WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 78 | Albert Wilson 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:07.440 All right, welcome back to the audible Kimbo Camper, John 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.040 conjenmmy with you. And uh, last time we spoke, a 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.200 lot of things have changed since then. It changes, It 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.239 changes a good word. The environment is kind of morphed 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.959 into something else around here. And and uh, Johnny, it's it's. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.680 You know, this football team has been mired in in 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.680 you know, in mediocrity for for decades um. And you know, 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.479 they've they've been fortunate and unfortunate, fortunate that they've only 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.880 had one season where they won one game and it 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.479 was a disaster, but unfortunate the fact that they'd win 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.040 eight games, six Kix games, seven games and all that 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.880 gets you as a mid round draft pick that's maybe 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.960 gonna work, maybe not throughout the draft. And it's kept 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:53.920 them mired in in this quagmire. They've been in a 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.640 quagmire for you know, for for for decades, and you know, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.120 in order to change it, you gotta make big changes. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.360 And I think that, you know, when they when they 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.319 elevated Chris Greer, when they brought in Brian Flores, I 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:11.199 think everyone understood that, hey, something needs to change, Something 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:16.240 dramatic has to happen with this organization to get this 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.959 football team to where everybody that's a Dolphin fan, everybody 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.759 in this building, wants it to be a team that's 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.720 gonna battle every year and be a possible contender for 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:30.960 the playoffs and maybe move into a Super Bowl possibility. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.120 They did it, and and it hurt. It hurt. I mean, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.480 you know, jettison a lot of players, a lot a 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.320 lot of names that um that that were surprising to 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.720 a lot of folks. The big moves obviously with Ton 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.360 Soul and Kenny Stills, and but look, you know, Kenny 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.280 Steals in my mind, he kind of dug his own grave, 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.360 you know, you kind of you know, they're there are 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.200 certain things you can do with certain and certain things 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.600 you can say, but uh, you know, once you start 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.200 in my mind, and this strictly my opinion, once you 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.960 start screwing with the owners other other businesses, then it's 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.760 whole different ball game. But neither they're there. But so 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.360 this is a team that's that's that's quite frankly stripped, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:09.480 stripped themselves down, put themselves in a very admirable position 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:16.200 going forward. Draft choices, first round picks, second round picks, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.080 the depth of the depth of choices they're gonna have 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.560 over two years. Uh, it should get this team back 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.119 on the track. But John is gonna fans are gonna 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:27.960 have to be patient. You and I are gonna have 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.560 to be patient. Uh, anyone that follows this team is 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.639 gonna have to be a little patient. But Um, as 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.240 much as it may be a thing where everyone's got 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.560 their opinion on it, John, I think it's something that 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.799 had to be done. I think in order to be 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.800 in order to get to the mountaintop. You know, sometimes 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.680 you gotta you gotta, you gotta throw the dynamite in there. 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.400 And well, I know this offseason when Brian Flores was 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.239 hired and Chris Career came to the podium and everybody 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.840 talked about and the owner, Stephen Ross, everybody talked about, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.560 and this is gonna be something new. This is gonna 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.799 change dynamic of how the Miami Dolphins are gonna try 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.000 and build this franchise to get out of the quagmire 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.880 that quite frankly, the organization has been in because when 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.640 you look back the last ten fifteen years years, that 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.800 recipe hasn't built any success. The Dolphins have been to 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.640 the playoffs one time since two thousand and nine, Okay, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.000 and there hasn't been a chance that you feel as 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.680 a fan, we we've got an opportunity to compete for 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.480 the playoffs, to compete for a world championship, to win 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.160 a super Bowl that hasn't happened in a very long 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.200 time now. I would be lying if I said that 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.520 I thought that meant getting rid of one of your 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:40.280 top two three arguably players on this roster in Laramie Tunseil, 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.960 And I would think, you know, twenty four touchdowns over 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:45.160 four years for Kenny Stills. You you kind of want 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.640 to hang on to a playmaker like that as well. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.240 But when you get the hall that the Miami Dolphins 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.760 didn't probably intend to go out and seek, but you're 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.360 dealing with a team that's maybe a player or two 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.400 away from they think going to the playoffs and going 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.200 far into the playoffs in the Houston Texans, you have 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.160 to kind of entertain that. And what was entertained was 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.400 a future and a bright future, a chance at a 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.880 bright future right away for the Miami Dolphins to do 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.280 what they've done over the last couple of drafts, that's 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.359 stockpile some young talent. Now that's gonna be a young roster, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.839 but have a chance to stockpile some young talent and 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.480 obviously have the flexibility to go up and get a 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.200 quarterback if they if they deem fit after this year. Now, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.240 you hope Brian Fitzpatrick is a bridge to the future. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.200 You hope Josh Rosen might be able to be that guy. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.800 But if you're not certain and that doesn't work out, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.760 the plan b is is in place. Now you have 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.800 the pieces to go up and get to a tongue 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.120 of Bloa if that's your guy. And if that's not 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.240 your guy, maybe it's from from Georgia, maybe it's another guy, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.840 it's Herbert from but maybe you wait. Maybe you wait 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.960 and get a Trevor Lawrence in the next year. If 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.440 you're in a position, even if you win five or 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.400 six games, you still have the pieces to trade and 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.760 to bargain with to get to where you need to 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.479 be if that's the situation you're in in two years 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.280 from now. So I think in my mind, they didn't 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.120 go out seeking this trade, but the Hall trade found them. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.080 The trade found them. The Hall was too significant for 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.080 them to pass up in terms of where they want 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.400 to build this franchise. You know, if if I was 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:29.039 in both sides of that trade, I'd be more I'd 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.520 be more upset if I was a Houston fan, because 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:35.400 you just mortgage your future, right, I don't even know 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.600 if they have to participate in Vegas next year for 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.720 the draft. Yeah, you just mortgage your future for you know, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.160 for for a win now. Situation understand, because they're close, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.640 They got some good players in the football team, they 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.000 feel that there, they feel their best moves. Try to 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.120 get it done now and maybe have a two or 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.960 three year running there. But but but if they fall 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.520 flat and they got nothing else, everybody will be looking 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.520 for a new job. Where whereas you know, you got 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.039 a team here. And you know the funny thing about 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.000 this football team, John, It's been this way for a 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:09.279 long time. Seven wins, eight wins, maybe six whatever. But 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.880 it seemed like every year there were two games away, 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.600 you know, two games at two wins at the end 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.800 of the year. How many times two or three games 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.920 left you and two of them you're in the right 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.200 So so they were, so they were, but but and 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.240 you kept saying, well, you know, Jesus, there there were 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.560 two games away from the playoffs last year. Get a 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.919 good draft pick in the middle of the first round. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.280 You know, maybe you were there, but but it never materialized. 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.280 And every year it's like Jesus, Jesus, we would have 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.320 won those two games, It would have won those two games, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.960 but we haven't and we haven't and we have it. 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.760 So you know, what's what's the old line, you know, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.080 the you know, doing the same thing over and over 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.960 and expecting it to change over history, you know, and 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.120 it's not gonna change. So, you know, I think this team, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.720 you know, had a plan going in, and you're right, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:58.240 maybe not to the degree that we ended up now 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.799 the result. But when you got a team that's sitting 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.919 there with first round draft picks, second round draft picks 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.000 and throwing them your way along with players, well you 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.400 gotta sit up and take notice, especially with a team 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.920 that had an idea of going in and let's let's 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.400 get rid of some dead wood. Let's get a young 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.920 nucleus in here that we can build from, that can 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.800 grow in our system, understand what we want to do, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.360 understand the type of game that we want to play, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.640 and then let's go out the next year and start 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.960 adding you know, adding high you know, high end talent 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.880 for this roster. It's it's you know, it's I think 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.760 it's gonna be hard for fans to kind of wrap 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.640 their arms around it a little bit. But I think 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.680 when you look at it from a football standpoint, from 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.720 where this team is, you can either stay and be 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.640 eight Nate and eight Nate and six and nine or 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.120 whatever for for years that comes seven and nine for 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.200 years to come, or you can do something different. And 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.600 they've done something different and now now it comes down 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:59.080 to turning those draft picks into meaningful draft picks. You 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.560 have to be able to be lining up and and 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.240 you know, and and and and next year. You mean, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.040 you know three or four guys coming out of those 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.720 picks that you go, well, that guys he's gonna be 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.600 here for a while. You know he's gonna be a 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.120 difference maker. And it and it starts at the position 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.160 of quarterback. Let's not fool ourselves. You have to have 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.760 a difference maker at quarterback if you're gonna win in 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.160 the National Football League, if you're gonna win with consistency, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.560 if you feel like you can go out and have 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.160 the wherewithal to go get whoever you deem is the 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.840 best guy to lead this franchise. Now he may be 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:32.240 on the roster, he may be Josh Rosen, you never know. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.400 But this team has to evaluate that because going into 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.640 next April, you have to decide whether you're going to 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.320 be able to to go ahead and pull the trigger 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:45.000 on on a quarterback or get other resources that you know, 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.199 this this football team, this club needs to build on 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.880 the two thousand twenty the two thousand twenty one draft 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.959 where you now feel you're in position to be competitive 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.160 and kind of knock New England off off the throne. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.640 So it's it's look, it's done. Uh, They've made their 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.640 decisions and this was This was not a decision that 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.000 was made by Stephen Ross. It wasn't a decision made 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.200 by Chris Greer, wasn't a decision made by uh, Brian 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.360 Florz or anybody else in that organ It was it 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.880 was a decision made by everybody collectively, the brain trust 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.599 of this organization, all body and on this. This is 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.080 the way we're gonna do it, and this is how 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.680 we're gonna go forward. And you know, a little shocking 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.640 it kind of you know, it's kind of going into 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.440 the dentist and you get that shot, you know, from 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.960 the dentist. You go, oh, I don't like that. But 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.080 two minutes later, when that guy's digging in your tooth 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.439 and you don't feel anything, hey, I'm good now. You 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.920 know that's a great analogy. You're going for a simple 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:41.440 teeth cleaning and you go, you know what, you got 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.480 a root canal. We got here, we got three of them. 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.480 We're gonna prepare yourself. And that's how I felt. You know, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.559 the day after you're going, somebody told me, hey, do 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:49.760 you hear about the deal? And it was like, what 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.520 are you talking about? Laramie Tons and Kenny Stills and 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.920 now Kikos. I'm like, what those are? Those are players 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.439 that you kind of think you you're depending on to 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.440 have success. So it kind of ought me back a 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.160 little bit. But then you kind of sit down. You 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.559 look at where this team is right now and where 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:07.920 they want to go, and you have to have a 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.240 plan and just remember this. This shouldn't shock you if 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.800 you think back and you go back and you listen 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.679 to the offseason comments about where this franchise is now 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.240 and you have and you're gonna scrap the way you've 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.840 got there now and change direction and try to build 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.160 something from the ground up. You build it with a 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.120 new coach, you build it with a new philosophy in 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.920 the front office. But ultimately you build it with talent, 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.120 and you build it with draft choice, and you build 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.800 it with being smart in the off season. So not 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.040 only do you have a wherewithal in terms of the draft, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.760 you're building dollars to go out and and kind of 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.720 put towards resources selectively during free agency. You're not gonna 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.560 go out and spend it all, but you're gonna be 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.559 selective on what you do because you're you're building this 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.720 for two three for sustainability. You're you're trying to build 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.400 a franchise that's gonna compete every year at the highest level, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.600 not just every fourth year. You've got a chance to 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.280 make the playoffs if everything goes right, in as a 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.160 wild card, if everything goes right, you know you're go 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.719 going back to you really, really, if you're a Dolphin fan, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.440 if you're your follow this team, if you go back 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.400 to the day they presented Brian Flores and Stephen Ross 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.000 was there, and Steven Ross time and and and and 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.720 he talked about just what just where we're at right now, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.920 talked about making changes that make a difference for the 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.800 long term success. And that time everyone goes, oh, they're 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.520 gonna rebuild, They're gonna rebuild, or you can call it 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.160 whatever the hell you want to whatever terminology you want 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.280 to call it, or this, and that they're changing the 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.720 way they do business here. And at that day, if 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.160 you didn't realize that day that the change that that 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.559 that the way of doing business for the Miami Defense 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.360 was gonna make a pretty drastic change, But then then 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.440 you weren't listening to what he said. Now it's come 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.599 to fruition and you're gonna whoa man. That was a 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.439 big deal and it was a dramatic move. A lot 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.000 of bodies involved, a lot of guys that had become 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.240 fan favorites down here, a lot of people that you 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.199 know like these guys, and because they're all good guys, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.960 all work there, as all played hard, and you couldn't 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.080 ask for anything more from the guys that that have 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:08.840 left gone somewhere, um, but they just sit for whatever reason, 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.400 I just didn't fit into And moving forward now it 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.280 is so here we are. This is our football team. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:16.400 We're gonna talk to Albert Wilson a little later on 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.600 in the program. You get him coming back and get 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.080 Jachim coming back. You look at that wide receiver room, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.360 you look at that running back room. When they keep 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.480 seven guys, six guys in the six guys in that 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.760 running back room, you know certainly the offensive line is 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.640 is is a question that's gonna have to be fixed. Uh, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.920 your quarterback situation, you got a guy that's played in 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.120 plenty of games, one plenty of games. You got a 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:39.600 young guy, but that behind them that who knows four 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:44.040 or five weeks out get his opportunity. You've got a 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.679 young defense on the other side. With with this that 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.720 their scheme seems to be something that you know, really 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:51.880 fits a lot of the players they have. So so 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.120 who knows what this football team is gonna be. We'll 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.480 find out on Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens come to football. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.200 Football come to town, by the way, a football team 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.840 that has been a total mismatch for the Miami Dolphins 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.280 through for a decade. The Dolphins couldn't be campy. Haven't 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.360 been able to beat that football team for a decade. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.200 It just always seems like a mismatch. Well, you know what, 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.800 who knows your two maybe maybe they're saying the same 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.840 thing about this team. But I like this. I like 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.319 the guys that are left on this football team. Talk 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.320 to most of them, been around most of them, and 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.880 and you just like their attitude. And I think and 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.360 Brian Floores and this coaching staff they've they've drilled into 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.640 this football team to just go out, be your best player, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.520 do your job, and let her let the chif fall 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.880 where they may. And I think that's what we're gonna see. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.880 And I think this team, you know, everyone gez they're 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.839 not gonna win. I know, I gotta feel this team 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.880 is gonna surprise some people down the road. Is it 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.160 gonna be Sunday? I don't know, it could be, but 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.800 somewhere down the road, this team is gonna get better 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:52.800 as they go on. Look, they're a young football team, 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.040 and you only get better by going out and playing 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.640 and getting thrown to the wolves and getting the job done. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.320 And we'd be remiss not to mention John Denny too, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.520 and the you know, years of service that he gave 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.560 to this organization. On the field, he's been spectacular with 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.640 the number of games you know, he's played in a row, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.920 and and and how consistent, how good he's been throughout 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.960 his career. That was kind of a little shocker to 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.640 me as well, because you kind of figured once the 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.160 cuts were made and everything was was, you know, kind 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.160 of dust was settling after the trades and after guys 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.640 being jettison that he'd kind of be one of those fixtures. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.960 I think there's maybe only two or three guys over 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.760 the age of thirty now on this roster. You know, 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.120 you've got Kilgore in the middle. You've got Rashad Jones 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.880 and and maybe one other guy and and that's it 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.720 in Fitzpatrick. And that's it. So it's you know, you 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.760 thank John for you know, his years of service and 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.320 what he's done for this organization. But you know what 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.720 it you know, I came in with a young group 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.080 of guys, you know, and the old the seventeen and 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.080 old guys were kind of you know, they were there 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.320 in their last years and most of them were out 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.040 of the league after by the time I was in 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.120 my second or third year in the league. If we 0:14:58.200 --> 0:14:59.840 had a bunch of young guys and you grew up 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.360 to together and you're close and and and the guys 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:04.560 I grew up with in this football team or still 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.480 might some of my best because we're closely stayed together, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.160 and these guys have the opportunity to build the future 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.760 of this franchise and have them be the foundation, have 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.640 them be the guys that hey man, I remember when 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.840 they got those guys, and two years later, here we are, 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.960 We're in the We're in the hunt. So there's opportunity 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.520 out for these guys and some guys that never thought 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.080 they'd get the chance to be on this football team 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.880 right now they're here and they're gonna go out and 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:28.800 they're gonna they're gonna lay it on the line and 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.760 and uh and do the best they can do. And uh, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.200 I you know, I'm on board. I'm on board. I'm 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.200 ready for the ride. It maybe maybe bumpy may be 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.400 tough at times, but I look at a lot of 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.480 these young guys in this football team and and and 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.520 I and especially on the defensive side, just watching scheme wise, 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.760 what they've done during the watching them flying around. I'm 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.040 I'm really excited about the about this defense to see 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.840 just what they can be. You know, it's funny you 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.800 say the defensive side, because when you watch the preseason 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.120 game games, you know there were there was obviously Baker 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.200 and Iguavin are gonna be a big centerpiece to what 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.440 they do because I think the differences with Rashad Jones 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.600 and Minca Fitzpatrick playing close to the line of scrimmage 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.520 and and moving back and forth and and bringing guys 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.000 from you know, all different types of angles and positions 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.720 on the field when you want to bring pressure, speed 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:27.120 and smarts, you know, speed and identification, doing things the 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.080 right way, You're having the right leverage, doing all the 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.560 little things that people kind of take for granted. I 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.200 think with this coaching staff, the way they're doing, the 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.600 way they're coaching it. On the defensive side, well, you 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.800 better be able to run, you better be able to tackle, 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.240 but you better be able to identify, and you better 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.120 be able to to know your job because if you 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.480 don't do yours, boy, it's you're gonna affect the guy 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.560 next year. And that goes for really any scheme, but 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.960 especially with this scheme with guys running around, guys moving around. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.400 Sometimes there's not a guy with a hand in the dirt, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.960 you know, on third down, you and you're kind of 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.400 moving around. You better be able to identify and run 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.119 and cover and tackle in space because I think that's 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.280 how I think that's how this Dolphin defense is gonna 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.080 be built. It's gonna be built with guys that that 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.200 can that have speed, that that can make you miss 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.320 and make you confin you know, just hesitate for a 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.960 second because that that's going to create an advantage. And 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.720 in this game on on Sunday is a good a 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.800 good example for this, Steven. You got Lamar Jackson back, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.120 and here's a guy that you know, he can throw 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:28.879 the ball. He can make every throw he wants to. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.120 More importantly, he's got you know, he's got the legs too. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.800 He can be run away from you, run away from you. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.280 Just just extend plays, Uh, take the ball down the 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.199 field if he needs to it on his own. And 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.560 so those guys up front that that that discipline up 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.360 front to rush a quarterback like that, you gotta stay 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.040 in your lanes. You can't try to you know, you 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:50.200 can't be a guy that said, Jess, you know I 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.040 thought I could beat him in the outside. Well your 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.080 other tackles going outside. Now you got to you know, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.239 you you really have to play your assignment. You have 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.520 to be disciplined in your lanes. You got to be 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.639 disciplined in your gap, spacing between the other guys around 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:04.680 you. You You can't have one guy upfield and one guy 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.800 getting pushed back and creating a lane form. So you know, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.199 that's gonna be a major test for a young defensive 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.480 front and a young set of linebackers to find some 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.800 way to keep one of the most you know, active 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.720 quarterbacks and and dangerous quarterbacks in and out of the 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.959 pocket where where they want him to be. That that 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.000 may be the biggest test that they face all day long. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.440 And and maybe you know for the better part early 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.960 in the season, Well, he's dynamic. I mean, he's dynamic 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.320 as an athlete, and he's getting better as a thrower. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.960 But he can still beat you with his legs and 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.720 it doesn't matter if you feel like you have the 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.560 angle or not. He seems to have another gear to 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.000 get by. You've got mark Ingram in the backfield. That's 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.240 gonna be a new dynamic for the Baltimore Ravens. You 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.160 got the rookie from Oklahoma Brown, Marquis Brown, I believe 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.800 it is, who's got speed on the outside. So there's 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.640 a lot of things for this defense to be able 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.679 to identify and be able just to keep everything in 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.120 front of you, because in a split second, as soon 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.359 as you miss an angle or take a bad angle 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.080 on Lamar Jackson, you've lost. So it's one of those 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.000 things where you know, that's one of the keys of 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.359