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Speaker 5: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 5: And on today's show, a special guest joins me, Mike
Speaker 5: Turrico from NBC stops by. I talk about this Dolphins
Speaker 5: and Eagles game. Come Sunday night. We'll also hear from
Speaker 5: the great Kyle Krabs on the weekend in College Football,
Speaker 5: and I'll tell you about some behind the scenes info
Speaker 5: on the Dolphins putting together their game plan. How much
Speaker 5: fun it is to do that from the coaches and
Speaker 5: players themselves.
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Speaker 7: Hey, let's go ahead and welcome in my guest today,
Speaker 7: the great Mike Turico joining me now is the man
Speaker 7: you're gonna hear on the call Sunday Night in Philadelphia
Speaker 7: NBC's Mike Trico.
Speaker 4: Mike, welcome in, Travis.
Speaker 1: Good to be with you and great to see the
Speaker 1: Dolphins on a role here. It's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: Sunday night South Philly.
Speaker 5: A couple of five and one teams again Sunday Night,
Speaker 5: Dolphins at Eagles, the first matchup of five and one
Speaker 5: teams or better on Sunday Night football since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: And you know, I always like getting some behind the
Speaker 5: scenes stuff from you guys here, Mike, is this one
Speaker 5: that you and the crew have had circled on the
Speaker 5: calendar for a little while.
Speaker 1: Well, certainly when you see the start that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: got off to, and knowing what the Eagles did last
Speaker 1: year and their great success getting to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you figure this would be.
Speaker 3: A really good odd matchup.
Speaker 1: We have back to back odd matchups meeting unless there
Speaker 1: is the vary into that seventeenth game. You only see
Speaker 1: this once every four years, so it's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of uniqueness to see the two teams together, and
Speaker 1: they may be the two, along with San Francisco and Detroit,
Speaker 1: two of the foremost interesting teams in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: Detroit I think because of the renaissance and the comeback.
Speaker 1: San Francisco because of the incredible positionless offense they play,
Speaker 1: in the physicality they play with Miami, you guys know,
Speaker 1: you know every snap could be the highlight of the year.
Speaker 1: And Philadelphia with what they built around Jalen Hurts and
Speaker 1: what that offense has done. And you put on top
Speaker 1: of that the fact that Jy went against two of
Speaker 1: the two guys forever intertwined in Alabama history, and we've
Speaker 1: been hoping that the matchup would be the equal of this. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the Eagles lost to the Jets, which is a double
Speaker 1: wami from Miami fans, of course, but I was kind
Speaker 1: of hoping after the one o'clock games yesterday or Sunday,
Speaker 1: excuse me, when the Dolphins won, I said out loud,
Speaker 1: which probably jinks it. I said, well, I hope the
Speaker 1: Eagles win and they're the last undefeated, though the twenty
Speaker 1: three Dolphins have a chance to hand the Champagne glass
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins of a half century ago, beating the
Speaker 1: last perfect team. I didn't know if it would happen,
Speaker 1: but I was hoping that would be one of the
Speaker 1: storylines going in.
Speaker 3: But it's still gonna be a great game, Travis, no
Speaker 3: matter what.
Speaker 5: An ode to the Monday night game against the Bears
Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty five. I'm going to circle back to
Speaker 5: that topic there here in just a second, Mike, But
Speaker 5: you took me into some of these storylines there, and
Speaker 5: that's where I wanted to go to next because you
Speaker 5: mentioned two of versus Hurts and their storied history together
Speaker 5: back at Alabama.
Speaker 4: I think you know either.
Speaker 5: Fan base would argue these receiving corps are the best
Speaker 5: of the National Football League, respectively. And you know, the
Speaker 5: narrator of this great story we're going to get on
Speaker 5: Sunday night. You know you mentioned the compelling nature of
Speaker 5: the league. All these great stories and backgrounds is what
Speaker 5: makes it so compelling to me personally as the narrator
Speaker 5: of the story. Sunday Night, as it were, What are
Speaker 5: some of the threads that you're most interested to follow,
Speaker 5: whether it's Tu, a Hurtz, or otherwise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think two end Hurts will start it for
Speaker 1: I think all of us because of what those guys
Speaker 1: have done. And I joked with Chris Collinsworth in the
Speaker 1: last segment of our game in Buffalo on Sunday night.
Speaker 3: You know, there was.
Speaker 1: A long time that all Nick Saban turned out were
Speaker 1: great defensive players.
Speaker 3: Right, you can just.
Speaker 1: Draft the Alabama defense and they're still really darn good.
Speaker 1: But this has really been I think an example of
Speaker 1: the coaching greatness of Safe and the fact that he
Speaker 1: saw we need offense to beat people in this day
Speaker 1: and age, and he has recruited to coach up hired
Speaker 1: coordinators to keep them systemically sharp. Some great offensive talent
Speaker 1: where see that Devonte Smith among others the field as well.
Speaker 1: But when you hone in on Tua and Jalen, I
Speaker 1: think that storyline is so special because maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of what Jalen has become is because Tua became
Speaker 1: this sensation as a freshman, right, and we immediately saw
Speaker 1: the ability of Jalen Hurts to overcome adversity, knocked that
Speaker 1: or taken out of the lineup, comes back in in
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game. The following year, goes to Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: has an incredible, incredible year and comes in the NFL
Speaker 1: as a second round pick who wasn't seen as hey,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the savior of the franchise, and people
Speaker 1: are going why the Eagles taking a quarterback this early?
Speaker 1: And it turns out he's a difference maker and when
Speaker 1: you spend time with him, as you spend time with Tua,
Speaker 1: you understand how they're wired and there's a great similarity
Speaker 1: in that. So sure that'll be one of the storylines,
Speaker 1: but it's really about on the field once you get
Speaker 1: the game going. And right now, No Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 1: coming off a poor game with three picks against the
Speaker 1: Jets and Tua and this offense, as I said before,
Speaker 1: you know you want to be ready for the next
Speaker 1: step because you may see as good a play as
Speaker 1: you've seen all year in the NFL.
Speaker 3: They're that explosive.
Speaker 5: You talk about the Alabama tize, they're obviously Waddle and
Speaker 5: Smith as well, but it stays in the SEC when
Speaker 5: you consider this Eagles defense, having so many Georgia or
Speaker 5: former Georgia Bulldogs, I should say on that defense, And
Speaker 5: that's kind of where my eyes trained first with this
Speaker 5: matchup is the trenches because this Dolphins offensive line, Mike
Speaker 5: has performed, I think, better than anyone's expectations, you know,
Speaker 5: outside the building here, but they draw a front with
Speaker 5: not just you know, Josh Sweat and Hassan Reddick off
Speaker 5: the edge. But man, when I watch that tape Jalen
Speaker 5: Carter and Jordan Davis and Fletcher Cox inside, what intrigues
Speaker 5: you most about that matchup?
Speaker 4: Because to me, it's good on good Mike, it is.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting you see so much of Miami's success
Speaker 1: come outside that area. Right, do you go bang your
Speaker 1: head against Davis and Carter and Cox and those guys
Speaker 1: or do you just use your speed to get to
Speaker 1: the edge. Right, there's a physicality to Philadelphia and there's
Speaker 1: a a speed sleek, racing machine type mentality that people
Speaker 1: have for the Dolphins, which doesn't mean they can't line
Speaker 1: up to run the ball, but it's usually that speed
Speaker 1: that gets it done.
Speaker 3: So that's always a fascinating matchup.
Speaker 1: Right when we have the speed against power, you got
Speaker 1: to catch them to use that power, right, So how
Speaker 1: is that? How is that gonna play out? But yeah,
Speaker 1: you you hit on something good. I didn't mean to
Speaker 1: have Jaalen Waller. We can go on and on with
Speaker 1: all the SEC talent in this game. But you got Davis,
Speaker 1: you got Cardi, getting Kobe Dean as well a linebacker
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia. You know it's we should probably get Greg Sankey,
Speaker 1: the SEC commissioner, to come to the game and just
Speaker 1: kind of you know, say it just means more as
Speaker 1: the SEC likes, likes to remind us.
Speaker 4: All there as well. Right, they gotta get somehow right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, the voice of the SEC. But look, these
Speaker 1: are two teams that when you look at these rosters
Speaker 1: have that talent which come from great program. Do you know,
Speaker 1: they're pro ready And that's a credit to the drafting
Speaker 1: on each side, what Chris Career has been able to
Speaker 1: do with Miami and to build this Dolphins team with
Speaker 1: trades and acquisitions, and in the same way with Howie Roseman.
Speaker 1: So you start to look at it, you say, okay,
Speaker 1: there aren't similarities. There are similarities in these teams. That's
Speaker 1: why I think getting a matchup like this of great
Speaker 1: on great in the AFC and the NFC, and it
Speaker 1: could be a Super Bowl type matchup.
Speaker 3: That just adds to the intrigue of all of this.
Speaker 1: Plus, you know, when you start to look at Philadelphia
Speaker 1: in the NFC East, they look this much better than Dallas,
Speaker 1: but they've got the games against Dallas coming up.
Speaker 3: You know, Chris said something to me a few weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and it's so true.
Speaker 1: We get our mindset around what it's going to look
Speaker 1: like for the whole year after September, and we always
Speaker 1: have eleven month memories. Just think back a year ago,
Speaker 1: it all looked very different, right, So we have to
Speaker 1: be patient with it. I think this is a great
Speaker 1: test for both teams to see, Okay, where are we,
Speaker 1: how good are we, and maybe more importantly, where do
Speaker 1: we need to be better in the next ten to
Speaker 1: eleven games to make sure that we're with the best
Speaker 1: in the league going into the playoffs.
Speaker 5: To your point about Chris's point, I mean, shoot, Dolphins
Speaker 5: fan know this as well as anybody that going back
Speaker 5: over the last twenty years, the best run anybody had
Speaker 5: was the Patriots, and it seemed like every single year
Speaker 5: they would kind of start off five hundred and then
Speaker 5: make their run win ten eleven straight games and roll
Speaker 5: into another Super Bowl and go get another ring for themselves.
Speaker 5: You also touched on the big time test for both
Speaker 5: these teams. You talk about the matchups the Sunday night
Speaker 5: football platform. You know, can the Dolphins get their first
Speaker 5: big win of the season against a you know, really
Speaker 5: really good team that has a good winning record. But
Speaker 5: the thing that I'm curious about, Mike, because I've never
Speaker 5: been there before, you've been there, what do you expect
Speaker 5: the atmosphere to be like at Lincoln Financial come eight twenty.
Speaker 4: It's got to be rocket and rockin that night.
Speaker 3: Be ready, Travis, be ready, I'll tell I'll tell you that.
Speaker 1: You know, Look, Philly fans have had this notorious image
Speaker 1: for years. The one thing that you can never bet
Speaker 1: against is their passion, their loyalty to their Philadelphia teams,
Speaker 1: and what great knowledgeable fans they are, so they will
Speaker 1: bring it now. I'm going to tell you this sounds stupid,
Speaker 1: but I really believe the Phillies being on another run
Speaker 1: in the baseball playoffs and won their first two games
Speaker 1: at home, that just ants up the crowd even more.
Speaker 1: It sounds like there's no possible way. But we were
Speaker 1: there last year right in the middle of the league
Speaker 1: Championship series, and those games were nuts at the ballpark
Speaker 1: Citizens Bank, which is right across the street from Lincoln
Speaker 1: Financial Field, and then where the seventy six ers in
Speaker 1: Flyers Player or just another parking lot away. They're all
Speaker 1: in the same area in South Philly down Broad Street.
Speaker 1: So there's an energy to those fans all the time.
Speaker 1: But I think there's an even heightened energy right now
Speaker 1: as they're going through this nirvana. Our football team team
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl, our baseball team took it
Speaker 1: all the way to the World Series. They got a
Speaker 1: chance to run that back again. Football teams five and one.
Speaker 1: There's just like an excitement to be a Philadelphia sports
Speaker 1: fan right now. They know they can be a factor
Speaker 1: in the game. They like to live up to the
Speaker 1: legacy and the reputation that the generations before set for them.
Speaker 3: It's an experience.
Speaker 1: They let you know that you're not loved in the
Speaker 1: area if you come into enemy colors. But man, they're
Speaker 1: good fans and it's a great atmosphere to play a
Speaker 1: game in. And you think about where the road games
Speaker 1: have happened for the Dolphins at the Chargers is not
Speaker 1: an intimidating home field. Is the Chargers still build a
Speaker 1: fan base there at New England's never easy, but we
Speaker 1: know the Patriots are struggling and the fans were turning
Speaker 1: on the Patriots during that second half there when we
Speaker 1: saw you. Week two at Buffalo is at Buffalo, right,
Speaker 1: So you've been in one road atmosphere and that's where
Speaker 1: the built. The Dolphins played their worst game of this
Speaker 1: season so far. So what a great road test here
Speaker 1: against a terrific team. So enjoy it, be ready for it.
Speaker 5: Perhaps some extra saltiness over the fact that the Heat
Speaker 5: have bounced the Sixers a few times in the playoffs
Speaker 5: the last couple of years. I don't know, I'm just
Speaker 5: trying to add in some more Miami Philly flair there.
Speaker 5: But you talk about having the Dolphins back in Week
Speaker 5: two against the Patriots, you know you had them twice
Speaker 5: last year as well, and so it lends me this
Speaker 5: question to ask you, Mike, what have you seen in
Speaker 5: terms of growth in this Dolphins team? You know, going
Speaker 5: from year one and Mike McDaniel covering that Steelers and
Speaker 5: Chargers game a year ago to now Patriots this year
Speaker 5: and then coming up on Sunday against the Eagles. How
Speaker 5: have you seen this team grow under Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: It's a really good question. Let's start with this. You know,
Speaker 1: for you, for me, for anybody listening and watching us.
Speaker 1: You know, you're always better year two at something than
Speaker 1: year one year one. You may have new and may
Speaker 1: connect and all that, but you're still figuring out.
Speaker 3: You know, where do we keep the mints? Where are
Speaker 3: the extra pillows hidden? Right?
Speaker 1: You just try to hear it everything that's the nuanced
Speaker 1: little stuff right as you said, as you set it up.
Speaker 1: Now Mike and his staff know that, and now I
Speaker 1: think you're just seeing it go to another level.
Speaker 3: And same thing in the personnel office with career. As
Speaker 3: I mentioned before, Hey.
Speaker 1: Add h Chen right, it's a shame we're not going
Speaker 1: to see him with injury and change from a fantasy
Speaker 1: team too. By the way, but you're okay, we've got speed,
Speaker 1: but we had some injuries in the running back. Let's
Speaker 1: bring in more speed, right, Let's go speed there and
Speaker 1: add on top of it so when Moster's out and
Speaker 1: a chance it there's no drop in the speed. Matter
Speaker 1: of fact, there may be a different level of speed factor.
Speaker 1: So those kind of things you start to see in
Speaker 1: year two, you're laid up foundation and now you're building
Speaker 1: on it. And I think we're seeing that now. Where
Speaker 1: I think this season is going to be decided is
Speaker 1: going to be on the defensive side of the ball. Right,
Speaker 1: How will Vic Fangia's defense emerge? How will it settle in?
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it's the some of the parts
Speaker 1: being greater, just but you're starting to see signs of that,
Speaker 1: and I think the communication having the same group out
Speaker 1: there will be important. You know, entry ban Ginkle's been
Speaker 1: outstanding this year in every role he's in. Right, I
Speaker 1: almost like him as an edge rusher more than a
Speaker 1: backer at this point, but as the safety settle in
Speaker 1: to what Vic wants and how he wants it, the
Speaker 1: dictation of the defense from back there.
Speaker 3: On through each level.
Speaker 1: There are there are enough pass rushers here to mess
Speaker 1: up a game. And if you go back to watch
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Jets game Travis, for me, one of the
Speaker 1: big things was the pressure that plush Jalen Hurts on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. Though you can Jalen philps back in
Speaker 1: the lineup last week and he get more snaps to
Speaker 1: impact the game, and Van Ginkel Steelers already got four sacks.
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb has a chance to play again and play
Speaker 1: at a high level, right, So can those.
Speaker 3: Guys do that? For me? That would be another level
Speaker 3: of jump.
Speaker 1: As year two comes in that defense and how Vic
Speaker 1: plays out, I think it's going to be really important
Speaker 1: to the growth of this Miami team that's got the
Speaker 1: right pieces on the offensive side to be on a
Speaker 1: run here for the next couple of years.
Speaker 5: And perhaps a catalyst coming down the pipeline here as
Speaker 5: well as Jalen Ramsey has had his twenty one day
Speaker 5: window activated to begin. I mean, what a mid season
Speaker 5: boost that's going to be to this defense getting a
Speaker 5: playmaker like him on the back end. One more thing
Speaker 5: for you here, Mike. We mentioned it earlier. You were
Speaker 5: here for Dolphins and Steelers and honoring the nineteen seventy
Speaker 5: two perfect team just last October I believe it was,
Speaker 5: and you mceed the banquet for those guys. I have
Speaker 5: to imagine you have hundreds countless stories from that night,
Speaker 5: but I'm really curious just how special it was for
Speaker 5: you personally to be a part of a night that
Speaker 5: was so special to so many other people.
Speaker 3: Three things I'll hit you with quickly on that night, Travis.
Speaker 1: The first one is bravo to Steve Ross and everybody
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins, Garf Finkele, the whole crew for pulling
Speaker 1: that together right.
Speaker 3: What a vision one a night.
Speaker 1: And the personal for me was to walk out on
Speaker 1: that stage be the seventy two Dolphins and Dolphin greats
Speaker 1: and alumni in their aqua jackets, right, the blue jackets
Speaker 1: just signifying who they were in terms of Dolphins greatness.
Speaker 3: And to look around the room and see that plus the.
Speaker 1: Gold jackets of Hall of Famers, You're like, Wow, what
Speaker 1: a special organization and what an honor for everyone to
Speaker 1: stop and pause and celebrate something we haven't seen in
Speaker 1: the NFL for a half century, realize how tough it is.
Speaker 3: The second part was extremely personal as somebody who is
Speaker 3: in his mid fifties who grew up on these Dolphins
Speaker 3: and watched that Super Bowl just to see heroes who
Speaker 3: we talked about for fifty years and be able to
Speaker 3: say hi and have a conversation with them and watch
Speaker 3: them celebrate together, some of whom hadn't been in the
Speaker 3: same room together for quite some time. And then the
Speaker 3: third one for me, there are a couple of members
Speaker 3: of the Kansas City Chiefs and a couple of members
Speaker 3: of the Pittsburgh Steelers legendary teams there that said everything
Speaker 3: to me. To hear them tell the stories of the
Speaker 3: respect that they had for what those Dolphins did, and
Speaker 3: especially the Steeler guys who pointed out that the Dolphins
Speaker 3: set the target that the Steelers aspired to and really
Speaker 3: helped inspire that four championships in a six seven year
Speaker 3: stretch that Pittsburgh achieved. I never thought of that, never
Speaker 3: put that together. But to hear the Steelers share that
Speaker 3: to the Dolphins, just that respect from one dynasty that
Speaker 3: passed it on to another, well, what a special night.
Speaker 3: And for those of us who love football and I
Speaker 3: love this game, for those of us who love it
Speaker 3: and are blessed to be a part of it professionally,
Speaker 3: to share in that night was one of the memories
Speaker 3: that I will take with me for a long time.
Speaker 1: But like I said, bravoo to the Dolphins organization. You
Speaker 1: could say a lot of things about this Miami organization.
Speaker 1: The one thing that has to start the top is
Speaker 1: how first class an organization it has been under the
Speaker 1: ownership of Stephen Ross. They have not spared an expense.
Speaker 1: Look at that training facility across the way from the stadium,
Speaker 1: look at the F one Race, look at the tennis there.
Speaker 3: They have invested.
Speaker 1: Stephen Ross is of a deep belief that when you
Speaker 1: own a professional sports team, you have the absolute need
Speaker 1: to connect with your community, and he takes that responsibility
Speaker 1: seriously and from events.
Speaker 3: Like that, or the experience in Hard Rock.
Speaker 1: Or the F one Race, all that you see it
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are doing everything that they can.
Speaker 3: They have all the resources to be as successful.
Speaker 1: As any team in the league as fans to me
Speaker 1: and haven't seen a bunch of sports and a bunch
Speaker 1: of owners not do this. That's all you could ask for.
Speaker 1: So it's a long way of saying that night sticks
Speaker 1: in my mind forever. And you could have just said, hey, halftime,
Speaker 1: love of those guys go out there, but no, they
Speaker 1: turned it into an event at the hard Rock, and dang,
Speaker 1: it was a special night and honor that I got
Speaker 1: to share it, the little piece of it.
Speaker 5: It's my third year coming to this building. Every single day,
Speaker 5: Mike and I still pinch myself every day because this
Speaker 5: place is. It's beautiful, It really is, and I think
Speaker 5: you hit the nail on the head there, and Dolphins
Speaker 5: fans and mister Ross as well, certainly hoping for the
Speaker 5: on field product to match what they've been doing so
Speaker 5: far in terms of getting this place into what you
Speaker 5: just described it as, and so far five and one
Speaker 5: looks like it's on its way to doing just that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure it, sure is, It sure is.
Speaker 5: NBC Sunday Night Football play by play man Mike Turrico. Mike,
Speaker 5: I appreciate your time so much today, Thank you and
Speaker 5: enjoying the game on Sunday, and we'll see you out.
Speaker 3: There, my pleasure.
Speaker 1: Travis, look forward, senior. We look forward to getting back
Speaker 1: to South Florida at some point soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks again, and away he goes.
Speaker 5: You know, I've talked to so many different players and
Speaker 5: coaches in this profession that you would think would be
Speaker 5: the ultimate pinch me type of moments in terms of,
Speaker 5: you know, coming to your realization of your dream and
Speaker 5: a career. But I gotta say, man like, it's always
Speaker 5: been the broadcasters that get me the most and doing
Speaker 5: Kevin Harlan and Mike.
Speaker 4: Cherico this year. Pretty cool, Pretty dang pretty cool, Pretty
Speaker 4: damn cool.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 5: and come back on the other side. We'll hear from
Speaker 5: head coach Mike McDaniel, and I'm very excited about today's
Speaker 5: Friday d Tour. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 5: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Segment number
Speaker 5: two on a Friday variety show brings us to the
Speaker 5: Friday Detour where I contemplate consider different types of topics
Speaker 5: to cover here on the podcast, just a little bit
Speaker 5: out of left field, and today I want to talk
Speaker 5: about game plan collaboration and having a blast at work
Speaker 5: where I kind of fell into a segment here with
Speaker 5: a happy accident in terms of just this whole thing
Speaker 5: coming together. So I was thinking about how much I
Speaker 5: love certain days of the week, and Tuesdays is like
Speaker 5: all research, you know, after a busy Monday film study,
Speaker 5: Tuesday is the upcoming opponent. I don't have to record
Speaker 5: the podcast, so I get to just kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: dive into the research and watch some tape and really
Speaker 5: enjoy Tuesdays as I get prepared for the upcoming week
Speaker 5: of work. And that's kind of what the coaches staff
Speaker 5: does in terms of getting their game plan together. So,
Speaker 5: you know, and on balance, I feel very fortunate to
Speaker 5: come to work every day and I'm happy to come
Speaker 5: to work, and I feel very fortunate to be able
Speaker 5: to say that, And so I was curious it must
Speaker 5: be similar for the guys who are crafting these plans
Speaker 5: that are producing these types of performances.
Speaker 4: To see them then play out on Sunday.
Speaker 5: I'm sure after a big win, coming back on Tuesday
Speaker 5: is like, all right, pretty fun, looking forward to doing
Speaker 5: it again. So I asked offensive coordinator Frank Smith about
Speaker 5: the collaboration process and how much fun he's having this
Speaker 5: year in his role as OC.
Speaker 8: My favorite day of the week is Tuesday, and where
Speaker 8: it begins with, you know, your opponent. Prep starts on Monday,
Speaker 8: where you start really okay, who's in the defense, and who
Speaker 8: are they?
Speaker 3: How do they play? All right?
Speaker 8: Trying to see right how they use their players, and
Speaker 8: what's it for overall philosophical principles of coverage in front
Speaker 8: and just everything. And then as we get together on Tuesday,
Speaker 8: you know, with Mike and I and we go through
Speaker 8: the base plan and it builds and then you know,
Speaker 8: as you get into third down, with you know, the
Speaker 8: elements of that, and then you get into short yardage
Speaker 8: right inside the five offense, and then red zone is
Speaker 8: the last element to the puzzle with two minutes. It's
Speaker 8: just you know, you're using the resources of your whole
Speaker 8: staff and everyone has different perspectives towards the experiences they had,
Speaker 8: So that's where it's the how do we all see
Speaker 8: the same thing? You know, I mean we're seeing a
Speaker 8: defense as the way we want to attack it. If
Speaker 8: everyone's from the same one family, you know, everyone will
Speaker 8: see it. But since everyone here we have such a
Speaker 8: wealth of experience, we see things different ways and how
Speaker 8: we've attacked that defense in a different realm. That's the
Speaker 8: fun part. And as now we're going into year two,
Speaker 8: you see us collectively coming you know together as a staff.
Speaker 8: You see so much carryover of all of us seeing things.
Speaker 8: Now we're seeing things more similarly. We have, Hey, we
Speaker 8: have these concepts in this part of the plan that
Speaker 8: are now a third down guy south the same way,
Speaker 8: red zone guy saut the same way. You're starting to
Speaker 8: see that. Hey, it's we all are starting to really
Speaker 8: see the same things of how we want to attack things,
Speaker 8: which has been a really cool thing to actually, ironically,
Speaker 8: Mike and I were talking about last week and.
Speaker 5: Then similar question with regard to tight end coach John Embry.
Speaker 5: He had something similar to say, as Frank.
Speaker 9: Smith last night was third down, So Bevill and Wes
Speaker 9: and Frank are all in there with Mike tonight's red
Speaker 9: zone night. So I'll it'll be myself and Frank in
Speaker 9: there with Mike going through the red zone.
Speaker 3: You know, different things.
Speaker 9: That you saw why you like this play, you know,
Speaker 9: and you hope you get some of your plays in
Speaker 9: and then yeah, I banged the table on it, and
Speaker 9: he's really good about putting him in. But then he's
Speaker 9: gonna dress it up, you know, he's gonna have a
Speaker 9: lot of fun forms, a lot of different shifts, motions
Speaker 9: and all that. So that's where he comes in and
Speaker 9: does all that to try to help dictate.
Speaker 3: The terms further.
Speaker 9: But it's been a lot of fun being able to
Speaker 9: do that. You know, Mike has done a great job
Speaker 9: of trusting his staff and allowing us to do the
Speaker 9: areas of the of the game plan that we've had
Speaker 9: a lot of success in or have done a lot in,
Speaker 9: like I've done red zone everywhere I've been my whole career,
Speaker 9: so he's allowed me to continue doing it here with him,
Speaker 9: and so it's a lot of fun, you know, being
Speaker 9: able to sit down there and do it and kind
Speaker 9: of talk through what you see and why you want
Speaker 9: to do things and who you think you want to
Speaker 9: get the ball to and then he'll rubber stamp it
Speaker 9: or change it around and do all that. But then
Speaker 9: the day it's just us having success, you know.
Speaker 5: And so this all kind of got me thinking, you know,
Speaker 5: we've heard tooled the approach of head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 5: We keep hearing about the atmosphere in the locker room
Speaker 5: and allowing people to be themselves in order to maximize
Speaker 5: every ounce of talent they possess. Because of that level
Speaker 5: of comfort with being your genuine self, there's nothing more
Speaker 5: freeing than that. And I can speak from experience in
Speaker 5: my chair right now tenfold. Hell, we even saw Blake
Speaker 5: Fergus and Dolphins long snapper retweet the miked up episode
Speaker 5: of coach McDaniel just saying plainly, I would die for
Speaker 5: this man. So if I the team podcaster, feel empowered
Speaker 5: to do my job to the purest sense of my personality,
Speaker 5: if the players feel empowered to be themselves. Maybe it's
Speaker 5: the same for the coaches. So I just love those
Speaker 5: answers about the competitive nature of hoping the stuff that
Speaker 5: you put together makes it into the game plan, the
Speaker 5: excitement of going into those meetings to collaborate and craft
Speaker 5: the plan with Mike McDaniel. But really, what Frank Smith
Speaker 5: said about the second year of the offense and how
Speaker 5: things have just sort of solidified on the periphery, right
Speaker 5: like we knew last year there was something bubbling right
Speaker 5: at the surface that was pretty special, and it bubbled
Speaker 5: over for weeks in a row at times in terms
Speaker 5: of high level production, but there were all also some
Speaker 5: lolls and just minor things to get cleaned up. And
Speaker 5: six games in this year, here we are and you're
Speaker 5: seeing those improvements play out right in front of your face.
Speaker 4: The welding of the corners.
Speaker 5: I guess, the proverbial welding of the corners to really
Speaker 5: make this thing a well oiled machine. Let's finish this
Speaker 5: thought with some commentary from a player from quarterback to
Speaker 5: a Tongua bai looa about the freedom to collaborate from
Speaker 5: the player's perspective. On top of those coaches and their
Speaker 5: game planning collaboration.
Speaker 10: A lot of it has to do with feeling comfortable,
Speaker 10: for one, and then knowing the guys that are running
Speaker 10: certain routes for two. Do we like this guy running
Speaker 10: this route versus press? Do we like this guy off?
Speaker 10: Do we want to motion him? Do we want to
Speaker 10: do things like that? And a lot of the times
Speaker 10: it's more so Mike's on that already. Just some of
Speaker 10: them they're like, hey, Like I would just say, hey,
Speaker 10: would you want to do this or would you want.
Speaker 3: To do that?
Speaker 10: You know, he'd either be like yeah or no, Like
Speaker 10: just trust me on this one. So there's a lot
Speaker 10: of communication in that sense, and then just throughout throughout
Speaker 10: the week, communicating with the guys what we're looking for
Speaker 10: in this defense, sort of the spots in which the
Speaker 10: routes happen where we're trying to hit.
Speaker 3: So things like that, that's all we talk about.
Speaker 5: Let's put a bow on that with two quotes here
Speaker 5: from coach McDaniel, who I followed up on that question.
Speaker 5: Ask him about fostering that collaboration and creating an environment
Speaker 5: that's fun to be a part of. Here's coach on
Speaker 5: really the entire environment here in the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 6: Perspective is a big part of the job that I have.
Speaker 6: And you know, we've all worked. I mean, work is work,
Speaker 6: so but it's one thing to have, you know, glass
Speaker 6: half full, boss, one thing to have glass half empty.
Speaker 6: We've had a lot of reasons to be optimistic, but
Speaker 6: just in general, I think it's important to recognize that
Speaker 6: and bring to the attention of everybody involved that, hey,
Speaker 6: this is pretty awesome because we're all moving in the
Speaker 6: same direction. We're a team that's trying to solve the
Speaker 6: same problems. And when you do that without like trying
Speaker 6: to assert credit, or you do it without or do
Speaker 6: you do it from a humble perspective, it's fun to
Speaker 6: be a part of because it's truly we're in a
Speaker 6: team game and the and the way that we operate
Speaker 6: here is as a team. And regardless of what problems
Speaker 6: you have of the given week, what obstacles maybe matchups
Speaker 6: that are coming up, or maybe guys that you have
Speaker 6: injured or whatever it is, those are surmountable if if everyone,
Speaker 6: if you're doing it with teammates. So I think, you know,
Speaker 6: I think that idea is something I believe in. But
Speaker 6: the biggest part of the whole formula is you have
Speaker 6: the right people to execute that.
Speaker 3: So I think.
Speaker 6: It's, like a lot of things, the result of having
Speaker 6: a fun place to work has a lot to do
Speaker 6: with the people that are working there. I can set
Speaker 6: any tone I want, but you know, guys have to
Speaker 6: be ambitious. They have to be the right type of
Speaker 6: people hungry to give their players advantages. And the end
Speaker 6: result is coaches and players working together appropriately, I think.
Speaker 5: And then if you haven't seen the NFL film's piece
Speaker 5: on Coach where he talks about, you know, a life
Speaker 5: of servitude and living your life for somebody else is
Speaker 5: a beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: Like who got me a little bit choked up there?
Speaker 5: He was asked about that piece, and here he is
Speaker 5: kind of divulging on his upbringing, his perspective, and why
Speaker 5: he sees things the way he does.
Speaker 6: Generally, when you're getting a lot of positive feedback, there's
Speaker 6: some humility to follow, So I stay stay.
Speaker 3: Out of that.
Speaker 6: But you know, you hope, you hope you're given the opportunity.
Speaker 6: I know for me personally, you know, it's been a
Speaker 6: life's kind of journey to try to hope or to
Speaker 6: try to try to be in a position to to
Speaker 6: to really positively impact people. That's why, you know, I
Speaker 6: knew that coaching was the profession I wanted to get into.
Speaker 6: Was because I was passionate about it. And I know
Speaker 6: if if you're passionate about something, gives you the best
Speaker 6: chance to to be effective at doing it. But yeah, nothing,
Speaker 6: I I really don't take anything for granted. That's the
Speaker 6: fortunate thing of having trials and tribulations in life. That's
Speaker 6: why it's not necessarily a bad thing to have to
Speaker 6: go through things, because is I think that's given me
Speaker 6: the the I'm very very fortunate too to have the
Speaker 6: perspective that I have, and I don't take the role,
Speaker 6: the team, uh and everything that comes with it for
Speaker 6: for granted for one one second, and that's I feel
Speaker 6: fortunate to you know. I It's like the analogy I
Speaker 6: would use is the irony in life is uh, is
Speaker 6: it really? Are you really fortunate? If you if you
Speaker 6: grow up as a child with money on the on
Speaker 6: the front end, you think that's awesome, but then do
Speaker 6: you really appreciate it? So I didn't grow up with
Speaker 6: with money, so like, uh, you know, being paid as
Speaker 6: a head coach, I really appreciated. I didn't grow up
Speaker 6: with a family, so being a part of the team.
Speaker 6: You know, being a part of team is extremely important,
Speaker 6: and I don't lose that at all, you know, all
Speaker 6: those things that I would, I'm kind of in the
Speaker 6: middle of the dream, living it and have a lot
Speaker 6: of work to do. So to say that I could
Speaker 6: have forecasted any of this is probably wouldn't be honest.
Speaker 6: But I very much appreciate each and every part of
Speaker 6: it for sure. I'm very, very blessed in that way.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and finish up our last segment here
Speaker 5: with my friend Kyle Crabs. That's next Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 5: your host Travis Wingfield.
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Speaker 5: Segment number three on the Friday Show, and next time
Speaker 5: you hear from us will be after Dolphins and Eagles
Speaker 5: in the early morning hours of Monday. Let's go ahead
Speaker 5: and put a bow on the week though with my
Speaker 5: weekly guest from Lockdown Dolphins, Kyle Crabs, as we do
Speaker 5: every single Friday here on the Draft Time Podcast, the
Speaker 5: Great Kyle Crabs brings us home locked on NFL Scouting
Speaker 5: with our other friend on the podcast here, Joe Marino,
Speaker 5: and they locked on Dolphins podcast, Kyle, how are we
Speaker 5: doing on a Friday ahead of a big game on Sunday.
Speaker 11: Yeah, waiting all day for Sunday night, So waiting all
Speaker 11: week for Sunday night.
Speaker 2: But I'm doing well. How about you, Traf?
Speaker 4: Can you sing it? Can you do the Kelly Clarkson
Speaker 4: for us?
Speaker 5: I would prefer not too. Okay, that's fine. I think
Speaker 5: I've done a few times here. It's more of my brand,
Speaker 5: I think, than yours.
Speaker 4: So we'll stick with that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to step on your toes on my turf,
Speaker 5: do on stuff in my toes Kyle's talks in college football. First,
Speaker 5: before we talk about the game on Sunday night in Philadelphia,
Speaker 5: and before we get to this Saturday slate even, I
Speaker 5: want to go back to a text I receive from
Speaker 5: you who knows wee hours of Tuesday evening Wednesday morning,
Speaker 5: about a certain player in the Pac two which consists
Speaker 5: Oregon State Washington State, that you are quite fired up
Speaker 5: about heading into this draft cycle.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's Oregon State tackle t Lisa Fulaga is a
Speaker 11: six foot six, three hundred and thirty five pound Bulldozer's
Speaker 11: probably not high enough praise to give to him. But
Speaker 11: it's it's in the midst of seeing what the Dolphins
Speaker 11: offensive line has looked like this year with the points
Speaker 11: of emphasis that we've heard all the players talk about,
Speaker 11: and then you watch somebody like this with the intensity
Speaker 11: in which he gets off the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 11: the urgency in which he plays, and how well he
Speaker 11: creates displacement in the run game. It's just like such
Speaker 11: a really fun watch to watch somebody who explodes off
Speaker 11: the ball the way that this offensive tackle doesn't. And
Speaker 11: Fuaga pretty surprisingly clean and pass protection too.
Speaker 2: He mirrors pretty well in space, he's got tackle length.
Speaker 11: So he's somebody who was not really on my radar
Speaker 11: coming into this season and watching Oregon State and they're
Speaker 11: having another successful season this year, and they're they're averaging
Speaker 11: almost two hundred rushing yards a game for the second
Speaker 11: consecutive season. A lot of that comes because of just
Speaker 11: this explosive presence that they have on the edge in
Speaker 11: Talisa Fuaga, who is you know, just I'm having a
Speaker 11: blast watching a play every week.
Speaker 5: It looks like a pretty good tackle class heading into
Speaker 5: you know, I guess the month of November tackle class.
Speaker 5: And it's interesting that the offensive line is I think
Speaker 5: the last couple of years kind of swung back in
Speaker 5: the positive direction when there was a few years there
Speaker 5: where it was a dearth of you know, offensive line
Speaker 5: draft classes in the pass rushers were coming out every
Speaker 5: single year six seven, eight deep, and you have this
Speaker 5: disparity that kind of causes a worse product, I would say, in.
Speaker 4: The National Football League. So it's good to see that
Speaker 4: the offensive line's head in that way.
Speaker 5: Plus for Miami, you know, we're in the throes of
Speaker 5: a really fun season and I want to get too
Speaker 5: far ahead of ourselves here, but the offensive line is
Speaker 5: like all up for contracts next year, so who the
Speaker 5: heck knows what it looks like going into twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: So definitely worth looking at that position here. And then
Speaker 5: my other kind of point that came across my mind
Speaker 5: when you were talking about that was it's nice to
Speaker 5: have an offense where like you can watch a college
Speaker 5: game like that looks like a Miami Dolphin, Like I
Speaker 5: know that that fits and translates into our system. I
Speaker 5: think it used to be that way defensively in the
Speaker 5: previous regime, where you knew, you know, heavy handed pass
Speaker 5: rushers that could play at the edge and not overrun
Speaker 5: the quarterback and press man corners. We'll see if we
Speaker 5: can kind of develop that identity on defense in terms
Speaker 5: of knowing exactly what it looks like under Vic Fangio.
Speaker 5: But offensively, it seems like we have arrived at that point.
Speaker 5: So good stuff there, man, coach. I got some Oregon
Speaker 5: State football if you guys have not there, six and one,
Speaker 5: the only loss to Washington State, of course, obviously, but
Speaker 5: a good football team out there in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 4: Is Kyle Is, you know, rolling his eyes of me.
Speaker 5: Let's go ahead and move on to your alma mater
Speaker 5: that you don't talk about very often, which you know,
Speaker 5: I'm basically Andy from the office.
Speaker 4: Like if anybody doesn't know I went to Cornell, I
Speaker 4: went to Washington State. I love telling everybody about it.
Speaker 5: You don't talk a lot about Penn State. But they
Speaker 5: have a big football game this week. Is this the
Speaker 5: week they finally topple the buck guys?
Speaker 11: So what's weird about the James Franklin era with Penn
Speaker 11: State is they have played them very tough, and they've
Speaker 11: had a couple of games where they've really had them
Speaker 11: on the ropes. Now I don't know that this is
Speaker 11: the year. I do think Penn State has more offensive
Speaker 11: firepower than Ohio State does, which is ironic a give
Speaker 11: in the presence of Marvin Harrison Junior and Amecca Abuka
Speaker 11: and tight end Cad Stover like that they've got players
Speaker 11: at Ohio State, but with the departure c. J. Stroud,
Speaker 11: as much of the performance that Stroud is putting in
Speaker 11: Houston is kind of eye opening for what Stroud is
Speaker 11: as a player. His app since at Ohio State, I
Speaker 11: think speaks just as much of volumes where they're trying
Speaker 11: to get rhythm going with Kyle McCord. Now, Ohio State
Speaker 11: defensively has a ton of talents where I think you
Speaker 11: look up and down the depth chart and there's NFL
Speaker 11: players that are probably going to be in this year's class.
Speaker 11: I know there's still a few players that have like
Speaker 11: that extra year of eligibility from the twenty twenty season.
Speaker 11: But starting on the front end, you got to Mulow,
Speaker 11: you got Tyler Williams, you got Jack Sawyer, you got
Speaker 11: Ty Hamilton, you got Michael Hall Junior. Those are all
Speaker 11: defensive linemen for Ohio State. And you've got Tommy Iikenber.
Speaker 11: That name sounds familiar, right, Tommy Eikenberg. It's same family there,
Speaker 11: Denzel Burke at corner, Lathan Ransom, and Josh Proctor at state.
Speaker 11: So like you're going down the depth chart and you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 11: there's like ten NFL players on the Ohio State defense
Speaker 11: this year. Going against Penn State with what they have
Speaker 11: and obviously a little bit of a new local offense.
Speaker 11: We Drew Aller at quarterback. So I think this will
Speaker 11: be a very good game. I'm glad it's at noon
Speaker 11: because it's been tough if the past couple of Saturdays
Speaker 11: get up for the whole day of college football when
Speaker 11: the noon slate's kind of slow. So we're we're hitting
Speaker 11: the ground running tomorrow and I'm excited about that.
Speaker 5: Hopefully another Texas Oklahoma type of game wing get. Speaking
Speaker 5: of that, we're back to that first question. Speaking of Texas,
Speaker 5: who's the receiver that runs fast than everybody else in
Speaker 5: football out there for Texas?
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a fun player he is. Huh.
Speaker 11: You know, any teams that like speed would probably be
Speaker 11: a big fan of Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 5: I think we like some speed, and you know, speaking
Speaker 5: of Penn State Ohio State. If we can get a
Speaker 5: Penn State victory in that one and then roll into
Speaker 5: a Dolphins victory over the Eagles, I think OJ McDuffie
Speaker 5: might blast off into space with excitement at that point
Speaker 5: because he is so fired up for both these matchups.
Speaker 4: What a big weekend for Juice.
Speaker 5: And speaking of big matchups, we're going back down to
Speaker 5: the SEC for the second game you're looking at. I
Speaker 5: give us some prospects from South Carolina and Missouri.
Speaker 11: Kyle Yeah, kind of a sneaky good game from a
Speaker 11: draft evaluation standpoint, where where South Carolina has Spencer Ratler
Speaker 11: a quarterback, and he's had quite a journey and has
Speaker 11: kind of found himself at South Carolina a little bit
Speaker 11: after kind of the unceremonious way in which he was
Speaker 11: benched for Caleb Williams in Oklahoma. But then South Carolina
Speaker 11: also has Zager Lagette at wide receiver, who is a
Speaker 11: big bodied He's getting some debo comps. I think it's
Speaker 11: probably a little aggressive, but he's out here hitting twenty
Speaker 11: two miles per hour on the GPS tracking timing at
Speaker 11: six foot three, two hundred.
Speaker 2: And twenty seven pounds listed on the depth chart.
Speaker 11: So a guy who's big and explosive like that moves
Speaker 11: the needle. So he's had some chemistry with Spencer Ratler
Speaker 11: this year. You look at what Missouri has defensively, I
Speaker 11: think they have a couple players that are worth keeping
Speaker 11: your eye on. One of them is a corner and
Speaker 11: Chris Abrams Drain, who I would expect is probably going
Speaker 11: to get some reps against Leget one on one. They
Speaker 11: also have a pass rusher that I like in Darius
Speaker 11: Robinson there and then Missouri also has an offensive tackle
Speaker 11: and Javon Foster, who this time last year had some
Speaker 11: potential top one hundred buzz as an offensive tackle. So
Speaker 11: we talked about that tackle class already, and lo and
Speaker 11: behold there's.
Speaker 2: Another other big time program with another.
Speaker 11: Proto type build type of offensive tackle that's eligible for
Speaker 11: this year's class.
Speaker 4: That's good stuff.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I always love this time of year more because I
Speaker 5: feel like the matchups get a little more specific towards
Speaker 5: like actual guys that we've identified as you know, potential
Speaker 5: top whatever picks, and then they kind of clash in
Speaker 5: these big matchups.
Speaker 4: Do you feel the same way where.
Speaker 5: The scouting gets better this time of year because of that,
Speaker 5: Am I thinking out out of the class here?
Speaker 11: No, I think you're certainly on point because you can
Speaker 11: see players that come in who weren't on your radar,
Speaker 11: or you know, teams that really prioritize seniority as far
Speaker 11: as opportunities, and guys got to wait their turn. And
Speaker 11: now you're about halfway through the college season, so these
Speaker 11: guys have had a chance to declare themselves and then
Speaker 11: you can really just sit down and say, okay, like
Speaker 11: who's put themselves on the map. Like, think about what
Speaker 11: the the reputation was of Joe Burrow before the twenty
Speaker 11: nineteen college football season.
Speaker 2: It's just an example, like.
Speaker 11: Joe Burrow was routinely considered a Day three quarterback prospect
Speaker 11: and then they had that historic season. Right, You didn't
Speaker 11: start seeing Moncrafts putting Joe Burrow in the in the
Speaker 11: first round until October of that year, and he ended
Speaker 11: up going number one overall. So that's just an example
Speaker 11: for me that I do think the back half of
Speaker 11: the college season, once you have a little bit of
Speaker 11: resume to work with, really kind of kicks up the
Speaker 11: intensity in which you're watching the games.
Speaker 5: Happens all the time, right, like I'm looking at THEO
Speaker 5: schedule right now. The Washington Commanders quarterback Sam Howe. I
Speaker 5: remember him being like linked to the first overall pick
Speaker 5: for a long time.
Speaker 4: He winds up going in the fifth.
Speaker 5: So like, man, what you think going into the year
Speaker 5: in the summer definitely does not translate all the time
Speaker 5: into what you get in the following spring. But before
Speaker 5: we get to the draft and college football and all
Speaker 5: that stuff, pretty big game on Sunday night, KYLEO.
Speaker 4: Chances for the Dolphins to go.
Speaker 5: Get a big, big road win and a big test
Speaker 5: against a big time football team.
Speaker 2: You're going to be there, right, Yes, I am going
Speaker 2: to be there.
Speaker 4: You're going to be there. What are you looking forward
Speaker 4: to in that game?
Speaker 11: Hopefully a lot of Dolphins points and not a lot
Speaker 11: of Eagles points if i'd like, don But just to
Speaker 11: keep it simple, I'm really excited to see. There's been
Speaker 11: a lot that's been made about the quarterback matchup with
Speaker 11: a relationship that two and Jalen Hurts have with each other, understandably,
Speaker 11: so I am excited to see how both of those
Speaker 11: offenses perform. Excited to see how Miami continues to develop.
Speaker 11: I think you've seen good growth from the defense as
Speaker 11: we've gotten a little deeper into this season. This is
Speaker 11: kind of the next big hurdle against a big time
Speaker 11: quarterback with a big contract and aj Brown who's got
Speaker 11: vel for hands where he catches everything even if you're
Speaker 11: playing physical with him. So how do they rise to
Speaker 11: the occasion there? I think I'm most excited to see that.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to see the result on that one.
Speaker 5: Hopefully Miamias six and one come Monday, And if they do,
Speaker 5: I know there's gonna be lots of receipts out there
Speaker 5: on Twitter talking about the strength of schedule and all
Speaker 5: the fun stuff we've debated here for the last couple
Speaker 5: of weeks here ahead of this big one on Sunday
Speaker 5: Night Football, Kyle Krabs locked on Dolphins, locked on NFL scouting.
Speaker 4: Kyle, appreciate your time, man, Go get some sleep, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dravis.
Speaker 5: If Kyle sounded like a tired father of a brand
Speaker 5: new baby, that's exactly what he is. So good stuff
Speaker 5: there from him. As always, Let's get out of here.
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