Speaker 1: To our fires touch stop. Waddle stocked into the end
Speaker 1: zone of Miami Tip Pro Tip window. They had to
Speaker 1: get that touchdown on that play. They give it. What
Speaker 1: is up? Dolphans And Welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? It is Friday. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always I am
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, it's a football Friday and a
Speaker 1: fan Friday. Here on Draft Time, we have John Kjemmy,
Speaker 1: a great interview with him coming up talking about this
Speaker 1: Jets game, some other things going forward here with the
Speaker 1: franchise and the football team. Fun interview with Conjemmy. As always,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to your questions on the mail bag.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pick the NFL games this week. And we're
Speaker 1: not from the Baptist Health Studio today but rather West Broward.
Speaker 1: And a quick note before we jump into the podcast here.
Speaker 1: This was recorded before the news of Jalen Waddle and
Speaker 1: Jared Oakes going on the covid I r list. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and kicked
Speaker 1: this thing off as we do every Friday with my
Speaker 1: interview with John con Jemmy and joining me on the
Speaker 1: podcast now as he does every Friday, is my friend
Speaker 1: John con Jemmy, John bye week didn't have you on
Speaker 1: last week? How is your time down? Well, I had
Speaker 1: some time to to rest and actually have some fun
Speaker 1: almost like two of with his bye week. You know,
Speaker 1: he was out playing some golf and it was funny
Speaker 1: because we were at the same golf course. So I
Speaker 1: felt like I had about three groups of Miami Dolphin
Speaker 1: players that were on the golf course, and they moved
Speaker 1: along quite nicely. So it was good for me and
Speaker 1: I got to see a lot of familiar faces. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I spent uh my time away
Speaker 1: from the building in terms of my bye week. That
Speaker 1: was on my notes here to ask you about two
Speaker 1: of playing both golf as well as he said on
Speaker 1: Wednesday that he got dosed by a couple of old
Speaker 1: guys in the pickleball court. Um. But one thing I
Speaker 1: thought was fascinating about to was golf game was he
Speaker 1: said he started playing this year and then in a
Speaker 1: press conference, I think it was last week, he said
Speaker 1: that he shot an eight eight, and I'm said, you're thinking, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: one year of golf, a lot of not even a
Speaker 1: full year of golf, and you're already shooting eight. What
Speaker 1: was your what was your handicap when your first year
Speaker 1: in a golf John? You know what, I don't even
Speaker 1: know if I had a hint exactly. It was so
Speaker 1: embarrassed to put my scores in. Um, you know that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Um it probably wasn't as good as two us and um,
Speaker 1: you know because I've seen two out on the range,
Speaker 1: and you know, you're always trying to give your your
Speaker 1: ten cents worth to try to help out a friend
Speaker 1: or help out a guy that you know, so you
Speaker 1: try to help, but he's doing it on his own.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's actually spends a lot of time in
Speaker 1: the off season, you know, homing his game or trying
Speaker 1: to get kind of acclimated to how he can get better.
Speaker 1: At least I've seen that and witnessed that. And to
Speaker 1: the point of pickle ball, a couple of friends of mine,
Speaker 1: some of my guys that are around my old elderly age,
Speaker 1: actually played with twa I think in plantation and they
Speaker 1: may be the culprits that dusted. So we gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta look into that. I'm pretty sure they were because
Speaker 1: he mentioned and he he didn't hold back on saying
Speaker 1: old dudes, and he said they gave him up a
Speaker 1: pretty good dusting there on the pickleball court? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that a pretty South Florida thing? I see a
Speaker 1: lot down here. I'm not real familiar with it from
Speaker 1: back home. Is that kind of a South Florida thing? Pickleball?
Speaker 1: You know? It might be. I'm not quite sure, because
Speaker 1: a lot of guys play it. I know that my son,
Speaker 1: you know, he plays some with the coaching staff with
Speaker 1: the Florida Panthers when they're on the road. Uh So,
Speaker 1: so a little bit of everybody kind of plays it.
Speaker 1: It's what I've heard, Travis. It's great. It's great, uh
Speaker 1: to be outside. You don't have the vigors of a
Speaker 1: big tennis court, but you get a good workout in
Speaker 1: So I think I think a lot of hand i coordination. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. People get to work out,
Speaker 1: and I guess you can have a cocktail or two
Speaker 1: after which which is even better. So I think pickle
Speaker 1: ball is in my future. I just haven't gotten there yet.
Speaker 1: They kind of kind of test that side to side
Speaker 1: lateral agility as well, the kind of quick movement today.
Speaker 1: Now I'm with you, I'm I'm interested. I've always been
Speaker 1: a big ping pong and even tennis fan. Two, So
Speaker 1: pickle ball, you know, a little bit less activity at
Speaker 1: this age seems a little bit better for me. So
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and jump right there and stay on
Speaker 1: the topic of two. A tongue volo with the Dolphins quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's he's playing really well right now, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are winning games, obviously, and I find it pretty interesting
Speaker 1: that this is really his first repeat game against the
Speaker 1: team twice within the same year. He would have had
Speaker 1: the opportunity against Buffalo, and he technically did prepare for
Speaker 1: both teams for both games and started both games, but
Speaker 1: he only played nine snaps in the first one. Obviously,
Speaker 1: one game against the Pats last year and then one
Speaker 1: so far this year. Gets to see him again at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, but now he gets the
Speaker 1: Jets here for the second time in four weeks. How
Speaker 1: and he and really the entire Dolphins offense. Since I
Speaker 1: think passer rating is more of a measure of your
Speaker 1: passing game as a whole. How can they keep the
Speaker 1: streak of four games in a row with one plus
Speaker 1: pass ratings alive? I believe too needs to continue to
Speaker 1: take throws two receivers, tight ends, running backs that are
Speaker 1: open and available. You know, don't pass up the gimme
Speaker 1: or the layoup for looking for something down the field
Speaker 1: that might happen that might not be clean at the time.
Speaker 1: Take the things that are available. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what this offense has done really well. I think two
Speaker 1: has done a good job in his decision making of
Speaker 1: getting the football to the right people. But he's done
Speaker 1: it quickly, he's done it efficiently, and he's had great
Speaker 1: ball placement in doing it. And I think the receiving
Speaker 1: corps as a whole, and I'm talking about wide out slots,
Speaker 1: tight ends, running backs, they've been able to get in
Speaker 1: sync with where they need to be when the ball
Speaker 1: needs to come out, and that's a big key. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I guess that the general fan doesn't take into consideration, well,
Speaker 1: why is the quarterback holding the football? Well, maybe because
Speaker 1: the receiver is not timed up yet. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not out of his route, he's not cleared that zone coverage,
Speaker 1: or he hasn't sat down, or he hasn't beat man
Speaker 1: on an under route. I think that's been a good
Speaker 1: job of this entire offense and the way it's been
Speaker 1: put together over the last four or five weeks. Guys
Speaker 1: are breaking open when tours, anticipating that they will be open,
Speaker 1: and the ball is coming out on time, and boy,
Speaker 1: it takes a whole lot of pressure off the offensive
Speaker 1: line when they know that ball is coming out and
Speaker 1: he's not scrambling into a sack. Uh. You know, those
Speaker 1: things happen sometimes when you're disjoining. The Dolphins have been
Speaker 1: on point in terms of ball out accuracy, getting enough
Speaker 1: out of the running game, and even though they're wearing
Speaker 1: out Jalen Waddle in terms of targets and and catches,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm good with that, the ball is getting
Speaker 1: to other places on the field now that Davante's back.
Speaker 1: It's getting outside the numbers, you know what, which might
Speaker 1: help Mike out in the middle of the field on
Speaker 1: those steam routes and crossing routes. So it's starting to
Speaker 1: get it's starting to gel nicely. And two is the
Speaker 1: main I guess engine in that because he's been doing
Speaker 1: a nice job of not passing up open throws, taking
Speaker 1: the things that are available. The completion percentage has gone up,
Speaker 1: but four to the last five starts over sevent You
Speaker 1: mentioned the passer rating. That's a collective you know thing,
Speaker 1: And I think they're starting to gell a little bit
Speaker 1: more with his elevated play. Yeah, you spark a fall
Speaker 1: up question there for me talking about kind of the
Speaker 1: chemistry and the rhythm of this offense finding it stride
Speaker 1: a little bit. And one thing I always go back
Speaker 1: to John that there's two different schools of thought that
Speaker 1: I've heard from people that I think you know, really
Speaker 1: know better than anybody else, and that's Bruce Arians and
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. And Bruce Arians has always said that about
Speaker 1: eight weeks in is when you start to get really
Speaker 1: familiar and comfortable with a new system. Now, Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: earlier this year on the Manning Cast, said that it
Speaker 1: wasn't until year two that he really felt like I
Speaker 1: know where the first read is and I know where
Speaker 1: the second read is, but I have to kind of
Speaker 1: think about it before processes to get back to that
Speaker 1: second read. Whereas in your number two, it's natural, it's
Speaker 1: inherent I get back to that second read without even
Speaker 1: thinking about it from your perspective someone that played the position,
Speaker 1: is that, where do you kind of come down on
Speaker 1: the new system and how long it takes to kind
Speaker 1: of jel and click with a new group. Well, familiarity
Speaker 1: is really the quarterback's friend in an offense and being
Speaker 1: able to move people around with that that are either
Speaker 1: in the scheme or maybe just on the fringe of
Speaker 1: the scheme of what's called. And I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have done a really nice job of complimenting um their
Speaker 1: their offensive line with a quick passing game. They've been
Speaker 1: able to use motion and formations to allow players like
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson to get more involved in the in the
Speaker 1: offense with those jet sweeps and being able to you know,
Speaker 1: hit the fringes with those quick screens and passing game.
Speaker 1: And they've been able to use Kasiki down the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. They've been able to use Jalen both
Speaker 1: now in the deeper passing game and after run after catch.
Speaker 1: Things that all helps your offense jail. It all helps
Speaker 1: your offense move because the balls being spread out quickly
Speaker 1: and in the up tempos helping a little bit to
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes in that game where you feel comfortable
Speaker 1: about what you're doing, I can see George Gatzie and
Speaker 1: to it. Hey, let's let's push the tempo here on
Speaker 1: this series because we've got them on the run, we've
Speaker 1: got the lead, we're playing with some confidence, and it's
Speaker 1: it's just like another gear you get to. So the familiarity,
Speaker 1: it starts with coordinator and quarterback, but it does filter
Speaker 1: through the entire offense. And you kind of see that
Speaker 1: with the success of the way the Dolphins have been
Speaker 1: able to move the football effectively and play that bit
Speaker 1: of complementary football. Yeah, offense, defense, special teams. You're getting
Speaker 1: it everywhere, but it's complementary within the offense. So you're
Speaker 1: getting an enough run to help out a little bit
Speaker 1: of rpo play action. But the ball is coming out
Speaker 1: on time, which means the quarterback feels good about what
Speaker 1: he's seeing and where he's going with it. And I
Speaker 1: think you do get that as you move along. You know,
Speaker 1: remember we all think two has been here for years now,
Speaker 1: it's only been you know, a blip on his radar,
Speaker 1: but he's starting to get familiar. You can tell with
Speaker 1: this new system, it's being streamlined they're getting to the
Speaker 1: plays that really work in this offense, or not only him,
Speaker 1: but for everyone. Now. I'm glad you mentioned that the
Speaker 1: up tempo aspect of it, because it seems like sometimes
Speaker 1: they come out of the locker room break in the
Speaker 1: second half and they hit that tempo and they hit
Speaker 1: their stride and it really carries over and just in general,
Speaker 1: the offense and I guess the team too, seems to
Speaker 1: really play their best ball as the game goes along,
Speaker 1: which I think is a good sign for adjustments and
Speaker 1: kind of getting the feel of the flow of the game.
Speaker 1: A cool stat I found the other day, John was
Speaker 1: at the Dolphins. Over the last four games, you know,
Speaker 1: since two came into the lineup and then the three starts,
Speaker 1: they have possessed the football in the fourth quarter for
Speaker 1: an average of ten minutes in seventeen seconds. And maybe
Speaker 1: it's not gonna while you in terms of the three
Speaker 1: yard passing days, but you get a lead and you
Speaker 1: sit on the football and you're efficient and you can
Speaker 1: move the chains and keep the defense fresh and off
Speaker 1: the field, you're gonna be tough to beat. And that's
Speaker 1: something I think the Dolphins have done very well on
Speaker 1: that side. Of the football and of course that complements
Speaker 1: with the defense has done so well over the winning
Speaker 1: streak as well. But they gotta of course keep it
Speaker 1: going here and it starts with the Jets and Zach Wilson.
Speaker 1: What's the key to top in the rookie quarterback there
Speaker 1: for the Jets, John Well, I think one of them,
Speaker 1: Travis is stopping the run. You know. I think Michael
Speaker 1: Carter might have a chance to get back for the
Speaker 1: Jets this week. He's the team leader in rushing yards,
Speaker 1: but he's the dynamic guy because he can beat you,
Speaker 1: you know, catching a pass out of the backfield, making
Speaker 1: somebody missing space and getting him first down. As well
Speaker 1: as when there's two yards available on the ground, he's
Speaker 1: going to get the two and maybe four or five.
Speaker 1: He's just that kind of vision runner. He's got that
Speaker 1: little jump cut in the middle of the hole. He's
Speaker 1: a really good guy to have on your team. So
Speaker 1: I think the key to stopping one of the keys
Speaker 1: to stopping Zach Wilson is is stopping the run. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have been pretty good defensively and stopping the run
Speaker 1: all year. The couple that I think you need to
Speaker 1: continue to have multiple looks upfront, who's coming, who's not coming? Uh,
Speaker 1: making identification problems not only difficult for the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but difficult for the quarterback to set the protection at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage because that taxes you as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: because you're trying to figure that out. You've got the
Speaker 1: play call in your head. You're looking at the play
Speaker 1: clock and saying, man, it's dwindling down. Let's let's get
Speaker 1: everybody organized. But now you're not quite sure. So if
Speaker 1: the Dolphins can throw a little bit of hesitation into
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback's brain at the line of scrimmage while
Speaker 1: he's trying to traffic control uh, just about everything within
Speaker 1: fourteen now, twelve, now eight seconds, I think it puts
Speaker 1: a lot more pressure on a quarterback to get back
Speaker 1: to simplicitly running the offense, you know, getting the ball
Speaker 1: snapped on time, getting the ball out to the right people.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes that dictates holding the football. And if
Speaker 1: you run into sacks or you run into interceptions, you
Speaker 1: run into incompletions. That's where the Dolphins have been able
Speaker 1: to feed on defense over this wind streak. So I
Speaker 1: think those things kind of mirror each other. If you
Speaker 1: can stop the run, show some confusing looks at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, whether you're coming or not, in blitz
Speaker 1: or zero, whatever you're in. It taxes the time and
Speaker 1: efficiency of a quarterback, especially a young one. Like that
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of something that Brian Flores has
Speaker 1: talked about really for all three years that he's been here,
Speaker 1: and I think something that maybe the fan base maybe
Speaker 1: overlooks a little bit, but it truly is important. You
Speaker 1: can certainly attest to it. You know, your huddle atiquette,
Speaker 1: getting in and out of the huddle and getting the
Speaker 1: calls in and making sure everyone's aligned right. Those are
Speaker 1: small details that go a long way, and you have
Speaker 1: to get it right every single snap for you know,
Speaker 1: sixties sixty five snaps per game, and you know you
Speaker 1: talk about First of all, I thought Joe Flacci play
Speaker 1: really well in the game last time against the Dolphins
Speaker 1: with Yeah, he was sharp in that game. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens here with with Zach Wilson down here in
Speaker 1: Miami where the Dolphins have a I believe four game
Speaker 1: winning streaker going at this point down here at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. But as far as that defense goes John
Speaker 1: possible that Javon Holland does not play in this game.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you about Holland and the running backs.
Speaker 1: Will come back to the running backs here in just
Speaker 1: one second. But what is the Dolphins approach or how
Speaker 1: do they overcome the loss of potentially Javon Holland the
Speaker 1: secondary if he can't go on Sunday. Well, it's a
Speaker 1: big loss because he does a lot for you as
Speaker 1: a defense. He's kind of he's handling all the calls.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a guy that's back there, that's
Speaker 1: running the defense. So if you don't have him, maybe
Speaker 1: some of that weight goes uh to Row. Maybe you
Speaker 1: get Brandon Jones back closer to healthy. That could help
Speaker 1: that safety position out a little bit. But it's a
Speaker 1: big loss for for Javon if he's not in there.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a tone center with the hits I
Speaker 1: mentioned him, you know, kind of making the calls and
Speaker 1: running the defense. So that has to go to somebody else.
Speaker 1: That that that big responsibility has to go to somebody else.
Speaker 1: But you're hoping that, you know, the combination of Jones
Speaker 1: and Rogue can can offset the loss of hauling for
Speaker 1: a game you know, you hope it's just a game
Speaker 1: if it is a game, But but that's a that's
Speaker 1: a big responsibility that's gonna be spread probably within two
Speaker 1: or three players if you don't have hauling for the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hopefully Brandon Jones is back from the elbow injury that
Speaker 1: Cosmo miss the last two games. We have John con
Speaker 1: Jemmy here on the Drive Time podcast taking a look
Speaker 1: at Dolphins and Jets, and normally at this point we
Speaker 1: go to the Dolphins will win if But I want
Speaker 1: to bring a male bad question up to this segment
Speaker 1: because it kind of covers a question that I had
Speaker 1: for you regarding the running back room. It's from at
Speaker 1: bir Cheesy, great great Twitter name, and he says, since
Speaker 1: COVID has hit the running back room hard, what do
Speaker 1: you think about using wattle out of the back field
Speaker 1: a little bit like San Francisco does with Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: And I added on to that question to kind of
Speaker 1: make it more I guess wide spread across the entire room,
Speaker 1: and you know, just kind of taking another another step
Speaker 1: here more so about do you think there are different
Speaker 1: creative ways you might go about replacing those guys in
Speaker 1: terms of a wattle in the back. And we've even
Speaker 1: seen I think Mike Gasicki and Preston Williams aligned as
Speaker 1: kind of a single wing back there at times this year.
Speaker 1: These guys have creative formations in their back pocket. Do
Speaker 1: you go in that direction or do you just call
Speaker 1: guys up John and kind of go with what you
Speaker 1: have on the roster the practice squad. We know Duke
Speaker 1: Johnson's up, Jared Doakes is of option down there as well,
Speaker 1: and then I'm missing someone else the news signing Dexter Williams,
Speaker 1: the new guy that came in this week as well.
Speaker 1: Is it that approach? Do you go kind of more
Speaker 1: off off your normal script? Like, what do you think
Speaker 1: is the approach replacing those guys? If Lindsay, Achmed and
Speaker 1: Gascon are all down, I think you have to have
Speaker 1: a combination of both in my opinion. If you're the
Speaker 1: coordinator of the Miame Dolphins, so I think Eric and George,
Speaker 1: you know, getting ready for the week, they have to know, Hey,
Speaker 1: can Duke Johnson Carrie X amount of times can Jared
Speaker 1: Doakes be trusted in protection? Can either one of them
Speaker 1: be trusted in past protection? And if not, do we
Speaker 1: go a little bit more empty, and do we use
Speaker 1: guys like Wilson, you know, with the motion and maybe
Speaker 1: you put Wattle in the backfield doing the same thing
Speaker 1: with that jet motion, or lining them up and then
Speaker 1: motioning them out and getting too empty, which could stress
Speaker 1: a defense because that's something that they haven't seen a
Speaker 1: lot from the Miami Dolphins. So you prepare for it
Speaker 1: as the Jets defensive coordinator, but you haven't seen it
Speaker 1: on film a lot, so you're kind of guessing on
Speaker 1: where Miami would go. So it might be to the
Speaker 1: advantage of the Dolphins. Hey, let's face it, they're not
Speaker 1: running it with a lot of efficiency and consistency. So
Speaker 1: running is not the big thing that the Jets are
Speaker 1: preparing for, but they may be preparing for ghosts in
Speaker 1: terms of how does how do the Dolphins approach this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they could pull up Duke Johnson, they could pull up
Speaker 1: Jared Ops, But how do they run their slot wide
Speaker 1: receivers tight ends in conjunction with empty or motioning to
Speaker 1: empty or or getting them in the running game as
Speaker 1: they did earlier in the year, or do they go
Speaker 1: more with the quick screen game or the now plays
Speaker 1: on the outside it's a lot more complicated I think
Speaker 1: for the Jets to prepare then the Dolphins losing their
Speaker 1: top two or three running backs because they haven't they
Speaker 1: haven't relied heavily on the run game. It's there as uh,
Speaker 1: I guess window dressing to to really mask something else.
Speaker 1: So your running just enough to get to the r
Speaker 1: p O s and maybe it changes this week. You
Speaker 1: go with motion and formation and handing it to Wilson
Speaker 1: or or Jalen Waddle for a couple of plays, just
Speaker 1: to have that wrinkle in there that puts the Jets
Speaker 1: on their heels. That's great stuff, John. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You bring that perspective. That's why I wanted to get
Speaker 1: that question to you here on the mail bag. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come back and talk to John a little bit
Speaker 1: more here about how the Dolphins can win this game.
Speaker 1: A couple more mail bad questions, but first a quick break.
Speaker 1: All right, Johnson, we did the mail bad question first.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back and get a couple more of those.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you, as we do every
Speaker 1: week here, the Dolphins will win this game against the
Speaker 1: Jets if fill in the blank. Um I would say
Speaker 1: to your point earlier, Travis, you mentioned that nugget about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins holding onto the football in the fourth quarter. Um,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is related to not
Speaker 1: turning the football over. I think you know to a
Speaker 1: in the middle of the season, I think when he
Speaker 1: came back from the rib injury, before he got the
Speaker 1: finger injurr or somewhere in between, there was always that
Speaker 1: one play that you'd like to take back on a
Speaker 1: on a Monday morning when you're watching the film or
Speaker 1: Sunday night as you're thinking about the Dolphin game, and
Speaker 1: that one place seemed to hold the Dolphins back a
Speaker 1: little bit. And they haven't made that play in a
Speaker 1: number of weeks, and I think that's led to them
Speaker 1: being confident later in the game and holding onto the
Speaker 1: football and being able to keep the opposing offense on
Speaker 1: the sidelines. And I think that's gonna half to hold
Speaker 1: true again against the Jets when you look at the
Speaker 1: numbers really even in terms of what they've done offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively, but I think it's that one play. If
Speaker 1: the Dolphins stay away, continue to stay away from that turnover,
Speaker 1: that one bad play that kind of turns the game
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think they'll get to the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter dominance again and they'll be able to be able
Speaker 1: to win again and keep this win street going. So
Speaker 1: that that's one of the keys. I would say. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to do that, and then you
Speaker 1: might see some tempo, especially tempo or empty early in
Speaker 1: the game to mask some of that deficiency that we
Speaker 1: saw at running back, to be able to get to
Speaker 1: other things that the Jets haven't prepared for, and you
Speaker 1: might be able to spring a big play. You might
Speaker 1: be able to cut the field in half, and you
Speaker 1: might be able to take that that step where you're
Speaker 1: going from three nothing to tend nothing against the Jets,
Speaker 1: and now you're putting more pressure on a young quarterback
Speaker 1: that's facing some unusual looks from the Dolphins defense. So
Speaker 1: I think those things work hand in hand. If the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can stay away from that play that they have
Speaker 1: been able to do during this win streak, take advantage
Speaker 1: of not having the backs by getting to your playmakers
Speaker 1: in some unorthodox ways and then getting to some tempo
Speaker 1: or some empty that puts more pressure on the Jets defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the big play that that sixty five yeard
Speaker 1: touchdown past the mac Holland's last time around was basically
Speaker 1: the turning point of that game. I think Miami kind
Speaker 1: of cranked it up defensively after that, even more so
Speaker 1: offense found their kind of rhythm and efficient seat from
Speaker 1: an efficiency standpoint as well. So great stuff. And my
Speaker 1: key to the game was, like you mentioned earlier, getting
Speaker 1: the Jets into third and long, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be an opportunity for Miami to cash in on some
Speaker 1: of those splash plays if they can get to that
Speaker 1: with some early down success against the run. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and return back to the mail bag here. This
Speaker 1: one from at two Lucky nineteen sixty seven has a
Speaker 1: couple of offensive line questions for us, asking about where
Speaker 1: guys might align heading forward. We're the best position for
Speaker 1: guys like Liam Eichenberg are for Austin Jackson? Where do
Speaker 1: you think those two guys play their best ball at
Speaker 1: John And then that also he wants to know about
Speaker 1: what you think about Solomon Kinley having a rookie season
Speaker 1: where he played so much and then not really at
Speaker 1: all this year and going forward for those guys. So
Speaker 1: I guess Liam, Austin and Solomon Kinley, what's your outlook
Speaker 1: there for those guys, well, let's start at the end
Speaker 1: there with Solomon Kinley. That's kind of a surprise to me.
Speaker 1: And the only thing I can think of is that
Speaker 1: injury at the guard position really hasn't happened, and you're
Speaker 1: not going to get a whole lot of pads repped
Speaker 1: during the season. So if you don't make your mark
Speaker 1: early in training camp or in a preseason game, or
Speaker 1: be able to continually be consistent at what your craft is,
Speaker 1: unless injury occurs at your position or just just complete failure,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get another opportunity. And I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of the bucket that solom Ackinley has fell
Speaker 1: into in his second season. He hasn't had an opportunit
Speaker 1: entity to unsee guys that are playing at the position
Speaker 1: now or being changed in the position because of of
Speaker 1: lack of reps. But he didn't do enough early to
Speaker 1: kind of say, hey, we have confidence in you going
Speaker 1: into your second season. Um, where guys play, I think
Speaker 1: they're getting a handle on that right now. It's tough
Speaker 1: for me to say, because you know, we're not out
Speaker 1: of practice all the time, We're not kind of kind
Speaker 1: of seeing guys in individual drill, move into team drill
Speaker 1: and feel like I know where the best spot is.
Speaker 1: I think the coaching tap has got a pretty good
Speaker 1: handle now on maybe moving Austin inside at that left
Speaker 1: guard position. I think you gotta keep Aikenberg on the
Speaker 1: on the perimeter for the rest of the year to
Speaker 1: to kind of keep that synergy with that offensive line
Speaker 1: moving forward. I don't know if if Robert Hunt is
Speaker 1: better inside or outside. It seems like you'd like to
Speaker 1: get maybe one more in this year's draft or free
Speaker 1: agency to kind of solidify the offensive line, and maybe
Speaker 1: that position is at at tackle. I don't know how
Speaker 1: they're gonna go moving forward on the outside, but you
Speaker 1: you want to strengthen the depth if you can so.
Speaker 1: I think Jesse has done a pretty admirable job being
Speaker 1: switched around earlier now getting anchored in on the right side.
Speaker 1: But I think there's gonna be probably be some change
Speaker 1: in the off season. But where they have guys now,
Speaker 1: I think they're pretty much slotted in, not only for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season, but unless you get a
Speaker 1: difference maker either in draft or free agency, those guys
Speaker 1: are gonna kind of be locked in where they're at. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes a lot of sense, and that flexibility certainly helps.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm really glad that Michael Dieter, just
Speaker 1: his entire season sands the injury. Of course, you hate
Speaker 1: to see that, but I think it can be one
Speaker 1: of the most instructive things here for Dolphins fans to
Speaker 1: look at. And it basically applies to Solomon Kinley, to
Speaker 1: a guy that played pretty much his entire rookie season
Speaker 1: almost never sees the field. You almost kind of forget
Speaker 1: about those guys when they don't get on the field
Speaker 1: on game day, you know. His second year and then
Speaker 1: in year number three, I think Michael Dear has been
Speaker 1: very good, and I think that's very instructive for how
Speaker 1: offensive line play can kind of grow and develop and progress.
Speaker 1: We've talked on this podcast before, John about how it's
Speaker 1: harder to come into the NFL at that position these
Speaker 1: days and produce right away because the college game, and
Speaker 1: it's catching up in the NFL here a little bit,
Speaker 1: but the college game is so much different in terms
Speaker 1: of tempo and pace, and we're more concerned about getting
Speaker 1: on the ball than we are about getting finishing our
Speaker 1: block right. We want to get tempo and get up
Speaker 1: to the on the line scre image and let's go
Speaker 1: go and maybe that kind of changes things. You've got
Speaker 1: more vertical sets there in college football, just all the
Speaker 1: different things that occur at that level. And so I
Speaker 1: look at that like it's year one for a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys, year two for some of them, Like
Speaker 1: they need some time to grow and develop and get
Speaker 1: that seasoning, especially for these young guys that just didn't
Speaker 1: play a ton of football in college, like an Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson missed the entire season, or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: So we're on the same page. Go ahead, you know, Travis,
Speaker 1: to your point about that, you know, Michael Dieter was
Speaker 1: a huge surprise, I think for all Dolphin fans this year,
Speaker 1: being able to be inserted in O T A S,
Speaker 1: be inserted in training camp as the number one center.
Speaker 1: He took advantage of that situation and it was only
Speaker 1: injury that you know, kept him out, and then when
Speaker 1: he got it back, he seems to you know, not
Speaker 1: miss a beat. Solomon Kinley kind of had that opportunity
Speaker 1: early in O T A S early in training camp,
Speaker 1: but it went went back and forth, and maybe he
Speaker 1: didn't just didn't seize that opportunity consistently enough, and that's
Speaker 1: why you see the unsettling with his situation Compared to
Speaker 1: your point in Michael Dieter. No, it's a great point.
Speaker 1: And to your point about Dieter, he never relinquished that thing,
Speaker 1: and that was something I think that you know, you
Speaker 1: just you scroll social media, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: I think folks expected at some point someone to come
Speaker 1: in and take that job, and he just said, no,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. It's it's my job. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play the best ball here, and he certainly has. I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and finish up. That was a
Speaker 1: great discussion there, John, with a question that goes away
Speaker 1: from the actual football team, it's more towards you and I.
Speaker 1: It's from at Dolphin Robble One. His question is do
Speaker 1: you guys feel pressure? You and John, do you guys
Speaker 1: feel pressure to be positive? You're reporting? I know both
Speaker 1: of you seem to have a positive outlook and stay
Speaker 1: away from criticism of certain players or of players rather,
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to know if that was from
Speaker 1: any sort of team direction. So I'll throw it to
Speaker 1: you first. John. I've got my answer here that I've
Speaker 1: I've talked about this a million times, but you can
Speaker 1: go ahead and go first. Listen. I think this is
Speaker 1: my thirteenth year officially like working for the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: have covered him probably another seven years before I started
Speaker 1: working for them. So I never felt pressure by any
Speaker 1: head coach, any assistant coach, any person in management, team owner.
Speaker 1: I don't know what other senior title would be coming
Speaker 1: after me with my commentary, but whichever one, I've never
Speaker 1: felt any any pressure. Um And I think it's I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a positive optimistic person, I think. But in general,
Speaker 1: and when you've played the position or you've played the sport,
Speaker 1: you always have a bit empathy for the people that
Speaker 1: are trying to do it because you know their best
Speaker 1: intentions are what they're trying to do. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to screw up there, trying to be perfect. And I
Speaker 1: always try to remember that when I'm raining down some
Speaker 1: criticism on Wow, he's got to catch that ball, or
Speaker 1: he's got to make that completion, or he's got to
Speaker 1: kick that ball in bounds, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: So you're always trying to put a positive spin on it.
Speaker 1: But you all also know that this is a video uh, media, right,
Speaker 1: this is you. You actually can see it as a
Speaker 1: fan on TV, you can hear it on the radio.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to tell the truth at
Speaker 1: some point, but you can do it in a way
Speaker 1: that just always doesn't beat up the player. I think
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to be very straightforward and critical, but
Speaker 1: you can always do it with some kuther or with
Speaker 1: some tact and some professionalism that doesn't always have to
Speaker 1: take the baseball bat and beat people over there. That's
Speaker 1: perfectly stated. I love that. And you know, I could
Speaker 1: do probably a week's worth of podcast on just this topic,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because, like I said, I
Speaker 1: get asked all the time about that. But I've got
Speaker 1: four things I want to touch on here real quick.
Speaker 1: Number one is that I am not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and talk like I am smarter than the people that
Speaker 1: get paid to make the decisions on the football field.
Speaker 1: I'm just doing the podcast, man, Like this is my opinion.
Speaker 1: I studied the game a lot. I try to understand
Speaker 1: as much as I can what's going on. But like
Speaker 1: when I go have a chance to talk to the
Speaker 1: assistant coaches on Tuesdays, for instance, that is education for me.
Speaker 1: I am not. I just want to take up and
Speaker 1: soak up as much information as I can. And so
Speaker 1: Number one is, if they're gonna say something, I'm going
Speaker 1: to really that message because they are the ones that
Speaker 1: know what's going on better than anybody else. Number two,
Speaker 1: you mentioned this as well, about being positive and optimistic
Speaker 1: to me, you know, I still I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of this game and of this team, even as a professional,
Speaker 1: and I think I do. I think I do a
Speaker 1: good job of separating the two. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: watch ball to be miserable, Like this is an entertaining
Speaker 1: escape for me. And the only way I know how
Speaker 1: to be a fan is to have fun. Like if
Speaker 1: you watch football to not have fun, all all the
Speaker 1: power to you, but I don't know what you're doing,
Speaker 1: Like it's all about fun for me. Number three, and
Speaker 1: you know, this is something I actually talked to Omar
Speaker 1: Kelly about recently, is that even on bad football teams,
Speaker 1: not saying this one is we've had some in the past,
Speaker 1: Even on bad football teams, there's always going to be
Speaker 1: something good to talk about. Twenty nineteen, you know, I
Speaker 1: talked about plenty of players I thought were having good
Speaker 1: seasons that year, DeVante Parker had a breakout yere Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins showed some flashes in his rookie season. Nick Needon
Speaker 1: was a great story. There's always things to talk about
Speaker 1: in any football season if you look hard enough, and
Speaker 1: the number four you talked about it as well. We
Speaker 1: do call a spade a spade, but we're not gonna
Speaker 1: stay here and blow smoke up your rear end like
Speaker 1: we I've talked about it. I've talked about when the
Speaker 1: protection wasn't good, when TWA has a bad throw, when
Speaker 1: a running back miss is a read, or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. We talked about it. So there's a
Speaker 1: line of credibility. But also I think it's just inherent
Speaker 1: to who we are as as professionals and fans John
Speaker 1: that we just want to be positive and have fun
Speaker 1: because that's what it's all about ultimately. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're not having fun covering sports and being involved
Speaker 1: in it, then you gotta find something else to do.
Speaker 1: And this has been fun, uh covering the the way
Speaker 1: this team has kind of hit its highs and hit
Speaker 1: its flows and and found its way back this season.
Speaker 1: And I'm just hoping they can continue out and run
Speaker 1: the string and run the gamut of games, because now
Speaker 1: I think not only you and I, but the rest
Speaker 1: of the Dolphin fandom are going to be in a
Speaker 1: good spot if we can win out. No, I can't
Speaker 1: say any better than that. Like you said, it's it's
Speaker 1: all all fun, and if they keep winning, it's even
Speaker 1: more fun for us. So John, you said it all,
Speaker 1: my friend, and we're gonna see you again back at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium on Sunday, hopefully to make us six straight.
Speaker 1: Thank you again so much for your time. We'll see
Speaker 1: you Sunday, John, see you on Sunday, see on game day.
Speaker 1: Had a great time and I look forward to another
Speaker 1: Dolphins win. Yes, sir, let's go and there he goes,
Speaker 1: always a good time on the write a podcast there
Speaker 1: with John And how about that he knows the folks
Speaker 1: that took it to tah on the pickle ball court
Speaker 1: and got a chance to watch him play some golf
Speaker 1: as well from a distance there. So good inside are
Speaker 1: reporting there from John con Jemmy with QB one on
Speaker 1: the golf course and the pickle ball court. Let's do
Speaker 1: a few more questions from y'all. This one comes in
Speaker 1: from at Grinding the tape. You guys might know Kyle Crabs,
Speaker 1: what time are you heading down to the lunch buffet
Speaker 1: on the U, S, S, D M T P. Can
Speaker 1: I sit with you of course every time? And congrats
Speaker 1: on your season ticket membership, Kyle. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you announced that yet. I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: announce it on your podcast. I'm sure you'll talk about it,
Speaker 1: but I can't wait to have you down here every
Speaker 1: home game next year. Man, congrats on becoming a Dolphins
Speaker 1: season ticket member. That's awesome. And let's get some lunch
Speaker 1: down in the calf here in the mess hall, the
Speaker 1: chow hall, whatever the heck it's called. Hearing about a
Speaker 1: half hour. Next question here from Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: go to Morgan Lewis at MO Underscore Lou twenty and
Speaker 1: he asked about an offensive line question for the off season. UM,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I just want to acknowledge your auction. Morgan.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and push those off until the season
Speaker 1: is over, Okay, I don't want to get there until
Speaker 1: this season's brands course, having a bunch of fun with
Speaker 1: this team right now, let's come back to that. We
Speaker 1: have all winter to discuss that stuff, So I appreciate
Speaker 1: the question. We're gonna push it off to a future podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: next one here from Wade Trip at Wade Trip one
Speaker 1: on Twitter. What's your take on god sees growth as
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator? Well, of course, he and Eric Studisville. I
Speaker 1: think the entire collaboration of the Dolphins offensive game planning
Speaker 1: has really come a long way. And John and I
Speaker 1: discussed that in the kind of Bruce arians Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: and John's perspective about familiarity within a system. I think
Speaker 1: you're seeing all of it kind of develop as you
Speaker 1: would hope it would, as the coaching staff and the
Speaker 1: and they their message for the players that you want
Speaker 1: to get better and play your best football in December.
Speaker 1: To me, the game plans continue to get better, the
Speaker 1: wrinkles continue to be more frequent, the tendency breakers continue
Speaker 1: to be more frequent, and a little bit harder for
Speaker 1: the defense to deal with. That They're giving their quarterback
Speaker 1: and the receivers and their playmakers, you know, an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do what they do best, and you know, complement
Speaker 1: in the offensive line in terms of the quick game
Speaker 1: as well. That helps them in the running game. Helps
Speaker 1: them just gain confidence without the course of the game,
Speaker 1: like John touched on, So I think it's been really
Speaker 1: good so far, and if they can keep that progression going,
Speaker 1: that would be really exciting to see the rest of
Speaker 1: this season and in the next year as well. This
Speaker 1: next question from at Lanston Russell, what did you think
Speaker 1: of your first season watching Formula One? Also your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the final lap controversy. Oh boy, First of all,
Speaker 1: I love it. The first thing is I wish the
Speaker 1: America's races were in the spring and summer, and the
Speaker 1: European and and the Middle Eastern races were more during
Speaker 1: the football season because when those races run at noon
Speaker 1: or you know, twelve thirty, I can't watch them, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to watch those crucial races. I was so
Speaker 1: happy that we had the bye week on the final race,
Speaker 1: the championship race in Abu Dhabi. As far as that
Speaker 1: final lab controversy, I think it was complete bs. They
Speaker 1: change the rules mid rate, and I understand the idea
Speaker 1: of wanting to have a more exciting finish and it
Speaker 1: certainly did that. And Drive to Survive is gonna be
Speaker 1: great because of it. And now the F one is
Speaker 1: gonna have even more people buzzing and talking about it.
Speaker 1: My favorite part about that race on Sunday was all
Speaker 1: the people saying, I guess I have to be an
Speaker 1: F one fan now, which tells me that they were
Speaker 1: looking at their timeline and everybody else was talking F one.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Let's go F one Go Team McLaren go,
Speaker 1: Daniel Riccardo, my favorite team and my favorite driver. He's
Speaker 1: by far my favorite driver. But anyway, I do support
Speaker 1: Lewis Hamilton. I think he's an awesome ambassador of the sport,
Speaker 1: just an awesome person in general, all the things that
Speaker 1: he believes in. I think he got jobbed. I really
Speaker 1: do to to not to let those cars unlap themselves
Speaker 1: and get Max right behind him after. You know, he
Speaker 1: basically built up that lead the entire race and then
Speaker 1: to just take it away for no reason. I didn't
Speaker 1: understand that other than the idea of making the finish
Speaker 1: more fun. I asked our guy, Hero, our our photo
Speaker 1: manager here from Miami Dolphins dot com and does a
Speaker 1: great job on so many things. Helps with the podcast
Speaker 1: as well, some of the audio and the video. You see.
Speaker 1: He he's a big F one fan and he I
Speaker 1: asked him, why can't they just do the the safety
Speaker 1: car and not count the lapse towards the race, and
Speaker 1: he told me, because I'm not very smart when it
Speaker 1: comes to this, they have a certain amount of gas
Speaker 1: in the car that runs out Travis, they they can't
Speaker 1: do That's like, oh yeah, good calls. That makes sense.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was I understand why they did it,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't fair for Lewis and I would be
Speaker 1: I rate if I was him personally. Next question here
Speaker 1: from at f EAZ FAZ forty three seventy five. Is
Speaker 1: there a chance we see mac Hollands more involved in
Speaker 1: the offense down the stretch. It's gonna be a broken
Speaker 1: record here for you, Jason, but it's game plan specific,
Speaker 1: man opponents specific. He's been a very big, heavily involved
Speaker 1: factor both in the running game, in the red zone,
Speaker 1: obviously on special teams. I think that his role just
Speaker 1: depends on what you get from the opposing defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be in that twelve personnel package and
Speaker 1: you want to go big so you can run the football,
Speaker 1: but also have the option for asking with he and
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker and Mike get Sicki and Derma Smith on
Speaker 1: the field. Those are your trees, right. That's a good
Speaker 1: opportunity for him to see the football field and get
Speaker 1: some chances there. And then he's filled in so admirably.
Speaker 1: When you know Preston's down, DeVante's down, Will Fullers down,
Speaker 1: he comes off the bench and makes plays for this offense.
Speaker 1: I think the role they have for right now is
Speaker 1: working very well. Could he get some more sure and
Speaker 1: if he does, I expect him to step up and
Speaker 1: fulfill that role like he has done all seasons so
Speaker 1: far for this Miami Dolphins team. So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get the rest of these and the written mail
Speaker 1: bag up on Miami Dolphins dot com on Friday afternoon.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you guys putting these questions out there
Speaker 1: for us. It helps us has It helps us with
Speaker 1: the content, and also I want to hear from you guys.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what you want to hear us
Speaker 1: talk about. So we appreciate that. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up here with our NFL picks for week number fifteen.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens on Thursday night. I picked the
Speaker 1: Chiefs over the Chargers. The rest of the schedule, I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Raiders over the Browns. Give me the
Speaker 1: Patriots over the Colts. Although that one, I am fifty
Speaker 1: are two good football teams. I can't wait to watch
Speaker 1: that on Saturday night. Give me the Dolphins over the Jets,
Speaker 1: the Bills over the Panthers, the Cardinals over the Lions,
Speaker 1: Cowboys over the Giants. I think Philadelphia gets on top
Speaker 1: of Washington for that. W Pittsburgh and Tennessee. That's another
Speaker 1: tough one that's really close for me. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh because of the fact that I think they're at
Speaker 1: home and it's a ten day rest after playing on
Speaker 1: Thursday night against Minnesota, and they're also really endure die
Speaker 1: mode there for Pittsburgh. Give me the Texans over the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Give me the Bangals over the Broncos. Another big game
Speaker 1: here in the a f C. I'll take the Niners
Speaker 1: over the Falcons, the Rams over the Seahawks, and the
Speaker 1: Packers over the Ravens, Bucks over the Saints, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings over the Bears on Monday night football. So that's
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