Speaker 1: Fractors or part touchdown. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
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Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's kind
Speaker 1: of Christmas Eve football fans, Chiefs and Texans Tomorrow a
Speaker 1: tasty little appetizer three days ahead of Dolphins Patriots. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Coach Flores, some Dolphins players and roll
Speaker 1: our exclusive interview are weekly Wednesday feature with new Dolphins
Speaker 1: center Ted Carris. All of that and more on this Wednesday, September,
Speaker 1: the ninth edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get you injury sports later at the end of this podcast,
Speaker 1: perhaps on Thursday show. We'll see when they come out.
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Speaker 1: on all the latest around this Miami Dolphins football team
Speaker 1: and with that. Today, let's go ahead and jump right
Speaker 1: in to coach Flores is Wednesday morning media availability, now
Speaker 1: just four days away from the opener in New England,
Speaker 1: and we start here on a topic that coach mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, maybe it was last week, about
Speaker 1: the variety of players that are gonna see playing time
Speaker 1: on Sunday compared to a normal season opener where you
Speaker 1: have four preseason games, an entire offseason program, and how
Speaker 1: this year it's different. How this year you'll have a
Speaker 1: handful of players that might see the full sixty seventy snaps,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, guys are gonna work their
Speaker 1: way into the lineup slowly. Yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we kind of talked about this maybe last week. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, given no preseason, no one's played a football
Speaker 1: game in a long time, it's hard to think somebody
Speaker 1: can jump out there and play sixties seventy eighties snaps. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, there will be a handful of player guys
Speaker 1: who we would expect to go go the whole way,
Speaker 1: But for the most part, we are thinking along the
Speaker 1: lines of somebody's probably gonna need a blow here. Uh so, Um,
Speaker 1: and I think every team's you know, has that same
Speaker 1: uh thought process. You know, I know, we got a
Speaker 1: game tomorrow night, so we'll see how that one shakes
Speaker 1: shakes out. Load management. I don't know if i'd call
Speaker 1: it that. You know, the guys dealing with Nixon bruises,
Speaker 1: try to take care of our players as much as
Speaker 1: we can. Kyle Johnson does a great job. The training
Speaker 1: staff does a great job from that standpoint. So, um,
Speaker 1: all those guys are working, They're trying to get back
Speaker 1: as soon as they can, and hopefully we have them
Speaker 1: out there for you know, as many players as we
Speaker 1: need them on Sunday. That's coming up on Sunday. Last night,
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, taking
Speaker 1: down the Milwaukee Bucks in Game five of the conference semifinals.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Flora's on the Miami Heat. But you know,
Speaker 1: it was a good game last night. Happy for for
Speaker 1: them and getting to the Eastern Conference Finals. It's a
Speaker 1: great accomplishment. Uh yeah, I was. I got I got
Speaker 1: my Heat church for ready to go. And I want
Speaker 1: to play this next clip for you because of one
Speaker 1: little tidbit out of there that coach says about complacency
Speaker 1: and what that can do for people and not just
Speaker 1: a pandemic or an NFL season, whatever the case might be,
Speaker 1: talking about complacency and how it can change your approach
Speaker 1: and change your behavior. Here's coach on heading into the
Speaker 1: season with such good news lately around COVID testing results
Speaker 1: and all the negative results have come back in recent
Speaker 1: testing rounds. I think it's well, I think you know,
Speaker 1: our staff, you know, headed up by you know, Kyle
Speaker 1: Johnston and our medical team. I think from a protocol
Speaker 1: standpoint and a transparency standpoint and trying to get everyone
Speaker 1: on the same page. And they've done a great job.
Speaker 1: You know, the numbers, you know where they've been, they've
Speaker 1: been positive. But you know a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: good numbers are good. Uh, good reports may lead to
Speaker 1: some complacency, and that's that's not what we want. We
Speaker 1: need to be vigilant about wearing masks and wearing the
Speaker 1: tracers and keeping distance and being responsible outside of the building.
Speaker 1: So um, I'm not I don't want to put any
Speaker 1: type of message out there like we're doing a great
Speaker 1: job and uh, you know everything's you know great, because
Speaker 1: you know, things can turn quickly, as we know with
Speaker 1: this with the virus um. So we need to continue
Speaker 1: to be vigilant. We need to be responsible. It makes
Speaker 1: more decisions as a team. Uh, you know, guys who
Speaker 1: are on the team, guys who are around the team. H.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's if we If we're not
Speaker 1: vigilant that way, then then it's only a matter of
Speaker 1: time before it catches up to us. So it's been
Speaker 1: good thus far. I'm gonna get that's gonna continue to
Speaker 1: be my message too, to do the right things on
Speaker 1: the field, obviously in the building, and then outside of
Speaker 1: the building. These guys have a lot more time or
Speaker 1: more time than they did in training camp. So I
Speaker 1: would say the first phase was, you know, we've got
Speaker 1: good numbers. Um, we let's not take our foot off
Speaker 1: the gas. And here comes my guy, Joe Schad once
Speaker 1: again of the Palm Beach post, dropping the question where
Speaker 1: does he think tackling is going to be at for
Speaker 1: the season opener, referring to the Navy B y U
Speaker 1: game the other night. Here's coach on his level of
Speaker 1: comfortability and where his defense is in week number one.
Speaker 1: With the fundamentals, the tackling and all that stuff going
Speaker 1: into a season without the benefit of a preseason and
Speaker 1: an off season. I think in every first game. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that tackling, penalties, um, you know,
Speaker 1: just overall understanding of rules. You know, without a preseason,
Speaker 1: some of those things are aren't as up to up
Speaker 1: to the standard that you would want them to be. Um,
Speaker 1: really across the league. So you learned through experience. To me,
Speaker 1: that's the best way most people learn really in whatever
Speaker 1: field it is. So without those preseason games, um, you know,
Speaker 1: the tackling, the throwing, the blocking, the defeating blocks. I mean,
Speaker 1: talk about tackling, but there's a lot of other fundamentals
Speaker 1: that guys have not been able to do under you know,
Speaker 1: game game circumstances. So but we've practiced it. We practiced it,
Speaker 1: practiced it to the best of our ability. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: giveing the you know, given the circumstances that we're in
Speaker 1: and um, you know, we're like, we're not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and say make excuse, hey, We're not gonna we
Speaker 1: missed a bunch of tackles because of this. So we
Speaker 1: couldn't completely passed because of this. That's not what we're saying.
Speaker 1: But to to your specific question, it would be better
Speaker 1: if we had live games to actually tackle. Next question
Speaker 1: here for coach talking about the defense there, and obviously
Speaker 1: one of the hallmarks of this defense is the versatility,
Speaker 1: is guys having different roles and different packages on this team.
Speaker 1: He was asked about how that translates to the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football, and maybe to some surprise, coach
Speaker 1: said it might be even more on the offensive side
Speaker 1: than it is on the defensive side. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it definitely translates. It translates. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if it's third and one, who do you which back
Speaker 1: do you want in there? Which lineman do you want
Speaker 1: in there? Which tight end do you want in there? Um,
Speaker 1: it's third and led, and do you want to be
Speaker 1: you know, do you want no receivers in the game.
Speaker 1: I think it's very specific to the situation, maybe even
Speaker 1: more so than defensively. Um, I think if you just
Speaker 1: think about the different situations within a game, two minute,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to run two minute with you know,
Speaker 1: three tight ends on the field. You want to running
Speaker 1: with three receivers on the field. You want to run
Speaker 1: you know, shure yardage with you know, hundre an eighty
Speaker 1: pound back or two and forty pound back. I think
Speaker 1: it's very specific to the situation. Uh. No different than defense,
Speaker 1: No different than special teams. That's just kind of my
Speaker 1: uh my thought process. Uh And honestly, you know, I
Speaker 1: know you mentioned maybe some other people, but I think
Speaker 1: everybody feels the same way. Um. I think we're all
Speaker 1: trying to you know, as coaches, just you know, the
Speaker 1: guys I've been around and talked to and like I've
Speaker 1: talked to you know, really most of the coaches throughout
Speaker 1: the league, just trying to pick their you know, having
Speaker 1: conversations and talking football. It's offensive, defense, special teams. And
Speaker 1: that's the one thing that continues to continually comes up.
Speaker 1: You know, let's put our players in the best physicians too,
Speaker 1: for them to have success and for us us to
Speaker 1: have success. And I think situationally, um, you know, this
Speaker 1: comes up on a week to week basis, and I
Speaker 1: think offensively probably more than defensively omar Um in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Up next, coach was asked about defending Cam Newton, a
Speaker 1: guy that has five thousand career rushing yards, almost four
Speaker 1: hundred first downs on the ground, and sixty touchdowns if
Speaker 1: you include the playoffs on each of those stats. I
Speaker 1: was going to ask coach about the difficulty of defending
Speaker 1: Cam Newton in the question about how that might alter
Speaker 1: your approach on defense. And one of the added elements
Speaker 1: a running quarterback gives defenses is that, of course, if
Speaker 1: you're in man coverage, things become much more difficult to
Speaker 1: defend that running quarterback because if the defense has their
Speaker 1: back turn to the quarterback and he breaks the pocket,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you've got guys with their
Speaker 1: backs to the quarterback while he takes off and runs.
Speaker 1: So that means pass rush and staying in your gaps
Speaker 1: up front just becomes so much more important. Here is
Speaker 1: coach on defending Cam Newton and the running quarterback. Read
Speaker 1: your keys. They were good fundamentals and technique. I'll following rules.
Speaker 1: I think that those are the main points that we're
Speaker 1: talking about. You know, defensively every week communication, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy like Kim obviously, you know, extremely talented. He's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, can extend plays and make every throw. So, um,
Speaker 1: obviously you want to contain them and keep him in
Speaker 1: the pocket. That's easier said than done. You know, you
Speaker 1: want to continue to be aggressive. He's a good player.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're too aggressive and uh he
Speaker 1: slips through or finds a step up space, you know
Speaker 1: he can he can hurt yourself. Um. Look, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great challenge for us. But they're a good
Speaker 1: team offensively, defensively, and then the kicking game, uh with
Speaker 1: guys like Matt Slater from a special team standpoint, and
Speaker 1: Gilmore mccordy, Adam Butler. I mean, they got good players
Speaker 1: defensively and offensively, starwar Cam. I mean, it is a
Speaker 1: solid team and the world coach. So this will be
Speaker 1: a huge challenge and you know we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: play well. We're gonna go up there and and and
Speaker 1: play de penitive game. And we'll finish up here with
Speaker 1: coach talking about the message he wants to give to
Speaker 1: the young players, the rookies, first, second, third year players,
Speaker 1: guys that are coming into this thing somewhat fresh. What's
Speaker 1: the message to those guys in their first game here
Speaker 1: this season on Sunday, One play at a time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's that's always the mindset. You know, good play,
Speaker 1: bad play, penalty, touchdown, give up a touch down, and
Speaker 1: just want to the next play. Um every place and experience,
Speaker 1: and I learned that early in my coaching career. So
Speaker 1: good or bad, you know, you learn from it. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only thing you don't want to do is take
Speaker 1: the good plays and you know, think about those the
Speaker 1: entire game. You don't want to take the bad places
Speaker 1: and think about those the entire game either. So let's
Speaker 1: move on to the next play. Um, but learn from it.
Speaker 1: We have to have our best communication, our best execution,
Speaker 1: you know, late in the game. That would be my message.
Speaker 1: So one more day down here on the week of
Speaker 1: Game one, heading into Sunday against the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: and I just gotta say, man, it's a different feeling
Speaker 1: in the building when there's a game aim coming up
Speaker 1: from my own perspective, my own workflow, sitting here, going
Speaker 1: into all the matchups, digging up all the numbers, looking
Speaker 1: at the tape, finding out maybe what I can compel
Speaker 1: or what I can tell you guys in a compelling fashion.
Speaker 1: On the Thursday preview podcast that's coming out tomorrow, of course,
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Patriots preview here on the Drivetime podcast will
Speaker 1: also have the three Keys to the game from John
Speaker 1: K Jemmy and he'll have his three takeaways on Sunday
Speaker 1: night post game as well, in addition to my post
Speaker 1: game works, so plenty of content here on the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, on the website, and otherwise covering this game.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm so excited, man, it's football coming up
Speaker 1: around the corner. National Football League game, your Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: on the field now just four days away. And with that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and talk to a player making his
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins debut on Sunday in a place where he
Speaker 1: spent the first four years of his career. It's our
Speaker 1: Wednesday feature, a weekly feature here on the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: as well as on Miami Dolphins dot com as we
Speaker 1: get to know some of these players away from the
Speaker 1: football field a little bit more. And there is nobody
Speaker 1: better to kick off this series than Dolphins center Ted Carriss.
Speaker 1: If you don't know him by now, go check out
Speaker 1: the article on the Athletic where it talks about his
Speaker 1: many interest the level of respect he has in the
Speaker 1: locker room throughout the course of his career on the
Speaker 1: Athletic Ted Carress. I believe it's called the Genius Clown
Speaker 1: is the name of the article on the Athletic. So
Speaker 1: with that, let's go ahead and welcome in Dolphins center
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss. And joining me now is Dolphins center Ted Carriss,
Speaker 1: just a few days away from his debut here in Miami. Ted,
Speaker 1: how you doing, man. You're feeling healthy, You're feeling ready
Speaker 1: to go? Travis feeling great, man. We have a good
Speaker 1: practice today and a couple more and then we're we're
Speaker 1: heading up to Massachusetts's gonna be it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big week, last minute preparations heading up to the game.
Speaker 1: But before we get to the game, I want to
Speaker 1: talk to you about some non football stuff. And I've
Speaker 1: been told that you know a little bit of everything
Speaker 1: about everything. How would you respond to that claim? Maybe
Speaker 1: just maybe just a nugget or two about it? A
Speaker 1: lot of things that I wouldn't say, no everything, but
Speaker 1: you know, I am. I do like to have some
Speaker 1: unique conversations. The first one I saw that I had
Speaker 1: to bring up because I fall asleep to it every
Speaker 1: night is The Office? Now, who is your favorite character
Speaker 1: on the Office? Because I have one that people think
Speaker 1: is just disgusting. Really, I'm I'm a big Dwight fan.
Speaker 1: I think Dwight hilarious. Obviously, Steve Carrell, Michael Scott carries
Speaker 1: the show. But I that some of Dwhite's and takes
Speaker 1: over the years are just so hilarious to me. The
Speaker 1: way he like kind of bows down to Michael at
Speaker 1: any step, It just it kills me. The acting he
Speaker 1: does to do that, it's it's so good. They are
Speaker 1: those all that cast is very talented. And what if
Speaker 1: I told you my favorite character was Ryan? Ryan? You know,
Speaker 1: well he wrote a lot of the show. That makes
Speaker 1: sense that obviously, Like he says human that's funny, Like
Speaker 1: that is You're probably the only person I've ever met
Speaker 1: that says that. Yeah, he's so cringe worthy bad that
Speaker 1: I find it hilarious. I just can't get enough. It
Speaker 1: is very funny. So are you a little bit of
Speaker 1: an actor yourself? Like would you ever get in front
Speaker 1: of the camera? I would, Yeah, I was. Actually I
Speaker 1: had a walk on role in the production of the Office,
Speaker 1: A musical last year, so that was pretty fun. What's
Speaker 1: in the opening scene? Really? Yeah, I'm pictured you doing
Speaker 1: like your gym face when he looks at the camera, Like,
Speaker 1: what is that kind of something you do? It was
Speaker 1: like it was a song and my role was really
Speaker 1: I I joined in the song a little bit, but um,
Speaker 1: I just had to pin something up on a piece
Speaker 1: of paper. It was like the opening scene to the
Speaker 1: musical was very very well done. Um it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. They incorporated just about every part, every
Speaker 1: big milestone of the show and they sung it all too.
Speaker 1: It was great. That's awesome. I've I've participated in some
Speaker 1: office trivia before, so it's uh, it definitely has like
Speaker 1: its own little subculture that show does. It does yeah no,
Speaker 1: and they're taking it off Netflix, so it's from driving
Speaker 1: people to the NBC streaming app this year. You just
Speaker 1: broke my heart, man, Like I said, I have to
Speaker 1: have that to fall asleep at night. I know, I
Speaker 1: me too. It's it's it's turned in almost to a
Speaker 1: complex for for me, my wife and I. It's too good,
Speaker 1: too good. Well, I do want to try to change
Speaker 1: gears here because you know we're not gonna get into football.
Speaker 1: But I saw an article on the Athletic where I
Speaker 1: think it was Dante high Tower called you a pit
Speaker 1: bull and a meathouse. But you've got cats, right, I
Speaker 1: do have two cats. Okay, I'm a cat guy myself,
Speaker 1: and you know that's something that sometimes when when a
Speaker 1: guy tells somebody that he's a cat person, it's kind
Speaker 1: of agreed with some What like, what does that like
Speaker 1: for you the locker room when you tell the guys
Speaker 1: like I've got a couple of cats back home. Well,
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of reasons. I do love
Speaker 1: my cats and think of them as companions, and they've
Speaker 1: been great. And I know I've had cats growing up.
Speaker 1: I also I had dogs, but for the stage in
Speaker 1: my life, one of the main reasons we got some
Speaker 1: cats was we wanted some pets. But with our schedule
Speaker 1: and the traveler in the off season and pretty locked
Speaker 1: in for six months out of the year in season,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't feel like I can give a
Speaker 1: dog that is good a quality of life as they
Speaker 1: deserve right now. Um, but what we know, when I'm
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully down the road, uh long down the
Speaker 1: road and I retire, I'll take it a dog. But
Speaker 1: until then, I am a cat guy, and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: proud of it. We need some of those photos, like
Speaker 1: have you seen them? I think it's a meme online
Speaker 1: where the guys like holding the cat and then there's
Speaker 1: a side picture up in the corner with the cat
Speaker 1: like in the Christmas stalking hat or something like that.
Speaker 1: We need some of that with you, man. We need
Speaker 1: a cat photo shoot for you. We need a cat
Speaker 1: poll show. I'll throw one on the ground. My wife
Speaker 1: has been telling me to put them on there more
Speaker 1: so I guess I'll have to give to get that going. Yes,
Speaker 1: please do. I'll share it like it's crazy, because that
Speaker 1: just both I love it. I've I've always had cast
Speaker 1: my whole life too, so right there with you, and
Speaker 1: I'm a huge proponent of the they can nurture their
Speaker 1: own independence. It's it's a beautiful thing, my man. So
Speaker 1: one thing I wanted to ask you about was the
Speaker 1: off season this year because it is such a unique
Speaker 1: year in America, just in every single walk of life.
Speaker 1: And you went out and got your master's degree this summer. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I've been working on it for four years. I
Speaker 1: actually one more class to go. Um. But they did
Speaker 1: they would have let us walk. Um. Actually, uh, we
Speaker 1: did it with the left hard for the for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: Joe Tuney. We did it together. Um and um, I
Speaker 1: will finish up. I'll probably I'll probably get my machine
Speaker 1: skin in March, so that'd be my second master's. I
Speaker 1: guess I should have rephrased that you didn't get it
Speaker 1: in one summer. Obviously, it's a lot of hard work
Speaker 1: that goes into that, but congratulations man, thank you. Though
Speaker 1: it's a great program tuition reimbursement UM through the NFL
Speaker 1: and NFL p A. Obviously, it's one of the things,
Speaker 1: sadly that got cut this year because of COVID, but
Speaker 1: you know, and when they bring it back, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: finish anyway. But I'm gonna continue to go until until
Speaker 1: the until someone doesn't pay for my school anymore. So
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a great program. I encourage a
Speaker 1: lot of younger guys to be going on it now.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. Have you put any thought into I
Speaker 1: know post playing career, like you mentioned, is a long
Speaker 1: way away, but have you put any thought into what
Speaker 1: that might look like for you? Yeah? I have thought
Speaker 1: about it. I'm not not too deeply, just because you know,
Speaker 1: it really is all fantasy. I'm all football, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be lotefully football for for a lot more seasons.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, it's gonna be a decision my
Speaker 1: wife when I make. I'm gonna, you know, see what
Speaker 1: opportunities I don't. I try not to burn any bridges ever,
Speaker 1: and and keep an open mind, and and and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. You know, post football play. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's it's all about, you know, trying to win some games. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And you mentioned being all about football. That goes back
Speaker 1: to our first conversation you and I had ted back
Speaker 1: in March. I want to say it was when you
Speaker 1: signed down here and you were working out in your garage.
Speaker 1: What was that like in the entire offseason, kind of
Speaker 1: having your own gym set up and and kind of
Speaker 1: being you know, left to your own devices in the
Speaker 1: in the garage gym. Well, it was great. You know.
Speaker 1: I tried to get down here as soon as possible
Speaker 1: after we signed in in March, and you know, with
Speaker 1: with how crazy March was, the heat of it, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we couldn't get down Um. But we we
Speaker 1: got down in May because I wanted to get down
Speaker 1: here in the heat. And you know, it was really
Speaker 1: great to be able to to be around some of
Speaker 1: the guys. So you know, when we walked into camp here,
Speaker 1: you know, we had relationships that were already built and
Speaker 1: we could continue growing together. I was talking to some
Speaker 1: of the guys here in the video department about how
Speaker 1: it was kind of like nice today because it was rainy,
Speaker 1: a little bit colder. Man, I'm new to the area
Speaker 1: to ted this heat hits you like something else. How
Speaker 1: was that acclamation for you? You know, there's definitely been
Speaker 1: sometimes where you're it does get very high, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's part of football and in in you know,
Speaker 1: I think one of the greatest parts of our football
Speaker 1: is that you played outside mostly, you know, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, that's always been a favorite factor of mine.
Speaker 1: You get to go outside and and and go you know,
Speaker 1: run around and fly around with your friends. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a little bit of different heat down here,
Speaker 1: but we feel like we're in a great condition and
Speaker 1: and ready to, uh you know, play a play a
Speaker 1: tough sixty minutes here Sunday. Now, you might not have
Speaker 1: a response to this or an answer for this, but
Speaker 1: I'm curious. Did you ever have a really strange interruption
Speaker 1: during your in home garage workouts and f so what
Speaker 1: was it? Uh? Well, I've had to you know, case
Speaker 1: some delivery, um, and I think I you know, I
Speaker 1: have a couple of neighbors that were probably we had
Speaker 1: I had just heard on the music a few times.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to, you know, come in blazing as
Speaker 1: far as yeah, as far as to suck to the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: But everyone is. They've welcomed my wife and I with
Speaker 1: open arms, and it's been such a pleasure, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to do, you know, my
Speaker 1: very best for this community and for the Dolphins organization.
Speaker 1: I'm picturing like the cooligan man coming up and dropping
Speaker 1: off a thing of water and you're just like throwing
Speaker 1: it over your shoulder and walking in like a tough guy. Yeah. Day,
Speaker 1: everyone's in there because we got way through the driveway too.
Speaker 1: Was great. Man, It was a great summer. And then
Speaker 1: it's just been paying off right on. Man. I mean
Speaker 1: I I wanted to drop this quote on you because
Speaker 1: I was so proud of finding it. But they say
Speaker 1: necessity is the mother of invention. Did you develop anything
Speaker 1: new during your summer garage routine? Well, I definitely, Uh
Speaker 1: like when when when COVID first really hit and I
Speaker 1: didn't have any weights in my garage yet? I I
Speaker 1: uh developed a pretty I can get pretty swollen with
Speaker 1: some band to work outside. I was pretty skeptical my
Speaker 1: whole life about that, but I uh, you know, if
Speaker 1: you get the rep count right, you can really you
Speaker 1: can really make some games just just working with you know,
Speaker 1: you know those athletic rubber bands that you can stretch
Speaker 1: out and stuff. Yeah, they're legit. I got some of
Speaker 1: those two because I'm down here without the availability of
Speaker 1: a gem. I use them and the swimming pool. Those
Speaker 1: two things are like new for me. Yeah. The resistance
Speaker 1: bands are great. It's been amazing. Man. Okay, one last
Speaker 1: thing here for you. Mentioned Joe Tuney earlier. I read
Speaker 1: that you guys were Jeopardy buddies. Uh, are you continuing
Speaker 1: watching Jeopardy every night? Like, what's what's that schedule like
Speaker 1: for you? No, I have not been watching a lot
Speaker 1: of Jeopardy. Later. I think Joe would be disappointed. But yeah.
Speaker 1: We so we lived together for you know, our first
Speaker 1: two seasons. Then I got married and moved out, but
Speaker 1: I still was at the house a lot, and we
Speaker 1: would watch Jeopardy is very competitive, and then you know,
Speaker 1: it got to the point though where we were competing
Speaker 1: all day. Anyway, we get home and then we would
Speaker 1: compete we started just playing on the same team so
Speaker 1: that we could just make a total. I think our
Speaker 1: our our personal record was about I think we're for
Speaker 1: three or four off of getting every question right. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. He probably carried us that day.
Speaker 1: But now it was as fun memories and I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing a lot of those guys. But I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go and compete, and you know we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to, you know, go up there and put our
Speaker 1: best sixty minutes on the field. Absolutely, that's why I
Speaker 1: shoot four in the team tournament. Man, So good good
Speaker 1: on you guys for hitting that in the in the
Speaker 1: main event there on Jeopardy, I like, I got one
Speaker 1: more question for you here, Ted. You mentioned being here
Speaker 1: for the first time and you were voted a team captain.
Speaker 1: Just talk about how much that means to you, being
Speaker 1: a team captain after being here for only six months
Speaker 1: so far. Well, it's a distinct honor that, you know,
Speaker 1: my peers and teams think of me like that, and
Speaker 1: and I take that very seriously. It's you know, a
Speaker 1: leadership role doesn't have to be elected, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we have some great captains and the fact
Speaker 1: that they thought of me about that is very special,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to deliver with doing the best I
Speaker 1: can to help us win as many ballgames as we
Speaker 1: can and also helped you know, in the lives of uh,
Speaker 1: you know, our teammates. You know, this is one of
Speaker 1: the most special parts about football is a race, the
Speaker 1: relationships you build. And I care very deeply about this
Speaker 1: team and these guys and and then do whatever I
Speaker 1: can to help us be successful. To really appreciate your
Speaker 1: time today, man, stay healthy, good luck on Sunday. Cannot
Speaker 1: wait to watch you play man. Thank you, Travis. And
Speaker 1: there he goes Dolphins center Ted Carress. That guy is
Speaker 1: just the best. He's so much fun to talk to,
Speaker 1: so many different unique interest And with that, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and go back to Ted Carriss. Here he spoke
Speaker 1: to the media about some more things football related on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I don't want to short you guys night because he's
Speaker 1: a great interview. Let's hear from Ted Carress addressing the
Speaker 1: media on Wednesday, and of course he starts by talking
Speaker 1: about returning to Foxborough as an opponent for the first time. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of uh, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of similar guys and you know a lot of connections
Speaker 1: on these two programs, UM, and I think every week
Speaker 1: one matchup is going to be pretty unique this year
Speaker 1: in the NFL. UM, I'm excited to see what tomorrow
Speaker 1: is like. I'm sure you guys all are too with
Speaker 1: some football on TV, UM. But you know, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of these guys, we know each other
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a a tough, physical, sixty minute game.
Speaker 1: And one of the roles Ted has here in Miami
Speaker 1: is mentoring the young offensive lineman. Here he is talking
Speaker 1: about Solomon Kiley, Robert Hunt, and Austin Jackson up on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. He has, uh, you know, all the
Speaker 1: capabilities to be to be a great player. And we
Speaker 1: have a lot of great rookies, Rob Hunt, Austin Jackson,
Speaker 1: with good veteran Jesse Davis. Um, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of e flow. So, UM, you know, we're feeling good,
Speaker 1: we're working hard, had a good practice today and um,
Speaker 1: you know, now we gotta take it to the field.
Speaker 1: Here comes Sunday afternoon, and here is Ted on a
Speaker 1: follow up question expanding on what he sees in Solomon Kinley,
Speaker 1: the fourth round rookie out of Georgia what he sees
Speaker 1: in his game. He tries to do everything right. He's
Speaker 1: very exposedive obviously is a huge man. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: think I got as many one. I don't think I
Speaker 1: looked like that as a rookie. I certainly, you know,
Speaker 1: if if I look back at the film, UM to
Speaker 1: come in and be very competitive and and someone that
Speaker 1: you know, as we're you know, working over these this
Speaker 1: past camp and now that we're getting into games, you know,
Speaker 1: building our trust and in each other, and UM, you know,
Speaker 1: I just think he has you know, he's he's done
Speaker 1: very well, and I'm very excited for him, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do everything I can to help him. And he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big part of helping us win ball
Speaker 1: games this year. Hey, Ted, how's it going? Man? Uh?
Speaker 1: Four years up in New England. You obviously saw how
Speaker 1: the sausage gets made up there. But I'm curious, now
Speaker 1: that you're in Miami, what it's like for you to
Speaker 1: prepare for a Bill Belichick defense for the first time. Well,
Speaker 1: we know we're gonna be tough and smart and know
Speaker 1: what they're doing, and they're gonna have something, um, you know,
Speaker 1: you need for us. That's gonna make us think they're
Speaker 1: gonna challenge, challenge us every step of the way. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's very exciting to go back. I
Speaker 1: know many of these players very personally. Um, and to
Speaker 1: go back and compete now and as a rival, as
Speaker 1: a rival faction is is very exciting and um, it's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's gonna be fun, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to bring our very very best when it counts
Speaker 1: the most. Here Sunday afternoon, and on the topic of
Speaker 1: Sunday Afternoon, here's Ted Carriss on the challenge of going
Speaker 1: into Foxborough playing the Patriots and going up against that defense.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely gonna be a huge challenge. They're going to
Speaker 1: be well prepared and and rare and to go, um
Speaker 1: and these you know, there's still a lot there's a
Speaker 1: ton of grade players on that whole front. That whole
Speaker 1: defense is is dangerous and we're gonna have you know,
Speaker 1: we've been preparing hard and we're still got a bunch
Speaker 1: more preparation here to go, and it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge yet of our careers as a team together.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be We're gonna have to go up
Speaker 1: and player very best for sixty minutes to leave Gillette
Speaker 1: Stadium with a victory. As we heard in my interview
Speaker 1: with Ted, he definitely loves the studying part of the
Speaker 1: game and studying in life in general and knowing more
Speaker 1: things than just about football. Here's Ted about the communication
Speaker 1: and the language of the offense. That has been one
Speaker 1: of the more interesting things about coming to a new
Speaker 1: new scheme, a new system, and a new team here
Speaker 1: in Miami. Well, the language certainly is different, and I
Speaker 1: think that's a fascinating part of the game. I uh,
Speaker 1: I'd love to learn. I dove into this offense pretty
Speaker 1: pretty deeply. Obviously. We had you know, zoom meetings for
Speaker 1: about six weeks in the spring. That was that was
Speaker 1: a cool, kind of low pressure way to learn a
Speaker 1: new offense and just have the playbook there. But the
Speaker 1: biggest part is the language is a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: you know, football is all right to be kind of
Speaker 1: we have football is football. But I'm not going to
Speaker 1: give any nuggets as far as differences between our O
Speaker 1: and there's. But the language would be the best, the
Speaker 1: best example and one I find most fascinating. We'll go
Speaker 1: to the other side of the football. Now and here
Speaker 1: from Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones, who first was asked to
Speaker 1: evaluate what he's seen from exaving Howard, who he was
Speaker 1: involved in team meetings and doing the virtual stuff previously,
Speaker 1: but now that Howard has been back on the field
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks, what he's seen an exhaving
Speaker 1: Howard skill set on the practice field. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: cool to see him out there. It's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: amazing to see just how good he is. Um, he's
Speaker 1: really aggressed out the lot of scrimmage. He knows that
Speaker 1: attacked the ball very well. So I'm learning a lot
Speaker 1: from him just watching him be out there. And he's good.
Speaker 1: He's good mentor to Noah. Um, we're all doing everything
Speaker 1: we can and get him up to speed. But he
Speaker 1: looks good out there, really good. Next, here's Byron Jones
Speaker 1: on facing the quarterback he's gonna see Sunday in Cam Newton. Cam.
Speaker 1: He's extremely talented. Um, he's a guy who's gonna make plays.
Speaker 1: Our job on defense is to read our keys, you know,
Speaker 1: do what we're talking fundamentals. That's what it's really gonna
Speaker 1: come down to, especially early in the season, it's you know, tackling,
Speaker 1: knowing the plays, understanding what the offense wants to do
Speaker 1: to the defense depending on the offense is set. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just a game of you know,
Speaker 1: focusing and attention to the details. Really, hey, Byron, you know,
Speaker 1: preparing for some teams that kind of they are they
Speaker 1: you get what you see with them. And the Patriots
Speaker 1: are so able to adapt themselves every single week it
Speaker 1: seems for so long. Now, how much more of a
Speaker 1: challenge is that for you to prepare for a team
Speaker 1: that you might not know what you're gonna see on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest challenge right now is just the
Speaker 1: fact that it's the first game of the season. We
Speaker 1: don't really know you know ever, I've see a different quarterback. Um,
Speaker 1: So it's just adjusting to that really and um, like
Speaker 1: I said earlier, when it comes down to is us
Speaker 1: is that's how we uh come to the game and
Speaker 1: how we tackle, how we really execute on a down
Speaker 1: and down basis, And that's when it really comes down to.
Speaker 1: We heard an earlier question Byron addressed the mentorship of
Speaker 1: rookie cornerback Noah egbon Agny, who again is the youngest
Speaker 1: player in the National Football League at twenty years old,
Speaker 1: will be on opening day. Here's Byron Jones talking about
Speaker 1: what makes Noah Egbonogeny a good player. In his opinion,
Speaker 1: it's the work he puts in, the dedication he shows,
Speaker 1: and their acceptance he has to coaching. Well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you with Noah first, he's a really good player. And
Speaker 1: one thing that's really special about Noahs it's a majority
Speaker 1: the way he really approaches the game. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he's in the meetings early with coach, he's in the
Speaker 1: meetings late, he's taking notes. He's very responsive to criticism. Uh,
Speaker 1: he responds, he responds well to good plays in bad plays. UM.
Speaker 1: It's really cool to see a young guy like that
Speaker 1: come into the league and be so prepared. Um. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously he has to go to the paces when he
Speaker 1: gets into the game. UM. But you know, I have
Speaker 1: confidence and we have confidence in his ability to make
Speaker 1: players out there and with exhavien Um. You know, truthfully,
Speaker 1: just seeing him on day one and two of practice
Speaker 1: this year, UM, seeing how he attacks the ball um
Speaker 1: with specially to me, I'm like wow, And seeing his
Speaker 1: feet on the line of scrimmage and how he stayed square. Um,
Speaker 1: there's all this stuff I'm picking up in different players,
Speaker 1: and the seed in person is really different. And that's
Speaker 1: what's the cool part about it is we're all on
Speaker 1: the same team and we're all picking and learning from
Speaker 1: each other, which alten makes us all better. And let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up with Dolphins cornerback by Ron
Speaker 1: Jones with an evaluation on the Dolphins receiving corps. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, obviously Rushton and Abont are really big receivers. Um.
Speaker 1: Those guys have really good catch rates. Um. And they
Speaker 1: do a good job about going up and getting the ball.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the most important thing. That's a
Speaker 1: really good receiver. Um. You know, it may not be perfect,
Speaker 1: you may be guarded, but if you grow up and
Speaker 1: attack that ball like they have Shaun Dwelt in camp,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be just fine. Um. And as a
Speaker 1: he's a really crafty guy on the inside. Um, he's
Speaker 1: really savvy with his routes. He's very patient as well. UM.
Speaker 1: So it's it's you know, they're all good receivers, no
Speaker 1: question about that, but they'll have different things that make
Speaker 1: them special and We're gonna finish up here with Dolphins
Speaker 1: linebacker Kyle van Noy, and we start with my question.
Speaker 1: My question for you is about going up against a
Speaker 1: team you've seen plenty of times in the past and
Speaker 1: practice and more, you know, narrow focused here on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. They've got so much continuity up in front
Speaker 1: on that offensive line. How does your familiarity with those guys,
Speaker 1: maybe some of their tendencies and weaknesses kind of help
Speaker 1: you attack them on Sunday? Yeah, I mean going against them.
Speaker 1: They're familiar with me going you know, I'm familiar with them.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for this task. You know, they've been talking
Speaker 1: trash before years I've been there, so I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see if we both can back it up. Okay, so
Speaker 1: just put you backing off. That is there one player
Speaker 1: you most want to hit on Sunday? Now he's not
Speaker 1: there no more, and that would be Grounk by the way,
Speaker 1: not Tom. That's my guy. And as Kyle often does,
Speaker 1: he has a very unique perspective here on playing without
Speaker 1: fans in the stand and how he's looking forward to
Speaker 1: the experience that's been different and it's going to be
Speaker 1: different than what we're used to here in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. No, I think it's gonna be a cool experience.
Speaker 1: I don't think people are looking at it in uh
Speaker 1: you know the way that I've been looking at it.
Speaker 1: I've been looking at it. The fans get a close
Speaker 1: inside of what guys on the field are communicating, trash talking,
Speaker 1: kind of like you've seen with the n b A.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear the ball dribble and you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: get to hear that all the time. And I feel
Speaker 1: like that's what it's gonna be like on a football field.
Speaker 1: I think the smacking is gonna be louder, the trash
Speaker 1: talking is gonna be right there prime television, and I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a good atmosphere because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you're gonna find out it's the
Speaker 1: team versus the team. There's no real home field advantage.
Speaker 1: Obviously you have to make the road trip out there,
Speaker 1: but you are basically going against that team and they're
Speaker 1: going against you, and you just gotta outperform. So I
Speaker 1: think that's pretty cool. And of course, Kyle is on
Speaker 1: his third team here with the Miami Dolphins. Began his
Speaker 1: career as a second round draft pick in Detroit, wound
Speaker 1: up in New England for a few years. Here he
Speaker 1: is talking about going into New England and what made
Speaker 1: that play special during his time there, and now what
Speaker 1: he sees here in Miami in his first season so far.
Speaker 1: You know, from top down, his ran a really really
Speaker 1: positive way. Um just like here, it's run really really well,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to be a Miami Dolphin. I feel
Speaker 1: like they are investing in a lot into our success
Speaker 1: as what you know, giving we have a new facility
Speaker 1: coming around, and then they invest in a lot with
Speaker 1: off the field things that we as players want, and
Speaker 1: you know, they really really want us to be successful,
Speaker 1: and I hope we can be successful for this city.
Speaker 1: And on the topic of this city in the South
Speaker 1: Florida community, here is what I think might be my
Speaker 1: favorite quote so far of the time I've been here
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. And I know I say that quite
Speaker 1: a few times because a lot of these guys are
Speaker 1: so well spoken and say so many profound things. But
Speaker 1: here's Kyle van Noy on why it's so important to
Speaker 1: him to bring a winner to Miami. Oh man, I
Speaker 1: wish I could answer. We'd be here all day I
Speaker 1: have to write out a paragraph for you are paper,
Speaker 1: but I'll just try to keep it simple and sweet.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been given a lot, and I hope
Speaker 1: to give others a lot. And Um, I'm blessed to
Speaker 1: be a part of this. I know what winning looks like.
Speaker 1: In structurally, Flow is I respect him a lot. He's
Speaker 1: doing a really really good job. Um. We're not taking
Speaker 1: any shortcuts. I mean, I wasn't here last year, but
Speaker 1: the guys you can tell, work their ass off and
Speaker 1: this year we continued that. And for me to be
Speaker 1: a part of that and to be elected a captain
Speaker 1: of from my peers, I mean, I'm honored and just
Speaker 1: hope we can, um take this first game, it's a
Speaker 1: big game, um, and go up there and with the
Speaker 1: mindset of winning, and that's what they want to do.
Speaker 1: That's what we want to do. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: really really high competitive game right off the bat, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited for it. It's it's what you will play as.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's what you wish for as a kid playing.
Speaker 1: I mean better you're playing against a rival team at
Speaker 1: their home opening game. Um, through all the craziness that's
Speaker 1: going on, trying to be a light for people off
Speaker 1: the field and on the field. I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: a good way to start. And with that start, we're
Speaker 1: gonna see Cam Newton. Here's Kyle Van Noy on a
Speaker 1: scouting report on the Patriots quarterback. Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: I mean Cam brings a Cam effects. That man is
Speaker 1: a gamer, uh m v P. So he knows how
Speaker 1: to win, he knows how to play to his strengths. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a really good he's an under obvious our shooting
Speaker 1: and say underrated. He's a really good passer. You can
Speaker 1: throw on the run really really well. But the Cam
Speaker 1: effect is definitely the running. Being able to have that
Speaker 1: I guess as your third option, you know, hand the
Speaker 1: ball off brow and then be able to run and
Speaker 1: create something out of nothing. Uh. It's tough to guard
Speaker 1: and we have our hands full and we're doing everything
Speaker 1: we can to prepare for it. But we're we're excited
Speaker 1: for the challenge. We know how good he is and
Speaker 1: we respect him as a player. And here is Kyle
Speaker 1: cutting off reporter asking about playing against Cam in the
Speaker 1: time he got a sack on him. Did I chased
Speaker 1: him down? People think I'm slow, and here he is
Speaker 1: talking more about facing Cam Newton and the key to
Speaker 1: stopping him in that Patriots offense. You know, I think
Speaker 1: it's just all Levin on the same page. I think
Speaker 1: that's what it takes. Every guy doing their job is,
Speaker 1: you know, as cliche is, as sounds, that's really what
Speaker 1: it takes. Whether you know your blitz and you gotta
Speaker 1: keep them in the pocket or whether you know you're
Speaker 1: playing zone. Everybody has eyes back to the quarterback. You've
Speaker 1: got to do those little things against a running quarterback
Speaker 1: like that and be able to hit them. Just like
Speaker 1: any quarterback. You just gotta continue to put that pressure
Speaker 1: on them and sustain it all for four quarters. It's
Speaker 1: not easy, and it's not easy to do in this league.
Speaker 1: But when you do it, that's usually when you come
Speaker 1: out with a good outcome. So there you haven't Kyle
Speaker 1: van noy, Byron Jones, and Ted Carros three really good
Speaker 1: interviews on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Again,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have that deep dive that feature on Ted
Speaker 1: Carros up on Miami Dolphins dot com. In addition to
Speaker 1: the Daily Top News, The Daily Blitz, and Thursday The Preview,
Speaker 1: of the Patriots game. We have tons of stuff coming
Speaker 1: down the pipeline for you here both on Drivetime and
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com as well as on social media.
Speaker 1: And with that, let's go ahead and get out of
Speaker 1: here for this Wednesday show. In the meantime, you all
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