WEBVTT - Drive Time: Odell Beckham Jr Interview 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.120 Two on the move, gLing deep, speedless, peas doing Hell. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:10.400 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.720 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:28.720 He's got my advands in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins? 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.080 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.640 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, he is here. He 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:38.400 is glorious in the building. He is Odell Beckham Junior, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.239 and we are talking to him on the podcast. Here, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.640 really fun interview. We'll also go ahead and play some 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.520 soundbites from his press conference with the South Florida Media. 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.239 We'll talk about playing with Tua joined the Miami Dolphins, 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.920 how he fits in this Miami offense, and so much more, 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.880 plus some additional schedule notes. And I'm gonna tell you 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.200 about playing against the best teams in the NFL at 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.440 home versus on the road, and why last year's Dolphins 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.920 is not a good example of what you can expect 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.120 going forward. All of that and more from the Baptist 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.240 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:12.600 The Draft Time Podcast. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:13.800 Maggie Daffy. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.720 First, let's cueue up. First here with my interview with 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.399 the great Odell Beckham Junior? 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:20.200 What is up? 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:20.680 Dolphins? 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.119 Welcome back into the Draft Time podcast. My new guest 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.040 today here is new Dolphins wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.880 Odell Welcome in man, Yes, I appreciate. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:28.360 So. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.440 First off, the suit looks great. I feel a little 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.240 bit underdressed being next year right here. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:36.200 Yeah, well just a little little blewis suit. The Miami 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.520 Vice had to go all white, right yehead? 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.000 I think I think Jayleen Ramsey had the exact same 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.120 Miami Vice white get up on his first day back 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:43.640 in Miami. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.880 Yeah, I'm upset, you know what I mean? Then I 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.760 feel like I look like him, and I always want 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.480 to look a little. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.720 Bit, if that makes sense. This is from the middle 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:52.280 aged dad catalog that I have here. If you want 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.880 to get into some of that, but I don't think 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.360 you do. Yeah, you're getting there, getting there. Let's go 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.280 ahead and start here with football though the Dolphins. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:01:59.800 Why why, Miami? Why do you want to come down 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:00.880 here and enjoy up his crew? 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.280 It honestly was God. When you follow him that, I 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.920 feel like no mistakes can really happen. And this year 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.760 it just it was the opportunity that kept presenting itself. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.280 It never left my mind, my thoughts or anything like that. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:20.400 And you know, I'm super excited about the opportunity. You know, 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.520 I got brothers here, like I said, Jalen Dug, a 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.119 couple of other guys on the team, and coach Mike 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.120 kind of sold me as far as when we were 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.000 speaking football, when you were speaking life and he was 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.960 speaking my career, it seemed like, you know, this is 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:34.920 absolutely the right. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:35.240 Place to be. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.800 I know, no two offenses in the NFL are the same, 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.440 but you had a lot of success in a similar 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.799 offense from Sean mcvagh with the Rams in twenty twenty one. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.400 At least there's some conceptual crossover there between him and 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.720 Mike McDaniel. Right, How excited you to play for Mike 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.160 McDaniel on this Dolphins offense? 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.720 Very Again, like I said, I think it was a 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.560 major of the decision sitting in the meetings in here, 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.520 in some of the verbiage and the plays and all 0:02:55.520 --> 0:03:00.640 that you could definitely LA was my favorite place that 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.919 I had been because of everything that I had been through, 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.799 and it reminded me how much I loved football, And. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.560 That's kind of what this is here. This is, you know, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:09.600 strictly football. 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.800 Obviously there's fun and all that, but the idea of 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.000 what that offense is and just being able to hear 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.720 that and see the concepts and do all that. 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:19.919 It's what got me most intrigued about coming here. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.000 When you think about an eleven personnel package that has Tyreek, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.280 Waddell and yourself and you guys can all kind of 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.120 play different positions, move across the formation. I'm curious, how 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.040 do you think that you guys having three game breakers 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:30.960 who can line up anywhere. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:32.720 How does that challenge a defense? In your mind? 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.880 I think it's just dangerous. You know, It's like you 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.040 got those two guys that everybody's gonna worry about, and 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:42.040 then you know, maybe one day everybody forgets about me. 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.120 I would absolutely love that. I'm catching passes wide open 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.880 and turning up and going crazy, and then you know, 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.000 you do that and it's like, all right, we got 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:51.680 to focus on that a little bit. And I mean, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.240 you can't forget about I mean, no, you won't, but 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.120 you definitely can't forget about ten and seventeen. They're you know, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.480 liable to score anytime they touched the ball, and not 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.120 even a minut the whole running backer, you know what 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:03.480 I mean. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.600 Like, it's just I've really seen an actual opportunity. 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.520 When I came here to be around a bunch of playmakers, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.040 bull gets spread around. It's just it seems like it'll 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.760 be something very hard to stop. And I think one 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.599 thing about coach. I always you know the old quote 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.560 they say, offense wins games, defense wins championships. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:21.640 I think Coach takes. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.599 It semi personal to to change that statement and be like, 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.760 you're gonna have to outscore us, and our defense is 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.839 gonna get stops, but you're gonna have to outscore us. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.120 And you know, it's always fun as an offensive player 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.599 to be in a high powered offense. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.240 Thirty points per game last year, hoping to get even 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.200 more this year with you in the fold there and 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.039 speaking of that, the quarterback that was behind all that 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.280 to a tongue, Bai Lowa posting video game stats the 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.400 last couple of years here in Miami, and when I 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.279 watch a lot of your big plays from your career, 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.240 it's a lot of similarities between what Reagan Waball have 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.279 done with their big plays. You know, go ball slams, 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.719 taken run after the catch, a lot of similarity there. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.320 How excited are you gout playing with two and how 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.960 he can kind of get the most out of your game. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.880 Absolutely again, you know, Coach Mike and I were talking 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.320 about that and he was he was just telling me 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.839 all about too, because you know, I've seen the numbers 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.800 and all that, but when you don't really get to 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.440 watch the film and see what they're doing, because when 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.359 you're in the season, you're watching out the team's defense, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.040 so you don't it's not much time for you to 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.360 tap in. But we sat up there and watched film 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.800 for an hour and a half and we were just 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.000 talking about, you know, the plays in my career and 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.680 how you're catching it run away and I'm watching all 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.600 the plays, you know, Water and Tyreeq, and it's it's 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.560 a lot of everything that's all timing, you know, like 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.960 real football, detailed stuff that happens catching the ball and 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:32.480 you know you're catching it out of your break, that's 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.120 when you have the most separation you catch it. Now, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.640 I'm catching it and I got two yards to run away, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.120 And you know, they were just telling me how accurate 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.719 he is, how good of a ball he throws. You know, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.279 all of those things so I'm super excited about it. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.839 I met him today, great person. Seems like his energy 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.560 is just infectious. Maybe we're supposed to catch around and 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.279 golf or get something to eat. So I'm just excited about, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.000 you know, the opportunity to get to know him and 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:00.280 be a part of his journey as well. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:01.920 Pretty good on the golf course, I have to ask him. 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.239 I'm obsessed with the game myself. 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.880 You know, I was all right, and then the ACL 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.680 and then you have to rebuild a second so you know, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.440 I've had the bug, but then I've been I've. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:11.479 Been stopped in my process. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.000 But I can swing them, you know, I just need to, 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.359 you know, have some more patience. 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:16.600 Yeah. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:17.960 Well, you're in a great place for a tons of 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.599 great courses down here, as I'm sure you will know. 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.640 I want to ask you about the McDaniel meanting, because 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.480 you talk about going up there and watching film with him. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.240 Is that kind of an uncommon visit compared to what 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:26.960 you've done in the past. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.440 Yeah, for sure, just for him to be able to 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.560 talk about football and to show me to like open 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:34.440 my eyes as to. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.760 Why he wanted me here, how you want to use me. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.720 It was excited you know, it was exciting. It was 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.919 exciting to see myself being able to see what's for coming. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.520 So that's kind of really how it all happened. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.159 I really enjoyed to hear you talk about kind of 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.359 the evolution of your not just your football career, but 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.320 you as a man over the course of a decade plus. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.680 The NFL and the Dolphins drafted a couple of rookie 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.440 receivers this year, so I was curious to ask you, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:00.960 as you look at the way you've evolved as a 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.600 man and a leader, just what the NFL has taught 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.760 you about your leadership and paying it forward to the 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:06.680 guys that come after you. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.320 Yeah, you know, for me, I kind of was forced 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.920 to become the leader at a very very young age. 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:12.920 You know, I was a rookie. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.240 The catch happens next thing, you know, you know, I 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.680 was I was only able to have Victor Cruz for 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.680 I think two years or so or something like that, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.720 or maybe a little bit more than that, but I 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.320 didn't really have much of the. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.680 Role model that was in a receiver room. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.200 So just being able to give what I've learned my 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.840 experience is, you know, never teaching them anything but giving 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.840 them your experiences so they can learn on their own. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.720 I know my role is important in that part, and 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.240 now that I've been in that place, it's kind of 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:45.080 something that I look forward to. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.000 I'm sure some of those guys grew up watching you and 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.360 tyreken Wet was probably pretty surreal for those guys to 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.160 come into a room with. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.360 Sometimes they you know, they killed me with that one 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:53.600 now I used to watch. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:55.880 Yeah, that hurts a little bit. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.800 Speaking of some of your past accomplishments, you were a 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.160 key part of a championship team just a couple. 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:01.440 Of years ago. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.240 I'm curious when you think about that and just being 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.160 again in the league for so long, what do you 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.440 think this team has in terms of their DNA for 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:08.600 a championship contender. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.480 You know, when you look at it, there was two 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.040 games away from first place last year before going up 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:18.360 to Baltimore. You know, if that game goes a different 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:20.760 way than you know, Dolphins get a first round by yea. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.040 The games are at home. You don't travel to KC 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.600 in a record freezing you know game, it's just a 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.800 different thing. So obviously I think it was first and 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.600 offense and scoring and the defense is what it is, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.880 and it just it just seems like this team is 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:37.880 is complete and they're in a place where they are 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.320 ready to compete for a championship, you know, So I'm 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:42.560 just excited to be a part of that. 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.480 Also heard you talk a little bit about coming back 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.360 off of the ACL after the Super Bowl when you 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.040 obviously had that defictiting injury and you don't play in 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.000 twenty twenty two. Then last year is your first time 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.360 back off the injury playing, I have to imagine a 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.800 full offseason of being full go. Is that kind of 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.079 a breath of fresh air for you? 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:58.120 It definitely is. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.560 And you know, even even last season after you know, 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:04.160 you're toured, you trained, and you got to the season 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.200 and it was just it was just really hard. And 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.960 then on top of that, I wasn't really playing, so 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:10.959 you're like, you're in and out. It's hard for you know, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.160 a receiver to get a flow. It's like a three 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.719 point shooter specialist. You know, if you don't get to 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.400 put up you know, two or three threes in a game, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.480 you know, he's not he's not. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.200 What he is. So it wasn't the easiest situation for 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:24.960 me there. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.120 But I feel like obviously I handled that well, and 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.800 just now being able to be in a place where 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.240 you're free and just be able to train. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.840 I'm excited about how my body feels. I don't really feel. 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.520 Like I'm in pain or anything at all right now, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.000 so I'm excited about that. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:39.240 Well. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.040 Like I said, Man, I really enjoyed watching your film, 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.400 even even last year with Riems. I thought it was 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:43.800 a lot of stuff on there that's going to translate 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:45.640 to the Dolphins, and a couple of those plays put 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:47.080 you in the end zone where you spike the football 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.040 and you do your dancing. So I think you are 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.160 one of the best in the league at that. But 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.720 the Dolphins last year, in my opinion, set the standard 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.120 for celebrations. What do you think about when you consider 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.760 a collaboration of Dolphins twenty twenty three celebrations and what 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.400 Odell Beckham brings to the end zone? 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.719 You know, like I said, like you said, I've been 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.520 doing it since my first touchdown. It's just kind of like, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.360 you know, I love dancing. I love having fun. It 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.480 was never to like gain more attention or this that. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.520 It was what is in my heart, you know what 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.200 I mean to cut up to have fun, Like that's 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.520 just where we're from like New Orleans. We just we 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.000 just kind of like that. We're just you know, loose energy, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.720 high energy people. But seeing the celebrations and even you know, 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.080 being on hard knocks and listening to them talk about it, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.640 you get excited about that because you think about all 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.520 the hard work and preparations that you put into it 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.760 just to score. In the NFL, I don't think people 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.920 actually comprehend that concept. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.040 You know. It's like, oh, yeah, you're supposed to score touchdowns, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:40.480 but it's. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.520 Like no, every every eleven people have to do the 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.640 right job just for the opportunity for a receiver to 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.680 catch up pass or running back to run, score whatever. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.440 It is so excited to be able to add some 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.720 ideas to the celebration station. 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.480 You know, I know that they've been holding it down 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.640 and it's just an exciting opportunity. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.719 Sounds like you really are all about being who you are, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.640 being yourself. You're gonna fit in really well here with 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.120 with this coach and this team. Magnet said what they're 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.160 all about here in South FLORTHA. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:08.000 So welcome in. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.880 Man Odell Beckham, junior new Dolphins wide receiver, Thanks Agiver 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:11.280 for joining us. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.400 Man appreciate it. Appreciate I mean, how good was that. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.160 Let's go ahead and pick it back up here with 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:20.560 OBJ and his introduction press conference with the Miami Dolphins, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.160 and we kick it off here with a question for 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.200 him about head coach Mike McDaniel, what you think his 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.160 offense can do. And yes, we did cover this briefly 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.040 in my interview with Odell, but come, let's go ahead 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:33.400 and play the audio at the press conference and him 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.080 talking about Mike McDaniel and that pre signing film session 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:39.199 with the head ball. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.320 Coach alive just watching the film just seeing what it is, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.120 it kind of reminds me of, uh, well, a place 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.640 where I had a lot of success. And as far 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.800 as the giants and timing and all of those things 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.840 that he talks about and preaches, it's just, you know, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.240 he was speaking football. We sat down for hours and 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.679 we was just talking football, and it just it just 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.280 got me excited thinking about it. You know, he pulled 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.800 up my film compared to what you know they're doing 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.839 here and just kind of you know, married the things 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.600 and I've seen an opportunity and I think Tom will 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.720 till in the end this is. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:14.360 The right decision. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:15.760 I say it all the time on the show, and 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.679 that's probably a bit of the ego inflation that happens 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.840 on the podcast here. But I mean, did I not 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.800 talk about exactly that on the podcast just last week 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.240 talking about the third down opportunities that I felt like 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.920 Miami missed on and had a vacancy in terms of 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.600 someone who could beat certain types of coverage and exploit 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.240 the space created by both Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.239 I just feel like there's nothing better than some vindication 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.600 from the PhD level experts who do this stuff. When 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.160 you're an amateur ding dong like myself trying to figure 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.280 out what's going on the football field. When you get 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.480 that confirmation, it feels pretty good. Let's go ahead and 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.360 move next here to probably my favorite answer from Odell 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.000 Beckham during his press conference with the media, because he 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.439 touched on this concept of being the number one receiver 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.600 or the number of targets you get. And we've heard 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.840 in the past about you know, will he be happy 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.920 with Baker Mayfield and Jarvis Landry and David Najoku and 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.440 all the weapons of the Cleveland Browns have. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.920 That's just not where he is. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.120 And you can get that from his interview with me, 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.240 and you can get it from his press conference here 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.160 with the media. Let's go ahead and hear him talk 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.440 about the competition in the receiver room and just the 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.000 balance of having so many stars within that room. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.240 I think you just all push each other, you know. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.520 And for me at this place in my life and 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.480 my career, you know, I haven't been the number one 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.320 in a minute. You could go look at targets, you 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.360 can go look at anything. It's not really that's not 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:46.040 really where I've been at. So just understanding your role 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.080 and how can you be the very best at that role, 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.680 maximize those opportunities, don't look for more or less, like 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.840 just stay within that you know, present moment, and I 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.040 think you'll find a way to succeed. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.960 We finish up here with the question that I think 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.320 is on everyone's mind, and it goes back to the 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.200 third down concept and the slot idea. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.280 And he hasn't played a ton in the slot. 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.680 He has, but I just think that this perspective, once 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.560 again understanding it's a different game from that position. Let's 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.200 go ahead and hear from Odell Beckham on his idea 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.360 of playing in the slot with both Reek and Waddle 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:15.920 on the perimeter. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.080 But again remember. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.360 Both Reek and Wadle can play inside too, and that's 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.840 the real value of Odell Beckham. It's easier to find 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.080 slot guys, it's not so easy to find guys that 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.200 can beat one on one coverage on the perimeter and 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.280 get vertical. That's what Odell Beckham does, and that alone 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.240 frees up in League Washington to do what he does 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:32.800 best in the slot. Let's go ahead and hear from 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.280 Odell Beckham. I'm playing multiple positions, but in particular the slot. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.080 I don't mind getting in there. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.440 I don't feel like I've actually had an opportunity to 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.280 play in the slot much, and it's just such a 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.040 different it's a different game in there. I've been very 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:53.280 much x by yourself, clouded, you know, decoy ish over there. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.760 And I think that you know, you got Jalen and Tyree, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.040 who guys are going to focus on so much that 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.600 there's room for, you know, opportunity. Like I said, when 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.800 I really sat down and watched the film and I 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.840 understood what Coach was talking about, I think I just 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.600 along with you know himself, I think I see something 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.880 that you know, other people aren't seeing. At the moment, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.760 and just like always, time will te. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:18.240 So there you go. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.800 Odell Beckham content in the books, we probably won't talk 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.920 about him much until OTA's come up we get a 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.280 chance to watch him on the football field, because we 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.760 have given you a lot about Odell Beckham. I do 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.240 believe it's a critical, critical signing to a team that 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.400 needed some depth at that position, and just an overall 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.680 great fit for the Dolphins in that spot. So very 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.800 fired up. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.040 right there. Come back on the other side and do 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.760 some more NFL schedule notes. That's next Draft Time podcast, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.360 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.480 I want to pivot back here to the NFL schedule 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.120 that came out on Wednesday night. I have some additional 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.080 notes about the Miami Dolphins, but also about the rest 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.680 of the NFL and the Wednesday podcas has comes out 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.000 right at eight o'clock, and so I had the show 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.720 preloaded and had a chance to rattle off the Dolphins 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.120 breakdown for you guys right at eight o'clock. But now 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.360 I've had a chance to digest some content and provide 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.040 further interesting notes about the rest of the league, how 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.320 it impacts the Dolphins games. And I also want to 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.040 take a look at the prime time schedule because that's 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.840 a very important thing for someone that works in the NFL. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.800 So the Dolphins have the second most mileage traveled on 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.720 their schedule, and they're the only team among the top 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.200 five without an international trip. So MIMMI making two trucks 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.720 of the West coast YEP, that'll do it. And I 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.000 already knew it's because of the Seattle JOHNT literally the 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.920 longest flight in the continental US. It will travel just 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.160 a hair under twenty six thousand miles and crossed sixteen 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.040