Speaker 1: Practice are alphics Patrick part touchdown? What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team? Wow? What is up? Dolphans And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and
Speaker 1: every day. How's it going everybody? It is Monday, it
Speaker 1: is Labor Day. I am Travis Wingfield, and I am
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And just because we are on a long weekend doesn't
Speaker 1: mean we don't have a show plenty of action to
Speaker 1: cover here. On today's show, it's game week, six days
Speaker 1: away from New England. We're gonna hear from coach and
Speaker 1: each of the coordinators, and Josh Bowyer, Danny Croftsman and
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey. Plus we'll get you caught up on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins roster, the death chart, the practice squad, Captain's, all
Speaker 1: of that and more on this Monday, September the seventh
Speaker 1: edition of the Drive Time Podcast. My ever, so did
Speaker 1: anybody else watch drag racing for two hours han Sunday?
Speaker 1: Luckily I was watching the heat and game for a
Speaker 1: tough loss in overtime to Littlewaukee Bucks. But the twa
Speaker 1: tongue of Bloa documentary that was supposed to err on
Speaker 1: Fox on Sunday. I had that recording on the dvr,
Speaker 1: so I didn't subject myself to alternative programming because of
Speaker 1: the weather delay. I think it was at drag Racing.
Speaker 1: But the documentary is set to air officially on Tuesday
Speaker 1: night on FS one, the same time as Hard Knocks
Speaker 1: at ten pm Eastern, So get the dvr fired up
Speaker 1: once again if you intend to watch that. And on
Speaker 1: that note, how is everybody's weekend? We had a busy
Speaker 1: one out here in Davy. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: a new trade acquisition in Lynn Bowden Jr. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about the roster in general, the practice squad,
Speaker 1: the depth chart, all the stuff we talked about in
Speaker 1: the lead. But since coach touched on a lot of
Speaker 1: those in his Monday morning presser, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: let him t s up here and we'll intervene for
Speaker 1: some further analysis as we do on the media portion
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime podcast. And first we start with coach
Speaker 1: Flora's announcing his starting quarterback for Sunday in New England. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is a good groundbreaking news. I think
Speaker 1: fits is gonna be the starter. You know, a year
Speaker 1: like this with limited uh no t is no mini camp,
Speaker 1: limited training camp were modified training camp, and just felt
Speaker 1: like that was the best decision for the team. Um,
Speaker 1: he's done a good job through the course of training
Speaker 1: camp and you'll be out there so that you have
Speaker 1: it the announcement we all kind of expected here coming
Speaker 1: in with Ryan Fitzpatrick as the starting quarterback. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if as much of an announcement. Fits finished the
Speaker 1: season last year after re entering the lineup from weeks
Speaker 1: six through seventeen with three thousand, two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six passing yards that was third best in the NFL,
Speaker 1: had the second most passing first downs in the NFL
Speaker 1: over that time as well, and was the tenth highest
Speaker 1: graded quarterback on Pro Football Focus over that course of time.
Speaker 1: To a tuggle by lower, the rookie will serve as
Speaker 1: his backup quarterbacks, so that your quarterback depth chart for
Speaker 1: now and up next. Coach was asked about the practice
Speaker 1: squad and how this year on that sixteen man practice squad,
Speaker 1: and of course the Dolphins do have seven team members
Speaker 1: on the practice squad because of the roster exemption for
Speaker 1: derv All. The now offensive lineman, as he's listed on
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins roster, making the switch from defensive line
Speaker 1: part of that International Pathway program. He has roster exemption,
Speaker 1: so he is the seventeenth man on the practice squad alphabetically.
Speaker 1: The first one is a recent acquisition and solve An
Speaker 1: Akhmed out of Washington the running back and up. Second
Speaker 1: on the practice squad list alphabetically is wide receiver Antonio Kallaway,
Speaker 1: and you might remember him from the NFL draft from
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. He was selected in the fourth round,
Speaker 1: number one oh five overall by the Cleveland Browns back
Speaker 1: in eighteen, and in that rookie season, he played in
Speaker 1: sixteen games, started eleven for the Browns, caught forty three
Speaker 1: passes for five hundred and eighty six yards, and scored
Speaker 1: five touchdowns with twenty seven first downs to boot on
Speaker 1: that I red call a long touchdown catch he had
Speaker 1: against the Saints from Tyrod Taylor in that game where
Speaker 1: he got on top of the coverage and pulled a
Speaker 1: really nice reception in in the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So Antonio Callaway, after a spring in the XFL, is
Speaker 1: now back in the NFL. On the Miami Dolphins practice squad.
Speaker 1: On the rest of the Dolphins practice squad, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have Nick co who also was not here for training camp.
Speaker 1: He was one of the Auburn defensive lineman you might
Speaker 1: recall that beastly Auburn defensive line with Derek Brown and
Speaker 1: Marlon Davidson and Nick co always getting constant pressure down
Speaker 1: there at Auburn pound defensive and joins the Dolphins now.
Speaker 1: Another newcomer on the practice squad is Brian Cole. He
Speaker 1: signs here by way of Mississippi State. Last year, entering
Speaker 1: his rookie season on the Dolphins practice squad. Here and
Speaker 1: the rest of the group were guys that were previously
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins. Matt Cole, the receiver out of McKendry,
Speaker 1: was here through training camp. Javarus Davis was here for
Speaker 1: a minute, was released and brought back now on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins practice squad. He too out of Auburn, so he
Speaker 1: teams back up with Noah Igbnogeny in that Dolphins secondary.
Speaker 1: Tay Hayes, the cornerback out of Appalachian State who played
Speaker 1: a little bit last year at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: is back on the practice squad. So is Nate Holly,
Speaker 1: the CFL signing. Last year's CFL Outstanding Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hubbard is back on the Dolphins practice squad after
Speaker 1: spending his training camp here in Miami. Was waived on
Speaker 1: Saturday and brought back on the practice squad. Kylan Johnson,
Speaker 1: the linebacker out of Pittsburgh. He was a transfer from Florida.
Speaker 1: He had all of his pass rushing productivity up in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh his final season there in college. He's back on
Speaker 1: the practice squad. So too is Benito Jones out of
Speaker 1: Old miss the big, beefy defensive tackle up in the front.
Speaker 1: He'll be back on the Dolphins practice squad. Wide receiver
Speaker 1: Kirk Merritt out of Arkansas State, he too was back.
Speaker 1: Chris Myrick was in the practice squad last year. He
Speaker 1: returns back to the Miami practice squad. We mentioned Dervall,
Speaker 1: the six ft four, three thirty pound guard, a massive,
Speaker 1: massive dude out of Brazil. He is back with that
Speaker 1: roster exemption status. Tyshan Render, the defensive end is here
Speaker 1: as well from Middle Tennessee State. He was competing in
Speaker 1: camp off the edge on the Dolphins defense, and some
Speaker 1: special teams as well. He returns to the Dolphins practice squad.
Speaker 1: Jake Rudoc, the quarterback we know him very well here
Speaker 1: in Miami. He returns back to the Dolphins practice squad
Speaker 1: to give Miami three quarterbacks in the building and cornerback
Speaker 1: Ken Webster, who had a couple of coffee here last
Speaker 1: season with the Dolphins playing some regular season games. He
Speaker 1: is back and on the Dolphins practice squad. So seventeen
Speaker 1: guys there, we've got a death charge to get too
Speaker 1: here real quick. Let's first go back to Brian Flores
Speaker 1: is Monday morning media availability when he talked about the
Speaker 1: two players that you can call up on game day
Speaker 1: to dress on game day off this practice squad list.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Flores on the team's approach when it comes
Speaker 1: to practice squad call ups once that rule is putting place,
Speaker 1: you know, within the c b A. It's something we
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, as a as a as a staff, myself,
Speaker 1: Chris Brandon, Marvin Um and the coaching staff. And man's
Speaker 1: an interesting uh you know that flex being able to
Speaker 1: flex up a practice squad player. It's something that you know,
Speaker 1: I think you know a number of teams are gonna use.
Speaker 1: We talked about it. We may use it as well,
Speaker 1: so we've we've had discussions. Uh, it was true the
Speaker 1: case by case, a week by week and a lot
Speaker 1: of it depends on the game plan. So we'll try
Speaker 1: to Uh, you know, i'll give it too much away here. Uh,
Speaker 1: We'll use it when we need it. Uh and if
Speaker 1: we don't, we won't use it. So again, that's two
Speaker 1: players that can be called up on game day to
Speaker 1: dress for game day. To take your roster from fifty
Speaker 1: three up to fifty guys. You still have to make
Speaker 1: inactives though, so the roster in the end doesn't allow
Speaker 1: you to activate every single player on the active roster
Speaker 1: for game day. Up next, Coach was asked about the
Speaker 1: usage and the decision to bring Lynn Bowden in. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins traded a fourth round pick and brought back a
Speaker 1: sixth round pick as well as the Raiders third round
Speaker 1: pick in this year's draft. In Lynn Bowden, junior out
Speaker 1: of Kentucky, played some receiver, played some quarterback there for
Speaker 1: the Wildcats. We'll talk more about Lynn Bowden here in
Speaker 1: just one second, but here's coach on the decision to
Speaker 1: get Bote in. Here he was also asked about the
Speaker 1: pairing of he and Malcolm Perry. Here's coach talking about
Speaker 1: all of that collectively with regards to the Lynn Bowden trade. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's two young players have a lot to learn. Um,
Speaker 1: haven't played in the National Football League, don't know the
Speaker 1: speed of the game. They've got a long way to go. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about both Lenning and Malcolm from the town standpoint. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, they're tougher, competitive guys. It's important to him
Speaker 1: as far as Lynn. You know, obviously we did a
Speaker 1: lot of work on him pre draft. When the trade
Speaker 1: was an option here, we did a lot more work. Uh.
Speaker 1: So we're we're excited about, you know, having him join
Speaker 1: our team. And once he gets here, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot that that that he's gonna happen. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna jump out there and start playing. Uh, he's gonna
Speaker 1: learn to know how we do things around here. Obviously
Speaker 1: a new environment. Uh, you know, he doesn't know where
Speaker 1: our facility is. He's not gonna know where to meeting
Speaker 1: meeting rooms are, the training room, the weight room. So
Speaker 1: he's got a lot to learn in a little bit
Speaker 1: of time. Uh. He's excited we're excited to have him. Um,
Speaker 1: we're excited to have Malcolo also, and you know a
Speaker 1: lot of guys in this really class look forward to
Speaker 1: to working with all the young guys and really everyone
Speaker 1: in his on his team. But this week obviously we're
Speaker 1: a lot then on the Patriots. UM, that's trying to
Speaker 1: have a laser focus on that, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: getting guys acclimated and trying to develop him is always
Speaker 1: at the forefront. I love that note. They're at the
Speaker 1: end about developing players and that always being at the
Speaker 1: forefront of their mind on this football team. You saw
Speaker 1: the activity on the roster throughout training camp bringing different guys,
Speaker 1: in bringing in these young players to get a look
Speaker 1: at and to see how they work out on the field,
Speaker 1: how they might fit into your program. And we saw
Speaker 1: that worked out for Javars Davis for instance, who comes
Speaker 1: back on the Dolphins practice squad. So we started that conversation.
Speaker 1: They're talking about Lynn Bowden, who was again acquired over
Speaker 1: the weekend for a fourth round draft pick, and in
Speaker 1: addition to the player coming over in the trade, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins also get a sixth round draft pick in return,
Speaker 1: so a swap of four and sixes to get Lynn Bowden,
Speaker 1: who was the Raiders third round draft pick this year
Speaker 1: out of Kentucky. Now, Lynn Bowden is a very interesting player.
Speaker 1: He spent three years as a receiver in Kentucky but
Speaker 1: wound up playing quarterback for the second half of the
Speaker 1: season last year for the Wildcats, and as a receiver
Speaker 1: he did catch a hundred and fourteen passes for hundred
Speaker 1: and three yards and six touchdowns. He entered the season
Speaker 1: on the bullet Na cough Watch List, which is the
Speaker 1: watch list for the best receiver in the country. Last
Speaker 1: year l S. Hughes Jamaar Chase captures that crown, but
Speaker 1: he entered the season on that watch list, so you
Speaker 1: get a feel for what he was thought of as
Speaker 1: a receiver in that regard. And how about his rushing
Speaker 1: statistics that were there when he was a receiver but
Speaker 1: definitely took off as a quarterback last season alone, carried
Speaker 1: the ball a hundred and eighty five times for fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight yards. That's an average of seven
Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry. He had thirteen touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the ground as well, So this guy can do a
Speaker 1: lot of things. They manufactured tons of touches for him
Speaker 1: in that Kentucky offense, even as a receiver, which he
Speaker 1: will be listed here in Miami as a receiver on
Speaker 1: the depth chart on the roster. But in college they
Speaker 1: found a way to manufacture touches for him because he
Speaker 1: did have an average of seven point seven yards after
Speaker 1: the catch as a receiver. So they got him the
Speaker 1: ball in space on slip screen, smoke screens, bubbles. They
Speaker 1: threw it to him short in the backfield on pop passes,
Speaker 1: little jet sweep actions, so he gets his hands on
Speaker 1: the football and makes plays in a variety of ways.
Speaker 1: He created seventeen miss tackles in eighteen, his last season
Speaker 1: as a full time receiver, seventeen miss tackles on sixty
Speaker 1: seven receptions, with again that seven point seven yards after
Speaker 1: the catch. Last season as a quarterback, he had a
Speaker 1: PFF rushing grade of eighty seven point two that was
Speaker 1: the highest in college football for non running backs. He
Speaker 1: also forced to point three missed tackles per rush, that
Speaker 1: was higher than most running backs in all of college football.
Speaker 1: He also won the Paul Horning Award, which is awarded
Speaker 1: the most versatile player in the country and all of
Speaker 1: college football. He was a consensus All American for the
Speaker 1: versatile spot, the kind of X factor spot they have
Speaker 1: on that list. He also won the Herald Leader Kentucky
Speaker 1: Sports Figure of the Year Award, which recognizes the I
Speaker 1: guess top name in the state of Kentucky, and last
Speaker 1: year he beat out John Morant and Lamar Jackson, the
Speaker 1: NFL m v P and the NBA Rookie of the
Speaker 1: Year for that award, So no joke there. He also
Speaker 1: set the single game SEC rushing record for a quarterback
Speaker 1: when he went for two eighty four on the ground
Speaker 1: against Louisville and again entered the season on the Blittna
Speaker 1: Cough Watch List. So Lynn Bowden Jr. Your newest Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins traded here, will play a receiver for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: coming out of Kentucky. Up next, coach was asked about
Speaker 1: some of the new guys on those defense that he
Speaker 1: has past relationships with, like Kyle van Neu for instance,
Speaker 1: and how he approaches coaching different players at this age
Speaker 1: of his career. Interesting answer here from coach talking about
Speaker 1: how much he loves coaching, the passion he asked for coaching.
Speaker 1: Here's coach, We're We're excited about Kyle. We're excited about
Speaker 1: a lot of guys on the team, offense, defense and
Speaker 1: special teams. Uh. You know, I think Kyle's history with
Speaker 1: me and history with the you know, the defense has
Speaker 1: been helpful, I would say in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: because you know, he and I have been been together
Speaker 1: so long. Uh, it's good for for other other guys
Speaker 1: to hear you know, I haven't changed, you know, coach guys,
Speaker 1: hard demanding. I'm still that way. Uh and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be that way. So UM, I think for for a
Speaker 1: lot of guys, it's you know macosa is yep, you
Speaker 1: know he's losing it, but you know he he'll get
Speaker 1: back here and give him five minutes. So I think
Speaker 1: that's that part of it's been been good. Um. And
Speaker 1: whether that's you know, Kyle or Landon. And I would
Speaker 1: say some of these the guys that were here a
Speaker 1: year ago, UM, they understand that too. Not that I
Speaker 1: lose it all the time, but um, you know I
Speaker 1: am I am you know, passionate about coaching, passionate about
Speaker 1: getting guys better. And it's it's it's something that you
Speaker 1: know I love coaching, so uh, it's it's it's great
Speaker 1: to have Kyle. Great to have you know Kyle, and
Speaker 1: really a lot of the other guys defensively, Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: got you out, you know, Bike, So all I'm excited about,
Speaker 1: you know, that group, and we gotta put put together
Speaker 1: a good week to play against a you know, a
Speaker 1: really good football team, and you know, I think we'll
Speaker 1: do that. I think there's a lot to pack in
Speaker 1: that answer. First, the the mention about the passion he
Speaker 1: has for coaching, and kind of laughing about the mentality
Speaker 1: he has within talking about when he loses it for
Speaker 1: five minutes and then kind of comes back. To have
Speaker 1: that balance on the roster and have a guy that
Speaker 1: knows the coach's personality and can help communicate to the
Speaker 1: rest of the roster along with guys that were here
Speaker 1: last year that know him as well. That just kind
Speaker 1: of helps everybody get on the same page. And I
Speaker 1: love coaches mentioned there about I don't lose it all
Speaker 1: the time, but you know, sometimes I'm passionate, and anybody
Speaker 1: that's passionate about anything can tell you this. I can
Speaker 1: tell you this that it can control you for maybe
Speaker 1: a few minutes. And I'm I'm the same way. If
Speaker 1: I get upset about something. Maybe it takes me five
Speaker 1: or six minutes. I tell my wife all time, let
Speaker 1: me just kind of separate for a second, give me
Speaker 1: five ten minutes. I'll come back and I'll get the
Speaker 1: emotion out of it, and then we're back at it
Speaker 1: with much more of a logical approach than an emotional approach.
Speaker 1: So it's it's cool to hear coach talk about his
Speaker 1: personality that way, how the guys receive it, how it's
Speaker 1: communicated across the rest of the roster. They're from players
Speaker 1: like Kyle van Noy, Like he mentioned, so good insight
Speaker 1: there into coaches person Nowady, how he loves to coach
Speaker 1: players hard. We've heard the demanding aspect of his personality,
Speaker 1: of his coaching style since he got here, and I
Speaker 1: think that really helps bring out the best in his players.
Speaker 1: And before we get to the Dolphins depth chart and
Speaker 1: coach talking about the I guess not so heavy importance
Speaker 1: of the depth chart because of all the different personnel groupings.
Speaker 1: We'll hear from coach on that here in just one second,
Speaker 1: But first, before that, your Miami Dolphins captains on offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and special teams. Players voted too on special teams Clayton
Speaker 1: Federal and Cabon Frasier. Three on offense fits r Fitzpatricks,
Speaker 1: Ted Terrris and Jesse Davis, and three on defense, Rob McCain,
Speaker 1: Calvin or any landon Robberts. So there you have eight
Speaker 1: captains on this Dolphins football team. Both the special teamers
Speaker 1: are newcomers and both are guys that have four years
Speaker 1: of experience. Both are guys that have made plenty of
Speaker 1: plays and tackles on special teams and guys that can
Speaker 1: play defense as well. In safety's Clayton federalum and Cavon
Speaker 1: Frazier On the defense of side one familiar face gets
Speaker 1: the captain nod once again, and Bobby McCain as he
Speaker 1: is entering your number six here in Miami, which of
Speaker 1: course makes him the longest tenured defender on this Dolphins defense. Also,
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy, Andy Land and Roberts, the two linebackers
Speaker 1: here in Miami, will be captains on this defense formerly
Speaker 1: with Brian Flores in New England. And on offense, three
Speaker 1: more captains. Ryan Fitzpatrick your quarterback, Jesse Davis the offensive
Speaker 1: tackle slash guard, and Ted Carrish your center slash guard.
Speaker 1: On the interior offensive line. Those three will be your
Speaker 1: captains this year on the Dolphins offense, So eight captains
Speaker 1: and total. Let's get back to coaches response about the
Speaker 1: depth chart, the importance of that depth chart, and how
Speaker 1: it's pretty much like we've talked about on this podcast
Speaker 1: so many times, kind of a flexible, fluid thing because
Speaker 1: you have different personnel groupings. There's no such thing as
Speaker 1: based defense anymore. There's all kinds of different subpackages on
Speaker 1: defense and on offense in this day's NFL, tons of substitutions.
Speaker 1: And with that coach, as he says here, you need
Speaker 1: more than just eleven guys on offense and defense. Of
Speaker 1: the depth chart, Yeah, we could take it or leave it.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys who are let's call it starters
Speaker 1: or guys who you know obviously had good training camps
Speaker 1: and show that, you know, from a consistency standpoint, from
Speaker 1: a technique fundamental standpoint, from a communication standpoint, ahead of
Speaker 1: some other guys. Again, that initial depth chart, you know,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take put too much too much into that. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's there's so many there's so many groupings. You know,
Speaker 1: what grouping are we talking about? What we're talking about
Speaker 1: to all personnel eleven personnel, twenty personnel, ten personnel, big nickel,
Speaker 1: a little nickel dime like got mean, So um, I'm
Speaker 1: not into the whole starters, you know, backups. I think
Speaker 1: you know, in football, you got eleven guys on the field,
Speaker 1: a lot of different groupings. I would say this year specifically,
Speaker 1: you know, with no preseason games, we're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of guys who are playing. You know, every rep counts,
Speaker 1: every snap count so I don't really put too much
Speaker 1: into hey, this guy's the starting this or the starting
Speaker 1: you know, right guard or left guard or defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure you guys will take a hard long,
Speaker 1: hard looking uh you know right about who's starting who's not.
Speaker 1: But I think it will see a lot of guys
Speaker 1: playing in a lot of different groups. Yep, you heard
Speaker 1: him rattle off some different packages there that include different players.
Speaker 1: That's why depth in this league is so important, in
Speaker 1: as this Dolphins team has demonstrated they will go out
Speaker 1: and try to improve the one through fifty three as
Speaker 1: much as they possibly can. Just a quick note on that,
Speaker 1: real quick You'll notice sometimes that a player might start
Speaker 1: a game like coach mentioned there with twelve personnel. For instance,
Speaker 1: if you open a game and twelve personnel, that means
Speaker 1: you're gonna have your first and second tight end on
Speaker 1: the field. But your second tight end might only play
Speaker 1: snaps in the game, but he still gets credit for
Speaker 1: the start over the receiver who might come on. For
Speaker 1: eleven personnel, where you have three receivers on the field,
Speaker 1: who plays forty five snaps, the tight end gets the
Speaker 1: start because he was on the field for the first place.
Speaker 1: So again, starters not that important of a distinction. Snap
Speaker 1: counts at the end of the day are what you're
Speaker 1: looking for. And on the topic of the depth chart,
Speaker 1: will circle back to that later in this podcast and
Speaker 1: at the latest on tomorrow's Drive Time podcast. Still not
Speaker 1: available at the time of recording right now, but what
Speaker 1: we do have is audio from the three coordinators and
Speaker 1: Chan Gailey, Josh Bowyer and Danny Croftsman. Let's first go
Speaker 1: ahead and here here here here from Chan Gailey on
Speaker 1: the decision to start Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: last year's play and this year's preparation and play uh
Speaker 1: played a lot into the decease very brief There no
Speaker 1: doubt we are going to hear back or circle back,
Speaker 1: and here from coach on Ryan Fitzpatrick here in just
Speaker 1: one moment. Next, he was asked about the difficulties of
Speaker 1: going to Foxboro and getting a victory. He says, it's
Speaker 1: all about the players. They got good players. Is one thing,
Speaker 1: uh that when you have good players, it's hard to win.
Speaker 1: I don't care if your homemorrow Way, but it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they want a bunch, they believe they can win,
Speaker 1: and you have to go fight your ear off to
Speaker 1: win up there. It's always been a tough place to play.
Speaker 1: But the good thing about it is it's the players
Speaker 1: on the field. They get to go, uh play the
Speaker 1: game and make the difference. Our crew went up there
Speaker 1: last year and one, so I think they have a
Speaker 1: great belief about what they're capable of doing. And up next,
Speaker 1: coach evaluates a receiver who didn't make the trip to
Speaker 1: Foxboro last year as he was injured and Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and how his campus progressed so far in your number
Speaker 1: two for the wide receiver. Yeah, um, some days he
Speaker 1: looked great and then the other days you could tell
Speaker 1: he wasn't a hundred percent. But there were more really
Speaker 1: good days than than the bad days, and we tried
Speaker 1: to rest him, and UM, I think he's I think
Speaker 1: he's in a good place going into the first ball game.
Speaker 1: And we'll stay on the past catcher topic here and
Speaker 1: talk about the tight ends the Dolphins have on the
Speaker 1: roster and the importance of finding balance among those two
Speaker 1: when you do go in twelve personnel or if you
Speaker 1: have one tight end on the field, the importance of
Speaker 1: having a guy that can both be a receiver and
Speaker 1: an inline blocker in Mike A. Sicki and Durham Smith
Speaker 1: and the improvements of those guys have made this offseason. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's very important. You don't want to get locked
Speaker 1: into one doing one thing with with guys like that,
Speaker 1: you have to show some versatility. So, um, you know
Speaker 1: a guy like Mike that's envisioned as a just a
Speaker 1: receiver and not a blocker. Uh, We've worked hard to
Speaker 1: help him get better as a bocker, and I think
Speaker 1: he's done that. And I think we've also done the
Speaker 1: same thing with Durham. We've we've worked hard with him
Speaker 1: to help his receiving and he's he's worked hard at it,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gotten better at it, so hopefully
Speaker 1: we've got balanced there more than people might think at
Speaker 1: this point. And as promised, here is the circle back
Speaker 1: talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick and what he means this offense
Speaker 1: and what Shangili thinks about him and a leader as
Speaker 1: a player and as a captain of this football team.
Speaker 1: His leadership is unbelievable. His understanding of the game is
Speaker 1: right up there with the best, um and he understands
Speaker 1: not only what we're trying to do, he understands what
Speaker 1: the defense is trying to do. And that gives any
Speaker 1: quarterback a leg up when they can do that. So uh,
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily that way our first year together in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: but he's gotten to the point, uh the last you know,
Speaker 1: six or seven years that that's um been a real
Speaker 1: asset for him. So um, his leadership. I think his
Speaker 1: accuracy as improved since we were together last and I
Speaker 1: think that his knowledge is great. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is he loves the game. He's a competitor. He wants
Speaker 1: to win, and you've got a competitory quarterback that goes
Speaker 1: along a I love chance perspective on these kind of
Speaker 1: things like this question here about will he be on
Speaker 1: the field or up in the booth as a coordinator.
Speaker 1: He says he's always been up in the booth for
Speaker 1: the calmness it provides being up high compared to being
Speaker 1: down the field. I've always when I when I hadn't
Speaker 1: been at a coach, when I was a coordinator, I've
Speaker 1: always been upstairs. The calmness of being able to think
Speaker 1: through the next series, of being able to look at
Speaker 1: the pictures and think about things without somebody coming up
Speaker 1: to you and telling you they were open on the
Speaker 1: last play, Why don't you give me the ball? You
Speaker 1: know all that stuff. Uh, it's it's great to just
Speaker 1: sit there and think about what how you need to
Speaker 1: go about beating the defense the next time out. Um,
Speaker 1: and you can spread out and and just have some
Speaker 1: calmness is what I like about. And finally here for chan,
Speaker 1: he tells us his favorite part about being a play
Speaker 1: caller and the desire to win on game day. You're
Speaker 1: in the business because you like to win. Everybody says
Speaker 1: they want to compete, but no, you want to win.
Speaker 1: That's what you're trying to do. Uh. You compete in
Speaker 1: order to be able to win. If you don't compete,
Speaker 1: you won't win. So, yes, you want to compete, but
Speaker 1: I love winning. And it may be winning a series, uh,
Speaker 1: it may be winning a half, but ultimately you're about
Speaker 1: winning the game. And the good thing about it is
Speaker 1: I try over the years realized the most important thing
Speaker 1: is at the end of the ball game to have
Speaker 1: one more point than the other guys. That's a successful day.
Speaker 1: Because if we if we go out and win fourteen,
Speaker 1: you guys will say how bad way on offense and right,
Speaker 1: but we won. If we win forty three, forty two,
Speaker 1: you'll talk about how great we were. But we want
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is to go win the game. And
Speaker 1: uh so, uh, I like winning. That's what That's what
Speaker 1: I enjoyed about play call and this winning. And I
Speaker 1: don't think I got all the answers, but I hopefully
Speaker 1: have enough to help us win. You and next we
Speaker 1: get Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer here on the podcast
Speaker 1: talking to the South Florida media. First, he was asked
Speaker 1: about the uncertainty of not just this season, but any
Speaker 1: year going into Week one where you don't maybe know
Speaker 1: what you have quite yet on the defense on the team,
Speaker 1: and how your best ball should come later in the year.
Speaker 1: Because you always should be improving. Well, I would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: going into any season, I think that's pretty accurate. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, you you work your way through training camp. Um,
Speaker 1: you try to do as many things you know as
Speaker 1: you can to get players ready. But you know, like
Speaker 1: I've said earlier, that the defense will evolve over time,
Speaker 1: and UM, you know, we're gonna try to put him
Speaker 1: in position to make plays and obviously it's gonna come
Speaker 1: down to execution and fundamentals. Um. You know, it's really
Speaker 1: an precedented experience this year because there there's no game
Speaker 1: action before we go out there, so you know, our
Speaker 1: focus has really been on fundamentals. Um, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think you know over time, you know, like the chemistry,
Speaker 1: the camaraderie, the fundamentals, the play, all of it will improve.
Speaker 1: Like we do. We don't look to be playing our
Speaker 1: best football in September. I mean, you know, week to
Speaker 1: week we're looking for improvements. So I think that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that there's gonna be a little bit of
Speaker 1: uh you know, we'll see and uh, but you know,
Speaker 1: our focuses on getting ready to go to go this
Speaker 1: week and go up there and get a win. Um,
Speaker 1: that's that's what our focus is, um, but yeah, there's
Speaker 1: definitely some unknown going into it. Up next, a question
Speaker 1: for Josh that brought back a really interesting answer and
Speaker 1: something I've covered on this podcast before. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite defensive game plans, and not just that it involved
Speaker 1: Brian Floores and Josh Boyer for that matter, just in
Speaker 1: football in general. Was the first half of the team
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game between the Patriots and the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes, who is by all accounts the toughest
Speaker 1: player to defend in the National Football League, because we've
Speaker 1: see what he can do off platform and throwing the
Speaker 1: football from different arm angles, different arms slots, and having
Speaker 1: accuracy and anticipation regardless of where his base and where
Speaker 1: his feet and where he sets up at. He's so
Speaker 1: difficult to defend that way because if you flush him
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, he's still just as dangerous doing
Speaker 1: that as he is surveying from inside the pocket. And
Speaker 1: so you had this plan that really kind of rushed contained,
Speaker 1: kept him in the pocket, and forced him to be
Speaker 1: stationary and beat you from there, which of course he
Speaker 1: still is capable of doing that, as we saw him
Speaker 1: do later in that game and get hot in the
Speaker 1: second half of that game. But the idea of having
Speaker 1: a defense that can rush or rather generate pressure from
Speaker 1: the scheme itself, based upon the matchups you create by
Speaker 1: sending different rushers, by making the blitz call or the
Speaker 1: blitz protection not clear for the quarterback and making confusion
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. Getting that pressure through the scheme, but
Speaker 1: also the ability to create one on one matchups in
Speaker 1: the pass rushing game to get pressure that way too.
Speaker 1: Here's Josh Boyer talking about how they want to generate
Speaker 1: pressure and how he thinks they get pressure on opposing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks this year on this Dolphins defense. Well, you know again,
Speaker 1: I think pressure, Um, it comes in a variety of forms. Um.
Speaker 1: Some of it will be individual effort. Uh. Some of
Speaker 1: it will be uh, you know, team team or in
Speaker 1: and scheme or in it. Um. But we'll take it
Speaker 1: anyway we can get it, um, you know. So like
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, ultimately I think all defense and you're
Speaker 1: trying to put pressure on the quarterback, I think they're
Speaker 1: trying to put pressure on the offensive line. I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you can do that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: by disguises, alignments, and sometimes you can do it by matchups. So,
Speaker 1: um and again you know we're working pretty hard to
Speaker 1: put our guys in a position to succeed. So and again, um,
Speaker 1: you know works it about Sunday, and you know we're
Speaker 1: looking forward to it and you know, and we'll kind
Speaker 1: of see what the results are there. And I was
Speaker 1: hoping coach would get a question about the captains as
Speaker 1: they were announced on Monday and Bobby McCain, Kyle Van
Speaker 1: noy Any, landing Roberts on his defense. Here is Josh
Speaker 1: Boyer talking about the defensive captains and the work of
Speaker 1: some other guys to really help facilitate workouts and camaraderie
Speaker 1: this offseason. Well, I would say with all three of
Speaker 1: our guys, Bobby, Kyle and the land and I think
Speaker 1: those are all three great candidates, which obviously you mentioned
Speaker 1: the players voted for those guys. Um, I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, all of our players, all of our coaches,
Speaker 1: you know, need to exhibit leadership, you know, on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. I think, uh, these guys have kind of
Speaker 1: stood out in some of those rules and um, you know,
Speaker 1: again everything has kind of been you know, they came
Speaker 1: in and the guys that were here, it was. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a welcoming event. Um for them when they're
Speaker 1: coming in and for the guys that were here. UM,
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, there's a lot of conversations
Speaker 1: between our players. Uh. You know, they worked hard and
Speaker 1: uh the spring when we weren't able to see him. Um,
Speaker 1: these guys, they reached out to many players on our
Speaker 1: defense and try to develop relationships that way. And I
Speaker 1: think ultimately it's gonna help us as a football team.
Speaker 1: And it says a lot about those three guys in particular,
Speaker 1: but there's there's many others. I mean, they can go
Speaker 1: got Chaw, Eric Rowe like, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that you know, took upon themselves to reach out to
Speaker 1: guys when you know everybody's kind of quarantined off with
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and you know, and they're trying to build
Speaker 1: those relationships. So and the same question that was posed
Speaker 1: to chan Gaily about being on the field or up
Speaker 1: in the booth has been answered here by coach Boyer.
Speaker 1: He'll be on the field. Here his here's his take
Speaker 1: rather on being down on the field to call plays
Speaker 1: on game day. Uh, yeah, I'll be down on the field, um,
Speaker 1: And I would say, um, I've probably got as good
Speaker 1: as you know school as anybody because for I don't
Speaker 1: know the past, whether it was Matt Patricia or uh flow. Um,
Speaker 1: I was basically up in the box and you know
Speaker 1: I was kind of going through the games with them
Speaker 1: as games were going on, I would say, from getting
Speaker 1: ready to call plays in the game. Um, like you said,
Speaker 1: and you watch a lot of film and you go
Speaker 1: through Okay, you know, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: you can manipulate the film to just give you okay
Speaker 1: down in distance personnel. You can create games, which we
Speaker 1: we've obviously done. I've said through there. You know there's
Speaker 1: there's guys on our defensive staff that have put those
Speaker 1: together and um, you know you go through it and
Speaker 1: call that way with you know what you think. You
Speaker 1: know New England's gonna do this week and stuff, and
Speaker 1: you know it's not all right, it's not all wrong,
Speaker 1: but you know it. Uh, it's it's just a way
Speaker 1: to prepare. And um, you know and all all all
Speaker 1: the guys that I've been around over the years, I
Speaker 1: know they've done that, and uh, that's that's just what
Speaker 1: how we kind of prepare. You'll go on film you'll
Speaker 1: make the calls and then you'll be like, you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: well this is something they could do in this situation.
Speaker 1: But again, like I said, you know, you know they
Speaker 1: have a new quarterback. Um, Um, you know there there
Speaker 1: can be a lot of unknowns out there, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll be prepared and ready to go and
Speaker 1: make sure that we're fundamentally sound on stuff. And like
Speaker 1: I said earlier when I was talking to you guys,
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be a lot of surprises in the
Speaker 1: calls that are coming out there are our players are
Speaker 1: gonna know what's getting called in certain situations, and you know,
Speaker 1: give them the ability to go out there and play fast.
Speaker 1: And again it's gonna go down to fundamentals, you know,
Speaker 1: getting off blocks and tackling. Um, you know, good eye
Speaker 1: discipline and coverage. All those things are gonna show up huge.
Speaker 1: I would say, like you know, the first month of
Speaker 1: the season, and we'll finish up here with coach and
Speaker 1: Danny Crossman, the special teams coordinator of your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: who kind of continue a theme here of questions about
Speaker 1: the uncertainty of game one in a strange offseason, but
Speaker 1: how it's always kind of unknown going into the first
Speaker 1: game of the regular season. Well, yeah, I think you're
Speaker 1: always going into the first game even after having played
Speaker 1: preseason games. You know, there's always the um you know
Speaker 1: that that ramping up of the regular season as compared
Speaker 1: to the preseason. Now you just add to it that
Speaker 1: we didn't even have those preseason games. But I think
Speaker 1: we've done a good job and how we've structured practice
Speaker 1: and how we worked obviously true game. Actually really don't
Speaker 1: know how guys are going to perform until they get
Speaker 1: in that situation. So uh, I like the way we've worked.
Speaker 1: I like the plan we've had. We have a good
Speaker 1: week of practice hopefully and see what we have on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Up next, Coach discusses the return position and who he
Speaker 1: likes in that spot, talking about Jachem Grant and the
Speaker 1: depth they have at the return spot. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: like I've said all through cam, we have a couple
Speaker 1: of guys that were very happy we have with Obviously,
Speaker 1: team has done a good job and had a lot
Speaker 1: of production this league, So we feel good about where
Speaker 1: we're at with our return situation, obviously involving and especially
Speaker 1: with Jaki and so that you have it the three
Speaker 1: Dolphins coordinators, Danny Croftsman, Josh Boyer, and Chan Gaily. We
Speaker 1: heard from Brian Flores I talked about a death chart.
Speaker 1: We do not have that just yet. We'll cover that
Speaker 1: on tomorrow's podcast as the Dolphins are back on the
Speaker 1: field for practice on Tuesday. Again, Tuesday also brings us
Speaker 1: the two a Tongue Byla documentary, the season finale of
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks. Wednesday always has one of my favorite shows
Speaker 1: of the year in America's game will be the story
Speaker 1: on the twenty nineteen Kansas City Chiefs, and then Thursday
Speaker 1: we've got football as the Chiefs and Texans will kick
Speaker 1: off in the season opener. The Dolphins will be on
Speaker 1: the field Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, go up to Boston
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and Sunday it is gonna be game day.
Speaker 1: So it's all coming to the pipeline here very very quickly.
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Speaker 1: the numbers on the field, preparing for each opponent, getting
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Speaker 1: This week we're gonna have Jay Fieedler on the podcast
Speaker 1: talking about the two thousand season finale in New England
Speaker 1: when the Dolphins won the Division one, the a f
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