Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the audible Kimbo Camper, John
Speaker 1: conjenmmy with you. And uh, last time we spoke, a
Speaker 1: lot of things have changed since then. It changes, It
Speaker 1: changes a good word. The environment is kind of morphed
Speaker 1: into something else around here. And and uh, Johnny, it's it's.
Speaker 1: You know, this football team has been mired in in
Speaker 1: you know, in mediocrity for for decades um. And you know,
Speaker 1: they've they've been fortunate and unfortunate, fortunate that they've only
Speaker 1: had one season where they won one game and it
Speaker 1: was a disaster, but unfortunate the fact that they'd win
Speaker 1: eight games, six Kix games, seven games and all that
Speaker 1: gets you as a mid round draft pick that's maybe
Speaker 1: gonna work, maybe not throughout the draft. And it's kept
Speaker 1: them mired in in this quagmire. They've been in a
Speaker 1: quagmire for you know, for for for decades, and you know,
Speaker 1: in order to change it, you gotta make big changes.
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, when they when they
Speaker 1: elevated Chris Greer, when they brought in Brian Flores, I
Speaker 1: think everyone understood that, hey, something needs to change, Something
Speaker 1: dramatic has to happen with this organization to get this
Speaker 1: football team to where everybody that's a Dolphin fan, everybody
Speaker 1: in this building, wants it to be a team that's
Speaker 1: gonna battle every year and be a possible contender for
Speaker 1: the playoffs and maybe move into a Super Bowl possibility.
Speaker 1: They did it, and and it hurt. It hurt. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, jettison a lot of players, a lot a
Speaker 1: lot of names that um that that were surprising to
Speaker 1: a lot of folks. The big moves obviously with Ton
Speaker 1: Soul and Kenny Stills, and but look, you know, Kenny
Speaker 1: Steals in my mind, he kind of dug his own grave,
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of you know, they're there are
Speaker 1: certain things you can do with certain and certain things
Speaker 1: you can say, but uh, you know, once you start
Speaker 1: in my mind, and this strictly my opinion, once you
Speaker 1: start screwing with the owners other other businesses, then it's
Speaker 1: whole different ball game. But neither they're there. But so
Speaker 1: this is a team that's that's that's quite frankly stripped,
Speaker 1: stripped themselves down, put themselves in a very admirable position
Speaker 1: going forward. Draft choices, first round picks, second round picks,
Speaker 1: the depth of the depth of choices they're gonna have
Speaker 1: over two years. Uh, it should get this team back
Speaker 1: on the track. But John is gonna fans are gonna
Speaker 1: have to be patient. You and I are gonna have
Speaker 1: to be patient. Uh, anyone that follows this team is
Speaker 1: gonna have to be a little patient. But Um, as
Speaker 1: much as it may be a thing where everyone's got
Speaker 1: their opinion on it, John, I think it's something that
Speaker 1: had to be done. I think in order to be
Speaker 1: in order to get to the mountaintop. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta, you gotta throw the dynamite in there.
Speaker 1: And well, I know this offseason when Brian Flores was
Speaker 1: hired and Chris Career came to the podium and everybody
Speaker 1: talked about and the owner, Stephen Ross, everybody talked about,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna be something new. This is gonna
Speaker 1: change dynamic of how the Miami Dolphins are gonna try
Speaker 1: and build this franchise to get out of the quagmire
Speaker 1: that quite frankly, the organization has been in because when
Speaker 1: you look back the last ten fifteen years years, that
Speaker 1: recipe hasn't built any success. The Dolphins have been to
Speaker 1: the playoffs one time since two thousand and nine, Okay,
Speaker 1: and there hasn't been a chance that you feel as
Speaker 1: a fan, we we've got an opportunity to compete for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, to compete for a world championship, to win
Speaker 1: a super Bowl that hasn't happened in a very long
Speaker 1: time now. I would be lying if I said that
Speaker 1: I thought that meant getting rid of one of your
Speaker 1: top two three arguably players on this roster in Laramie Tunseil,
Speaker 1: And I would think, you know, twenty four touchdowns over
Speaker 1: four years for Kenny Stills. You you kind of want
Speaker 1: to hang on to a playmaker like that as well.
Speaker 1: But when you get the hall that the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: didn't probably intend to go out and seek, but you're
Speaker 1: dealing with a team that's maybe a player or two
Speaker 1: away from they think going to the playoffs and going
Speaker 1: far into the playoffs in the Houston Texans, you have
Speaker 1: to kind of entertain that. And what was entertained was
Speaker 1: a future and a bright future, a chance at a
Speaker 1: bright future right away for the Miami Dolphins to do
Speaker 1: what they've done over the last couple of drafts, that's
Speaker 1: stockpile some young talent. Now that's gonna be a young roster,
Speaker 1: but have a chance to stockpile some young talent and
Speaker 1: obviously have the flexibility to go up and get a
Speaker 1: quarterback if they if they deem fit after this year. Now,
Speaker 1: you hope Brian Fitzpatrick is a bridge to the future.
Speaker 1: You hope Josh Rosen might be able to be that guy.
Speaker 1: But if you're not certain and that doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: the plan b is is in place. Now you have
Speaker 1: the pieces to go up and get to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Bloa if that's your guy. And if that's not
Speaker 1: your guy, maybe it's from from Georgia, maybe it's another guy,
Speaker 1: it's Herbert from but maybe you wait. Maybe you wait
Speaker 1: and get a Trevor Lawrence in the next year. If
Speaker 1: you're in a position, even if you win five or
Speaker 1: six games, you still have the pieces to trade and
Speaker 1: to bargain with to get to where you need to
Speaker 1: be if that's the situation you're in in two years
Speaker 1: from now. So I think in my mind, they didn't
Speaker 1: go out seeking this trade, but the Hall trade found them.
Speaker 1: The trade found them. The Hall was too significant for
Speaker 1: them to pass up in terms of where they want
Speaker 1: to build this franchise. You know, if if I was
Speaker 1: in both sides of that trade, I'd be more I'd
Speaker 1: be more upset if I was a Houston fan, because
Speaker 1: you just mortgage your future, right, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they have to participate in Vegas next year for
Speaker 1: the draft. Yeah, you just mortgage your future for you know,
Speaker 1: for for a win now. Situation understand, because they're close,
Speaker 1: They got some good players in the football team, they
Speaker 1: feel that there, they feel their best moves. Try to
Speaker 1: get it done now and maybe have a two or
Speaker 1: three year running there. But but but if they fall
Speaker 1: flat and they got nothing else, everybody will be looking
Speaker 1: for a new job. Where whereas you know, you got
Speaker 1: a team here. And you know the funny thing about
Speaker 1: this football team, John, It's been this way for a
Speaker 1: long time. Seven wins, eight wins, maybe six whatever. But
Speaker 1: it seemed like every year there were two games away,
Speaker 1: you know, two games at two wins at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. How many times two or three games
Speaker 1: left you and two of them you're in the right
Speaker 1: So so they were, so they were, but but and
Speaker 1: you kept saying, well, you know, Jesus, there there were
Speaker 1: two games away from the playoffs last year. Get a
Speaker 1: good draft pick in the middle of the first round.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe you were there, but but it never materialized.
Speaker 1: And every year it's like Jesus, Jesus, we would have
Speaker 1: won those two games, It would have won those two games,
Speaker 1: but we haven't and we haven't and we have it.
Speaker 1: So you know, what's what's the old line, you know,
Speaker 1: the you know, doing the same thing over and over
Speaker 1: and expecting it to change over history, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's not gonna change. So, you know, I think this team,
Speaker 1: you know, had a plan going in, and you're right,
Speaker 1: maybe not to the degree that we ended up now
Speaker 1: the result. But when you got a team that's sitting
Speaker 1: there with first round draft picks, second round draft picks
Speaker 1: and throwing them your way along with players, well you
Speaker 1: gotta sit up and take notice, especially with a team
Speaker 1: that had an idea of going in and let's let's
Speaker 1: get rid of some dead wood. Let's get a young
Speaker 1: nucleus in here that we can build from, that can
Speaker 1: grow in our system, understand what we want to do,
Speaker 1: understand the type of game that we want to play,
Speaker 1: and then let's go out the next year and start
Speaker 1: adding you know, adding high you know, high end talent
Speaker 1: for this roster. It's it's you know, it's I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for fans to kind of wrap
Speaker 1: their arms around it a little bit. But I think
Speaker 1: when you look at it from a football standpoint, from
Speaker 1: where this team is, you can either stay and be
Speaker 1: eight Nate and eight Nate and six and nine or
Speaker 1: whatever for for years that comes seven and nine for
Speaker 1: years to come, or you can do something different. And
Speaker 1: they've done something different and now now it comes down
Speaker 1: to turning those draft picks into meaningful draft picks. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to be lining up and and
Speaker 1: you know, and and and and next year. You mean,
Speaker 1: you know three or four guys coming out of those
Speaker 1: picks that you go, well, that guys he's gonna be
Speaker 1: here for a while. You know he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: difference maker. And it and it starts at the position
Speaker 1: of quarterback. Let's not fool ourselves. You have to have
Speaker 1: a difference maker at quarterback if you're gonna win in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, if you're gonna win with consistency,
Speaker 1: if you feel like you can go out and have
Speaker 1: the wherewithal to go get whoever you deem is the
Speaker 1: best guy to lead this franchise. Now he may be
Speaker 1: on the roster, he may be Josh Rosen, you never know.
Speaker 1: But this team has to evaluate that because going into
Speaker 1: next April, you have to decide whether you're going to
Speaker 1: be able to to go ahead and pull the trigger
Speaker 1: on on a quarterback or get other resources that you know,
Speaker 1: this this football team, this club needs to build on
Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty the two thousand twenty one draft
Speaker 1: where you now feel you're in position to be competitive
Speaker 1: and kind of knock New England off off the throne.
Speaker 1: So it's it's look, it's done. Uh, They've made their
Speaker 1: decisions and this was This was not a decision that
Speaker 1: was made by Stephen Ross. It wasn't a decision made
Speaker 1: by Chris Greer, wasn't a decision made by uh, Brian
Speaker 1: Florz or anybody else in that organ It was it
Speaker 1: was a decision made by everybody collectively, the brain trust
Speaker 1: of this organization, all body and on this. This is
Speaker 1: the way we're gonna do it, and this is how
Speaker 1: we're gonna go forward. And you know, a little shocking
Speaker 1: it kind of you know, it's kind of going into
Speaker 1: the dentist and you get that shot, you know, from
Speaker 1: the dentist. You go, oh, I don't like that. But
Speaker 1: two minutes later, when that guy's digging in your tooth
Speaker 1: and you don't feel anything, hey, I'm good now. You
Speaker 1: know that's a great analogy. You're going for a simple
Speaker 1: teeth cleaning and you go, you know what, you got
Speaker 1: a root canal. We got here, we got three of them.
Speaker 1: We're gonna prepare yourself. And that's how I felt. You know,
Speaker 1: the day after you're going, somebody told me, hey, do
Speaker 1: you hear about the deal? And it was like, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Laramie Tons and Kenny Stills and
Speaker 1: now Kikos. I'm like, what those are? Those are players
Speaker 1: that you kind of think you you're depending on to
Speaker 1: have success. So it kind of ought me back a
Speaker 1: little bit. But then you kind of sit down. You
Speaker 1: look at where this team is right now and where
Speaker 1: they want to go, and you have to have a
Speaker 1: plan and just remember this. This shouldn't shock you if
Speaker 1: you think back and you go back and you listen
Speaker 1: to the offseason comments about where this franchise is now
Speaker 1: and you have and you're gonna scrap the way you've
Speaker 1: got there now and change direction and try to build
Speaker 1: something from the ground up. You build it with a
Speaker 1: new coach, you build it with a new philosophy in
Speaker 1: the front office. But ultimately you build it with talent,
Speaker 1: and you build it with draft choice, and you build
Speaker 1: it with being smart in the off season. So not
Speaker 1: only do you have a wherewithal in terms of the draft,
Speaker 1: you're building dollars to go out and and kind of
Speaker 1: put towards resources selectively during free agency. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: go out and spend it all, but you're gonna be
Speaker 1: selective on what you do because you're you're building this
Speaker 1: for two three for sustainability. You're you're trying to build
Speaker 1: a franchise that's gonna compete every year at the highest level,
Speaker 1: not just every fourth year. You've got a chance to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs if everything goes right, in as a
Speaker 1: wild card, if everything goes right, you know you're go
Speaker 1: going back to you really, really, if you're a Dolphin fan,
Speaker 1: if you're your follow this team, if you go back
Speaker 1: to the day they presented Brian Flores and Stephen Ross
Speaker 1: was there, and Steven Ross time and and and and
Speaker 1: he talked about just what just where we're at right now,
Speaker 1: talked about making changes that make a difference for the
Speaker 1: long term success. And that time everyone goes, oh, they're
Speaker 1: gonna rebuild, They're gonna rebuild, or you can call it
Speaker 1: whatever the hell you want to whatever terminology you want
Speaker 1: to call it, or this, and that they're changing the
Speaker 1: way they do business here. And at that day, if
Speaker 1: you didn't realize that day that the change that that
Speaker 1: that the way of doing business for the Miami Defense
Speaker 1: was gonna make a pretty drastic change, But then then
Speaker 1: you weren't listening to what he said. Now it's come
Speaker 1: to fruition and you're gonna whoa man. That was a
Speaker 1: big deal and it was a dramatic move. A lot
Speaker 1: of bodies involved, a lot of guys that had become
Speaker 1: fan favorites down here, a lot of people that you
Speaker 1: know like these guys, and because they're all good guys,
Speaker 1: all work there, as all played hard, and you couldn't
Speaker 1: ask for anything more from the guys that that have
Speaker 1: left gone somewhere, um, but they just sit for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I just didn't fit into And moving forward now it
Speaker 1: is so here we are. This is our football team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Albert Wilson a little later on
Speaker 1: in the program. You get him coming back and get
Speaker 1: Jachim coming back. You look at that wide receiver room,
Speaker 1: you look at that running back room. When they keep
Speaker 1: seven guys, six guys in the six guys in that
Speaker 1: running back room, you know certainly the offensive line is
Speaker 1: is is a question that's gonna have to be fixed. Uh,
Speaker 1: your quarterback situation, you got a guy that's played in
Speaker 1: plenty of games, one plenty of games. You got a
Speaker 1: young guy, but that behind them that who knows four
Speaker 1: or five weeks out get his opportunity. You've got a
Speaker 1: young defense on the other side. With with this that
Speaker 1: their scheme seems to be something that you know, really
Speaker 1: fits a lot of the players they have. So so
Speaker 1: who knows what this football team is gonna be. We'll
Speaker 1: find out on Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens come to football.
Speaker 1: Football come to town, by the way, a football team
Speaker 1: that has been a total mismatch for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: through for a decade. The Dolphins couldn't be campy. Haven't
Speaker 1: been able to beat that football team for a decade.
Speaker 1: It just always seems like a mismatch. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: who knows your two maybe maybe they're saying the same
Speaker 1: thing about this team. But I like this. I like
Speaker 1: the guys that are left on this football team. Talk
Speaker 1: to most of them, been around most of them, and
Speaker 1: and you just like their attitude. And I think and
Speaker 1: Brian Floores and this coaching staff they've they've drilled into
Speaker 1: this football team to just go out, be your best player,
Speaker 1: do your job, and let her let the chif fall
Speaker 1: where they may. And I think that's what we're gonna see.
Speaker 1: And I think this team, you know, everyone gez they're
Speaker 1: not gonna win. I know, I gotta feel this team
Speaker 1: is gonna surprise some people down the road. Is it
Speaker 1: gonna be Sunday? I don't know, it could be, but
Speaker 1: somewhere down the road, this team is gonna get better
Speaker 1: as they go on. Look, they're a young football team,
Speaker 1: and you only get better by going out and playing
Speaker 1: and getting thrown to the wolves and getting the job done.
Speaker 1: And we'd be remiss not to mention John Denny too,
Speaker 1: and the you know, years of service that he gave
Speaker 1: to this organization. On the field, he's been spectacular with
Speaker 1: the number of games you know, he's played in a row,
Speaker 1: and and and how consistent, how good he's been throughout
Speaker 1: his career. That was kind of a little shocker to
Speaker 1: me as well, because you kind of figured once the
Speaker 1: cuts were made and everything was was, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of dust was settling after the trades and after guys
Speaker 1: being jettison that he'd kind of be one of those fixtures.
Speaker 1: I think there's maybe only two or three guys over
Speaker 1: the age of thirty now on this roster. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got Kilgore in the middle. You've got Rashad Jones
Speaker 1: and and maybe one other guy and and that's it
Speaker 1: in Fitzpatrick. And that's it. So it's you know, you
Speaker 1: thank John for you know, his years of service and
Speaker 1: what he's done for this organization. But you know what
Speaker 1: it you know, I came in with a young group
Speaker 1: of guys, you know, and the old the seventeen and
Speaker 1: old guys were kind of you know, they were there
Speaker 1: in their last years and most of them were out
Speaker 1: of the league after by the time I was in
Speaker 1: my second or third year in the league. If we
Speaker 1: had a bunch of young guys and you grew up
Speaker 1: to together and you're close and and and the guys
Speaker 1: I grew up with in this football team or still
Speaker 1: might some of my best because we're closely stayed together,
Speaker 1: and these guys have the opportunity to build the future
Speaker 1: of this franchise and have them be the foundation, have
Speaker 1: them be the guys that hey man, I remember when
Speaker 1: they got those guys, and two years later, here we are,
Speaker 1: We're in the We're in the hunt. So there's opportunity
Speaker 1: out for these guys and some guys that never thought
Speaker 1: they'd get the chance to be on this football team
Speaker 1: right now they're here and they're gonna go out and
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna lay it on the line and
Speaker 1: and uh and do the best they can do. And uh,
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm on board. I'm on board. I'm
Speaker 1: ready for the ride. It maybe maybe bumpy may be
Speaker 1: tough at times, but I look at a lot of
Speaker 1: these young guys in this football team and and and
Speaker 1: I and especially on the defensive side, just watching scheme wise,
Speaker 1: what they've done during the watching them flying around. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about the about this defense to see
Speaker 1: just what they can be. You know, it's funny you
Speaker 1: say the defensive side, because when you watch the preseason
Speaker 1: game games, you know there were there was obviously Baker
Speaker 1: and Iguavin are gonna be a big centerpiece to what
Speaker 1: they do because I think the differences with Rashad Jones
Speaker 1: and Minca Fitzpatrick playing close to the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and and moving back and forth and and bringing guys
Speaker 1: from you know, all different types of angles and positions
Speaker 1: on the field when you want to bring pressure, speed
Speaker 1: and smarts, you know, speed and identification, doing things the
Speaker 1: right way, You're having the right leverage, doing all the
Speaker 1: little things that people kind of take for granted. I
Speaker 1: think with this coaching staff, the way they're doing, the
Speaker 1: way they're coaching it. On the defensive side, well, you
Speaker 1: better be able to run, you better be able to tackle,
Speaker 1: but you better be able to identify, and you better
Speaker 1: be able to to know your job because if you
Speaker 1: don't do yours, boy, it's you're gonna affect the guy
Speaker 1: next year. And that goes for really any scheme, but
Speaker 1: especially with this scheme with guys running around, guys moving around.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's not a guy with a hand in the dirt,
Speaker 1: you know, on third down, you and you're kind of
Speaker 1: moving around. You better be able to identify and run
Speaker 1: and cover and tackle in space because I think that's
Speaker 1: how I think that's how this Dolphin defense is gonna
Speaker 1: be built. It's gonna be built with guys that that
Speaker 1: can that have speed, that that can make you miss
Speaker 1: and make you confin you know, just hesitate for a
Speaker 1: second because that that's going to create an advantage. And
Speaker 1: in this game on on Sunday is a good a
Speaker 1: good example for this, Steven. You got Lamar Jackson back,
Speaker 1: and here's a guy that you know, he can throw
Speaker 1: the ball. He can make every throw he wants to.
Speaker 1: More importantly, he's got you know, he's got the legs too.
Speaker 1: He can be run away from you, run away from you.
Speaker 1: Just just extend plays, Uh, take the ball down the
Speaker 1: field if he needs to it on his own. And
Speaker 1: so those guys up front that that that discipline up
Speaker 1: front to rush a quarterback like that, you gotta stay
Speaker 1: in your lanes. You can't try to you know, you
Speaker 1: can't be a guy that said, Jess, you know I
Speaker 1: thought I could beat him in the outside. Well your
Speaker 1: other tackles going outside. Now you got to you know,
Speaker 1: you you really have to play your assignment. You have
Speaker 1: to be disciplined in your lanes. You got to be
Speaker 1: disciplined in your gap, spacing between the other guys around
Speaker 1: you. You You can't have one guy upfield and one guy
Speaker 1: getting pushed back and creating a lane form. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a major test for a young defensive
Speaker 1: front and a young set of linebackers to find some
Speaker 1: way to keep one of the most you know, active
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and and dangerous quarterbacks in and out of the
Speaker 1: pocket where where they want him to be. That that
Speaker 1: may be the biggest test that they face all day long.
Speaker 1: And and maybe you know for the better part early
Speaker 1: in the season, Well, he's dynamic. I mean, he's dynamic
Speaker 1: as an athlete, and he's getting better as a thrower.
Speaker 1: But he can still beat you with his legs and
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you feel like you have the
Speaker 1: angle or not. He seems to have another gear to
Speaker 1: get by. You've got mark Ingram in the backfield. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be a new dynamic for the Baltimore Ravens. You
Speaker 1: got the rookie from Oklahoma Brown, Marquis Brown, I believe
Speaker 1: it is, who's got speed on the outside. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things for this defense to be able
Speaker 1: to identify and be able just to keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of you, because in a split second, as soon
Speaker 1: as you miss an angle or take a bad angle
Speaker 1: on Lamar Jackson, you've lost. So it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where you know, that's one of the keys of
Speaker 1: the game really for me, is being able just to
Speaker 1: just to corral him, just to slow him down. Because
Speaker 1: we saw what Josh Allen did last year, ran for
Speaker 1: like a hundred twenty five yards in hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: You give this guy the chances that turns into a hundred,
Speaker 1: you're running for touchdowns. So that's one of the big
Speaker 1: keys for this defense. On Sunday, McCoo wandered in here
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson, Albert Man, I tell you, it's been a
Speaker 1: it's been a while for you to get back in
Speaker 1: the football field. Had opportunity to play in the last
Speaker 1: preseason game and and uh, and it had to feel
Speaker 1: good to get back and had the the injury in
Speaker 1: October hip injury, go through all the rehab and we're
Speaker 1: finally to get back on the field. It had to
Speaker 1: feel I had to feel like you're crossing the finish
Speaker 1: line and in a you know, in a ten thousand
Speaker 1: meter race or something like that. You know, Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: you know, just going through the whole process of you know,
Speaker 1: just coming and said locker room, when you pass on,
Speaker 1: going through warm ups and you know, finally getting going
Speaker 1: inside the game and playing. Um, it felt great. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a blessing to you know, be able to rehab
Speaker 1: and get to back where I was and um, just
Speaker 1: to get out there with the guys and compete man
Speaker 1: and try to help this team win as best as
Speaker 1: I can. So, Um, like I said, it's a blessing
Speaker 1: and it's a great feeling. It was unfortunate that you
Speaker 1: get the injury and and and then Jachim has his injury.
Speaker 1: But the byproduct of it is coming back is you
Speaker 1: guys worked out together all the time. You compete with
Speaker 1: each other, You forced each other to get better. And
Speaker 1: sometimes that's what rehabs about, because you're you're you're on
Speaker 1: by your own you know, by yourself, You're everyone else
Speaker 1: is doing their own thing and you're just having to
Speaker 1: get yourself back. And so they have a guy like
Speaker 1: that that that you like, that that you can compete
Speaker 1: with it in your own room. That had to be
Speaker 1: good for for both of you guys. Yeah, definitely, Um,
Speaker 1: you know we came in every day with the same
Speaker 1: attitude and just trying to get better, trying to compete.
Speaker 1: If it was you know, a lot of drills, box jumps,
Speaker 1: and it started off small, we was competing and everything.
Speaker 1: Then it got into you know, running, then he got
Speaker 1: into routes and you know, now now we're back and
Speaker 1: were not enough next to each other, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's a great feeling. Um. I appreciate the guy for
Speaker 1: you know, coming in every day and just giving me
Speaker 1: a motive to just go every day. So UM hats
Speaker 1: out to him. Um Man, I think we're ready and
Speaker 1: will be back better than everything. It's great to see
Speaker 1: fifteen and nineteen back on on the on the field
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. How difficult is it for a
Speaker 1: wide receiver really for for an athlete for any position
Speaker 1: in the national football he coming back from injury, getting
Speaker 1: those mental reps, kind of testing yourself at practice, you know,
Speaker 1: running some individual routes, but still staying as sharp as
Speaker 1: you want to be because you know, when you get
Speaker 1: the green light to say, hey, I'm ready to go
Speaker 1: a hundred percent, I want to be at my best,
Speaker 1: so I don't have any mental bus or physical bust
Speaker 1: out there. How difficult is that to stay in tune
Speaker 1: with everything? Yeah, you know, we we all came in
Speaker 1: and learning new playbooks. So you know, the coaches of
Speaker 1: just getting those mental reps of not being out there
Speaker 1: going through ots and just being in a classroom walk
Speaker 1: through um, a ton of walk through reps, A ton
Speaker 1: of them of reps and just you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to do your job, you know, and be a pro
Speaker 1: about it. You know, it's your job to get out
Speaker 1: there and line up and do your best and do
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. So I saw it just
Speaker 1: being a pro. You know. The coaches you know did
Speaker 1: a great job, you know, just giving us an opportunity
Speaker 1: to to do what we need to do. When when
Speaker 1: did you know, Albert, that you were ready to go?
Speaker 1: Like I feel myself. You know, you run a couple
Speaker 1: of routes, you come in and out of a route
Speaker 1: and you go that felt natural or that felt normal
Speaker 1: to me. When did that green light, I guess, or
Speaker 1: that flash go off said I'm ready to play? Um?
Speaker 1: You know I always felt, you know, I can do
Speaker 1: more than they were allowing me to do. UM, But
Speaker 1: I guess that would just me naturally, you know, just
Speaker 1: wanting to do more, just wanting to get back out there.
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, we was going through a
Speaker 1: slow process and wanting to get out there. So um
Speaker 1: you know, when they gave him the great light and
Speaker 1: I was out there doing it, I never felt like, um,
Speaker 1: I couldn't have did anything so um so when they
Speaker 1: when they gave me the okay go out there and
Speaker 1: doing it just felt great. So you know, it's hats
Speaker 1: off to the the training staff and you know, the
Speaker 1: organization and just giving me time and just being patient
Speaker 1: with me through this process, and the train is doing
Speaker 1: a great job, but just really having me and getting
Speaker 1: me back at some point during that whole process, Albert
Speaker 1: and you and everybody else that's that's gone through rehab
Speaker 1: like that is, there's got to be a point where
Speaker 1: you convince yourself that you're healthy. Right it's you're out there,
Speaker 1: you run around, you feel good. You know. I don't
Speaker 1: know whether it's a whether it's a hard cut one way,
Speaker 1: whether it's something where you know where if if it's
Speaker 1: ane where you plant your knee and you know, you
Speaker 1: stress that thing and and oh I made it through,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of get you over that hump. Did
Speaker 1: you did you go through that point where you said,
Speaker 1: you know, jeeus, you know, I gotta do something here,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be tentative because I want
Speaker 1: to make sure this thing is gonna hold up. You
Speaker 1: do it, and you feel good about getting through that
Speaker 1: wall if you will. Yeah, you know, we was. I
Speaker 1: was at first doing individually and I went into you know,
Speaker 1: rops on air and everything was feeling good. But you
Speaker 1: know that that New Orleans week when I was you know,
Speaker 1: prepping for the game and you know, going through practices
Speaker 1: and getting handoffs and cutting up field making a move
Speaker 1: on someone. Um, that's that's when I was for sure
Speaker 1: a hundred percent that I was ready to get out
Speaker 1: there and you know, just getting in the game and
Speaker 1: just flying around and just not thinking about it. Uh,
Speaker 1: That's that's when I also knew that, you know, I
Speaker 1: was ready to get out there and get him my best.
Speaker 1: You know, I gotta tell you this, And you know,
Speaker 1: I remember the first day of training camp. I came on,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for looking loose down there, and what you
Speaker 1: keem looking for? Albert looking next? And go, yeah, man, man, Albert,
Speaker 1: his thig has always been there. Yeah, I look yeah, manah,
Speaker 1: you know, I I remember seeing the real Campbell stide
Speaker 1: and that that's the last time I was impressed with
Speaker 1: somebody was when I said camp I looked up it
Speaker 1: was Albert and then someone says, yeah, yeah, his size
Speaker 1: have always been that big. Phow. So you definitely got
Speaker 1: a lot of legwork in there and and got yourself
Speaker 1: to the to the peak point that you need to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. You know with the hip, you know, you
Speaker 1: just had to do everything over and over and just
Speaker 1: start small and just work on little muscles and just
Speaker 1: you know, build a lot of you know hips, calves,
Speaker 1: you know cards. You had to do all those you
Speaker 1: know muscles, and you had to work each group you know,
Speaker 1: by itself. So um, yeah, I definitely did a lot
Speaker 1: of leg exercises and um and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: what got me to this point and just got me
Speaker 1: so confident. So because I know I put the work
Speaker 1: in and you know, I'm ready to show everyone. Everybody
Speaker 1: excited about the opening week, you know, Baltimore Ravens coming
Speaker 1: to town. What's the excitement with with the guys. I
Speaker 1: know you guys are focused in on one week at
Speaker 1: a time, that's been you know, the the kind of
Speaker 1: banging the drum to just focus on the tasket and
Speaker 1: focus on today. Really. But the Baltimore Ravens, you feel
Speaker 1: like you've had enough work, You've had enough stuff to
Speaker 1: build in that you feel like ready to ready to roll,
Speaker 1: ready to get a w when it means something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think all the guys, you know, feel like they've
Speaker 1: been buying in all this whole process of you the
Speaker 1: O t A's training camp and you know, just ready
Speaker 1: to get out there during the preseason and ready to
Speaker 1: get out there and you know make it count. So, um,
Speaker 1: we've been ready, We've been working on iss off, so
Speaker 1: coming out there and you know, getting out there week
Speaker 1: one and just ready to prove it. We got a
Speaker 1: great opportunity going against the Ravens. It's a good football
Speaker 1: team over there, So I think it's a good a
Speaker 1: good Week one match up. We don't go out there,
Speaker 1: you know and improved that that we're ready to play football.
Speaker 1: But this is gonna be a young football team this year.
Speaker 1: Have been a lot of changes in the roster over
Speaker 1: the last week or so and got fans out there
Speaker 1: question everything. But I know you guys as a football team.
Speaker 1: When you look around that locker room and as hard
Speaker 1: as you work during training camp, I think you guys
Speaker 1: believe that there's a there's an opportunity to go out there,
Speaker 1: put a good product on the field and be competitive
Speaker 1: each and every Sunday. Uh, And all you can ask
Speaker 1: for is to is to get to the end of
Speaker 1: the game and have a chance to win. In this league,
Speaker 1: it seems like it seems like nine times out of
Speaker 1: ten comes out of that last drive and you ei
Speaker 1: can kick a field goal, miss a field goal, score touchdown,
Speaker 1: or stop someone from scoring touchdown to win a game.
Speaker 1: How confident you guys that that you've got the guys
Speaker 1: in that locker room that can go out and compete
Speaker 1: at that level. We're very confident. UM. We felt like
Speaker 1: we got a lot of telling around us in every position.
Speaker 1: I feel like they did a great job of getting
Speaker 1: guys in and just compete in all camping. You know,
Speaker 1: when it comes down to that decision, you know they
Speaker 1: make the best decision for the team, And I feel
Speaker 1: like we were ready. We were trust in the process.
Speaker 1: We trusted the coaches. UM, we trust each other, and
Speaker 1: you know we're ready to go prove everybody wrong, who
Speaker 1: who's downs. The conversation at the beginning of training camp
Speaker 1: was coach Flores, discipline, dedication, play smart, t m T
Speaker 1: takes no tell, all those types of things, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of getting him getting getting this football team to
Speaker 1: where he wants to be. It looks like you've gone
Speaker 1: through that process. Everyone's body into it um and do
Speaker 1: you think it's taken a hold in this team and
Speaker 1: guys are playing with that type of attitude, understanding that
Speaker 1: cutting down penalties, cutting down mentlori is all those things
Speaker 1: that that really can keep you from make the difference
Speaker 1: in winning games to to sitting on the Backside's what
Speaker 1: happened to us here today. Yeah, he definitely, you know,
Speaker 1: brought that attention to where you know, most teams lose
Speaker 1: games instead of winning them. And you know it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to go out there and you know, be
Speaker 1: the team that that doesn't do anything wrong like Tyland wise,
Speaker 1: doesn't make any mental areas, that don't don't get as
Speaker 1: many flags and and such that thing. So you know,
Speaker 1: as getting out there and doing everything right and doing
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to do, you know, doing all the
Speaker 1: things that don't take talent like you said, Um, I
Speaker 1: feel like that gives us a pretty good shot. And
Speaker 1: you know, then adding the talent we have it gives
Speaker 1: us a even a better chance. So yeah, we're really
Speaker 1: happy with what we got. Um, like I said, we're
Speaker 1: ready to get out there and you know, play some ball. Finally,
Speaker 1: how's it been with a guy that has seen a
Speaker 1: lot of football and Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback? Because it
Speaker 1: seems like when you have a veteran guy that has
Speaker 1: seen just about everything you could see defensively but more
Speaker 1: importantly on offense, to get you guys in the right direction,
Speaker 1: get you guys you know, going with repetition, get with tempo.
Speaker 1: I would think it's a calming presence to have a
Speaker 1: guy like that that has seen so much football in
Speaker 1: the huddle and being able to organize things and be
Speaker 1: able to get you guys moving at at a rapid pace. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, like you said, we have a lot of
Speaker 1: young guys, so you know, to have that that that
Speaker 1: veteran mindset of just coming and just slowing the game
Speaker 1: down for some of the young guys and you know,
Speaker 1: just coming to play our game and you know, make
Speaker 1: them defend and we stay on the attack and stay
Speaker 1: on the offense side. Um, it's great to have him.
Speaker 1: Like you said, he's a he's a great leader. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I look forward to playing with him this season.
Speaker 1: I think he's been gonna do us a lot of
Speaker 1: good and um, we're behind him. How do you like
Speaker 1: your room? You look at yourself and we talked about
Speaker 1: your team coming back, and uh, DeVante Parker, Preston Williams,
Speaker 1: who has done a lot of good things. You've got
Speaker 1: you have two big guys that can get down the field,
Speaker 1: go up and catch the football. You've got some speed guys,
Speaker 1: and then in between you've got some guys that do
Speaker 1: multiple things and then you throw the tight ends. It
Speaker 1: really looks from from a receiving corps you've got some
Speaker 1: some really good pieces in place to help this offense flourish. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we have a lot of good
Speaker 1: telling in a receiving room. You know, like you said,
Speaker 1: we got you guys from five seven to six five,
Speaker 1: and we can stretch the field, we can go downfield,
Speaker 1: and we we all can, we all can do you
Speaker 1: know what we need to do so to have the
Speaker 1: telling we have in our room, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: give us a great chance, you know, whether it's you know,
Speaker 1: blocking the ring game or or going downfield or you know,
Speaker 1: whatever we need to do. I think our room we
Speaker 1: can do it all. And I know you you've had
Speaker 1: a chance to see this scheme offensively, and we've seen
Speaker 1: what we've seen. And I don't know how much if
Speaker 1: we've seen the tip of the iceberg, if there's a
Speaker 1: lot of being held back, But do you do you
Speaker 1: like what this offense is going to present and the
Speaker 1: opportunities and it seems like there it seems to me
Speaker 1: like it's a it's an open it's an offense. It's
Speaker 1: really set up to to put people in in in
Speaker 1: favorable matchups across the board. Yeah, it definitely you know,
Speaker 1: gives a lot of guys, you know, on the offensive
Speaker 1: offense side of the ball, the chance to you know,
Speaker 1: to win their their opportunity or their battles or their matchups.
Speaker 1: So um, like you said, well, we'll bet on our
Speaker 1: guys every chance when they get that matchup and they
Speaker 1: expect us to win. And um, it's just a good
Speaker 1: a good offense to be in for the type of
Speaker 1: town that we have. The opening day Baltimore Ravens come
Speaker 1: to town. Opening day is always special no matter where
Speaker 1: you're at, no matter who you're playing, it's gonna and
Speaker 1: for you coming back from injury, it's a you gotta
Speaker 1: be looking forward to the day. It's gonna be gonna
Speaker 1: be a special day for especially there for the fans,
Speaker 1: special day for for everybody's there, but starting for the
Speaker 1: guys that run out of that tunnel. Opening days. I
Speaker 1: don't care a long you play, it's always a special day.
Speaker 1: Definitely good. We're looking forward to seeing you back and
Speaker 1: looking forward to big things. And we catch another high
Speaker 1: five with you and and give that one over again.
Speaker 1: But we please appreciate you coming by and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know from us, we just appreciate all the hard
Speaker 1: work that you did to get back and get ready
Speaker 1: to play. And we're excited for you. Definitely thank you
Speaker 1: for having all right, Albert Wills, what tests it's you know,
Speaker 1: you know there you meet all kind of guys you
Speaker 1: know when you when you're around these teams, and and
Speaker 1: and Albert Wilson is one of those guys. You you're
Speaker 1: you're really you're really root for, good guy, hard worker,
Speaker 1: and you could just see you know, you could see
Speaker 1: the disappointment in his eyes and in his demeanor when
Speaker 1: he got hurt last year. And and then Jachim, you
Speaker 1: know Jachim, and he talked about Jachem, how much Jachem
Speaker 1: meant to him, you know, during during rehab and getting
Speaker 1: all that stuff done. And to have those two guys back,
Speaker 1: and it kind of leads me, John to to to
Speaker 1: look into this this wide receiver room where we're at
Speaker 1: Preston Williams. You know, big, big, tall receiver, athletic ability, runs,
Speaker 1: get great routes, and you know, after the big game
Speaker 1: early and kind of had some drop issues that that
Speaker 1: need to be cleaned up, no doubt, but he certainly
Speaker 1: showed that he can be a game, a big time
Speaker 1: game receiver for you. You got DeVante Parker when he
Speaker 1: if he's healthy and ready to go. Well, we've got
Speaker 1: two big tall receivers out there, and you know, and
Speaker 1: and and and Albert talked about it anything from five
Speaker 1: we got we gotta covered. And then you got and
Speaker 1: then you have to speed guys in there, and he
Speaker 1: and he and Jaki uh and then you mix the
Speaker 1: other guys in there all along with along yeah, along
Speaker 1: with the tight ends too I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: you know, we saw a little bit during the preseason
Speaker 1: with moving Gaseki out and getting into I think they're
Speaker 1: trying to get him in places where he can get
Speaker 1: off the line of screams, get down the field and
Speaker 1: be aggressive. And I think once you put that all together,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about that receiving corps and what they
Speaker 1: can be uh for the for the football team. Now
Speaker 1: having said that, and then we're keep talking about the receiver,
Speaker 1: but that offensive line has gotta gotta find out a
Speaker 1: way to protect. But when they can protect, those guys
Speaker 1: are gonna be um a big, big part of of
Speaker 1: whatever success they have in this team. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you're right in terms of what the offensive line, because
Speaker 1: now you add in a guy, a veteran quarterback that
Speaker 1: knows how to distribute the football, throw it away, anticipate.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna help a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: mass some of the things that go on with the
Speaker 1: offensive line. But I am excited about the receiving corps.
Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of explosive plays from this group.
Speaker 1: You know. Now you add in the unknown, you add
Speaker 1: in Preston Williams, you add in an Alan Hearns, and
Speaker 1: you add in two guys that are healthy that have
Speaker 1: been productive that our mismatch nightmares. You know, you get
Speaker 1: these guys in situations where it doesn't take a whole
Speaker 1: lot of time for these guys to create space, to
Speaker 1: create angles as a quarterback, where you can anticipate where
Speaker 1: they're going and throw them to a spot because they're
Speaker 1: that fast, They're that agile to to be able to
Speaker 1: to flash and get open and no when to settle down.
Speaker 1: They're not running, you know, past where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: They're ready to catch the ball when the ball is delivered.
Speaker 1: So I like a lot of things that Jachem grant
Speaker 1: that Albert Wilson do as a tandem because you can
Speaker 1: put him outside, you can put him inside, You could
Speaker 1: hand it actually to Albert. He's built like a running
Speaker 1: back and you talk about that uh in the interview
Speaker 1: about you know, his bottom half. He's a strong athlete
Speaker 1: and he's able to break tackles. And Jachem is able
Speaker 1: to make a lot of yards after first contact, making
Speaker 1: somebody miss turning a five yard route into a twenty
Speaker 1: five yard game. And now you flip the field and
Speaker 1: you have a chance to score from anywhere on the
Speaker 1: field with those guys. So those are the types of
Speaker 1: thing I'm I'm excited about with the minute of two guys. Now,
Speaker 1: the big guys on the outside, you get to catch
Speaker 1: radius and you get you get guys that are healthy,
Speaker 1: and you hope they stay that way because big guys
Speaker 1: tend to tweak, you know sometimes, and we've seen it
Speaker 1: with Davante. You're hoping that he's able to be the
Speaker 1: rock this year. That that you've seen it practice, that
Speaker 1: you've seen it training camp, that you've seen during the
Speaker 1: you know, glimpses in the regular season where he can
Speaker 1: take a ball out of the air and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, who was that? You know it was eleven.
Speaker 1: You know that you want that because you need guys
Speaker 1: like that on the outside to maybe you know, when
Speaker 1: you're covered, you're not really covered, and fits he knows
Speaker 1: how to throw that back shoulder, get him, get him
Speaker 1: some catches that really you're not counting on down the
Speaker 1: field because those those are thirty and forty yard games
Speaker 1: down the field. You know. You add to that the
Speaker 1: the offensive running book, the running backs. They're running backs
Speaker 1: in there, and it's gonna be you know because you
Speaker 1: know that you know, you know that Kenyan Drake uh
Speaker 1: and you know the Calin Bloge are both gonna be
Speaker 1: active in the passing game. Also, Yes, they're all gonna
Speaker 1: be part of that that that passing game. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then Mark Walton see where he fits in Gascon? Who
Speaker 1: you catch Chandler Cox? You know, you know, here's a
Speaker 1: guy that you know, I know, I know we've talked
Speaker 1: about him a little bit during the pregy preseason and
Speaker 1: on the on the broadcast and stuff like that. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's done everything you've asked for
Speaker 1: the kid. I mean, he's made some key blocks to
Speaker 1: bring some uh some of the backs on some nice runs.
Speaker 1: He could step up and block the line of script
Speaker 1: and protect help protect the quarterback. And you know you
Speaker 1: got those fullbacks when they pound, they pounded, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you sneak him out a little play action,
Speaker 1: go over the top. They've been able to do that.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting to see how he fits
Speaker 1: into the to the to the mix. But I think
Speaker 1: they've got the running backs that they've got in there
Speaker 1: all do different things. And then for you and Patrick Laird,
Speaker 1: who really been really expected. It wasn't expected to do
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but came out and it showed you
Speaker 1: can get to the perimeter. You know, he can. He
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things for and in his
Speaker 1: college career we didn't see in the preseason, but catching
Speaker 1: the football in the backfield. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: did that for Cal with consistency. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: in that running back room. I love the one to
Speaker 1: punch of Kenyan, you know, and being able to to
Speaker 1: be flexible there with Kaylin and Kenyan, you know, you
Speaker 1: have a guy that, uh, once he gets in the
Speaker 1: open field and bellage. He's a big guy, but he
Speaker 1: can sure run by you. And I like Kenyan that
Speaker 1: suddenness that he has when he has his hands on
Speaker 1: the football. You know he's there and then he's not there,
Speaker 1: and he's able to really take it to the next level.
Speaker 1: And and both of those guys to me, in the
Speaker 1: running game, they can beat the unblocked defender. You know,
Speaker 1: when you get through the hole and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden there's a guy there you have to beat. Sometimes
Speaker 1: as a running back, they can make that guy miss
Speaker 1: or at least when they engage, they're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to bounce forward for a couple of yards because both
Speaker 1: those guys have that good vision and good jump cut
Speaker 1: in the hole to be able to get you going
Speaker 1: forward instead of backward. It's, uh, they're talented and you
Speaker 1: look at all those areas. So the one area that
Speaker 1: this team needs to figure out is is the first
Speaker 1: five guys up front. And because you look at the
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the specialist guys, you look
Speaker 1: at you look at the skill guys, and they're they're
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of skill on this on
Speaker 1: this offense. But those guys up front somehow need to mesh.
Speaker 1: And it's funny a week ago we're talking about Jesus
Speaker 1: two guys that they need to tear the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They needed they need to get more reps. Well they
Speaker 1: got their reps. Now we've got find those. Now now
Speaker 1: it's you know, who who's gonna line him in the
Speaker 1: tackle position? And I wish at this point we could
Speaker 1: say who it's gonna be. Right now, imagine Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: is gonna you know, play play well into play one
Speaker 1: of one of the tackles. He could be your left
Speaker 1: tackle going in this way. You know, we're knowing who knows.
Speaker 1: And then Isaiah Prince is another guy, and you're playing
Speaker 1: the right tackle. He's got a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of worker. And you've got a couple of the couple
Speaker 1: a couple of offensive lineman coming in with some experience
Speaker 1: at that tackle position, Danny. So we're not gonna know.
Speaker 1: We're really not gonna know who five with five guys
Speaker 1: are gonna line up until the day before the game
Speaker 1: or you know, quite frankly, when when they wosition and
Speaker 1: get on their first possession, then we'll find out who
Speaker 1: that starting offensive line is gonna be. And and John,
Speaker 1: they believe me, if there's anyone gonna be burning the
Speaker 1: night candles, uh, it's gonna be those offensive linemen and
Speaker 1: uh and Goo. You know, you know what, some of
Speaker 1: these guys came in. They found out on Monday. There
Speaker 1: they're in on Monday night, and they're they're practice right away,
Speaker 1: you know. Or and and it's it's really they've they've
Speaker 1: all played, which is good. It's not like you're getting
Speaker 1: another rookie that you're gonna have to retrain. They've all
Speaker 1: played in training camps, all gone through there in shape.
Speaker 1: You know. That's the one thing that kind of scares
Speaker 1: you when you do something like that. But these guys
Speaker 1: all have some sort of experience. So you're you're hoping
Speaker 1: that you know, you get in, you get in, You're
Speaker 1: you're you're staying late, you're up early. You're in here
Speaker 1: trying to learn the offense. And the guy next to
Speaker 1: you is helping you out. You're you're when you're not in,
Speaker 1: you're getting those metal reps. Because these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be thrown in, uh to a situation where whoever's in
Speaker 1: there than the starting five is gonna have to gel
Speaker 1: together right away because they're going up against the formidable
Speaker 1: Baltimore defense. And you look at that defense a big
Speaker 1: stout up for always stout up front. Uh, You're always
Speaker 1: gonna see different looks from them. They're gonna give you
Speaker 1: a multiple things. They're gonna try to disguise, You're gonna
Speaker 1: try to bait you into different things, and and so
Speaker 1: more very important, you know, the the kid in the
Speaker 1: middle kilgore you gotta big job because he's he's kind
Speaker 1: of he's kind of like the kind of like the
Speaker 1: granddad in there. And then come on, you guys, let's
Speaker 1: let's you know let's tighten this up. And then he's
Speaker 1: got to be the guy that you need to help
Speaker 1: This guy, I mean, it's you know, his job has
Speaker 1: become uh a lot more uh than maybe he can expected.
Speaker 1: You know, the thing you the thing you worry about,
Speaker 1: and especially as a quarterback, you just want to be
Speaker 1: able to identify the mic and get a hat on
Speaker 1: a hat. You know, you want to be able to
Speaker 1: at least I've got a guy. You don't want to
Speaker 1: let those you know, free blitzers and that penetration in
Speaker 1: the run game. Those are the things that you look
Speaker 1: for early in the game. As long as you can
Speaker 1: identify and you can get a big guy on a
Speaker 1: big guy, get the running back on a on a
Speaker 1: linebacker or safety when it's pressure, you're okay. It's when
Speaker 1: you get the running back on a defensive end or
Speaker 1: a tight end on a defensive end. You want to
Speaker 1: make sure you've got a big guy on a big
Speaker 1: guy and at least you've got a fighting chance from there.
Speaker 1: I saw I saw a clip. It was uh, Dave,
Speaker 1: Google Almo. That's the last time I'm gonna pronounce try
Speaker 1: to pronounce it Google and and and he was, you know,
Speaker 1: getting his off and I think for the last game
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he's he's you know, exhorting his team.
Speaker 1: Come on, let's go out and look if if if
Speaker 1: there's no one, If if there's if someone, you go
Speaker 1: to hit someone there not there, find another color jersey.
Speaker 1: Just get on something. You put your helmet on somebody
Speaker 1: in the other colored jersey. Whether you're right, wrong or
Speaker 1: in different, but just get a get a helmet on somebody.
Speaker 1: And that maybe some of that going on with this,
Speaker 1: with with with with this group as they go forward.
Speaker 1: But I know this, you know he's gonna he's gonna
Speaker 1: work his tail off to get these guys ready, and
Speaker 1: he's got their attention and he's got their respect. The
Speaker 1: head coach, the head coach has everybody's attention after the
Speaker 1: last because you're you're, you're spot on the roster is
Speaker 1: for a little while, unless you perform, unless you're you know,
Speaker 1: playing up to a standard that he is set. So
Speaker 1: this is a group going forward that you know is
Speaker 1: going to be in their playbook, that you know is
Speaker 1: gonna be attention to detail because their job depends on it.
Speaker 1: And that's the way it should be. You know, nobody's
Speaker 1: you know relaxed and sit back going. You know, I
Speaker 1: feel pretty darn and secure about my position, especially if
Speaker 1: you play offensive line. Right now. Yeah, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: sometimes the best football players are uncomfortable football players. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I spend my whole career I was uncomfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was uncomfortable. Just say, I don't know what's gonna
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen here, but uh yeah, but but that's
Speaker 1: you know that, that's where they're at, and so uh
Speaker 1: you know it again, I keep trying to look at this,
Speaker 1: and I keep trying to look at it from both sides,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, when I look at it, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at where we're at. I'm looking the foundation of youth
Speaker 1: that we have in this football team right now. I'm all,
Speaker 1: I'm all good with it. I'm all good with it.
Speaker 1: You know. Well, that's the that was the plan. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's shocking when when all these changes happen, but the
Speaker 1: plan for this organization is to build through the draft,
Speaker 1: and you have to have resources to do that. And
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins found a way. Whether that was part
Speaker 1: of the you know, the master plan of the blueprint
Speaker 1: of of going forward or not. I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: But when you get at the hall that you you're
Speaker 1: you're asking for in terms of another first round or
Speaker 1: another second rounder to add to your own first and
Speaker 1: second rounder. Then you double up in the third round.
Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable. The opportunity now presents yourself to have
Speaker 1: so many options when that time comes. But most importantly,
Speaker 1: you're getting guys in that have some experience so you
Speaker 1: can go forward and present you have a chance to
Speaker 1: win on every Sunday. And that's the most important thing
Speaker 1: I think for this football team in that locker room,
Speaker 1: for this coaching staff is we'll coach him up. We've
Speaker 1: got guys that have experienced. It's our job to get
Speaker 1: them ready. It's your job to execute. And if you
Speaker 1: go out and you battle, you're gonna have a chance
Speaker 1: to win. If you don't, if you can get out
Speaker 1: of your own way, I think that's one of the things, uh,
Speaker 1: this football team must improve on. And we've talked about
Speaker 1: that too, where you know, blue in the face talking
Speaker 1: about beating yourself in terms of penalties and mental mistakes
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But that's that's important. Now. It's
Speaker 1: very that the meter on that has gone on because,
Speaker 1: as you know, this team isn't talented enough quite frankly,
Speaker 1: to go out lay your hat on the field say
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to compete with you for sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: You can't beat yourself. You're the Miami Dolphins this year,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a tough sledding comes Sunday against
Speaker 1: Baltimore because that's a team that's hard nosed. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a team that wants to beat you up on
Speaker 1: both sides of the line of scrimmage, and you have
Speaker 1: to be ready to battle for sixty minutes. Again. The
Speaker 1: other thing with those guys is you know you're you're
Speaker 1: you're you know. John Harbaugh is a special teams guy.
Speaker 1: That's where he came from. And so you know, if
Speaker 1: I'm John Harbaugh and I'm coming in here to get
Speaker 1: ready to play this well, new on the rocks, the
Speaker 1: new guys on this roster, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go in my bag of tricks and I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you something. So if I'm if I'm
Speaker 1: on any special team, any special team, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: on high alert. I'm gonna be on high alert for
Speaker 1: anything that's any any gadget play, any tricks and he
Speaker 1: fake punts, andy, you know, fake field anything like that.
Speaker 1: If I'm on on any of those special teams, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have my radar up at at maximum level to
Speaker 1: see because I would expect one or two times he's
Speaker 1: gonna try to You're gonna try to take advantage of
Speaker 1: some of this this youth and this football team from
Speaker 1: the special team side and turning into a big play. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that. I mean, you have so much stress
Speaker 1: as a as a young guy anyway coming in and
Speaker 1: you're you're in a new team, new new culture, new organization,
Speaker 1: new way of doing things. You're worried about if you're
Speaker 1: a corner or a safety, or if you're a backup linebacker. Hey,
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure that's my key on this. This
Speaker 1: is my gap fill on this run blitz. But now
Speaker 1: I've got a whole playbook on special teams that I
Speaker 1: have to kind of learn from the start because it
Speaker 1: might be different than Houston was, or might be different
Speaker 1: than India, or it might be different than wherever you
Speaker 1: came from. So that's another burden. So that's why you
Speaker 1: know in early out late, there's a lot of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins this week that are gonna be burning the candle
Speaker 1: at both ends, just to make sure that they have
Speaker 1: their assignment down from from offense, from defense, from special teams,
Speaker 1: because you don't know how many plays you're gonna be
Speaker 1: asked to play and you don't know which one of
Speaker 1: those are gonna be the critical play that can make
Speaker 1: or break it. Yeah, it's a it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: season that's it's gonna be a season to change. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a week to week look at. But I'm
Speaker 1: excited about Sunday. I'm excited about Opening Day. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about watching this football team and watch this football team
Speaker 1: grow and watch them develop a personality because I think
Speaker 1: this team is They've got a lot of good guys
Speaker 1: that that that that I like the way they think,
Speaker 1: and uh so it's gonna be fun to see just
Speaker 1: what the personality of this team is. I think that
Speaker 1: I think that they're a team that they get down,
Speaker 1: they'll fight back. I don't think they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: team that's gonna, you know, throwing their towel at any point.
Speaker 1: I think they'll keep their head up and um. But
Speaker 1: it's it all starts on something opening day. You know,
Speaker 1: it's something about is running out on the field for
Speaker 1: the first time when it really means something I can
Speaker 1: remember just you know, going through preseason and you're kind
Speaker 1: of going on, you know, I want to I want
Speaker 1: to get through. I want to show them my best.
Speaker 1: But I'm only gonna play for a quarter. I'm only
Speaker 1: gonna play for a half. Now you're gonna play, And
Speaker 1: it's it's something about playing at home, you know, in
Speaker 1: front of your crowd, in a in a game that
Speaker 1: you want to win to get your season kicked off
Speaker 1: in the right way. Uh, it's something special about it. Well,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of you know, I think what
Speaker 1: we got how many I mean, I gotta got a
Speaker 1: lot of young players in this team, some of them
Speaker 1: which this will be their first regular season football game.
Speaker 1: I mean, go down to Christian Wilkins, Michael Deater, you
Speaker 1: played in big game, played in big games. Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: played in big games. Those guys have seen it, seen
Speaker 1: a lot of it, but they've never seen opening day
Speaker 1: in the in the National Football League. And so you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna be excited. I'm sure they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a little nervous. I think there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, a lot of butterflies or black birds
Speaker 1: flying around their stomachs before it goes. But but that
Speaker 1: excitement level, that level excitement a lot of times can
Speaker 1: can carry you to some some pretty special things. Well,
Speaker 1: it gets you through the first half of the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you look up and you
Speaker 1: go there, wait a minute, there's there's only twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: You know, there's the only eight minutes gone in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. You know, how do I get through? You're right,
Speaker 1: A lot of that excitement, you've got to be able
Speaker 1: to temper because it's a long game. You know, you
Speaker 1: look at the clock sometimes and you you get caught
Speaker 1: up in the emotion. All of a sudden, the clock
Speaker 1: hadn't really moved, you know, and you're waiting for your
Speaker 1: next opportunity. So I do I agree with you. It's
Speaker 1: a young team, uh, but you want to be able
Speaker 1: to get that first one. You want to be able,
Speaker 1: especially at home. You want to be able to get
Speaker 1: off to the right foot at home because you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked in years past how many. What's your record
Speaker 1: need to be at home? What's your record need to
Speaker 1: be away? Boy at home? Will you want to strike
Speaker 1: while you can? And when you have the opener, that's
Speaker 1: the one that gets to get the crowd into it,
Speaker 1: you know, get get get that home field advantage going
Speaker 1: for yourself. And you know, if you're a fan of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and you know, I've I've since we've been
Speaker 1: doing this, you know, everywhere you go, Hey, I listen
Speaker 1: to Audible, like the Audible love the podcast, all this stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, you know you gotta you know, you your
Speaker 1: Dolphin fans. You know you're not gonna go anywhere. I
Speaker 1: know all the people I've I've talked to their Dolphin fans,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna go anywhere. They may bitch and moan
Speaker 1: and why do we do this? Why do we do that?
Speaker 1: But when push comes to shove, there they're gonna they're following.
Speaker 1: They're gonna follow this football team. And you know what
Speaker 1: if you don't want to follow this football team, and
Speaker 1: will it go somewhere else, you know, go somewhere else
Speaker 1: and and watch someone else and and go pissing mona
Speaker 1: about them. But you know this is a franchise that
Speaker 1: that unbeknownst to you as a fan, they're trying to
Speaker 1: do what's right for you. They're trying to do the
Speaker 1: right thing to get a product on the field that
Speaker 1: you can be proud of, that you can be excited
Speaker 1: every year when the season starts. Today, we're a Cali.
Speaker 1: We're a playoff caliber team where we're gonna go. Can
Speaker 1: we get to a Super Bowl? Can we get in
Speaker 1: a championship game? You know that that's where everyone wants
Speaker 1: to be, and that's where the fans want to be.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where I think. I think the
Speaker 1: moves over the last week have put this team in that.
Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be it's gonna be a long haul.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a rocky road. There's gonna be up,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be downs. Are times you're gonna geez, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's gonna be this bad. And there may
Speaker 1: be those times where you wake up. You know, I
Speaker 1: remember Greg Camario running from touchdown and you would have
Speaker 1: thought you won the Super Bowl. I'm looking up and
Speaker 1: I think Mr Mr got tears in his eyes and
Speaker 1: a right so you know, the a motion of football,
Speaker 1: uh comes in a lot of different I think that
Speaker 1: was what was it? What was it? Cozy? It was coach?
Speaker 1: Is the last game? What was it? Uh? Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I can't you know that? Uh Belly Billarck, Brian billar right,
Speaker 1: he made a bad call down the goal line after that.
Speaker 1: But but getting back to it, I just you know,
Speaker 1: try to send a message out to the fans and hey,
Speaker 1: this this is this is for the best of this organization.
Speaker 1: This is best for the future of the organization. And
Speaker 1: and no matter what this season ends, whether it's another six,
Speaker 1: eight wins, whatever, whatever this season ends, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a season that you're gonna have to get through.
Speaker 1: It's a season that you can still be excited about
Speaker 1: your football team. You know these guys. I guarantee you this,
Speaker 1: You're not going to be upset at the at the
Speaker 1: ever effort that these guys give you each and every week,
Speaker 1: whether it's from the coaching staff or whether whether it's
Speaker 1: from the players. And to me as a fan, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's all you can ask for. Show me a team
Speaker 1: that's got five Pro Bowlers, you know, a bunch of
Speaker 1: first round draft picks, and their lazy son of a
Speaker 1: bitches and they just go on the football field. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm watching I'm watching Hard Knocks and and
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, you know what I
Speaker 1: you know what I learned about the Raiders and hard
Speaker 1: Knocks only care about his money. It seems like every
Speaker 1: time that's all they're talking about money. This guy's making
Speaker 1: that much, that guy's making that much. You know, the
Speaker 1: first round draft pick goes, hey, yeah, you're making a
Speaker 1: hundred hundred million dollars once you pay for my DA
Speaker 1: it's all and I'm going lay. That's the kind of
Speaker 1: football team you want, you know that, that's you know, God,
Speaker 1: God bless them, Let let them, let them see what
Speaker 1: they do this year long. I just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: the the makeup of this football team now is becoming
Speaker 1: the mentality and the personality of Brian Flores and Chris Career.
Speaker 1: That's why you hire details, And it's all about the
Speaker 1: right thing and building the proper way, building a foundation,
Speaker 1: adding the foundation, and then getting yourself ready to where
Speaker 1: you can take off and be in a position to
Speaker 1: challenge for the biggest and the best. So I think
Speaker 1: if you're Steven Ross, that's what you hired those guys
Speaker 1: for you hired them to change the direction and change
Speaker 1: the dynamic of how you build an organization, because what
Speaker 1: you've done since you own this football team you haven't
Speaker 1: been happy with because there's been you know, a coach
Speaker 1: and then three years, and then another coach and then
Speaker 1: three years, and you're trying to patch work with high
Speaker 1: draft you know, high price free agents, uh missing on
Speaker 1: a couple of guys. You put that all together and
Speaker 1: you have six wins. Then you put it all together
Speaker 1: and you might have seven wins. That's not good enough.
Speaker 1: That's not what That's not what this ownership, that's not
Speaker 1: what this front office. That not what the fan base wants.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to build from the bottom up.
Speaker 1: You want to have a great foundation, and the only
Speaker 1: way you do that is through the draft, and you
Speaker 1: gotta hit on a on a consistent basis in terms
Speaker 1: of two three years down the road. Now, with something
Speaker 1: that happens out of kind of really out of left field,
Speaker 1: you you deal one of your best players, two of
Speaker 1: your best players uh Ad kiko in and three of
Speaker 1: your best players. Because he's been the most productive tackler
Speaker 1: on the team the last couple of seasons. And you're
Speaker 1: doing it for a wealth of goods that are gonna
Speaker 1: come in over the next two seasons where you can
Speaker 1: have flexibility to go get a quarterback of your choice
Speaker 1: over the next two years, but stockpile this this roster
Speaker 1: to add to the young talent that you think you
Speaker 1: can build around that. That's that's the only way you
Speaker 1: do it in national football. I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's this is the beginning of what I think
Speaker 1: is gonna be a good future for this franchise. It
Speaker 1: all starts Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens come to town
Speaker 1: kick off at one o'clock. And you know, if you've
Speaker 1: got some people out there that are piste off and
Speaker 1: don't want to go to the games, and their season
Speaker 1: ticket holders say, dude, give me those tickets. I'll go.
Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll sit in your seat. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see what happens Sunday. I am. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see the whole thing. And and I'm I'm excited to
Speaker 1: go on the ride. I'm excited to go on the
Speaker 1: ride with this football team. And I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen is as I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the changes are done. Yet you know this is gonna
Speaker 1: be like they're probably I would say normally there's like
Speaker 1: the bottom four or five guys on the roster. You know,
Speaker 1: you might want to be very flexible with your living
Speaker 1: situation this roster. You may be in the back back
Speaker 1: ten three you maybe you know, just stay at the hotel.
Speaker 1: You don't. We stay at the hotel. You pay for
Speaker 1: my rent. They're gonna and I have enough confidence in
Speaker 1: this staff and Chris, they're gonna find the right guys
Speaker 1: that fit the schemes that on offense, defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: They will work and they will get it done to
Speaker 1: where you have a chance to win every Sunday. It
Speaker 1: might not it might be a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: projected in terms of instantaneous Hey we're gonna win, you know,
Speaker 1: four out of the first five games. I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not, But you're gonna have a chance to
Speaker 1: win each and every Sunday, and you feel like you're
Speaker 1: gonna be competitive that you want to be. You wanna
Speaker 1: you want to see a team that works and that
Speaker 1: executes and that has a chance that fourth quarter comes along.
Speaker 1: How many times have we said it, either have the
Speaker 1: last possession. On offense, you're trying to stop them get
Speaker 1: off the field. On defense, you're trying to kick a
Speaker 1: field goal to win the game. You want to be
Speaker 1: in those situations with this football team. I don't know
Speaker 1: how how long it's gonna take to get there consistently
Speaker 1: or or be able to be at a two touchdown
Speaker 1: lead in the fourth quarter, but you want to have
Speaker 1: the guys that are working towards that. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: and that's that's where they're going. And so, like I said,
Speaker 1: it all starts Sunday. It's gonna be a good ride.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun, and uh, who knows where we
Speaker 1: in may surprise a lot of people, may disappoint a
Speaker 1: lot of people, but it's say it's Dolphins football and
Speaker 1: and here we go. Can't wait for the regular season.
Speaker 1: There it is, and appreciate you guys that are following us,
Speaker 1: and keep follow us. Let's send it in fact grabs
Speaker 1: the guys, and let's let's add to the bandwagon a
Speaker 1: little bit and jump on the back of this football
Speaker 1: team and support him because God knows, these guys have
Speaker 1: worked their ass off to that. Right now, from a
Speaker 1: coaching staff, all the way down to to the to
Speaker 1: the last guy in the equipment room that since doing
Speaker 1: work in this for this franchise, all trying to get
Speaker 1: to the same place and that's where you guys want
Speaker 1: to be in It all starts on Sunday and we'll
Speaker 1: see at the game on Sunday. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next week on the Audible. Until then, have a good
Speaker 1: weekend and let's enjoy some football this week. M