WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 16 Variety Show with Seth Levit 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.440 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.320 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not for though, 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:09.840 What is up? 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:10.720 Dolphins? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.680 And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.720 Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:19.880 How's it going to everybody? 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.800 I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show, 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.440 the great Seth Levitt from the Fish Tank Podcast joins 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.280 me to talk about December football, the Walter Payton Man 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.280 of the Year and Dan Marino in the Fish Tank. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.120 You don't want to miss that. Plus we'll hear the 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.280 latest from coach McDaniel on his Friday press conference. We'll 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.000 do some locker room audio from Rob Jones and Elijah Campbell. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.159 All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:42.960 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:43.560 This is. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:50.000 The Draft Time Podcast, Maybe Daffy, let's welcome in my 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.600 guest today from the FishTank Podcast. You know who he is, 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.040 Seth Levitt and joining us now on the Draft Time 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.600 Podcast is the brethren of the Draft Time Podcast. Seth 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.640 Lemt from the Fish Tank. You guys know who is Seth. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:01.720 Welcome back in, my friend. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.520 It's great to be back here. Riding shotgun next to 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.800 Travis Wingfield and Juice isn't here, so you know, nobody's 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.240 here to keep me in line. It's good luck to 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.479 you there. But yeah, man excited to be back. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:13.760 In and we're sitting down this time. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:15.880 We are face to face, opposed to the radio show, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.520 which we're side to side, So it's kind of a 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.880 different dynamic for us here. But you know, I said 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.319 that you're the Brethren podcast here. But Seth Claus has arrived. 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.800 You brought everyone to hear gifts today. Everyone got their 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.800 fish tank, Jersey's I got my fish tank, hoodie. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.360 How's the holidays. He's been treating you so far well, it. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.000 Seems to be treating everybody else really well. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.000 Now, I love this time of the year and what 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.920 you were alluding to, OJ and I just wanted to 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.039 kind of say thank you to all the folks that 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.640 people don't hear about, that help you, that help us, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:46.360 that do all the really cool stuff that everyone's tweeting 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.520 about and posting on social media. That there's a whole 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.680 team here of incredibly talented people. And yeah, it was 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.000 just our way of saying thank you to them. But 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.240 holidays have been great. But they could be a lot 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.240 better if we can win a few more games here. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.000 It's a great segue there to the next segment. Yeah, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.760 like this whole process doesn't happen without JT helping us 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.120 get audio figured out here. So to your point, lots 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.880 of people behind the scenes that make all of our 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.520 content go. And before I get into the Dolphins and Cowboys, 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:11.920 which is ultimately why I have you here on the 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.959 show today. You got the ultimate gift this year and 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.080 getting number thirteen on the Fish Tank podcast. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.520 Yeah, man, Marino episode is out. It is popping off. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.880 As the kids would say, it's been four days since 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.119 that dropped. Are you still kind of gliding around South 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.919 Florida as if you're in some kind of dream state. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.320 It's well, I mean, this is like the third interview 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.880 I've done that people are asking me about my interview 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.120 and OJ's interview with Dan Marinos, so that in and 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.480 of itself is cool. But yeah, this was like when 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.720 we conceptualize the fish Tank back in twenty eighteen, you 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.680 start to do the shortlist of who do we know, 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.720 who do we think we will do it, who do 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.120 we have to get and right there at the top, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.919 as he always is, and anything Miami Dolphins was Dan 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.519 Marino and we knew he would do it. Danny told 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.160 us as much getting them and when it would happen, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.960 you know, that part was a big question mark. But 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.080 this was the year thanks to Anne Nolan and everybody 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.440 else who was involved in making sure that that could 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.120 happen and finally come to a head. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.040 And Dany was great. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.480 And that's I think what has been the best part 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.520 for me and for oj is he seemed to enjoy it. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.160 You know, we love when people come on the fish 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.280 tank and it doesn't feel like they're just doing us 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.680 a favor, that they're actually having a good time. And 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.120 then the response from people externally is like, wow, we've 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.280 never heard Dan like that, you know. Or I talked 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:23.840 to somebody today who knows him very well and it 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.280 was like, that's Dan, Like that's the Dan that we 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.679 know that not everybody gets to see. And so that 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.639 was a really cool thing. But I'm laughing about when 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.480 you said the ultimate gift because earlier in the week 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.280 we did this, I got to be a part of 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.360 this fantasy camp that we did with Dan and he 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.720 at the end of it, he was taking pictures with 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.720 all of the participants and he literally he was kind 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.680 of like going to get pictures with Santa and the 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.800 mall and he sat down there and everybody sat down 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.480 next to him and they took a picture, and it 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:52.840 was like, kind of what do you want for Christmas? 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.240 A picture with Dan Marino? And I was like, oh, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:55.960 you look like Santa. 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.000 He goes SE's getting cold, you know, And so that 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.280 was just classic, right, classic Dan. But yeah, it was 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.120 super cool seeing you get this a lot more frequently 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.320 than we do, Travis, but seeing the podcast appear on 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.480 the Apple top charts and. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.720 All of those things amidst the damn Reno effect, and 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:11.160 it's awesome. 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.160 Absolutely, it's cool to see that, and like you said, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.039 having him in his natural element too, because the text 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.800 I've been saying from guys that I know that, like 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.240 the fish Tank podcast, same type of reaction in terms 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.080 of we've seen Dan do things where he's maybe you know. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.000 Put into a box a little bit, but this was 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:25.800 not that at all. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.120 It was the genuine article and then the fact that 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.800 someone that knows him says that to what better confirmation 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.280 than that? So you are knocking out a bunch of 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.480 things off your checklist by coming to the studio today 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.800 because you got the gifts dropped off. But the main 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.400 reason you come in, aside from the podcast here is 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.480 to get the press release right. You do not want 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.440 to see Seth Levitt pulling up to hard Rocks anyone 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.640 without his press release or his laptop will just happened too. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.800 Yes, laptop, which I mean the two things that are 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:53.120 most important to me and my credential I haven't forgotten yet. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.440 I do not want to have to reach out to 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.640 VIA and say, hey, Verra, bad news, but I don't 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:57.400 have my credential. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.200 No, but I need my laptop. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.720 I like to have my and I I worked in 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.440 the media relations department that press release and what it means. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.960 And again, the next stop on the gift giving is 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.960 going to be to the communications staff. All the time 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.440 that they put in when everybody's celebrating a win or 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.520 frustrated after a loss, they're still up there for three hours, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.080 you know, pounding away at the keyboard and coming up 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.160 with numbers and finding ways to tell the story of 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:22.640 this team. 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.480 And that stuff helps me, It really does. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.920 I look at the game differently than you do, certainly 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.680 different than jew differently than Jews does but having that 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.440 the totality of that perspective is great. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:33.440 So I love getting that release. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.800 I think besides Mike McDaniel and Butch Berry, who are 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.880 confirmed in the building at four oh eight after the 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.000 Titans game, I think Brett Breckaisen was the other one 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.360 in the building also breaking out the weekly release there 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.919 for the Jets game last week. And speaking of the credential, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.040 have I told you the Jason Taylor story about Chicago 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:47.960 Uber to the game? 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:48.240 Oh? 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.000 Yeah, and I dropped my credential. I tell you that. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:51.719 Oh I didn't know you dropped the credential. I just 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.599 told you, you know. I got to text, Hey, I finally 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.320 met JT. I'm like, are you in the uber wog? 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.279 Because I knew it because he was texting me. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:58.200 I do you know? 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.800 The frickin' bus left, so we got all its all. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:02.640 Here, yo, JT's not here. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.480 I felt good about being with JT in that regard 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.919 because talent was not all there at that point. But 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.920 we're walking up to Soldier Field and we get to 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.800 the checkpoint or like the security point in the stadium 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.680 and I looked out at my belt, My credentials not 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.440 there anymore, and JT Bless his heart, He's like, I 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:17.960 feel bad, but bro like. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.360 So I had to. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.440 Run back and luckily it was about one hundred yards. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.040 Behind us on the WOW so it literally fell off. 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:25.719 It just had fallen off my belt loop. So I 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.600 found it. Anyway, that's in the weeds. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.479 Let's get back to this game, and I want to 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.160 start here and resurrect a segment we did on the 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.320 postgame show this past Sunday from the four you can 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.400 come find us out by the Dan Marino statue in 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.120 the South Plaza in front of the team store at 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.400 hard Rock Stadium. And I'll talk about this later on 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.560 this podcast. With both Rob Jones and Elijah Campbell, we 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.479 talked about good losses right and gosh, I hate that 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.280 term so much. Good loss So I'll borrow from coach 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.400 here a purposeful loss against the Titans. The fans of 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.480 draft time have heard me talk about this and make 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.080 this case about how special this team is, not just 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.560 from the talent on the field, but the rottery has 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.280 hide that locker room. But I'm calling on my press conference, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.400 Consiglieri here and Seth Levitt, how do you think this team, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.600 this coach can make that loss purposeful and how it 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.760 can benefit us heading into this gauntlet, which is basically 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:12.320 the playoffs. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.360 Before the playoffs, Cowboys, Ravens and Bills. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:19.320 Yeah, win right, that's right, that's how Now I listen. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.559 As we know, and we like to talk about here, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.360 only one team in the history of this sport has 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.720 gone undefeated and had no losses. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.240 So every team every year is going. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.560 To suffer a loss at some point, or multiple losses 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.960 at some point, and then what do you do from there? 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.520 And if losses start to snowpile and become five in 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.440 a row, seven or zerwo things that we've seen the 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.320 last handful of years here as well, I don't know 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:46.040 that any of those. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.880 Are good losses. You know, what do you learn from that? 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.320 Mike McDaniel has done amazing job of making anybody who 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.960 cares about the Miami Dolphins understand adversity is an opportunity 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.080 that things are going to be tough. He loves the 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.720 word strain, and all of those things come out of losses. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.080 And so it's once that does happen, where do you 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.960 go from there? Do you try and burn the tape 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.760 and look to the next opponent, as I've tried to 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.160 do on a postgame show or two much of the 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.880 or do you dig into it? And how cool was 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.920 it that we got to see that on Hard Knocks 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.840 where he's like, look, I know we don't want to 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.920 do this, but we're gonna spend twenty minutes here, We're 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.400 going to take it all in. But then where do 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.600 we go from here? How do we make it purposeful? 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.920 They it galvanized a team, they bonded together. We saw 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.640 what they did against the New York Jets. But it 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.240 can't just be a one and done because now it's 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.360 the most important part of this season. And I you know, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.120 I've got the radio show later today, and you know, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:39.800 I've every now and then I break out, and you 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.959 know what I think, And I think that this is 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.400 this has the potential to be the most the most 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.920 meaningful game of Mike McDaniel's coaching career and of this 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.000 group of Miami Dolphins, primarily because it's the next game, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.960 you know, but there's this is a great opportunity for 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.920 this team to play meaningful games in December and to 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.120 beat teams that are the caliber of teams that you 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.120 will face if you play in the playoffs. To understand 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.080 that you can beat those teams and to beat them 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.800 when it matters most. And so if all of that 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.760 can happen, then yeah, I could say that was a 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:22.720 good loss if you could pinpoint that that collapse at 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.160 the end of the Tennessee game, a game that if 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.760 they had held on, they didn't play particularly great. I 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.240 mean you said you dug into the tape. It wasn't 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.319 great tape from start to finish, but they did enough 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.400 to get a lead that they probably could have and 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.600 should have held onto. They didn't happen that way. Maybe 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.400 if they did, if it did happen that way, they 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:45.160 wouldn't be as focused, they wouldn't be as understanding of 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.079 what's in front of them as they are right now. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.560 And so if the next couple of games go the 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:52.800 way we'd like to see them go, Travis, then yeah, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.520 I think you could say that was a good loss. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:55.839 And all will be forgotten for sure if you get 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.440 a couple of wins here in your back pocket, especially 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:58.880 think in the Buffalo game. If you can make that 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.440 game irrelevant in terms of the division race, that would 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.440 be I think I'll be forgiven at that point. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.680 I'll tell you a quick story and since we talked 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:06.240 about j T. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.360 Jason Taylor, not you know Jonathan Santos, who also amazing guy. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.520 But as we talked about Jason Taylor, go back to 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.200 Nick Saban's first year where that team was reeling and 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.199 there's a great story about them getting destroyed in Cleveland 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.559 by a Cleveland team that was not supposed to be 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.960 good enough to beat them, and coach Saban after, you know, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.680 kind of just saying what he felt he could say, 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.320 he was at a loss at that point. He says, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.320 does anybody have anything to say? And here comes Jason Taylor, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.400 future Hall of Famer, flipping over tables and essentially told 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.800 the room like, you know, no matter how badly we're losing, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.120 you never quit and if you want to quit, just 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.000 quit now. And then he said he'd pay their salary 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.960 the rest of the year, which is a classic line, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.880 but the point being is they went on and won 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.080 the rest of the games that year. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.520 And so, did you want to lose to Cleveland? 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.760 Did you want Zach Thomas to tear a rotator cuff 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:58.880 for whatever he did in that game? 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.680 No, you don't want any of those to happen. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.880 But if you were able to make that lost purposeful 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.520 and turn that into a run like they did, or 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.040 a run that this team is even better positioned to make. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.320 Then yeah, that's not so bad. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:12.760 And having the right guys in the locker room two 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.920 JT was that right guy this locker whom I think 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:16.560 full of guys just like that. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.120 So that's really a really good point there. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.320 And to kind of continue the point about this Dallas game, 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.199 so we saw Buffalo on offense run the ball very 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.840 successfully against this Cowboys defense. And you know, no offense 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.880 has run the ball more in neutral situations in December. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.160 It's basically like an option in terms of the analytics 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.840 about a first down first and ten for instance, as neutral. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.960 No one has ran the ball more in neutral situations 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.040 than Mike McDaniel so far in December, and he said 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.559 he was going to do it. There was a press 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.280 where he talked about running football more in the month 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.520 of December, playing defense and running the football. So my 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.640 question is, do you think the Dolphins in this game, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.200 like Buffalo did last week, can turn back the clock 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.560 to some of those great seventies Dolphins in Cowboys games 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.360 a Super Bowl, no less, and run the ball with 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:58.160 that kind of success. 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.600 It'd be fun to watch. And look how we talk 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.480 about fun to watch. I mean what we've seen with 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.840 Tua and Tyreek and Jalen Waddle and the passing game 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.160 has been incredible and it's exciting. But man, who doesn't 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.360 get fired up in December watching you know, watching a 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.160 team just grind it out and they've got the guys 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.120 to do it. This as much adversity as this offensive 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.320 line is faced, no matter who they put up there, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.920 those guys seem to run block really well. You know, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.120 there's some malers up there, and it's fun to watch 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.160 those guys connect and make that happen. Raheem Mostert is 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.760 playing like I don't know what planet he's from. The 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.680 the things that he's doing, the records that were talked 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.680 about this past week, and at the age that he's 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.480 doing it, and he is playing at such a high 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.920 level that he's ready to go. You know, he's hungry 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.840 to get the rock, and devon a Chan seems to be, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.600 you know, picking up where he left off now that 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:53.560 he's getting healthy. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.400 I think that they have the ability to do it. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.080 Now they have to go out there and make it happen, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:12:59.680 but I think they have the ability to do it, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.320 and I think think this is the time to do it. 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:01.959 It is December. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.559 Yes, it's gonna be seventy four degrees, knock on wood 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.559 and great conditions, but it's not always going to be 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.040 that way, and so yeah, why not start now. 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:12.960 Not to mention a trip to Baltimore next week where 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:14.439 it could be a little bit chillier. I saw the weather, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.400 and they're going to run the ball degrees. Yeah, exactly, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.400 They're gonna run the balls balls anybody. They did just 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.240 lose their trying running back Keith Mitchell to an ACL 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.600 so they're gonna be down him in that game. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:23.840 But that's that's for next week. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.720 And like you said that, potentially, if you take care 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.440 of business, that could be your last World game of 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.360 the year, which would be obviously very ideal. On the 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.200 topic of the running game, quick detour here from the 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.000 game itself, because I know that you have a close 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.280 relationship with this guy, the Walter Peyton Man of the 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.640 Year nominee and an award that you track very closely. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:40.720 JT had once won that award. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.000 So I'm just curious to get your take here because 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.680 Alec is so critical on the field for this offense. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.400 I mean he does things that you cannot replace, the 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.439 role that he fulfills and the options that gives you 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.200 in terms of personnel groupings, but also in the community. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.000 Tough to find a better guy than Alec. Ingle just 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.760 kind of tell me about your relationship with Alec and 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.160 what he's meant to the community, said down here in 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:58.800 South Florida. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.920 Well, you were just saying couple of minutes ago about 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.520 having the right guys in the locker room, and I 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.360 think you were specifically talking about leadership on the field. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:06.920 Alec checks that box. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.840 Then, as you said, leadership off the field, Alec checks 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.400 that box. He's just he's kind of a unicorn. And 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.199 those guys exist, but a lot of times they're playing 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.520 quarterback or they're you know, in this this high profile position, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.320 or they're a first round draft pick. And here's a 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.840 guy who he's playing full back. There's like seven of 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.720 them in the league anymore, you know. I mean, so 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.120 he's he's playing that position. That's you know, they kind 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.000 of put those guys in the dark room with raw 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.600 Meaton and I mean that's that's like what you expect 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:40.800 from a fullback. And you know, the story of him 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.720 not being drafted and all of those things. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.280 And he's on his second team. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.200 And it wasn't because he was a two time All 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.520 Pro and then signed some big free agency deal. It 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.320 was because he was a team captain there, suffered an 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.520 injury and they said, we don't want you anymore. So 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.800 he's got all of those scars, he's got all of 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.480 those things that Mike McDaniel loves to see you players 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.080 because he identifies with it and and he is just 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.800 a special individual on and off the field. I love 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.280 his micd up when he does that. But I never 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.120 realized it. I could appreciate what he was doing on 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.600 the field, but when we had him on the fish tank, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:19.600 I was like, who is this guy? And he I mean, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.240 what an incredible guy. I have gotten to know him 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.800 a little bit. He's reached out to me to talk 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.400 about foundations. And how many times have I had a 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:28.920 guy call and say, I want to talk about a 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.840 long term sustainability of my foundation. 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:32.320 You tell me, I don't. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.680 Get that call very often, Travis. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.080 For a guy who was only four or five years 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.880 in the league, I mean, that's I can't say Jason 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.200 didn't start his foundation until he was seven years in 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.320 the league. And long term sustainability. You know, we had 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.960 to develop an understanding of what that meant and why 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.280 that was important. And so you've got a guy now 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.920 who recognizes that he's so invested in the community and 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.400 it hits so close to home because of his personal 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:58.840 story with adoption. So really special guy. There's a handful 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.840 of guys that probably were worthy of that nomination, but 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:06.280 certainly alec Ingold is And as you said, Jason won 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.160 that award in two thousand and seven. It's very meaningful 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.520 to us as an organization. I have it sitting there 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.320 in our office kind of like we want a Grammy, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.600 because that's what it feels like as a nonprofit director. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.600 And so every year we don't pound our chest or 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.600 announce it, but we always reach out to the winner 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.640 and make a contribution to a charity of their choice 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.880 just in honor of them being the team's nominee, because 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.200 we know how meaningful that ward is. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:30.120