WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 115 | Talking Quarterbacks 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.640 All right, Welcome back to the awful Kimbo Camper. John 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.719 con Jemmy with you. John here we are about Yeah, 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.239 we like three months into this deal already, I think, 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.599 so right out there about it feels like it. It 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.639 feels like it's one of those things where, um, you 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.200 think you're coming out of it and you're closer, but 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.560 you know, you're you're still trying to do all the 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.960 right things. So, yeah, we've been in this situation for 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:29.320 a long time and hopefully we're we're starting to see 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.000 a little bit more light at the end of the tunnel. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.120 I'm feeling like I'm half in, half out, you know 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.239 what I mean. Yeah, you know I've been I've been 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.680 you know, hold up for so long and you know, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.599 jumped in a car and drove the Illinois for fifteen 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.000 car right up and back and and did that. And 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:47.960 so now I'm like, okay, I'm kind of done with 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.479 all of that stuff. And I've actually gone out to 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.760 a couple of restaurants that have opened up locally, and 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.400 so that's kind of my splurts, going out to a restaurant, 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.000 and you know, instead of going to the grocery store 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:03.080 buying groceries, having to cook them, having to clean up afterwards. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.320 Um sneaking out to a restaurant and just said, hey, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.399 here's my credit card, you do all the work. Yeah, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.120 you know what that I actually actually did that for 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.319 the first time. And I don't know how long I 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.839 guess two and a half three months and um and 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.880 and it was a good experience. And it was good 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.080 to you know, see people out and and going and 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.880 trying to support local businesses and going out and kind 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.520 of kind of selfishly doing it for yourself to to 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.280 get back out and to get back in the community 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.679 and kind of feel some sense of normalcy, you know, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.080 even though things were a lot different. You know, maybe 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.639 the occupancy wasn't quite at fifty or seventy five percent, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.559 but at least you felt like you were doing something 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.160 out in the community and it it felt good. Yeah. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.960 So so we're we're kind of getting there and along 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:54.480 the lines, you know, there's a lot of talk. We're 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.200 gonna talk about a lot of things today on the show, 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.240 but you know, one of the things we'll talk about, certainly, 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.480 Steven Ross on Tuesday, UH came out and said that 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.400 the NFL will play that the uh the He's optimistic 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.360 that the NFL season is gonna go on his planned. 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.399 And you know everyone's been asking me, John, I'm sure 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.600 you you run across the same thing, whether whether you're 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.160 talking to people on the phone or whether you're running 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.840 into somebody somewhere or whatever. Are they gonna play? Are 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.640 they gonna play? And And my answer so far, John, 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.320 for everybody has been well, look, the only thing I 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.440 can tell you is this, the league is going through 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:32.360 their business as if they're planning on business as usual. Now, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.200 when I say business as usual, that that doesn't include O, 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.799 T A S. Mini camps and those things, I kind 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.720 of take it down to, look, if you had, if 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:43.880 you don't have any of those things, that you and 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.160 you start training camps as you normally do late in July, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.840 that that the season will go on as expected. And 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.400 I think Mr Ross kind of kind of put that 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.080 out there for everyone, and um, and I don't make 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.880 me feel good, John. And and along with that, you 0:02:59.919 --> 0:03:02.680 know the other thing that you know this this week Thursday, 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.799 the Premier League, UH, the European League of Soccer, and 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.560 they're gonna return June seventeen with with a slate of 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:14.040 games remainder of their schedule to play. Um, So, John, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:18.160 we're starting to see things come around. Are we feeling 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.720 really good that the NFL can be on that path? 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.960 But I think the NFL and John, I think we 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.080 we that are you know, involved with the NFL and 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:31.800 doing what we do. Um. The good thing is, you know, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.760 there weren't a season that was in the middle of 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.320 the season. They didn't have to stop. They went around 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:42.840 business as usual. And they've got the they've got the 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.760 the opportunity to have time that that extra time that 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.240 late July started the training camps, boy, has done them 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.960 a big favor as other teams have suffered with stopping 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.520 seasons in between. How are we going to resume? What 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.480 are you gonna put the other? And I know the 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:03.800 NHL has got got there deal lined up. So um, 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.800 I think I'm kind of like Ross Mr Ross John 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.560 as Farez, be very optimistic that that that this season 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.240 is going to start on as regular away as possible. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.120 I think so. And I think you hit it perfectly 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.279 both when you say at the right time, at the 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.760 right time for the NFL, because it happened during the 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.800 off season, and it happened during kind of a law 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.800 in the off season, and you were able to still 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:38.200 continue to to really go on schedule because you're able 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.480 to find the draft and free agency and and sign 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.840 undrafted free agents and be able to do stuff online 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.040 for O t a s and be able to get 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.520 together as a team and find ways to kind of 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:56.560 circumvent the issues of the world and still be able to, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.640 you know, care for your family, care for one another, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.760 but be able to do your job and be able 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.120 to do it at a level where in the NFL 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.120 you didn't see it affect the bottom line in terms 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.200 of where the owners are, where the league is, where 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.919 the teams are. In effect that the calendar, So the 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.400 NFL kind of went as seamlessly as they could go 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 on and be able to do things they needed to 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:25.080 do to prepare themselves for now five weeks which would 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.240 have been more of a dead period in their calendar anyway, 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.400 once the O t a s finished, and now get 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.320 ready for the season. So I think Mr ross Is 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.920 is right and saying, you know, the NFL has a 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.360 plan for the season now, whether that's going to be 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.560 kicked off at the exact same time right now, it is, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.640 and right now they have a plan for it, and 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.920 they have a plan for fans. They have a plan 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.599 for the teams getting together in late July for training camp. 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.359 So all those protocols are being put in place. And 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.880 I think that you know, Mr Ross echoed those sentiments 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.400 as an owner, as one of those thirty two owners 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.719 in the proper way. Yeah, and it's um, you know, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.880 it gives fans hope, but they're they're moving forward, Joe, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.040 John h though, John is you know you know that 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.520 the question to me, the question now becomes next season, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.480 next season, and and and and salary cap wise, you know, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.719 if you have you know, I know, I know the 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:29.599 Dolphins have in place, uh a system whereas you could 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:34.720 you could have about fifteen thousand fans in hard Rock Stadium, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.279 uh coming in safely, leading safely seated safely to watch 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.520 to watch games. But John, that's that's taken. You know 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:49.120 what ut thousand fans out of the equation, what's says 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.520 stadium hold now they dropped down to So you know 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.240 that's so that So the point being that I'm kind 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.800 of getting to John, is, but when you start kind 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.599 of looking beyond the hurah and of this season and 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:08.280 what implications a season without fans or with limited fans 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.640 for all are part of the season. How does that 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.160 affect the salary cap next year? Especially you've got guys 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.640 out there that are maybe holding out a little bit 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.520 on franchise tags, all those all those things that they 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.600 certainly have to consider. What what the salary cap is 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.400 gonna be next year without people in the stands or 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.640 without the revenue that it's coming to. They're still gonna 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.240 get plenty of television revenue that that's big. It's gonna 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.560 remain open. But when it comes to fans and concessions 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.360 and all those types of things, well, that's that's gonna 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.320 be something to uh some to see how the league 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.080 manages that going forward. Well, I'm sure that behind the 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.960 scenes there's a plan in place for just about everything, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.080 and I think it's probably been bantered about over the 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.480 past month and a half two months. And the and 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.400 the best thing for the NFL, as we said at 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.320 the at the start of this conversation, is they have 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.040 time on their side. They still have another month and 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.960 a half at least until training camp is gonna start. Now, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.840 what does that happen? How how does the health of 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.880 society and how UH is the medical teams that are 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:18.920 all working on on issues or resolutions for what we've 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.080 been dealing with over the past two and a half 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.720 three months with COVID nineteen. So I think that time 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.800 is still on the NFL side in terms of planning 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:33.400 for twelve thousand, fifteen thousand, possibly thirty, possibly forty five 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.120 or or a full house. You know, I think everything's 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.560 on the table in terms of how they're going to 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.600 approach it, and in different areas of the country might 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.880 be affected differently, you know, in terms of their of 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.360 their attendance. You know, right now, the state of Florida, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.760 you know, selfishly is doing fairly well when you look 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.600 around the country and you look around at the numbers, 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.200 So I think, you know, with Jacksonville and Tampa Bay 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.200 and obviously the Miami Dolphins here, they're looking at maybe 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.920 a better situation than than some other parts of the country. Yeah, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.920 you look at California and it looks like most of 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.439 those teams are gonna have to find at least if 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.600 if it remains the status quo in that state, the 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.839 teams in that state are gonna have to find somewhere 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.480 else to go to training camp because the governor there 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.040 says we're not gonna do it. We're not gonna have 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.880 it until until we feel so you know, I know 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.959 you've got You've got all those other teams, the forty 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:32.000 Niners and the Chargers and the Rams all kind of 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.000 looking around and saying, hey, where where can we go 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.080 if and when training camps start out here. So they 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.400 certainly have some dormos on the hands. But look, these 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.440 teams travel enough. They've been on the road, they've been 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.320 to training camps on the road, they've scrimmaged other teams 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:50.880 on the road. I think it's a minor nuisance, uh, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.360 for most of these teams. And and and and in some cases, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.520 if you go away to training camp, like a lot 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.960 of teams always used to do, and and there's still 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.920 a handful of teams that that do go elsewhere, um, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.840 it gives you that opportunity to bond, especially since you 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.520 haven't had o k s and mini camps or will 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.600 have not had oks and mini camps. There's still that 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.920 you know, you can do these zoom meetings and all 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.160 these types of things, but until you get together with 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.520 your teammates, actually see them, work with them, get to 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.640 normal because there's been so there's such a turn over 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.199 in every team in the league every year. Uh, getting 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.640 reacquainted with your team and bonding is something that needs 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.280 to be done. And look, maybe those teams that have 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.120 to travel somewhere to go to training camp, maybe that's 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.960 an extra bonus for him. Right. Yeah, you never know 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.839 what's gonna happen, and it's still time on the side 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.240 of the team's out in California, But it sure looks 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.840 a lot better for other states like Georgia and Florida, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:53.480 and maybe more of the southern states, because it seems 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.400 like the majority of the COVID nineteen cases and and 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.640 the severities of of what's gone and what's transpired by 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:04.160 this virus has happened in the Northeast and and maybe 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:08.320 out west in California. So you're hoping and praying for 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.640 everybody around the country and around the world, but you're 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.400 you're selfishly when it comes back to our profession and 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.400 what we love to do on a daily basis is 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.800 talk about the Miami Dolphins and talk about but you know, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.520 the football season coming up. It looks it looks more 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.520 promising than it did a month ago, and hopefully at 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.920 the end of June it'll look even better than than 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.160 the goggles were wearing right now at the Nay in 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.240 early June along the lines too. You know what you 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.800 talked about, Mr Ross, It just came out with an 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.160 initiative with from the team that uh, they're gonna provide 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.760 a thousand meals, Uh, a thousand meals a day, thousand 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.440 meals a week. What is it, John, I'm not sure 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:52.000 what the thousand meals? Yeah, each Sunday, I think Sunday, yes, Uh, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.640 going forward through the season and uh, which you know 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.600 he's already you know, he's already laid out plenty of 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.280 money to help feed South Florida and help this community. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.480 And uh, you know, congratulations to him and kudos him 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.880 for putting something else out there together. That's gonna allow 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.760 people to need a lot of people who have food 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.720 but once a week have a thousand meals delivered until 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.240 they need to stop. And that's quite a commitment from 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.079 a guy that's already committed a lot of money, uh 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.360 to this entire community down here. He's done a terrific 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.240 job and you have to echo that with the Miami 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.720 Dolphins Foundation along with Mr Ross, it's a multimillion dollar 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.840 you know, major gift commitment through the Foundation of the 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.400 Miami Dolphins. They're gonna provide jobs, They're gonna provide long 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.480 term you know, food opportunities a minimum of a thousand 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:46.839 meals prepared by by the team's partner, Center Plate. So 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.480 there's a lot of really good things going on in 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.440 the community. And Mr Ross and the Miami Dolphins and 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.280 the Miami Dolphins Foundation are right in the in the 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.280 center of all that news, which is great. How about 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.000 how about the how about the and this is a 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.880 Tom This is got Tom Garfinkel stamped all over it 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:09.439 the drive in movie theater. Yeah, exactly, that was that's great. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.440 You know, Tom has done a lot of really good 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.840 things for this organization since he's been here. And uh, 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.760 you know that last thing when we're there for the 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.320 d C C. John, you know, and I knew it 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.160 was going up, but I didn't definitely really. He's got 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.120 the I don't know what you called the gondola rod, Yes, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.319 gondola ride and goes across the a parking lot area 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.880 where you can get a good bird's eye view of everything. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.360 Now you've gotta you know, you got the tennis tournament 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.000 when the Major Tennis tournaments in the world to hard 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.840 Rock Stadium, and uh, you've got uh Formula one now 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.800 depending on what goes on, but it looks like Formula 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.760 one is gonna be making one racing at hard Rock Stadium. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.800 And then now you can, uh you know what, you 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.079 can go watch The Exorcist on in your car sitting 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.439 in the middle of the stadium. How about that. It's 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.160 gonna be a lot of fun. It looks like a 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.040 lot of fun. You're gonna be able to relive games, 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:09.000 exciting moments from Dolphins uh past, you know, glorious history 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.839 in terms of being able to watch those things on 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:13.960 the big screen and then pull up and watch a 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.200 movie as well. So a lot of exciting, a lot 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.480 of excitement around the stadium. And there's so much you 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.200 can do at hard Rock Stadium. You know. You mentioned 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.200 the tennis and hopefully it'll be coming back in its 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.880 normal time slot next season and next year, and you 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.720 have the Formula one and you have all the excitement 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.160 around the d c C. So the hard Rock Stadium 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.360 really the heartbeat for the Miami Dolphins and what they 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.880 can do not only with with the Dolphins as a 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.920 football team, but in the community as well, yeah, it's 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.960 just you know, it amazes me the creativity, uh that 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.880 this organization has done. You know when when Mr Ross 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.120 committed the money to redoing that stadium and getting it 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.120 to a to a level where you can host super Bowls. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.600 And by the way, they get a fantas pastic job 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.320 with the Super Bowl last year, and I think everyone's 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.720 anxious to get back here. But all the all that 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:10.760 he's done, it really, it really is is um. I 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.000 just don't see anyone in the league being is creative 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.960 with their building and with their space as uh as 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.480 the Dolphins have. And so congratulations to them for forgetting 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:24.040 all that done. They getting back to little football. John Um, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.840 you know, I'm I'm I'm popping up reading, you know, 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.840 like everyone else, reading everything I can read and this 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.320 and that, and all of a sudden you pops up 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:34.000 with Chris Sims talking about the top forty quarterbacks in 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.080 the in the National Football League going into the season, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.200 and and kind of I kind of was put kind 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.800 of set aside, step back a little bit when I 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.680 saw that he uh he ranked to a ton of 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:52.960 viola in the league in best quarterbacks. Now, you know, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.560 he kind of points to the injury situation, but injury 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:02.040 situation or not quarterback and leave John Guy's a fifth 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.640 pick in the draft, and quite frankly, had he not 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.160 been injured last year, he probably would have been the 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:09.560 first pick in the draft. How do you go from 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.000 that to have him? And I'm not gonna take any 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:18.800 shots at Chris Simms, you know, but yeah, that's a 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.640 pretty harsh prediction. I'm looking at the bottom of the 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:26.280 list and you have Dwayne Haskins and Mitchell Trabinsky and 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:31.800 Justin Herbert and ranked him. Yeah, Jason Hill, he's not 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.120 He's not ranked above him on our depth chart, and 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.520 yet he's above him on Chris Simms the top forty. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.520 So that tells you a little bit about the top four. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.120 I wouldn't I would venture to guess that, uh, that 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.600 during his career Chris Simms was swimming around number forty. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.640 Also on the on the list, I would go, well, 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.200 there was a lot of bodies around around forty, let's 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.240 put it that way, and I was probably one of 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.200 them myself. But to be honest with you, though, I 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.000 really liked the opportunity of two uh and what he 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.320 brings to to the roster because there's no urgency, and 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.120 I think the coaching staff is taking it upon themselves 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.320 in this mindset. If I could, if I could be 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.560 that fly on the wall, this is what I would 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.160 read into it. You have a quarterback that has been 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.719 built to be a franchise quarterback for his entire career, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.240 ever since he's picked up a football, and they go, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.680 this kid's got a chance to be pretty good, right 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.359 So you you build those that that system of leadership 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:37.040 and and the way your accountability and and making people 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.280 played beyond what they feel like they can be. This 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.040 guy has that gene, so he's gonna be able to 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.600 compete right away. And I think this coaching staff is 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.919 gonna take the opportunity to give him every opportunity, just 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.200 as they did Josh Rosen last year, and just as 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.399 they did Ryan Fitzpatrick last year. They're gonna throw them 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.000 all out there and say, whoever is the best guy 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.639 is gonna play because we want to win it. And 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.919 I don't care if it's to us. I don't care 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.000 if it's Josh, and I don't care if it's Ryan. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.600 One of you guys are gonna win the job. But 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.040 there's no urgency to push him to say, well, if 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.040 it's close, we should start to it because I don't 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.119 trust X Y or Z, you know, or we should 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.200 really start him because we drafted him fifth overall. If 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.560 he's the best guy, he's gonna play, and if he's not, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.760 he's gonna sit and learn. And he's gonna sit and 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:27.240 learn from a fifteen year veteran who's been in multiple 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:31.200 systems and that knows this system through playing five years 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.760 with Shane Gaily. So there's a lot of positives, but 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.440 I think that two has got the best opportunity, best 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.280 of both worlds. If he's the if he's the guy 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.160 that wins the job, he's gonna play, and if he's 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.479 healthy enough, he's gonna play. But if he's not, if 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.760 he doesn't win the job, it's going to be a 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:52.920 gradual progression to win the job, because ultimately, that's why 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.719 they draft him. He's going to play. Ultimately, it's just 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.679 the timing of when no question about that. And to me, 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.440 I mind, it's you know, the only thing that that 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:04.920 to me, that that's an issue with him at all 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.399 is his injury history, and and that that's it. I 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:10.919 like I said to me, in my mind, had he 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.520 not had. You know, even if he had that high 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:15.560 ankle sprain that he had prior to having the hip 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.280 injury and he finished, he still would have been, you know, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.040 either the first or second pick in the draft. He's 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.159 gonna be. He was gonna be that guy anyway. The 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.879 only reason eas Hel to the Dolphins at five was 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.440 because of the hip situation. And I clearly understand that 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.800 that that the thing that I that I kind of 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.119 looked at with a with a crooked eye when I 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.280 was reading the article about Chris Sims was him talking 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.320 about He mentioned the injury, and I'm buying into that. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.359 With that, I can go with that, But the disparity 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.119 between the athletes and he had in Alabama and the 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.200 ones he's gonna play with with the Dolphins. Now, you know, 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:56.000 if I'm if I'm you know, if I'm Devonte Parker, Uh, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:00.600 if I'm Jachim Grant, if I'm Might Dressing, if I'm 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:05.040 Preston Williams, if if if I'm any of those guys, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.720 you know, I gotta stick up my ask for Chris 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.679 Simms now because of that, you know, saying, oh, well, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:12.600 we don't have guys that are good as Alabama. Look 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.760 Alabama had some phenomenal receivers, certainly the two that came 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.880 out this year, we're incredible players. But but but let's 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.000 not let's not overlook guys that are already in the 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.160 NFL and have played in this league um as quality 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.399 players and and and use that as a reason that 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:36.320 to me is a little bit far fetched in my mind. Well, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.520 I think that it's it's not so much the talent 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.520 that to have played with. It was the talent he 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.399 played against on a weekly basis. Even though they're in 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:48.520 the SEC, they were by far the better group. You know, 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.760 maybe eleven out of thirteen times they lined up over 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:57.000 the last five years, four years, ten years, right, So 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.320 I think it's that that gap between the talent isn't 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.359 really on the offensive side. It was who they were 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.800 going against. And then you put that talent on offense 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.080 and line up on a weekly basis that was probably 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:14.359 scary for opposing college defenses. So I kind of agree 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.639 with you there. But I think the Dolphins quite frankly offensively, 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:22.560 have enough firepower on offense now to do some damage. 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.040 I think they line up pretty well compared to when 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.400 you look two years ago till last year to this year, 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:32.760 uh coming back healthy, if if Preston can come back healthy, 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.680 and I think if Wilson comes back healthy, which all 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.159 counts he should be. You add that to the firepower 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.800 that's already there and a new offense where you don't 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:46.320