WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 76 | Sam Eguavoen 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.520 All right, the outimos back in the air, Kimbo Camper, 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.560 John could gem me with you and John to uh 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:12.799 two preseason games in the book and just to kind 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:16.200 of quick look back at at the game against Tampa 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.279 Bay and before I before we get into the game 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.799 against Tampa Bay, Um, John, I was really really the 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.239 more and more I see these group, these these these 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.320 teams practicing against each other, the more I think there's 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.120 more value in those those practices then they are the 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.640 games just because the intensity, the matchups. You can you 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:37.840 can create the matchups you want. You can see guys 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.280 against guys you want in the intensities there a little 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.720 bit and you're playing against other I just yeah, I 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.839 could do with one preseason game a couple of you 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.360 get the season rolling, you know, I think I think 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.320 the guys I think for the most part of the 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.640 other than the mechanics are going through a game. You 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.320 know if your rookies and you know where he's sitting, 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.200 all that. Other than that stuff, man, I just thing. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.840 I think the work you get out of those practice 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.559 sessions a far out way what you get in a game, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.480 other than the fact that it's a game situation and 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.520 you go through that, I agree, and I think the 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.960 coaches would agree. I think sometimes the fans would agree. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:14.920 You know, in Tampa it was kind of weird because 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.360 the weather was not great, you know, so they had 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.520 to go inside, outside, back to the indoor facility. But 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.240 the fans that were there, Dolphin fans and Bucks fans, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.080 I think they really got into the practices, you know, 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.479 because you had one on ones going on one field, 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.920 you had some line drills going on the other, you 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.639 had running backs against linebackers, you had dbs going against 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.959 white outs. The quarterbacks were throwing, and it was a 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.560 constant you know, your head was on a swivel, so 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.320 you were constantly watching football. You're constantly evaluating your team 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.160 against somebody you really don't know and something you really 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.559 haven't seen and studied. So I think the players enjoyed 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.240 it too, because it ratchets up their intensity for a practice. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.560 You know, it's it's mundane sometimes when you go through 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.240 training camp and you're gonna see the same schedule and 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.440 it's the same thing. Now, it could be the same 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.920 schedule the Dolphins had for two weeks at training camp 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.160 that they rolled out against the Bucks, but it looked 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.480 a hell of a lot different going against a different 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:13.440 colored jersey, different techniques, and it's your team against another team. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.680 And I think that it just sets the mind, uh 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.880 for for regular season games. It sets your your tempo 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.560 for a regular season game. You get kind of amped 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.840 up to go to practice on a daily basis against 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.679 somebody else because you're trying to prove that what you've 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.880 done for the last couple of weeks is good enough 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.560 to stay in the National Football Leagues. Stay on your grosser, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.720 find a place on your fifty three, and eventually work 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.160 your way onto the field. Yeah. And if you're I'll 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.320 tell you this, John, And because unfortunately I've been to 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.600 I've probably been just probably about the fifth or sixth 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.480 time I've gone to these uh where. I remember we 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.880 went to Tennessee. I went to Carolina, Carolina a couple 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.720 of years ago. So we have there's been an amful 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.640 of times I've been and and and I only remember 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.000 one time. I think Tampa may came down here one time. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.919 I'm in practice here. It's the only time we've done 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.560 joint practices down here in South Florida. And so every 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.480 time I've been on the road and and and I 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.560 always come away thinking, man, that was fun because you're 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.040 just immersed in football and wherever you go. You're staying 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.320 at the team hotel, you know, so you're seeing the 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.000 guys there, you're seeing coaches or you see him, you know, 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.680 guys that are associated with it. And then you go 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.720 to practice and you know, you go there and there's 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.399 guys in Tampa that you know, or you guys playing there, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.360 or coaches that you know, and and and and even 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.239 just watching you know, everywhere you go, you're just talking 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.040 football and you're talking details, and you're looking at all 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.960 this stuff. And and if you're a football fan, it 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.640 really is a I just I'm like in heaven when 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.280 I when I go to those things. It was fun. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.040 I came away with a smile, you know, because it 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.120 was real. It felt it felt like the ray, It 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.520 felt like you're building up to a regular season game. 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.040 It felt like the intensity was so much different. And 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.560 I just think that, you know, if you asked the 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.600 Tampa Bay coaching staff, I think they got just as 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.880 much out of it as you know, the Dolphins coaches. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.680 Because they had only been outside three times times because 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.000 of weather. You know, they'd been inside for the entire 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.160 training camp really, and it didn't matter what time of 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.000 day they were trying to get outside, the lightning delays 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.400 and rain delays. It was just you know, brutal for 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.520 those guys. But I really think the Dolphins, when you 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.360 look at them going up against Tampa Bay that Tuesday 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.000 and Wednesday practice, they got more out of that, Just 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.040 as much out of that as any training camp practice 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.600 that you could have had in South Florida, you know, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:25.840 no question about it. So let's let's get a move 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.720 on over to the game. And John, you look back 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.200 in the game, uh quickly, you know, thumbs up, thumbs down? 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.000 Who who? Who looked good? The big st surprise to 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.359 me obviously. And John, we did the pregame show for 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.040 CBS four prior to the game, and well, we're kind 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.160 of jockeying around, you know. You know, I think we're 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.320 I think we're starting to see a little bit maybe 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:49.160 of that New England philosophy of information flow. I don't 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.760 know if you could call it a flow, you can 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.840 call it a coach flow. I don't know how much 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.760 flow is coming flow there, because you know, you're you're 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.800 kind of you're kind of looking, you're kind of evaluating 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.559 and and you know, you kind of, you know, maybe 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.120 talk to somebody here and you get and I was 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:08.080 so I was so off, you know, and I think 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.840 was gonna play. How about our conversation prior to us 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.600 going on air, or maybe while we were on air, 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.640 We're going, well, you know, Kenyan Drake's out, so that 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.799 is gonna be up. He's gonna get a lot of working. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.360 And all of a sudden, we're looking the street clubs 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.600 and you're expecting him to get a lot of carries, 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.000 and you know, it's just you know, I'm going you know, 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:29.840 your tounchel, you know, I don't think he's gonna play. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.480 And then there he is in the starting line up, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.440 and you know, we had we had kind of heard 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:39.159 basically listening to the pregame show rehearsal for for for 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.360 Channel four for Greece and Dick Stockton and Jason Taylor 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.000 and they kind of come out and they're like, you know, hey, 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.680 uh it looks like, you know, it looks like, uh, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.320 Ryan Fitzpatrick is gonna start. And we're kind of throwing 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.640 out Josh Rosen because he had practiced all week and 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.760 got all the work with the ones in the second 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.800 practice and and so you you kinda kind of had 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.160 the feeling that that was gonna be case. So we're all, yeah, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.560 it looks like Josh Rosen doesn't and then and then 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.240 like no, no, no, I mean Ryan Fitzpatrick and okay, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.080 so we go at that, and then two minutes later, no, no, no, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.960 it's gonna be a job. So we look like assholes 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:15.600 out there. But you know, it wasn't the first time. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.480 You know, it's not the last time that that's for sure. Hey, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.080 hey joined us now, Sam, Sam and Bobbin and Sam. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.599 First thing, you know, I'm trying to make sure I 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.840 pronounce your name right because I've heard your name pronouncing 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.919 about a thousand different ways since you got here. But 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.640 thanks for joining us on the on the program. Uh, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.159 thank you for having me. Well, look, it's great, you know, 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.640 it's it's great for us to have you. I'm sure 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.719 for you, it's great to be in this training camp 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.880 and uh and going through everything, especially getting the opportunities 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.520 that you're getting to on the practice field in the games. 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.520 But man, you're you're rude. Your rude has been one 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.680 of those very It's funny because you know, the last 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.680 player that came here and made an impact from playing 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.679 to the Canadian Football League was Cam Wake. His story 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.159 very very familiar, very similar to years although you know, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.839 he goes in and gets gets a tryout, doesn't make it, 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.320 he's out of football and goes to Canada, comes back 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:08.920 very pretty much the same thing. You don't want you 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.920 to take us through your path to the to the 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.600 National Football League in the Miami offense and were there 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.680 times during there where you just saw, man, this this 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.760 just isn't gonna happen. Oh yeah, definitely. Uh, you know, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.400 coming out of college, I'm seeing other guys, you know, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.040 get NFL opportunities, guys that I didn't even really think 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.040 we're that great of players. So I was thinking, I 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.600 mean things like everybody gets an NFL opportunity, but now 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.920 everybody makes it. So you know, after the draft and everything, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.160 you know, nobody was calling my phone, no teams, you know, 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.400 not even Dallas and I'm from Dallas, you know, so 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.560 that kind of you know, hit me really hard. And 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.200 then you know, I ended up graduating that made from 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.360 Texas Tech, and then after that, I was just seeing 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.360 what else life had to offer. I'm still working out 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.720 and everything, but you know, I kind of knew that 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:02.360 my football window was closing. So after that, I just 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.840 started working in Foot Action. It's a company under foot Locker, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.800 working back in Dallas, Texas. So I was there for 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.160 about five months, just you know, just hustling selling shoes 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.440 and things like that. And I was like, well, you know, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.080 it's time for me to like try and get a 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:22.120 real career. So my major in college was sociology slash criminology, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.920 so I wanted to go into a law enforcement So, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.000 you know, I signed up with the Dallas p D. 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.760 I was there for about almost two weeks and then uh, 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:36.400 you know, stuff got real. Yeah, so I found out 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.439 real quick that that wasn't for me. And then, uh 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.560 it was around January when I decided to try and 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.440 get back into football. I was always in shape, so 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.040 I started thinking about trying to redo my pro day 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.240 and Texas Tech. And then a lot of people were 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.160 saying like, oh, the scouts are not gonna like you, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.000 you know, because you're a year round and they're not 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.360 gonna give you a chance. You need to get a 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.640 recent film. So I was like, well, let me play 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.840 in a different league. So I looked up CFL tryouts 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.040 online and whatever. The first team that was gonna come 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.120 to Dallas. I was gonna go to that trial. So 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.960 it's a team called Saskatchewan. Like when I read it, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.280 I didn't know how the spirits just like you can't 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.680 say my last name. So I was just like, whatever, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.640 this green team. I'm going boom, Carrollton, Texas, Let's go. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.920 So I pull up there. It's a hundred dollars to 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.920 try out. So I get there, I'm draped out and texts, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.000 text stuff because I'm thinking like, oh, if I wear 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.360 all my college stuff, that probably yeah, that's probably gonna 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:29.680 let me go through the back door instead of the 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.960 front door. So I get there, it's like three hundred guys. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.079 Then some of them were draped down their college clothes, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.040 some of them had NFL clothes on, and some of 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.360 them had high school clothes on, like high school um apparel. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.880 So I was just like damn. So you know, I'm 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.600 in the line getting ready to get my registration number 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.280 and uh, you know, pay my hundred dollars. I have 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:53.120 my highlight tap with me. So I get up there. Uh, 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.200 coach Jones is right there. I was a head coach there, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.600 So boom, I give him a hundred dollars out hand 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.280 him a highlight tate. He grabbed it. What's back on 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.960 stack of a whole bunch of the highlight texts. I'm like, damn, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.800 he gives me my number, you know, and then uh, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.839 I go through the workouts or something number like that, yeah, yeah, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.200 something like I can't remember my number. Man. I think 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.560 my dad still remembers my because he was there with me. 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.080 And then I did the workout. I was just doing 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.280 one on ones against receivers and running backs. And you 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.120 know when the CFL they got the waggle, so that 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.160 was new to me. I'm like, yo, what like, you know, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.719 my first rep, the receiver comes running at me. I'm 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.400 like that's false start. But I was like okay, you know, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.400 I ended up locking some boys up, and then uh, 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.400 they extended a contract to me. I went to mini 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.439 camp in April, basically had to do the same thing 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.320 all over again to you know, get invited to training camp. 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.000 And then from there, you know, I was in the 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:47.160 CFL and you know, just started competing for a starting job. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.199 I got it my first year, played six games to 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.720 my m CL my the six game that I played, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.160 so that at that point I was like I don't 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.240 know if football is gonna work like this because I 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.520 hurt my senior in college. My next year playing ball again, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:04.280 I get hurt season ending. So at that point I 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.040 was like I really couldn't see the light. At the 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.680 end of the time, I was like, man, the NFL 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.600 is so far away, Like why am I doing this? 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.640 But you know, once you're in the locker room, you 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.640 start building the brotherhood with some guys. You know. I 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.760 met a couple of guys out there in Canada. They 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.600 told me to keep pushing. Man, I got potential. Uh 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.040 Philip Lalley, that was my linebacker coach. He told me 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.480 to keep pushing, come back the next year. Um, and 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.760 I messed my ankle up in the all season, I 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.400 saw I was playing basketball mess my ankle up trying 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.960 to dunk. So I came into training camp injured. My 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.199 my second year, now I saw the rotating with the 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.720 guy that came back from the NFL. So then my 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.240 second year was just kind of up and down. And 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.560 then um, I knew for sure I was going to 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:45.960 come back for my third year because you know, in 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.439 the CFL you gotta play. Yeah, yeah, it's not your option. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:56.160 Though I've basically, so if you play good football for them, 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.240 they're gonna keep you. But if you're not playing good, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.679 you know, you kicked rocks. So then my third year 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.200 I came in and you know, that's why I really 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.320 just bought into the CFL, because I started the whole 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.560 time I was in the CFL, I was looking at 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.040 the NFL like, oh, I want to go I want 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.040 to go to the league. I want to go to 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.880 the league. And you know, that kind of messed me 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.920 up because I'm looking too far down the road. So 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.760 I just started taking exactly, I started taking them one 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.319 day at a time. So last year, two th eighteen, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.920 I couldn't even tell you anything about NFL football. I 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.760 didn't watch the games will be on. I'll just nah, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.080 let me go watch an Ottawa Red Black game in 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.120 Montreal all away game. Like I fully locked into the 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:34.959 CFL that I didn't know what was going on in 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.400 the outside world, just focusing on the task. And here 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.120 I had one of my best seasons. You know, I 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.199 killed it out there, and then uh, you know, we 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.920 went to the playoffs. We lost the first round of 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.040 the playoffs, and then right after that, uh started my 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.440 NFL workouts, Like I say a week or so after 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.400 the season, so I was just going on tour. I'm 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.079 talking about like maybe I had a daybreak in between 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.559 each workout. So I walked knocked out about twelve, twelve 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:06.080 or thirteen workouts within within a month. I say, so yeah. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.480 And then, um, Miami was the first place that I 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.079 came that I visited. I loved it here Chris Greer, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:13.920 I mean that was really the only person I can meet. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.719 You know, I met the linebacker coach or whatever, but 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.800 you know they're on their way out. But uh, Chris Greer, 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.240 we got closer whatever. And I mean I love to 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.240 hear from from the start. And then when it came 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.720 down to it in January, January when I was able 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.599 to sign, you know, Miami was that was that was 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.400 pretty much where I wanted to be with a lot 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.960 of chapters, you know, to get to the Miami Dolphins. 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.560 And now you're here, do you really how much of 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.679 a change was it when you had a you know, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.440 adapt to the twelve guys, unlimited motion, a lot of 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.800 space and now you're do you feel confined as a 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.320 linebacker trying to go back and I feel like you're 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.360 in college, but now that's you know, it's bigger, faster, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.199 stronger too. Yeah, definitely. Uh. You know the CFL, that's 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.839 a lot of spread formations and the field is huge, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.800 so it wasn't so much twenty one personnel eleven personnel, Like, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.160 it wasn't condensed. Everything was spaced out. But now it's 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.400 like I'm in a boxing Like all my movement has 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:12.320 to be correct now, like my read's gotta be faster angles. Yeah, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.680 it's more run here than it was in the CFL. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.719 You know, there's three downs out there, so if you 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.920 run our first down, we stop you for a two 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.760 yard game. Now it's second and eight. Now I'm like, okay, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.960 screen draw, you know, I'm gonna through all that. But 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.880 when we stopped on second, that war off the field. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.560 But now it's so much more to the game because 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.520 there's four downs. You know, they used tight ends, fullbacks, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.600 so you know, um during O T A S I 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.280 was excelling um because it was pretty much passed. You know, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.680 I'll catch a pick here and there. I mean, we're 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.520 not running a Wong got pads on. But at a 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.840 training camp starting then, I was like, Okay, there's a 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.200 whole new ball game. There's more hitting and you know, 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.120 fitting in on the runs and stuff. So uh it 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.960 took me a little while to adapt to that. And 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.280 then uh, you know, from there, like PG Man, he 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.720 really just broke everything down to us, like where to 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.400 fit on runs and how we're gonna play the run here. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.080 And then the first game I played, I was just 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.480 like I was talking to everybody back home. They're all 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.880 blowing my phone up black, I can't believe your NFL. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.840 You worked so hard, and you know, it's uh kind 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.480 of a sentimental moment for me, but it was like 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.160 I still gotta play football, like I gotta put a 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.800 good film out there. So then, I mean, my first 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:27.880 game really didn't do much. But then the second game, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.760 I was like, all right, I'm not talking to anybody 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.760 back home before this game, Like I'm focusing on this 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.280 game and that's it. Like I'm a football player. I'm 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:40.880 here to play and play good. It seems like you're 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:45.680 experiencing the in the CFL. Probably benefited you through O 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.840 t s and mini camps and stuff because of the 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.640 throwing game. Because you're you're playing in a wide open space, 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.480 you're having to cover. You haven't do all those types 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.920 of things. And I would assume that's probably what caught 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.320 your caught the coaches at first, with your ability to 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.480 cover and do those types of things, and with the 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.400 type of d offense they're playing now, it seems like 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.120 what they're going to maybe not the biggest linebackers, but 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.360 more agile guys that can run, guys that can cover. 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.000 Kind of fits right right in your deal. And then 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.720 in week two, you're right, you can see a step 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.000 up and filling holes and doing all those types of things. 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.600 So you kind of you that that that experience that 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.800 you got in Canada, especially from a cover standpoint, it 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.360 really seems to me from just watching from the outside, 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.080 got your foot in the door and now you're just 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:26.480 kind of picking up the pace of the rest of 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.360 the game. It looks like you're feeling pretty uncomfortable out there. Yeah, yeah, definitely, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.960 you know, especially getting a good game like that. I 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.720 like seeing myself do good and that that bill is 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.240 confidence that bills. You know, you're getting comfortable. Well, don't 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.440 like using word comfortable. You never want to be You 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.920 want to be comfortable being uncomfortable, but definitely add more 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.760 confidence now, you know moving forward, Uh, I feel like 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.320 I'm more vocal on the team getting more respect or 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.400 do you feel like you belong, which is probably the 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.320 most important thing, right for a guy like you that's 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.440 kind of bounced around and you get in, maybe you 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.640 don't feel like you belong. There's an insigency. You gotta 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.760 feel like belong. You belong so you can jump in 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.600 and just let it fly. Yeah, definitely. When I first 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.000 came out of here, you know, I just kind of 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.200 kept to myself and I was like, look, I'm gonna 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.760 do my job. And then you know, I'm gonna do 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.200 my job when I'm here, and once they cut us free, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.040 I'm going home and I'm getting my playbook. And you know, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.280 I didn't really socialize much for most of the guns, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.359 but you know, in training camp, you don't really have 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.920 no choice. Well up here from sun up to sundown something, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.639 that's when you really build that bond, that brotherhood. And uh, definitely, 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.840 just feeling comfortable to make checks and make calls, especially 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.199 at the lineback position. You gotta be able to do that. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.960 You gotta be able to communicate with everybody on the field. 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.760 And I feel like I'm stepping up and taking that 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.280 role now. Well, you know, you're the quarterback of the defense, right, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.280 you know, you're you're have you have to play with 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.720 extreme confidence. And it seems like not only from training camp, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.760 but from week one to week two. I mean, you 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.520 did it just about everything in Tampa. You had an 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.119 open field tackle on special teams, he had to tackle 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.840 for lost. You had a strip you know, he had 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.480 a force fumble, you had multiple tack was in and 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.719 around the line of scrimmage. Is comfort and confidence go 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.439 together for you because you're getting more familiar with the defense, 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.760 what the expectations are from the coordinators, to your linebacker, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 coach and coach Leonard, and and and and now playing 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.600 that confidence is coming through for you. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.360 Confidence is huge because you know the play The coaches 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.960 they bring it in guys for a reason because they've 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.160 they've seen what you did in college. Like they've seen 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.080 you know what Baker Dinn college, seen what everyone minka 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.080 then in college, and then they put them in a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.560 system to where they're like, I need you to play 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.320 like this, you know, But then as the player, you 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.040 have to understand the playbook inside and out. Then get 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.000 to your athleticism. And you know what I'm saying, because 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.920 everybody's athletic and the NFL or you wouldn't be here. 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.520 So that's pretty much what I did. In game two. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.919 I really just dove into my playbook, you know, started 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:52.240 watching film more, and then I started tweaking, Okay, how 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.480 can I get in on this player? How can I 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.200 get in the back field on that play? And that's 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.919 just every football player thinks like that. You know, you 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.240 get to play and then you're okay, I think I'll 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.840 be able to beat this guy backside. And that's that's 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.840 basically all I did. Um in Gangs, from the looks 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.760 of this defense and what this defense is gonna be 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.120 going forward, um for you to come in, I mean, 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.359 it's a multi scheme defense. I mean, you've got a 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.360 different personnel. I think in the first series or two 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.520 there was a three man line, four man line kind 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:22.960 of had it over. You had a lot of different 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.440 looks up front there, and everyone those different looks kind 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:29.320 of changes what your assignments are. So so from that standpoint, 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.600 it's a pretty complex defense to understand with all the 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.040 changes going on, especially you know, in your first year 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.720 within it with his new coaching staff. But although I 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:41.840 guess everyone else is out there is going through the 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.800 same thing because it's it's new for them too. But 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.760 for you all those changes, how have you been able 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.560 to handle understanding all the different things because typically back 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:52.160 and olda Hello, you're lining them in a three four, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.800 you're line for three and that's what you do every down. Now, 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:56.680 I mean, I gotta look every time, count how many 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:58.680 defense line in there are, and you know what defense 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:00.080 they're in here in this play and that play, and 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.520 so it makes it much more complimated for everybody out 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.440 there to be on the same Yeah, definitely, And that's 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.120 why we have the great coaching stuff that we have now. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:11.520 You know, Petrock Graham, we have a lot of defensive fronts, 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.520 you know, because he's a D line coach by heart. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:17.199 But he addresses it to us and teaches it to 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.680 us in a way that we can carpet, uh, compartmentalize 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.000 it where we could just break it down like, okay, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.399 when we're in this, this is what it's really like. 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.800 You know, they really break it down to where it's 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:31.200 almost the same thing, but it just looks different from 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.600 from the offensive uh perspective, so that it's really just 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.399 the coaching and then us as players just talking and 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:44.280 understanding where everybody's fitting. Uh, going an offense. Looking at 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.840 it, it it looks really difficult, like it looks confusing. But 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:54.720 as a defense, you know, one guy little tweaks. Yeah, okay, Sam' 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:56.840 gonna make you laugh a little bit. So I'm playing 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.560 in Toronto in the Canadian Football League. My first away 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:04.280 trip is to Saskatchewan eighty seven. So imagine what that 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.359 city looked like back then. Okay, So we're flying and 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.800 we're about ready to land, and I looked to my left. 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.119 I'm sitting on the left side of the plane, and 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.720 I don't see anything. There's no city, there's nothing. I 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.119 looked to my right, there's no city, there's nothing. I 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:21.359 think the plane's going down because I'm going theeld. There's 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.359 nothing there. So all of a sudden, you know, the 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.120 guys go, don't worry. You know, there's a little city 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:28.639 down down there. Saskatchewan's right there. So we land and 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:30.560 I'm like, oh, man, I thought we were going down. 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.320 There's nowhere to go instead like two buildings downtown. Uh, 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:36.359 there's this like one little bar in the corner. We 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.840 go there for like a pre you know, I'm the rookie, 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:40.960 so I'm paying for everything, right, I got no money, 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:42.960 you know, I'm trying to borrow money from one of 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:44.679 my linemen. It was a vet, but it was one 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.520 of those things where Saskatchewan was such a I would 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.520 imagine it was a cool place to play as the 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:52.840 home team because the crowd was so supportive of of 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.520 what you did while you were there. Definitely, John, the 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:59.719 Saskatchewan is I mean, there's no place like it. Not 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:01.960 to knock them, but you know, there's pretty much nothing 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:06.639 but there's the stadium and tayloryed I played a Taylor 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.919 one year. Yeah, the New Mosaic is beautiful. You know, 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.240 you got the stadium, you got the Casino Regina. Those 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.560 are the two places that those are the two places 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:19.720 that you can go out there. So um, that's probably 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.080 why how easy it was for me to stay. Fully, 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:25.960 ain't nothing to do after price but go home and 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.159 watch your open And you know a lot of people, 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:31.200 a lot of my teammates back in Saskatchewan, they're like, man, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.600 you're going to Miami. That's probably the worst place you're 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.080 going to. Like you don't lose your mind. No, no, yeah, 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:42.479 that's a little little little cult. Sam. We appreciate your 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.240 stopping by. Uh, and it's been great watching your progress, 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.120 your progress since you got here. Just keep going, man, 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:49.639 you're doing you're doing what you need to do and 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.760 keeping fun to watch and uh and this defensive scheme 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.920 seems to really fit your your skill level. So it's 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.240 it's gonna be fun to watch you here going going forward. 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.880 We appreciate you stopping by and uh, it's it's it's 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:02.760 nice here and your your story. You know, anybody that 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:05.200 stays with it and stays with it and gets through 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:07.439 it and gets to where you are. But it's uh, 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.960 you know, it takes a lot of intestinal fortitude and 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.239 a lot of toughness. So I applaud you for that. 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:18.480 Good man. You know, it's always it's always good John, 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:20.639 always good to see guys come in and you know, 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.040 not everybody. You know, it's funny when you talk to 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:25.240 people and uh, you know, you and I kind of 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:29.439 both two different paths to our professional careers. And you know, 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:31.920 small with a small schools and this and that, and 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.560 you know, and you've got a guy like Sam or 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.280 or Cam Wade and these guys and and you see 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.800 these stories every year where guys just you know, they're 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:41.879 they're hanging on. They're hanging on by the edge and 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.919 and something clicks when they get someplace. And and you 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:46.800 know when you when they signed Sam, I go, look, 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:51.399 they can't strike gold in the Canadian football twice twice 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:53.280 in a row. But you know, and look he's still 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:54.760 say I'm still got a long way to go. He's 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.560 still you know, it's still two more preseason games. And 0:23:57.680 --> 0:23:59.160 look we we've seen, you know, we take a look 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:01.520 at uh, Preston Williams, you know, who had that really 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:05.480 good game one. It comes back to earth in game two, 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.359 and and so you know, it's it's tough for a 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:10.280 guy for it's tough for guys like that, especially if 0:24:10.320 --> 0:24:12.480 they're undrafted free agents come in and you kind of 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:15.080 have some success and then you kind of maybe maybe 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:18.280 maybe a relax a little bit, and you shoot, I 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:19.960 can't do that anymore. I don't want to have another 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:22.320 one of those those. But it's good to see. And 0:24:23.040 --> 0:24:26.240 he looks since really since training camp has started, he's 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:28.440 he's been in there every day. I mean, it's it's 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:31.640 not like it's they're they're testing him out of certain position. 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:35.560 That guy has been in the starting eleven defense from 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:37.760 the you know, first day of training camp, you know, 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:40.399 you really didn't know. And with the injuries at linebacker, 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:44.359 Kiko hasn't practiced or played, Quon hasn't practiced or played. 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:46.240 You know, you got you know, Rashad, who plays a 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:51.040 different position, hasn't been out there. Van Ginkle, you know, 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:53.639 was out during Tampa Bay. So there's a lot of 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:57.280 uncertainty at the linebacker position. And you have a guy 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.479 that's taken advantage of his reps and his opportunity and 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:02.280 can do a little bit of everything and not do 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:05.280 it pretty well, he's doing it really well. So it 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.720 gives you some confidence that there's guys on this roster. 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:10.720 You might not know their names, you might not be 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.200 familiar with how they play, but you watch him a 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:15.000 couple of games or a few weeks of practice, and 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:17.760 you go, this isn't a one flash in the pan. 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:19.480 You know, It's funny. I was talking to a buddy 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:21.680 of mine out who's a down the Bay area, and 0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:25.120 you know, forty forty fan We're talking and just talking 0:25:25.119 --> 0:25:27.720 about players and this and that, and you know, you 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:31.479 scratch your head with as much money as the National 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:37.240 Football League and teams spend on you know, researching, scouting 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:40.080 and digging into everything about these guys, and and then 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.199 you'll see a guy come in and you know, you 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:44.680 see a guy drafted in the You know, I remember, 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:47.600 I tell I, I remember when I came in. I 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:49.800 played against it. I played in the East West Shrine 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:54.320 game against a kid from Wisconsin. He was a big talent, 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:58.439 big ten offensive Linement of the Year, Outline Trophy winner. 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:00.520 He end up getting drafted like the ear and forth 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:03.600 picking the draft, you know, and and you know I'm 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:06.080 playing against him in the East West Shrine game, right 0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:11.160 and I'm going down. I'm you know, winn All American, 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:13.040 this and that, and you know, I just went through 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:16.520 ten games playing a Long Beach State, University of Pacific, 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:21.240 Fresno State. You know I'm going, I'm going and this 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:24.040 is a whole different ball. I got. After two downs, 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:26.600 I come over. I remember Larry Gordon, who ended up 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:29.320 being the Office draft both of us at the same 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:32.280 you know, he was one. It was two picks after him, 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:34.280 and I know Middlary and you know the game. So 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.120 and I come out, I go, Larry, I go, this 0:26:36.119 --> 0:26:40.960 guy can't play. This guy, this guy can't this guy 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:42.800 can't play and he was out of the league in 0:26:42.800 --> 0:26:45.000 a couple of years, And you go, how can they 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:47.600 be that wrong? How can they missing a guy like 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:49.879 that in the flip side? How do you miss in 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:51.960 a cam wake? How do you miss on a Sam 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:54.000 aguav And how do you miss on these guys that 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:58.000 slipped through the cracks and then finally kind of emerged 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:00.240 somehow or another, they kind of the they pa back 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:02.639 in the next thing, you know, you know for camp standpon. 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:04.400 You guys have five or six time Pro Bowl right, 0:27:04.480 --> 0:27:06.240 you know Holds, you know, one of the one of 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:09.760 the great pass rushers in the early history during his time. Yeah, 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:11.480 and and here you got a guy like Sam who 0:27:11.560 --> 0:27:13.840 who now that he's in here, but you see his 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:16.280 skill level, you see, and you just scratch and go, 0:27:16.600 --> 0:27:18.400 how can you miss on that guy? You know? It's 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:22.119 funny too because not knowing his history, not knowing you 0:27:22.119 --> 0:27:23.879 know that he hurt his knee one year and then 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:25.800 he got to Canada and blew out his angle before 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:29.080 he got there, what may have limited his exposure, you know, 0:27:29.200 --> 0:27:31.440 And and then he's out of football. You know, he's 0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:33.720 going to be a Dallas policeman. And then he's out 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:35.840 of football for a little bit. So you know, you 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:38.879 guys that you have to really give credit to the 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:42.480 determination and the will of guys that know what they 0:27:42.480 --> 0:27:46.520 can be and have the confidence of them belief in themselves. 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:49.560 They just need that opportunity to keep going. And he did. 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:52.280 He found a way to get back into football and 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:54.160 that led him to the National Football League and now 0:27:54.160 --> 0:27:56.320 he's got a chance to be a starting linebacker for 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:57.920 the Minami Doll. Yeah. I don't know who the guy, 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:00.280 I forget the guys. He's one of those guys, the 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:05.199 motivational guy sales ext mean, he's he's not like, I 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:07.080 forget his name, but he's one of like the when 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.040 you when you're a salesperson. He's like the guy that 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:12.680 he's like the motivating the motivating guy. And he always said, 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:16.440 you know, they never mean it, never, they never mean 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:18.879 no until they say it seven times, you know, in 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:21.359 other words, don't stop keep going, keep pitching, keep pitching, 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:24.800 keep pitching, and eventually, you know, after seven times, then okay, walk. 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:27.520 And it's kind of similar to these guys where they 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:29.760 get they know, you can't play in this league, No, 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:31.400 you can't play in this like no, you can't play 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:34.439 this league. But they've got somehow they there's that something 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:36.399 in their mind it says, well, I'm gonna keep I 0:28:36.440 --> 0:28:38.680 know I can play. I'm gonna keep giving a shot 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:40.640 until I get there. And boy, you really have to 0:28:40.680 --> 0:28:43.720 applaud guys that that have that wherewithal within keep going 0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:46.680 and find a way on this roster. You know, it's 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:48.480 not easy. It's not an easy road. You know, you 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:51.600 hear Sam story, you talk about Cam story. It's not 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:53.680 an easy it's it's not for the faint of heart 0:28:53.760 --> 0:28:56.880 and for lacking of confidence in yourself. And you have 0:28:56.920 --> 0:28:59.560 to give credit, you know, all credit to guys like 0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:02.080 that that keep been during whether it's injury, whether it's 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:04.640 another setback that's off the field that keeps you away 0:29:04.640 --> 0:29:07.440 from your premier goal or your dream. And these guys 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:09.640 are living their dream every day. Yeah. Well, let's get 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:11.120 back to the game, and we're kind of starting that 0:29:11.160 --> 0:29:13.600 before Sam came in and and speaking the game, Sam 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:15.960 was certainly one of the guys six seven tag. He 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:19.720 had six tackles and three unassisted tack or three assistant 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:23.600 tackles and fumble special team plays and so I mean 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:26.240 he really, you know, he really had the opportunity. Maybe 0:29:26.240 --> 0:29:28.040 he's making hey while the sun shines, while a couple 0:29:28.040 --> 0:29:30.480 of guys are out, he's you know, he's he's stacking 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:32.840 things up and so he's doing pretty well. But as 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:34.800 we go along, we talked about the kind of you know, 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:36.440 not sure and who was still but let's kind of 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:38.400 take a look back at the game, John and and 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.720 see what you liked and and and you know, you know, 0:29:41.760 --> 0:29:44.200 we we talked a little bit about about Preston Williams 0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.560 and you know, you could almost see it coming, you 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:48.840 know where you know, he he had played so well 0:29:49.520 --> 0:29:51.960 so far a long and well he was he was. 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:54.800 I had him on a couple of shows, you know, 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:56.880 doing the interview. Now he's doing interviews. People know who 0:29:56.880 --> 0:29:58.840 he is. Look out for this guy and this and 0:29:58.840 --> 0:30:02.760 that and and I've of this. He did ran good routes. 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:06.360 He was in the right spot, but just left the 0:30:06.400 --> 0:30:07.760 ball and the right was a little bit wet and 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:10.240 all this and that. But you know, it kind of 0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:11.360 came back to him a little bit. You know, he 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:13.320 kind of came back to the pack a little bit. 0:30:13.360 --> 0:30:15.880 Now I expect him to rebound and see more of 0:30:15.920 --> 0:30:19.120 what we saw of him Week one, um in this 0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:21.440 but uh, you know Sam's in the same situation here. 0:30:21.440 --> 0:30:24.200 You've got guys that are getting their shots and you 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:27.640 know you can't have too many. Well yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:30:27.640 --> 0:30:30.080 we knew he was gonna, you know, fall back to 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:31.720 the pack. Well, you know what, it was a good thing. 0:30:31.720 --> 0:30:34.160 I got to watch a little bit of Tuesday's practice 0:30:34.240 --> 0:30:36.960 and you know, he came right back, caught everything around him, 0:30:37.120 --> 0:30:40.120 look good running routes. Um, you know, he just looked 0:30:40.200 --> 0:30:42.479 like the guy that you we expected. And there were 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:44.719 drops on both sides. I remember Tampa Bay had an 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:46.800 under route. The guy was still running into the house 0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:48.920 if he catches it, and you know there was drop 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.880 drops on both sides. So maybe weather had a little 0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:53.160 bit to do with it. But you're gonna have that, 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:55.160 and you're gonna have that in South Florida Week one, 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:58.120 potentially against the Ravens. You gotta be able to to 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:00.640 show that on a consistent basis that you can make 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.840 those catches in clement weather, whether it's rain or whether 0:31:03.840 --> 0:31:06.640 it's cold, whatever the situation is, whether it's hot and 0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:09.000 it's you know, it's sweaty, and you you you gotta 0:31:09.080 --> 0:31:11.960 hang onto the football. But I have called I still 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:15.200 have confidence in what Preston can do because I really 0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.480 like his size, I like his route running, I like 0:31:17.600 --> 0:31:20.360 his demeanor, and he's one of those underdog guys that 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:23.959 is trying to battle through his own, you know, skeletons. 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:26.200 He's trying to to put away all the all the 0:31:26.240 --> 0:31:29.400 negativity that maybe surrounded him during a certain period of 0:31:29.440 --> 0:31:31.760 life and fight through it and show people the kind 0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:34.360 of athlete he can be. So I'm I'm rooting for 0:31:34.400 --> 0:31:36.760 both of these absolutely, no no doubt about it, and 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:39.760 Nick because there all guys that work hard, and yeah, 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:42.200 you need playmakers on this team, and both of these 0:31:42.240 --> 0:31:45.040 guys have the potentials. Let's get to let's get to 0:31:45.040 --> 0:31:47.720 the quarterback position, which is you know topic, really, it's 0:31:47.760 --> 0:31:51.720 really and it's gonna be probably gonna be this for 0:31:51.760 --> 0:31:53.680 a better part of this season. Is it gonna be 0:31:53.680 --> 0:31:57.600 the topic of conversation, the number one focal point when 0:31:57.600 --> 0:32:00.240 you talk about this football team success or failure wise 0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:02.600 one way or another. So you got Josh Rose and 0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:05.400 gets to start. He goes for a quarter and then 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:08.040 there goes for the first half. Ryan Fitzpatrick comes in, 0:32:08.120 --> 0:32:10.640 goes a little over a quarter in there before turning 0:32:10.680 --> 0:32:14.920 the ball over to uh uh j J. Brudock um 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:17.040 and you look at Josh ten for eighteen a hundred 0:32:17.080 --> 0:32:20.560 two yards a number of drop balls, um and and 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:22.840 you know, I think when you look at you say, yeah, 0:32:23.000 --> 0:32:25.000 tell some good things. I would like to see him 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:26.760 get the ball in the end zone for a touchdown 0:32:26.920 --> 0:32:31.040 or two during his drives. But did you see enough 0:32:31.160 --> 0:32:34.520 in and and and you know, all the conversation now 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:37.440 is that, Okay, he had his shot. Now it's Ryan 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:42.120 Fitzpatrick starting this third game. Now that being said, we'll 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:44.920 wait and see when when take off comes. But but 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:48.720 that seems to be the um. That seems to be 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:51.240 the narrative right now with this if fitz Patrick and 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:54.680 so the thought following that is Fitzpatrick's getting the start 0:32:54.680 --> 0:32:57.280 in game three, arigo, He's probably gonna be the starter 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.360 Week one when the Baltimore Ravens come to Now that 0:33:00.400 --> 0:33:03.280 could change. But getting back to the game, you know, 0:33:03.480 --> 0:33:06.920 Ryan limited time three for nine twenty yards, nothing really 0:33:06.960 --> 0:33:10.640 going on, and again he was under durest offensive line problems. 0:33:11.360 --> 0:33:13.520 We you can you can bind it both of these 0:33:13.520 --> 0:33:17.560 guys with offensive line issueses. But you know they're both 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:22.360 playing in the same type of situation. Is there any 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:25.080 did we see anybody deparation, any separation or is it 0:33:25.120 --> 0:33:27.760 just kind of same kind of I I don't think so. 0:33:28.200 --> 0:33:30.640 I don't know if there's any more separation after the 0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:33.920 Tampa Bay game than before the Tampa Bay game. In 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:36.600 my opinion, I think Josh Rosen did some good things. 0:33:36.920 --> 0:33:40.360 He threw the ball well. I think that his anticipation, 0:33:40.480 --> 0:33:44.000 his urgency in the pocket, his awareness is getting better. 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:46.480 But it's still there's still a lot left on the table. 0:33:46.560 --> 0:33:49.320 I thought a couple of throws, especially in the red zone, 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.440 if he gets the ball out to Mike Kisiki a 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:55.040 little bit earlier with leverage, he may score before he 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:58.240 misses Isaiah Ford, you know at the goal line, and 0:33:58.320 --> 0:34:00.200 you don't you don't get in the end zones. So 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:03.120 there's certain plays that you see. I know coach Flores 0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:06.480 talked about in his press conference about pocket awareness. Maybe, 0:34:06.520 --> 0:34:08.240 you know, we gotta get rid of some of those sacks. 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:11.040 Maybe we throw the football away, maybe we we step 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:13.400 up into the pocket if there is room to step 0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:15.640 up in the pocket and do some different things down 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:17.480 the field. But he was plagued by pressure and he's 0:34:17.480 --> 0:34:19.799 played by drops, so you know, those are some things 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:22.319 that you're gonna play quarterback you can't control, but there 0:34:22.360 --> 0:34:24.680 are some things you can assist, and you can try 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:28.239 to raise the level the guys around you by your decisions, 0:34:28.360 --> 0:34:31.760 by by your pocket awareness, by your timing, your anticipation 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:34.680 with the football. So I think there's still room for improvement. 0:34:34.680 --> 0:34:38.120 They're moving forward now. Looking at the third preseason game, 0:34:38.360 --> 0:34:40.080 I don't know if if I'm going to read into 0:34:40.360 --> 0:34:43.200 if somebody's gonna start that game, he's necessarily going to 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:46.879 be the starter Week one against the Baltimore depends on 0:34:47.080 --> 0:34:50.000 his production. I would think that if it if it 0:34:50.080 --> 0:34:52.279 were me and we were talking about this Sunday at 0:34:52.360 --> 0:34:55.719 FLR and we're doing Dolphins Weekly Live, I felt I 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:58.680 feel like both guys should play. I don't even know 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:01.080 if if Jake Rudolc might play in this game. To 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.240 be honest with you, I think you try to get 0:35:03.239 --> 0:35:05.319 both of these guys as many reps with the first 0:35:05.320 --> 0:35:08.239 team offensive line, whether that's you play a guy a 0:35:08.320 --> 0:35:10.160 quarter and a half, you you stick Josh in, or 0:35:10.200 --> 0:35:12.080 maybe Josh starts and you stick Ryan, and I don't 0:35:12.120 --> 0:35:14.600 really care what the rotation is, but I think you 0:35:14.640 --> 0:35:17.880 have to expose these guys to the same type of 0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:20.879 environment and and try to see if there is any 0:35:20.880 --> 0:35:23.560 separation that you could piece into what they've done at 0:35:23.600 --> 0:35:26.160 practice on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, what they've done 0:35:26.239 --> 0:35:28.759 last week, where you see improvements, where you see some 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:32.359 of the deficiencies starting to erase themselves, you know, by 0:35:32.480 --> 0:35:35.320 by their play. And I think you added up all together. 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:37.320 In the end, I think we'll have a decision probably, 0:35:37.640 --> 0:35:40.080 you know, within you know, four or five days after 0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:42.320 the game, of who's going to be the starting quarterback 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:45.200 going in for week one. But for me, I would 0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:47.920 play two quarters one guy, two quarters other maybe it's 0:35:47.960 --> 0:35:50.080 a quarter and then you you switch them out, but 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:53.480 you definitely expose them to the same type of environment 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:56.719 against Jacksonville. You know what John I'm looking for. And 0:35:56.960 --> 0:35:59.280 we talked about this on the on the program on Sunday. 0:36:00.120 --> 0:36:02.680 You know, Josh is doing a lot of things good. 0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:04.480 You know, he used us this and that, and he's 0:36:04.600 --> 0:36:06.560 getting up getting in out of the huddle, and I think, 0:36:06.560 --> 0:36:09.400 you know, he's he was talking about body language wise 0:36:09.400 --> 0:36:11.920 by by coach Flowan. I think he's working on the 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:14.560 approved like that a little bit. But you know, I 0:36:14.640 --> 0:36:18.400 remember I remember when when when Danny came here, and 0:36:18.600 --> 0:36:21.040 you know, I played up to then, I'd played the 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.239 majority of my career with with Bob Greece. I'm a 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:26.960 Hall of Fame quarterback and you know, and so then 0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:30.440 Danny comes in and I remember we're playing the Jets 0:36:31.000 --> 0:36:34.080 up in Shafe Stadium at the time. Joe Rose running 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:37.719 like a deep crosser and and Danny throws him a ball. 0:36:37.840 --> 0:36:41.160 It was about a twenty five yard throw, whatever it was, 0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:43.960 and the ball didn't have any arc on it at all. 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:46.520 It was a bullet. And there's two dbs closing in 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:50.120 on Joe and all Joe Joe. The ball hit Joe 0:36:50.200 --> 0:36:51.680 right in the hands. We didn't have to do right 0:36:51.719 --> 0:36:54.840 in between the two defensive backs. And at that moment, 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:56.520 I looked at the guy standing next to me in 0:36:56.560 --> 0:36:59.360 the sideline, did you see that? And everyone else is 0:36:59.400 --> 0:37:01.600 going did you see that? Did you see that? What 0:37:01.680 --> 0:37:03.960 I'm waiting to for waiting to see in Josh Rosen 0:37:04.080 --> 0:37:07.000 is that did you see that moment, that moment that 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:09.400 you believe, Oh wow, that guy's got the skills to 0:37:09.480 --> 0:37:13.840 be that guy, that franchise guy. You know, we've seen 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:19.400 him throw some nice balls. Throw the deep corner, him 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:21.919 throw the ball down the field, but we haven't quite 0:37:22.040 --> 0:37:24.080 yet seen him throw a ball where he said, wow, 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:26.960 that that's a special throw right there. And and and 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:30.160 to compliment, you know, maybe piggyback onto what you've said. 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.480 I think if I'm a guy on the sidelines, I 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:34.240 want to be able to go he did it again. 0:37:34.920 --> 0:37:36.759 You know, he did it again. Do you see that? 0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:40.279 Did it again? I've seen it once. I've seen I've 0:37:40.280 --> 0:37:42.560 seen glimpses when he cuts it loose and you go, man, 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:44.759 that I like that. That that we need more of that. 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:47.480 I want to see that more on a consistent basis. Now. 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.640 I don't know if it's him or the guys around 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:53.480 him that's causing that for me anyway, but that's the 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:55.520 feeling I want to I want to well, I think 0:37:55.520 --> 0:38:00.319 there's a there if there's a disappointment across us the 0:38:00.400 --> 0:38:05.600 board in this quarterback competition is it's really tough because 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:09.719 you're having so many struggles up front. You know, Ryan, 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:11.759 Ryan gets in there and I think with the first 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:14.399 or second play he just gets clocked right. Yeah, I mean, 0:38:14.719 --> 0:38:17.080 come on, you know, I think they took I think 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:21.080 they took either either shot Calhoun out or diet out 0:38:21.120 --> 0:38:22.759 or one of those guys, and they put whoever in 0:38:23.239 --> 0:38:26.480 and that guy whipped and who maybe right away like oh, 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:29.000 he goes, well, welcome, there's gonna be a good quarter. Welcome. 0:38:30.239 --> 0:38:32.600 That's when you're I've been in those preseason Welcome to 0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:34.759 the second half of the preseason. No, no, I got 0:38:34.800 --> 0:38:38.480 it in this one. You got this one. I got you. Yeah. Well, 0:38:38.480 --> 0:38:40.520 it's funny because I was talking to someone and said, yeah, 0:38:40.520 --> 0:38:42.319 I said, you know, you could see you can see 0:38:42.480 --> 0:38:46.360 you can see Ryan's uh, you know, his experience because 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:48.640 the next play kept two backs in and pulled him 0:38:48.640 --> 0:38:51.879 in tight. I think that might have been the play 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:58.799 call this speaking Ryan have been when he bowled over 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:01.160 the day back the Bucks, that was pretty cool. I 0:39:01.160 --> 0:39:02.680 don't know who was the I think I think I 0:39:02.680 --> 0:39:06.239 think everyone on both sides, because he's pretty you know, 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:07.839 he's got a pretty good relationship with all those guys 0:39:07.840 --> 0:39:09.840 in the Tampa Bay sidelines, and they're probably they were 0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:13.640 acting it up on the sidelines. But then for if 0:39:13.640 --> 0:39:15.319 you're a guy with the DOLF, you're gonna that's that's 0:39:15.320 --> 0:39:17.000 our that's the kind of guy want that's my guy 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:19.600 right there, and those are things. Those are things that 0:39:19.760 --> 0:39:23.560 endear you to question. I don't know how smart you 0:39:23.600 --> 0:39:25.520 can you can question all that stuff, but those are 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:28.879 heat at the moment battle, you're a competitor. You're gonna 0:39:28.920 --> 0:39:30.799 put your head down. I'm gonna knock this some bitch over. 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:33.600 I don't really care. And you know what that that 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:36.359 gives you as as a guy on a team. I'll 0:39:36.360 --> 0:39:38.480 play with that guy. I'll go I'll go in and 0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:40.879 I'll do whatever it takes for sixty minutes to play 0:39:40.920 --> 0:39:42.640 with that guy. And that those are the things you 0:39:42.640 --> 0:39:45.160 have to have no question about. And you know you 0:39:45.320 --> 0:39:47.760 flow talking about body language, well, by that's party body 0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:50.160 language too. Yeah, that's part of that. You know you 0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:51.359 you know you can see it and you can make 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:54.240 that little little dip outside and get out of bounds, 0:39:54.640 --> 0:39:56.040 or you can try to run the guy over and 0:39:56.080 --> 0:39:57.840 then they're not not what you want most quarterbacks to 0:39:57.880 --> 0:40:00.520 do right now. But at this stage, you know, I'm 0:40:01.239 --> 0:40:02.840 battl I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. So yeah, that 0:40:02.920 --> 0:40:06.080 was good to see. Beyond Beyond that, um, I think 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:09.000 the other thing that that's that's really I mean, it's 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:12.359 been one of our biggest topics is pass rush. Uh. 0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:15.040 You saw Jerome just kind of blow through and you know, 0:40:15.080 --> 0:40:18.840 miss the one tackle and and then got to that 0:40:18.880 --> 0:40:21.880 can be look getting there's a hard part. You know, 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:24.120 you're wrapping him up and bring him down. That that's 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:26.239 the that's you know that that's the easy part of 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:29.719 getting to coach. You can coach out to that. Yeah, 0:40:29.800 --> 0:40:32.759 and then he gets one and and Charles Harris gets 0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:35.680 into help him bring him down. Charles Harris got one. Uh. 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:39.760 You watch Christian Uh, Christian Wilkins got one from multiple positions, 0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:43.440 from multiple and so I think when we're starting to 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:46.160 see on Nate Orchards getting around the ball a tank 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:49.239 charity and is looking good on there. So so you know, 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.239 we know that this is gonna be a pass rush 0:40:52.239 --> 0:40:55.439 who comes a like committee by committee. But what's nice 0:40:55.480 --> 0:40:57.200 to see is that you're starting to see some of 0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:01.040 those defensive ends get a pass rush in a standard 0:41:01.120 --> 0:41:03.319 pass rush situation where if you want to just go 0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:06.680 four men up front, you know, cover seven dep get 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:09.399 seven guys in coverage that you got to have those 0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:11.400 guys and and so you're starting to see in in 0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:13.200 some of these guys. And you know we've talked about 0:41:13.239 --> 0:41:15.120 Charles all of you know, he seems to always be 0:41:15.120 --> 0:41:17.480 a step away. Well maybe he's getting maybe he's making 0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:21.240 up that step, right. It's fun to talk about multiple people. 0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:23.960 We've said more names on defense after a week two 0:41:23.960 --> 0:41:26.280 of the preseason than we did in week one. And 0:41:26.320 --> 0:41:28.120 I think you could throw Nick de Luca in their 0:41:28.280 --> 0:41:30.319 linebacker because he was a guy that played a lot 0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:33.240 of snaps against Tampa Bay and we mentioned the injuries. 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:36.359 You know, everybody knows how good Jerome Baker is and 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:38.680 can be, but you're gonna have to have others that 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:41.319 that are dependable, that play certain you know, roles, like 0:41:41.360 --> 0:41:46.000 like Sam who you know is taking advantage of his opportunity. 0:41:46.320 --> 0:41:48.720 I think there's there's more guys that are on defense 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:52.120 that are taking advantage of snaps that they didn't maybe 0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:53.840 necessarily think they were gonna get in week two of 0:41:53.880 --> 0:41:56.480 the preseason and some of these some of these guys 0:41:56.480 --> 0:41:59.799 that are on the on the on the fringe, yeah, 0:41:59.800 --> 0:42:01.759 on a bubble. You know that it was nice like 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:04.480 like Patrick lay here, here's a guy that comes in 0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:08.359 seven rushes and every time he gets an opportunity, So 0:42:08.400 --> 0:42:10.600 you're you know, you're kind of looking at going where 0:42:10.640 --> 0:42:12.640 does he fit? Where can he fit? Where can we 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:15.040 you know? And I would assume if this coaching staffs going, well, 0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:17.319 this guy's got some skills, let's let's find a way 0:42:17.360 --> 0:42:19.080 to take advantage. And I don't know if he's gonna 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:22.520 make the fifty three man roster, but he's certainly doing 0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:26.480 everything he can to, you know, to to stick his 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:28.680 hat in the ring, and who knows, maybe ends up 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:31.080 in the practice squad. But I think right now he's 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:33.120 one of those guys that maybe you didn't really didn't 0:42:33.120 --> 0:42:36.319 even on the on the practice, but you see him 0:42:36.320 --> 0:42:37.839 now as a guy that, hey, you know, he could 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:39.760 be on the fifty three, could be in the practice squad, 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:42.080 and those types of things, so you're looking for those guys. 0:42:42.080 --> 0:42:44.880 It was nice to see him come up. And he 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:46.600 did a lot of really nice things out there, you 0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:49.120 know what, you start the game and Mark Walton's out 0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:50.920 there and you see Myles gas can get you know, 0:42:50.960 --> 0:42:53.359 a couple of things, and and what I liked about them, 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:55.840 you know, they didn't necessarily set the world on fire, 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:58.880 but they ran with authority. They were really good and 0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:01.480 stepping up in PAS protection. They were available in the 0:43:01.520 --> 0:43:04.719 passing game, and you know, they didn't probably necessarily think 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:06.279 that they were going to be in the starting role 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.560 on the plane over to Tampa Bay. So within two 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:12.080 and a half three days, you know, you're you're starting 0:43:12.120 --> 0:43:14.960 number one and one A aren't gonna play in Calein 0:43:15.000 --> 0:43:17.560 Blage and Drake and all of a sudden, these guys, 0:43:17.600 --> 0:43:20.000 hey you're up. You know, so let's see. You know, 0:43:20.080 --> 0:43:22.040 the moment wasn't too big for for any of those 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:24.360 guys that stepped into running back. Yeah, it was. It 0:43:24.400 --> 0:43:26.040 was good. It was good to see that. And uh, 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:28.960 now now it's it's you know, now it's kind of 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.680 getting the one thing. You know, we got to talk 0:43:31.680 --> 0:43:34.120 about the offensive line. We've kind of mentioned them here 0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:37.120 along the way, but uh it's it's still you know 0:43:37.600 --> 0:43:39.040 I said it before, you know, priority one of his 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:42.640 football team as a quarterback, Priority one being a quarterback. 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:46.560 Now they may be priority one, B or two because 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:49.319 I think that offensive line with two weeks left to go, 0:43:49.880 --> 0:43:52.040 albeit when you know when they started the game they 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:54.800 had tounsil in. I think Jesse Davis played early in 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:57.800 that game. You when you have those guys in even 0:43:57.880 --> 0:44:01.719 with Shack and and and Michael Dieter in there, that 0:44:01.800 --> 0:44:04.799 offensive line seemed to be a little bit more better, better. 0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:08.160 They got better. They weren't. They weren't a finished product 0:44:08.239 --> 0:44:11.479 by any sense of the imagination, but they were better. 0:44:11.600 --> 0:44:14.960 You saw improvement, You saw hat on a hat. You 0:44:15.040 --> 0:44:18.399 saw some guys that weren't getting pushed back with consistency. 0:44:18.440 --> 0:44:20.319 At least they're holding their own And you know, that's 0:44:20.320 --> 0:44:22.319 all you can ask you as a running back, you 0:44:22.360 --> 0:44:24.279 just want to be able to get a crease and 0:44:24.440 --> 0:44:27.160 you at least you felt like those guys made some 0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:30.600 steps in a positive direction. They didn't go backwards from 0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:33.560 a poor performance in week one of the preseason. At 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.200 least they got better. So I'm I'm really intrigued to 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:39.359 see how much better they're they're gonna be at the 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:42.799 end of this preseason compared to where they started, and 0:44:43.160 --> 0:44:45.600 can they can they have a semblance of of a 0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:47.880 line that can move some people that can You know, 0:44:47.960 --> 0:44:51.080 you worried about missed assignments when you have young guards 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:53.600 in there. And that's the one thing that I didn't 0:44:53.600 --> 0:44:56.040 see as much of in week two then I saw 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:58.640 in week one, because I don't think you know, to 0:44:58.920 --> 0:45:00.560 me when I watched those guys, is I think they're 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:04.960 both physically capable of doing the job. It's just you know, 0:45:05.400 --> 0:45:06.920 we're during the game, we're talking with Jayson. You know 0:45:06.960 --> 0:45:09.040 sometimes you see them where they you know, for an 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:10.560 offensive lineman, you know you need you need to be 0:45:10.560 --> 0:45:12.560 in balanst and balance. You know you can. There's two 0:45:12.560 --> 0:45:14.160 things you can't. But you can't be on your heels 0:45:14.880 --> 0:45:18.840 because you'll get you get you'll get piled driving. You 0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:20.879 can't be too much on your toes because you're leaning 0:45:20.920 --> 0:45:22.920 too far forward. And it's very easy for a defensive 0:45:22.920 --> 0:45:25.759 back to defensive lineman throw a quick arm over and saying, 0:45:25.760 --> 0:45:27.520 you know you're looking where where do you go? So 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:29.719 you gotta get that gotta find that medium ground in. 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:33.920 And I think you're seeing Deeter and Calhoun. You know, 0:45:34.000 --> 0:45:36.160 the more snaps they get, the more they're gonna figure 0:45:36.200 --> 0:45:39.719 that out. And those are those are things that are important, 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:43.560 but they're they're fixable. Those are easily fixable things for 0:45:43.600 --> 0:45:47.200 an offensive lineman. And and and looking watching those guys 0:45:47.200 --> 0:45:49.160 progress now they I think they've got the wherewithal to 0:45:49.200 --> 0:45:52.520 get better, but they're not gonna do it without getting 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:56.440 multiple snaps and getting there. I like the philosophy now, uh, 0:45:56.480 --> 0:45:59.279 and I'm sure that coach Flora's you know, was the 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:02.200 guy behind us. But let's throw them in there and 0:46:02.280 --> 0:46:04.879 let's let them sink or swim. But we gotta get 0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:09.000 we gotta get him exposed and exposure to multiple looks 0:46:09.080 --> 0:46:11.080 during this preseason. The only way they're gonna do that 0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:14.120 is to play, and and it practice. Those guys, I mean, 0:46:14.200 --> 0:46:15.919 they go on the bus I was riding back from 0:46:16.040 --> 0:46:18.360 the practice. They're sitting right next to each other, you know, 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:20.680 So this is a tandem that's gonna you know, they're 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:23.320 gonna sink or swim. And right now they're they're gooding 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:25.279 out there and they're getting exposed to everything in the 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:28.799 National Football League can give them. And I think they're 0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:31.000 gonna do the same thing in preseason game number three 0:46:31.000 --> 0:46:33.600 against Jacksonville. Hey, let's throw them out there, let's play 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:36.359 an extended period of time and let's show them. Let's 0:46:36.400 --> 0:46:38.839 let's get them on tape, get them on film. They're good, 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:41.319 they're positive stuff. Let's let's pump them up a little 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:45.080 bit their negative stuff. Let's get it corrected. Because this 0:46:45.160 --> 0:46:47.600 is who we've got, this is your offensive line, and 0:46:47.680 --> 0:46:49.560 let we gotta ride with you guys. You gotta play 0:46:49.600 --> 0:46:52.680 with more confidence. You gotta play with more you know, grit. 0:46:52.880 --> 0:46:54.680 You gotta find a way to get it done because 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:59.640 you're you're our choices right now. And they've gotta get 0:47:00.200 --> 0:47:02.800 confidence in themselves, you know what. They They've got to 0:47:02.840 --> 0:47:06.120 have those those practices, those those those games, a game 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:08.520 where you just come out clean, where you go, you 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.960 know what, you know, I'm better than this guy, you know, 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:14.480 And they'll have those games, they'll they'll find a game 0:47:14.600 --> 0:47:16.520 what they do. Then they then they take a big 0:47:16.560 --> 0:47:18.640 step forward. Well and now they kind of come out 0:47:18.680 --> 0:47:20.359 you know, now they break that hell and turn around. 0:47:21.440 --> 0:47:24.160 Yeah exactly. You know you're gonna have that moment that 0:47:24.239 --> 0:47:26.360 you you know, I just I just put somebody on 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:29.279 their back, you know, I just pass protection and I'm 0:47:29.280 --> 0:47:31.360 not worried about who I'm going against if it's a 0:47:31.400 --> 0:47:33.960 Dominican Sioux on the other side like it was last week. 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:36.640 So I think that's the only way these guys are 0:47:36.680 --> 0:47:39.120 gonna get better. They gotta play. They gotta practice, and 0:47:39.160 --> 0:47:41.400 they gotta play, and you gotta expose them to everything 0:47:41.440 --> 0:47:44.440 they're gonna see because once it starts, it's really difficult, 0:47:44.760 --> 0:47:46.959 you know, to get guys in and out. You gotta 0:47:47.000 --> 0:47:48.879 get those five guys up front. You gotta let them 0:47:48.880 --> 0:47:51.040 play together. And that's the other thing, John, I think 0:47:51.040 --> 0:47:52.960 with this team, you know, if they're gonna be a 0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:55.839 team that's gonna be able to compete early on, uh, 0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:57.719 they need to get healthy. You know, we we need 0:47:57.800 --> 0:48:01.160 to see if Kiko and Kuan have a place on 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:03.239 this team. You gotta, you know, find out you gotta 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:09.000 have Kenyan and Kaylin have to be and on the outside, 0:48:09.040 --> 0:48:11.960 you know, you you those guys that you know, no exposure, 0:48:12.400 --> 0:48:15.680 so you gotta feel like other guys you are getting opportunities. 0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:17.320 But you know you're talking about some of the guys 0:48:17.320 --> 0:48:20.279 that we circle on on this roster. They gotta they 0:48:20.280 --> 0:48:23.000 gotta perform for us to win. And then you wonder 0:48:23.080 --> 0:48:27.960 what the coaches mindset is going to be this week, 0:48:28.200 --> 0:48:32.600 this this game against Jacksonville with those guys, because it's 0:48:32.600 --> 0:48:35.560 probably gonna be the last time that we see the starters. 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:37.959 And now look at game four, you're gonna see Michael 0:48:37.960 --> 0:48:40.640 Dieter and you're gonna see Shaq Calhoun out there playing. 0:48:40.680 --> 0:48:43.439 I guarantee you that, but probably not these other guys. 0:48:43.480 --> 0:48:45.640 So so you know, Albert's had a chance to get 0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:47.000 out there and work a little bit. He's done a 0:48:47.040 --> 0:48:49.400 little teamwork and stuff like that. Are they gonna try 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:51.560 to pepper him in and give him a little game 0:48:51.600 --> 0:48:53.520 action in there, or do you just say, let's let's 0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:55.440 keep him on the shelf, give him another couple of weeks, 0:48:55.600 --> 0:48:57.760 let him get a little more healthy, and go that way. 0:48:58.160 --> 0:49:02.240 I'm sure that's gonna be the case with Jachem grant Um, 0:49:02.280 --> 0:49:04.160 but I'm not sure about those linebackers. I'm not sure 0:49:04.160 --> 0:49:07.560 how far Ray Kwan and Kiko are from coming playing 0:49:07.760 --> 0:49:09.719 and from playing. So but those are all, you know, 0:49:09.760 --> 0:49:12.239 those are all questions, and those are all Those are 0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:15.120 all guys that you're looking at. They really haven't participated 0:49:15.400 --> 0:49:18.640 for the most part through this preseason. Now all of 0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:20.439 a sudden you get them back there. They're all veteran 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:22.440 players that are good players in Northern new And you know, 0:49:22.480 --> 0:49:24.120 all of a sudden your team from could you could 0:49:24.160 --> 0:49:26.120 go from scratching your head with this team going, hey, 0:49:26.120 --> 0:49:30.440 you know what, not as bad as people you're adding players, 0:49:30.640 --> 0:49:32.680 because you're watching a team now that's been playing with 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:35.600 about with about a half a dozen guys, not getting 0:49:35.600 --> 0:49:37.360 many reps, not not getting in there and playing that 0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:40.400 are that are starters and and bona fide players in 0:49:40.400 --> 0:49:43.680 this league. Yeah, it's a tough situation in preseason. That's 0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:46.920 why I really liked going to Tampa Bay and getting 0:49:47.120 --> 0:49:49.959 those practices in because everybody was in and it didn't 0:49:49.960 --> 0:49:52.440 matter if you were healthy, you were playing, you were practicing, 0:49:52.440 --> 0:49:54.680 you were getting your reps, and you're getting a chance 0:49:54.719 --> 0:49:56.840 to get on tape and you're getting a chance to 0:49:56.880 --> 0:50:00.000 get evaluated because you never know in the month of September, 0:50:00.160 --> 0:50:02.040 some of those guys might be on the practice roster, 0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:04.879 they may be playing and starting. So at least you've 0:50:04.920 --> 0:50:08.719 got them, uh indoctrinated into the system on defense, and 0:50:08.760 --> 0:50:11.239 you've got them blitzing when they're you know, a guy 0:50:11.320 --> 0:50:12.759 coming on the edge of the line of scrimage, you've 0:50:12.800 --> 0:50:14.719 got him in man and man coverage. You've got them 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:17.960 running a tough route against against leverage it might not 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:20.440 be the best, and you you have them making decisions 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:23.440 at quarterback too. So I think everything was good in 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:26.960 terms of getting guys that are are available out and 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:30.359 exposed to what they what their expectations are. But it's 0:50:30.360 --> 0:50:32.239 sure would be nice to have some of those names 0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:34.880 that were not coming back this thing and not playing 0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:37.879 for a week three against Jacksonville. Yeah, you gotta. They've 0:50:37.880 --> 0:50:39.839 gotta get some playing time in there, you know, so 0:50:39.920 --> 0:50:42.279 we'll see John. The other thing before we wrap this 0:50:42.320 --> 0:50:44.640 thing up is uh, you know, it's it's it's funny 0:50:44.640 --> 0:50:46.759 when you go around you see different teams and the 0:50:46.760 --> 0:50:48.520 way they do about and I tell you it it was 0:50:48.560 --> 0:50:52.359 it was Bruce Arians. This guy's this is a pretty 0:50:52.440 --> 0:50:54.719 unique guy out there. Got a golf card, you know, 0:50:54.800 --> 0:50:56.759 got his a little logo on the golf card and 0:50:57.000 --> 0:50:59.719 just cruising around, you know, practice going on, and he's 0:50:59.800 --> 0:51:02.360 up you know, by the trainers or whatever, our trainers, 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:04.640 talking to them, and you know, just it was great. 0:51:04.640 --> 0:51:06.680 I got. I got to catch up with him because 0:51:06.840 --> 0:51:09.280 when I was seventeen years old, he was a running 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:11.799 back coach at Alabama and he recruited me. So I 0:51:11.840 --> 0:51:14.000 got to know him at a young age. And and 0:51:14.040 --> 0:51:15.480 all of a sudden, you know, I saw him on 0:51:15.520 --> 0:51:17.120 the far field and I didn't really you know, I 0:51:17.160 --> 0:51:19.799 didn't want to walk over there. I'm kind of in 0:51:19.800 --> 0:51:22.160 my own area, trying to be invisible, you know, and 0:51:22.200 --> 0:51:24.439 all of a sudden, you know, ten minutes later, there's 0:51:24.480 --> 0:51:26.759 this golf cart behind me goes, hey, what are you doing? Man? 0:51:27.040 --> 0:51:29.239 I look back at his bruising coach. What's going on? 0:51:29.280 --> 0:51:31.640 He goes, come here if in I'm just sitting in 0:51:31.640 --> 0:51:35.319 the cart with him talking and it's a laid back atmosphere. 0:51:35.520 --> 0:51:38.880 But he he once he started going, he's uh, he's 0:51:39.560 --> 0:51:43.239 you want him on your you know man watching the 0:51:43.280 --> 0:51:45.440 sideline over there. I mean he he was in mid 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:48.360 season FOURM charting. You're grilling on those officials, you know, 0:51:48.440 --> 0:51:51.000 working pretty hard. It was cool. I thought the interaction 0:51:51.040 --> 0:51:54.480 between Bruce Arians and Brian Flores and how they organized 0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:57.719 practice and how they got everything out of what they 0:51:57.800 --> 0:52:01.040 wanted to and how they collaborated it and and made that. 0:52:01.440 --> 0:52:05.279 You know that Tuesday Wednesday for nine guys on each side, 0:52:05.400 --> 0:52:08.080 if if Tuesday and Wednesday was a lemon, they squeezed 0:52:08.080 --> 0:52:10.799 all the Tuesday. They got every piece of work you 0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:13.480 could out of two days of practice, and it was. 0:52:13.719 --> 0:52:15.840 It was efficient, It was quick. Even the fact that 0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:17.840 you know, on Tuesday got run in and out of, 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:21.239 or Wednesday got running in and out of a couple 0:52:21.280 --> 0:52:23.120 of times. You know, still once you got back in 0:52:23.160 --> 0:52:25.960 that building was let's get back to it. Was efficient. 0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:28.760 And it's funny because I'm thinking, you look at Bruce 0:52:28.800 --> 0:52:30.839 arians and and you know, he seems like a laid 0:52:30.840 --> 0:52:33.160 back guy, and you know, he tells his coaches, hey, 0:52:33.200 --> 0:52:34.759 if you got if your kids have something, go, I 0:52:34.760 --> 0:52:37.799 don't want you if you miss it. And he likes 0:52:37.800 --> 0:52:39.440 to go out and have a pop after practice and 0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:42.640 then all those kind of things. And so he's a casual, 0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:47.600 casual guy, casual guy like that. Yet you know, yet 0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:50.719 his team is is They've got a structure and they 0:52:50.800 --> 0:52:53.080 stick to you, and so it's it's a it's a 0:52:53.080 --> 0:52:55.200 little bit of a dichotomy, you know. He he he you know, 0:52:55.480 --> 0:52:57.480 kind of the personality of him, you would think he'd 0:52:57.480 --> 0:53:00.000 be like a little you think you'd be a John 0:53:00.000 --> 0:53:01.799 Bruden guy, you know what, kind of a you know, 0:53:02.280 --> 0:53:04.920 but but he's quite the opposite. He's got guys on 0:53:04.960 --> 0:53:07.800 his staff that he coached in college, which is great. 0:53:07.840 --> 0:53:10.400 You know, uh, you know, Keith Armstrong is running his 0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:12.520 special teams. He was a running back at Temple when 0:53:12.520 --> 0:53:15.400 Bruce was the head coach. You know, You've got you know, 0:53:15.400 --> 0:53:17.120 a bunch of guys that were over there that are 0:53:17.120 --> 0:53:20.000 on his staff that he has a history with. Those 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:21.839 guys and he trusts those guys. And I think that's 0:53:21.840 --> 0:53:24.160 the same thing that Brian Flores has. He you know, 0:53:24.200 --> 0:53:26.040 he has guys that he coached with in New England 0:53:26.080 --> 0:53:28.480 and he brought to the Miami Dolphins that he knows 0:53:28.520 --> 0:53:31.040 what the expect they know what the expectations are, that 0:53:31.080 --> 0:53:33.400 he trust and that's how you build That's how you 0:53:33.440 --> 0:53:36.120 build winning organizations with people that you trust. You know what. 0:53:36.120 --> 0:53:38.520 I've watched the two episodes of Hard Knocks with the 0:53:38.560 --> 0:53:41.439 Raiders and John Bruten I don't know why they paid 0:53:41.480 --> 0:53:43.279 that guy a hundred million dollars. Wouldn't give him a 0:53:43.320 --> 0:53:45.959 hundred fifty dollars to coach my team. I just don't, 0:53:46.080 --> 0:53:49.040 you know. I've always I've never been a buyer. I've 0:53:49.040 --> 0:53:53.759 never been bullish on John Gruden and every job that 0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:56.440 he's got, every job that has been available. So I 0:53:56.440 --> 0:53:58.799 think when St. Thomas job was available, he was first 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:01.080 on the list for that job. But over the years 0:54:01.080 --> 0:54:03.239 when he was in the booth, every time a job 0:54:03.280 --> 0:54:05.040 became available, he was the top guy in the list, 0:54:05.320 --> 0:54:07.919 but never got the job, never took the job, which 0:54:07.960 --> 0:54:09.400 you know, led me to believe that he that that 0:54:09.520 --> 0:54:11.879 he wasn't available, but he wasn't really on the top 0:54:11.920 --> 0:54:14.200 of the list. You know, he's a good agent out there. 0:54:14.239 --> 0:54:16.680 But I mean, I'm watching this guy, John, and I 0:54:16.719 --> 0:54:19.040 just don't see it. I I just you know. You 0:54:19.040 --> 0:54:20.760 you tell me, you walk in front of an NFL 0:54:20.800 --> 0:54:23.640 football team that's got a bunch of misfits, and there's 0:54:23.640 --> 0:54:25.960 misfits on that team. You got to perfect who was 0:54:26.000 --> 0:54:29.000 a tough guy? You got eight you know, Antonio Brown, 0:54:29.600 --> 0:54:32.040 You've got some you got some knuckleheads on that team. 0:54:32.080 --> 0:54:33.799 And you walk up in front of the first day 0:54:33.840 --> 0:54:36.000 and you say, here are the rules I got Try 0:54:36.040 --> 0:54:38.719 to be on time, don't you know, and try to 0:54:38.719 --> 0:54:41.120 be close to your weight and use common sense. And 0:54:41.160 --> 0:54:43.400 that's it. I'm going really and paying you a a hundred 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:46.319 million dollars for that, you know. And then I watched 0:54:46.320 --> 0:54:49.160 the next practice was no better than that. And boy, 0:54:49.200 --> 0:54:51.360 I'll tell you what if you're if you're you're banking. 0:54:51.600 --> 0:54:55.200 I'd be shocked if the Raiders win five or six 0:54:55.239 --> 0:54:57.840 games this year. I haven't I haven't really dove in 0:54:58.400 --> 0:55:01.640 as much. I got to see glimpses of the hard knocks, 0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:05.080 but it'll be interesting to see how the Raiders do 0:55:05.160 --> 0:55:07.520 this year. Because that's a tough division. Yeah they're playing 0:55:07.560 --> 0:55:09.399 in Yeah they are, they are, And I just don't 0:55:09.600 --> 0:55:14.759 I see a loose you know, undisciplined. Hell, you got 0:55:14.840 --> 0:55:17.839 your best receiver that comes comes and went practice when 0:55:17.840 --> 0:55:20.200 he wants to, when he doesn't, doesn't show. Finally, they 0:55:20.320 --> 0:55:22.640 finally got to the point where they have to either 0:55:22.920 --> 0:55:25.560 yeah you know he's here, he's not. Yeah, yeah, so 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:27.840 I think you gotta fire him or whatever. You know, 0:55:27.880 --> 0:55:30.520 it's a but hey, you know what, Hell, that's their problem, 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:33.480 not our Thank goodness, we got enough issues on our own. 0:55:34.160 --> 0:55:37.400 But just just from a this from an NFL standpoint 0:55:37.400 --> 0:55:39.279 and watching that, that's the thing about that show that 0:55:39.920 --> 0:55:42.000 you know, it makes an I watched just kind of 0:55:42.040 --> 0:55:44.239 see how the distractions, see how we'll see how the 0:55:44.239 --> 0:55:46.040 coach is, just how they coach, how they go about 0:55:46.080 --> 0:55:50.120 their business. And I'm just I'm gonna probably catch up 0:55:50.160 --> 0:55:53.040 on this week. It's uh yeah, it's it's I watched 0:55:53.080 --> 0:55:55.000 this week too, and see how it is. Anyway, that's 0:55:55.000 --> 0:55:57.800 gonna do it for the show. John Can, Jammie, Kimbo 0:55:57.840 --> 0:56:00.200 camper with you. It's the Dolphins and the Jack's Bill 0:56:00.280 --> 0:56:05.239 Jaguars Thursday Night preseason game number three after that it's 0:56:05.280 --> 0:56:07.319 New Orleans and you know, you know, and you kind 0:56:07.320 --> 0:56:10.200 of you might have the clicker handy for that game 0:56:10.239 --> 0:56:12.520 because that the game tends to be a little bit boring. 0:56:13.400 --> 0:56:16.000 But but this is a big game, big game game 0:56:16.120 --> 0:56:18.440 from Miami to see where we're at, you know, see 0:56:18.440 --> 0:56:20.920 where the starting twenty two and whoever else can came, 0:56:20.960 --> 0:56:23.000 I'm gonna be probably this game is probably gonna determine 0:56:23.000 --> 0:56:25.640 who your quarterback is gonna be September eight, uh, and 0:56:25.840 --> 0:56:28.160 a number of other positions and guys like Sam where 0:56:28.200 --> 0:56:30.360 Sam fits in, and some of these other guys, the 0:56:30.400 --> 0:56:32.480 guys we haven't seen. You know, it's gonna be interesting 0:56:32.520 --> 0:56:35.280 to see what happens with Ray Kwon and kicking between 0:56:35.320 --> 0:56:39.919 now and the time that the rosters. T J hasn't 0:56:39.920 --> 0:56:44.080 played much, RASH played, So we'll see how that all 0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:46.520 shakes out in week three and we'll be back with 0:56:46.560 --> 0:56:48.799 the audible next week and we'll go over all that 0:56:48.920 --> 0:56:50.840 and and get ready for the last preseason game and 0:56:50.920 --> 0:56:53.600 kind of kind kind of probably get a little better 0:56:53.640 --> 0:56:56.200 idea where this roster is gonna be at at that point. 0:56:56.239 --> 0:56:58.560 But uh, it's just you know, more and more good 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:02.879 stuff man, we're still good stuff. Look and forward to it. Okay, Hey, thanks, 0:57:03.160 --> 0:57:05.279 thanks for listening, and we'll catch you guys next week 0:57:05.440 --> 0:57:06.120 on The Audible