WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 87 | Bobby McCain 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:07.600 All right, welcome back to the Audible. The Audible today 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.280 is presented by Verizon, the network more people rely on, 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.400 gives you more like NFL tickets and experiences from Verizon 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.279 up So stay with our guys at Verizon, Kimbo Cambra, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.880 John Knjemmy and John. You know, you look around in 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.279 the beginning of this season off season, you know, the 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.880 the the the pundits out there, the national people gave 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.680 this team no chance. And here they are, back to 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.760 back wins. Gets a very good Indianapolis team up there. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.559 Now I know the nebset, but Brian Hoyers guy has 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:38.880 played plenty of football and and didn't They've still got 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.159 a lot of good players in that football team. And 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.239 and somehow, some way, this team figured out a way 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:46.320 to win a dog fight, a defensive dog fight, because 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.879 no one was moving the ball very consistent, consistently at 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.200 some big place here and there. But for the most part, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.360 this was was gonna be which defense was gonna give 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.680 up the big plays and in the big difference, And 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.360 in this case it was the Uh it was a Colts. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.800 And so here are the Dolphins writing. You know, I 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.920 don't know if two games and it's a big win. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.160 Two games is a streak. I'm gonna take it. I'm 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.160 gonna take it as as a streak after the way 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.440 the season started. I'll take any type of win streaks possible. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.800 And the Miami Dolphins are on a two game win 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.399 streak according to US. I love it. You know, sixteen twelve. Uh, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.680 the Dolphins find a way to win on the road 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.520 against a very good football team, and the oldest guy 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.520 in the field is the only guy who scored a touchdow. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.120 You know, he scammers in from eleven yards. And I 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.440 can't say enough about the way Ryan Fitzpatrick is playing 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.800 the position of quarterback, especially without his leading weapon on 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.080 the outside, Preston Williams, a guy that you know, emerged 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.000 from you know, the rookie scrap heap in terms of 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.080 free agency and became so reliable and is going to 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.120 be a very good pro for the Miami Dolphins on 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.320 the outside. But you know, the offensive line is starting 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.520 to gel a little bit. Even you get uh, Daniel 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.800 Kilgore back in the center. He moved Bam out to 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.320 the guard spot. But it was the story of the 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.160 day was the defense. The defense made enough plays they 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.400 won the turnover battle. They were able to get three interceptions. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.040 Two guys get their first career interceptions and want to 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.400 play by Stephen Parker in the end zone, ripping the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.840 ball away from an experience tight end. That's a strong guy. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.000 You know. It teaches you to fight until you can't 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.680 fight anymore. And I think that that's the biggest thing 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.040 bo that that's coaching staff and head coach Brian Flores 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.040 is instilled in this football team. It's about how to 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.080 work the right way, how to fight and scratch and 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.120 claw because you're gonna be in some situations like they 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.520 were Sunday up up in Indianapolis, where they weren't the 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.320 better team that they played like it and and once 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.040 they started making plays, they got more confidence and they 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.600 they said, you know what, this is a game we 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.400 can win because they're not at their best and we 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.640 might find a way. You know, John, I was singing 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.160 about this on the way back, and I was sinking 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.920 about it. Uh a lot of a lot of times, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.400 you know, over the week, getting ready for this uh 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.400 uh for this this upcoming game. But you know, and 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.280 you touched on a little bit. You know, I don't 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.160 think there's any team in this league. They were trade 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.040 rosters with the Miami Dolphins right now, right, I don't 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.680 think there's any general manager or head coach or anything 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.359 would say, yeah, we'll take yours, take ours, and we'll 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.799 go and and so this is a this is a 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:24.040 this is a makeshift football team. They basically gave away, um, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.720 the vast majority of their talent going in and and 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.880 that first game with the Ravens look like, oh boy, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.800 this is gonna be a tough season. And then you know, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.680 you kind of bounce along and all of a sudden, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.760 you know, over the last five weeks, now you know 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.320 you've had a competitive football team out there and still 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.640 the same players. You know, the cast of characters are changed. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.400 Some guys have gotten hurt, and they've change guys around, 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.600 but they're still the same level of of of of 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.240 team that that they've seen. Yet they've been competitive for 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.680 the last month. They've won two straight games, and John, 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.320 you know what that tells me with them, That tells 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.440 me that Brian Floores in this coaching staff are the 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.840 right guys to be here, not only for this year, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.800 but whatever happens when wise, for the rest of the season. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.000 Going into draft with all the draft choices, you've got 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.599 all the free agency money, you have, all that salary 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.920 cap number. The one thing I keep thinking about is, man, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.920 if Brian Flores can take this football team and get 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:25.920 them to be the least penalized team in the league, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.240 get them not to make a lot of mistakes. They're 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.440 starting to pick up turnovers now. And they've been competitive 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.839 for what what are we? What are we? Eight games in? 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:39.480 Nine games in nine games in and you gotta say 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.440 they've been competitive for for at least five of those 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:46.159 nine games, more than of the of the games that 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.640 they've played. They've had an opportunity to win those games, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.200 and it it didn't feel like it at some points, 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.400 but it's sure. I mean, you're up fourteen and nothing 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.160 against Pittsburgh Steelers. You're supposed to put those guys away. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.440 And I think a team that is starting to learn 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.880 how to play together and learning how to finish on 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.960 third down, learning how to get off the field, maybe 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.800 maybe they do finish him. Maybe if it was week eleven, twelve, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.920 or thirteen, But at the time they didn't know how 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.359 and they couldn't make enough plays to finish off a 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.840 team that's quite frankly getting better, but at that time 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.520 they were mediocre at best. So I think they went 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.960 on the road played a really solid football game. But 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.559 I have the credit. You know, you look at guys 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.719 that are making strides. Vince Bagels one of those guys 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.120 making strides. Nick need Him one of those guys making strides. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.040 Bobby McCain uh is a guy at free safety, just 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.400 starting to learn his position a little bit more, who 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.640 has experienced everywhere, but it's a new position. Ros got 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.240 new position. You know, he's playing that position close to 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.159 the line of scrimmage that really nobody wanted. And that's 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.600 probably the main reason why Make is not here, you know. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.320 So there's there's guys starting to learn how to play 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.320 different positions and how to fit together. And I think 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.680 Wilkins on the inside is getting better and mean he's 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.440 getting more active. You're starting to see his number and 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.440 name flash a little bit more. Shoot, even Charles Harris 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.120 made a big play behind the line of screaming. So 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.719 there's a lot of guys that are starting to come 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.760 up and start to play together. And I think that's contagious. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.240 That gets contagious on the football, and to me, it 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:18.240 also says a lot about about the staff and what 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.040 they've done and how they've gotten these guys. Look, this 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.480 team could easily gone south and just said the hell 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.640 with it. You know, no, no one, no one's given 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:30.080 us any respect, and you know, let's play, let's pay, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.159 let's play to that level because it doesn't matter anyway. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.320 But they've made this football team viable football team and 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.600 a team that you've got to be prepared for because 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.719 they're gonna be prepared, They're gonna play hard all the 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:45.440 way through. And you look at uh Chatto'shay and Patrick 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:49.600 Graham the different things that they've done offensively and defensively 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.000 with a number of players coming and going, and you 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.080 know that that for for for Patrick Graham and this 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:00.000 defense to be able to put together a pass rush 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.480 over the last handful of weeks, to me is one 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.760 of the big, you know, one of the great coaching 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.200 jobs I've seen, because you got, no, this isn't a 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.080 traditional pass rushing football team, so you gotta get it 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.120 from either. It's built from the backside in trying to 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.720 get to the UA. That's why we saw a Baker 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.600 flash right up the middle. Because Wilkins is doing his 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.280 job and turning the center, and there's nobody there left 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.280 for for Baker to be blocked by or even you know, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.720 impeded by you on his path through the quarterback. And 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.119 you you start talking about players on the defense who's 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.000 playing better than jen Jerome Baker. I mean, this guy 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.960 is all over the football field, and uh, it's fun 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.960 to watch. It's it's fun to watch these guys play 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.360 because the effort level, you know what you're gonna get 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.120 out of the team. You know you're gonna get effort. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.360 And now they're starting to create turnovers. Um, they're starting 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.360 to create plays when they need to on third down 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.280 offensively to stay on the field. I mean it wasn't 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.520 a blaze of conversions, but at least they were able 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.880 to make plays when they needed to down to stretch 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.040 to stay on the field. And then the defense, I 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.480 mean they get the four plays and out with the 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.680 coltson prime scoring position. So he really they had four 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.360 turnovers if you count the one on downs because they 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.280 were able to get off the field and win the game. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.720 That three three takeaways four last week, I think four 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.120 to one last week, three to two this week. And 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.120 and you go back to the you go back to 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.680 the previous game against Buffalo. You you have a lead 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.840 at halftime, UM, and then in the second half your 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.240 turn the ball over twice. And and that's that's the 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.200 difference in that that football game, and and and back 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.120 then you're thinking, well, geez, where where is this team 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.880 gonna get where where they gonna create turnovers? Because they 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.439 really haven't been really haven't been very close to him. No, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.439 they weren't close to getting tackles for lost. They weren't 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.040 close to putting pressure on the quarterback, which in turn 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.679 led to zero. Really turnovers. I think they had one 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.920 interception coming into that game, and and all of a 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.720 sudden the last couple of weeks they found a few. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.640 And they were giving up the perimeter. Guys were able 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.960 to run out a bounce outside and get big yards 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.480 and and do that. They've shored that up. So this 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.160 team is moving in the right direction. And uh, and 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.199 and and and it probably I I would say, you 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.600 look around the National Football League, there's no team, no 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.840 team playing over their head, uh as much as this 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.120 football team. Yeah, you look at the roster. You mentioned 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.240 it earlier. I think I think when you have a 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.880 veteran presence at quarterback and a guy that's making plays 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.280 in and can anticipate when to leave the pocket because 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.120 he knows where the weaknesses are in the past protection 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.600 or where it could leak quickest. I think that's the 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.840 one thing that I've seen Ryan Fitzpatrick do. He'll get 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.920 to his drop, but he knows on certain plays there's 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.360 not gonna be a whole lot of time to sit 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:40.600 there and scan and proves the defense. So he's moving 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.079 actually before he's getting to the top of his drop 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.040 to be able to slide where the creases are, where 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.640 the openings are, and throw the football on the run. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.880 It gives him It's almost like he's adding to the 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.920 time of past protection by him moving early, by him 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.600 not setting it at a spot and then waiting to move. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.719 He's actually gliding and moving around and and and kind 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.400 of shifting to areas where there's open field. If he 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.840 has to run here, he will run, but he's given 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.120 himself some time to keep past plays alive downfield. You 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.520 have no doubt about it. And uh, it's just good. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.480 The one the one thing you'd like to see, I'd 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.640 like to find this. I'd like to see this game, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.920 this team develop the running game a little bit more, 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.559 you know, uh um, you know, you know, even when 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.719 Kenyan Drake was here, it really wasn't an over impressive 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.319 you know, Mark Walton, he's gone for the three another 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.880 three games here and and he was giving you some 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.400 some but even but even when he was there, it's 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.480 not that, you know, not that running game that you're 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:36.319 looking for. You know, So you like, you call a 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.839 hundred twenty five yards rushing in the game or something 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:40.760 like that, and this team has struggled to do. I 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.000 think that's seventy yards rushing against the Colts, and you'd 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.480 like to you like to bolster that because I think 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.280 if you can bolster that, it does a couple of things. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.040 First of all, it helps you moves to change and 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.719 and then it allows play action to come into play 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.400 a little more and kind of slows that pass rush 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.320 down a little because I think there a lot times 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.200 now that people are just they're just pinning their ears 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.760 back and and they are going after and and trying 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.040 to put as much pressure as they can, uh on 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.280 on Ryan and and forcing him, like you said, to 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.600 find that creased by a little time and and put 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.040 the ball down the field. Yeah, and that could eventually 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.319 lead as you know, some balls being tipped and batted. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.640 We saw that a couple of time. We've seen We've 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:21.320 seen a number them over the last couple of couple 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.240 of weeks. These guys they're knowing if I'm out there 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.000 getting my hands up and and and see if you can. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.920 And they've gotten their hands on a number of balls 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.640 really over the last two But going back to your 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.400 main point about the running game, I don't know if 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.520 we're gonna see a uh a week where the Dolphins 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.520 are going to run for a hundred and twenty five 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.920 yards or a hundred and thirty five yards on the horizon, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.800 but they'll take a hundred, you know, they'll take nineties 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.600 something because that's a couple more first downs than they're 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.640 getting right now. And maybe there's one or two explosive 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.800 plays that cuts down the field. You know, you get 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.760 a plus twenty run that that's a couple of first 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.960 downs you don't have to grind out on third down. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.680 So I think those are the types of plays that 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.679 the Dolphins are looking for. And I think when Walton 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.000 gets back, he's the type of runner that can add 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.880 because he's getting through those small creases a little bit 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.960 quicker than than Calin blag is right now. But I 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.520 want to see Calin. I want to see him in 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.000 the next over the next couple of weeks, see if 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.720 he can, you know, build upon what he did. You know, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.760 the forty three yards they were it was tough sledding. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.480 He just averaged over two yards per carry against the 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.800 Indiannapolis Colts. I'd like to see what he does against 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.200 a really good defense in terms of or just as 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.600 equally as good in Buffalo. But I think I think 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.400 Buffalo strength there is more in the back end than 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.800 than in the front end. But they're they're a good defense. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.679 So I'd like to see how he does in consecutive 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.560 weeks when he knows he's gonna be the guy that's 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.800 gonna get those types of carries. John, Here, here's the 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.200 conversation that you can't have. Uh, you can have it, 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.880 but you're not gonna get much out of it with 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.079 with the staff and and coach Flores and then whoever 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.920 you talk to is this You know, you everyone knows 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.160 where this team is, everybody knows what they've what their 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.679 plan is for the future. And you know, I'm as 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.120 happy as anybody see these guys win football games. I 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.320 it's you know, for what they do for watching these 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.839 guys work and see them come up empty HAMD And 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.360 but now you're now you now your other eyeballs kind 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.719 of going looking at the draft, especially especially after you 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:18.120 watch that game on on on Saturday night Alabama in 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.880 l s U. When you're watching TA and you're watching 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.680 Burrow and man, one of those good like the side, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.360 some of those guys might look pretty nice in that 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.959 awkwind orange. But now with two wins, now you're fortunately 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.280 this win was against somebody that's not directly in competition 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.959 with you for draft choices, right, but it's still you 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.880 still got Cincinnati. You've got a really bad Cincinnati, terrible, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.800 but they picked up another one. They got to win 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.840 every every Jets are bad. It was every one in 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.320 seven team or one one picked up one this week. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.640 Giants are everyone's back up to. Yeah, and we still 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.920 have two games again, we have we have the Giants, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.440 the Jets, we have Cincinnati. You know those are not 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.800 those are teams that were kind of fighting to the 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.800 ball them. Yeah. Yeah, And so you know you're that 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.960 that you know, I know that's not the conversation to 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.720 have inside the building. But with everybody else that's watching 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.959 this team from the outside of our friend as they see, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.880 they go, what do you guys doing? Six weeks ago, 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.280 they were going, you guys are terrible. You know you're 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.080 you're you come there. These guys win four games and 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:28.360 they're gonna people people the airport. You I see friends 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:29.840 that when I go. I went out to dinners, like, 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:31.680 are you guys serious? What you do? You guys don't 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.120 know how to lose anymore. Wait a minute. Six weeks 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.160 ago you said we're bad, you know how to win? 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.040 These guys win a few. And someone said something to 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.600 me the other day and I said, I said, yeah, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.600 we're so bad we can't figure out how to lose. 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.680 It's no, you can't win. You can't. This really is 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.480 a no win, no no win sees. But I'd rather 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.520 have I'd rather you'd rather have the winning game. I'd 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.840 rather have these guys get a pay day for for 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.000 for all the work and effort they're get into. But 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.800 but you know, but I'm like everyone else, I'm kind 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.640 of looking out that other eyeball going well. The bad thing. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.360 The bad thing is when you do talk about those 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.840 teams the giants have a young quarterback. So the Jets 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.800 have a young quarterback. It's yeah, but but the Jets. 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.320 If the Jets, if the Jets play as poorly as 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.080 they've played prior to well playing against the Giants, um, 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.560 you know, they may they may pull a Cardinal. They 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.880 may pull in Arizona. They may say the heck with 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.640 this guy Donald, take Sam Donal, Let's grab someone else. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.920 You know, I'll take Sam Donald. Well, we're not gonna 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.320 be there, what are we gonna be the the drop off. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.280 I'll put the start and let him compete. Absolutely, we 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.840 got there's there's a couple of years to play with 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.960 the physician of quarterback with what's out there. And it 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:50.240 also draft a Jordan's love from from Utah State. Let's 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.000 take him because he's got size, he's got speed, does 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.520 everything you know you need to do again following the 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.480 New England pattern, taking one, they're sitting there, when they're 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.400 sitting there with Radio Brissette and and Garoppolo, and then 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.120 they get get rid of those two guys, pick up 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.320 pick up equity and and and then move on from 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.120 Cincinnati's the team you have to worry about and getting 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.480 a quarterback because those that that's a team there that's 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:18.040 you know, looking they've done. They're gonna take a quarterback 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.640 and they're gonna be, if not the worst team, they're 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.720 gonna you know that. I'm talking to somebody this week. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.320 I said, you know what happened if you get to 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.120 that that Cincinnati game, and and whoever whoever wins that 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.040 game is not gonna get the first pick, and whoever 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.280 he is, it's gonna get the first pick. I wonder 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.560 what that strategy would would would turn out Unless that 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.600 game accounts for two wins, I think we're I don't think. 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.960 I don't think we can catch the Cincinnati Bengals. They 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.040 they well you know, but who knows. They may they 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.000 may stumble over a couple of wins along the way. 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.320 Depends on I gotta feeling, you know, if if it's 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.280 if it all comes down and it's whoever whoever loses 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.880 that game is gonna get the top pick. I gotta 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.360 feel and they may be suiting you up, John. They 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.360 may throw you in there, man guarantee put in there 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.639 and make it out of the first quarter. Come on, 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.560 he can still throw the ball. They promised not to 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.760 hit me, But yeah, that's it's it's you know, it's uh, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:14.800 this has been a strange here for a lot of reasons. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.760 But that that now, with these two wins, you know, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.160 you're starting looking going, wow, this is you know, it's 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.560 it's gonna be interesting, interesting, interesting in terms of who's 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.000 gonna do what with the picks that they have. Remember, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.600 the Dolphins have three a lot of equity, three first 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.520 round draft choices, and those back to now with the 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.480 Steelers getting a little bit better and and Houston you know, competing, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.320 you know, at the top of their division. Uh, they're 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.320 gonna be in the twenties and you might be able 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.399 to package them if you really needed to do something. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.000 But I'd rather leave him alone and take numbers and 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.800 take and take bodies because those bodies, you're getting her 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.920 first round opportunities to to really hit it out of 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.080 the park. Yeah, no doubt. And and look you got 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.679 you know, you're you're running across these guys, you know, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.760 you know, not too many weeks go, John, we're talking 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.119 about the secondary start struggling. Now, all of a sudden, 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.480 you're looking going, hey, you know this guy, you know, 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.520 Eric Rose is gonna be back here next year, Wilts 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.200 is gonna be back Needham is gonna be here. Yeah, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.439 pardon these guys. These guys just you know, they just 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.960 the more reps they get, the better they're playing, the 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.840 more you look at them as viable players here and 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.920 you know, you know he's not guys want to come 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.920 back next year and you know we're shod. We don't 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.120 know what you know in his future. Holes, it's it's 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.800 it's pretty bleak right now. But um, you know, you 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.800 you got some guys back there that they are they're 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.520 they're becoming more seasoned, much more seasoned than they were 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.120 before the season began. I think you have more confidence, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.760 and they quite frankly, look like they have more confidence 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.879 in themselves. The way they're playing. I think they're getting 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.439 used to the coaching that they're they're taking on a 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.760 daily basis. I think they're getting more comfortable with the 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.359 leverage they're playing with. And I think they're they're getting 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.640 more accustomed to the speed of the game. I think, 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.760 quite frankly, when you have guys that aren't drafted and 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.960 you come in and you think you know what it 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.520 is until you get in there and then you go, wow, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.720 we play on a bigger field. You know, in the 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:03.919 NFL because there's a lot more room because guys are 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.640