Speaker 1: All right, audibles, It's a victory Monday. John feels great.
Speaker 1: It's been you know, two weeks back to back where
Speaker 1: it's you're just kind of waking up miserable. Two weeks
Speaker 1: it's brutal. I come over the game last week and
Speaker 1: I see my dog. I'll get away from here. Dogs
Speaker 1: years dropped down and stuff. But last night was able
Speaker 1: to come home and pet him on the head and
Speaker 1: feel good. But uh, well, I tell that was you know,
Speaker 1: that was a dog fight out there yesterday, and and
Speaker 1: and you kind of knew early on because you could
Speaker 1: see because because you know, I was really happy when
Speaker 1: I was really happy about what's the way the defense
Speaker 1: came out and played from the get go. And I
Speaker 1: knew they were embarrassed from the two weeks before. And
Speaker 1: I knew that ten days off after that Thursday night game,
Speaker 1: they had a lot of work to get done. And
Speaker 1: and I've been in those situations. I've been on teams
Speaker 1: like you've been on teams like that, where you have
Speaker 1: a bad loss or a couple of bad losses, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you just need to kind of let's let's take
Speaker 1: a step back, let's put this thing right back on
Speaker 1: the tracks, and let's get back to what was helping
Speaker 1: us but not lose games. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: I saw from this defense yesterday. I can almost see
Speaker 1: it from the end. And you know what, it struck me,
Speaker 1: strow me. On the very first play they throw that
Speaker 1: a little pass out t J m McDonald comes up
Speaker 1: just stones knocked him backwards on that and left something
Speaker 1: out about. And then they threw another little pass and
Speaker 1: I think it was Kiko or somebody came up and
Speaker 1: did the same thing, stop the guy dead in his tracks.
Speaker 1: And then they end up with a three and out
Speaker 1: punt and I'm going, oh, that's that's what. And then
Speaker 1: you just saw a defense that quite frankly as opposed
Speaker 1: to what we've seen the last couple of weeks, John,
Speaker 1: I think I don't think they did anything spectacular on defense,
Speaker 1: but they just did their jobs. You know, they know
Speaker 1: there's something yeah, just do do because the scheme of
Speaker 1: the defense relies on all eleven guys being in the
Speaker 1: right spot and seeing the same thing. And at some point,
Speaker 1: and as you mentioned, both of us were probably in
Speaker 1: this situation. You watch film for a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: after losses, you're embarrassed. I mean, not only for yourself,
Speaker 1: but this is part of you know that his mistake
Speaker 1: is my mistake, and and it brings the whole unit down.
Speaker 1: So I think you know, they took a good, long
Speaker 1: hard look at what they were doing defensively, but more importantly,
Speaker 1: the players took a long hard look at what they
Speaker 1: were doing individually and said, this isn't good enough to
Speaker 1: win in any league. You know, they couldn't win any anywhere.
Speaker 1: They were playing the last couple of weeks on defense,
Speaker 1: the way that teams were gouging them on the ground.
Speaker 1: So I was happy to see the aggressiveness. Like you said,
Speaker 1: at the beginning the onset of the game, they were
Speaker 1: going downhill. T J was around the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He was the extra guy in the box. He was
Speaker 1: destroying guys all day, led the team in tackles. But
Speaker 1: most importantly, they were able to cause havoc in the pocket,
Speaker 1: which turned out to give us some turnovers. Four sacks,
Speaker 1: four interceptions. I mean, those are the types of weeks
Speaker 1: that you dream about as a defense, And like you
Speaker 1: said in the beginning, in that game, you knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be the defense that was able to
Speaker 1: create the most stops turned the football over was gonna
Speaker 1: win because offense it was gonna be hard either. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald should have thrown six seven interceptions that day. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you had a couple that were dropped. A couple of
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Speaker 1: at these are so be a be a big part
Speaker 1: of that and uh and help support them get getting
Speaker 1: back to the game though. Um but just it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I hate the feeling of driving out of
Speaker 1: that stadium after a win, so much different. You wave everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody that waves that, let people, let people go ahead
Speaker 1: of me, this traffic, who cares a thumbs up? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's such a different feeling because you know, everybody's happy,
Speaker 1: the attendance, that work, that working hard rock. Everybody's kind
Speaker 1: of I hope you enjoyed your day. You know. The
Speaker 1: last couple of games are head down, dragging my bag
Speaker 1: behind me, kicking the door as I go out. Yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's you know the other thing Johnny is is And
Speaker 1: you know, look, fans, you know you like what you like,
Speaker 1: you don't like what you don't like this and that
Speaker 1: or whatever. Um, but you know, I'm just happy for
Speaker 1: these guys. I'm happy for this football team to get
Speaker 1: And look, you know, the one thing you keep looking
Speaker 1: at and everyone keeps wanting to bury this football team.
Speaker 1: You know, you guys lost two straight, you're three and
Speaker 1: then you got two four and four, and you know,
Speaker 1: you guys, are you guys are on the downwards slide. Well,
Speaker 1: this team has never been below five hundred. Team's never
Speaker 1: been we've been at five hundred. But here we are
Speaker 1: back at five and four. You're back in there. You know,
Speaker 1: you go up to uh, you go up to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and look, Green Bay is not gonna be an easy
Speaker 1: situation by any stretching man. It's gonna be cold. You've
Speaker 1: got a four start fame quarterback, even you got a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback, they're just coming off losses, two losses,
Speaker 1: and and so they're they're gonna be upsets. So it's
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be an easy situation. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you can if you can go up there somehow
Speaker 1: and and and steal with because look, I think everyone
Speaker 1: everyone when you if you did the ws and l's
Speaker 1: and your and you look at Green Bay in November,
Speaker 1: you know you probably put a loss in that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that one's it was in sharpie, not in pencils in
Speaker 1: the beginning of no doubt about it. But but we
Speaker 1: gave one away to Detroit to Cincinnati. Detroit just beat
Speaker 1: us Cincinnati. We gave one away to me. The Green
Speaker 1: Bay is one of those games where you can steal
Speaker 1: back and get even for the one you gave away
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Well, if you can get that win, and
Speaker 1: if you can get to win now you got a two.
Speaker 1: Now you're now you're two games above five, and you're
Speaker 1: now you're saying, Okay, jeez, we got Buffalo twice and
Speaker 1: were struggling football team. You got New England at home,
Speaker 1: you got you got so there's some opportunities. So if
Speaker 1: you can get a win and get to you know,
Speaker 1: to to six and four moving forward with Buffalo coming
Speaker 1: in after the bye week, you're saying, oh, you know, hey, okay, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe let's let's let's get you know, but but but
Speaker 1: but when you talk to people with jeez, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins? I remember there're three and one. What's
Speaker 1: wrong with the dogs? What's wrong at three and one?
Speaker 1: You know, well, you're happy at that point and you're
Speaker 1: facing a team, as you said in Green Bay, where
Speaker 1: you know, it didn't look like an attractive game when
Speaker 1: the schedule came out because you're looking at the time
Speaker 1: of the year, you're looking at the caliber of players
Speaker 1: and players and head coach and the whole atmosphere of
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. But watching him against New England on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. They suffered some significant injuries in that game,
Speaker 1: and the blog went down. The linebacker went down, a
Speaker 1: skill player went down. So you're looking at a team
Speaker 1: that still has one of the best that ever played
Speaker 1: the game and Aaron Rodgers, but they may be somewhat
Speaker 1: depleted in terms of what they're gonna go into the
Speaker 1: game with on a shorter week. So the chances of
Speaker 1: Miami packing that defense the way they played on Sunday
Speaker 1: at home, I don't think you're gonna have to depend on,
Speaker 1: you know, four turnovers and four sacks, but they turn
Speaker 1: the ball over four times. But they better pack a
Speaker 1: more The better pack an offense that executes with more consistency,
Speaker 1: that stays on the field on third down, that can
Speaker 1: finally make a play, you know, and not miss an
Speaker 1: opportunity for touchdowns when they arise. Because if you miss
Speaker 1: opportunities against Aaron Rodgers, you're always chasing. You're chasing the tail.
Speaker 1: You're chasing the tail all day. You know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be come from behind. You can't do that. You can't
Speaker 1: do that against the caliber player like that because there's
Speaker 1: only about six or seven guys in the league that
Speaker 1: you when you face those quarterbacks, you know that you
Speaker 1: have to stay even or just a step ahead if
Speaker 1: you can, to have a chance in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: And you look at you you look at those the
Speaker 1: four sacks they got on Sam Donald. Sam Donald wasn't
Speaker 1: going anywhere right. I'm watching that game last night and
Speaker 1: and it how guys are grabbing him. They've got his
Speaker 1: jersey and he's still getting away from getting out there
Speaker 1: and throwing. And you know it's you know that the
Speaker 1: thing with him. You know, there's a lot of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, look, if you don't get up
Speaker 1: feeling contain, the quarterback will get out. This guy. It
Speaker 1: don't matter wherever there's a crease in there, he's gonna
Speaker 1: find find it. And by time, you know what, he's
Speaker 1: got to come out through the front door and just
Speaker 1: kind of get that line and you know, you just
Speaker 1: get this vision. He's a nervous cat. But he's not
Speaker 1: a nervous cat because he's smoking the cools as he's
Speaker 1: doing it, okay, because he's moving around the pocket with
Speaker 1: such calmness, but it looks frazzled. But he's got a
Speaker 1: plan because he's anticipating the windows where he can get
Speaker 1: and he only needs to split second to kind of
Speaker 1: flick it down the field forty yards. So that's when
Speaker 1: you look at Aaron Rodgers. He's got such a vivid
Speaker 1: imagination of being able to predetermine what's going to happen
Speaker 1: before it happens, but he doesn't force it. At the
Speaker 1: same token, he's able to, you know, be relaxed and
Speaker 1: find the open window and throw people open, which is
Speaker 1: a great quality. But you know, the funny thing watching
Speaker 1: that game was, boy, just a contrast of the two quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: especially when New England coming out up tempo bang bang
Speaker 1: bang bang bang bang precision, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you get Green Band. It becomes you're just that slow, methodical.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because I'm I didn't realize that. I
Speaker 1: you know, I knew, but it's one of those things
Speaker 1: you're kind of stuck in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1: So they're going, okay, you know, and they're showing the
Speaker 1: coordinate and go oh in the corner Joe film like,
Speaker 1: oh there you go. I see slow and methodical. I
Speaker 1: see where slow and methodical came from for the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. I forgot out there as well, be honest
Speaker 1: with you, and I'm going, jeez, man, look at green
Speaker 1: look at look at New England. Bang bang bang bang bang,
Speaker 1: just you know, putting the pressure on the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: forcing the issue, not let them get Yeah, the one
Speaker 1: play the guys, guys are bending over picking up their
Speaker 1: mouthpiece and they weren't even me snapping the ball and
Speaker 1: and they couldn't get you know, what was going on.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden becomes you know, just said
Speaker 1: it looked like a grind. It went from it went
Speaker 1: from being in a in a drag strip when watching
Speaker 1: like the Funny Cars go down to watching a tractor pool,
Speaker 1: you know. And if they had played that game at Lambo,
Speaker 1: I think it would have been a completely different story.
Speaker 1: You know, it had been Green Bay that had the precision,
Speaker 1: the aggressiveness, the tempo, and Brady would have had a
Speaker 1: struggle getting first downs on some you know, certain drives.
Speaker 1: That being said about Aaron Rodgers though, this isn't the
Speaker 1: Green Bay team that that that the dominant, dominant because
Speaker 1: there's one guy dominating on that football team, and that's
Speaker 1: that's number twelve, and that's it really for the most part, Well,
Speaker 1: if you can create some pressure on Aaron Rodgers the
Speaker 1: way his knees been, do you get a good, good
Speaker 1: hit on him, if you can tackle me, and if
Speaker 1: it's a successful play for green Bay, if you get
Speaker 1: some hits and you start getting to the quarterback. Those
Speaker 1: things were on a guy that has had some injuries.
Speaker 1: You know this season, we've I've seen it watching green
Speaker 1: Bay play this year where teams you know, you tackle him,
Speaker 1: he's slow to get up. He might not show at
Speaker 1: the next play. But those things can kind of wear
Speaker 1: on you. And I'll tell you what, Yes Yesterday's was
Speaker 1: one of those Dames games where this team just scrapped
Speaker 1: and and you know the good thing, Johnny and the
Speaker 1: Jets made a couple of plays where they start threatening
Speaker 1: you down there, but by the defense just you know,
Speaker 1: they eliminated the explosive plays. I mean, how many how
Speaker 1: many plus twenty runs or US twenty passes that we've
Speaker 1: seen over the last two three weeks on this defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Jets had a couple, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: like it was backbreaking, It wasn't like it was demoralizing.
Speaker 1: You always felt like this defense was gonna find a
Speaker 1: way off the field on third down, and we got
Speaker 1: back to the formula John, and you know, for the
Speaker 1: last few weeks we've had to talk about you know,
Speaker 1: early on, it was all about the defense, turnovers, takeaways.
Speaker 1: I think at one point we had fourteen. It was
Speaker 1: huge goal line stops, you know, and you had a
Speaker 1: couple of yesterday, you know, in those kind of things,
Speaker 1: and you're kind of looking at that deep but then
Speaker 1: and then you got away from that and it was, well,
Speaker 1: what happened that defense? That was you know, it was
Speaker 1: turning the football over, you know, you know, intercepting passes
Speaker 1: and stuff as well. To me, it was pretty simple.
Speaker 1: You're not getting the pressure up front that you were getting.
Speaker 1: And when you go back to those when you go
Speaker 1: back those early games when they were getting a lot,
Speaker 1: it was because they were getting pressure up front. Quarterbacks
Speaker 1: were having to get It was complimentary football. It was
Speaker 1: exactly what you want. The defensive line said the tone.
Speaker 1: They limited the time in the pocket, which helped the
Speaker 1: linebacking corps in coverage, which ultimately helped a secondary, you know,
Speaker 1: have a step tighter coverage and if you're off as
Speaker 1: a quarterback just by you know, maybe a yard or two.
Speaker 1: The guys were in position to make plays on the football,
Speaker 1: and yesterday it was exactly that. And the good thing
Speaker 1: about yesterday bow we had edge pressure, but we had
Speaker 1: pressure in the middle. There was nowhere for Sam Donald
Speaker 1: to step up and feel comfortable throwing the foot pocket
Speaker 1: in that pocket feel like a shrink wrap to him,
Speaker 1: because it just kept compressing on him until sometimes you
Speaker 1: could kind of you see an arm kind of come
Speaker 1: up and and throw the ball, and you know, but
Speaker 1: but again and and that kind of leads back to
Speaker 1: you know where we're talking about. In the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Geez, you know you're not getting any sacks.
Speaker 1: You're you're not getting turnover as well. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: waiting for some grey. We'll put two and two together. Well,
Speaker 1: there they go hand and got them both. You gotta
Speaker 1: get You really have to have one to get the other.
Speaker 1: You know, either you've got dbs that are they're playing
Speaker 1: so well back there that that it gives you time
Speaker 1: for your defensive line to to get the sacks. But
Speaker 1: I'm with coach Gay when someone's talking about it goes, look,
Speaker 1: you don't need to you don't need to have a
Speaker 1: sack in order for a rush to be effective, and
Speaker 1: there was a lot You have the four sacks yesterday,
Speaker 1: which you also you have to get a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: Rushes that didn't didn't create didn't turn into sacks, but
Speaker 1: they turned into on the other side. So you know,
Speaker 1: there there's there's different ways of getting it done, and
Speaker 1: they got it done in both ways. Yesterday. I was
Speaker 1: really I was really happy the way the defense played
Speaker 1: along the line of scrimmage because that was the first
Speaker 1: time in a long time that they were able to
Speaker 1: push an offensive line in the backfield. They were able
Speaker 1: to be able to get penetration number one and number
Speaker 1: two finish. You know, it's it's one thing to get pressure,
Speaker 1: but they are able to finish. You have to be
Speaker 1: able to finish a couple of times to get an
Speaker 1: opposing offense in second and sixteen, in third and eleven.
Speaker 1: You know, have those situations be in your favor instead
Speaker 1: of always being at third and four or less or
Speaker 1: third and six and less. I think that's why the
Speaker 1: Jets were two of thirteen. Now on the flip side,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins three of sixteen on third down. Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: they were able to make enough plays and Frank Gore
Speaker 1: was able to you know, push the running game a
Speaker 1: little bit, and you know his accolades, you know, stand
Speaker 1: on their own. You know, Well that's that's what's my
Speaker 1: next step is. Okay, you know we we know this
Speaker 1: game was one on the on the heels of a
Speaker 1: defensive effort that was outstanding. Yesterday, I'm Kiko was all
Speaker 1: over the field again. Um, guys just playing playing well
Speaker 1: out there, you know. And I think Bobby McCain is
Speaker 1: naturally every week he plays, you start to see him
Speaker 1: being back the guy. Look before you, guy, you know,
Speaker 1: you make a great point, But look at the way
Speaker 1: Cam Waite came back from injury. Took him a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. It always takes a cut. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be you're coming back when they're and you
Speaker 1: gotta work your way back in Cam when he gets
Speaker 1: on a role. Throughout his career, it's always been in spurts.
Speaker 1: You know, once he has those one or two sacks,
Speaker 1: then he's gonna have another sack and he's gonna have
Speaker 1: more pressures than he's gonna have a couple of tackles
Speaker 1: for loss. Those the way that in his career, that's
Speaker 1: the way it's gone. And for Bobby McCain, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the same thing. I think he's feeling. Now, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm closer to a right now, I can make that
Speaker 1: play on the football and not lose my feet and
Speaker 1: not be on the ground and and be able to
Speaker 1: make the smart play that that the aggressive the you
Speaker 1: know that that quick twitch movement is closer to be
Speaker 1: in there now. So we're all kind of we're all
Speaker 1: kind of on board on the defense, kind of kind
Speaker 1: of control. Yes. Now the question is offensively, this is
Speaker 1: is it's it's it's not enough. It's it's not hundred
Speaker 1: sixty four hundred sixty eight total yards of offense. Um.
Speaker 1: You you can do that against the Jets. You can
Speaker 1: you may be able to do that against Buffalo. You
Speaker 1: ain't doing that against Green Bay. No, the baby diaper
Speaker 1: is not going to pass on the road. So somebody
Speaker 1: way and you had Juwan go down and and you
Speaker 1: look grageously kind of fought back, got back into the game.
Speaker 1: Then Tuncil goes down. Um, I mean just think of
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Number one, the guys that we brought
Speaker 1: in in the off season, both on I are you know,
Speaker 1: you've got Travis wantson. He's doing he just job job
Speaker 1: in the middle. You know, you've got Ted Larson, who
Speaker 1: was supposed to be the spot guy. You know, he
Speaker 1: was supposed to come in and ten eleven plays a
Speaker 1: game and be able to bounce back and forth from
Speaker 1: either side. He's a starter. And you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: feel bad for Zach because he comes into the game.
Speaker 1: He's on the right side to begin with, then he's
Speaker 1: on the left side. But that's his job, you know.
Speaker 1: But that's his job. He's gotta be able. He'll be
Speaker 1: better for it the next opportunity if there is an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get in there and and look tough position
Speaker 1: to go in. But that that's the situation. Uh, they
Speaker 1: only have two guys active on that on that on
Speaker 1: that offensive line was it was Stirrup and it was
Speaker 1: Brendel who just became outside. Jay can't go outside. And
Speaker 1: you've got Jesse Davis who has been probably one of
Speaker 1: the more consistent guys in there. And are some guys
Speaker 1: you're gonna kick Jesse out there, so you're gonna weaken
Speaker 1: two positions. We leave him where he is and get
Speaker 1: your guy. But what surprised me John was how long
Speaker 1: it took them to give stir Up any help. You know,
Speaker 1: you put him out chair tight end and and and
Speaker 1: he gets beat three times up the out and then
Speaker 1: finally see him getting chipped. You know, like you know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody, everybody, everybody in the field that kind
Speaker 1: of knows football, everyone in the stadium was going to
Speaker 1: as soon as he goes in there, I go, you
Speaker 1: put a tight in over you put it because he
Speaker 1: needs help. I don't care what he needs help. And
Speaker 1: it took him a while, It took him. Jordan Jenkins
Speaker 1: getting to the quarterback when Hans right down and got
Speaker 1: right around the edge and and sax Brock Austwiler, that
Speaker 1: was the wake up call. Yeah, it just surprised me
Speaker 1: that it took that long to to to make that
Speaker 1: adjustment out there. But you know, now you've got another
Speaker 1: week where you know, I don't you know, I know,
Speaker 1: Tunzil and uh Jan and Joan we're going in for
Speaker 1: m R. S early in the week on Monday, and
Speaker 1: so you know, we won't know the later in the
Speaker 1: week what's gonna happen with them. But boy, if you
Speaker 1: don't have one of those guys for that game, now,
Speaker 1: now that even compounds your your problems on offense, and
Speaker 1: you need to find a way to resolve. Anytime you
Speaker 1: go on the road. The first thing you worry about
Speaker 1: his snap count. The first thing you worry about is
Speaker 1: being able to communicate. Those things will be an issue
Speaker 1: for a guy that hasn't played all season. That if
Speaker 1: he's expected to play three quarters, if he's expected to
Speaker 1: play the entire game with a silent count, you're all
Speaker 1: you're gonna count on two false starts, you know, if
Speaker 1: if you're if you're Green Bay thinking we've gotta be
Speaker 1: able to affect the quarterback. We gotta get the crowd
Speaker 1: and he's gotta get him into it. So those are
Speaker 1: the things that's your immediate concern. And then secondly, being
Speaker 1: able to hold up, you know, being able to count
Speaker 1: on a guy that hasn't played really all year to
Speaker 1: play if he has to play for sixty minutes. Those
Speaker 1: are those are big concerns for the Dolphins, and you
Speaker 1: probably take the attitude that you go in like you're
Speaker 1: facing the Chicago Bears. You know, you treat whoever is
Speaker 1: gonna be on the other side for Green Bay as
Speaker 1: as the best pass ussure. You're gonna see all years
Speaker 1: there that's their best guy and then deal with him
Speaker 1: is such exactly yeah, and no no doubt about it. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know we're I think we'renna talk to Sylvester Williams
Speaker 1: a little bit. Sylvester came here plays almost had a
Speaker 1: about I think he wants he's allobbing for half a sack.
Speaker 1: He got into some action. Ziggy Hood made some plays
Speaker 1: out there, So he had a couple of guys out there,
Speaker 1: So you want to thank them for stepping in in
Speaker 1: a short time. I also want to thank our friends
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Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolfense, who help us here on the
Speaker 1: on the audible. But nice to see those guys jump
Speaker 1: in and be able to uh to count on them
Speaker 1: to be counting and and it's gonna take some of
Speaker 1: that on the offensive side of the ball this week
Speaker 1: to to to get the job done. So and look
Speaker 1: and make no mistake about it, it's a monumental task
Speaker 1: for this offensive coaching staff and players to be able
Speaker 1: to go up there and win that football game. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be in the twenties, I think to
Speaker 1: be have any chance to have any chance, because this
Speaker 1: defense is not going to pack four sacks and four turnovers.
Speaker 1: I hope they do, but it's gonna be very difficult
Speaker 1: to create turnovers and create pressure on Aaron Rodgers. So
Speaker 1: that awesome you look Sunday night. And as much pressure
Speaker 1: as New England put on Aaron Rodgers in that first half,
Speaker 1: never got to send, never brought him down, and and
Speaker 1: half the time that he when he when he was
Speaker 1: when he was should have been sacked, almost sacked, he
Speaker 1: ends up, he ends up turned him into into first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that that's not going to happen. I think when
Speaker 1: you when you can't count on it. So the offense
Speaker 1: is gonna have to do better than a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty eight total yards, better than three of sixteen on
Speaker 1: third down, which means they're gonna have to win on
Speaker 1: first and second down with more regularity so that they
Speaker 1: don't have to rely on a third down chance, you know,
Speaker 1: and they have to win field position and and make
Speaker 1: him go the long way. They're gonna have success, but
Speaker 1: make him go the long way, don't give him the
Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty yard field and make it easier on
Speaker 1: the green Bay Pack, and look, they can do it.
Speaker 1: But but I think that I think the scenario for
Speaker 1: them to do it has got to be john And
Speaker 1: we've seen it with this football team now for for
Speaker 1: the last month or so. You know, you can do it.
Speaker 1: If you're second and six, second and four, second and five,
Speaker 1: third and two, third and three, they're not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna do it with a steady diet of
Speaker 1: second and ten, third and elevens. You know they're gonna
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to. So there's because the less Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is on the field the better. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Frank Gore is gonna have to play a big role.
Speaker 1: And I believe Kenyan Drake at some point has to
Speaker 1: play a bigger role in the in the run game. Now,
Speaker 1: I know he's gonna catch it. Blage caught two passes
Speaker 1: for seventeen yards. That was good to see. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to find a guy that turns the four
Speaker 1: or five and six yard run, and that's Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: to be able to not count on a ten or
Speaker 1: twelve or fifteen play drive. You're gonna get eight play drive,
Speaker 1: nine play drive, ten play drive. But you're doing it
Speaker 1: with more explosive plays in the running game. You just
Speaker 1: can't put yourself in those long second, long, third and
Speaker 1: longs because because if the Dolphins are living on second
Speaker 1: and third and longs next week, it's going to be
Speaker 1: a disaster. It's just gonna be. And so you know
Speaker 1: you and and I'm with you. Look, I've been a guy.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm was looking forward to seeing klein Blage and
Speaker 1: it was nice to see him yesterday. You got a wildcat.
Speaker 1: Some places did wild nice playing the wild called back
Speaker 1: by a very very questionable holding caller Ted Larson, and
Speaker 1: that was a really nice nice play. And so I'm
Speaker 1: glad to see them incorporating him in because he's a
Speaker 1: big strong to take more than Yes, Frank Gore coming
Speaker 1: into this season was going to be the ancellary guy.
Speaker 1: He was gonna be, you know, the add on. He
Speaker 1: was gonna be Kenyan Drake running the football, and it
Speaker 1: seems like it's totally flipped the script. So and now
Speaker 1: if you can add a Bellage that has fresh legs
Speaker 1: and that's a big back, as you point out, this
Speaker 1: gets huge as a running back. So if you can
Speaker 1: get incorporate those two guys and get more out of it.
Speaker 1: It takes a little bit of load off of Frank
Speaker 1: and let Frank do what he does. Hey, thanks, Sylvester
Speaker 1: Williams on his way. And so let's I know a
Speaker 1: big man here and he looks like one of those
Speaker 1: tough guys. So we'll uh so we'll we'll, we'll catch
Speaker 1: up with him right here. Now you were here, Sylvester Williams,
Speaker 1: You've been here for a week and uh, a lot
Speaker 1: of action around here. Get a game. You got to
Speaker 1: just get a big win. So I think maybe maybe
Speaker 1: we should thank you for coming in to give us
Speaker 1: a little a little at North Carolina luck. They help
Speaker 1: us get over the top over the Jets this weekend. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here. Obviously, we was able to
Speaker 1: come in and get a bit win. We needed that win.
Speaker 1: We was right there and imagine that win kind of
Speaker 1: gave us a booth hope we can keep it going.
Speaker 1: How was it for you and Ziggy both come in
Speaker 1: kind of mid midweek last week, get ready for this
Speaker 1: football games, and you know it's just that that you know,
Speaker 1: they played the Thursday games a little extra time to
Speaker 1: kind of get the acclimated but you kind of get
Speaker 1: in here and then you get in the game, you're
Speaker 1: throwing the fire and you had twenty four snaps in
Speaker 1: the game. So you just kind of jumped to kind
Speaker 1: of through you in the in the cold water and
Speaker 1: let's see if you can swim right. Oh yeah, man.
Speaker 1: When they when they brought us in, they told her, no,
Speaker 1: they we're gonna needed to play a lot on Sunday
Speaker 1: to be really, So we just tried to come in
Speaker 1: and we came in uh at night and study the
Speaker 1: plays and kind of get the Playboy down down packing,
Speaker 1: then went on the packing game. Then we gotta try
Speaker 1: to bring the energy and work that to the group
Speaker 1: and and so we could be ready with Sunny and
Speaker 1: both you and you played a lot of downs in
Speaker 1: this league. So it's it's it's it's new terminology, it's
Speaker 1: this and that. But the defensive tackle. But I always
Speaker 1: said as a defensive linement, I said, there's only three
Speaker 1: things you gotta do. Either go straight right. There three
Speaker 1: good things, go straight right or left. The one thing
Speaker 1: you can't do is go backwards. Other than that, that's
Speaker 1: all you need to know. Right, Yeah, you're pretty good
Speaker 1: to go. If you did Dame Man, and that was
Speaker 1: the kind of thing we wanted to do coming in,
Speaker 1: Like I said, just bring energy and and get those
Speaker 1: guys to breathe when needed one and just beat their phone.
Speaker 1: How does it feel to come in the situation like
Speaker 1: that midweek? Is the game's going and everyone's you know,
Speaker 1: where everyone's got the baggage from what's been going on,
Speaker 1: and then the goods and the bad and all then
Speaker 1: and you kind of step right into the middle of it.
Speaker 1: And the next thing you know, you're you're you're putting
Speaker 1: the pads on and getting ready to go out for
Speaker 1: a football team with guys that most of them I
Speaker 1: would imagine by the time by game time either hadn't
Speaker 1: met her or just kind of seen and and didn't
Speaker 1: know really who was who at some point. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I think the good I know a few guys in
Speaker 1: the line ride and the King I was, you know
Speaker 1: right when the Carolina and King was in Denver with
Speaker 1: before I mean Detroit Woodhill and we came out together,
Speaker 1: so I kind was familiar with some of the guys,
Speaker 1: but just coming in and working hard. You know, when
Speaker 1: you work hard, you know a lot of guys they
Speaker 1: started game respect for you through your actions. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what me and Ziggy boats I dudes come in,
Speaker 1: you know, without actions and ignored the outside noise. Ibviouls
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. Outside a lot of outside noise
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins and by their self. You know, we're
Speaker 1: just a situation that had been in and also me
Speaker 1: personally being released last week. Whatever. I just you know,
Speaker 1: the outside noise and just come in and put my
Speaker 1: head down and go to work. Hey, you you went
Speaker 1: to do to Denver, Detroit or Denver? I'm sorry. In
Speaker 1: two thousand, Coach Gates was there? Did you have much
Speaker 1: you know, I know he's an offensive guy. Did you
Speaker 1: have much dealings with him? I mean obviously you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, Coach Gates is a very very very
Speaker 1: social guy. Here players coach. So you know, you see
Speaker 1: him in the hallway, you chop it up with him,
Speaker 1: and and different then the day even you know, when
Speaker 1: I was playing against in my career, you know, just
Speaker 1: seeing him in on the field, then when he was
Speaker 1: just chicagoing here and seeing him on the field, you
Speaker 1: get a chance chopping up with him, and he that
Speaker 1: type of guy. He definitely a players coach man and
Speaker 1: guys love to play for him, and that's why having
Speaker 1: the opportunity to coming and play form was exciting. You're
Speaker 1: you're in Detroit for a little while, then then you
Speaker 1: come over here. Um, we're excited to get this opportunity.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's just a job. I mean, you get let
Speaker 1: go by Detroit and certainly you must have been excited
Speaker 1: to uh to go anywhere, but to come down to
Speaker 1: Miami or football team that's we're starting to bring build
Speaker 1: a tradition here and get back to being one of
Speaker 1: those teams. It's a constant threat to get in the postseason, sir.
Speaker 1: And see, I was decided and uh, like I said, man,
Speaker 1: let go from that situation. Obviously you know what it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't the happiest, but I felt like it's the
Speaker 1: best thing for me at the time. And like I
Speaker 1: told me, and I wanted to go to the to
Speaker 1: uh a good situation and uh and attended. I thought
Speaker 1: was a fifth of me. I didn't just want to
Speaker 1: sign anywhere, but oh yeah, I'm at home and I
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to go to a suasion that I
Speaker 1: thought would fit me. And having an opportunity to come
Speaker 1: here and saw that they kind of needed help, but
Speaker 1: at the defensive tackle position. Uh, some debt and then
Speaker 1: also coach Gays and then also the scheme. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a chain of scheme for me. So
Speaker 1: I was kind of excited about it. And uh, you
Speaker 1: know coach kas you had mentioned you you knew him,
Speaker 1: so there's some you know, yeah, you know the guy,
Speaker 1: you kind of know what he's looking for, you know
Speaker 1: what kind of a little bit of a fiery guy
Speaker 1: out there too. Absolutely, man, absolutely gotta love plan for
Speaker 1: him though, because I say, you know, it's fun plan
Speaker 1: for guys that that that wants you to see it
Speaker 1: as bad as more than they want to see their
Speaker 1: sex succeed. You know, he want those type of coaches. Hey,
Speaker 1: you you kind of had a you kind of had
Speaker 1: a you know, you look at guys in the National
Speaker 1: Football League and now the guy went to Michigan, it's
Speaker 1: going to Ohio State. Out of high school, you kind
Speaker 1: of went to a different route. You played one year
Speaker 1: in in high school football, you started one game. If
Speaker 1: you didn't get no one wanted you. And so you
Speaker 1: end up going to junior college and finally going under
Speaker 1: North Carolina. How about that path. That was a that
Speaker 1: was a kind of a not the traditional path to
Speaker 1: get your way into the national football You eventually became
Speaker 1: a first round draft pick. So everything worked out right,
Speaker 1: but that that path had to be a very unique
Speaker 1: it was and what I tipped all the time. What
Speaker 1: was different for me was actually getting into corporate America,
Speaker 1: having a job. You know, when I got that job
Speaker 1: at that factory, because before the I was just on
Speaker 1: fast food. I work in the Taco big backyd Burke,
Speaker 1: and then I worked at Walmart for a little bit.
Speaker 1: So getting the job at that factory was was really
Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of open minyed did you
Speaker 1: want to get back into football a little more? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Because graduated from high school, I'm like, okay, now it
Speaker 1: was time for real. You know, you gotta find an apartment.
Speaker 1: Can't live with your parents. We gotta find an apartment.
Speaker 1: And when I got that job, it's kind of I started.
Speaker 1: I had so much time in mind because it was
Speaker 1: it wasn't a you know what I mean, you could communicate,
Speaker 1: It was just kind of a state. He worked in
Speaker 1: the station over and over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: so I had time to think and then I guy
Speaker 1: worked on my machine. My machine broke down, and guy
Speaker 1: was working on my machine. He had been there for
Speaker 1: like fourty some years and he was about to retire.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of when he took me and I said,
Speaker 1: how long you've been? He said for some years? He
Speaker 1: by the tie, and I just kind of had a
Speaker 1: flash and I was like, I don't want to look
Speaker 1: up for the years and then still be here. Not
Speaker 1: that it was not wrong with it, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted something different, Like, and I decided, man to go
Speaker 1: back to school. And and Andre Simon, who was a
Speaker 1: basketball go from and said, man, you ought to try
Speaker 1: to play football to get him to pay for school.
Speaker 1: And I'm like all right, And he said, well you probab,
Speaker 1: I gotta go to code because your grades so you
Speaker 1: can play it right away. I'm like all right. Kind
Speaker 1: of followed that path and I went downwards hard man,
Speaker 1: and everything started to come to life. Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's funny you're get in that situation. I kind of
Speaker 1: went through the same situation myself. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you you you kind of have a your hunger is
Speaker 1: a little different because you've been down. You know, you've
Speaker 1: been down the rocky road, you know, and you're running
Speaker 1: you're getting this league and you know, I know you
Speaker 1: guys that you know they were rating there, they're getting
Speaker 1: recruited when they were juniors and they're going to these
Speaker 1: big schools and pop while you've been kind of you've
Speaker 1: been kind of digging in the dirt down there to
Speaker 1: to get your scraps to get where you are. And
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a it's a strange way to
Speaker 1: get in the league, but hey, you're get in the
Speaker 1: league and and and let the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 1: After that, absolutely, well, what do you what are your
Speaker 1: expectations for the rest of this year with this football team,
Speaker 1: and and what do you want to accomplish? Um obviously
Speaker 1: you know it's a goal as a as a thirty
Speaker 1: two teams, thirty one teams obviously not out there, but
Speaker 1: it's to get in the playoffs, man. And like I said,
Speaker 1: when youre get in the playoffs as a new season,
Speaker 1: but that's how number one go right now. And I'll
Speaker 1: start with the Green bad this week. And you know,
Speaker 1: really I just want to continue to play well on defense,
Speaker 1: continue to play well up front, and uh and bring energy,
Speaker 1: like I said, whatever they need me to do. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm here to contribute that obviously, what I'm saying, being
Speaker 1: in the winning situation many times, being able to win
Speaker 1: it all, I know what to take. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if we could stay closer,
Speaker 1: you know, defense, we got a chance to anything. He's
Speaker 1: putting radios together eight to ten hours, right, Yeah, they do, man,
Speaker 1: do you? Uh you also grew up in a family
Speaker 1: where you had three older sisters. Yeah, you were your
Speaker 1: sisters dominating. Man. My uh, my older sister, she was
Speaker 1: very dominating. We bumped his all the time because she
Speaker 1: kind of was kind of left in control with my
Speaker 1: father left and herd being my sister. I didn't really
Speaker 1: want to listen to it. You just so we bumped
Speaker 1: heads all the time every day pretty much. We had
Speaker 1: at least get us a scrabbling every day. And uh,
Speaker 1: she was bigger than me. Said she got the best
Speaker 1: at me. I always said, I got older, you know,
Speaker 1: but it was it was it was fun, man. I said.
Speaker 1: They would put hated me growing up, and then I
Speaker 1: started to become partaking with them, you know, once I
Speaker 1: became older. How is your time in North Carolina? Um?
Speaker 1: And it was unbelievable. Like I said, it was crapted
Speaker 1: by the time, and nobody wants me to go to
Speaker 1: kind of. But when I stepped off the plane, they say,
Speaker 1: when you know, you know, And when I stapped on cameras,
Speaker 1: I knew where I wanted to go out of create
Speaker 1: USC George, Alabama. I kne why I want to go
Speaker 1: to North Carolina. So it was unbelievable that. Man, I
Speaker 1: had a great time. Now I was that for two years,
Speaker 1: was able to graduate. You know, I said, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: You feel a little same way when you walked in here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, here, there's a place I need to be. Man,
Speaker 1: when I got out the plan, I came here and
Speaker 1: I've seen Coach Gates and had a sense talk something.
Speaker 1: I see it. Just try. I want to be well
Speaker 1: appreciate you. It's great having you here. Nice seeing you
Speaker 1: jump in the first week and get some some valuable
Speaker 1: snaps in there. But some make some plays out there,
Speaker 1: and I feeling you were close to a shack and
Speaker 1: they're gonna involved in that. I'm turn that in. I
Speaker 1: need half. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you on half. Get
Speaker 1: half as far as I'm consumed. Look, forward to having
Speaker 1: you around for the rest of your and appreciate your
Speaker 1: stopping by enjoining us, and uh and we'll catch up
Speaker 1: with you again another time. Man than appreciate all right, man,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a big man right there, Sylvester. You
Speaker 1: know he's got you and here at the audible and
Speaker 1: nice guy is funny because we've kind of we kind
Speaker 1: of followed a similar path from you know, coming out
Speaker 1: of high school to get to the NFL, so I
Speaker 1: kind of there's a kind of a kinship with the guy.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's one of those guys. Now I've
Speaker 1: got these big beards, you know, and he's a big
Speaker 1: imposing guy with that beard and just go, oh man,
Speaker 1: it's and it turns out to be yeah, nice the
Speaker 1: guys you want to go. So it's nice to nice. Look,
Speaker 1: it's funny you got him and uh him a ziggy hood.
Speaker 1: You're here for like five or six days and boom
Speaker 1: twenty four plays a piece. I think both played about
Speaker 1: the same. It's and and make some impact. Yeah, made
Speaker 1: some being backed out there you walking by these guys
Speaker 1: and you're normally we're here every day. We get to
Speaker 1: see these guys in practice at to see him in
Speaker 1: a lot locker room, get to see him at lunch.
Speaker 1: We're just walking around the building, so you know everybody,
Speaker 1: and you know, I caught Ziggy one time and then
Speaker 1: I see Sylvester, Like, man, I don't know who those
Speaker 1: cats are, but I hope they're really good this week,
Speaker 1: you know, because the new faces coming in out because
Speaker 1: of injuries, and those guys end up playing big roles,
Speaker 1: big roles and did it did a good job? John.
Speaker 1: I think you know, we've kind of we've been talking
Speaker 1: about a lot of things, uh, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: looked ahead a little bit to Green Bay. I've been
Speaker 1: talking a little bit about the Dolphins win. And the
Speaker 1: one thing we haven't kind of addressed to the eight
Speaker 1: pound gerrilla that's sitting in the room here, the situation
Speaker 1: with Rashad Jones um clearly After the game, Coach Gay said,
Speaker 1: I was asked the question what happened to Rashaw Jones,
Speaker 1: and he answered, he took himself out of the game.
Speaker 1: So that's heavily evidently what happened with with Rashaw Jones.
Speaker 1: The which which really is a tough thing to do
Speaker 1: to your teammates. It's a in a game like that,
Speaker 1: and look, be one thing, if the game was if
Speaker 1: you were up by twenty five, you know, when you're
Speaker 1: kind of coasting through the game. But but this was
Speaker 1: a dog fight until really really until that wal Bacon.
Speaker 1: It wasn't yeah exactly, so it was still that game
Speaker 1: was still in jeopardy all the way through. And so
Speaker 1: it's one of those situations, um that you really don't
Speaker 1: want to see happen. First of all, because he's one
Speaker 1: of your best players. He's a captain in your football team.
Speaker 1: He's a pro bowler, he's a guy who's done everything
Speaker 1: you've asked him to since he's been here. So it
Speaker 1: really goes out of character for uh, for Rashad in
Speaker 1: that situation. Good news is after the game, he goes
Speaker 1: up to Coach Gay's office. After the game, usually I'm
Speaker 1: drunk by that time. By that time, I'm stuffed. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about when I was playing stuff drunk out party
Speaker 1: in somewhere. I'm not thinking about going into Coach's office
Speaker 1: by any stress the imagination. But you know, I have
Speaker 1: to wherewithal after the game to go up to to
Speaker 1: to Coach Gays's office, sit down with him, go over
Speaker 1: it coach Gays. I think he he and I he.
Speaker 1: I think he and and Rashad, you know, had that
Speaker 1: meeting where let me understand why what was behind your decision?
Speaker 1: And and and same with Rashad to coach Kase, Hey,
Speaker 1: what was behind your decision to have me sit out
Speaker 1: and and and do this? And so at least from
Speaker 1: from from Coach Gays his thoughts afterwards that they kind
Speaker 1: of smooth things over. I think he and Rashad are
Speaker 1: probably good good you know, and but there's I'm sure
Speaker 1: there was some of that, Hey, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see this again. There's gotta be this can't happen. It
Speaker 1: can't happen. You can't do it to you. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't pull yourself out of the game if you're
Speaker 1: not injured or you're not right. And I just think
Speaker 1: that when Coach Gaze looks at the defensive film, he
Speaker 1: said number one last week, I need to be more involved.
Speaker 1: I need to get more involved because I made my
Speaker 1: bones when I was a young kid as a as
Speaker 1: a nobody, you know, learning under Nick Saban and learning defense.
Speaker 1: So it doesn't like he doesn't know what he's doing
Speaker 1: on that side of the football, but you have to
Speaker 1: be able to to correct and adjust on defense, and
Speaker 1: if it means moving personnel around, that's what it means
Speaker 1: to be successful for that game. Then you have to
Speaker 1: be able to perform and be asked to take a
Speaker 1: lesser or more of a role on your plate on
Speaker 1: your plate, and I think that's exactly what happened. I
Speaker 1: think t J. McDonald was asked to do more in
Speaker 1: and around the line of scrimmage and make a Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: played three or four different positions and somebody's got to
Speaker 1: take a lesser role in that game. And it just
Speaker 1: so happened to be your Pro Bowl safety. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that Rishade took a liking to that. Now,
Speaker 1: whether that was communicated during the week at practice, whether
Speaker 1: that's the way they practiced, or it was a game
Speaker 1: time decision where this is what we need to do.
Speaker 1: You know, this is the this is the the offensive
Speaker 1: sets we're gonna face, and this is what the Jets
Speaker 1: are gonna do. We need to get to this and
Speaker 1: maybe it meant a lesser role for Rashad, but either way,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you cannot you cannot
Speaker 1: take yourself off the football field. So if that was
Speaker 1: communicated through Adam Gaze and Rashad Jones on a Sunday
Speaker 1: night in his office, and it's and it's good with
Speaker 1: Matt Burke, and it's communicated between coaching and defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: I just want to worry about winning. I don't care
Speaker 1: who plays win. I want to worry about winning. Whatever
Speaker 1: I need to do to make this team successful on
Speaker 1: that side of the ball, I'm gonna do. So maybe
Speaker 1: it's a different Now, this is a different game this week.
Speaker 1: Put the Jets aside Green Bay Packers. You can better
Speaker 1: play coverage, and you better have a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that can't cover, and you better have that that secondary
Speaker 1: that's being disciplined and and doing what they're told to
Speaker 1: do and coach to do. That might play a little
Speaker 1: bit of a role in certain guys getting more playing
Speaker 1: time and certain guys playing at different positions on defense
Speaker 1: this week. That's the way I see it. And look
Speaker 1: there there's there's more to this for Rashaw Jones because
Speaker 1: now he's got to sit down, or he had to
Speaker 1: sit down after speaking to coach Gaze the next day
Speaker 1: with Matt Burke and and to me, look, I have
Speaker 1: no insight into this. I I but you know, I'm
Speaker 1: like everyone else. I was surprised when he wasn't playing.
Speaker 1: I was surprised he took himself out of the game.
Speaker 1: But I mean kind of knowing being around the game,
Speaker 1: and I said, at some point there was a button
Speaker 1: of the heads between Rashad and Matt Burke. Why am
Speaker 1: I not playing? Why? Dah? But when you kind of
Speaker 1: started looking and you started looking deeper beyond that confrontation
Speaker 1: or that decision, maybe I would say decision is probably
Speaker 1: right word, because I'm gonna kind of move to that is.
Speaker 1: You gotta look at you look at the situation here.
Speaker 1: You got a guy you drafted and Mica Fitzpatrick who's
Speaker 1: playing as well as anybody on your defense. And he's
Speaker 1: not playing many plays, and yes he's multiple, he's a
Speaker 1: Swiss Army and I put him wherever you want to play.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play well for you. And so he's been
Speaker 1: one of their best defenders since he's played. But you're
Speaker 1: only playing him. I looked in the last couple played
Speaker 1: like twenty plays or something, but he's playing twenty very
Speaker 1: so so there's got to be that thought process. How
Speaker 1: do we get more Minka in the game. How do
Speaker 1: we get him more reps? Well, if he's gonna get reps,
Speaker 1: they're gonna come from somebody, and and so I think
Speaker 1: they're in lies the rub there. But I can't argue
Speaker 1: with a football team because Rashad still he's still he's
Speaker 1: still got that shoulder he's dealing with and he's playing
Speaker 1: with it, and he's playing well, playing to the level
Speaker 1: you want to play. The last couple of weeks been
Speaker 1: an aberration to the next last couple of weeks. But
Speaker 1: you know, if the ideas get your best players on
Speaker 1: the field's got to be on the field. Both of
Speaker 1: those guys want to do. But somebody is going to
Speaker 1: be short changed in this deal. And I think that
Speaker 1: to me, that kind of it was the crux of
Speaker 1: what started that whole. But if if that's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: you know that can't be the result for t J
Speaker 1: McDonald this week, even though he has an interception, he
Speaker 1: led the team and tackles against the Jets, he might
Speaker 1: sit down and slay or lesser role against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. And he's the guy that has to be
Speaker 1: a pro about it and say, you know what this
Speaker 1: is my role this week. The Dolphins are asking me
Speaker 1: to perform this task this week. This is what I
Speaker 1: have to do. And the story, yeah, no doubt, And
Speaker 1: that's where they got to. And look, I think, look,
Speaker 1: I think this team, the character of this team, and
Speaker 1: I include the character of Rashad Jones, is strong enough
Speaker 1: that that this is not going to be a major
Speaker 1: situation by Wednesday, by Thursday. This is the thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And and I think we're shot.
Speaker 1: At some point has to address his teammates, whether it's
Speaker 1: just the defensive players. If I was him, i'd stand
Speaker 1: in front of the team meeting, address everybody, because even
Speaker 1: though it's a defensive situation, it affects those guys. It
Speaker 1: affects everybody in that football team, whether you're just whether
Speaker 1: you're a special team, whether you're the kicker, whether you're
Speaker 1: the holder, whether your long snapper, it affects you too.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the kicker, he's pretty good. Well, i'll tell
Speaker 1: you what you talked about. You mentioned kicker Jason Sanders.
Speaker 1: What a oh my gosh, this guy was. He's missed
Speaker 1: one kick. Yeah, he's been he's been great. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I mean he's had looked in a game like yesterday's
Speaker 1: game was a game where every one of those kicks
Speaker 1: he lined up for. You know, he's tightened up a
Speaker 1: little bit on those things. You know, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: I'm sure kind of around his neck mabe or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I mean because every kick could have been could
Speaker 1: have could have was gonna either help you win or
Speaker 1: lose that hawk as well. Yeah, you know you gotta
Speaker 1: be able to well. And look at the kickoff. I
Speaker 1: think you know you look at the first half they started,
Speaker 1: they started the five eleven. It was like, I think
Speaker 1: I added it up. I was able to use my st.
Speaker 1: Thomas aquinas uh my degree there, I mad, I just
Speaker 1: wrote my graduation. I got by by. I never got
Speaker 1: to algebra. I just got the regular man. Just peruse
Speaker 1: the members of Hey, that's kicking pretty good. All I
Speaker 1: know is when it got to algebra, the people around
Speaker 1: me better have been pretty good and and and really
Speaker 1: doing research and really for a game like yesterday where
Speaker 1: the offenses were struggling as much as they were, and
Speaker 1: you can give them that extra ten, twelve, fifteen yards
Speaker 1: that they've got to go to get in the end zone. Man,
Speaker 1: that's like that, that's that's big real estate right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I are kicking game and our special teams. Uh, yesterday
Speaker 1: they leaned on him a lot. Yeah, no doubt about it,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. So yeah, so a lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff there and and there was shod thing. It's
Speaker 1: nice to know, kind of get the idea of what
Speaker 1: was that, what was behind and and and then be
Speaker 1: done with your coach sitting there and he was asked, hey, well,
Speaker 1: well play this week, and no hesitation. Yes he will
Speaker 1: play this yes, And so that's uh. And they're gonna
Speaker 1: handle it internally, and that's the way it should be done,
Speaker 1: no doubt. But so now we get back to this
Speaker 1: week and we get to the task at hand. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we we talked about we know what we know
Speaker 1: what it presents. We know what's Aaron Rodgers and and
Speaker 1: and everything that he's done. And their defense is susceptible.
Speaker 1: They've got injury problems like everybody else in the national
Speaker 1: foot alleague that they're dealing with. But John, there's also
Speaker 1: there's also a couple of there's also Graham. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham. You know, there's a guy named Randall Cobb.
Speaker 1: And you have to be and there's also lambeau Field,
Speaker 1: and there's a if you don't believe there's a mystique
Speaker 1: to to lambeau Field, you've never been there, because that
Speaker 1: is a that is a that's a that's a very
Speaker 1: unique place to play. And look, it's gonna be you're
Speaker 1: gonna play at one o'clock. Now you're gonna play, and
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be chilly because it's there there they're
Speaker 1: expect I think, right, I look the other day or
Speaker 1: someone your packing. I I didn't because I I wait
Speaker 1: until you You wait until the morning of plan my
Speaker 1: packing at that time whatever makes it. And somebody somebody said, hey,
Speaker 1: I looked it up and there and they're expecting um
Speaker 1: somewhere between the mid thirties to forty something. So if
Speaker 1: you're playing at four thirty, though, that means your game
Speaker 1: is gonna play until seven thirty and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little cold. And so there's another thing that you
Speaker 1: got to deal with is the climate there, along with
Speaker 1: the fact that you've got an offense that's kind of sputtering,
Speaker 1: running on on four cylinders instead eight. Going on to
Speaker 1: two losses, they have playmakers. We talked about Cob We
Speaker 1: talked about Graham. You know, they also got uh, Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: You know that that's a really good player. I just
Speaker 1: think that it's one of those games where it wasn't
Speaker 1: winnable two or three months ago. But if if you
Speaker 1: feel like you're you know, you're come in with a
Speaker 1: little bit more confidence than you've had over the past month.
Speaker 1: There's a chance. You know, the Green Bay Packers have
Speaker 1: suffered a bunch of losses, uh, and a bunch of injuries,
Speaker 1: and they didn't expect to be in the position they're
Speaker 1: in right now. I just suffered an injury. I just
Speaker 1: pulled a muscle. What happened? I my our our producer, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Jeff just told me that he showed me that today.
Speaker 1: What's the thirty three high low today? That's oh, as
Speaker 1: of today, they're expect thirty three as a high is
Speaker 1: a high? Oh that's good, Hey boy. I just hope
Speaker 1: you guys have a safe trip and pack accordingly. The
Speaker 1: day you're leaving, I might be doing the sideline from
Speaker 1: the booth, you know, Hey, from More, Hey, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go camera telling down here fellas from More. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting this is pretty good, not as a chili down
Speaker 1: here as chili as I expect it. That reminds me
Speaker 1: one time I was caddying pasting napkin, I got little
Speaker 1: mustard on. I was caddying for Dan Marino in Austin, Texas. Right,
Speaker 1: so we're going to this tournament and uh, we're about
Speaker 1: you know, sixteen seventeen, eighteenth hole when I was getting hungry,
Speaker 1: So you know, I walk over and get a hot dog,
Speaker 1: and we had carts so I can bring it back
Speaker 1: to the cart. Got whatever for damn, got us a
Speaker 1: couple of beers. We're gonna go down and finish the course.
Speaker 1: Finished the tournament. So it's about the seventeenth hold. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there and I'm sitting in in the in the car,
Speaker 1: and Danny's out there trying to figure out wind and
Speaker 1: yards and stuff, and I'm sitting alright. So he goes up, Hey,
Speaker 1: Johnny boy, what we got here? He goes. I said, well,
Speaker 1: from where I'm sitting, it's a hundred thirty two yards
Speaker 1: and you got a little win right to lift. He goes,
Speaker 1: you think you're fat asking, get out of the car
Speaker 1: and just give me the correct yard. And I thought
Speaker 1: you're gonna say. I thought you're gonna say, hey, Johnny,
Speaker 1: what do you have? What do we have here? He says,
Speaker 1: well mustard relish, I don't know I'm talking about. Can
Speaker 1: you wipe this mustard off? My grip? Not lost on
Speaker 1: me as the fact that you were the cat you
Speaker 1: were caddying, which weren't carrying the sack. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: I was in the cart. The cart. It was a
Speaker 1: three day event. It was a clause that you're the clase,
Speaker 1: I caddy. We were out of contention. It was just
Speaker 1: right perusing the course in the cart. Uh. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's gonna be cold. And another fact that
Speaker 1: they got to deal with. But hey, look this is
Speaker 1: one of like it's a national football and you never
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen, and you kind of backs up
Speaker 1: against the wall here with these guys, just with all
Speaker 1: the with everything that you're facing here. But stranger things
Speaker 1: have happened. Can you put it together one more time
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes? Get to the bye week at six
Speaker 1: and four? I mean that would be enormous for this team.
Speaker 1: And look, I think this team. I think this team,
Speaker 1: this this last game, um, learn something, you know, you
Speaker 1: you You know, you get in those situations where I
Speaker 1: know how I played and I know how I reacted
Speaker 1: in those two really crappy losses that we had, and
Speaker 1: then I know how I felt and how I played
Speaker 1: and how I reacted in this winning game where where?
Speaker 1: And it doesn't take that much to get from game
Speaker 1: to good games. And I think they saw so. So
Speaker 1: I think they carry that with them too, certainly on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the football. But their challenge has
Speaker 1: become tenfold this week compared to last week against the Jets.
Speaker 1: With with the guy they're playing, every game sets up
Speaker 1: a different set of circumstances on how you can win
Speaker 1: and how you can lose. You know, I was going
Speaker 1: into the Jets game and it was gonna be ugly, nasty, sloppy. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of punts, a lot of field position.
Speaker 1: How are we gonna grind this game out? Because it
Speaker 1: always seems that way with the Jets. Now, when you're
Speaker 1: going against the Green Bay Packers, you're talking about better
Speaker 1: efficiency at a higher level, more consistency. Can you stack
Speaker 1: back to back to back positive plays together? On offense?
Speaker 1: Can you just hold the Packers to a field goal
Speaker 1: instead of getting them six points on certain drives. That way,
Speaker 1: you're still in a football game, or maybe if you
Speaker 1: have the lead, you keep the lead instead of getting
Speaker 1: tired or getting you know, a score or two behind.
Speaker 1: Different dynamic this week than it was last week in
Speaker 1: the style of play, and the more efficient you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to be on the road. Yeah, you know, one
Speaker 1: thing is not going to change though. Listening to this
Speaker 1: podcast still can get it, you know. And I've been
Speaker 1: kind of looking at Apple Music, you know, I I was.
Speaker 1: I went on Apple Music because I want to kind
Speaker 1: of look around to see where the podcasts. Right, were
Speaker 1: you looking for Joe? Who are you looking for? Looking
Speaker 1: for Joe Rose? But I knew that chance. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking around on on Apple Music. You know,
Speaker 1: I actually saw I actually actually has to a hip
Speaker 1: hop song that I was considering putting on my d's
Speaker 1: or playlist. And then I listened to it. Am I go, Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. So but I be least
Speaker 1: I kind of saw some other stuff. This might tantalize
Speaker 1: me in my musical taste. Dolphins dot Com, Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: mobile app, tune in radio, all those places are good
Speaker 1: if you want to check out these uh this podcasts
Speaker 1: each and every week and John, how many times? How many?
Speaker 1: How many times? I don't long. I have been doing
Speaker 1: this podcast now a few months now, much right, three months?
Speaker 1: And I hate, I hate to admit I still don't
Speaker 1: know what a podcast is. I know we do one.
Speaker 1: I know we do one, but I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: I see everybody, a lot of people trying to pub
Speaker 1: their podcast podcast. I'm just glad we're out there. I'm
Speaker 1: just podcast world. Yes, I'm We're in the we're in
Speaker 1: the ring. We're in the podcast community, right, We're part
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Speaker 1: now Episode thirty five mid season review episodes were enough?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Episodes A lot? You know what?
Speaker 1: You know? What's funny about that? We've done forty six? Yeah,
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