a bit of a tendency
Speaker 1: to stretch the truth by saying I got doubled on
Speaker 1: that player. Everyone comes off the field saying that, I'm curious,
Speaker 1: how difficult is it for you as a player to
Speaker 1: process and recall how a particular play went in the
Speaker 1: heat of the moment. And then how do you escalate
Speaker 1: that knowledge or the concern of that way to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff. I just try to look at it on
Speaker 1: the iPad when we get to the sideline. But like
Speaker 1: in the game about what I got double team, you
Speaker 1: know this and there, you know, I just trying to
Speaker 1: look at it when the coaches come and say, hey,
Speaker 1: look at this play. You know, I think he could
Speaker 1: be a little bit tired. I think he could be
Speaker 1: a little bit you know, more violent. You know, I
Speaker 1: just look at it on the sideline and adjusted. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't really about the game game because if I do, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: bother me on the next place. So I just kind
Speaker 1: of take it one play of the time. Up next,
Speaker 1: here's God Show on the process of where this team
Speaker 1: is under the program of Brian Flores and how he
Speaker 1: sees this team and how they adjust and how they
Speaker 1: adapt and how they interact with each other every single day.
Speaker 1: Here's the divon God. Y'all talking about a team that's
Speaker 1: very hungry. But I just feel like a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys are hungry, man. I mean I need myself. I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of guys, you know, Bennoid coming from
Speaker 1: New England, Rob you know, you know, Bobby McCain, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys on this team. You know,
Speaker 1: I probably I think the op three man roster's including
Speaker 1: the practice school. I mean, they're giving us a great
Speaker 1: looks at practice. I mean a lot of people are hume,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people ready to win went
Speaker 1: around here. So I mean, I'm excited about it. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about Sunday in the first game. You know, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of rookies playing their first game NFL game.
Speaker 1: You know, we're just whole Corona pandemic, no fans. But
Speaker 1: and then the day, like I said, man, you gotta
Speaker 1: bring you on Jewics. Man, I'm excited for Sunday up
Speaker 1: next and evaluation from God show on fellow defensive lineman
Speaker 1: rookie out of Alabama Ray Kwon Davis. Man, I guess
Speaker 1: you guys just gotta wait on something that to sing.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, you know, just him, you know,
Speaker 1: just growing in training camp, beach and every day you
Speaker 1: know what the play causing things like that. But like
Speaker 1: you know, coach Saban said, you know he's great physical ability. Man,
Speaker 1: He's you know with six seven, you know, three thirty
Speaker 1: three three you know what I mean. He's a big
Speaker 1: guy man something that speaks for herself. But I guess
Speaker 1: you guys just gotta stay tune in on Sunday and sit. Hey, Davon,
Speaker 1: coming into year four for you, Now, this is your
Speaker 1: seventh game against the Patriots, I believe, and they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of continuity up front, the guys you match
Speaker 1: up with in Shack Mason and David Andrews and Joe Tuney.
Speaker 1: How different is it for you to prepare for a
Speaker 1: team that you've seen so many times and guys you've
Speaker 1: gone up against so many times. Don't get at to sleep,
Speaker 1: you know. I think you know a lot of people
Speaker 1: when they see the same guy each and every time.
Speaker 1: A man, I know this guy I've been playing for
Speaker 1: three or four years. No, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: just see him on Sunday, you know, and then that's
Speaker 1: what a lot of people go wrong. Get You kind
Speaker 1: of used the world of being complacent, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So I mean, don't don't don't get complacent,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know they have, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: some big guys up front. You know, they played together
Speaker 1: well as a team, you know, but at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, man, you just gotta stay honer, never
Speaker 1: get complacent something mean. And I know I played those
Speaker 1: guys for you know, going on four years. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you know, everybody has an
Speaker 1: offseason and everybody you can get better, they get worse,
Speaker 1: you know. So I mean I just kind of take
Speaker 1: that same appro teaching every game. One thing you'll notice
Speaker 1: this week on these press conferences is that people in
Speaker 1: the league, defenders still have a ton of respect for
Speaker 1: Cam Newton heading into his tenth year in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Here's the bond on the Patriots quarterback Cam Newton. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was listening to nobody when they kind and say,
Speaker 1: you know, man, Cam, so he lost it he did this. Man,
Speaker 1: look I look at it like, man, this dude was
Speaker 1: a h v P and our league. This dude was
Speaker 1: you know, super Bowl running up. So I mean he
Speaker 1: led Carolina coming to the super Bowl, you know, so
Speaker 1: I don't kind of look at it like man, this
Speaker 1: guy lost it. And last time I check, he still
Speaker 1: can meet every though. You know, he's taking out run people.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of, you know, taking that same approach
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Man, you know, he's a he's a he's
Speaker 1: a profession when he get pages like I do. So
Speaker 1: I mean at the end of the day, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a he's professionist lead. So I can't take the
Speaker 1: same aproson undestinated nobody. So I'm taking the same apperson
Speaker 1: to Sunday's game. And so there he goes to Vaughan
Speaker 1: Godshaw finishing up our Thursday media availability there with Jordan Howard,
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, and Davon god Shaw. And to close this
Speaker 1: podcast out here on a Thursday, we have the injury
Speaker 1: ports in now it's pretty much the same as it
Speaker 1: was on Wednesday. Clayton Federla, Mike get Sicky Xaviing Howard,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, DeVante Parker, Kyle van Noy, and Preston Williams
Speaker 1: all listed as limited participants in practice. Quarterback to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Bloa is on the participation list with a
Speaker 1: full participation on both Wednesday and Thursday. The Patriots Thursday
Speaker 1: list is not yet in, but on Wednesday we got
Speaker 1: Yannika Juice and linebacker Cash Maluia with DNP designations did
Speaker 1: not practice, and Julian Edelman and Gunner Olshinsky and Chase
Speaker 1: Winovich all limited in practice on Wednesday. So that's your update.
Speaker 1: The preview up on Miami Dolphins dot com. We're gonna
Speaker 1: come back tomorrow and do flashback the two thousand game
Speaker 1: in New England the Division cleinser in week seventeen against
Speaker 1: the Patriots. We'll talk to Jay Fiedler about that. Get
Speaker 1: you updated on all the latest and of course everything
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