WEBVTT - Drive Time - Ice Cream and Training Camp Lessons 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:10.240 Practics FAFRIC touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.440 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.759 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.880 Miami Dolphins each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.360 It is Friday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.720 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.680 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're gonna keep 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:34.080 this one a little bit brief. It's a busy weekend 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.000 down here in Davy and across the NFL cut down 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.240 day Tomorrow, We're gonna have you guys covered on tomorrow's 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.400 top news story on Miami Dolphins dot Com tracking all 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.919 the cuts and transactions, So keep it locked there for 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.080 the latest on your Miami Dolphins. As far as today's podcast, 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.559 we're gonna hear from Coach Flores, a trio of Dolphins players. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:58.120 Plus we wet our NFL season whistle with the NFL 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.400 Dolphins Year book from twenty team that is up now 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.800 on YouTube. I watched it last night. We're gonna talk 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.240 about that, all of that and more on this Friday, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:13.640 September the four edition of the Drive Time podcast. Let's 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.959 go ahead and jump now right into Brian Flores as 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.440 Friday morning media availability. We are now just nine days 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.680 away from kickoff in New England. Coach filled questions about 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.080 New England. He also filled some questions about cut down 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.399 Day this weekend. Plenty of content and here let's go 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.679 ahead and turn it over to coach Flores as we 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.600 start with one of the toughest aspects of this job 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.199 for coaches and GMS and people involved in the league, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.679 cut down day. Who has to go find the player 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.160 to tell them they're gonna come up and see coach 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.920 and see the GM. Here's Coach Flores on that process 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:46.000 on cutdown Day. Well, we look as we got some 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:50.000 young let's call it personnel, you know, people who who 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.240 are handling at you know, as far as who's having 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.280 that first conversation with the players, then obviously they talked 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.360 to Chris and then they talked to me. You know, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.200 that conversation is not a it's not an easy one. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.600 It's a it's a delicate situation. Obviously, the guys are 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.120 disappointed who or being released. Um I try not to 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.320 tell them that their their their dreams are over, but 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.160 I do tell them that Hey, when one door closes, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.040 normally another one opens up. UM. And I try to 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.560 be supportive and you know, give them some good feedback 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.119 that could help them, um in their next endeavor. UM. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.560 You know, out of cases, UM, you know, this opportunity 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.240 to bring guys back to the practice squad. Um. If 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.160 that's the case, we'll we'll have them know that. UM. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.520 But you know, we're just trying to be respectful and 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.079 supportive and honest. And I think that's always the best 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.239 way to to handle, you know, a tough conversation like that. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.840 And by now we are all familiar with how those 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.200 conversations tend to go based upon what we see on 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.760 a hard knocks. We saw it one year here with 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.440 the Dolphins back in We just saw some of it 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.680 with the Chargers and Rams on this year's hard knocks. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.880 Always tough conversations there, as coach says, and speaking of 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.480 a strange season here with cuts and practice squad and 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.640 roster spots. Coach was next asked about the strategy of 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.079 the to squad this year being expanded and if they're 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.760 going to have different approaches to it this year compared 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.639 to years past. I think we have conversations on every situation. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.360 But as far as strategy from for the practice squard, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.079 I think the additional practice squad players. I mean, we've 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.760 had a lot of conversations about, um, you know who 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.120 we would want on that and that's only that's almost 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.240 its own kind of roster itself. How many a linement, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.440 how many corners, how many receivers. So as far as 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.680 there is a strategy on what day, no, you know 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.280 to be To be honest, I think we're just gonna 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.320 kind of go through the normal process and everyone who 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.440 we release, we know that they're there. Um, they're out 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.520 there to potentially get claimed, and um if they do 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.280 get claimed, and um, we gotta move on to the 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.160 next guy on our list. So um strategy standpoint, I 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.000 would you know? But again, and that's honestly, that's probably 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.400 more of a question for Chris Chris Brandon in the 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.080 in the in the Scott Department, the comma they're about 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.480 it being kind of its own roster in an of itself. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.800 It kind of reminds me of the plea from so 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.080 many fans I've seen over the years to have some 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.720 sort of developmental process or developmental league. The practice squad 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.320 this year with six team players can certainly serve as 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.800 a kind of minor league system type of deal. We 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.800 can call guys up on a given week. Of course, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.760 we have the two call ups that guys can dress 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.000 off the practice squad every single week. It's going to 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.159 be really fascinating to see how this plays out over 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.560 the course of the season and how that practice squad 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.520 is in fact utilized. Up next, coach was asked about 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.360 the coming weekend of cuts and how active they'll be, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.919 and of course, coach says, it just depends who's going 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.440 to be out there. Depends on who's out there, who's available, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.240 and look, we look at everyone and if we feel 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.240 like there's a player out there that that can help us, 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.560 then we have those conversations. You know, last year is 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.080 you know, it's different than this year. So we'll see, Um, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.840 you never know who's gonna be on the wire, who's 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.800 gonna get released, who's gonna become available. UM. I don't 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.840 want to kind of pigeonhold us and say hey, we're 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.400 just you know, we're good, we're we're we're at um 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.080 because if we can get better, we're going to try 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.360 to get better. That's I think that's gonna always be 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.800 the approach. And so now we've heard from Gerald Alexander, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.920 We've heard from Josh Boyer, from Eric Row, Bobby McCain, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.359 Noah Egnogamy, pretty much every single defensive back and coach 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.320 in that room has talked about the point system for 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.960 rewarding ball or players getting their hands on footballs and practice. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.200 Here's coach Floores weighing in on the points system for 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.120 takeaways and hands on footballs in the defensive back room 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.320 and just takeaways in the NFL in general. I mean, look, turnovers, 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.359 I mean they're they're hugely important a lot of cases 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.200 a decided factor between wins and losses in this league. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.760 So we're very uh conscious of obviously trying to secure 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.279 the ball offensively and in the kicking game and try 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.479 to take it away offensive eb seeing the defensively and 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.000 in the kicking game. Uh, it's something we tried to 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.880 spend a lot of time on and we'll turn over 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.440 is the better chance of victory. So look, my my 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.560 my message to our staff was anyway we can create 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.320 more urgency, more energy, more competition, and maybe a competitive 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.000 point system, that's if that's what does it have more 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.960 emphasis on trying to create turnovers and it works and 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.560 I'm all forward. So as far as the state of 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.480 where we're at, uh, you know, that's I'll let g 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.799 A handle that. Josh and defensive staff. Next, coach answers 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.480 the question about selecting captains and how the process of 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.159 that works here under his watch in Miami. It's player voted. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.800 I think that's the right way to do it and 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.080 allow the players to select who who they feel are, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.760 you know, the leaders on the team, UM that they 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.359 want to uh speak for them. Uh, because those captains. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.680 You know, we have captains meeting every week and we 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:46.120 have conversations about everything from the schedule, to game plan 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:51.120 to any any issues surrounding the team. So UM, I 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.440 think that's where the players make the selection. And I 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.280 talked to him about that and the role of the captains. Um, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.159 it's not just on the field, which that's part of 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.479 it also, but it's on and off the field, a 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.039 locker room, you know, anything that they feel like they need, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.800 on off scheduling. I mean, there's it's it's a big role. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.480 I think it's a it's an important choice for the players. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.240 I try to make mention of that as well. Um, not. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.600 It's not a popularity contest. It's this is a serious 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.440 kind of um position, and they should, they should, they 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.360 should take it seriously. And now we get a football 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.600 question as coach is asked about the decision the Patriots 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.640 announced earlier in the week to go ahead and name 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:33.160 Cam Newton the starting quarterback for that Patriots offense Week one. How, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.400 just nine days away, here's coach Flor's talking about the 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.080 preparation before the announcement and the preparation post announcement, and 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.160 how you gotta be ready for every single player on 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.160 the roster of your opponent every week. I think we 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.560 all had an inkland that that was going to be 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.640 the case, so when we were preparing for all three quarterbacks, 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.120 so uh, and we will still continue, We'll still do that. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.280 I mean, you always got to prepare for the backup, 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.400 and you have to know who the third the third 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.320 quarterback is if if there is one um the same 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.360 at all positions, you know you need to you want 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.240 to know who the old line is and all the 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:07.800 backups are on the old line, and who the D 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.600 line are is and all the backups are on the 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.640 D line. So but you know, with him being named 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.440 the starter. UM. I mean, we've watched a lot of 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.920 film on camp. I will continue to do that, but 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.640 we'll also watch whole Coyer instead him and you know 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.640 the rest of the guys on the team, they're very talented, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.440 they're you know, obviously the world coach team. It's hard 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.480 to win on the road, so we'll uh, it's a 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.320 it's a it's it'll be a challenge. We know that 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.800 the matter who the quarterback is will be a challenge 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.240 against against that team. And we'll go ahead and wrap 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.400 it up here with Coach answering a question regarding the 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.079 rumors that we all saw on Thursday about the Josh 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.640 Rose and potentially being open for a trade. Here's Coach 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.040 telling you that this time of year, calls are coming 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.160 in left and right. It's all about improving the roster, 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.440 getting better, and Chris Career's phone is going to be 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.520 off the hook the next couple of days. Here's Coach 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.600 on that rumor and this time of year again, the 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.240 phone off the hook. I think it's the day before 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.480 cut cut down day, and I think there's a lot 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:04.360 of names are floating around UM and we're feeling calls 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:09.280 left and right, or I know, Chris's um about Josh 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.960 and you know, probably a handful of other players, and 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.240 I think that's the case across the league as far 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.360 as you know. To us, you mentioned, you know, we 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.720 have no decisions have been made. We're just trying to 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.760 go We're gonna go out him and practice today and 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.680 make the decisions you know, on on on the roster tomorrow. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.319 But yeah, I mean there's we're taking fielding calls on everybody, um, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.640 not everybody, but on on a handful of players, and 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.520 I think every team is doing the same thing. But again, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.760 Josh has competed, Josh has made some some great throws. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.800 Josh is you know, I think I think he's gotten 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.679 better over the course of training camp. So I mean 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.720 that's where we are with him. And so there he 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.040 goes Coach Flores. We'll hear from him again tomorrow morning. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.640 Ahead of cutdown today it is a four pm Eastern. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.920 You have to get your roster's finalized and then from there, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.920 of course you're gonna have a flurry of action with transactions. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.000 Waiver Wire claims practice squad resigning, tons of action going 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.240 on on the roster this weekend, one week out from 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.320 the start of the NFL season, and with that comes 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.440 the NFL yearbook story we see every single year. Now. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:13.080 I recalled these being on ESPN back in like May 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.760 or maybe June of every single summer, and it was 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.800 like appointment viewing back then that voice over the season highlight. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.440 They always find a way to paint your team in 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.880 a positive light and give you hope for the future. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.000 And that's what they still do on these broad on 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.840 these programs rather and I had a chance to catch 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.640 the Dolphins episode last night on YouTube. I think it's 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.080 only available on YouTube now. The story of the twenty 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.760 nineteen Miami Dolphins titled just the Beginning, of course, for 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.080 Brian Floress comment after the Patriots game last season saying, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.800 this is just the beginning, trust me on that one. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.640 I want to go ahead and talk about a few 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.360 of these moments here. First, let's play some sound from 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.640 coach flores at the very start of this episode. And 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.160 I text my buddy Kevin Dern at Kevin m D 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.320 four on Twitter. We know who he is, and he 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.760 showed me the video was up. I text him and said, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.800 all right, man, I'm gonna text you in twenty minutes 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.400 because I'm all the way in on this show. I'm 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.439 gonna go ahead and focus on it. I'll get back 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.319 to you in just one second, but I want to 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.480 go ahead and play the clip here, the opening of 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.679 this episode from NFL Films and show you why it 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.120 grabbed me in the first five or six seconds or 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.760 so listening to Coach Flora's on the field at training 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.920 camp last year, showing some of the intensity that he displays. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.240 Let's go now where we're going, No, where you're going 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.160 on a hop? Know where you're going on a hop. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.240 Let's gonna keep it going on, Keep the pressure on, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.160 keep the pressure on. What are we gonna do? D 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:42.559 what are we gonna do? On defense? For the Miami Dolphins, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.960 two nineteen marked a new era under the leadership of 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:52.280 first year head coach Brian Flores. We're competing now, we're competing. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.920 So get on YouTube and go check out that show. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.720 It's it's always very well done, very well. We produced 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.439 a bunch of good highlights and audio and voice over 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.240 in music. It's just always a fun program to watch. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.080 And you hear Coach Flora's on this podcast every day 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:10.680 in his media availability. Very calm, very measured approach, very kind, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:14.080 of showing you more of that intellectual side, the thinking 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.280 side of Brian Flora's then you get amount on the 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.319 football field and the intensity meter just cranks way up. 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.280 I've talked on this podcast many many a time, and 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.200 this is you know, commonplace across the National Football League. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.920 There is urgency and practice. You're gonna have coaches getting 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.480 on guys. But I've talked on this podcast so many 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:35.480 times about the crispness of Brian flores practices, Guys getting 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.880 in and out of drills quickly. They're ready at the 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.080 start of the period to begin the drill. In football, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.760 we talk all the time false steps. Right a linebacker 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.200 takes a false step. One wrong step can get you 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.120 out of position and can be the difference in a 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.400 three yard gain on a tackle or him breaking that 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.760 tackle and going seventy yards to the house. And so 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.240 any false step, any false movement, any wasted time is 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.040 so valuable in this league and especially this season, and 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.040 you just don't have that on this practice field. Guys 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.319 are bouncing around on the hoppice, Coach Flora says, competing 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.360 play in and play out. Another clip from the show 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.000 that I was absolutely in love with was a brief 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.520 moment between Brian Flores and Bryan Fitzpatrick in a game. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.520 I couldn't tell which game it was. We were at 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.640 home in the white jerseys with the Aqua seats in 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.120 the background. There are at hard Rock Stadium, and Flora's 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.400 approaches Fitzpatrick on the sideline with a comment about a 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.640 read or something he saw on a previous play. You're 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.440 gonna hear him talk about it right here. Let's go 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.040 ahead and roll the audio, just the very first one here. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:45.440 I'm okay with that, but it split Sam. That's beautiful. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.439 I just wanted to show you that because I love 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.040 the communication between the head coach and the quarterback. Even 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.080 though Brian Flores has a defensive background in his coaching career, 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.600 he also did coach as an offensive assistant in New 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.640 England as well, so he does have that well verse background. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.560 We've talked about it on this podcast so so many times. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.480 But I also was thinking about, you have a defensive 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.840 mind like Brian Flores, for instance, who once called a 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.480 Super Bowl game plan that allowed the Rams, the number 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.200 one scoring offense in the league, to score just three points. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.079 You have a defensive mind like that, who can kind 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.640 of show the quarterback and talk to the quarterback about, Hey, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.240 here's maybe what you're seeing. Here's what I'm seeing from 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.360 the defensive perspective, how I would attack you in the situation. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.760 Here's how you should attack this too high structure. As 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.600 you hear him say, they're the too deep safety, the 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.360 split safety look on that play, fitz Patrick kind of 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.000 comes back to him and says, here's what I saw. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.080 It's an open dialogue and open conversation. And we see 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.040 this in the NFL all the time. Right, we talked 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.960 about Sean McVeigh and and Jared Goff, Sean Payton and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.640 Drew Brees almost got off track there, Doug Peterson and 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.280 Carson Wentz, all these offensive minded coaches with their quarterbacks 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.560 and the importance of that relationship between head coach and quarterback. 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.680 But it works on the defensive side of the ball too, 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.400 for the exact same reasons. Like I mentioned, you can 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.640 have a coach that has this defense of knowledge, that 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.120 can approach the situations from a defensive perspective and give 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.680 the quarterback a different look, a different thought. And for 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.520 a quarterback who's been now in his sixteenth year in 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.840 the NFL to have that perspective when he has all 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.200 those years of knowledge and cadences and plays in his 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.440 mind and tape study and different thoughts from different coaches. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.400 Giving that defensive perspective from your head coach, I think 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.440 is very beneficial for the quarterback and for the offense. Now, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.680 let's go ahead and finish up here with one more 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.440 clip at the end of this episode and at the 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:36.120 end of the twenty nineteen season that ended in Foxborough. Alright, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.440 the process of preparation all that, it counts, alright, So 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.200 you get moments like this that hard work, all right, 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.040 this joy and hard work, and this is it, righty. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.280 I'm just telling that right now, alright, and this is 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.880 just the beginning. Trust me on that. There definitely is 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:50.920 joy and hard work. I think we all can agree 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.720 to that accomplishing things for yourself. Nothing makes you feel 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.440 more sense of a pride and more sense of accomplishment 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.120 than putting in the work and achieving something, especially in 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.400 a business as difficult as the NFL. Before we get 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.880 to player media availability, I want to go ahead and 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.760 go through my predictions for the season, my division winners 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.800 and playoff teams and Super Bowl pick. We're gonna start 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.600 in the NFC in the West, with a surprise Arizona 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.720 Cardinals winning the West, New Orleans Saints winning the NFC South. 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.760 Minnesota Vikings take the NFC North, and the Cowboys take 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.200 the East. We have three wild card teams this year. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.160 This time around, I'm gonna take the Philadelphia Eagles, the 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:30.360 Seattle Seahawks, the San Francisco forty Niners. In the a 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.520 f C, I'm taking the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.040 to repeat in the West. Give me the Colts in 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.760 the South, the Ravens in the North, the Dolphins in 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.400 the East. Give me the Bills, Browns, and Titans as 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.600 your a f C wild card teams. And in the 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.320 Super Bowl, I'm not gonna get flashy. Here, go back 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.560 to the Chiefs. Give me Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.000 run that thing back, and we're gonna have the Saints 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.600 with Drew Brees make one last hurrah, Chiefs over Saints 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.840 in the Super Bowl. We start player media availability with 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.320 Dolphins safety Eric row, who was first asked about the 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.120 competition in the dB room getting their hands on Football's 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.960 the point system we've heard about for the last couple 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.199 of weeks. Here's Eric row on the update on the 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.880 point system for takeaways among defensive backs and Dolphins training camp. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.440 It's actually being uh today this afternoon. It's being uh, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.399 it's being revealed today the final, the final, the final total, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.760 because we only kept points to training camp and I 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:27.040 guess technically, says Camp Broke. So we're getting the final 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.399 total to day. And last time, last time I checked, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.560 the corners were up. But we you know, a safety. 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.240 We we we made a lad We made a good 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.399 push the last couple of days for training Camp Brokes. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.440 And of course Eric Rowe, who had the big pick 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.840 six in New England last year, is one of several 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.840 ex Patriots heading back up there for this week one game. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.280 Eric was asked about Kyle van Noy and the preparation 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.200 going into the place where they used to play. M mean, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.119 it's been good. I mean he brings instant leadership, obviously, 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.119 the deepness that he you know, he already knows and 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.359 he'd run before, so bring it's the leadership and experience 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.200 in the edge kind of and you know, we're hoping 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.040 this year. You know, last year we've got up to 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.000 a really slow start on defense and kind of with 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.919 him coming in, he already knows the defense, you know, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.159 already has experienced, had it, and his leadership, we should 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.560 get a faster start. Pretty interesting perspective there from Eric 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.320 Rowe talking about the communication and the familiarity in the 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.800 defense helping the Dolphins hopefully to get off to a 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.439 faster start. We revert now back to the question that 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:30.000 was asked earlier about the takeaway board, the hands on 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.320 Football's points system and the dB room. Here's Eric Rohan, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.080 who's leading that competition right now, And if anybody come 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.720 up to Bobby McCain, the Dolphins safety. I can't remember 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.560 like one point, but yeah, like he had a coup picks. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.040 I had a couple of picks. Uh, shoot the corners. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.440 I remember one that they had. They had a nice, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.840 nice number of path breakups and that that kind of 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.520 got him and they kind of got in my head. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.080 But you gotta ask the next time. But because you 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.399 know this afternoon we're gonna have the final total, and 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.520 it's always good to get a scouting report from your 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.240 smarter offenders on defense about the opposing quarterback. Here's Eric 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.639 Rowe talking about two a tongue Byaloa and what he's 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.080 showing in camp. And what makes him difficult to defend 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.640 as a safety. I mean he has an arm I mean, 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.680 he has an army. He could put he could put 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.440 the zip on the ball. Mean, I noticed to camp 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.400 he's gotten better with his eyes because you know, sec 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:22.920 you know, we just kind of read the quarterback and 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.880 kind of beforehand he was just kind of staring down 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.840 at foot. He's got he's gotten a lot better with 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.560 his eyes and kind of, you know, from from the 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.439 defensive side, from what I could tell, you know, his progression. 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.359 So obviously he's only gonna keep getting better. But it 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:40.600 makes them hard to defend, is I mean, that's that's 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.760 kind of, you know, tough to answer, and something he 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.560 probably can't answer a little easier is evaluating his own 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.560 defensive back room. Here's Eric row on, Xavian Howard and 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:52.080