Speaker 1: All right, here we are week three, heading into Week
Speaker 1: three deaths by John Jemmy Kimbo Camper with you were
Speaker 1: on the audible. Uh and John, another another tough day
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. But you know, John, I think we
Speaker 1: all understand that we're looking at this football team and
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a year of small victories, incremental growth,
Speaker 1: all those types of things. And I think we saw
Speaker 1: some pretty good things yesterday from a standpoint that I
Speaker 1: thought the defense came out. Uh, you know, New England
Speaker 1: gets the ball first drive, takes it down the field
Speaker 1: and you go, well, here we go, we go again,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they buckle up. And
Speaker 1: I thought guys were in their gaps, guys were holding
Speaker 1: their you know, holding stand stand where they're supposed to stay.
Speaker 1: Tackling was a lot better, Awareness was a lot better,
Speaker 1: all those things. So I think when you look at
Speaker 1: the game, if you're looking for things to pull out
Speaker 1: of it, that would be the first thing that I
Speaker 1: would pull out on an offense, a defense that you
Speaker 1: know gave well, gave up fifty nine points the week before.
Speaker 1: Not how you go out and you do you know,
Speaker 1: you held them to nothing at halftime and you're feeling
Speaker 1: pretty good about where you are. And so I think
Speaker 1: that's something that that the team, the coaches, you and
Speaker 1: I and fans can kind of start wrapping their arms around,
Speaker 1: because you know, in the last month, John, I think
Speaker 1: probably the last two preseason games, first two regular season games,
Speaker 1: the roster con is continuing to change and and people
Speaker 1: are coming in and communication is hard to manage because
Speaker 1: guys are coming in out. But even along that line,
Speaker 1: you're starting to see a little incremental growth to this
Speaker 1: football team. Well, the thing I pulled from it was
Speaker 1: exactly what you said, You're trying to look at schemes
Speaker 1: defensively because the Baltimore Ravens had it so easy. You know,
Speaker 1: two Sundays ago, throwing the ball over the top of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphin defense, being able to run it at will.
Speaker 1: You know, the first play was for forty nine yards
Speaker 1: or fifty yards, And you look back at New England
Speaker 1: on Sunday and you go, yeah, they may have dominated
Speaker 1: a little bit on off fense in the first half,
Speaker 1: but then you look to scoreboard and didn't tell that
Speaker 1: tell I think the Dolphins defense was out there for
Speaker 1: thirty four first half plays and only gave up thirteen
Speaker 1: points in that last touchdown, you know, the push off
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brownie gets the touchdown, there's no call there,
Speaker 1: makes it thirteen nothing after the missed extra point, and
Speaker 1: you're going to the locker room thinking, okay, we're one
Speaker 1: explosive play away from actually making this a one score game.
Speaker 1: And now, if the offense was able to do anything
Speaker 1: on that day, you might have had a chance. And
Speaker 1: that's taken away all the turnovers that turned into touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you have two pick six is in
Speaker 1: a game, the chances of the percentages of winning that
Speaker 1: game go down drastically. But staying in the football game
Speaker 1: and having a chance. If the Dolphins offense, which came
Speaker 1: out in the second half and go three and out,
Speaker 1: three and out, you know, they just kept giving and
Speaker 1: setting the table for Tom Brady and you knew it
Speaker 1: was only a matter of time because that defense was
Speaker 1: getting worn down. So if you look for positives from
Speaker 1: week one to week two, I will say the defense
Speaker 1: showed improvement. It looked like they played closer to the
Speaker 1: scheme that Patrick Graham was trying to get get out.
Speaker 1: You know, they made significant changes in terms of hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen the ball go over our heads
Speaker 1: a number of times. Let's not make that mistake, especially
Speaker 1: against this group, you know, with with a B on
Speaker 1: one side and Josh Gordon and the running attack and
Speaker 1: the way they can Tom Brady can manipulate a defense
Speaker 1: with his eyes and with his feet, and the velocity
Speaker 1: and the accuracy throws the football with. So I thought
Speaker 1: those are some encouraging signs. The one thing that you
Speaker 1: still I feel like need needs repair is upfront in
Speaker 1: terms of being able to get up any semblance of
Speaker 1: a running game going on offense. You know that that
Speaker 1: to me puts added pressure on a passing game that
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna feel like that was gonna be carrying
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. You felt like you'd have to play uh,
Speaker 1: you know, four yards and three yards get in good
Speaker 1: third down situations because if you if you're not successful
Speaker 1: on first and second down, your chances of converting, especially
Speaker 1: see for a team that's limited in what they're doing
Speaker 1: offensively right now or the success that they've had is
Speaker 1: the percentages are behind your are against you. So you know,
Speaker 1: you convert maybe one one third down conversion in the
Speaker 1: first half, and your numbers look like that for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game because you're not putting yourselves in
Speaker 1: good positions. But I will say at least you found
Speaker 1: some semblance of a pass rush. You got to Tom
Speaker 1: Brady twice, Jenkins had a sack and and and that
Speaker 1: was good to see from from the inside. Uh. But
Speaker 1: but you want to be able to do that offensively
Speaker 1: on a more consistent basis, be able to win on
Speaker 1: first down. I don't know how many times I looked
Speaker 1: in as wow, it's second eleven. You know, it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a situation that's tough for good teams,
Speaker 1: and teams that have established offensive line, established running games
Speaker 1: have guys that are difference makers. You get them in space.
Speaker 1: Dolphins right now are searching for that on office. Well
Speaker 1: belong that line, John. I mean, you know the after
Speaker 1: the after initial touchdown by the Patriots, uh, that the
Speaker 1: defense made him work, that they didn't work. There was
Speaker 1: no there were no gimmese to them. They were you know,
Speaker 1: they fought, they worked for whatever they got, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins made him work forever whatever they got. And had
Speaker 1: there been one of those drop balls with the Devonte
Speaker 1: Parker drop and I'm not point. But it's just at
Speaker 1: the at the time of the game, if you make
Speaker 1: that catch, you're in the red zone, you're gonna at
Speaker 1: least come away with three points, maybe a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: all of a sus you know, maybe that's the spark
Speaker 1: that gets your offense a little one of those plays,
Speaker 1: you know, you know that that that this offense for
Speaker 1: the first two weeks needs something they can rally around,
Speaker 1: something that's gonna give them a little Hey we're contributing. Now,
Speaker 1: Hey we're part of this team. We're playing comment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're doing this. And so you know, one of them,
Speaker 1: you know, you catch. There were six drop balls out there, John,
Speaker 1: Each and every one of them could have changed the
Speaker 1: complexion of the game at that given moment. Now, a
Speaker 1: couple at the end it was too late. But some
Speaker 1: of those early, early, early balls that were dropped, you know,
Speaker 1: keep you in the football game, keep you you know,
Speaker 1: keep you know, keep your tension, keep you going there.
Speaker 1: And so they've got to get that done. But you're
Speaker 1: but you're right. The other thing is he is the
Speaker 1: running game. It's just it's non existent. It is non existent,
Speaker 1: and you can't play football in this league. As much
Speaker 1: as people want to talk about Now, it's a passing league.
Speaker 1: It's a passing it's a passing league. Well, you know
Speaker 1: what every coach every week when you're asking what do
Speaker 1: you gotta do? We gotta run the football, we gotta
Speaker 1: stop to run. Well, if every coach says that, you know,
Speaker 1: the bell should go off on your head that hey,
Speaker 1: it's important to be able to run the game, run
Speaker 1: the ball, important to try to stop the running game.
Speaker 1: And this team, you know, it hasn't been very difficult
Speaker 1: to stop the running game on this football team, which
Speaker 1: puts a lot of pressure on that secondary, especially because
Speaker 1: you don't have a pass rush up front that's putting
Speaker 1: the type of pressure. Now you say, got a couple
Speaker 1: of sacks on on Brady, but you know, much like
Speaker 1: the week before against Lamar Jackson, you know, you you
Speaker 1: got your guy standing back there. Wait wait, let that
Speaker 1: guy cross the whole field. It's tough to cover for
Speaker 1: that long And and the Dolphins found that out in
Speaker 1: week one. Week two is a different animal because I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you look at New England's passing game,
Speaker 1: you put Tom Brady aside, and you look at the
Speaker 1: players you're trying to defend at wide out, at slot,
Speaker 1: and in the offensive backfield, when you've got three guys
Speaker 1: that can catch the football in space and make somebody miss.
Speaker 1: So that's why I was saying the offense could sustain
Speaker 1: some drives and stay on the field. It takes some
Speaker 1: pressure off of the defense that actually played two good
Speaker 1: quarters of football to start the game. You know, I
Speaker 1: felt like it was a win going off the field,
Speaker 1: you know, I would. I think that the A. B
Speaker 1: touchdown came with under two minutes left to go in
Speaker 1: the quarter and the half and it only made it
Speaker 1: thirteen nothing. So, like you said, if if one of
Speaker 1: those plays down the field, one of those drops early
Speaker 1: in the game could have had an effect, you get
Speaker 1: a little confidence on offense. Maybe you build from there,
Speaker 1: but you feel like, hey, those those dark clouds are
Speaker 1: moving in again. We can't run it. We're punning you know,
Speaker 1: three and out at least seven or eight of them
Speaker 1: in the game. That's that begins, that begins to take
Speaker 1: over your demeanor, you know, and you have to find
Speaker 1: some play or someone to rise above those those inabilities
Speaker 1: to to stay on the field. Now that that being said,
Speaker 1: you know, you have another game where you go in
Speaker 1: and and now you have a new right tackle and
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about this a little bit, and uh,
Speaker 1: the you know, if there's any position on a football
Speaker 1: team where communication is paramount, it's had offensive lines, and
Speaker 1: this is an offensive line. Really for the last month, really,
Speaker 1: really for the entire training camp, you really haven't had
Speaker 1: five guys in there that we're gonna you know you,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think early in the season, we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to find those five guys. Let him stand there,
Speaker 1: let them get to know each other, let them get
Speaker 1: there that communication, let you let him understand you know
Speaker 1: where I need help, where this guy needs help to
Speaker 1: do all that stuff. But they haven't. There haven't been
Speaker 1: no consistency in the players that play there. You know,
Speaker 1: another guy in there this week, and you know I
Speaker 1: was talking to to Daniel Kilgore in a in a
Speaker 1: postgame interview and said, how do you communicate when you
Speaker 1: got new guys? It's it's it's hard, but you know,
Speaker 1: we we try. We do the best we can, you know,
Speaker 1: and then we're doing it as well as we can.
Speaker 1: But you know, so it's it's it's a little it's
Speaker 1: it's really tough on them. I'm not saying there. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're a physically dominating offensive line or they
Speaker 1: ever will be a physically dominating offensive line, but almost
Speaker 1: feel at one point it's something like they're playing with
Speaker 1: one hand time buying their back because two new guys
Speaker 1: next last week and one guy switching positions from left
Speaker 1: or right. Now you've got another right tackle that comes in,
Speaker 1: a new guy coming in, and you know they's just
Speaker 1: trying to fit his way in there, and and you
Speaker 1: still got a guard in there that they hardly played
Speaker 1: it all during the preseason and you're still trying to learn.
Speaker 1: And so it's what you talk about, really putting yourself
Speaker 1: behind an eight ball with a unit that really is
Speaker 1: gonna dictate what your entire offense is going to be
Speaker 1: like weekend in weekends, right, And I think the know
Speaker 1: the plan was going in. Okay, let's throw the two
Speaker 1: young guards in there, you know, with Kilgore and Shaq Calhoun,
Speaker 1: and see how if they can sink or swim. Well,
Speaker 1: one of them was swimming and the other one has
Speaker 1: been replaced, and he's been replaced with uh, you know,
Speaker 1: new talent in Issodora. So he comes in, didn't get
Speaker 1: a whole lot of playing time for the Dolphins in
Speaker 1: training camp. If any he comes in the first week
Speaker 1: of the season and you're pairing him up with a
Speaker 1: new guy in Davenport that goes down the New England week,
Speaker 1: so you have web coming in to start, So you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of flux up there in terms of
Speaker 1: knowing how a guy a double team somebody when to
Speaker 1: come off on the second level, what angles do they
Speaker 1: want me to take, you know, And it's very difficult
Speaker 1: to get that synergy going on offense. It's very difficult
Speaker 1: to call basic running plays and to feel like as
Speaker 1: a runner you're gonna be able to press that hole
Speaker 1: because before you're getting to that hole, you're having to
Speaker 1: adjust because there's penetration in the offensive backfield. So I
Speaker 1: would say that's the first thing that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1: You can't have as much penetration over the last two
Speaker 1: weeks that we've seen, you know, against Baltimore and against
Speaker 1: New England if you're gonna have any semblance of establishing
Speaker 1: a running attack. So that's the biggest thing for me.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to get those five guys
Speaker 1: if it's the same five guys that are going on
Speaker 1: the road against the Dallas Cowboys, you want to see
Speaker 1: those guys play with a little bit more synergy, a
Speaker 1: little bit more togetherness, and have the confidence of the
Speaker 1: running backs to know if I'm gonna hit the whole
Speaker 1: in between you know the garden tackle that there is
Speaker 1: a window of opportunity that he can press and get
Speaker 1: two or three or four yards on first down, if
Speaker 1: not get to the back end of that hole. To
Speaker 1: make the running game, have a little confidence and that
Speaker 1: kind of feeds into your passing game, feeds into your protection.
Speaker 1: That you guys are staying on the field for five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight plays and maybe you've got some more consistency upfront.
Speaker 1: That gives you the confidence that, hey, we're okay. You
Speaker 1: know we're not searching when it's tough to as a
Speaker 1: play caller, it's tough to know what to get to.
Speaker 1: If your basic maybe two or three plays that you
Speaker 1: have on your call list, you know those are out
Speaker 1: the window after the second. Along along with that, John
Speaker 1: you you also have the situation where if you can't
Speaker 1: run the football, is tough to throw the ball because
Speaker 1: guys are pinning their ears back and I mean you
Speaker 1: look at Ryan Fitzpatrick. You know, God bless. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was fighting for his life again back there and
Speaker 1: and just doing whatever he could, and at times he
Speaker 1: got out time. You gotta made room and and do
Speaker 1: to get things going. But well, we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: a little bit more as we move on. Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: is gonna just stopping by to just say, hell eose,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to him. We'll get back to this
Speaker 1: here in a little bit. By Joan. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the to the audible. Hey, lets let's talk about the
Speaker 1: start of this season. Uh, a couple of tough games,
Speaker 1: but uh, it's about growth. It's about getting better each
Speaker 1: and every week. I think the from week one to
Speaker 1: week two from a defensive standpoint, where your game really changed.
Speaker 1: Seemed like you guys were ready to set the tempo
Speaker 1: of the course of the game and and put some
Speaker 1: pressure tackling with sharp again with sharp. What was the
Speaker 1: difference between week one and week two. Um, we just
Speaker 1: got back in. Uh. Throughout the week, we just side
Speaker 1: what we wanted to do. Um, that's tackling, that's running
Speaker 1: to the ball. Just a simple things, get back to
Speaker 1: the basics. And uh, you know, Sunday it was just
Speaker 1: a chance for us to go out there and show
Speaker 1: ourselves what we can do. So we definitely moved in
Speaker 1: the right direction. You know, definitely still have a long
Speaker 1: way to go. Well, what's the attitude of you guys?
Speaker 1: Uh is a group you know, trying to get better
Speaker 1: and and and and Like on the offense, guys are
Speaker 1: coming and going trying to get people the combinations of
Speaker 1: people they want back there. So you're dealing with a
Speaker 1: lot of things as you're as you're playing some very
Speaker 1: good opponents week in week out. Um, it's definitely a beat. Um,
Speaker 1: we see it as a challenge. You know, we kind
Speaker 1: of settle into our roles and everything, so when it's
Speaker 1: a chance for us to go out there and perform,
Speaker 1: we kind of take it as a challenge and really
Speaker 1: show what we got. So we're definitely finds the defense
Speaker 1: we're just constantly is getting better. So you lead the
Speaker 1: team and tackles this week against New England? Are you
Speaker 1: getting more accustomed to what the scheme is all about? Defensively,
Speaker 1: it looks like everybody the Fits are getting a little
Speaker 1: bit more where you're reacting instead of thinking about where
Speaker 1: you are going. When you watch yourself on film. Did
Speaker 1: you see that from week one to week two? Oh yeah, definitely. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean it's nothing like you know, game rep so uh.
Speaker 1: The second game, I definitely felt more comfortable I understood, uh.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the practice angles don't seem right, but at
Speaker 1: game time, you know, you have a good U feel
Speaker 1: for it. So I'm definitely filling out the defense as
Speaker 1: a whole, and um, just constantly getting better every week.
Speaker 1: Are you getting more accustomed to being in the middle
Speaker 1: of the defense because it seems like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of room out there, you know, when you look to
Speaker 1: your right, you look to your left, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of space and there's a lot of room to cover.
Speaker 1: Are you getting more comfortable with what you need to
Speaker 1: be to be at your best every week? Oh yeah, definitely. Uh.
Speaker 1: I kind of just lean on you know, other players
Speaker 1: really h the D line and sometimes I can just
Speaker 1: align a certain way, uh, and they kind of helped
Speaker 1: me more than anything. So just understanding where my help
Speaker 1: is at, understand what's you know, the challenges I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have in certain calls. Uh, And that's pretty much you
Speaker 1: know what I do. So, UM, just as far as
Speaker 1: I understan and defense, we can't watch him. I had
Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of you know, the plays I
Speaker 1: didn't make or I missed. Uh, I understood what I
Speaker 1: didn't I did wrong. So that's always just a positive
Speaker 1: to me. Does that hold true a lot? When you're
Speaker 1: in a game, you go, man, I can't wait to
Speaker 1: watch that one on tape because I know I did
Speaker 1: my you know, I did it perfectly. And then others
Speaker 1: that you go, oh, yeah, that'll be one. I gotta
Speaker 1: lean back in my chair a little bit. Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes I make a mistake and I try
Speaker 1: to tell PG or somebody before, uh, but you know
Speaker 1: they don't have that. So um, it's always good when
Speaker 1: you know the mistakes you make, just so you don't
Speaker 1: have to really uh. I don't say coach it up,
Speaker 1: but you understood that you messed up on end. The
Speaker 1: next time it happens with NFL, if you make one mistake,
Speaker 1: they're gonna come back to it and see if you
Speaker 1: can fix it. So it's always good when you can
Speaker 1: just figure out the mistakes before you watch film. Well,
Speaker 1: this last week got a chance to spend a little
Speaker 1: more time in the field with the with your pal
Speaker 1: O Pal Ray Kuan McMillan. He's getting back healthy again
Speaker 1: and back on the field. How does it feel to
Speaker 1: have him end up next to you out there in
Speaker 1: the on the field. Oh, it's always good. Uh when
Speaker 1: he's out there. I mean, I've been playing for so
Speaker 1: many years. It's really just um a field thing, you know.
Speaker 1: I al really don't have to say much. I can
Speaker 1: kind of just feel his presence. So um, it's definitely
Speaker 1: he's back healthy and you know, getting out to So
Speaker 1: it's definitely fun. Different scheme this year, doing doing different things.
Speaker 1: Do you do you like the way this defense sets
Speaker 1: up that the scheme sets up for for you, and
Speaker 1: then the rest of the guys are on there listening,
Speaker 1: just like see a lot of different looks, a lot
Speaker 1: of different fronts, and it changes up there, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be it's gotta be kind of a fun,
Speaker 1: fun defense to work within. Uh as you keep moving on.
Speaker 1: For me personally, I love it. It's so many different Um,
Speaker 1: there's so many different styles, so many different ways you
Speaker 1: can just confuse the offense. Sometimes I can be dropping,
Speaker 1: sometimes I can be rushing as a d n um.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm just covering it tight end or back For
Speaker 1: me personally, it's exciting because you never know exactly what
Speaker 1: I'm doing until the bass snap, so uh and just
Speaker 1: as deep as the whole we just throw so many
Speaker 1: friend looks. Um. You know these past two weeks you
Speaker 1: kind of just want to focus on, uh, the basics
Speaker 1: and get back to I'm doing the basic things right,
Speaker 1: stopping the run, um, you know, get off the field
Speaker 1: on third and long. Simple things like that that you
Speaker 1: need to do in this league. That's what we're kind
Speaker 1: of focusing on now. You know, both mentioned with ray
Speaker 1: kuon back in the lineup. It was a nice goal
Speaker 1: line stand. You guys teamed up on a on a
Speaker 1: tackle right at the goal line. Um, take us through
Speaker 1: how things are different down in the red zone compared
Speaker 1: to you know, things happen a little bit quicker and
Speaker 1: you have to trigger probably a little bit faster, especially
Speaker 1: at the line of scriment. Yeah, goal one. It's one
Speaker 1: of those places. Uh, if you see something you literally
Speaker 1: you have to do it, like you have to go
Speaker 1: shoot it. Um. Whatever you see, you have to believe it,
Speaker 1: um because just if it's you know, third and goal
Speaker 1: at the one of one hard games a touchdown, so
Speaker 1: you kind of really have to. If you see it,
Speaker 1: you have to go. You can't wait, you can't catch um.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know it. Just the goal on everything
Speaker 1: is just to tensifying every you know more, so you
Speaker 1: really have to just focus on the little things. And
Speaker 1: just you know, Bo and I were talking earlier in
Speaker 1: the program, and what was the feeling like at halftime,
Speaker 1: because you had to feel pretty good about where you
Speaker 1: guys stood in terms of, you know, you give up
Speaker 1: a late touchdown, should have been probably passing interference, a
Speaker 1: little push off right on on wilts, but you go
Speaker 1: down thirteen nothing. What was the feeling like for you
Speaker 1: guys coming back out here. If we can get a
Speaker 1: three and out give our offense, or we can get
Speaker 1: a defensive score, we can cut the field in half.
Speaker 1: We're one score away from getting back in this game.
Speaker 1: And that's really that was the you know what we
Speaker 1: were thinking. Um was definitely in it. It was definitely close. Uh.
Speaker 1: We just kind of just had to do our part.
Speaker 1: As far as the defense we can control, we can
Speaker 1: control and that's playing good defense. So um that that
Speaker 1: was our spirits. Just go out there and just continue
Speaker 1: we're doing um no, uh, focus on a little thing
Speaker 1: that we mess up on, but awesomely we're in it. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, awesomate didn't go away. But as a defense,
Speaker 1: it was definitely up to beat, you know, halftime and
Speaker 1: just being a young defense, I think it was just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just to be down the way we was playing,
Speaker 1: just to be down that a few points. It was.
Speaker 1: The field was different. We can stand up to anybody.
Speaker 1: Day was you know, super Bowl champs, So we definitely
Speaker 1: had it defending super Bowl champs that get the collar
Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown comes into have that offense and like
Speaker 1: you said, you held them pretty putting your check. Now
Speaker 1: you go to Dallas, you go on the road, different
Speaker 1: situation away from home, in an environment where the fans
Speaker 1: are crazy in Dallas. They love that football team and
Speaker 1: they'll let you know. And you got Dak Prescott, you
Speaker 1: got Zeke, You've got a big offensive line, you got
Speaker 1: a really talented offense there. So there's gonna be another
Speaker 1: big challenge for you, uh, and a chance for you
Speaker 1: guys take another major step forward. Um. Ultimately, it's it's
Speaker 1: another chance to go out there and just play football. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody has good old line, everybody has you know, receivers. Uh,
Speaker 1: we kind of just have to focus on the little
Speaker 1: things that we do well. Um, and that's the little
Speaker 1: things we can fix before the players even started. That's
Speaker 1: line up right, that's communication, simple things like that that
Speaker 1: goes a long way in this league. So uh that
Speaker 1: that's pretty much our main focus this week is we'll
Speaker 1: just focus on the things that we know we have
Speaker 1: to get, you know, handling when when it's time to play,
Speaker 1: just play. So uh, it's definitely be a good challenge
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to go up there and you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully get a win. So you were when you were
Speaker 1: growing up, you were was there a team that you followed?
Speaker 1: Would you follows? A Um? I was a Browns fan
Speaker 1: and I was a Steelers fan, which is kind of weird. Uh.
Speaker 1: I love the Stealers defense, but I mean hometown. You
Speaker 1: always have to. So you told the Browns fans you
Speaker 1: were a Browns fan, and you told the Steelers fans
Speaker 1: you're a Steelers fan. Correct? Correct the reason I as
Speaker 1: it seems like everyone I told you when they said
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I like the Cowboys. Everyone seemed like the Cowboys. You
Speaker 1: get a chance to going going to Dallas and then
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys in that. Have you played that poys? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I played college. Yeah, in college, I played there a
Speaker 1: few times. So I'm definitely familiar with the stadium. So
Speaker 1: it's definitely be fine. So is it one of those
Speaker 1: stadiums you make a play and you look up, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that screen right there you have to go.
Speaker 1: You can't help, but when you're in the sideline just watching,
Speaker 1: you tend just to look up and just stare because
Speaker 1: it is definitely a beautiful stadium. You Usually when I'm
Speaker 1: when I'm standing out there, I look, I look for players.
Speaker 1: I look along the right, along the sideline. That's how
Speaker 1: I look on the bench because usually the players are
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench looking at the at the scoreboard
Speaker 1: because you can see it up there. But it's a
Speaker 1: it's a great place to play in, a great place
Speaker 1: to go in, a great place to shut up a
Speaker 1: crowd too. If you can go in there and walk
Speaker 1: out of that building and with those guys murmur and upset,
Speaker 1: that's uh. That's to me is one of the great
Speaker 1: things in in in playing football, going into someone else's
Speaker 1: house and and shutting their crowd down in there. That'd
Speaker 1: be that'd be a lot of fun. Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of cool. This is our first
Speaker 1: test of you know, away game, so just to go
Speaker 1: on somebody else's home and um take with stairs. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a fun just a fun uh, just
Speaker 1: a fun feeling really. Uh. And we're young, we know that.
Speaker 1: So this is our first test and we're just gonna
Speaker 1: give you everything we got. And they named you a
Speaker 1: captain this year for a for a second year player. Um,
Speaker 1: you gotta know pretty good about that. It says a
Speaker 1: lot about what the staff with the players, what your
Speaker 1: teammates think about you, and uh, congratulations for that. But
Speaker 1: it's gotta feel gotta feel pretty nice for you. Oh yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: it definitely feel good. Uh. I had been a captain
Speaker 1: since I was like in high school, so it was
Speaker 1: definitely fun. But also I just kind of just wanted
Speaker 1: to do the right things, um, and for other guys.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be the example if I just try
Speaker 1: to just the right thing as much as you can.
Speaker 1: Whatever they asked me to do, I want to do it,
Speaker 1: um and just pretty much just be the example for
Speaker 1: the team. And uh, it's definitely honored for especially your
Speaker 1: teammates to choose this captain. So I'm definitely grateful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're uphold they're playing well and doing doing good things
Speaker 1: out there. Appreciate you stopping by and wish you the
Speaker 1: best of luck this week and throughout the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. I'm sure we'll see you again for sure.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. App Jeron Baker, you know, good guy,
Speaker 1: and and and you know here's a guy that boy.
Speaker 1: You know, when he first beginning of the season last year,
Speaker 1: he was well, he was a little bit a little
Speaker 1: bit too quick, a little bit too anxious to get
Speaker 1: to the ball and in order. But now I tell
Speaker 1: but now he is playing is as good at football
Speaker 1: as anybody in this football team. And and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be He's gonna be a linebacker in this league that
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep an eye on for a long time.
Speaker 1: It's gonna gonna do some pretty good things out here. Well,
Speaker 1: if you could pick a player to fit this scheme
Speaker 1: in the middle of the defense, it needs to run
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline, that needs to be communicative with the
Speaker 1: other ten players on the field and look to as
Speaker 1: a leader. I mean, in his second year he's a
Speaker 1: team captain. I mean it just says what his teammates
Speaker 1: and his coaching staff and this organization thinks of the player,
Speaker 1: the young player they got out of Ohio State. I
Speaker 1: just I just like his work ethic. I like the
Speaker 1: way it goes about his business. He likes to have fun,
Speaker 1: but when it's time to work, he works. And I
Speaker 1: think that gets contagious, especially on a young team, whether
Speaker 1: it's or his peers are looking at him, how he's
Speaker 1: approaching the game, how he's not making as many mental
Speaker 1: or physical mistakes, and how he corrects from week one
Speaker 1: to week two. I mean, you could just it. He
Speaker 1: was all over the field. He was all around the
Speaker 1: football in the running game, he did a really good
Speaker 1: job of being able to, uh, you know, play without hesitation.
Speaker 1: And he just is a is a guy that you
Speaker 1: want to have here for a long time. And I
Speaker 1: just I just feel like, you know, if more guys
Speaker 1: can can play and emulate the style of the way
Speaker 1: Jerome plays the position at their particular position, you know
Speaker 1: you're onto something now. You were a little surprised with
Speaker 1: m ray kawon McMillan because it seemed like for a
Speaker 1: while you know, he missed training camp with an injury,
Speaker 1: didn't didn't really practice much, and then game one didn't
Speaker 1: see see much action, and then you kind of wonder,
Speaker 1: if you know, where, where does he fit into this
Speaker 1: whole scheme. And then all of a sudden in Game two,
Speaker 1: they put him in and he played a number of snaps,
Speaker 1: played well. He did, He played well in the game,
Speaker 1: and and I think he's kind of getting himself back
Speaker 1: into football condition and back into the space where where
Speaker 1: we'll see him more, which all may not be in
Speaker 1: the allot because a lot of times they like to
Speaker 1: you know, they want to have more want the two
Speaker 1: linebackers set in there. But you know, like you talk
Speaker 1: about goal line, some of those short you already the
Speaker 1: middle of the field situations, running situations. I think where though,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll accommodate him a little bit more in there.
Speaker 1: And uh and I like way quant too. I think
Speaker 1: that you know, it's been tough for him, you know,
Speaker 1: physically physically trying to get back, but now he's here,
Speaker 1: and I know he's happy to be playing out there.
Speaker 1: Um and and and I think he can be one
Speaker 1: of those other guys that can really help help this
Speaker 1: defense to be to take that next step forward where
Speaker 1: they want to be and really become a very competitive group. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those he falls into the
Speaker 1: category where I know coach Flores spoke this week at
Speaker 1: his press conference after the game, you're trying to identify
Speaker 1: as many players with that young talent that you want
Speaker 1: to build around and that have character off the field
Speaker 1: and on the field that you can count on that
Speaker 1: you don't have that many missed assignments, that you know
Speaker 1: you you teach you to him once or twice and
Speaker 1: that's all you need, you don't You have to keep
Speaker 1: pounding that philosophy of where you need to be at.
Speaker 1: You know where you need to uh, you know your
Speaker 1: angles and your body placement and being able to get leverage.
Speaker 1: And I think he comes from the same cloth although
Speaker 1: they you know, they obviously went to the same college
Speaker 1: at Ohio State, but I think the same type of
Speaker 1: football background and mentality. Whereas whatever it takes, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be about me, but if I can do
Speaker 1: my job to allow somebody else to make a play.
Speaker 1: I think both of these guys are selfless when when
Speaker 1: it comes to playing the game of football. I mean
Speaker 1: Jerome happened to get seven tackles, but you saw what
Speaker 1: happens down on the goal line when you need a
Speaker 1: physical body, a bigger body to be able to reject
Speaker 1: somebody that's trying to score a touchdown. And I think
Speaker 1: ray Kawon fit that bill quite nicely. And now going
Speaker 1: into the Dallas game with Ezekiel uh in the backfield,
Speaker 1: you know, there there's a there's a different running style
Speaker 1: where a guy that's gonna run with power, he's gonna
Speaker 1: run with some speed and quickness, and you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to to take that guy down. And I
Speaker 1: think both those guys are very capable. You know. Let
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about the Dallas Cowboys to
Speaker 1: the opponent for the Dolphins this week, UM, very talented
Speaker 1: football team. Uh. Dak Prescott is a guy that can
Speaker 1: he can run, he can throw the football, he can
Speaker 1: throw flat footed, deep deep down the field. He does
Speaker 1: a lot of good things to tell you understands this offense.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's a great leader on that team.
Speaker 1: And then you talk about Ezekiel Elliott and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe one of the best running backs in the national
Speaker 1: football he can run through you he's got speed, does
Speaker 1: all those different things. They've got some good receivers out there,
Speaker 1: and when they got that big, big offensive line that
Speaker 1: they've been they've had for a long time, that that
Speaker 1: they really rely on. And and this is gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: no doubt in New England was a major test against
Speaker 1: his football team. This is gonna be another major test.
Speaker 1: Different style, not quite the same style, not that quick
Speaker 1: hitting kind of an offense, more of a you know,
Speaker 1: physical grind you down. And I wouldn't be surprised to
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys come out and try to use this
Speaker 1: as a game where they're just gonna try to, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff the ball down their throats and uh and run
Speaker 1: the football and try to pound it from the opening uh,
Speaker 1: from the opening kick. That was the big thing New England.
Speaker 1: I mean time of possession. I think we lost by
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen minutes. You know, you go back over
Speaker 1: that game and you allow twenty seven first dounds, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the game, and the defense didn't do poorly and
Speaker 1: the defense played fairly well. So that's saying a lot
Speaker 1: for New England. Now when you turn the page to Dallas,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work backwards. I think what you hit on. Lastly,
Speaker 1: in terms of the offensive line, I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the most important part of the game for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: because one from Week one to Week two, the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins front seven, let's say, didn't get close to Jackson
Speaker 1: and being able to pressure him or make him elude
Speaker 1: the pocket or make him feel rattled at any time.
Speaker 1: I thought they did a better job, you know, getting
Speaker 1: two sacks against Tom Brady. But you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be able to affect the running game. You have to
Speaker 1: be able to hold your own and not get pushed
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. Because if the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: start going downhill, they're gonna go downhill, uh the intent
Speaker 1: for four quarters, you know, and they'll do a little
Speaker 1: play action. They won't have to do too much offensively.
Speaker 1: So the key to the game for me is being
Speaker 1: able to stop, not stop the running game, but slow
Speaker 1: it down to the point where you have a chance
Speaker 1: to get after Dac in the passing year, you got
Speaker 1: them put it, put them in long situations you can't
Speaker 1: have you know, second and four, second and three, third
Speaker 1: and two, third and one. You know, you gotta get
Speaker 1: them in situations where they've they've got they've got to work.
Speaker 1: They've got to work, you know, third and third and twelve,
Speaker 1: third and eight, third and nine where hopefully you can
Speaker 1: find a scheme or some way to get get some
Speaker 1: some some pressure on them, which you know, quite frankly
Speaker 1: this scene that they've they've got to get a little
Speaker 1: more out of their defensive ends. They've got to get
Speaker 1: more pressure up the sides. I mean, you see in
Speaker 1: the middle kind of get a little push up the middle.
Speaker 1: But but but you're not much coming around the outside.
Speaker 1: And you know, and and against the Tom Brady, against
Speaker 1: the Deck Prescott, against some of these quarterbacks that that
Speaker 1: they're gonna face. You got Philip Rivers coming. When when
Speaker 1: you face these quarterbacks, you can't you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: live on the blitz. You because those guys they say
Speaker 1: have blitz coming, they know exactly where the ball, you
Speaker 1: know where the hole is, and know where the weaknesses.
Speaker 1: They're gonna go right there and they're gonna burn you
Speaker 1: on it. Um. But but you gotta get him in
Speaker 1: those situations. You gotta get them in the situations where
Speaker 1: you can you know, where where you can dictate what
Speaker 1: what you want to do and not let them be
Speaker 1: the ones that are gonna you know, have that run
Speaker 1: pass option, whether it's or play action comes into play
Speaker 1: because they've been pounding the ball so much on you
Speaker 1: that everyone's starting to crowd the line of scrims. Now
Speaker 1: all a sudden, you go over the top. Those types
Speaker 1: of situations, Uh, those are all things that, um, they're
Speaker 1: gonna you know, they're gonna hurt a football team that
Speaker 1: continues to give up too many yards on first and
Speaker 1: second day. We talked earlier about negative plays, and I
Speaker 1: think you know, besides the two sacks the Dolphins had
Speaker 1: on Tom Brady, those are the only two negative plays
Speaker 1: in the game. Now, on the other side of the football,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of negative plays offensively that you
Speaker 1: have to stay away from. I think if you're gonna
Speaker 1: try to play winning football on the road against a
Speaker 1: very good, undefeated Dallas Cowboy team, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: stay away offensively from those negative plays, those negative runs,
Speaker 1: those those drops down the field, all all the things
Speaker 1: that kind of, uh bring your offense to a stalemate.
Speaker 1: And then on defense, you have to find a way
Speaker 1: to get those tackles for loss when you when you
Speaker 1: have those opportunities. When you get penetration, you have to
Speaker 1: find a way to get Elliott on the ground. You
Speaker 1: have to find a way to get Dax Prescott in
Speaker 1: the pocket and not only harass him, but get a
Speaker 1: sack or two early in the football game to get
Speaker 1: that momentum going. Those negative plays do a lot for
Speaker 1: your defense and on offense if you stay away from him,
Speaker 1: least you're getting positive yards where you're not in those
Speaker 1: second and thirteens and second and elevens where this team
Speaker 1: is having uh is struggling mightily on third down. Hey, John,
Speaker 1: when you look at when you look at Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: and I know there's you know, after after last week's game,
Speaker 1: there's talk about Ryan is gonna be Josh, who's gonna start,
Speaker 1: who's gonna play, And quite frankly, at this point, I
Speaker 1: don't know that it really makes that much of a
Speaker 1: difference between one of those two guys, because I think
Speaker 1: it's it's difficult to it's difficult to evaluate them in
Speaker 1: a true sense because there's so much pressure, because there's
Speaker 1: because a running game has been almost non existent, because
Speaker 1: when they do go back to throw teams no, and
Speaker 1: then they're coming at you and and and you're kind
Speaker 1: of fighting for your life back there. So the evaluation
Speaker 1: is tough, but it's what it is. And and and
Speaker 1: for Ryan, who we assume is going to get the
Speaker 1: start going into this game. And coach Floria said on
Speaker 1: Monday and his in his press conference that you know,
Speaker 1: he's the guy right now, and but that's Monday and
Speaker 1: we'll see. Um, they got to find some way to
Speaker 1: to keep him upright. I gotta funds find someone because
Speaker 1: last week when he had time, he threw some nice
Speaker 1: balls and he had was able to move the ball
Speaker 1: down the field, was able to fit balls in and
Speaker 1: do things. It was when he was, you know, scrambling
Speaker 1: for his life, where your balls come out the wrong way,
Speaker 1: or you can't you you miss the target, or or
Speaker 1: you don't identify or defense on the run, and it's
Speaker 1: difficult to account for everybody. That's when the trouble starts.
Speaker 1: And I agree with you, it's very difficult right now
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins to get a true sense of evaluation.
Speaker 1: But I will say, uh, the one thing that you're
Speaker 1: fearful of when you put Josh Rosen into the football game.
Speaker 1: Now granted he's been in two fourth quarters, and he's
Speaker 1: played a little bit of mop up duty and he's
Speaker 1: he's had some passes dropped, but he has held onto
Speaker 1: the football. And that's something in the early in a
Speaker 1: game where you you stay away from those negative plays
Speaker 1: because quite frankly, Ryan's anticipating some of that pressure and
Speaker 1: he's able to elude. The thing you'd like to see
Speaker 1: fits do is throw the football way and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: the play is over. There's nothing else to get out
Speaker 1: of it. Um let's throw it away and put it
Speaker 1: away now. Now the pick six is you know, those
Speaker 1: are just things that the tip ball from Kalen, you know,
Speaker 1: those things you just can't even imagine happen to you
Speaker 1: on offense where that should have been a completion first
Speaker 1: down and the Dolphins are still on offense. But I
Speaker 1: would say the one thing, the one fearful thing I
Speaker 1: have uh for Josh is his propensity to maybe hold
Speaker 1: onto the football and retreat instead of maybe you know,
Speaker 1: the play is over, I'm gonna burn this one and
Speaker 1: try to get on second down. But you only get
Speaker 1: better at that the more reps you get. And I
Speaker 1: think I think it would be it would be a disservice,
Speaker 1: and I think that the clock is ticking a little
Speaker 1: bit bow. I felt like, maybe after the bye week,
Speaker 1: let's take take a look at where the Dolphins are at,
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at how the offense is going.
Speaker 1: I think that timeline has has escalated a little bit
Speaker 1: quicker in terms of maybe we do need to see
Speaker 1: a full game out of Josh Rosen before you get
Speaker 1: to the bye week. Well, maybe maybe it's you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's younger legs, you know, maybe it's a guy
Speaker 1: in here that okay, if he gets to start, whether
Speaker 1: it's this week, next week, when whenever it happens to
Speaker 1: be where it is, well, maybe he can work better
Speaker 1: in the circumstances. Maybe he's been a little more nimble,
Speaker 1: Maybe he can, you know, find different ways to get
Speaker 1: out of the pocket. And he's seen it from the sidelines.
Speaker 1: W is a lot better than having to live it
Speaker 1: going through it in terms of when things aren't going well,
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're the backup and you're looking, you have
Speaker 1: a different perspective on maybe I would have thrown that
Speaker 1: one away, or maybe you're you're taking those mental reps
Speaker 1: from the sidelines and you're learning without even being you know,
Speaker 1: under center or in shotguns. So maybe that's to his advantage.
Speaker 1: He watches, you know, another game or another week, and
Speaker 1: and then he gets his opportunity. Whichever quarterback it is,
Speaker 1: whether it's Ryan or whether it's Josh, they need better
Speaker 1: help from their receivers. You need to catch those footballs.
Speaker 1: I know they're tough. I know they're fifty fifty balls.
Speaker 1: But you've got two guys six four and over that
Speaker 1: can jump, that can catch, that can do that. Uh
Speaker 1: and and and you've got a guy that can can
Speaker 1: take it to distance whenever you're throw in Jachim and
Speaker 1: he's got to catch the football. You know, he's had drops.
Speaker 1: That whole crew, that whole crew that that pick up
Speaker 1: their game. You know, if you know this week, you
Speaker 1: hope that this week that that that that crew, after
Speaker 1: watching those tapes and watch it, spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time out there catching footballs. And because they've got to
Speaker 1: be you know, I know, I know, you maybe catching
Speaker 1: one of those balls a small thing, but small things
Speaker 1: sometimes lead to big things. And so they've got to
Speaker 1: be This offense, this football team isn't good enough to overcome.
Speaker 1: You can overcome some things. You can't overcome things like
Speaker 1: that multiple times during the course of a game and
Speaker 1: stay in the game and keep it competitive till the
Speaker 1: very end. So so that that is that to me.
Speaker 1: Of of the biggest takeaway from Sunday's game to me
Speaker 1: were those six drops because and and look, there was
Speaker 1: a couple of them late in the game when when
Speaker 1: it was the game was pretty much said and done,
Speaker 1: but there were some of them in the first half.
Speaker 1: There were meaningful and meaningful times fifty yard games that
Speaker 1: you're you're doing everything you can to get stay on
Speaker 1: the field as an offense, and you're all we always
Speaker 1: talk about hidden yards and penalties. Well Dolphins did a
Speaker 1: better job in penalties, but is hitting yards on the drops?
Speaker 1: Are are going to number one, get you into the
Speaker 1: red zone or closer to the red zone. You cut
Speaker 1: off the field by fourty or fifty yards and now
Speaker 1: you've got a little bit of momentum built. You know,
Speaker 1: you're putting a little bit of fears like this guy
Speaker 1: can go up and get the football and I had
Speaker 1: them covered perfectly. You know, there's two guys going up
Speaker 1: and he's he's the one catching the ball, or you
Speaker 1: hit a guy dead and stride down the sideline. If
Speaker 1: you catch it, you've got a big game. Now, you've
Speaker 1: got the crowd back in it. You're you're feeling like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're on we're getting on a little bit of a roll.
Speaker 1: But when those things don't happen, it's deflating for a team.
Speaker 1: It's not only deflating for the offense, it's deflating for
Speaker 1: the defense because they're sitting on the sidelines looking at
Speaker 1: the boards, going, hey, come on, a little bit of
Speaker 1: help here. We've been out here, you know for a
Speaker 1: number of plays in the first half. That play, you know,
Speaker 1: gets us another three or four or five plays of rest.
Speaker 1: You know that that that defense, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: when you when you look at the stats after the game,
Speaker 1: they don't look that lopside in time of possession, in
Speaker 1: in a number of snaps, But if you boil it
Speaker 1: down to the first three quarters, then it's a major
Speaker 1: The amount of time that the defense was on the field,
Speaker 1: and that was a hot day out there, the amount
Speaker 1: of time they were on the field throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game, the number of snaps that they had
Speaker 1: opposed to the to the offensive snaps was double triple
Speaker 1: the amount at the end of the third quarter in
Speaker 1: New England already had twenty three first downs to Miami's
Speaker 1: two total yards that the Dolphins had thirty eight to
Speaker 1: three thirteen. And on third down the Patriots were five
Speaker 1: of nine, the Dolphins were one of nine, and they
Speaker 1: already had four sacks against Well. I can remember looking
Speaker 1: at halftime stats, I want to say, I think, I
Speaker 1: want to say, they had fifty seven yards of offense
Speaker 1: maybe in that first half. And then next thing I know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking up at the scoreboard in the third quarter
Speaker 1: and they're down to thirty seven because they had a
Speaker 1: couple of sacks and all that, and so they they
Speaker 1: lost you already, man, and not not only are not
Speaker 1: picking up yards every they were going backwards and so.
Speaker 1: But but then at the end of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: they're able to throw the ball down the field a bit,
Speaker 1: got some offense going to make it look when you
Speaker 1: when you if you didn't see the game, just looked
Speaker 1: at it, you Jesus was pretty pretty respectable there. But
Speaker 1: the score get there, but it was far from that
Speaker 1: when the game, when the game was in, you know,
Speaker 1: was it was and you can't you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about we talked to Jerome about, Hey, you know there
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of time, but I've been on teams.
Speaker 1: You You've been on teams, even on teams where I'm
Speaker 1: sure the offense was ahead of the defense. Again, if
Speaker 1: you gotta score because you got your defense, likewise for
Speaker 1: for defense, when the defense is that our offense isn't
Speaker 1: isn't moving, we gotta you know, if we gotta shut
Speaker 1: these guys out, we gotta shut them out. That's that's
Speaker 1: just one of those days, one of those things. And
Speaker 1: so you can do that, but against a team like
Speaker 1: New England, you can only do it for so long,
Speaker 1: and and granted against the Dallas Cowboys for so long,
Speaker 1: because eventually those teams are gonna you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: gonna get there, they're gonna execute, they're gonna get their traction,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna start rolling. And if you can't
Speaker 1: match them point for point, or if you play to play,
Speaker 1: or if you're scoring and you can't stop him, so
Speaker 1: so somehow they need to get in sync and and
Speaker 1: and the offense needs to Now again, you know, we
Speaker 1: may be talking, we may being here in a month
Speaker 1: from now saying hey, you know you have defense, you know,
Speaker 1: the officers scoring points. Now, defense you need to pick
Speaker 1: it up. But it's it's you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: that kind of goes in cycles like that, and you
Speaker 1: really like it where you're you're playing complimentary of each other.
Speaker 1: You know, you get a stop, you couple that with
Speaker 1: a score, and the defense, you know, finds a way
Speaker 1: to cut the field in half, and the and the
Speaker 1: offense takes advantage. And if you kick a field goal,
Speaker 1: you're taking advantage of how the table was set for you.
Speaker 1: So that that's the when good teams are on a roll.
Speaker 1: That happens quite frequently. Right now, it hasn't happened yet
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. H It's another thing that's that's going on,
Speaker 1: is is this whole you know, and and you know
Speaker 1: outside the team that there, this guy's going, that guy's going,
Speaker 1: this guy is he's asking, this guy doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be here, this guy wants to ask to be traded.
Speaker 1: And you know all the names, you know where one
Speaker 1: they're talking about. And and you know, for me, I
Speaker 1: tend to you know, you know what I hear when
Speaker 1: I hear that John, I hear agents speak, you know,
Speaker 1: I hear agents speak, because dude, we we talked to
Speaker 1: these guys. We talk these players, and we know, we
Speaker 1: know what they're about. And some of the guys are
Speaker 1: talking about just don't seem to be don't that, don't
Speaker 1: don't fit that m O to me, Yes, it's you
Speaker 1: know what, you know, I put my nose Jim Manage,
Speaker 1: you said, I put my nose to it, and she's
Speaker 1: gonna smell so good. I put my nose to some
Speaker 1: of this stuff and it doesn't smell so good. And
Speaker 1: it strikes me as agents speak, where an agent comes
Speaker 1: and says, you know, why do you want to player?
Speaker 1: Why don't you Why don't we try to get you
Speaker 1: somewhere else? Whyn't you know? And and then next thing
Speaker 1: you know, they're talking to a reporter and this and that,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I, I, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'm wrong, but but but but it kind
Speaker 1: of looks that way to me. Fist things. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of swirling right now. It's been swirling since training.
Speaker 1: You know, I've never been around a team, whether I
Speaker 1: played on it or whether I've been covering this team,
Speaker 1: and for the time I have, and I'm sure where
Speaker 1: more changes have happened every single week since training camp began,
Speaker 1: and here you're going into week three and people are
Speaker 1: still changing on this roster. I walked through the locker room.
Speaker 1: I pick up a broke pick up. He used to
Speaker 1: pick up a roster in the beginning of the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. And okay, now and then now every
Speaker 1: week I gotta come get a new roster because I
Speaker 1: don't know who the hell's on it. It's and there
Speaker 1: was I gotta, I gotta be honest with you. The
Speaker 1: guy John Jenkins, I saw him get a sack. Who
Speaker 1: the hell is that guy? I don't even know when
Speaker 1: the all I got here, you know what I mean? Second,
Speaker 1: John tak was close. Tank was coming from the should
Speaker 1: have got a little so so along with all the stuff,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a there's a lot of changes going on,
Speaker 1: and I can understand Guy's frustration. But but um, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess the specy alation really bothers me,
Speaker 1: you know, the speculation of of what. And then you
Speaker 1: go right to the guy that goes, I'm happy being here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well it waters down to where you were in college
Speaker 1: football now and they have the transfer port right so
Speaker 1: that kind of doesn't sit well with me, because you know,
Speaker 1: you should have a legitimate reason, you know, to to transfer,
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys are just looking for the
Speaker 1: easy way out. Now you go to the NFL and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everybody you know supposedly wants to
Speaker 1: jump ship, and hey, this is your job, this is
Speaker 1: this is what you get paid to do. And if
Speaker 1: you don't have pride in being able to, I don't know,
Speaker 1: lace it up, pull up your your pants and go
Speaker 1: to work every day, then maybe, you know, maybe it
Speaker 1: wasn't cut out for you if you have that attitude. Now,
Speaker 1: it doesn't strike me that the players that have always
Speaker 1: been mentioned in this have that attitude. I watch him work,
Speaker 1: I watch him, I see him every day. These guys
Speaker 1: go to work and they're they're trying to perfect their craft.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that you know that outside noise
Speaker 1: is sometimes it's brought upon by agents and and some
Speaker 1: of the people that are always in your ear. But
Speaker 1: I've always been to the of the school of you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just I'm gonna stick to what I do
Speaker 1: with what my job is, and if I can do
Speaker 1: my job, it's gonna make the person all the people
Speaker 1: around me much better, because that's all I'm concerned about
Speaker 1: is doing doing something that's gonna help this football team.
Speaker 1: That means by me, you know, doing everything I need
Speaker 1: to do to be prepared to go out and work
Speaker 1: and and do my job, because if I do that,
Speaker 1: it's gonna give everybody else a chance for success. So
Speaker 1: I I just I don't know where that comes from,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I just just from my personal experience,
Speaker 1: you know, having played on a team here with with
Speaker 1: with guys and and you know, like I said, I've
Speaker 1: told us what we were at the tail end of
Speaker 1: the great team, the seventeen and oh guys, and and
Speaker 1: the team was down a little bit and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden we had a young group of guys and
Speaker 1: and we struggled a little bit, struggled for a couple
Speaker 1: of years and finally got into playoffs and didn't play
Speaker 1: better and better and better, and and you know what,
Speaker 1: there was there was something to have something that I
Speaker 1: remember about having gone through tough times with those guys
Speaker 1: and fought through the tough times with those guys and
Speaker 1: got two good times where you really appreciated that whole
Speaker 1: and and and the in the game was different then.
Speaker 1: There wasn't free agency and really wasn't a lot of
Speaker 1: trades there is now. But I still think that value
Speaker 1: of of of building a team with guys going through
Speaker 1: the tough times, and then in three or four years
Speaker 1: you're sitting there looking with all these guys you're with
Speaker 1: and saying, yeah, man, I remember how bad it was,
Speaker 1: and but but but it's it's it's a character builder
Speaker 1: for you. It's a character builder for you as a individual,
Speaker 1: and it's a character builder for a team as a
Speaker 1: whole to to go through that. And well, so that's
Speaker 1: why it's so important right now for Brian Flores and
Speaker 1: his staff and Chris Greer and his staff to make
Speaker 1: sure they identify the people that want to be here,
Speaker 1: the people that are going to fight through these tough
Speaker 1: times because everyone pretty much knew this was gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough road, uh in the two thousand nineteen season.
Speaker 1: Now things fall right and things that you get on
Speaker 1: a roll, you know, you win a few games, you
Speaker 1: feel like you know where we can compete. But right
Speaker 1: now it's tough. Right now, it's pretty lean, and you
Speaker 1: have to identify the guys that are still going out
Speaker 1: and doing their job the way it's been coached on
Speaker 1: a on a Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, and they
Speaker 1: do it on Sundays or Monday night or Thursday night
Speaker 1: whenever they're gonna play and and be able to feel
Speaker 1: like that's the nucleus of where we want to go
Speaker 1: with with these ten, twelve, fift eight teen players that
Speaker 1: you can identify that you add that number to those
Speaker 1: guys and they're that much better. Yeah. Well, and then
Speaker 1: you know, and they we're talking about these guys are coming,
Speaker 1: these guys are going, and we talk about it. You know.
Speaker 1: I look at the team that the Dolphins just played
Speaker 1: in New England. There's always people coming and going on
Speaker 1: that team. They come in and go and maybe coming
Speaker 1: for a year or two and they moving around. But
Speaker 1: there's enough guys that were there to the bill that
Speaker 1: that that I couldn't tell you who played offensive line
Speaker 1: from doing a page. I I was looking at him.
Speaker 1: I didn't look at him yesterday when they came out.
Speaker 1: I don't know where these guys are, but you know
Speaker 1: what they all played. When a guy went down and
Speaker 1: never really really knew about it, they played well. And
Speaker 1: then you know, and and you know they but you know,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a lesson to be learned by watching
Speaker 1: football teams like that that that just you know, bring
Speaker 1: people in. As long as you step in and and
Speaker 1: and and follow the follow the plan that's set out
Speaker 1: for each and every position, you're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: And I think this team is getting this one. And
Speaker 1: I think that's exactly what Brian Flores and his staff
Speaker 1: are doing. But I think just right now, whether they're
Speaker 1: at and look I'm not I'm not telling secrets out
Speaker 1: out of class here, They're they're an underman football team.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the number of quality players that
Speaker 1: have exited Miami, uh South Florida in the last month
Speaker 1: and a half off of this football team. And all
Speaker 1: you need to do is turn on a foot, turn
Speaker 1: on a game on playing, and they're playing, and they're
Speaker 1: talking about him and Kenny Stills and learning other Kenny
Speaker 1: Still exactly. I mean, so you see these guys, and
Speaker 1: so you know those are guys who were making place
Speaker 1: in your team, and so you know they're looking for
Speaker 1: other guys. Now some of these young guys, some of
Speaker 1: these young guys that we don't even know now, I
Speaker 1: guarantee him two years. They're gonna be starters in this
Speaker 1: football team, and they're gonna be making plays for a
Speaker 1: team that's this competing and competing at a high level.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it takes time. It does and it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where you're just looking right now.
Speaker 1: You know, how good would a wind feel for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins right now? You know, you go on the road,
Speaker 1: maybe that maybe that's it. You know, you get on
Speaker 1: the road and you got us against the world. You're
Speaker 1: you know, people are yelling and screaming at you. Everybody
Speaker 1: doesn't give you a chance. Maybe that that sets the
Speaker 1: stage for a better opportunity for these guys. And it's
Speaker 1: another opportunity. And that's all your that's all you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're giving in the National Football League. You know, you
Speaker 1: have these games on the schedule. You're giving another opportunity
Speaker 1: to go out and put your best work forward and
Speaker 1: and let's see what what happens in Dallas on Sunday.
Speaker 1: You know. The funny thing about is I was having
Speaker 1: this conversation or earlier in the day, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's a good example this week. You know, everyone remember
Speaker 1: when everyone talks about when the schedule comes out, Oh,
Speaker 1: look at the schedule. Got a tough schedules. Look at
Speaker 1: the tough schedule. Well, well, you know what everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: prior to Sunday looked at the New Orleans Saints. He said, man,
Speaker 1: that's a tough team to be. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees goes down. Now they're not not Now they're
Speaker 1: not so tough. But Pittsburgh, Ben Love Rosie, he goes
Speaker 1: down not so tough. So you know, don't don't count
Speaker 1: your chickens before they're hatched. In the National Football League,
Speaker 1: because it's a week, it's very fluid. Teams change, schedules change,
Speaker 1: you know, the the quality of teams change as as
Speaker 1: in as injuries play their party in this league. So
Speaker 1: you never know, and you never know when that opportunity
Speaker 1: is gonna da gonna fall in your lap. And you know,
Speaker 1: here's here's another chance for the Dolphins. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I expect to be better on offense. I expect and
Speaker 1: be better on defense. Do I can I promise you
Speaker 1: they're gonna win, And I can't promise you're gonna win,
Speaker 1: but but I do feel like they're gonna be they're
Speaker 1: gonna be coached up better because I think the coaching
Speaker 1: staff is understanding what they're doing more and and understanding
Speaker 1: the way that their schemes can work within the players
Speaker 1: that they've got as summer going and summer coming, and
Speaker 1: they adapt to it. Uh And the more the less movement,
Speaker 1: the better they'll get. But as we saw the improvement
Speaker 1: on defense at home against New England, you want to
Speaker 1: see that that you want to You want to see
Speaker 1: it on the offensive line. That's where it has to start,
Speaker 1: because you can't run it, you can't protect unless those
Speaker 1: guys are are gonna play better than they played over
Speaker 1: the past two weeks. Now, I saw it on defense.
Speaker 1: The scheme was much better. The ball didn't seem to
Speaker 1: travel over anybody's had as as frequently as did in
Speaker 1: Week one. They were better tackling team on defense. I
Speaker 1: want to see that type of execution kind of filter
Speaker 1: in on the offensive side in week three. All right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for the audible. This week is
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. We'll be
Speaker 1: back next week to go over that. Hopefully we've got
Speaker 1: some good news and uh, you know, hey, stick with it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be we we all know this. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be uh, you know. I kind of feel like, kind
Speaker 1: of I kind of feel like we're going on one
Speaker 1: of those cross country vacations with your parents when you're
Speaker 1: a kid and you had a station wagon with no
Speaker 1: air condition and you have the two kids in the
Speaker 1: back of looking out the back window, you know, and
Speaker 1: you're and are we there yet? Are we there yet?
Speaker 1: And then finally you get that stop where you go
Speaker 1: to a motel and they got a pool. We got
Speaker 1: a pool. One of these days we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: pool and it's gonna be a win and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be enjoying it. I hope it's on Sunday. I hope
Speaker 1: it's on Sunday. We do we do for John kN Jammy,
Speaker 1: I'm Kimbo Camper. This is audible. We'll catch you guys
Speaker 1: next week.