Speaker 1: You'll keeping mc gary. Guys, what mrco Barry does Therothers
Speaker 1: first side show inside, he might take it. Lco Perry touchdown.
Speaker 1: This guy is too quick, Coach Kenny says, reach out.
Speaker 1: The best runner Navy's ever had. He went right through
Speaker 1: Elijah Y. What's up, Dolphans and welcome into a special
Speaker 1: edition of the Drive Time Podcast. We are going to
Speaker 1: be launching a series of comprehensive profiles on the rookie
Speaker 1: draft picks of your Miami Dolphins here on the official
Speaker 1: podcast network of your Miami Dolphins. We're gonna do that
Speaker 1: with interviews from people that know these players, the best coaches,
Speaker 1: family members. We wanted to get some testimonials on the
Speaker 1: newest Miami Dolphins and up first we start today with
Speaker 1: the Navy product, Malcolm Perry. We spoke to three coaches
Speaker 1: on the Navy staff who were more than willing to
Speaker 1: tell us about this very special young man. I had
Speaker 1: the pleasure of conducting exclusive interviews with offensive coordinator and
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach Ivan Jasper, run game coordinator and interior offensive
Speaker 1: line coach Ashley Ingram, and head coach ken Nia Mattalolo,
Speaker 1: as well as the man himself. Malcolm Perry. And that's
Speaker 1: where we'll start with Malcolm Perry and I'm thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined now here on the Drive Time Podcast by
Speaker 1: the first ever Miami Dolphin draft pick out of the
Speaker 1: Naval Academy. He is let's call him offensive Weapon, Malcolm Perry. Malcolm,
Speaker 1: thanks for jumping in, man, thanks for having me. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, it's good to hear from you again. Man.
Speaker 1: We haven't spoken since the day you were drafted in
Speaker 1: the interview there, So what have you been up to
Speaker 1: in the meantime? You're working out, staying in shape, and
Speaker 1: staying busy and staying active. Oh yeah, definitely. Um, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much all I'm doing now is working out, UM,
Speaker 1: staying in the playbook, and um doing a little fishing
Speaker 1: here in there. Fishing, that's that's a big theme with
Speaker 1: a lot of your teammates. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: if you had a Chane has to catch up with
Speaker 1: those guys on zoom calls and stuff. But have you
Speaker 1: guys discussed any possible fishing meetups when we're allowed to
Speaker 1: do that stuff again? Yeah, for sure. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about feasting, uh coming up here. When
Speaker 1: we're when we're able to, so looking forward to it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like that was maybe part of of of
Speaker 1: Chris Career and Brian flores a scouting notes was they
Speaker 1: gotta be FISHERMANX. I swear every single one of you
Speaker 1: guys mentioned your fishing. So we'll get more into stuff
Speaker 1: like that. The idea of this podcast, Malcolm is is
Speaker 1: to get to know Malcolm Perry the person a little
Speaker 1: bit better. So I want to just start in the
Speaker 1: very beginning, if we can. You grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Speaker 1: What was life like in Clarksville? Is a youth for you?
Speaker 1: It was good? Um, a lot of sports that sports
Speaker 1: is are big thing here in college Withoo Tennessee. Um.
Speaker 1: I grew with military parents, so um. I lived right
Speaker 1: outside of military base work camp, Kentucky. So um, A
Speaker 1: lot of military aspects to my lifestyle growing up as
Speaker 1: a kid. Um, even to this day, you see military
Speaker 1: aircraft flying over my house doing whatever doing they're doing
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So a lot of military influence
Speaker 1: and outdoors and sports was a big part of much older.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious because my forgive my ignorance here, but
Speaker 1: I always assumed that, you know, military kids hopped around
Speaker 1: a lot of army brats, right, Did that never happen
Speaker 1: for you? No, I never have. From me. So, I'm
Speaker 1: the youngest of six kids, so my older siblings moved
Speaker 1: around a lot. So I was born at the end
Speaker 1: of my parents career. So, um, I was lucky enough
Speaker 1: to stay in one place in my whole life. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's good though, And I think that's a good
Speaker 1: segue into our next question because your parents were both
Speaker 1: you know, Army cadets, and you obviously with the Navy,
Speaker 1: and where I'm from, Malcolm, we are basically the middle
Speaker 1: of Washington State is split between Cougars and Huskies Washington
Speaker 1: and Washington State, and I have to imagine that's somewhat
Speaker 1: amplified with the service academies, even though there's probably much
Speaker 1: more of a mutual respect there. I don't think we
Speaker 1: have that out here for Huskies and Cougars is probably
Speaker 1: more respectful for you guys. What was it like when
Speaker 1: you told your parents you wanted to play at Navy
Speaker 1: and go to Navy And was there some friendly trashed
Speaker 1: walk there? Uh? No, there was no friendly trash talk.
Speaker 1: A little bit on my dad's side. Um, I have
Speaker 1: to watch watch him a little bit close to my mom.
Speaker 1: But uh, they were all supportive of me going to
Speaker 1: the Naval Academy. Um, they were a big part of
Speaker 1: the process and helping me choose that. But h I say,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is the people that I grew up around,
Speaker 1: they're they're so tied into rooting for Army that I
Speaker 1: don't I don't really have a lot of I don't
Speaker 1: really talk to a lot of people going in the
Speaker 1: Army week um at the Naval Academy from back home
Speaker 1: because they're they're Army fans. So I'm good in my
Speaker 1: house with no my hometown during the week. Yes, the
Speaker 1: one week you guys kind of have to black all right,
Speaker 1: we're not friends this week exactly. I love it so,
Speaker 1: but now that you're not playing ball there anymore, do
Speaker 1: you think maybe that that rivalry kind of heightens back
Speaker 1: up because like, you know, you have you have your
Speaker 1: it's your alma mater. Now it's their alma mater. Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be like all right, now it's time to
Speaker 1: kind of house divided this thing. Um, it's still all
Speaker 1: it's still all Navy with me, So Um, I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be able to enjoy the robbery a little
Speaker 1: bit more now that I'm not you know, Dowt in
Speaker 1: focus trying to get ready for the game, so be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy it a little bit more. I have
Speaker 1: a living from more fun with it, um, and uh
Speaker 1: enjoy it and see the boys win. So it'll be
Speaker 1: fun definitely. And you mentioned that you played multiple sports
Speaker 1: or grew up playing sports in Clarksville. What were your
Speaker 1: other best sports? Basketball and baseball. I played a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball growing up when I was little. Um basketball,
Speaker 1: I never really got into baseball. It's pretty much just
Speaker 1: basketball and football. But I made the transition to football
Speaker 1: pretty young and I kind of left basketball behind. But
Speaker 1: I was always down to play whatever my friends were
Speaker 1: playing outside. So I was curious to ask you because,
Speaker 1: you know, for most athletes, and I was once an
Speaker 1: athlete and back in my my day, so to speak.
Speaker 1: And we always have this moment right where you realize
Speaker 1: the dream is over. And I'll just tell you a
Speaker 1: quick story that's kind of funny in my opinion. For
Speaker 1: my personal account, I played football from six to eighth
Speaker 1: grade and I enjoyed playing, but there was a moment
Speaker 1: early on my first practice where I knew that maybe
Speaker 1: this sport it wasn't gonna be for me. We had
Speaker 1: this drill where they put out four cones like into
Speaker 1: a square and you would shuffle, shuffle, shuffle karaoke, come
Speaker 1: back around the other cone, and when you came back
Speaker 1: around the other cone, the other kid would run and
Speaker 1: smack you in the middle of that little corner. And
Speaker 1: the first time I got hit, Malcolm, I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm I'm a basketball player. I'm a baseball player.
Speaker 1: So the reason I asked you this, what was there
Speaker 1: a moment in your football career or growing up as
Speaker 1: a kid where you knew, yeah, I've got some special
Speaker 1: ability here to be a really good player in high
Speaker 1: school and maybe into college and even into the pros. Um.
Speaker 1: I can't pinpoint a specific moment, but uh, I just
Speaker 1: remember being able to, you know, not get tackled a
Speaker 1: live play with my friends. I think, um, that was
Speaker 1: kind of what build build my confidence up going into
Speaker 1: the higher levels of football as a youth. So, um
Speaker 1: is being able to avoid getting tackled was was what
Speaker 1: I was good as a kid. You were probably everyone's
Speaker 1: least favorite person on the field with that game. What's
Speaker 1: it called tackle the guy with the ball? Whatever you
Speaker 1: call that game? Right? You played that, didn't you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For sure? Did you ever get tackled? Uh? Yeah? Here
Speaker 1: and there? Yeah, that's good stuff. We've got Malcolm Perry
Speaker 1: here on the Drivetime podcast. Malcolm, I want to borrow
Speaker 1: a question from one of my favorite podcasts, to Move
Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast, Daniel Jeremiah Bucky Brooks of NFL Media.
Speaker 1: They always like to ask young men like yourself about
Speaker 1: your greatest hardship and who is your biggest hero. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with your hero. Who is Malcolm
Speaker 1: Pero Malcolm Perry's hero? I'd have to say my father, UM.
Speaker 1: Just growing up as a kid looking up to him,
Speaker 1: how hard he worked, the sacrifices he made, and the
Speaker 1: way he went about um facing challenges head on. Stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So I think that's what I'm model mind
Speaker 1: leadership after UM and the way I want to leave
Speaker 1: my family in the future. So I definitely have to
Speaker 1: say my father. Are they gonna come watch you as
Speaker 1: a pro? Is there going to be a big Malcolm
Speaker 1: Perry contingency at Dolphins games? Now? Yeah? For sure, as
Speaker 1: many as many as you can make. Yeah, hopefully we
Speaker 1: can get plenty of them out there this year and
Speaker 1: twenty and beyond. So how about the question for the hardship,
Speaker 1: What was a big moment in your life that kind
Speaker 1: of some adversity you had to overcome. I definitely say
Speaker 1: the loss of my sister. I lost my sister. I
Speaker 1: want to say I was around eleven years old. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we're a pretty big family of family of
Speaker 1: six kids, and she was the oldest. Sol Um. Losing
Speaker 1: her was kind of a big shock to my family.
Speaker 1: It was kind of weird, seeing how it was my
Speaker 1: first experience with death, so um, seeing how the family reacted,
Speaker 1: my mother especially, Um, it was definitely a tough time
Speaker 1: for myself and my family for sure. What would you
Speaker 1: say that it taught you in terms of what you
Speaker 1: were as a person or as a character, Because I
Speaker 1: think that a lot of times we can take things
Speaker 1: like that, Malcolm, we can go one of two directions.
Speaker 1: It looks like you took the positive direction. Was there
Speaker 1: something that you overall just took away from the experience
Speaker 1: or learn from it? I think, just like anybody else
Speaker 1: who loses, anybody's us valuing the time that you have
Speaker 1: with your family members while they're there and appreciating them
Speaker 1: and all the time you with him for sure. Absolutely well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear about your lost Malcolm. It's that's terrible.
Speaker 1: It's uh glad. I'm glad that you guys were able
Speaker 1: to overcome that and move on and and live your
Speaker 1: lives for you know, for her. That's that's awesome to
Speaker 1: hear about. I want to make a tough transition here
Speaker 1: and get back into the football side of things, because
Speaker 1: you and I spoke a little bit off air, and
Speaker 1: you're wearing the Men of Ken shirt right now, and
Speaker 1: and what did you guys call coach Nia Mantalolo? Did
Speaker 1: I get that right? That's right, you got it. What
Speaker 1: did you guys call him on campus? Because I we talked,
Speaker 1: I joked about it off air. It took me about
Speaker 1: two hundred tries to get it right. What did you
Speaker 1: guys call him? On the football field? We call him
Speaker 1: coach Ni and my just coach Um. He's he does
Speaker 1: a good job in knowing that his name is pretty
Speaker 1: hard to pronounce, so he doesn't really task people were
Speaker 1: saying the whole thing. He goes by coach Ni, and
Speaker 1: so he makes it easy on the guys. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had a chance to meet him. We're gonna hear frohim
Speaker 1: on this podcast here in just a second. He was
Speaker 1: I was inspired by him, Malcolm. He was. He was
Speaker 1: an awesome guy to talk to. What is what are
Speaker 1: some of the things that you took away from Coach
Speaker 1: Ni and my um? Just being consistent, I think UM
Speaker 1: and having a genuine care for the people that he leaves.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably the best that I've ever seen
Speaker 1: doing in caring for the people that he that he leads,
Speaker 1: and coaching guys and actually having true emotions and he
Speaker 1: pours his heart into the game and it was on
Speaker 1: the field for sure. So he told me a story, Malcolm,
Speaker 1: about one time he was off campus during your guys
Speaker 1: off hours and which you guys don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of there at the Naval Academy because it's so orchestrated
Speaker 1: and so structured and and so business like. And he
Speaker 1: came back to campus expecting to see a ghost town,
Speaker 1: and it was for the most part, but then he
Speaker 1: saw you and a couple of your receivers out there
Speaker 1: running routes and he said that was when he realized
Speaker 1: he had a special player on his hands. What I mean,
Speaker 1: did you ever have a chance to get some fun
Speaker 1: in college or was it always business all the time?
Speaker 1: We have fun for sure, I mean especially during the
Speaker 1: off season. Um. But during the season, um, there wasn't
Speaker 1: time to get out and relax and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But during the offseason they do a good job at
Speaker 1: allowing us to get off and uh, I start feet
Speaker 1: a little bit. So you think that really prepared you
Speaker 1: for the next level, because I mean a full time
Speaker 1: job now that you're a professional, it's gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure like that amplified. Do you think that really
Speaker 1: prepared you for the next level? I sure hope. So
Speaker 1: I think you know the name of academy in itself,
Speaker 1: you can do a lot of tools with time management
Speaker 1: and stuff like that to be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: dill it in and take care of what you gotta
Speaker 1: take care of before you have fun. So I hope
Speaker 1: I will be carries over and I definitely do my
Speaker 1: best to make that happen. Can you tell us what
Speaker 1: a typical day is like for a student there Navy,
Speaker 1: for a student athlete who has to go to practice
Speaker 1: and prepare and and lift weights and watch film. What
Speaker 1: was the typical day like for you there? Uh so
Speaker 1: I was probably I'm waking up at six or six thirty,
Speaker 1: depending on the day. UM, get out of bed, make
Speaker 1: your bed, make sure your room straight, um, and I'll
Speaker 1: organized up to standard. Then you have morning quarters formation,
Speaker 1: so everybody goes out UM in front of their doors. UM,
Speaker 1: get information, accountability is taken, everybody makes sure everybody's there. UM,
Speaker 1: make sure your uniforms are straight. Go down to breakfast
Speaker 1: UM around seven seven fifteen. UM, go to class from
Speaker 1: seven five to around eleven, and you have lunch meetings.
Speaker 1: After lunch, do you have about thirty forty minutes of lunch.
Speaker 1: Go to meetings about twelve twelve fifteen. Then you're back
Speaker 1: to class from one to three I believe. UM. Then
Speaker 1: after class to the tape room, UM, to the get
Speaker 1: ready for practice. Then you practice from i'd say four
Speaker 1: to six UM. After practice treatment UM, treatment to about seven.
Speaker 1: Then you're eating eating dinner. UM. You probably get done
Speaker 1: with your day around eight, and then you're studying, are
Speaker 1: doing whatever homework you have from about eight to ten.
Speaker 1: And then add a eleven o'clock is tapped. So every
Speaker 1: night we have a piece of paper that we have
Speaker 1: to sign saying that we're on deck, we're in our rooms, um,
Speaker 1: and we're accounting for and then that process repeats itself
Speaker 1: throughout the whole week. When you got out of that structure,
Speaker 1: like for whatever, whether it was a break or now
Speaker 1: that you're you know, in your post college playing career,
Speaker 1: was it did you find yourself having like idle hands?
Speaker 1: Were you like looking for something to do because it's
Speaker 1: so regimented and so you know, every single minute you're
Speaker 1: doing something. Yeah, it's pretty weird to not have somebody
Speaker 1: you know, I always worried about where you are, what
Speaker 1: you're doing, and stuff like that. So, um, it's nice
Speaker 1: for sure, but it doesn't make you make you always
Speaker 1: think that you have something to do. Absolutely, it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, idle hands in the Douvil's playground. So it's
Speaker 1: it's always for me, especially this time of you know,
Speaker 1: in this time of our society right now, it's good
Speaker 1: to stay busy. So that's that's a good schedule for
Speaker 1: you there at the academy. Before that, in high school,
Speaker 1: coming in, I mean, you had to have had at
Speaker 1: least some expectations of what the expectation was of you,
Speaker 1: but when you got there was a kind of like
Speaker 1: a shell shock or a culture shock of how much,
Speaker 1: how much, how demanding it was. Yeah, for sure. So
Speaker 1: coming from my background with military kind of being there, um,
Speaker 1: I kind of expected for it to be a little
Speaker 1: easier than most guys. But UM, I don't think anything
Speaker 1: could prepare you for the culture shock that you get. Um.
Speaker 1: So I spent a year up in Rhode Island at
Speaker 1: the prep school for years, so um that's where I
Speaker 1: experienced most of the shell shock and the culture shock
Speaker 1: and the the homesickness and stuff like that. And UM,
Speaker 1: I think you get over a pretty quick and you
Speaker 1: you develop a bond with the guys that dropped there
Speaker 1: with us tighter than than anything I've ever experienced. So um,
Speaker 1: I've met some of my best friends there, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. You're got to go through it
Speaker 1: with someone else who kind of understands the struggle too,
Speaker 1: So that's definitely something to to rally around and bond around.
Speaker 1: And I want to ask you this question, Malcolm, because
Speaker 1: each of the three coaches we spoke to Coach Nia Matalolo,
Speaker 1: coach Ingram and coach Jasper all mentioned your first ever
Speaker 1: varsity game, and I'm sure it didn't go as you
Speaker 1: had and as far as how you got onto the
Speaker 1: football field. But that's sports in general, right, it always
Speaker 1: goes not according to plan. But your coaches all told
Speaker 1: me about it. They all referenced this kind of chaotic
Speaker 1: moment where they really were caught up in the buzz
Speaker 1: of the game when you were pulled out of the
Speaker 1: stands and onto the field because you were ill that
Speaker 1: week or had a stomach bug or something that kept
Speaker 1: you from being, you know, part of the active game
Speaker 1: day game plan to being an inactive quarterback up in
Speaker 1: the stands. But then they had a couple of injuries
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're in the lineup. I
Speaker 1: want to hear about that experience from your perspective. Ah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So heading into week one my freshman year, um I
Speaker 1: was kind of on the edge of being the three
Speaker 1: and the four. We had two seniors who we're gonna
Speaker 1: be our one and two starting quarterbacks, so um I
Speaker 1: was kind of on the edge of being three in
Speaker 1: the four and then going into the last week, head
Speaker 1: into the game of practice, I got extremely sick. So
Speaker 1: um I had to sit out a day or two. UM,
Speaker 1: and kind of mispractice those two days and kind of
Speaker 1: made myself before pretty much. And uh, I think that Friday,
Speaker 1: I played in the JV game at our stadium. Um,
Speaker 1: so that was my first experience of maybe football was
Speaker 1: playing in the j V game that Friday. And then
Speaker 1: the next day, um, that's Saturday. Um I was able
Speaker 1: to go to the tailgate UM with the rest of
Speaker 1: the guys who weren't playing that week and enjoy the
Speaker 1: pregame festivities. And then the team came in the stadium,
Speaker 1: watching warm up and everything, and the game just going on.
Speaker 1: Sitting down were some of my friends. I think I
Speaker 1: was eating Twizzlers and uh just enjoying the game. And
Speaker 1: uh I saw our starting quarterback went down and they
Speaker 1: seemed pretty serious. So, um I knew that. Uh so
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it was will Worth. He went in.
Speaker 1: He ended up being our starting quarterback for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. But um, they we were up, you know,
Speaker 1: a considerable amount. You know, we had pretty much won
Speaker 1: the game. So um, they ran up in the stands.
Speaker 1: One of the manager ran up in the stands. He's
Speaker 1: screaming my name and he's yelling for me, and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I hear him, so I'm kind of scared, like
Speaker 1: what did I do? Um? And he tells me to
Speaker 1: come with him. So I walk down the stands, um
Speaker 1: through all the fans, get on the field, walk in
Speaker 1: the walk in the locker room and I'm in my
Speaker 1: I'm in a full uniform right now. Um. I get
Speaker 1: to locker room, I still don't know what's going on,
Speaker 1: and he tells me that they're going to get my
Speaker 1: stuff and I'll be playing for this. I'll be dressing
Speaker 1: out for the second half. So at that point I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't expect to get in the game,
Speaker 1: but um, a couple of plays later into the second half,
Speaker 1: they threw me in there and I got to play
Speaker 1: a little bit. So it was fun. So now, do
Speaker 1: you have to have Twizzlers for every game? Is that
Speaker 1: part of the ritual? Now? No? Not at the twizzlers
Speaker 1: are gone and that would like shut my body down
Speaker 1: to right, I probably couldn't even move, So good on
Speaker 1: you for for having production with Twizzlers in your digestive system. There.
Speaker 1: So one more question for you about the about Navy
Speaker 1: they I just saw the other day that they're moving
Speaker 1: the Notre Dame Navy game to Annapolis this year. That's
Speaker 1: the first time ever. Right, Yeah, that's a pretty big deal. Yah,
Speaker 1: that's huge that I think that that will probably be
Speaker 1: um if if coronavirus was gone, that would definitely be
Speaker 1: the biggest game at Navy Marine Corpimora Stadium ever, for sure.
Speaker 1: I think that would be the craziest environment um that
Speaker 1: stadium has ever seen. But um, that would be interesting
Speaker 1: to see, for sure. That's awesome to see. I love
Speaker 1: watching the Navy Army game every year, which we know
Speaker 1: by now you definitely made your mark on that game
Speaker 1: last time around with some records in that game. A
Speaker 1: couple of questions before I get you out of here, Malcolm,
Speaker 1: I want to know about more leisure activities, not eating
Speaker 1: twizzlers in the stands. What do you do whether it's
Speaker 1: inside with like watching Netflix, playing video games? What's your
Speaker 1: leisure activity when you're inside and when you're outdoors out
Speaker 1: with your friends doing stuff when I'm inside, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not how much of a Netflix watch. I just recently
Speaker 1: started watching Outer Banks. Um, you know, I don't. I
Speaker 1: haven't really had a lot of time to get into Netflix.
Speaker 1: But I'm also not a video game player. I usually
Speaker 1: watch YouTube videos, which everybody thinks he's kind of weird,
Speaker 1: but um, I'm probably watching the YouTube video about something random, um,
Speaker 1: learning how to fix something, or fishing or something like that.
Speaker 1: Um that's my inside activity if I'm not nappy. Um,
Speaker 1: outside is definitely fishing. Yeah, that was kind of a layup,
Speaker 1: but hey, at least in South Florida, you'll have really
Speaker 1: good fishing down here out in open water. Anyway, Malcolm,
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time today, man, it was It was
Speaker 1: good to get to know you a little bit here
Speaker 1: and we'll hopefully we see it here very soon for
Speaker 1: training camping and get to work on the football field.
Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, Yes, sir, thank you. So there he
Speaker 1: goes Malcolm Perry, Dolphins seventh round draft pick. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead now and spend things forward to my interview with
Speaker 1: Navy head coach Ken Nia mat Lolo. Alright, coach coach,
Speaker 1: welcome into the podcast here, and first I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and just congratulate you on the eleven wins
Speaker 1: season and a bull victory and of course beating Army
Speaker 1: and in that Army game, the Dolphins seventh round draft pick.
Speaker 1: He had quite a day, didn't He played phenomenal Malcolm.
Speaker 1: I mean he basically offensively, you know, put our team
Speaker 1: on his back, and he heared as the victory. I mean,
Speaker 1: he rushed for three hundred yards, you know, a record
Speaker 1: in that game. And they've been playing that game for
Speaker 1: over a century, you know, and there's been some pretty
Speaker 1: good football players playing that game. But he he was spectacular.
Speaker 1: And we talked to coach Ingram earlier today and he
Speaker 1: was talking about how you guys had these landmarks that
Speaker 1: you were getting closer to, like the Army Navy rushing record,
Speaker 1: the games, the game's record, and then once he broke
Speaker 1: that he had such a big run that he was
Speaker 1: getting close to three hundred yards. So you just kept
Speaker 1: going back to the well and that guy just kind
Speaker 1: of seems to always exceed expectations, right Yeah. And you
Speaker 1: know it wasn't so later on that we heard you know,
Speaker 1: some of the records is actually the last drive and um,
Speaker 1: you know, the game was in hand and we're actually
Speaker 1: trying to run out the clouds too, so everything played
Speaker 1: into came into playing just um, you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying of whether any seemed to arm or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but just turning to run up the clock, get the
Speaker 1: ball to baseball carryer. And you know, I would have
Speaker 1: been fine if you'd got one, one or two yards
Speaker 1: and ate up the whole clock and you know, and
Speaker 1: and use all the time. But he kept having these
Speaker 1: long runs and he ran for a touchdown like okay,
Speaker 1: you know, we weren't going to take a knee, but
Speaker 1: he just kept running and around. He like, okay, keep yeah,
Speaker 1: just you're just gonna keep producing. That's what he does.
Speaker 1: That's what he did. I think I wrote a stat
Speaker 1: it was like sixty five runs of ten yards or
Speaker 1: more or last season, obviously en route to two thousand
Speaker 1: rushing yards. And I wanted to go back to an
Speaker 1: article I found Coach that was I want to say,
Speaker 1: it was you talking to him after the Army Navy
Speaker 1: game the previous year, when maybe there was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a lack of conviction to go to him
Speaker 1: as the full time quarterback, and you approached him and said,
Speaker 1: you know, that was a mistake that I made and
Speaker 1: next year, we're not going to do that. And he
Speaker 1: was really receptive to it. Can you tell us about
Speaker 1: how that conversation, like I went down, well, I think
Speaker 1: you know, nobody was happy with the the year that
Speaker 1: we had two years ago. Uh, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: used to that. And you know, before I could look
Speaker 1: at any other moves with our staff or personnel or
Speaker 1: strategy or scheme or whatever the case, maybe I had
Speaker 1: to look at myself. And as I looked at myself,
Speaker 1: I recognized that I made a huge mistake and not
Speaker 1: give him Malcolm the keys. You know, we kind of
Speaker 1: went back and forward and moved to the quarterbacks. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a knock on In and other quarterbacks, but you know,
Speaker 1: I started to think, Um, if you're the quarterback and
Speaker 1: and you're getting pulled or you're getting moved, there's a
Speaker 1: thought that hey, I might have to move back to
Speaker 1: slot back. It's hard to be the leader and the
Speaker 1: quarterback has to be the leader. And so he just
Speaker 1: told him, Hey, we made a mistake. A big part
Speaker 1: of why we were not successful last year because we
Speaker 1: didn't you know, we didn't put all of them are
Speaker 1: marvels in and all of our eggs in one basket.
Speaker 1: And Tom, we're gonna write you welcome your quarterback. Get Ready,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put our scheme uh together. They will fit
Speaker 1: all of your skill set. But you're we're gonna write
Speaker 1: you you know, good or bad, whatever happens. And he
Speaker 1: just wants you to know that. And he took the
Speaker 1: ball from there and ran and we had him on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast, our official Miami Dolphins podcast here right
Speaker 1: after he was drafted and coach, you know this as
Speaker 1: well as anybody, very soft spoken young man. We couldn't
Speaker 1: get much out of him. That's why we wanted to
Speaker 1: get a couple of coaches onto to kind of brag
Speaker 1: about our new quarterback, running back receiver kind of does
Speaker 1: everything for you guys there. I'm curious to get your
Speaker 1: take on the way his leadership acumen was because he
Speaker 1: everyone lauds him for it, but being a quiet guy
Speaker 1: leading by example, how did he get guys to really
Speaker 1: rally around him and really follow his lead? I think
Speaker 1: you know when you're somebody, when you're the best player
Speaker 1: on the team. And then he watched him work, and
Speaker 1: he's so the hardest worker. It's hard not for everybody
Speaker 1: else to elevate their level of preparation. And I used
Speaker 1: to marvel at him too, because even going into last year, Um,
Speaker 1: and here's the guy that's you know, was a back
Speaker 1: to back thousand yard rusher. And I'm just think of
Speaker 1: my mind, Okay, how many guys are getting ready to
Speaker 1: play college football to the back to back thousand yard rushers.
Speaker 1: But you'd see him in team meetings, you'd see him
Speaker 1: out of practice. Um. I mean he never cared himself
Speaker 1: like this star or Prima Donna. You know, he kind
Speaker 1: of walked around like, you know, like wow, uh, here's
Speaker 1: the guy's a young freshman trying to make the team
Speaker 1: or something. You know, just very impressed with his humility.
Speaker 1: And I know the guys recognized that too. They knew,
Speaker 1: they knew how good he was. They saw him for
Speaker 1: two years. They saw the great things he did. I
Speaker 1: mean even his frestman or he did a lot of
Speaker 1: great things. Were playing full time those two years, he
Speaker 1: did so many spectacular things. And they saw how he
Speaker 1: worked in all season. Um, you couldn't help as a teammate,
Speaker 1: but just to um, you know, love your ear, Malcolm
Speaker 1: for leader did live by example. Um. He was just
Speaker 1: one of the guys, and I think guys appreciated that. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes guys talk a lot, but they don't
Speaker 1: produce anything some guys. Sometimes guys don't say much, but
Speaker 1: produce a lot. And that was Malcolm. Yeah, definitely evident
Speaker 1: by his statistics over the last season, two thousand rushing yards,
Speaker 1: a a C Conference Player of the Year, and coach
Speaker 1: Jasper talked about his willingness to do just do everything
Speaker 1: and how much he loved practice and being on the
Speaker 1: football field. And then we had coach ingram On talking
Speaker 1: about how he was taking twenty one credits last semester
Speaker 1: as he was preparing for the NFL Draft. And I'm
Speaker 1: curious to get your take on this coach, because you know,
Speaker 1: in the NFL and college whatever it is, you have
Speaker 1: your position group meeting rooms and this guy is playing
Speaker 1: three four positions. How much extra time did he have
Speaker 1: to put in to get himself ready for game day? Well,
Speaker 1: he did a lot. I remember, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: one time and summer just coming back and went in
Speaker 1: the office and it was kind of an awful our time.
Speaker 1: You know. I just said, when you speak anybody think
Speaker 1: anybody would be around the academy. Fact that the academy
Speaker 1: was it was a ghost town. There's nobody around, but
Speaker 1: dare I saw Malcolm was a couple of receivers. They're
Speaker 1: coming off the field, you know, and there at the
Speaker 1: ball in hand, and guys, what have you guys been doing?
Speaker 1: So we've just been throwing some routes, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It just and I was like, I knew
Speaker 1: then when I saw that we had a we had
Speaker 1: a chance, that this was our Here was our best player,
Speaker 1: you know, to grab a couple of other white outs
Speaker 1: on his own accord when everybody else is gone. You know,
Speaker 1: the academy is a tough place. And so if you
Speaker 1: got some freedom, some some free time and you're allowed
Speaker 1: to leave the yard or the academy, guys are out
Speaker 1: of here. They're they're gonna go out, they're gonna leave.
Speaker 1: And here he was stayed and and he worked. It
Speaker 1: was working out, and I was like, Wow, this guy
Speaker 1: really means business. Uh, he's really excited about about doing this. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's it's like I said, it's been an alcome.
Speaker 1: It's it's been who he's been as coach. Jasper said,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a guy that loves to
Speaker 1: work out. Um. But he's a competitive guy too. He's
Speaker 1: super competitive. And I know that he there was an
Speaker 1: inner drive. And I think all the great ones you
Speaker 1: see all their physical skills, but then it's the mental
Speaker 1: part that I think that separates people just how bad
Speaker 1: they want, and those are always hard because you can't
Speaker 1: gauge that, and all you can gauge it on is
Speaker 1: the work ethic. How they prepare, you know, and how
Speaker 1: they do things. Um, it's like you said, just getting ready,
Speaker 1: you know, for the draft or a combine. I kind
Speaker 1: of chuckled a little bit because you know, all these
Speaker 1: other guys are at camps have individual trainers. I mean
Speaker 1: he's coming from class. In fact, one day he's you know,
Speaker 1: he was setting up we're we're getting ready to run
Speaker 1: the returning players for our workout. And he is on
Speaker 1: the field before they guys got there, sitting but juggs
Speaker 1: machines with jug machines we can catch balls, and and
Speaker 1: he's asked, what do you doing? He's got to catch
Speaker 1: some balls, and and he was waiting for another teammate
Speaker 1: to come put the balls in the jug machine. And
Speaker 1: where he's at, So he's not here, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm here. I am. I'm helping them get you know,
Speaker 1: I'm putting the balls and the jug machine for him.
Speaker 1: But I'm thinking, well, here's the guy having to do
Speaker 1: things on his own. What other guys are you know,
Speaker 1: got personal trainers. And I just remember to watching the
Speaker 1: comby watching guys get down. You know, they'd say their
Speaker 1: name and uh, it took them a while to get
Speaker 1: on starting block. They got this routine and you could
Speaker 1: tell that they've been preparing for that for months and
Speaker 1: that's all they've been doing it, Like Malcolm Pare and Malcolm,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little thing get down and starts
Speaker 1: to run, and you know, just he definitely didn't have
Speaker 1: the preparation times with the other guys, who are most
Speaker 1: of them not in school. But here's Malcolm carrying a
Speaker 1: full load and trying to work out in his off time.
Speaker 1: You know, his he was kind of hazy to me,
Speaker 1: kind of funny. I felt for the kid, like he's
Speaker 1: going against guys that have been training for four months
Speaker 1: and you know he's he's still going to class every day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you see the times we'd come back at less
Speaker 1: something like four or six. Coach, I watch him on
Speaker 1: the field, that's he's not a four six guy, is he? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I know just and I think the other
Speaker 1: thing that you have to take an account to is
Speaker 1: just you know, we played late, you know with our
Speaker 1: late army. Our Army game obviously is the latest game,
Speaker 1: any regular season game. So we played all the ways
Speaker 1: to the second week of December. And you know, he's
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You know, all quarterbacks take a take a pony,
Speaker 1: but an option quarterback takes a ton. And he carried
Speaker 1: the ball a ton this year, you know, so the
Speaker 1: rush you know, going into that game or whatever, he
Speaker 1: had eighteen hounds yards or whatever or seven he had
Speaker 1: a ton of yards prior to that, and he was
Speaker 1: beat up going into that game. Uh So he's you know,
Speaker 1: the effects of the season of a guy that we
Speaker 1: gave all the ball all the time. You know, there's
Speaker 1: been some comps. Can he really be able to handle it?
Speaker 1: I mean, he was an option quarterback at a hundred
Speaker 1: and nine pounds, you know, for a full season candal load,
Speaker 1: and he played you know, thirteen games, so he was
Speaker 1: still beat up. I've seen him run away from guys
Speaker 1: from you know, Notre Dame, Central Florida, s MBU, Houston
Speaker 1: and all these guys that I see they get drafted
Speaker 1: from different places are you know malcos run away from Temple.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the one guy that's we've had that
Speaker 1: we haven't had slotback like him before running back. Then
Speaker 1: when he breaks, he goes. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: times we get caught and then we have to you know,
Speaker 1: line up on the tan or something like that. But
Speaker 1: Malcolm's run away from everybody. Yeah, the Army game, I
Speaker 1: think it was the first touchdown. He he did not
Speaker 1: have anything close to an angle and he just completely
Speaker 1: erased the angle the defender did have on him and
Speaker 1: just raced right into the when you get the scoring
Speaker 1: started there. Then you go to the Shrine Bowl and
Speaker 1: you talk about how he runs away from these other
Speaker 1: kids that are getting drafted higher and kids that are
Speaker 1: having these forty times that are times better and he
Speaker 1: gets he gets one chance at a carry in the
Speaker 1: Shrine Game, and what does he do besides take a
Speaker 1: fifty yards into the end zone for a touchdown. Definitely,
Speaker 1: just just a special kid. And talk about his maturity
Speaker 1: and the discipline that you have to have to to
Speaker 1: do the stuff that you mentioned, and you you wonder
Speaker 1: how much of that comes from his family and his parents.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious to ask you, coach, he had two
Speaker 1: parents that both went to army, how do you get
Speaker 1: him over to navy? Um, coach herem you know was
Speaker 1: a are the best recruit in our staff? Uh? These
Speaker 1: are cretic Keenan Reynolds obviously Malcolm to the best football
Speaker 1: players and many others that comes to the academy. But
Speaker 1: Cosino did a great job. Um. I think when he
Speaker 1: came on his business, you know, like you said, he's
Speaker 1: got wonderful parents, both of them served in the army
Speaker 1: and you know, great people. But I think coming to
Speaker 1: our school and I think the things that resonated with
Speaker 1: him family, Uh, unity, you know, we got a brotherhood
Speaker 1: that loves each other. You know, so much of stuff now, Travis,
Speaker 1: and recruiting is about you know, the bells and whistles
Speaker 1: of gold lockers and you know, gold plated weight rooms
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean just things like that. And
Speaker 1: I think he saw few all of that stuff. He
Speaker 1: came and saw the tight unity of a family, and
Speaker 1: I think that resonated with him, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think it he saw that who we were and I
Speaker 1: think he felt very very comfortable at our at our school. Um.
Speaker 1: But that's you know, that's kind of been him. He's
Speaker 1: been a humble kids from the beginning. You know, even
Speaker 1: after the Army Navy game, you know, we're waiting on him.
Speaker 1: He took forever to get back in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, talking to some people. Malcolm
Speaker 1: was outside to shake the people's hands and you know,
Speaker 1: signing autographs, you know, not from both full stay, but
Speaker 1: just want to standpoint of just being um, I didn't
Speaker 1: want to let anybody down. And I just think it
Speaker 1: was like, you know, the bad coaching our part. We
Speaker 1: should have somebody with him, you know, as they started
Speaker 1: to feel we should have got him back intore, but
Speaker 1: he sent everybody's law and uh, you know, autographs and
Speaker 1: but that's just Malcolm. He's just a phenomenal, phenomenal kid.
Speaker 1: I think he's certainly on track to be to be
Speaker 1: a fan favorite down in South Florida. And that was
Speaker 1: his last regular season game with the Navy program there.
Speaker 1: I want to go back for the last question here
Speaker 1: for you, coach, and the first ever varsity game where
Speaker 1: he was pulled out of the stands as the emergency quarterback.
Speaker 1: He had been sick all week and didn't practice much
Speaker 1: and didn't dress for the game. But your starting quarterback
Speaker 1: gets hurt in the first half, so he dresses down
Speaker 1: at halftime and comes into the game in the second half.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us about that story? Well, we you know,
Speaker 1: obviously you never want your starter to go down, and
Speaker 1: you know we had another quarterback behind uh in our
Speaker 1: third stream quarterback was actually paying another position, I believe
Speaker 1: at that time. And so the game kind of got
Speaker 1: out of hand. And you know we started as our
Speaker 1: you know, early game for us. You know, we didn't
Speaker 1: want our now starter to get hurt. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: one and one thought is we're just gonna do some
Speaker 1: things where you know, there's no chance of him getting hurt.
Speaker 1: He could just hand the ball off and finished the
Speaker 1: game out because we had a sizeable league. Uh. But
Speaker 1: you know what ended up having coach Jasper and our
Speaker 1: equipment guide. Um, they went just what they got. They
Speaker 1: got malcol suited up, you know, and they said, coach
Speaker 1: we got We went and called Malcolm, got him suited up.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I don't know, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of funnycles coming from where and so and so
Speaker 1: it's a game that I was gon no, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want a guy that had any practice with us,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you can't put him in a game.
Speaker 1: They know. Those are my thoughts. But then I started
Speaker 1: to think a little bit of well, you know, you
Speaker 1: talk with coach Jasper. It's like, coach, you probably should
Speaker 1: take out. Well, we don't want him to get hurt.
Speaker 1: Sot right, let's put Hi come and said he's ready,
Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, you know, Greg's got his you
Speaker 1: got his his uniform, his equipment, and put him out
Speaker 1: of his stance, all right, mightna put him in there,
Speaker 1: and um, you not only went in there and finished
Speaker 1: the game, he did well, which is like I thought,
Speaker 1: we just hand the ball off, you know, just try
Speaker 1: to get out of the game with the w He
Speaker 1: went out there and did some really really good things
Speaker 1: and that was the beginning of the the Malcolm's you know,
Speaker 1: Perry deal, and he did that for the rest of
Speaker 1: his career. He had one carry belief. Later on, I
Speaker 1: think we moved them back to slop back when I
Speaker 1: didn't play as much but played in the ballgame. Came
Speaker 1: in again, and I think again it's similar to the
Speaker 1: Shrine boy. First carry. He went out the back for
Speaker 1: like a forty yeard touchdown or something, and just it's
Speaker 1: like every time he touches the ball, it's you know,
Speaker 1: great things happen, and Malcolm's production last year certainly did
Speaker 1: make plenty of great things happened with two thousand seventeen
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Coach, we really appreciate your time today and
Speaker 1: best of luck this upcoming season. Okay, Drivis, thank you
Speaker 1: to take care and the way there goes coach and
Speaker 1: this organization, this football program here is just so first
Speaker 1: class and so well run. You hear it there from
Speaker 1: up top with coach Nia mat Lolo, from players like
Speaker 1: Malcolm Perry that really resonate and really deliver that message
Speaker 1: of the football team. You heard him talk about the
Speaker 1: integral recruiter that helped get Malcolm Perry to Navy even
Speaker 1: though he has two parents that were Army veterans. He
Speaker 1: gave credit to coach Ashley Ingram, who is the run
Speaker 1: game coordinator and interior offensive lines coach there at Navy,
Speaker 1: and he is my next interview subject on this Malcolm
Speaker 1: Perry episode. Alright, Coach Ingram, welcome in, and first I
Speaker 1: wanted to congratulate you on the eleven one season. The
Speaker 1: bull victory and of course beating Army. And in that
Speaker 1: Army game, he had quite a day, didn't he. Oh
Speaker 1: he did, he was. He was impressive. Um he had
Speaker 1: he had one for ages and he was right at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. We were we were up,
Speaker 1: and I think somebody told us on the sideline that
Speaker 1: he needs like six yards to break the Army Navy
Speaker 1: rushing record, you know, for a single season. Well then
Speaker 1: he breaks off like a fifteen yard run and then
Speaker 1: somebody goes, well, you don't, you only need six yards
Speaker 1: for three hundred yards. So we actually called one more
Speaker 1: run for him, and I think he went like twenty
Speaker 1: five yards were touchdown. So well, he was. He was special.
Speaker 1: So and you know he had a two hundred yard
Speaker 1: rushing Army game or two fifty two years prior, and
Speaker 1: then he had a three hundred yard rushing game in
Speaker 1: that game. So he uh, he played really well against
Speaker 1: those guys. Well, it should come as as almost no
Speaker 1: surprise that he was able to do that. I think
Speaker 1: it was something like sixty five rounds he had of
Speaker 1: ten yards or more. Just constant production. For you guys
Speaker 1: out there, and you were the one in charge of
Speaker 1: recruiting him right right, Yeah, I did recruiting Parksville, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and uh kim Wood High schools where he was at. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to ask you because both of his parents
Speaker 1: were Army cadets and you manage you to get him
Speaker 1: over to the Navy. How'd you do that? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: we got on him early. Uh, and I think we
Speaker 1: were the first to offer him. Um. I had a
Speaker 1: relationship with his high school coach, and when you watch
Speaker 1: this film, it was just obvious that he was a
Speaker 1: you know, a special football player. He was playing a
Speaker 1: quarterback and I don't think there's a path on his
Speaker 1: high school highlight video and it's all running, which which
Speaker 1: was really impressive. But um, you know, I thought we
Speaker 1: established a good relationship with him early on, and then
Speaker 1: you know, as a staff, we were recruited it really
Speaker 1: hard and got into the home and then home visits.
Speaker 1: And I think when when he is he's mentioned, uh
Speaker 1: you know why he chose Navy. He really said he
Speaker 1: was kind of old about two people. You know, coach
Speaker 1: neamt Ivan Jasper obviously was going to be his position coach,
Speaker 1: and they got to know each other well. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I just think that, you know, like like we felt
Speaker 1: about him, I think he's a connection with us as well.
Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk to coach Jasper just
Speaker 1: a little bit ago, and he was talking about how
Speaker 1: how important the academics were to Malcolm, and also how
Speaker 1: hard he practice and how he looked forward to practice
Speaker 1: every day. And I was curious to get your take,
Speaker 1: coach on the fact that he did play multiple positions
Speaker 1: for you guys, slot back, a little bit of quarterback.
Speaker 1: He would run some routes out of receiver as well.
Speaker 1: So how much does that put on a plate for
Speaker 1: a kid who already has so many expectations of him
Speaker 1: out of place like Navy, where academia and your structure,
Speaker 1: your structure every day is so important, you know. I
Speaker 1: think the the athletics stuff, I think it's it's just
Speaker 1: a reflection to who he is as a person. You know.
Speaker 1: I think he's a he's a hard worker, he's a
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he's an always obviously has some talents,
Speaker 1: but he's an overachiever, he's tough, he's selfless, um. But
Speaker 1: all those things show up on the football field, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it be in the weight room or practice or
Speaker 1: in games. But those those same I think that's who
Speaker 1: he is at the person though. Um And I think
Speaker 1: that shocked me at all that academics meant a lot
Speaker 1: to him. It didn't surprise me that he wants to
Speaker 1: do well in life and he you know that he
Speaker 1: wants to work for everything and that he gets and
Speaker 1: and if you just look at his career here, Uh,
Speaker 1: the things that he did on the field speak for themselves.
Speaker 1: But I mean, how many kids are are that selfless?
Speaker 1: I mean kids will move positions two or three times
Speaker 1: to do whatever they can do to help the football team. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think more than anything that I could speak
Speaker 1: to is just the kind of young man that he is,
Speaker 1: the kind of character he has, um and not that
Speaker 1: he's not confident, but a humble a humble guy that
Speaker 1: will do whatever he can for his team and organization. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think you guys got a great young man
Speaker 1: on the top of a great football player. I think
Speaker 1: one of the best stories there is about Malcolm in
Speaker 1: regards to the fact that he is just a gamer
Speaker 1: who wants to get out there and play football is
Speaker 1: the story that was told to me. And I'm hoping
Speaker 1: you can give us some more details on this about
Speaker 1: his first ever varsity game where he's pulled out of
Speaker 1: the stands to be the emergency quarterback. I read this story, coach,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, there's no way that can be real.
Speaker 1: So can you just walk us through what happened, how
Speaker 1: that decision got made, and how he able to impact
Speaker 1: the game that night? Yeah, so what, There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things led up to it, So it was not
Speaker 1: like he was just This isn't a Michael Jordan's story
Speaker 1: where he was cutting from the varsity or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So so he was he was actually gonna be dressing
Speaker 1: that Saturday, but he actually was just the opening game
Speaker 1: of his career. And I think he got a stomach
Speaker 1: virus earlier in the week, so he missed some practice
Speaker 1: time being sick, and think that he was feeling better
Speaker 1: later in the week. And I think the determination coach
Speaker 1: made was, you know, if he's had a stomach virus
Speaker 1: and there's a chance he could get other guys sick,
Speaker 1: maybe we should kind of keep him away from the team.
Speaker 1: Let's don't bring him to the hotel, let's don't bring
Speaker 1: him over. So we decided not to dressing that game
Speaker 1: because he had been sick. Uh. Well, we get into
Speaker 1: the game. He has brushed in his his summer whites.
Speaker 1: He's up in his military uniform in the stands, and
Speaker 1: uh our starting quarterback, Tago Smith towards a c l
Speaker 1: uh in the first quarter. And our back quarterback was
Speaker 1: a really good football player, and we've got a nice
Speaker 1: lead on the team we're playing. I can't remember exactly who.
Speaker 1: It was, cold game or something. Well, it gets to
Speaker 1: the point where we've already lost one quarterback. We can't
Speaker 1: let this, you know. Our next guy continued to play
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. I think there may have
Speaker 1: been another quarterback that was injured, you know. So we
Speaker 1: just got to the point where I mean what, I
Speaker 1: don't know how exactly how it worked and who called
Speaker 1: him down or how all those things worked. But it
Speaker 1: was just kind of a crazy series events that led
Speaker 1: him to the bleachers. But then a you know, kind
Speaker 1: of a crazy series events that led him at halftime
Speaker 1: going to get dressed and playing most of the second
Speaker 1: half at quarterback in his first game ever played. Well,
Speaker 1: marcis down the field on a scoring drive and you know,
Speaker 1: all those things. So it's one of those crazy stories,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's true and uh yeah, it definitely happened,
Speaker 1: and he just he never turned back from there in
Speaker 1: terms of the production and coach Niamatolo actually called him
Speaker 1: the greatest running back he's ever coached a Navy and
Speaker 1: he has the best instinct he's ever seen. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to get your take in the film room when you
Speaker 1: guys are sitting there breaking down that the you know,
Speaker 1: the play calls on structure and then you have a
Speaker 1: player that goes off structure and makes a play like that.
Speaker 1: Did he just constantly a wow you when you watch
Speaker 1: the tape, Yeah, he did. He's uh, you know, I've
Speaker 1: been I've been here, you know, going on thirteen years
Speaker 1: now too. He's the he's the most dynamic runner that
Speaker 1: we've had, the most dynamic guy with the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands. And he's done it as you mentioned, nerd,
Speaker 1: and he's done it from quarterback. Uh, he's done it
Speaker 1: wide receiver, he's done it at slot. He some of
Speaker 1: his best plays this year we're called passes where he
Speaker 1: didn't see anybody opening. He just took off running and
Speaker 1: moving and uh, yes, some of his stuff was kind
Speaker 1: of all stripped and uh, but just the ability to
Speaker 1: change directions. He's gonna be a lot stronger than what
Speaker 1: people think too. Uh, you know, he's kind of hard
Speaker 1: to bring down. The arm tackles donna get him down.
Speaker 1: And I think there's gonna be a little more speed
Speaker 1: to than what people, you know, expect them as combined
Speaker 1: town times and things like that. Yeah, I noticed that too.
Speaker 1: You watch him run on the field and the place
Speaker 1: being compared to the time speed, it just looks completely
Speaker 1: different compared to what he was clocked in that forty
Speaker 1: yard dash. So I think that's pretty evident. You know.
Speaker 1: The other thing on that, and I think people and
Speaker 1: I think this is maybe a defense of all of
Speaker 1: our guys at the Naval Academy is you know, most
Speaker 1: guys when they go to the combine, you know they
Speaker 1: have they've actually gone to a facility and a training
Speaker 1: camp in Arizona or Florida, and they've worked on all
Speaker 1: these skills, and they've worked on their forty times and
Speaker 1: all this. Well, you know, Malcolm was he was walking
Speaker 1: around the Naval Academy drift in military uniforms and taking
Speaker 1: twenty one credits while all these guys were off doing
Speaker 1: all those other things. So I think that some of
Speaker 1: those times are obviously manipulated and guys worked really hard
Speaker 1: on him where I just don't think he had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. So I think there's and I
Speaker 1: think there's a little more to you know, a good start.
Speaker 1: They would never run another forty yard daturs. I think
Speaker 1: there's I think there's something that what you said about
Speaker 1: the game speed as opposed to that time speed, right,
Speaker 1: because they go they work on like you mentioned, the start,
Speaker 1: and they literally spend hours getting themselves prepared to get
Speaker 1: off the line and get that clock speed down. But
Speaker 1: it just doesn't really translate, does it. Yeah? It does
Speaker 1: that mean you he's just to pootball players, I guess,
Speaker 1: instead of talking about those guys. But I think he'll
Speaker 1: do well. But I think he's gonna show up when
Speaker 1: when it counts on the football field. I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you a little bit, coach about him off the field,
Speaker 1: because we've heard some stories and like you said, he
Speaker 1: won't talk about it, so I gotta get someone else
Speaker 1: to tell me about it. But he he was he
Speaker 1: was one of I think six siblings, was it, and
Speaker 1: he had a sister passed away when he was eight
Speaker 1: years old. Due to a heart condition. Do you know
Speaker 1: much about that and kind of has he has he
Speaker 1: talked about it, opened up about it, and maybe kind
Speaker 1: of the impact is on him as a person. I
Speaker 1: don't know much about that story. I have heard that.
Speaker 1: I said, our recruitered him, UM and so got to
Speaker 1: know a little bit in high school. UM have home
Speaker 1: visited him and with him and his mom and dad.
Speaker 1: But Canada, to be honest with he's a he's a
Speaker 1: quiet guy's reserved. I would have phone conversations, are attempt
Speaker 1: to have phone conversations within UM when we were recruiting him,
Speaker 1: and he just you know, you obviously have to kind
Speaker 1: of proud him a little bit to get him to
Speaker 1: open up to talk. But that's just his personality. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure those things we're driving factors in his life.
Speaker 1: But to be honestly, I didn't. I didn't know a
Speaker 1: lot about some of those things. He's he's much better
Speaker 1: to communicate by text and he has sometimes don't get
Speaker 1: to move on the phone. So that's probably most the
Speaker 1: kids you deal with these days, right, Yeah, But I
Speaker 1: think he checked it to the next level. He's just
Speaker 1: he's a quiet guy and he's he said, he's humble,
Speaker 1: he's got confidence, but he's not you know, he's not bolsterus,
Speaker 1: He's not a you know, I wouldn't say he's not
Speaker 1: a super outgoing Guy's just kind of the way he is.
Speaker 1: And he I think he's got obviously a lot of
Speaker 1: internal motivation. And then I'm sure on those family situations
Speaker 1: and may be losing his sister probably play a part
Speaker 1: in that. Yeah, absolutely, And it's the fact that he's
Speaker 1: able to bounce around different position rooms, in different meeting
Speaker 1: rooms and get in the weight room in the academics
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, just a really good, cool sounding kid.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to have a chance to to get to
Speaker 1: know him down here and see him play on Sundays
Speaker 1: and and uh, he's actually the first Miami Dolphin to
Speaker 1: be drafted out of the Service academies, so he has
Speaker 1: that going for him as well. And and a coach,
Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time today. Congrats to get on
Speaker 1: the season. Eleven wins, a bull victory beat an army.
Speaker 1: Can't get much better than that, now, it was a
Speaker 1: great one. Congratulations and you guys taking Malcolm too. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be a good one. And I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna enjoy him quite a bit. Well, coach, we
Speaker 1: really appreciate your time today. Thank you for that, and
Speaker 1: best of luck this season. Okay, take care and there
Speaker 1: he goes Coach Ingram the run game coordinator and interior
Speaker 1: offensive line coach there at Navy and finishing up this
Speaker 1: interview series with Malcolm Perry. We got cut a little
Speaker 1: bit short at the end, but I did get some
Speaker 1: good nuggets and notes out of Navy quarterbacks coach and
Speaker 1: fensive coordinator Ivan Jasper. All right, Coach Jasper, thank you
Speaker 1: for doing this. Welcome in, and first, congrats on a
Speaker 1: very good season last year, the double digit wins, the
Speaker 1: victory over Army. But first with Malcolm Perry. Here, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you who are we getting in this
Speaker 1: football player? Who are we getting in Miami? And Malcolm Perry, Well, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know when when we recruited him, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously all the kids come on recruiting visits, um, and
Speaker 1: obviously from the from the video, we knew he was
Speaker 1: a great football player. Um. You know that he got
Speaker 1: from a military family, so obviously fit what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: He understood what we were about, what the school stood
Speaker 1: for what the military stands for. So that was always
Speaker 1: a major plus for us in recruiting. The main thing
Speaker 1: I remember was on his recruiting visit was basically just
Speaker 1: a really quiet kid. Um. Didn't say much, you know,
Speaker 1: it was just that's always been I'm just always always
Speaker 1: been a kid. Um. At the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: just when you around his friend, he does kind of
Speaker 1: loosen up, you know, But it was always a quiet kid. Um.
Speaker 1: And then he went to our prep school first, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a one year program, went there first and and Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just to get himself more prepared, you know,
Speaker 1: for the academy, the academics you know, and the military
Speaker 1: part of it, Um, and and doing the recruiting time.
Speaker 1: Each coach goes up there to visit with them, you know,
Speaker 1: to just to check up on him, you know. So
Speaker 1: I do remember going up there and checking all the guys,
Speaker 1: and I sat down and met with every one of
Speaker 1: the offensive players and sat and talked with him, you know.
Speaker 1: And again it was a great meeting, you know. But
Speaker 1: but I do remember coming out and and H called
Speaker 1: in coach Ingram and saying, coach, you know, just technic
Speaker 1: coaching income because of coaching and recruited him. Just how
Speaker 1: specially for a kid I thought he was. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: just just seeing him more and also seeing him after
Speaker 1: he had been through the process of our prep school.
Speaker 1: You know, he had already been there for you know,
Speaker 1: for half four semesters, so you know, Um, he has
Speaker 1: kind of changed a lot. You know, he kind of
Speaker 1: grew up some. I'm still quiet, but you see the
Speaker 1: maturity to look in his eyes if he always asked,
Speaker 1: he always had clear eyes, you know. So again we
Speaker 1: know we had got a great football player and and
Speaker 1: a great young man, you know. And then obviously when
Speaker 1: it came to the academy, Um started out playing uh
Speaker 1: slide back for us and again never stopped being a
Speaker 1: quiet person, but just a good football player. UM and
Speaker 1: I do here when he's around his frenzies, he does
Speaker 1: talk more, but you know, around the coaches again, he
Speaker 1: was just always a quiet kid, very very very attentive. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: always studies playbook, you know, always making sure things that
Speaker 1: he knows what's going on. And then obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: get on the football field, and that was pretty much
Speaker 1: spoke for herself. You know, just a great football player. UM.
Speaker 1: And I think the one thing that that that I've
Speaker 1: been able to learn about him. The thing that I
Speaker 1: think is, you know, truly special, but just kid just
Speaker 1: loves to practice, you know. And and again that that
Speaker 1: might sound a little you know or something that, but
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've come across a few kids in
Speaker 1: my coaching career, you know that that that I truly
Speaker 1: felt that, but just they love to practice. The kids
Speaker 1: just love to practice. I mean look forward to practice
Speaker 1: every single day. Came out there the same every single day,
Speaker 1: you know, always had the energy, always always practiced hard.
Speaker 1: Everything he did was full speed, to the point where
Speaker 1: something I we had to tell him to kind of
Speaker 1: hold off a little bit because it's just just a
Speaker 1: great person, you know. Um with him the Q biggest
Speaker 1: junior year, but then we kind of moved him back,
Speaker 1: UM and then a senior yearly obviously he took over
Speaker 1: full The biggest thing for him when he moved a
Speaker 1: quarterback because he was always he was a coach. I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure I know what's going on.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to screw anything up. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hurt the team. Just make sure you
Speaker 1: know it's make sure that you know I want to
Speaker 1: make sure I want to be coached right, and just
Speaker 1: make make sure that I know everything that's going on,
Speaker 1: and just make sure I don't got a dams grewp
Speaker 1: you know. So Again, so we always knew that that
Speaker 1: perfections was in was in him, even in the classroom,
Speaker 1: you know. And that's something that that's I should have said.
Speaker 1: Even first. He was always big on his academics. Um,
Speaker 1: if he has a bad test score, he got down
Speaker 1: on himself, you know. And again but he was always
Speaker 1: that perfectionist type of person, you know. So, but obviously
Speaker 1: don't want wouldn't the QB and the same deal with him,
Speaker 1: just just wanted to make sure that they knew what
Speaker 1: was going on. He knew the game planning now, he
Speaker 1: asked all the questions, make sure everything. Um, you got
Speaker 1: his eyes across all the teas and uh and I
Speaker 1: was when I got down side, you know. Silda just
Speaker 1: just played great. He had a great senior year, great career. Um,
Speaker 1: when the balls in that young man's hand, he just
Speaker 1: has a way of doing things, you know. So and
Speaker 1: and and a lot of what he does you you
Speaker 1: can't really coach, you know. So yeah, yeah, just a
Speaker 1: special player, especially young man. Yeah, we saw I think
Speaker 1: it was something like sixty five runs of ten plus
Speaker 1: yards and he just explodes out of there when he
Speaker 1: sees that hole and hits it. And you talk about
Speaker 1: him playing some slot back and some quarterback, and also
Speaker 1: the academic requirements there at Navy obviously coming very much first,
Speaker 1: and the schedule these players and these young men have
Speaker 1: to adhere to every single day. How much of a
Speaker 1: challenge is it for a player to really have to
Speaker 1: kind of cross train and be a part of maybe
Speaker 1: both of the meeting rooms at practice, in the film
Speaker 1: room and stuff like that. Is it is it just
Speaker 1: even more on his plate and makes it more impressive
Speaker 1: that way it does, because again, I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: you know we kind of talk to about, you know,
Speaker 1: as a staff, and again I want to see this's
Speaker 1: the right way, um, like preparing for the combine. You know,
Speaker 1: poor Malcolm. You know a lot of those guys have
Speaker 1: to combine. When their season was over, they pretty much
Speaker 1: kind of take a break and they prepare for the combine.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of guys that they go strip
Speaker 1: and trained for that. You know, where malclass is still
Speaker 1: still go to school and still deal with the rigorous academics,
Speaker 1: getting up in the morning, you know, only steed all
Speaker 1: day long, you know. So, but it's always been, you know,
Speaker 1: something that that we always as coaches, we always sit
Speaker 1: back and we're astonished about that our young men can
Speaker 1: do it. You know. They again the acade. They wake
Speaker 1: up every morning and it's it's a full day of academics.
Speaker 1: You know, they can't miss class. You have to go
Speaker 1: to class. Um if you miss class, you know, um,
Speaker 1: everybody knows about it. And you held account before, you know.
Speaker 1: So again, just just with having the academics and just
Speaker 1: the schedule of the riggers of the school, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and and being a Division one football player
Speaker 1: and showing up every single Saturday against talent. That's you know,
Speaker 1: we were never the bigger, stronger Fessor team, you know.
Speaker 1: At the same time, the kids always played har But
Speaker 1: that's just the most impressive part of it, just what
Speaker 1: these young men do. But they go through every single
Speaker 1: weekend or Saturday and they show up and they play
Speaker 1: their tails off and so really there you get it.
Speaker 1: A big thanks to coach Jasper, coach Ingram and coach Niema,
Speaker 1: to Lolo there from Navy and the midshipman football program there.
Speaker 1: They really run a great program, a great ship they're
Speaker 1: pardon my pun, and they produced players like Malcolm Perry,
Speaker 1: a great young man who really know the right way
Speaker 1: to play football, and of course talented football players there
Speaker 1: as well. One of the better teams. They're in the
Speaker 1: A C Conference. Again, thank you to that coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and of course a big thank you to Malcolm for
Speaker 1: taking time out of his day to talk with us
Speaker 1: and let us get to know the young man out
Speaker 1: of Navy. Thank you for all the details and all
Speaker 1: the time they gave us on those phone calls. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and conclude this episode of the Malcolm
Speaker 1: Perry Comprehensive Player Profile. We'll come back with each of
Speaker 1: these Dolphins rookies in future episodes, but as for now,
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