Speaker 1: To I removedling deep speedways pass.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 4: He's got my.
Speaker 3: Hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 5: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 5: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show
Speaker 5: we kick off the summer interview series. We have a
Speaker 5: bunch of player chats that I recorded already in the
Speaker 5: can that you're gonna hear on the podcast from now
Speaker 5: up until the start of training camp, in addition to
Speaker 5: the divisional previews.
Speaker 3: But today we have just two chats that I had.
Speaker 5: One with the specialist Blake Ferguson Jason Sanders, Jake Bailey,
Speaker 5: and also my chat with Dolphins linebacker David Long. All
Speaker 5: of that here on the Draft Time Podcast from the
Speaker 5: Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 5: is the aforementioned Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 4: Mae Jaffir.
Speaker 5: This one got off the rails early and stayed there
Speaker 5: for the entire duration. My chat with a specialist and
Speaker 5: by the way, Jake Bailey was in full uniform for
Speaker 5: this chat, helmet and all.
Speaker 3: Because it was media day.
Speaker 5: We were doing photos, So he in his uniform was
Speaker 5: a big part of the chatter and the banter and
Speaker 5: the jokes. Jason Sanders, Blake Ferguson, Jake Bailey and yours Shirley.
Speaker 3: Let's roll it. What up Dolphins?
Speaker 5: Travis winfully to hear the host of the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 5: and I am joined today. This is actually the first
Speaker 5: time I've had more than one person on the show
Speaker 5: at a time. And there are three Miami Dolphins, Jason Sanders,
Speaker 5: Blake Ferguson, and Jake Bailey. And why don't we go
Speaker 5: ahead and start with the elephant in the room. Guys, Jake,
Speaker 5: you're dressed definitely than all of us right now. I
Speaker 5: know it's an audio platform, let's go ahead and dress
Speaker 5: that real quick. So full uniform. It's an interesting call
Speaker 5: to come into a pot personally.
Speaker 6: This is an all audio podcast. But yes, I'm coming
Speaker 6: straight from the pictures. And you didn't want to make
Speaker 6: these guys wait.
Speaker 3: Well, how come you guys to join suit here with Jake?
Speaker 7: You know iris the dedication to the bit he I mean,
Speaker 7: he's a.
Speaker 8: Work and full uniform.
Speaker 3: Is that how meetings usually go? You're in there with
Speaker 3: your your full shore pads.
Speaker 9: And usually the hot tub.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're you got you gotta talk into that thing
Speaker 5: man a little ways away, Jason, what do you think, man?
Speaker 5: You you're you're the You're the long term vet here
Speaker 5: of the of the room. Just just go ahead and
Speaker 5: tell us about these guys. What's what's fun about working
Speaker 5: with with Blake and Jake?
Speaker 4: Well, these guys we got a lot of personality in
Speaker 4: the room. So if you look at Jake and it
Speaker 4: speaks for yourself, Blake, he's he's so funny.
Speaker 9: Funny man, I'm just sitting here looking at Jake and
Speaker 9: his full uniform.
Speaker 4: Now, we all love each other. So when we we
Speaker 4: get to hang out with each other and it's it's
Speaker 4: always a good time.
Speaker 8: There's always be funny. Joe's lying the jads at everybody.
Speaker 8: So together.
Speaker 4: I like it. I like this room and I like
Speaker 4: what we're what we got going on this year.
Speaker 5: I just talked to River Craycraft about golf, and you
Speaker 5: were the name that came up as the best golfer
Speaker 5: on the team. Is that a truth? Can you guys
Speaker 5: also attest to that? You guys also play, I.
Speaker 9: Haven't been slumping recently, played with these.
Speaker 8: Guys, in a while, and so they want to know.
Speaker 8: But me being the best guy.
Speaker 4: On the team needs to stop because the game has
Speaker 4: been regressing pretty bad.
Speaker 7: Did River also mention that Jason is the biggest Sam
Speaker 7: Bagger on the team?
Speaker 3: Man, gotta respect the game, man.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of guys on the team
Speaker 4: that like to play golf, so it's always fun to
Speaker 4: get out there with the boys. So I wouldn't say
Speaker 4: I'm the best right now, but there's a lot of
Speaker 4: there's a lot of there's a lot of competitive golfers
Speaker 4: on this team, so when we all.
Speaker 8: Get out there, it's always fun.
Speaker 3: He asked you a question.
Speaker 4: It's not Jake, I'm saying that there's a lot of
Speaker 4: guys that are good on this team.
Speaker 5: I'll say that isn't so isn't that partially like your
Speaker 5: job though, because you're the one that gets like when
Speaker 5: if you like miss a kick, is he giving you anything?
Speaker 5: Is it like, does anyone besides like your coach give
Speaker 5: you like, hey, you you did this so like it's
Speaker 5: like a golf swing. It's like I know you were
Speaker 5: out to end. I know you were a little quick.
Speaker 5: Like is there back and forth?
Speaker 8: People just.
Speaker 4: Jake does a good job of giving you feedback.
Speaker 10: Me.
Speaker 4: He'll take the blame if it's not his fault, and
Speaker 4: he's a good guy. Blake does too as well. It
Speaker 4: makes it a lot easier when you got.
Speaker 5: These two in the room. So absolutely, especially Blake never
Speaker 5: messes up those. So that's why I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 5: Blake was so like, this is a profession of jobs
Speaker 5: where you only get noticed if you mess up referees,
Speaker 5: offensive lineman to a certain degree, but I feel like
Speaker 5: the long snapper is the ultimate in that regard.
Speaker 3: Is that do you ever have to internalize that?
Speaker 5: Like, is there a certain stress that comes with knowing
Speaker 5: that you're only going to get your name printed if
Speaker 5: you do something wrong?
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely, But I think we kind of take pride
Speaker 7: as specialists in doing that and in knowing that you know,
Speaker 7: you have one opportunity to go out there and do
Speaker 7: your job and do it well, and typically if it
Speaker 7: doesn't get done well, everybody's gonna know both or I
Speaker 7: guess all three. Kicking, punting, long snapping. What I've always
Speaker 7: tried to kind of equate it to is like a
Speaker 7: sniper mentality where you've got one shot to kill, you
Speaker 7: go out there and if you miss, everybody is gonna
Speaker 7: hear the shot go off. Uh, and know that it didn't,
Speaker 7: you know, get executed properly. But that's that's kind of
Speaker 7: what you have to take pride in and and uh,
Speaker 7: it's just kind of the nature of the business. You know,
Speaker 7: you're not going to be the one with the name
Speaker 7: in the headlines unless it's for something not great.
Speaker 3: So or if you get a contract extension.
Speaker 8: That works too, it usually works well.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So so both of you guys have had that here
Speaker 5: at the Dolphins. You obviously got signed and brought back
Speaker 5: this year. So I guess in a way, all three
Speaker 5: of us have have seen extensions. How how excited, I
Speaker 5: don't know. I guess I'll go to.
Speaker 3: You, Jakes.
Speaker 5: We haven't talked to you much since us full uniform
Speaker 5: sitting back there.
Speaker 3: I want to get your input on.
Speaker 5: Joining these guys and and how special to be back
Speaker 5: in the same room, because this is a league full
Speaker 5: of turnover man to be able work the same guys
Speaker 5: for a second straight year, How special is that to you?
Speaker 9: Super special? Yeah? I love working with these guys.
Speaker 6: They definitely keep it light and it's just fun to
Speaker 6: come to work. Every day and hang out and get
Speaker 6: better with them.
Speaker 3: Insightful.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we pride ourselves on being the least penalized position
Speaker 6: group of the whole team.
Speaker 5: More, we only had one penalty. That's why I thought
Speaker 5: we were going, do you carry to address that, Blake?
Speaker 8: I didn't get fine. Actually, what happened, what happened.
Speaker 3: After the whistle? Actually, there you go. It's a team game.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you gotta count your teammate so they're a little
Speaker 5: bit So let's let's go ahead and go back to you, Jason,
Speaker 5: because to me, on a team full of elite celebrations,
Speaker 5: you had the best one last year was the Yeah wow, yeah,
Speaker 5: I think so.
Speaker 9: I agree.
Speaker 5: What was a big game. That was my favorite day
Speaker 5: of the entire year. So we got that big win,
Speaker 5: quinch the playoff spot. I go home late at night.
Speaker 5: My wife had like the sarkling log thing on the YouTube,
Speaker 5: and like all the Christmas presents were set out. I
Speaker 5: was just in a really good place that night, and
Speaker 5: you helped that happen. So thank you for that, All
Speaker 5: three of you guys did.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys making that day so special for me.
Speaker 5: But one, two, three, four, five, does that spur the moment.
Speaker 5: You can't think about that before the kick, right, or
Speaker 5: maybe you did.
Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna do anything. We were just gonna walk off,
Speaker 4: celebrate and we won. You know, But as soon as
Speaker 4: somebody picks you up, now there's a camera and you
Speaker 4: can just stand there, now you might look like an idiots.
Speaker 4: You gotta do something.
Speaker 9: This is a good question though I was wondering this.
Speaker 9: You weren't thinking about that at all before?
Speaker 4: No, because if you don't make it, guess what good
Speaker 4: for you?
Speaker 8: We're not going to celebrate.
Speaker 4: So but as soon as someone picks you up, adrenaline hits,
Speaker 4: and yeah, you gotta do something.
Speaker 8: And that's the first thing that came to my mind.
Speaker 3: How many times have you made the elevator now in
Speaker 3: the lobby?
Speaker 4: It's been a few, right, at least twice, maybe three times.
Speaker 7: I don't know how long has it been a thing,
Speaker 7: because was it like twenty twenty one?
Speaker 8: That's what it came about before? Has it?
Speaker 4: And going?
Speaker 8: Since I was.
Speaker 4: On in my rookiyearre you And that's the only time
Speaker 4: I would say three times. Three times for sure.
Speaker 8: They did the Jets last two seasons ago.
Speaker 3: Oh the game winner, Yeah, yeah, and then I had
Speaker 3: with my Rooki.
Speaker 8: Years so three minimum, which is which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: So yeah, very cool.
Speaker 5: It's it's really I mean, that's one of the things
Speaker 5: with our fans look forward to every single week after
Speaker 5: when is what what happens on the elevator? So take
Speaker 5: it up. There is quite an honor obviously. What's a
Speaker 5: day like in the life of a specialist? Like what's
Speaker 5: what time do you get here? When does like stuff
Speaker 5: really start to happen? And just how much time do
Speaker 5: you guys spend together throughout the course of the day.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and start with you, Jake. I want
Speaker 5: to get you some more insight from you here.
Speaker 9: Well, usually it starts off at breakfast. We all sit
Speaker 9: down at breakfast, hang out with each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, the food's great.
Speaker 4: To start up pretty fast in the BMW.
Speaker 9: No tesla, so it just stay yeah exactly. And then
Speaker 9: you usually we'll you know, have a meeting or.
Speaker 6: Two and then I like to go in the hot tub,
Speaker 6: and then sometimes we play some FIFA and like usually
Speaker 6: gets upset.
Speaker 3: Why is that?
Speaker 1: Because Jason's the best at FIFA and.
Speaker 9: Yeah, best sick golf and FIVA.
Speaker 3: There's a correlation there.
Speaker 5: I think, what about you, Jason, what's the what's the
Speaker 5: highlight of the day for you with these guys?
Speaker 4: The highlight of the day with my boys, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Anytime we're together, it's always fun. We always crack jokes
Speaker 4: at each other, like one day I could be the
Speaker 4: target and one day Jake could be the target, you know,
Speaker 4: So it depends on what.
Speaker 8: Day it is.
Speaker 4: And even if it's a practice like it doesn't it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter. So when we're all together, it's a it's
Speaker 4: a good time.
Speaker 3: Why is the breakfast table the highlight of the day, Blake.
Speaker 7: I think it's just cool having a group of guys
Speaker 7: that you know, just enjoys being around each other. I
Speaker 7: think coach McDaniel has done a really good job in
Speaker 7: our facility of creating a culture of like, just enjoy
Speaker 7: coming to work and just even the moments where you're
Speaker 7: not necessarily in a film room or on the practice
Speaker 7: field or working per se, you still enjoy being around
Speaker 7: your teammates, enjoying conversation, enjoying getting to know, you know,
Speaker 7: about the lives of the guys that you spend so
Speaker 7: many hours with throughout the course of the season.
Speaker 5: I'm impressed by your professionalism to keep it together during
Speaker 5: that entire thing. We are currently in a calf massage
Speaker 5: happening between the kicker and the punter right now. So
Speaker 5: Blake keeping his composent, that's what you do.
Speaker 1: What you.
Speaker 8: Didn't get his opportunity to the hot time.
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness, this is off the rails and the
Speaker 5: best way possible. One of the things I wrote down
Speaker 5: in my notes here was I could imagine that maybe
Speaker 5: you guys would be better with each other at like
Speaker 5: a newly weed game than your significant others.
Speaker 3: Is that true? You think?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you got some questions you can fire off.
Speaker 3: What is what is Blake Ferguson's biggest fear?
Speaker 9: To give me thirty seconds to think of this, Okay.
Speaker 5: I'll go to Blake. What is what is Jason Sanders'
Speaker 5: favorite food? Guys are killing it on fire.
Speaker 9: We're not good.
Speaker 8: It's gonna be Bolon's big Netto's.
Speaker 4: Shut up bignettas shout out by Carlos.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I guess I'll have to ask, but we'll
Speaker 5: come back to you after a question for or do
Speaker 5: you have it for me?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: You don't have it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, Jason, what pretty fearless, to be honest, what
Speaker 5: is uh? Who is who is Jake Bailey's favorite band
Speaker 5: or musical artist?
Speaker 8: Musical artists?
Speaker 10: But all right, is that a little answer? No, I'll
Speaker 10: take it all right. Can you give us the answer?
Speaker 10: I'm gonna go Zach.
Speaker 6: Brown Man, I watched the Bob Marley movie two nights
Speaker 6: ago and that.
Speaker 9: Was very good. So that's so I'm going with.
Speaker 8: Is hyper fixation of it?
Speaker 5: Did you happen to see two? Was rendition of Three
Speaker 5: Little Birds at the Blue Out? I think I think
Speaker 5: I saw.
Speaker 8: It pretty good.
Speaker 5: He's go pretty good, pretty good voice, pretty good, pretty
Speaker 5: favorite part. Yeah, like you got any jokes you'd like
Speaker 5: to tell us? Are you still still on the biggest
Speaker 5: fear of questions?
Speaker 2: I would know.
Speaker 9: I think he's fearless. That's my final answer.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: My biggest fear is drowning, which is quite concerning, Uh,
Speaker 1: considering we live in Miami and there's like boats in
Speaker 1: the beach.
Speaker 9: And there are like boats.
Speaker 3: Do you go to the beach often?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 8: No, I prefer pool more than the beach.
Speaker 9: Because there's do you take your shirt off the ocean?
Speaker 3: Do you wear your full uniform to the pool.
Speaker 8: I don't I don't put my I don't put my helmet.
Speaker 9: On to get in. You rash guard or a shirt
Speaker 9: on the pool.
Speaker 2: Gay Jason, you gotta get He's got the commentary, what
Speaker 2: about what about wildlife in the ocean though, That's what
Speaker 2: scares me more than drowning.
Speaker 8: We were in Hawaii last year. Interesting story. We were
Speaker 8: in Hawaii last year and uh it was with my
Speaker 8: now fiance.
Speaker 9: And congrats, congrats, thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 7: We were swimming in the ocean talking to some fellow
Speaker 7: beach goers and here comes like this dark spot in
Speaker 7: the water, and Abby's like, I'm gonna put my goggles
Speaker 7: on and go see what it is. She just like
Speaker 7: swims off, knowing that I'm like, we're not gonna swim
Speaker 7: past you know where I can touch. I'm like the
Speaker 7: I'm like the the child. Anyway, it turned out to
Speaker 7: be a sea turtle. Thankfully, that thing that can't tell
Speaker 7: you don't know that I couldn't see it from above.
Speaker 7: She's like, I'm gonna go swim at it and see
Speaker 7: what it was that we didn't.
Speaker 3: Actually a similar story last week.
Speaker 5: Last weekend took the family to Daytona and my daughter
Speaker 5: loves to boogie board with me. She likes going out
Speaker 5: there and we ride the little waves in and I
Speaker 5: felt something behind me that I kicked, and I looked
Speaker 5: back and for three seconds I didn't know what it was.
Speaker 5: So those three seconds were abject terror. But it was
Speaker 5: a man tea float around out there. They don't like
Speaker 5: they just bomb around and they look just like a
Speaker 5: shark because they're great. Like. Yeah, so that three seconds
Speaker 5: of but man, it's the ocean. I love it, but
Speaker 5: it's also terrifying. What's what's Blake Ferguson's biggest fear drowning?
Speaker 9: But I I always see him as fearless.
Speaker 5: It's a quick answer. I just wanted to come right back,
Speaker 5: maybe turtles. People want to know, is is uh is
Speaker 5: your fiance? His name Ferguson, but chance Ferguson Ferguson, because
Speaker 5: people want to know, is it gonna is she gonna
Speaker 5: take your last name?
Speaker 9: Very tight? Ferguson would be a nice first name.
Speaker 8: Ferguson.
Speaker 3: Is it like Bailey squared?
Speaker 10: Then?
Speaker 3: Or what's what's the plane?
Speaker 9: Can I just do Beyonce?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I heard Jake was taking her last It's a good one.
Speaker 5: No thoughts I'm not gonna be doing that, Okay, all right, guys,
Speaker 5: this is fun. I kind of wanted to make a
Speaker 5: full episode of it because it was I thought would
Speaker 5: be kind of a fun, unique thing we're doing here.
Speaker 5: But I appreciate you all's time. I appreciate you joking
Speaker 5: with me and actually talking some football here. So Blake
Speaker 5: Fergus and Jason Sanders, Jake Billy, thank you, guys, you're
Speaker 5: the best.
Speaker 9: Thank you, and away they go.
Speaker 5: That was pretty fun, pretty unique as far as what
Speaker 5: we do here on the show. First break right there,
Speaker 5: we'll come back on the other side and hear from
Speaker 5: Dolphins linebacker.
Speaker 3: Very different interview, but very very good David Long.
Speaker 5: That's next Drift Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
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Speaker 5: Dolphins linebacker David Long Junior.
Speaker 9: David.
Speaker 3: What's happening man? How you doing in a how's life
Speaker 3: treating right now?
Speaker 11: Good man?
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. This is a fun day for me.
Speaker 5: So all these interviews happen one day, so you guys
Speaker 5: are gonna hear these with the course of the summer,
Speaker 5: but we have these all day long. I got a
Speaker 5: chance to talk to you guys, and this is my
Speaker 5: best chance to meet some of you guys like you
Speaker 5: and I have we've met a few times before.
Speaker 3: But I I love it. Man, It's a great time.
Speaker 3: How about you. How's your media day going good?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 11: I got in here. I was excited to put that
Speaker 11: eleven back on and brought a lot of memories back.
Speaker 11: And you know, it's good. It's good, you know, getting
Speaker 11: back to to ball.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 11: Media day is just another feeling, another step closer to
Speaker 11: you know, the season is around the corner.
Speaker 5: It does feel that way like it's it comes faster
Speaker 5: every year. It feels like probably for you in the
Speaker 5: year six as well, just it steaks up on you
Speaker 5: faster every single year.
Speaker 11: It feels like and it's like it's my second year
Speaker 11: in Miami, six year in the league, and where I'm
Speaker 11: at right now, I just you know, just living in
Speaker 11: a moment, you know, be where your feet are. You know,
Speaker 11: earlier in my years, I just couldn't wait to know.
Speaker 11: I gotta stay on, you know, get to the second
Speaker 11: contract and just certain other things as a young player
Speaker 11: you so so worried about. And I'm got that year
Speaker 11: left here, But where I'm out. I'm not thinking about
Speaker 11: that like people people ask me, gotta not only a
Speaker 11: two year But you know, I'm living in the moment,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, So lessens my anxiety or
Speaker 11: whatever that may be. So that's where I'm.
Speaker 5: As a father of two young children, I can tell
Speaker 5: you that living in the moment is the most important
Speaker 5: that you can do to soak it all up in
Speaker 5: cherishire because it comes and goes so fast. I'm sure
Speaker 5: a football career does as well. Definitely, you mentioned the
Speaker 5: number change, and I remember, I think I remember your
Speaker 5: tweeting about it, like you were contemplating doing it or not.
Speaker 5: What led to the decision to go from fifty one
Speaker 5: to eleven?
Speaker 11: Like I said, just now, it's just like where I'm at,
Speaker 11: I feel like I'm just in a different headspace the
Speaker 11: where I was, you know, early in my going from
Speaker 11: like college and know, being drafted in the sixth round,
Speaker 11: you know, coming in just mad at the world, you know,
Speaker 11: you know, and just like you know, that's that was
Speaker 11: the modo.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 11: Now I'm just like in like, okay, I'm here. You know,
Speaker 11: I wouldn't take a tent, you know, I'm still hungry,
Speaker 11: ambitious for more, but I'm enjoying, you know, the journey
Speaker 11: and everything that has led up to this point. And
Speaker 11: I just feel like, Okay, I wouldn't say it's a
Speaker 11: different life because I've had this number. I've just like
Speaker 11: it's just going just transitioning, you know, fifty one would
Speaker 11: just like know that where my headspace was that in
Speaker 11: my younger years when I was you know, now I've
Speaker 11: learned so much, not like you know, I don't know,
Speaker 11: it just came at the right time, said you had
Speaker 11: just left, uh you know when I came in aj
Speaker 11: had you know, eleven and it was just like, you know,
Speaker 11: it was a good time to have it, Like why
Speaker 11: did it become available now going into this year? Why
Speaker 11: I feel how I feel? You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: And yeah, right, it just made sense.
Speaker 5: That's and you were that at West Virginia too, right, right.
Speaker 5: I just saw a highlight cliff the other day of
Speaker 5: the Orange Bowl when West Virginia whooped up on Clemson.
Speaker 3: Were you in before your time?
Speaker 11: Before that was a.
Speaker 5: Table on Austin and Gino Smith time. It wasn't that
Speaker 5: long ago though, it was like right before you got there,
Speaker 5: right a.
Speaker 11: Couple of years before. That's how I came in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 11: you graduated, Yeah.
Speaker 5: And Gino had that like fifty fifty touchdown season like
Speaker 5: twenty thirteen or something like that.
Speaker 3: Good stuff. So I want to pivot to your foundation.
Speaker 5: We talked about little before you jump on the podcast here,
Speaker 5: but man, really really cool initiative, really cool purpose. Just
Speaker 5: just tell us a little bit about not long ago.
Speaker 11: Not long ago the name. Uh started with the name
Speaker 11: and came up with My mom came up with it
Speaker 11: just I don't know where she called me after working,
Speaker 11: like because we were contemplating, you know, because it has
Speaker 11: to you know, we want to stand for something just
Speaker 11: can't get up there and you know, just talk to
Speaker 11: these people, you know, just to do it. You know,
Speaker 11: I wanted something authentic. That name, you know, rang and
Speaker 11: rang with me when she said it, and then it
Speaker 11: made sense when I was talking to uh my partners
Speaker 11: about it, and it's just something nearer to me.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 11: You know a lot of guys try to find something
Speaker 11: after ball, and you know, you know, that's the worst
Speaker 11: place to be, in my opinions, to be lost, you know,
Speaker 11: because then you get in just this all types of
Speaker 11: stuff and I just you know, been living in my
Speaker 11: purpose and I've been blessed with you know, gets. So
Speaker 11: my my thing is to help someone that was once
Speaker 11: in my position, whether that me maybe through talking programs.
Speaker 11: Eventually I want to have a building back in since
Speaker 11: the you know, uh for after school programs like Big
Speaker 11: Brother programs, you know, but not long ago. It's uh,
Speaker 11: it's towards no single women, I mean not single women,
Speaker 11: single mothers and uh, the younger youth and dealing with
Speaker 11: mental health, you know, you know, just seeing their environment,
Speaker 11: you know, and thinking that's all it is. I was
Speaker 11: blessed to be able to get out and you know,
Speaker 11: experience so many things. Now I can open their minds
Speaker 11: up to no new stuff, and I just feel like,
Speaker 11: you know, why why wouldn't I be able to Why
Speaker 11: wouldn't I do that? You know, That's where my heart is,
Speaker 11: that where my mind is at. So the foundation after
Speaker 11: you know, going to going into the league six years, Uh,
Speaker 11: I finally got it open and up and running. So
Speaker 11: uh that's that's where my off season has been, you know,
Speaker 11: unter tours and uh, yeah's just keep building on. I
Speaker 11: had my first event on Mother's Day single mothers and
Speaker 11: they came out out uh and show a lot of
Speaker 11: love back in Cincinnati. It's an annual thing that we
Speaker 11: will continue to do, UH. But it was just so
Speaker 11: much going into the first events, like and not even
Speaker 11: just First Miss events as a whole, because I want
Speaker 11: to be just involved. I want to be I want
Speaker 11: to be involved in all the things. I don't want
Speaker 11: to just have people take care of before me and
Speaker 11: letting me know what's going on. I don't know, everybody
Speaker 11: has a different way of doing things, but you know,
Speaker 11: you want to be Yeah, I want to be more involved.
Speaker 5: So when you when you reflect back on on your childhood,
Speaker 5: because like to your to your point, like the authenticity
Speaker 5: of it sounds really, for lack of a very term, authentic,
Speaker 5: Like it sounds like it's very important to you and
Speaker 5: you want to be, like we said, very hands on
Speaker 5: involved when you reflect back on like your childhood and
Speaker 5: just you know where I guess all this kind of
Speaker 5: comes from. Do you think about how that impacted who
Speaker 5: you are today? And like, I'm sure there's a certain
Speaker 5: level of gratitude you feel for you know, maybe when
Speaker 5: things got tough, they maybe harden you in a certain
Speaker 5: way to put you in this position.
Speaker 11: Right and you know at you know, when you once
Speaker 11: you get older, and once I got in the lead,
Speaker 11: they like when you once you come in the building
Speaker 11: and leave your leave your problems at the door, you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying. And I already learned that at
Speaker 11: a young age because of my how my mom handled
Speaker 11: her situations. And you know, you know, she worked at
Speaker 11: General Motors growing up, a car factory for people that
Speaker 11: don't know, and she just worked on car parts as
Speaker 11: a lot of labor for a woman, you know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying. And she she came in, you know, and
Speaker 11: it was a mom you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 11: everybody doesn't take that life, you know, the same they'll
Speaker 11: they'll come in and take it out on kids or
Speaker 11: husband and wife, whatever it may be. And she she
Speaker 11: didn't know deal with her childs that way. So as
Speaker 11: a young age and I'm I'm getting older, I'm like
Speaker 11: I'm realizing, like the woman you shouldn't be working his
Speaker 11: long hours, you know, third shift, Like I'm coming after school,
Speaker 11: she's going to work at three, you know, to like
Speaker 11: eleven or whatever long that maybe as a kid, as
Speaker 11: I'm getting older, I'm like my mama shouldn't be working
Speaker 11: and these this is a hard job just for older men,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying. And you know, I was
Speaker 11: just just learning and and she of didn't even know
Speaker 11: she was teaching me, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 11: that's just it's just that's just one example of how
Speaker 11: I've become who I am and how I can relate
Speaker 11: to these kids in these certain situations, like.
Speaker 3: She leaves by example.
Speaker 5: For you, maybe subconsciously it's it's what makes the impact
Speaker 5: on you. But now you have a position where you
Speaker 5: have a platform you can go and and you know,
Speaker 5: not subconsciously, very very in your face and be there
Speaker 5: for these kids. And I'm sure that's super powerful for
Speaker 5: them too.
Speaker 11: Ex definitely. And it's like, you know, you can see
Speaker 11: a kid that when you talk to you. When I
Speaker 11: go back home, kids ask me all types of questions
Speaker 11: and you know, you can see that they can know
Speaker 11: if you kids have a way of knowing, they do
Speaker 11: a bullspit, know what I'm saying, Like you know, like
Speaker 11: and you know you can't just be there and just
Speaker 11: like just show up, you know. So that's why you
Speaker 11: know how I went about it. That's the way I
Speaker 11: went about it.
Speaker 3: Nobody's more honest than a child.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 5: My wife is a teacher, and she like, they'll tell
Speaker 5: her like, you don't look good today, Like you, what's
Speaker 5: your makeup?
Speaker 3: Chill a little bit.
Speaker 5: No, they don't care exactly. Man, Well, that's really cool
Speaker 5: to hear that. This is why I like having these podcasts.
Speaker 5: You get to know you a little better. We are
Speaker 5: getting pretty long here, but I do want to talk
Speaker 5: a little bit of football, if that's okay with you,
Speaker 5: because man, like so full transparency. I do radio with
Speaker 5: Seth Levit Oj McDuffie. They host the fish Tank podcast.
Speaker 5: OJ played here for like ten years. Two of my
Speaker 5: best friends down in the area. And when we signed you,
Speaker 5: I'm like, go watch this dude play football. And I
Speaker 5: had my buddy Seth, who's close with Zach Thomas. I'm like,
Speaker 5: he reminds me of Zach. But the way he anticipates,
Speaker 5: in the way he plays the fast and he's just
Speaker 5: in the back of before you can even you know,
Speaker 5: get a pulling guard to him.
Speaker 3: Where does that come from?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 3: Like that, there's no way that you can like, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 5: Part of me says, you don't either, just have that,
Speaker 5: but you also probably just can't train that. Where does
Speaker 5: the instinct for a linebacker come from that you have?
Speaker 11: It is a tough question because you know, I'm not
Speaker 11: going I am very blessed. I am very blessed, and
Speaker 11: I'm blessed with just feeling. You know, I feel a
Speaker 11: lot of stuff out and just a thought, and I
Speaker 11: trust myself. You know. It's like I got to this point,
Speaker 11: like why would I stop trusting myself? Now, That's why
Speaker 11: I when I have doubts and stuff like that, even
Speaker 11: like should I shoot even just like me and play
Speaker 11: like I'm thinking, It's just like it's you got to
Speaker 11: be a fast thinker on that field because stuff happens
Speaker 11: transition reverse. It's like you have to think fast and
Speaker 11: even like me and play, I'm like, okay, shoot like
Speaker 11: because it's like you don't have a certain amount of
Speaker 11: time before the gap closes. So I trust myself even
Speaker 11: if it's just like I read a lot of pase
Speaker 11: not read. But I'm not going to sit here and
Speaker 11: tell you that I'm in that film room day and night.
Speaker 11: I watched film most definitely. But I also I'm just
Speaker 11: a ball player. I've been playing ball a long time,
Speaker 11: So I just not just know certain things. And then
Speaker 11: when once they give it to me, I'm like, you
Speaker 11: gotta know, I see this right, you got like even
Speaker 11: like a line of So that's why even like if
Speaker 11: it's like I don't want to give my whole you
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying, but my whole little. But it's
Speaker 11: just certain things I see and I use a lot
Speaker 11: of stuff to my advantage, you know, my speed, uh
Speaker 11: even my size, you know, because a lot of get
Speaker 11: up to the second level is just about to be
Speaker 11: come here and moove. No, I'm about to come and
Speaker 11: you about to feel all twenty right here. You know
Speaker 11: what I'm saying, you know me? So yeah, And then
Speaker 11: I always had an interview with Tyler, uh say that's
Speaker 11: the name, might be sorry, but he asked me about like, no,
Speaker 11: I play my hair on fire, you know, like he
Speaker 11: says that, like a lot of people tell me I
Speaker 11: play like people owe me money. They do. But it's like,
Speaker 11: you know, it's a won't like for some people. You
Speaker 11: know what I'm saying, Like I want to play ball,
Speaker 11: like you know, I want to know reach this goal.
Speaker 11: And it's like to me, I'm out there, like I
Speaker 11: need to know I need to. It's bigger than me.
Speaker 11: So that's how I go about like whether it's practice,
Speaker 11: d a walk through, that's just how I attack it.
Speaker 5: You can't you can't hide, and you cannot manufacture passion.
Speaker 5: That's that's like this is you know, it's not football,
Speaker 5: but this is my passion. I love making good episodes
Speaker 5: for fans. I love analyzing the game and trying to
Speaker 5: make myself smarter. And when we have big wins. I
Speaker 5: love the Dolphins, man, I'm a huge Dolphins fan. So
Speaker 5: when we have big wins, that shows up in the podcast,
Speaker 5: and I feel like that's kind of the same mindset
Speaker 5: you have in terms of like, this is my favorite
Speaker 5: thing to do, and I, like you said, you want
Speaker 5: to do these things and it shows up man, like
Speaker 5: you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't manufacture that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, some people want some people want to do
Speaker 11: this thing like like coach, I want to go It's
Speaker 11: like I want to go tackle them, Like it's a
Speaker 11: as a mentality, like I would say, like once I
Speaker 11: got to college and we had a swim coach named
Speaker 11: Mike Joseph. He's still there, one of the best shimp
Speaker 11: coaches I've had, but he told me like he had
Speaker 11: a group, he had a team, mean or whatever. Right
Speaker 11: before it break out, He's like, you want to be
Speaker 11: the guy. You're not a guy. He was talking to
Speaker 11: me with a group, not a guy, you know, not a
Speaker 11: guy to you commure every day a guy shows up
Speaker 11: every day. You don't pick and choose when it show up.
Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying, You don't just turn it on.
Speaker 11: Like so even though I had the mentality, I was
Speaker 11: just more what would I say, just attentive to my
Speaker 11: daily habits, Like are you just saying are you going
Speaker 11: out there? And you live in it every day? So
Speaker 11: that's that's how I attack it, Like you can't. You
Speaker 11: can't tell me you the guy. You you know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying. You really turned it on on certain days,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying. That's not a guy.
Speaker 3: You can't say exactly.
Speaker 5: I love that so and thinking about that, I'll get
Speaker 5: you one more question before I get you out of here,
Speaker 5: because when I think about your play style and I
Speaker 5: think about how this offense plays, it seems like you
Speaker 5: know the old saying iron sharp AND's iron like we
Speaker 5: talk about false keys and all things this offense does.
Speaker 5: Tell me about how how they make you better.
Speaker 11: It's great, man, I think it. It makes me a
Speaker 11: better player all around, especially you know, going against Tour
Speaker 11: he's so good at look you off or even just
Speaker 11: like no look throws, just just keep you on your
Speaker 11: your piece of queues. Even tho old lineman. They're they
Speaker 11: get up to you fast. They work there every day.
Speaker 11: And he's dead Vet, but he's moving, you know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying. Lambs moving. We got Brewer here and now
Speaker 11: he's moving.
Speaker 4: Rob.
Speaker 11: All these guys can move, and they're big and smart.
Speaker 11: You know. As far as keys, you have to be disciplined.
Speaker 11: And it's great for me because you know, I want
Speaker 11: all the great work that I can get. So playing
Speaker 11: against one is uh is good because I know a
Speaker 11: lot of people can't do those no look past you know,
Speaker 11: it's not everybody's not good out there doing that. And
Speaker 11: Matt Stafford he got me on time to see he's
Speaker 11: nasty with it, you know. So that's just just certain
Speaker 11: certain you know, small things in my game that they
Speaker 11: helped me stay on top of.
Speaker 5: So I keep telling you one more, but I'm I'm
Speaker 5: just kind of fascinate because you open the can of
Speaker 5: worms there with two because because and I I said
Speaker 5: this in the podcast all the time, I try to
Speaker 5: I feel like the way football analysis is nowadays in
Speaker 5: the media landscape.
Speaker 3: And you know what do we know?
Speaker 5: I feel like it's big arm, run fast, like that's
Speaker 5: all they ever look at. But and I think it's
Speaker 5: a lot more than that in the quarterback position. But
Speaker 5: I want to hear from someone that has to see
Speaker 5: it and has to account for it. What makes two
Speaker 5: us so special?
Speaker 11: I would think I would say it's that it's because
Speaker 11: he's different than a lot of quarterbacks. You know what
Speaker 11: I'm saying, as far as reads goes, Uh, he has
Speaker 11: a he has a special way of reading them and
Speaker 11: getting you to read off. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 11: Just certain things like all right, quarterback is going to
Speaker 11: do this. It's certain things that every quarterback does, whether
Speaker 11: it's like timing scanning the field. Uh, but the way
Speaker 11: he and the other receivers have that timing, you know,
Speaker 11: as far as he knows where they both have connection.
Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying. It's hard to kind of
Speaker 11: say unless you just out there and you're in it.
Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying. It's me even trying to
Speaker 11: describe it in my head is kind of kind of
Speaker 11: hard because I haven't said it out loud. But he's
Speaker 11: just good at, you know, manufacturing that offense.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 11: It's a lot of pieces over there, a lot of
Speaker 11: moving pieces. And we have a great defense as well.
Speaker 11: Especially we have a DC on new DC and he
Speaker 11: we're going to give him a lot of different looks,
Speaker 11: you know what I'm saying, especially like just holding stances
Speaker 11: or shills or whatever that meat. Maybe we're also going
Speaker 11: to be able to make him better for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I could do another twy Mossy Man, I'll get
Speaker 5: you out of here. David Long, our Dolphins linebacker. Appreciate
Speaker 5: your time today, man, Thanks you, Sarah, thank you, And
Speaker 5: there he goes the best man. There's so many guys
Speaker 5: like that on the damn football team that I can't
Speaker 5: get enough of talking about it with you guys and
Speaker 5: just really enjoying their presence and being around these guys.
Speaker 8: So there you go.
Speaker 3: Fun podcast.
Speaker 5: I believe our next show will be on Thursday, and
Speaker 5: I think I think we're gonna kick off the divisional previews,
Speaker 5: but that is subject to change.
Speaker 3: I'll keep you guys posted on that as we go.
Speaker 3: Along here. In the meantime, it's gonna be my time.
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