Speaker 1: All right, the audible's back on the air. We're minus
Speaker 1: one man. Be a John can Jemmy here? I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I think vacation, you know what I think
Speaker 1: he's do you do it? Vacation day or two. I
Speaker 1: don't know how he comes in. He does that radio show.
Speaker 1: It gets up at four o'clock in the morning every
Speaker 1: day and then rolls in here and does a podcast
Speaker 1: with us. I'm surprised he doesn't miss more often. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll struggle on. We'll struggle on without him,
Speaker 1: but we're going to finish this show without Joe. I
Speaker 1: don't know everything. I don't know because we're not We're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to tell people how to you know,
Speaker 1: how to how to go to tune in radio, you
Speaker 1: know how to get the Miami Dolphins mobile apps so
Speaker 1: they can hear it, find that podcast on dolphins dot com,
Speaker 1: Rapple Music or some of them. We're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get that out right. We're gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll let him pay for We'll limp along. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what we are going to do. John, I
Speaker 1: got a chance to uh to catch up with the
Speaker 1: first round draft pick making for Fitzpatrick and um but I, I,
Speaker 1: you know what, you always hear a lot of different
Speaker 1: things about draft choices. This now, I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever heard anything bad about I don't think anyone said, hey,
Speaker 1: that that wasn't a good pick, or they should have
Speaker 1: gone somewhere else. I heard one guy said, well, I
Speaker 1: probably would have maybe maybe would have taken Derwin Jones
Speaker 1: at that time, or James whatever at that time, and uh,
Speaker 1: I thought, no, No, I think we're pretty good with
Speaker 1: pretty good. That guy is a solid player. When we
Speaker 1: were talking about who's gonna fall where, we always said,
Speaker 1: and we always predicated our our responses by where the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks gonna fall. Well, three of them ended up going,
Speaker 1: and four of them ended up in that tenth pick,
Speaker 1: with Arizona coming up and getting Rosen. That was probably
Speaker 1: the only decision that Dolphins had to make. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna go up and allow somebody to take that spot
Speaker 1: or without you know, bidding for it and trying to
Speaker 1: get there at tend to take a quarterback or are
Speaker 1: they going to let a guy that they probably had
Speaker 1: the highest ranked on their board at that time fall
Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins and that's exactly what happened. They
Speaker 1: get a quality starter for a lot of years wearing
Speaker 1: a Miami Dolphin uniform that played with a national to
Speaker 1: national championship. Teams in Alabama want every award known to
Speaker 1: man kind as a defensive back, played multiple positions, was
Speaker 1: probably coached arguably by the best college football coach in
Speaker 1: a long time, and Nick Saban so and he's been
Speaker 1: coached tough, and that that coach Saban has been touting
Speaker 1: him as the best player in the draft. If you
Speaker 1: pass up on this guy, you're you're missing now here
Speaker 1: on a very good player. So you know, I think
Speaker 1: look in any one of those quarterbacks, had they fallen
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins at eleven, there would have been questions
Speaker 1: about every one of them. You know why, Yes, he can,
Speaker 1: he's a little short, his attitude, Josh, his accurate season.
Speaker 1: They all had warts on him somewhere. You can't find
Speaker 1: award on this kid. This kid does it all. And
Speaker 1: and like you said, I think, you know, so I
Speaker 1: forget who it was and said, he's like a like
Speaker 1: a Swiss army knife. You'd be put him back there
Speaker 1: anywhere and let him play. And there was probably three
Speaker 1: guys in the draft and probably the top ten, or
Speaker 1: will count the Dolphins the eleven picks at the top
Speaker 1: of the draft, but it didn't award. Okay, you got
Speaker 1: Barkley up top, you got Chubb that goes to Denver,
Speaker 1: and I think it's this guy and you could probably
Speaker 1: So those are the guys that just pristine. Man, you
Speaker 1: can't the positional players, not excluding quarterback, those are the
Speaker 1: guys that you go, you can't miss in this draft
Speaker 1: at the top, and you know, you started looking at
Speaker 1: the secondary. We're at the draft party at hard Rock
Speaker 1: Stadium by that. By the way, it was a really
Speaker 1: a great night. A lot of good fans out there
Speaker 1: came out to support. It was really really a fun evening.
Speaker 1: Uh So we want to thank the fans for that
Speaker 1: they did come out and participate in that. Uh. But
Speaker 1: but you go through that and you're looking at all
Speaker 1: these different people that are about to come up and
Speaker 1: and go, and I don't think anybody left disappointed with
Speaker 1: that pick. And uh but it was it was it
Speaker 1: was the draft one. I thought the draft was gonna
Speaker 1: be different this year, at least a first round. Uh
Speaker 1: And initially it looked like it was just kind of
Speaker 1: falling into place, and then all of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, kind of started spinning out of control.
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny about the draft parties. We've been
Speaker 1: doing him now for a long time. Joe and you
Speaker 1: and I were sitting on the stage and we're talking
Speaker 1: about who's gonna get picked and why they're gonna get picked,
Speaker 1: and we're mixing in interviews and alumni and current players
Speaker 1: always are fans. They've got one or two names that
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna go with him. We're on board.
Speaker 1: Everybody's yelling and don't take a quarterback. What do you
Speaker 1: guys are crazy? If you don't take a quarterback. It's
Speaker 1: it's one or the other. But when the announcement came
Speaker 1: that we took make of Fitzpatrick, it was kind of like, alright, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: we'll take him. You know, that's pretty good once it
Speaker 1: sank in, because I don't think any Dolphin fan felt
Speaker 1: like this guy was gonna be available, but I think
Speaker 1: they're probably I think there were a lot of people that,
Speaker 1: if they weren't really paying attention to the draft, figured
Speaker 1: that the guy already coming gone because he was gonna
Speaker 1: be he was gonna be gone by six or seven. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're probably that guy was still there and we
Speaker 1: got him. That that's pretty good. The other thing I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we had the chance to have Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: and uh and Walt Aikin's up on the stage a
Speaker 1: little bit, and it just as we went through the
Speaker 1: night and the draft choice came up, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: of you know, Waal thinking back, I'm thinking of Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: thinking of Tony Lippett coming back, thinking of Tank, thinking
Speaker 1: of Oxavian thinking and thinking, man, you know what, you
Speaker 1: throw this guy in that that's a not only is
Speaker 1: gonna be a very talented secondary, but there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some depth there. You know, we have some guys that
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna go down and guys are gonna
Speaker 1: need to play special teams. But I think the depth
Speaker 1: situation in the secondary probably John and maybe talent wise,
Speaker 1: probably as good as we've seen around this this team
Speaker 1: in a long long time. Where do you feel to
Speaker 1: fall off is when you look at a football team
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden injuries occur. It's either in
Speaker 1: the secondary where they get exposed or the offensive line.
Speaker 1: You don't have enough depth. You don't have enough quality
Speaker 1: starters and or that six or seventh guy to step
Speaker 1: in so the level of play doesn't drop significantly. I
Speaker 1: think that's what you get when you have the luxury
Speaker 1: of picking Fitzpatrick at eleven to add to a secondary
Speaker 1: with all those names you talked about, there's young guys,
Speaker 1: there's season guys in there. You know, you've got Xavier
Speaker 1: that's only getting better. You've got tankers Lee that is
Speaker 1: probably his best years are ahead of him and not
Speaker 1: behind him. They're well ahead of him because he's just
Speaker 1: learning the game as a pro. And you've got Lipid
Speaker 1: coming back for injury that went through all those learning
Speaker 1: curves as a wide receiver at Michigan State and a
Speaker 1: defensive back now in the NFL full time. So you've
Speaker 1: got a ton of talent, but young talent that are
Speaker 1: at different stages in the secondary. That's why I think
Speaker 1: a guy with the accolades of a Fitzpatrick, National championships
Speaker 1: under his belt, All American, All s SEC, every Big Game,
Speaker 1: Thorpe Award, Big Narik winner, you can name it. Nine
Speaker 1: interceptions in the career, four of him go the other
Speaker 1: way for touchdowns he can put points on the scoreboard
Speaker 1: if he if he's anticipating routes and reading routes, so
Speaker 1: when he gets that learning curve from Alabama to the pros,
Speaker 1: which is a lot shorter than maybe some other places,
Speaker 1: he'll be ready to contribute right away. William John, I
Speaker 1: think you look at this draft and we'll go through
Speaker 1: the go through the picks here. Uh. But I think
Speaker 1: you go through this draft, John, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it's I don't think it's off base to say that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have definitely two starters, definitely two starters in
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and Gasecki the tight end. Uh. And this Durham
Speaker 1: Smith is gonna play because he's he's gonna you know,
Speaker 1: he's a big, strong, physical guy. He's gonna play. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get four guys here. At least they
Speaker 1: are gonna be big contributors. A couple of them maybe
Speaker 1: rotation guys, but I still think they're gonna play enough
Speaker 1: to impact your team. And you certainly got two guys.
Speaker 1: And John, it reminds and I've been saying this, I've
Speaker 1: been saying this really all this offseason. I really thought
Speaker 1: the last two drafts were pretty good too, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and and so you start to and and
Speaker 1: it it kind of takes me back to so I
Speaker 1: came here in nineteen seventy six. At that time the
Speaker 1: undefeated I played with. I came in with a lot
Speaker 1: of those guys, but they were in the twilight of
Speaker 1: their career and the team was, you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: playing at the level that they had a draft or
Speaker 1: so that wasn't didn't really quite you know, hit me,
Speaker 1: it's really dight, and hit what they what they wanted.
Speaker 1: And then uh my, my draft came and and and
Speaker 1: Larry Gordon was the first pick in the for our
Speaker 1: first pick. I was right behind him. We drafted Durial
Speaker 1: Harris and some other guys and guys that that were
Speaker 1: that that made the team and stayed back. Then we
Speaker 1: had seventeen rounds. Then the next year A J. Dewey,
Speaker 1: Bob bomb Hower, you know, you get those guys coming.
Speaker 1: So that year we remember that year, we played the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Rams or the St. Louis Cardinals on a Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day up in St. Louis, and we started four rookies
Speaker 1: on defense against him and beat and beat him up
Speaker 1: pretty good. And played four rookies, you know, for for
Speaker 1: the most of a lot a lot of the year.
Speaker 1: And then after that then we got the Dwight Stevenson's
Speaker 1: and Tony Nathan's And so the point I'm making is,
Speaker 1: and I know there's a lot of people allergies. These
Speaker 1: guys are on fun, Paul, or they're not. They're unproven
Speaker 1: this now. But but but you're doing what happened then
Speaker 1: you had three or four draft You put three drafts
Speaker 1: together where you're getting to three four guys to contribute.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you look around, you go, man,
Speaker 1: we got a good football team, and we gotta and
Speaker 1: and these guys are gonna be here. They're young and
Speaker 1: a lot of tread on their tires, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: get the best down. So I'm kind of looking at
Speaker 1: this and feeling very similar to what it felt like
Speaker 1: back then. And then you're going to run there where
Speaker 1: this team was a team was a playoff team, an
Speaker 1: FC championship games, super bowls really into the nineties. And
Speaker 1: so if you can get that momentum going with these team,
Speaker 1: these these three drafts and keep moving forward, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you're putting you know, look obviously I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a pro Dolphin. But but you're building. You're
Speaker 1: building what seems to be a very solid foundation on
Speaker 1: draft choices that are good, young, aggressive, and are gonna
Speaker 1: be around for a while. That's the way you build
Speaker 1: stability and a franchise through the draft. Everybody knows that
Speaker 1: you can, you know, cover some warts in free agency,
Speaker 1: but if you don't hit in the draft like the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have over the last two years, and then add
Speaker 1: a third draft class to that, now you're building consistency.
Speaker 1: Now that you're building the way, coaches aren't going anywhere,
Speaker 1: the players aren't going anywhere, the systems in all three
Speaker 1: phases of the games stay the same. That's where you
Speaker 1: build continuity in your in your organization. That the players
Speaker 1: know each other better, they know what what what's good
Speaker 1: at practice and what's good not good enough at practice.
Speaker 1: You start to create standards from the young guys and
Speaker 1: building up and that's where you, you know, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: weed out some that you that just don't fit anymore.
Speaker 1: And I think that's good because if you're going to win,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna challenge to win double digit victories in
Speaker 1: national football league on a consistent basis. There's only a
Speaker 1: handful of teams that are doing that. But if you
Speaker 1: can challenge to get into the playoffs every year, that
Speaker 1: that bubble goes to maybe fourteen or fifteen or sixteen
Speaker 1: teams where now you're going, hey, we got a shot
Speaker 1: this year. You know, if we play well, if we
Speaker 1: win a couple of games, that are those fifty fifty
Speaker 1: games comes down to a last possession score, last possession,
Speaker 1: get off the field on defense, last possession kick a
Speaker 1: field goal to win. Now you're in games. And that's
Speaker 1: what happened two years ago when the Dolphins won ten games.
Speaker 1: And you touched on a little bit in that conversation
Speaker 1: John too. You talked about coaching staffs too, and look,
Speaker 1: coaching staffs are gonna change every year. They're gonna bits
Speaker 1: and pieces, but you gotta keep and you look at
Speaker 1: the teams. You talk about a handful of teams that
Speaker 1: win ten games a year or are always in that
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, what do they have continuity at the top, manage, management, coach, head, coach, everybody,
Speaker 1: and and and and look they hit a rocky road,
Speaker 1: they don't they don't panic, they don't know, let's you know,
Speaker 1: let's ship can everybody here, let's start over again. No, No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay with our You look at Dallas, same
Speaker 1: type of thing. You look at the New York Giants,
Speaker 1: same type of thing. You look in New England, same
Speaker 1: type of thing. San Francisco for a long time ago,
Speaker 1: Green base. So so that to me as much as
Speaker 1: the players, and you gotta have patience with the players.
Speaker 1: This this South Florida needs to be patient with Adam
Speaker 1: Gays and his staff. Look, I don't know what this
Speaker 1: year is gonna hold. You got a lot of young
Speaker 1: guys out there playing. Who knows they could go out
Speaker 1: and win ten games. It could win eleven game, they
Speaker 1: could go out win four games or six games. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that it's broken. It just means you've got
Speaker 1: to be patient and let everything come together. You know,
Speaker 1: I was came in a situation where you know, you're
Speaker 1: following you know, a team that went underfea two Super Bowls,
Speaker 1: Hall of famers, Don shul and everything you know. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this team can't build that kind
Speaker 1: of legacy going forward, but you can't do it if
Speaker 1: you're gonna pull the rug out of guy every three years,
Speaker 1: and it's a shorter window unless you're fortunate enough to
Speaker 1: have Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady or uh you know
Speaker 1: that type of person that's gonna persevere and it is
Speaker 1: gonna be on that franchise, the face of the franchise
Speaker 1: for ten plus years. Your windows are shorter. So the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins are in a window now that if they
Speaker 1: can add to the last two draft classes, even though
Speaker 1: last year was a six win season, the year before
Speaker 1: they won all those tight games to get to ten wins,
Speaker 1: it could be a very fine line because this football
Speaker 1: team last year wasn't that far off and it wasn't
Speaker 1: that much more removed than the team that won ten games,
Speaker 1: just they never won those types of do you take
Speaker 1: makeup for Fitzpatrick? One tip ball at any one of
Speaker 1: those games changed the whole complexion of the Baker. One
Speaker 1: tip ball on the third down, break up on a
Speaker 1: tight end or a tackle and and not a not
Speaker 1: a hit, and you get it, move the chains. First down,
Speaker 1: you're off the field those or a Ghasicky gets a
Speaker 1: third down catch, you drive alive. You need those impact players,
Speaker 1: and I think at the top of the draft for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. You have impact player, no doubt. And
Speaker 1: obviously the guy that comes in, we talked about him
Speaker 1: a lot. Make a Fitzpatrick. I think I think everybody's
Speaker 1: excited to be here. He certainly sounds excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what he had to say. Alright, so now
Speaker 1: we welcome to the audible Miami Dolphins number one draft pick,
Speaker 1: make a Fitzpatrick and make a first of all, uh,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Miami Dolphins. And uh, how'd that whole
Speaker 1: experience go? For that whole draft experience? All, hey, thank
Speaker 1: thank you for for having me be part of the team. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a whole lot of fun in
Speaker 1: the draft of out there with my family. Uh, couple
Speaker 1: of my friendsh were just out there just having a
Speaker 1: good time. And enjoined the city and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a waiting game, really, just waiting to hear
Speaker 1: your name called. And what was this? My name was called?
Speaker 1: I got a phone call, and I just I'm ready
Speaker 1: to go to work. Just go down there and do
Speaker 1: what I do. How was the whole process once you
Speaker 1: once you finished, uh with your your college football career
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Uh, and then all of a sudden came
Speaker 1: the recruiting, the the trips, the pro days, the combine
Speaker 1: all the things that came along with that. How did
Speaker 1: you did you enjoy that? Did it get a little
Speaker 1: annoying after a while and you did it get be
Speaker 1: too much? It was with something you just kind of
Speaker 1: absorbed and just uh just took advantage of the whole thing. Oh,
Speaker 1: it was something I just I just really tried to
Speaker 1: enjoy it, you know, because you know, it can be
Speaker 1: it can be tedious, it can be tiring, but there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people that want to be in
Speaker 1: their shoes, and it's honestly, it's a blessing to be
Speaker 1: in this situation because, um, you know, I could be
Speaker 1: a whole lot of other places. But you know, uh,
Speaker 1: like I said, there's a lot of people that they
Speaker 1: really want to be there, and there's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of people that deserve to be there that that couldn't.
Speaker 1: So I just tried to enjoy every every single moment
Speaker 1: of it, um and just go along with it, have
Speaker 1: phone with it. Just I tried to soak up as
Speaker 1: much as I could from other people I was meeting,
Speaker 1: all the hands I was shaking and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I was just doing everything I could just to
Speaker 1: enjoy the whole process. Now, you don't mind, you don't
Speaker 1: mind coming down here and being in warm weather. You know,
Speaker 1: you could have been up in Buffalo or Green Bay
Speaker 1: or somewhere like that where it's a little a little
Speaker 1: more chilly. You're gonna be all right with it being
Speaker 1: warmed down here. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be perfectly fine
Speaker 1: with it being a long no problem at all. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty a pretty easy question to answer. Hey, let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about Let's talk about you as a football player, um, safety, cornerback.
Speaker 1: You know, you've been described as a guy that can
Speaker 1: really do play anywhere in the secondary. Where is it
Speaker 1: that you feel most comfortable. I'm an comfortable out there
Speaker 1: playing playing football, and it really doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1: And you know, I talked to the coaches and they
Speaker 1: pretty much gave me the same answer. I said, well,
Speaker 1: position I'm gonna be playing, and they said, football player,
Speaker 1: And uh, you know this this is wherever I'm needed.
Speaker 1: As we're feel comfortable, as I'm not getting repsed in practice,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be good. You know. I did a whole
Speaker 1: lot in Alabama just moving around one place to place.
Speaker 1: But you know, obviously Miami they're not gonna have me
Speaker 1: do that, just can have me at one position. Um,
Speaker 1: and then maybe later on this moving froving around, I
Speaker 1: think get more comfortable. But um, you know, it's wherever
Speaker 1: I'm needed that that's what I'm gonna be comfortable at.
Speaker 1: So if I'm getting reps there, I'm gonna be good.
Speaker 1: So many multiple receiver sets in the NFL samesism in
Speaker 1: college these days, and so so more times than not,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in a nickel maybe even a dime package,
Speaker 1: which is gonna give you an opportunity to play well
Speaker 1: outside little inside and do different things. And uh, from
Speaker 1: everything I hear, you're you're pretty comfortable really at any
Speaker 1: of the spots, whether you're outside on somebody or or
Speaker 1: playing in the slot or doing whatever you need to
Speaker 1: do in there. Um, it seems like they all fit
Speaker 1: your game to a team. Yeah, you know, like like
Speaker 1: like you just said, um, the game is changing there.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to move around, especially if
Speaker 1: you're going to cover the cover the team's best receiver.
Speaker 1: You know, the best receiver usually moves around a whole
Speaker 1: lot so, um, so if you can move around and
Speaker 1: you could find him wherever he is and you could
Speaker 1: cover him wherever he is, that it kind of gives
Speaker 1: you an advantage because a lot of times, if you
Speaker 1: have a great corner there, the offense is gonna move
Speaker 1: their best receiver on the inside try and get him
Speaker 1: away from the corner and put them on the slot guys.
Speaker 1: But if, um, if you can move from the corner
Speaker 1: to the inside to the box, you know that that
Speaker 1: receiver can't get away. Yeah. One of the things that
Speaker 1: this team has talked about a lot during this offseason,
Speaker 1: it's covering tight ends. And then I got a feeling
Speaker 1: that that's gonna be something that, uh that they're certainly
Speaker 1: gonna try to get you involved in. If you've done
Speaker 1: a lot that in the past in college, if you
Speaker 1: if you played again, sometimes guys are a little bigger
Speaker 1: than you and you kind of have to try to
Speaker 1: work around them and muscle them around a little bit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, so they specially this uh this past season. Um,
Speaker 1: I had to do that whole lot. I played in
Speaker 1: the like the money the money backer position, uh, which
Speaker 1: is like where you come in the box and you
Speaker 1: cover the tight ends, uh the fourth receiver stuff like that. UM.
Speaker 1: You know I had to have some experience doing that
Speaker 1: this past season and now to put out some weight
Speaker 1: uh covering those bigger guys. But you know I got
Speaker 1: the job done. Now, you played in a couple of
Speaker 1: big games at the Alabama they're they're they're known to
Speaker 1: play in a couple of big games every year. You uh,
Speaker 1: you've you've been on the big stage a lot in
Speaker 1: uh championship games, National championship games, SEC championship games, big
Speaker 1: prime time Saturday games or whenever you played. How do
Speaker 1: you think that's prepared you to come into a league
Speaker 1: here that uh, that that gets so much exposure and
Speaker 1: that that so many people keep their eyes on. Um,
Speaker 1: I think, like you said, there's been in that spotlight
Speaker 1: you to kind of prepare me for the uh the NFL,
Speaker 1: UM in the sense of all the media tensions and
Speaker 1: all the uh extras that come with it. You know,
Speaker 1: Alabay him was almost like a professional team because Alabama,
Speaker 1: Alabama has no uh no professional hockey, baseball and football.
Speaker 1: All that has this Alabama football in Aubura football in
Speaker 1: the South. So so so, like like I was saying,
Speaker 1: it's just like a professional team out here, so you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of get all that attention that all the
Speaker 1: other teams will be receiving. So it's kind of um,
Speaker 1: like you said, just pay me with all the extra
Speaker 1: stuff on the field. And I haven't been to Alabama
Speaker 1: in a while. Is Alabama still ready still considered number
Speaker 1: two in the state of Alabama? Auburn number two? Man,
Speaker 1: we ain't number two? Uh yeah, let me ask you
Speaker 1: to give you what you're in tusclose. You ever run
Speaker 1: across my friend Bob Bama. How are you used to
Speaker 1: play here? Yeah? Yes, I have, I believe so you
Speaker 1: had his chicken wings. I've never been there at Joe Petty, Yes,
Speaker 1: and I thought going going there, but I never had
Speaker 1: it before. You gotta go check him out. I'll give call.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Baba call when I get done with
Speaker 1: you and make sure that he knows you're around there.
Speaker 1: You can stop by and check him out sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't need knows where you in New Jersey? Now are
Speaker 1: you in Alabama? No, I'm I'm Alabama right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: Hey speaking about Alabama? Uh. Nick saban Um clearly one
Speaker 1: of the great college coaches of all time, but he's
Speaker 1: a guy that uh, you know, he's known as a
Speaker 1: defensive back coach and he's uh certainly touted you as
Speaker 1: is one of the great players that he's had in
Speaker 1: that secondary Alabama. Um, with Nick's knowledge and what what
Speaker 1: what did he do to help you become the best
Speaker 1: player you can be? He coaching me hard and and
Speaker 1: and that was it. He was just being and stuff
Speaker 1: and and you know he really you don't mind you know,
Speaker 1: when you're doing something wrong? Does he? What was that
Speaker 1: I said? He doesn't mind letting you know when you're
Speaker 1: doing something wrong? Right, Oh no, I'll let you know
Speaker 1: right away in front of everybody. And it don't matter,
Speaker 1: you know. You know, he's just he's he's just a
Speaker 1: tough a tough coach on you. But it's only because
Speaker 1: you know it's how good you could be. And you
Speaker 1: know he's just he really still the discipline and and
Speaker 1: uh and the thoroughness and everything that you do, and
Speaker 1: it translates on the field. Well yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: look at him and he is a tough coach and
Speaker 1: we we've seen him around here certainly in Miami. Uh.
Speaker 1: But the one thing about a coach like that, you
Speaker 1: look back now that your college career has done and
Speaker 1: you you kind of look back on it. Man, you
Speaker 1: guys want a lot of big games, and then you
Speaker 1: had a lot of success there and you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: having that tough coach that that the demands a lot
Speaker 1: from you. The payday is is just that winning a
Speaker 1: lot of big games and being in a lot of huge,
Speaker 1: big games. Yeah, exactly exactly what it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people could say that, you know,
Speaker 1: their their their coach was the best friend, or the
Speaker 1: coach was um easy on them. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's not getting them better. It's not
Speaker 1: allowing them to win games and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: you know, I appreciate everything coach segment is done for
Speaker 1: us as the teams, uh, as players, you know, a
Speaker 1: players appreciating him for being so hard on this because,
Speaker 1: like I said, it gives us better at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. It's a new Jersey kid. Uh what
Speaker 1: got you to Alabama? Oh exactly what we're talking about, Uh,
Speaker 1: coach Sagan and just overall overall program and is this
Speaker 1: a great program? Um? You know, and then it's uh,
Speaker 1: this is a different culture down here when it comes
Speaker 1: to UH, the academics, the athletics, everything is just um,
Speaker 1: there's always a constant demand for excellence and always the
Speaker 1: challenge at hand. So I just felt like, um, just
Speaker 1: coming here, I knew I was gonna become the best
Speaker 1: possible version of myself as after I left he growing
Speaker 1: up in New Jersey, I know, I know you were
Speaker 1: you were Was it Hurricane Sandy that you guys got
Speaker 1: affected by Hurricane Irene? Irene and you have some pretty
Speaker 1: pretty bad damn you have a lot of flooding and
Speaker 1: stuff or what what what happened with your living experience
Speaker 1: up there? Um? So what happened was the foundation. So
Speaker 1: the warrior came in into the uh came into the
Speaker 1: house like a basement and flooded in abasement flood like
Speaker 1: the first level of our house, and then the foundation
Speaker 1: of the house collapsed. So, um, the house is pretty
Speaker 1: much you can't live in it because you could have
Speaker 1: felt at any time, um, like half of my town
Speaker 1: was like under it. It was. It was pretty bad.
Speaker 1: You know. I was with me and my family was
Speaker 1: out for a little while. Um, but snow we just
Speaker 1: sitting together and guy's all done got back to where
Speaker 1: he used to be. Was it was there any point
Speaker 1: where that affected your decision about playing not playing? Maybe
Speaker 1: I should stick around, Maybe I should be with my family.
Speaker 1: All the things that kind of go through your mind
Speaker 1: when when some kind of the disaster like that befalls you.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes for your arm that was talking about.
Speaker 1: Told my parents and I was going to a private
Speaker 1: school and it's expensive, and then my parents were both
Speaker 1: working the whole bunch of different jobs I was working. Um,
Speaker 1: so you know, I was just tough on everybody. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I just told him, like, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: like gonna go to school no more, like football no more.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna work and uh help my family out
Speaker 1: and just uh and just helped to provide. You know. Uh,
Speaker 1: is that any wanted to be going to school getting
Speaker 1: education and all that when my family's out working all day.
Speaker 1: So so so I just told him, yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna playing no more. And uh they quickly set
Speaker 1: that down, and uh, you know they all men to
Speaker 1: continue to go to school and and play football. So
Speaker 1: it's definitely worth the uh the sacrifice. What do you
Speaker 1: want to copies? Coming in here, You're expecting to be
Speaker 1: a starter. Um, do you have that thought in your mind.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna come in and see where things take
Speaker 1: you and working. I know you're gonna work as hard
Speaker 1: as you can and try to get as much as
Speaker 1: you can out of this. UM. But this first year,
Speaker 1: But what do you think coming in as a rookie, UM,
Speaker 1: what are your expectations? UM this coming in, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna staying this is going there and work hard. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not explaying in this the handles starters and I
Speaker 1: would not splaying the coming in and uh, you have
Speaker 1: everything in front of me. I'm I'm just going I'm
Speaker 1: just going there work for everything, and uh, he's going
Speaker 1: there and compete stops myself as a as a respectable,
Speaker 1: respectable player, uh spells myself as one of the top
Speaker 1: t B s on the team. And wherever it goes
Speaker 1: from there, that's where it goes. And then of course,
Speaker 1: you know you want to when as many games as
Speaker 1: you can and eventually when the when the win of
Speaker 1: the rain. Yeah, you got some room for you. I
Speaker 1: noticed that you've got some room in your fingers? Are
Speaker 1: you you let everyone know about that? Got some room
Speaker 1: for some more rings? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I do. Hey, UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I think one of the coming out of
Speaker 1: the draft after the draft, for one of the things
Speaker 1: that kind of really got around town was, uh, you
Speaker 1: and uh you're reading the letter that your your mother
Speaker 1: wrote for you about the experience, and it had to
Speaker 1: be pretty tough for you to read it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the first time you read it you kind of brought
Speaker 1: tears to your eyes. And I'm sure that that, uh,
Speaker 1: it was there's an emotional read when you did it, uh,
Speaker 1: and and put it on Facebook or wherever it showed up.
Speaker 1: I know I saw it a couple of places. But
Speaker 1: that that was a pretty uh, pretty nice heartfelt thought
Speaker 1: from your mother, wasn't it. Yeah? It was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was awesome receiving it from her. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: it's a it was just very emotional. The night before
Speaker 1: we had we had talked and she had told me
Speaker 1: about this everything she had been through when she was
Speaker 1: having me and what she was uh just going what
Speaker 1: she was pregnant with me, and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it was an emotional letter, especially, like I said, this
Speaker 1: after what she had told me, uh that the night before.
Speaker 1: So it was just it was just awesome, very hard
Speaker 1: felt and uh, they give a little emotional towards the
Speaker 1: towards well. Good good stuff, man, good stuff. We're looking
Speaker 1: forward to you to getting down here and and getting
Speaker 1: to work. You know, you have a chance to meet
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, Coach Gaze and the rest of the
Speaker 1: guys and your defensive back coach. Um, how did you
Speaker 1: feel about that? That that that relationship. I know it's
Speaker 1: kind of a you've kind of been on a little
Speaker 1: bit of a whirlwind trip when you were down for that,
Speaker 1: But um, what we're able to get out of that
Speaker 1: and get a feel for the staff that you're gonna
Speaker 1: be dealing with. Oh. The crazy thing is I talked
Speaker 1: to him place before they had drafted. I talked to
Speaker 1: him that combine. I talked to coach uh Tony Oltan
Speaker 1: one time. Uh, I think I talked to Scout five.
Speaker 1: It was very red scout questions. But um, but you
Speaker 1: know it kind of came as the product of me.
Speaker 1: But after that day and I'll call me guesterday, I
Speaker 1: talked to the to the to the owner, to the coach,
Speaker 1: Coach Gates and you know, you're just getting a steel
Speaker 1: from me. Tell him we just thanks for me coming
Speaker 1: in and uh and and really it was UM, you
Speaker 1: know he's just ready for me to get down there
Speaker 1: as well as I am. But just get down there
Speaker 1: and do what I do. You know, Mr Ross got
Speaker 1: some extra cash, will make sure you get yours and
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna. I know you're gonna work out. Hey, UM,
Speaker 1: let me talk to ask me asked this last question
Speaker 1: for you. Uh you new New Jersey guy. Parents in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, were they hoping you'd uh you you hook
Speaker 1: up with the Jets or the Giants? You know, we
Speaker 1: love you love New Jersey, but Jerseys. Uh, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not actually nothing I say that I would have
Speaker 1: been happening anyway. You know, New Jerseys our home stage
Speaker 1: is our home stacee. So there has been uh, it's
Speaker 1: been cool playing back there, and I have a lot
Speaker 1: of family there, a lot of uh, a lot of
Speaker 1: people that you know, it's been there from the beginning,
Speaker 1: uh with me. So they're a little bit cool just
Speaker 1: being able to play out there. That's right. It's a
Speaker 1: short flight down to uh, it's a short flight down
Speaker 1: to South Florida, and South Florida is a lot more
Speaker 1: enjoyable than than uh than New Jersey. All through New
Speaker 1: Jersey is not bad, but it's it's not South Florida,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure they're gonna look forward to the trips
Speaker 1: coming down on here for a little weekend for the
Speaker 1: games down here will be nice, all right, Hey, make
Speaker 1: congratulations again on on being drafted by the Dolphins. An
Speaker 1: outstanding college career. Really, you know, and I know everyone
Speaker 1: here with this franchise is so happy to have you
Speaker 1: here and expecting a lot of a lot of big
Speaker 1: things out. You're looking forward to meeting you when you
Speaker 1: come down in person, and I just want to thank
Speaker 1: you for spend a little time with us here today. Alright.
Speaker 1: To make Fitzpatrick John you had a chance to listen
Speaker 1: to him, had a chance to speak to him here
Speaker 1: on on the program. Good kids, solid background, and you
Speaker 1: know what I like, he got a little You're not
Speaker 1: you know, he's not you're not eating your face cockey guy.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I liked about him that he
Speaker 1: said from the beginning, Hey, I got a couple of rings,
Speaker 1: but I got I got room for I need to
Speaker 1: fill this hand up. I want to go to the
Speaker 1: other hand. That's right, and you get you can do
Speaker 1: it when you have players like that, when you start
Speaker 1: stacking up quality players that have played in the big
Speaker 1: games and that don't have any of those signs that
Speaker 1: say gives you any hesitation that why you would want
Speaker 1: him on this football team. I think that's why Chris
Speaker 1: Greer and Mike Tanne Mom and Adam Gaze, they were
Speaker 1: able to go, hey, this is easy for us. You
Speaker 1: know this guy is gonna fall to eleven. We've got
Speaker 1: an instant starter for as long as he's a Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1: As long as we can find a way to make
Speaker 1: our defense better and the players that we have on
Speaker 1: the roster finding those chess pieces and moving them around
Speaker 1: for certain situations or schemes or different teams you're playing against,
Speaker 1: that guy is gonna be one of the guys that
Speaker 1: other teams are gonna circle say we have the game
Speaker 1: plan for him. I was happy to see that his
Speaker 1: name called, and I think almost jumped up and down
Speaker 1: when I heard Mike Gaziki's name called, because you know,
Speaker 1: that was the guy we we have talked about in
Speaker 1: the show that you know there there's no question that
Speaker 1: this team needed a tight end that can go down
Speaker 1: the field. And I've heard these people, oh, he can't
Speaker 1: block bullshit. I don't care. I don't care if he
Speaker 1: can block or can't block. You need a guy to
Speaker 1: score points and you got to move the chains. And
Speaker 1: this guy is athletic of a guy that was in
Speaker 1: the draft. I mean, you're watching, you know, watching slam Duncan.
Speaker 1: Basketball's played, volleyball, um, great hands, goes up for the football.
Speaker 1: I couldn't have been more pleased with that pick. He's
Speaker 1: a long strider. You mentioned all the attributes about being
Speaker 1: able to get off the ground and win uh contested
Speaker 1: passes in the air. Usually he's gonna come down with it.
Speaker 1: I've watched him play all last season, and the one
Speaker 1: thing that he does do is he's going to put
Speaker 1: himself in between the football and the defensive back or
Speaker 1: the linebacker or the corner, whoever that is, wherever he's
Speaker 1: lined up. If he's flexed out, he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do that because of his athletic nature, because of
Speaker 1: that basketball box out type of mentality, or that volleyball
Speaker 1: get off the ground and come down with a little velocity.
Speaker 1: He comes down with the football on those throws, which
Speaker 1: is so awesome to see. And I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: haven't had a guy like that at tight end in
Speaker 1: such a long time. You mentioned the inability to block.
Speaker 1: We've got others hopefully on this roster that will get
Speaker 1: to maybe a little bit that can block. Uh So
Speaker 1: I'm not so worried about that. Another thing this does
Speaker 1: boa it gives Adam Gaze the opportunity to go into
Speaker 1: two traditional sets with another tight end, or go with
Speaker 1: Kasicki and split him outside. So you vary whether you're
Speaker 1: in red zone, whether you're crossing the fifty, whether you're
Speaker 1: coming out. You put more pressure on defenses because you
Speaker 1: can do that many more things with this type of personnelity.
Speaker 1: Well you look at how many times um Adam moved out, Um,
Speaker 1: what's our tight end from last Julius Thomas put him
Speaker 1: out in situations where he was a mismatch and the
Speaker 1: mismatch was there, it was there, but he just couldn't
Speaker 1: make a connection. Either he short armed the ball or
Speaker 1: didn't catch it or whatever, this or that, And so
Speaker 1: you can see how that's gonna work with a guy
Speaker 1: like this. This guy catch the ball, this guy go
Speaker 1: after the ball. This guy. I don't see this guy
Speaker 1: getting knocked down by a defensive back if he's got
Speaker 1: you know, if he if he's got some running room
Speaker 1: out there, and the guy comes up and you know,
Speaker 1: and and tries to breathe on him alone, not even close.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that that no is leverage.
Speaker 1: He knows leverage. He he knows how to use his body.
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of his biggest attributes is
Speaker 1: going down the field. And as a quarterback, when you're
Speaker 1: throwing to a type of guy like that, you're not
Speaker 1: concerned about getting the tip pass or or maybe shortening
Speaker 1: up a router. He knows the frame his body, you know,
Speaker 1: behind and in front of the defender, and keep that
Speaker 1: football out away from his body. You talk about a
Speaker 1: catch radius from this guy. He throws his hands up.
Speaker 1: He's almost like eight foot tall. This is a large
Speaker 1: human at six five, he's around two fifty and he
Speaker 1: maybe he takes a little while to get going, but
Speaker 1: once he gets going, this guy can create space in
Speaker 1: the secondary. The other thing about it is, you know
Speaker 1: guys coming out from Penn State. Um, you know every
Speaker 1: guy I've been around, Um, you know Jimmy cepho O,
Speaker 1: j McDuffie, um, everybody that's been around Troy Drayton. I
Speaker 1: mean everybody that I've run across guys that have come
Speaker 1: out of Penn State, Matton Mill and all those guys.
Speaker 1: You know, they're just good solid and some good solid people.
Speaker 1: You know, those guys are I went to pitt So
Speaker 1: it's tough for me to say all that stuff. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Those guys are the same type of people.
Speaker 1: They just wore different colors exactly. They're the same type
Speaker 1: of guys. And all the thugs and we had all
Speaker 1: our guys, we were able to get out of jail
Speaker 1: little easier than the Penn State guys. But the one
Speaker 1: thing I will say is they're all cut from the
Speaker 1: same cloth in terms of hard work. Don't shortcut it.
Speaker 1: Say how you feel, be who you are. You don't
Speaker 1: have to put a facade around you, and just go
Speaker 1: to work. Go to work and do your job. That's
Speaker 1: what those guys are good at. And that's why you
Speaker 1: go to places like Alabama and Penn State, in Ohio
Speaker 1: State and Notre Dame because they get it. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna they're not gonna hang around there. They're either gonna
Speaker 1: quit or they're gonna find a way to get it done.
Speaker 1: Those guys find a way to get Then they go
Speaker 1: in the third round to get Jerome Baker, linebacker round
Speaker 1: Ohio States, speed guy. And you know what else he
Speaker 1: played with Kwon McMillan. They they they know each other.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be lined up together with each other. They've
Speaker 1: been lined up with each other. They know how each
Speaker 1: other plays. And I know it's a different league, and
Speaker 1: I know it's a it's they're a little but that familiarity,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go away, and it certainly is gonna be
Speaker 1: an advantage. I think so. And and for Jerome to
Speaker 1: come out. When I saw the highlights of this guy
Speaker 1: during the draft, I wasn't sure if he was a
Speaker 1: strong safety, if he was a linebacker, because he's not
Speaker 1: a big guy at six one, two thirty. But the
Speaker 1: speed from sideline to sideline, run and hit, it's all
Speaker 1: he does. And can cover a wide receiver, can cover
Speaker 1: a slot, can cover a tight end, can cover the
Speaker 1: running backs. Where has been the glaring deficiency on this
Speaker 1: football team? You could name a few of them. One
Speaker 1: at the top of the list. Covering tight ends and
Speaker 1: getting open as a tight end. That to me, that
Speaker 1: to me is problem one, and problem to there's other
Speaker 1: there's other issues, certainly. But when you said you glaring,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean put at the top of the list,
Speaker 1: number one, and you could put one in one aver
Speaker 1: the tight end. Get a tight end, the canqutching football,
Speaker 1: and that's the biggest thing. So I I look at
Speaker 1: this draft, and you know, you you always get the
Speaker 1: draft knicks everybody. It's a mine as well, it's a D,
Speaker 1: it's a C mine as well, it's a B plus.
Speaker 1: It's somewhere above sea and it's somewhere probably blow an
Speaker 1: A plus or an A minus depending on how these
Speaker 1: guys pan out. But you can take a look at
Speaker 1: this draft each pick and go, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: better than I thought. Yeah, maybe that is a bet.
Speaker 1: I look at that. Maybe that's up there with some
Speaker 1: of the other people around the league. They're are assembling
Speaker 1: all this talent you've got. You address every need on
Speaker 1: this football team with the draft, and I look, you
Speaker 1: go down. I'm not gonna you go down the fourth,
Speaker 1: fourth pick with the fourth round with the running back.
Speaker 1: You know, I look at him, I look at Smithes,
Speaker 1: I look at the rest of those guys. Uh, you
Speaker 1: don't you don't need to redo that if you say, hey,
Speaker 1: we can redo those guys. I can and I'm fine good,
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm pretty good with those guys. We don't
Speaker 1: need to redo, you know, we shuffle. You don't need
Speaker 1: to re stack the deck here with these guys because
Speaker 1: you need a young guy that's a big running back.
Speaker 1: This guy is a big running back at six to
Speaker 1: eight pounds. He's his upside is huge. I think catch
Speaker 1: it out of the backfield. He can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things that Damien maybe didn't in the offense, so
Speaker 1: better maybe got a younger guy, not a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, a whole lot of tread. He goes to
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, felt like he was undervalued a little
Speaker 1: bit because no one was talking about him. Everybody was
Speaker 1: talking about other guys at his position. I think they
Speaker 1: did a great job in finding a running back that
Speaker 1: doesn't have a whole lot of wear and tear, that
Speaker 1: has a huge upside. And with Frank Gore being here
Speaker 1: in year one, we always talked about Kenyan Drake, what
Speaker 1: can he draw from Frank Gore? Well, you know, you
Speaker 1: think Kaitlin's gonna be able to sit there and soak
Speaker 1: up some of how I how to how to work
Speaker 1: as a pro, how to run routes as a pro,
Speaker 1: how to block, pass protect, and study as a pro.
Speaker 1: Absolutely have three guys, three guys there there that they're multitalented.
Speaker 1: They can run, they can block, they can catch the football,
Speaker 1: do all the things you need to do. But then
Speaker 1: you've got a guy in Frank Gore that can be
Speaker 1: that the guy has been there, done that, and done
Speaker 1: it at the highest level that these guys can really
Speaker 1: looked up to. And you know, we we heard him
Speaker 1: when he's out. He was more than willing to help
Speaker 1: and teach these guys what it means to be the
Speaker 1: type of pro that he's been during his career. And
Speaker 1: I think I don't want to short change Frank. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a role. No, absolutely, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his touches, he's gonna get his catches,
Speaker 1: you know, pass protection, all the things that he's done
Speaker 1: throughout his career. But I do think one of his
Speaker 1: biggest roles are going to be showing these guys how
Speaker 1: to go in on a on a Wednesday, on a
Speaker 1: Thursday when maybe coming off of a loss or maybe
Speaker 1: a short week, and how to how to take care
Speaker 1: of your body, how to do things, how to study,
Speaker 1: how to look, how about how to heal up. I
Speaker 1: mean these guys. You get one of these guys carries
Speaker 1: the ball to and sometimes a game, they wake up
Speaker 1: the next morning and they can feel it. You figure
Speaker 1: out how to get yourself ready to go and be
Speaker 1: back at full speed. And he's certainly a guy that
Speaker 1: that knows how to do that. Absolutely. So I think
Speaker 1: the team when you talk about bow at the start
Speaker 1: of the show about the last two draft classes, this
Speaker 1: one is as good or better in terms of on paper,
Speaker 1: looking at the type of athletes that we have, looking
Speaker 1: at the deficiencies of this football team, and finding out
Speaker 1: finding quality players to plug and play. In year one,
Speaker 1: you go, So let's step back to the early the
Speaker 1: first fourth round pick, and we touched on it live
Speaker 1: with the tight end. You got to get a big
Speaker 1: guy in Durham Smith that Notre Dame tied end. Now
Speaker 1: you know he could catch, but he ain't here to catch.
Speaker 1: I mean this this fulfills the and I've heard all
Speaker 1: the well yeah, but you know, if he goes in
Speaker 1: the game, they loved looking. I've known about two and
Speaker 1: three tight end sets. He loves the two and three
Speaker 1: tight end sets. So if you're gonna play multiple tight ends,
Speaker 1: whether it's two, whether it's three, what does it matter
Speaker 1: if one's a blocker and one's a catch, right, doesn't
Speaker 1: you know? Well? What happens when you're going up against
Speaker 1: a five ten corner you come out in a three
Speaker 1: tight end set. All of a sudden, Gisicky splits out wide?
Speaker 1: Who goes with the linebacker? Does the corner stay out there?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Do you replace a linebacker and
Speaker 1: put him out there? You don't want a corner against
Speaker 1: the run game. But if you have a mismatch now
Speaker 1: going into that set and all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: motion or change formation, the advantages to the miamis, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: you do the same thing. You can also do the
Speaker 1: same thing by putting two tailbacks back there because they
Speaker 1: can both run, they can care. I mean you really
Speaker 1: you know, I what I really like And I've always
Speaker 1: liked teams where they where you have multiple options with
Speaker 1: the personnel that you put in there, and you can
Speaker 1: do it. And I think the Dolphins both at the
Speaker 1: tight end spot, at the running back spot as well
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver spot, I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of different things you can do with pairings
Speaker 1: and packages. You know, it was funny when when Dirham
Speaker 1: Smith was drafted as a member now of the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: when we had our top five at each position, we're
Speaker 1: going through that series through the off season. I put
Speaker 1: him in I think it is No. Or three or
Speaker 1: number four, and a lot of people kind of said, well,
Speaker 1: who is this guy? You know, I don't even really
Speaker 1: have that much to do. He only caught fifteen passes
Speaker 1: where he only did this or only did that. I
Speaker 1: watched him at the Senior Bowl. He moves a little
Speaker 1: bit better than you think, especially in the red zone.
Speaker 1: He's able to frame his body just like a sick
Speaker 1: he does. He's able to go up. He's a big
Speaker 1: guy at six five. Maybe he's not as fast, but
Speaker 1: I know he can catch the football. I think he
Speaker 1: was just underutilized in the Notre Dame offense. But what
Speaker 1: they were asking look look for. Really for Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: he was a glorified tackle. He was because they had
Speaker 1: those big five offensive linement, big huge, massive lineman and
Speaker 1: then you put him out there and then they wanted
Speaker 1: to run the football to power running for the quarterback
Speaker 1: round the ball. Well, their tailback round the ball, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: fullback and another one at the script. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think then you know there's another fit. Now add to
Speaker 1: it to the quarterback from Southern miss Cornell Armstrong, Quentin Pulling,
Speaker 1: another linebacker from Ohio and Jason Sanders a kicker. I
Speaker 1: think it rounds. Look, you needed a kicker, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't have one of the roster when going into
Speaker 1: the draft. You did that, and so I I just, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, now I'm now that the drafts over me.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to seeing these guys on the
Speaker 1: field and really watching them and seeing what they can do. Well.
Speaker 1: It'll be fun getting to know these guys. They come
Speaker 1: in probably in about seven days, we'll be able to
Speaker 1: interview them, talk to them a little bit about their
Speaker 1: college experience, talk to him about the draft, talk to
Speaker 1: him about their expectations about being a member of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and what the what the thrill it was
Speaker 1: to hear their name called number one, and now putting
Speaker 1: that behind them, getting into a playbook with all the
Speaker 1: rest of the rookies and the undrafted free agents and
Speaker 1: and the veterans on this football team and trying to
Speaker 1: become one and trying to trying to make this another
Speaker 1: draft class. That just adds you know, you you talk
Speaker 1: always in football bow about stacking back to back plays together,
Speaker 1: you know, positive plays together. You don't want that negative play. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the Miami Dolphins in the draft at least
Speaker 1: may not have shown last year with their record, but
Speaker 1: they've stacked back to back to back. Now, draft where
Speaker 1: you've got quality players at a young age that can
Speaker 1: give you continuity as an organization, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Let's get to some of the questions that the people
Speaker 1: have got it in and thank you guys for sending
Speaker 1: your questions. And by the way, you can send him
Speaker 1: in through Twitter. You can send him in through Facebook,
Speaker 1: and we'll go ahead and try to get him on
Speaker 1: in the program at Robert Frank's thirty two off Twitter.
Speaker 1: I love the tape of running back Canna Bellage, but
Speaker 1: I want to see if he can do that against
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's gonna need help from Gore and Drake,
Speaker 1: especially Gore. Um. Look, you know we talked about Minka
Speaker 1: Kelly or Minca Fitzpatrick. I did a show the other
Speaker 1: day and the guy kept calling Mika Mika Kelly rightly
Speaker 1: down in it drops. I think, I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: he's not as good looking as Mika Kelly, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna go with with his right name maybe anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you've got you've got guys in there at
Speaker 1: that position that uh that or that are at the
Speaker 1: running back position that can do a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Uh and and I just think that it all have
Speaker 1: different talents and could do multiple things. And I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we talked about Gore and what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do with Drake and uh and Blage. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting. In the tape we saw of
Speaker 1: Blage at Arizona State, you watched him line up in
Speaker 1: wildcat and run for eight touchdowns against Texas Tech. Four
Speaker 1: of them were in the wildcat formation. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was it was unbelievable to see this guy take a snap.
Speaker 1: We've his way through touchdown all in the red zone.
Speaker 1: So you you have a guy that potentially can give
Speaker 1: you another formation in the red zone, potentially do some
Speaker 1: other things than just line up as a tailback. But
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a large learning curve for any
Speaker 1: running back. Even when you go to see Kwon Barkley
Speaker 1: about past protection, about identification, about being able to hit
Speaker 1: the whole a certain way, you know, other than you
Speaker 1: did it at Arizona State, in different way than he
Speaker 1: did it at Penn State. There's a big learning curve.
Speaker 1: I think for running backs that people just think I'll
Speaker 1: line him up in the backfield, let him go downhill
Speaker 1: off tackle, and we should be fine. There. There's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit more complicated about the way they want
Speaker 1: you to hit the hole, in the timing at which
Speaker 1: you do that. So a lot to learn, but I
Speaker 1: like his upside. Marty Ridgeway and Facebook. We'll see in
Speaker 1: two to three years, once these players have had a
Speaker 1: chance to make an impact, all the hyperbole in the
Speaker 1: world doesn't mean squat. Once the players hit the field
Speaker 1: and the ball gets snapped, we look. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: who it is. I can tell you this, I'd be
Speaker 1: a lot more nervous about my first round draft pick
Speaker 1: if we had drafted any one of those quarterbacks. Really,
Speaker 1: the only guy that I had a full belief in
Speaker 1: was Baker Mayfield. I just liked him. I liked his personality,
Speaker 1: I like the way carried himself. I like the factory
Speaker 1: one everywhere. I mean I I liked him. I liked
Speaker 1: his feistiness. I like all that. The other other guys,
Speaker 1: the two guys from from Southern cal and U. C.
Speaker 1: L A. Darling Rose and I just never You know,
Speaker 1: Donald doesn't look like a great fit from the outside
Speaker 1: looking into the Jets, because it's almost you're putting that
Speaker 1: you gotta surfer dude. In my opinion, the way he talks,
Speaker 1: the way he carries himself, the way he does things.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you've got the let's get you know,
Speaker 1: do it today or else you're you're your ass is out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that's the fan in New York. And that's
Speaker 1: in the pressure of that going into it when you
Speaker 1: don't have that maybe thick enough New York Northeast skin
Speaker 1: in terms of taking the criticism. Whereas out West, big deal.
Speaker 1: I grew up out West. I played all my college
Speaker 1: football out West. You wouldn't lose a college football game
Speaker 1: out West. And it's about a thirty minute conversation after that,
Speaker 1: I say, let's let's go back and let's go to
Speaker 1: the Beast. Let's go you know, it's not were you
Speaker 1: South Southeast Conference, Big you're your weekend, your weak, miserable
Speaker 1: all week long. There, It's like, you know, go get
Speaker 1: some shardonnay and everything, you'll be fine tonight. At uh
Speaker 1: Twitter at three of a kind oflphin picks look good
Speaker 1: on paper, Let's see how they perform the next level.
Speaker 1: We kind of feel that one thing is for sure,
Speaker 1: leadership and character. We're on the thoughts of our brass. Well. Look,
Speaker 1: I think it's that that begin during free agency, that
Speaker 1: begin when they started jetting, letting guys go, and Dominican
Speaker 1: sue Jarvis Landry. I'm not I'm not saying that Jarvis
Speaker 1: is a bad guy. I don't I don't think that
Speaker 1: Dominican was the team guy. I don't say he's a
Speaker 1: bad guy, but I just don't think he was the
Speaker 1: team type of guy. Then maybe they wanted to have
Speaker 1: out of the out of a guy like that, but
Speaker 1: Jarvis was you know, we don't know a Jarvis, but
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, but I do. I think this is all.
Speaker 1: I think They've got guys all certainly in the very
Speaker 1: top of that class. All guys are very high caliber,
Speaker 1: played at very good schools to demand a lot of
Speaker 1: team captains that multiple years go down to the seventh round.
Speaker 1: Quentin Polling team captain multiple years. You can go through
Speaker 1: every one of these guys. Kasicki. I heard a pre
Speaker 1: draft interview. Hey, if you were going to go somewhere,
Speaker 1: where you going, well, I'm taking Big Mike with us.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that's coming with us. I
Speaker 1: think Chris Career maybe said that from from his press conference.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of guys that you can look at. Yes,
Speaker 1: talents one thing. Character is another thing, and you gotta
Speaker 1: try to blend that together. You hope they have that
Speaker 1: those types of kids, those types of fibers about who
Speaker 1: they are as an individual. I think got that up
Speaker 1: and down well. And I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about character and leadership and all those things that
Speaker 1: are going on. But you've gotta have a couple of
Speaker 1: guys out there to have a couple of screws loose
Speaker 1: in them, right, You've got you gotta have those guys
Speaker 1: out on the team somewhere that are well. I'm sure
Speaker 1: these guys go into a different zone even though they
Speaker 1: may have their ship together at certain at a certain point,
Speaker 1: you've got to turn that switch on. Just be a
Speaker 1: football player. Just be an athlete and kind of go
Speaker 1: off the rails, but you don't have to go all
Speaker 1: the way off Twitter at Alonso at oh Alonso, eleven
Speaker 1: oh five. This class hasn't making it one of the
Speaker 1: best in years. First and second round picks, immediate starts,
Speaker 1: third round of drawn. Baker probably going to be a
Speaker 1: major contributor on passing down great job. Look, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if he if he's not another guy that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a chance to challenge for that starting spot,
Speaker 1: because it really right now, they got they got nobody
Speaker 1: over the question mark. Yes, it's it's up for grabs.
Speaker 1: There's a spot open with a bunch of names underneath it,
Speaker 1: and who's gonna be able to take seventy percent? If
Speaker 1: you want to see the dog fighting training camp, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be at that. It's gonna be at that outside
Speaker 1: line linebacker. And also you have to remember off of
Speaker 1: this football team. Yes, Walt Dakins was resigned in the
Speaker 1: off season, but who's gonna take the spot of Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas going down like a bandit on special teams and
Speaker 1: being the leader out there, being the young guy that
Speaker 1: can run down Because I know, you're not gonna take
Speaker 1: your starting middle linebacker who got hurt three plays into
Speaker 1: the preseason and put them on any special teams. But
Speaker 1: you can go down that list. Bow there's a number
Speaker 1: of number of guys, uh that aren't going to play
Speaker 1: special teams. On defense, you need a Jerome Baker that
Speaker 1: can play on third down rundown on special teams. You
Speaker 1: want a guy like Village that can go down and
Speaker 1: tackle on special teams and cover. You may need a
Speaker 1: Quentin Polling or whoever that undrafted free agent. We've been
Speaker 1: lucky in the past three years to get Mike Hall.
Speaker 1: You can go down the list there, you know, with
Speaker 1: Chase Allen, you can go down that list who's gonna
Speaker 1: show up on special teams because that's a big part
Speaker 1: of these guys making the team and no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Facebook Tyler z I Tek, what's the biggest surprise for
Speaker 1: you guys during the draft? Either a player we drafted
Speaker 1: or a player we passed on? Um? I really, you
Speaker 1: know in our draft this draft, I really don't see
Speaker 1: much of a surprise. I thought Baker Mayfield going one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a surprise for me
Speaker 1: because it only came out. But what before draft night,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, we were thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: he might slip to a level it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: decision for the Miami Dolphins. Do we take a quarterback
Speaker 1: in Baker Mayfield? Because everybody said that's the one, you know,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins really like. But I thought that was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a surprise for me. Huh, John, let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, um um, as far as um,
Speaker 1: as far as those quarterbacks and where they went, um,
Speaker 1: you surprised at all at the buffalo jumping in front
Speaker 1: to make that that that move. That must have been
Speaker 1: the guy they wanted. And you know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot more teams wanted to make. That's the point I'm
Speaker 1: getting at. Do you think the Dolphins You think the
Speaker 1: Dolphins through this whole process had a commitment to those
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or was it I think they I think I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I think that they had a commitment to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. It was Baker Mayfield, and I think they
Speaker 1: were kind of lukewarm on every one of those other guys.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree. I think Josh Allen they were
Speaker 1: more intriguing. They may have because of his size, because
Speaker 1: of the way he throws the football because you think,
Speaker 1: you know what, if he had to play in a
Speaker 1: couple of games with a limited offense, a limited play sheet,
Speaker 1: I'd rather go in with him no one. He could
Speaker 1: stand in there and throw it and be okay, and
Speaker 1: maybe a raw weather game at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: or a home game where you just need to manage
Speaker 1: it and kind of sling it out there. I think
Speaker 1: they probably felt okay with him too, but I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it was probably lukewarm on on the other
Speaker 1: guys Twitter, Alfredo Polar, I don't understand what we took
Speaker 1: a tight end of the second and fourth rounds. Have
Speaker 1: you let me ask you, did you watch the did
Speaker 1: you watch the super Bowl and see who made the
Speaker 1: plays in the super Bowl, or if you watched the
Speaker 1: Dolphins in the last couple of years he watched us
Speaker 1: in the red zone, or potentially when about the tight end, Alfredo,
Speaker 1: you you need to do a little more homework, bro.
Speaker 1: If you're upset that the Dolphins took it tight end.
Speaker 1: And second, I can understand what you're If you're saying,
Speaker 1: maybe why the second in the four white two and
Speaker 1: win two around, I can understand that, But you've got
Speaker 1: one guy that blocks, you've got one guy that catches.
Speaker 1: And uh and look again, as I'll said, I'll said
Speaker 1: time and time again in this league. Right now, give
Speaker 1: me the guy that can catch the ball. We'll worry
Speaker 1: about someone put Sam Young in there to block it. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: the way teams have been doing it is they go
Speaker 1: almost to an empty or a one back and they
Speaker 1: eliminate the box. You have to spread out as a defense,
Speaker 1: and that's why you don't account for the tight end
Speaker 1: blocking anybody, because that player is removed from the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Facebook. Leon Saunders not to be confused with
Speaker 1: Leon Gonzalez a kicker. Really, So you're telling me there
Speaker 1: were no kickers during free agency and you wasted a
Speaker 1: draft pick on a kicker instead of a wide receiver
Speaker 1: or safety. Someone please explain, Leon. Let me try to explain,
Speaker 1: because now I'm starting to think that is our Leon
Speaker 1: is kind of on there with this, it sounds so
Speaker 1: give me. Tell me if I'm wrong, John, tell me
Speaker 1: if I'm Leon is always wrong, but tell me if
Speaker 1: this Leon is wrong too. But tell me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Going in that draft. I'm trying to look I don't
Speaker 1: think we had a kicker on the roster. We didn't, No, no,
Speaker 1: but we took a kicker. Well, why would we take
Speaker 1: a kicker in the draft then? Because we needed one?
Speaker 1: Oh right, that's the light. The light goes on a
Speaker 1: little bit. We drafted a kicker in the seventh draft
Speaker 1: because we don't have one, not even have one on
Speaker 1: the roster. We couldn't come off. And sometimes people are
Speaker 1: jag offs when they you know, these questions. This, that's
Speaker 1: a jag off question your Pittsburgh that's a jag off move, right,
Speaker 1: that's a jag off bad. So So if you're gonna
Speaker 1: so you'd rather not in the seventh round, your last
Speaker 1: pick in the draft, why not why not take a
Speaker 1: and or go or go into free agency and get
Speaker 1: one those scrappy kickers out there and then get three,
Speaker 1: get three of those. Yeah, and it's probably not over yet.
Speaker 1: You're probably gonna see two more, maybe two other guys
Speaker 1: come in during either O T A S or after
Speaker 1: June one or in training camp to compete for this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a pretty stupid question there, Leon, But you know,
Speaker 1: but keep sending him in. My friend, he looked at
Speaker 1: the kicking situation but over the last two years of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, you think you got a young guy, you
Speaker 1: draft a guy, you let him go for another young
Speaker 1: guy who did an outstanding job. He gets released and
Speaker 1: we were fortunate last year with Cody Park They the
Speaker 1: Bears pay him an enormous, enormous amount of money. So
Speaker 1: now you have a question mark at that position, you
Speaker 1: try to fill it with a guy that has a
Speaker 1: strong leg and has some upset. He's done pretty well
Speaker 1: money wise over the last few years, having good He's
Speaker 1: done all right. Facebook Darren Smith, remember how much Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey has improved the Jags defense, as did Marcus Peters
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs. Make it can do the same for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I can't argue with that. I mean, you gotta,
Speaker 1: you gotta. You got a guy that's a ball hawk,
Speaker 1: he's a hitter, he can blitz, he can he can do.
Speaker 1: Guy can do everything for you. And and it frees
Speaker 1: you up a little bit. With t J McDonald back
Speaker 1: there too, where you know you you can if you
Speaker 1: have you have all three of those guys in the game.
Speaker 1: One time, you can put t J up on the line.
Speaker 1: You can put a shot up in the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean they're they're just the the different
Speaker 1: things you can do with that secondary. Now you've got
Speaker 1: three you know, I I I to me me because
Speaker 1: a corner slash safety safety more so you can play corner.
Speaker 1: But you put three guys in there. Now you've got
Speaker 1: one guy that's different than the other two just gives
Speaker 1: you different options and just different opportunities from from depending
Speaker 1: on what team you're playing and what you're gonna face.
Speaker 1: But when you look at the positions on the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and you would rate, Okay, this guy is our best player.
Speaker 1: He's our best football player. Rashan Jones thirty one years old.
Speaker 1: He's not going trending younger. Now does he play thirty one?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. He's plays with like his hair is on fire. Okay,
Speaker 1: now who's our next best? But I don't know, Cam Wake,
Speaker 1: what's he thirty five, thirty six? Uh? And then you go,
Speaker 1: who's our next best player? I don't know. Pick pick
Speaker 1: pick a position, pick a players at Ryan Tannehill, he
Speaker 1: hasn't played in nineteen months. So if you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get potentially seven eighth best player on your
Speaker 1: roster as a rookie coming in and being impactful that
Speaker 1: can be here for four or five, seven, eight years.
Speaker 1: Maybe like like Rashot, you get a guy like Fitzpatrick Facebook,
Speaker 1: James T. Mangual. Uh, we've added some solid pieces. Let's
Speaker 1: stay positive and avoid injuries. Hopefully McMillan comes back and
Speaker 1: the defense can step it up. A f C S
Speaker 1: is getting better. We need a mass talent. Well, they
Speaker 1: all got They all got quarterbacks. Now you know everyone's
Speaker 1: stockpiler quarterbacks this year. The Jets got him, the Bill's
Speaker 1: got him. We know what to sit in New England
Speaker 1: situation up there, and and for us, you know, with
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is pretty clear that he's the guy. And
Speaker 1: and uh, look I have all I have all the
Speaker 1: faith in the world, and and Ryan Tannehill ay that
Speaker 1: he's gonna come back healthy, uh, and that he's gonna
Speaker 1: come back and play at the level that he did
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and sixteen when he had his
Speaker 1: best year under Adam Gaze. There's no guarantee that all
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks that were drafted in the first come out
Speaker 1: and light it on fire number one, and you mentioned play, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how how much are they going to be able to
Speaker 1: get up to speed to be the guy. Now you've
Speaker 1: got you've got two teams in the a f C
Speaker 1: East that you're gonna face, and you're probably fortunate if
Speaker 1: you play early against the young quarterbacks, I know, you know,
Speaker 1: not not having the schedule in front of exactly exactly well,
Speaker 1: they're still trying to figure out what's going on going
Speaker 1: on the face of the game, speed of the game.
Speaker 1: Seeing the same jerseys is not like going up against
Speaker 1: somebody in week two, you know, at practice every day
Speaker 1: El Chapo Jr. Any surprise at all, always, any surprise
Speaker 1: at all that the Finns didn't go quarterback at all
Speaker 1: during the draft. I don't think so, because John I
Speaker 1: I don't think the day, you know, there was the
Speaker 1: the top four and then the next tier. I don't
Speaker 1: think they had any commitment to anybody in that next tier.
Speaker 1: And what's those first four guys went? It was you
Speaker 1: know what? Why? Why? Wait? Starless? Baker Mayfield fell to
Speaker 1: remiming Dolphins at eleven. The Dolphins were not going to
Speaker 1: take a quarterback if everyone was gone, because at that
Speaker 1: point there's too many needs on this football team. They
Speaker 1: didn't have the luxury they're picking the guy from Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State round two. They didn't have the luxury of picking
Speaker 1: another guy at three because all three of these needs
Speaker 1: the first three picks that needed to happen. The other thing, too,
Speaker 1: is there's no no need because none of those guys
Speaker 1: beyond the first four, we're gonna come in here and
Speaker 1: pressure and challenge Ryan Tannehill. They were gonna come in.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be clear backup the third team guy. Yeah, exactly. Now,
Speaker 1: if it was one of those other guys coming, I
Speaker 1: guarantee you if Baker Mayfield came in here, Ryan's pressure
Speaker 1: would be up there, he'd be pushing him. But those
Speaker 1: other guys, so why why bring him out? Why why
Speaker 1: haven't You're gonna have guys come and go at that position.
Speaker 1: I would think once training camp happens, you'll have four
Speaker 1: at least on the roster because you needed to practice,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have one veteran backup, experienced quarterback behind
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill. Archibald Park comes in from Facebook. This is
Speaker 1: the best draft we've had in decades. I wish we
Speaker 1: would have dressed linebacker first, but hopefully we pick up
Speaker 1: a few good phrases to sort, to sort through um
Speaker 1: if Rakkan Smith. That was it once he was gone,
Speaker 1: and then Tremaine. I did, I really did. I thought,
Speaker 1: because he's you know, he gives you a lot of
Speaker 1: but you know, not quite as ready to plug in.
Speaker 1: He's not yeah, no and not not not he's a
Speaker 1: step below the gonna be a great football players. But wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a plug in guy. And so I think
Speaker 1: we got three guys in the top of the draft
Speaker 1: that are plugging guys and and get them playing. Um,
Speaker 1: you go, you go after that. This so Archibald said,
Speaker 1: this was the best draft we've had in the decades.
Speaker 1: Greg Griffin from Facebook Average Draft. This team seems to
Speaker 1: have a pension for drafting players they think can play,
Speaker 1: they thinking to develop, versus players who can help them win. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I I thought the last two
Speaker 1: drafts for the Miami Dolphins were pretty good, and you
Speaker 1: could go down that roster and it's littered with with
Speaker 1: players that have come out of the last two drafts
Speaker 1: that are gonna be on this roster. I mean, just
Speaker 1: look at the defensive line. You get two fifth round
Speaker 1: draft choices that are gonna play significant snaps this year
Speaker 1: and one did last year and got Chaw. So you
Speaker 1: put Vincent Taylor up there, you're gonna have guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna be playing at a high level. But again
Speaker 1: it goes back to the last two years with the draft.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ended up with this one because you really
Speaker 1: can't after this, You can't, Doug Bakehorn, what facebook is it?
Speaker 1: Is it just me? No, he's he's holed up in
Speaker 1: the um? Is it just me? Or is this the
Speaker 1: most ho hum draft in the history of the franchise. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just you. Outside of Fitzpatrick. I don't see anyone
Speaker 1: make an impact beyond special teams. Yeah, Doug, it's just you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play seventy eight players on special then cover
Speaker 1: team this year. You know, it's it's funny, it is.
Speaker 1: It's funny to me, how you know. Look, look, maybe
Speaker 1: it's maybe it's maybe it's what Maybe it's what this
Speaker 1: team deserves, this franchise deserves, because they haven't been as
Speaker 1: good as as people have expected to be for a
Speaker 1: long but but you finally got somebody. You finally got
Speaker 1: I think a group in there that are Willingas we
Speaker 1: said earlier, let's gonna ride this thing out. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna We're not gonna throw her and off the ship,
Speaker 1: you know, because because we had a bad season, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get going to get the right people and uh
Speaker 1: and like I said, we're gonna be patient. Man. I
Speaker 1: think this draft showed a couple of things. And one
Speaker 1: thing is they stuck to their needs of the football
Speaker 1: team and got the best players available at those positions.
Speaker 1: And it's it's littered, especially the first three picks, and
Speaker 1: you can even add the first five picks the two
Speaker 1: in the fourth round. They got depth at positions of weakness.
Speaker 1: They have potential starters and the other two positions you
Speaker 1: can't argue with that. Don you ever listen to this
Speaker 1: on Apple Music? H Well, you know what, when Joe
Speaker 1: text me and tells me it's gonna drop, I usually
Speaker 1: kind of because that's Joey. He just wants to know
Speaker 1: about the draw. Yeah, yeah, I usually. But you go
Speaker 1: on Dolphins dot com because that's where else can you
Speaker 1: hear it on the Dolphins that that that app, that
Speaker 1: mobile app is a really nice app. Yeah, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I look at the cheerleaders all the time on it,
Speaker 1: and well, I mean, and my car I go to
Speaker 1: tune in radio. Yeah, that's tune in. It says at
Speaker 1: all we're tuned in. You gotta tune in. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: tune out while I'm tuning in, but I'm always tuned down.
Speaker 1: I'm usuing. Hey. By the way, next week, Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: Adam Gay is gonna join us UH live on here
Speaker 1: for UH for a conversation this year. That should be fun,
Speaker 1: Thanks coach. But if you sent shitty questions in Tommy,
Speaker 1: we're gonna Darren Smith. We're on Darren. Who's the one
Speaker 1: that sent these questions? The last the last guy he
Speaker 1: didn't like Leon, Leon, Leon. It has to be it's
Speaker 1: gotta be good. Yeah, No, nobody's well. I think that's sorry,
Speaker 1: trying to get to the other two. So Leon, wasn't
Speaker 1: it Leon, Doug Bighorn and Greg Griffin. You guys are
Speaker 1: all banded. You can't listen to the podcast next week.
Speaker 1: You're you're on a one week You got your there
Speaker 1: on one week time out during time out. In fact,
Speaker 1: when we dropped, we drop on Thursdays on Thursday for
Speaker 1: one hour at some point during the day. I want
Speaker 1: you guys to put your nose in the corner, sit
Speaker 1: in the corner with a chair, don't talk to anybody
Speaker 1: for an hour, and then you then you can come
Speaker 1: out of time out. I think that's where time out there.
Speaker 1: Joe was on time out today. You guys are on
Speaker 1: time out. You guys can't come for two weeks. The
Speaker 1: guys I talked about Leon could be banned forever. Get
Speaker 1: Leon out of here. We're done.