WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 7 Variety Show with Mike Tirico 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.760 You are listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.760 to a looking clips about. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:15.920 A wide Dolphins touchdown, Tyrek call uncolievable. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.280 Just blue fire for a second time. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.880 Don't know where he was going right away. I want 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.360 to hit that the man. I want to help you, soone, 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:24.560 keep on your bandwagon. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.360 Wattle, Wattle to a shot gut back to throw looking 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.520 at them up fires touchdown. 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.600 It's Waddle his sixth touchdown. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:34.920 Paras up this day. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.080 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.559 Now we check your pulse if enough for. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:44.240 What is up? 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.960 Dolphins And welcome to the Drift Time Podcast, part of 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:52.960 the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.000 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.040 And on today's show, a special guest joins me, Mike 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.720 Turrico from NBC stops by. I talk about this Dolphins 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.440 and Eagles game. Come Sunday night. We'll also hear from 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.080 the great Kyle Krabs on the weekend in College Football, 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.399 and I'll tell you about some behind the scenes info 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.280 on the Dolphins putting together their game plan. How much 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:15.760 fun it is to do that from the coaches and 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:16.679 players themselves. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:17.839 All of that and. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.840 Much much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.360 Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.160 This is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:29.720 Hey, let's go ahead and welcome in my guest today, 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.600 the great Mike Turico joining me now is the man 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.720 you're gonna hear on the call Sunday Night in Philadelphia 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:37.240 NBC's Mike Trico. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.080 Mike, welcome in, Travis. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:40.840 Good to be with you and great to see the 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.479 Dolphins on a role here. It's gonna be a fun 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:43.639 Sunday night South Philly. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.440 A couple of five and one teams again Sunday Night, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.520 Dolphins at Eagles, the first matchup of five and one 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.560 teams or better on Sunday Night football since twenty fifteen. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.080 And you know, I always like getting some behind the 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.280 scenes stuff from you guys here, Mike, is this one 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.880 that you and the crew have had circled on the 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.040 calendar for a little while. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.280 Well, certainly when you see the start that the Dolphins 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.640 got off to, and knowing what the Eagles did last 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.679 year and their great success getting to the Super Bowl, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.320 you figure this would be. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:12.680 A really good odd matchup. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.200 We have back to back odd matchups meeting unless there 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.040 is the vary into that seventeenth game. You only see 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.400 this once every four years, so it's got a little 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.799 bit of uniqueness to see the two teams together, and 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.239 they may be the two, along with San Francisco and Detroit, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.560 two of the foremost interesting teams in the NFL. And 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.960 Detroit I think because of the renaissance and the comeback. 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.440 San Francisco because of the incredible positionless offense they play, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.400 in the physicality they play with Miami, you guys know, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.920 you know every snap could be the highlight of the year. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.160 And Philadelphia with what they built around Jalen Hurts and 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.720 what that offense has done. And you put on top 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.200 of that the fact that Jy went against two of 0:02:56.280 --> 0:03:00.640 the two guys forever intertwined in Alabama history, and we've 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.080 been hoping that the matchup would be the equal of this. Unfortunately, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.800 the Eagles lost to the Jets, which is a double 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.160 wami from Miami fans, of course, but I was kind 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.480 of hoping after the one o'clock games yesterday or Sunday, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.120 excuse me, when the Dolphins won, I said out loud, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.600 which probably jinks it. I said, well, I hope the 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.560 Eagles win and they're the last undefeated, though the twenty 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.480 three Dolphins have a chance to hand the Champagne glass 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.919 to the Dolphins of a half century ago, beating the 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.800 last perfect team. I didn't know if it would happen, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.320 but I was hoping that would be one of the 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.280 storylines going in. 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.280 But it's still gonna be a great game, Travis, no 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:37.640 matter what. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.160 An ode to the Monday night game against the Bears 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.120 in nineteen eighty five. I'm going to circle back to 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.320 that topic there here in just a second, Mike, But 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.040 you took me into some of these storylines there, and 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:48.680 that's where I wanted to go to next because you 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.080 mentioned two of versus Hurts and their storied history together 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.080 back at Alabama. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:54.640 I think you know either. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.080 Fan base would argue these receiving corps are the best 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.240 of the National Football League, respectively. And you know, the 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.600 narrator of this great story we're going to get on 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.840 Sunday night. You know you mentioned the compelling nature of 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.320 the league. All these great stories and backgrounds is what 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.400 makes it so compelling to me personally as the narrator 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.440 of the story. Sunday Night, as it were, What are 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.760 some of the threads that you're most interested to follow, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:17.520 whether it's Tu, a Hurtz, or otherwise. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.320 Yeah, I think two end Hurts will start it for 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.839 I think all of us because of what those guys 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.040 have done. And I joked with Chris Collinsworth in the 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.520 last segment of our game in Buffalo on Sunday night. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:31.960 You know, there was. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.920 A long time that all Nick Saban turned out were 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.000 great defensive players. 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:36.560 Right, you can just. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.360 Draft the Alabama defense and they're still really darn good. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.080 But this has really been I think an example of 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.320 the coaching greatness of Safe and the fact that he 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.560 saw we need offense to beat people in this day 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.640 and age, and he has recruited to coach up hired 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:57.600 coordinators to keep them systemically sharp. Some great offensive talent 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.840 where see that Devonte Smith among others the field as well. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.400 But when you hone in on Tua and Jalen, I 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.640 think that storyline is so special because maybe a little 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.400 bit of what Jalen has become is because Tua became 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:17.120 this sensation as a freshman, right, and we immediately saw 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.800 the ability of Jalen Hurts to overcome adversity, knocked that 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.159 or taken out of the lineup, comes back in in 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.440 the SEC championship game. The following year, goes to Oklahoma, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.520 has an incredible, incredible year and comes in the NFL 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.960 as a second round pick who wasn't seen as hey, 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.280 you're gonna be the savior of the franchise, and people 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.000 are going why the Eagles taking a quarterback this early? 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.760 And it turns out he's a difference maker and when 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.960 you spend time with him, as you spend time with Tua, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.120 you understand how they're wired and there's a great similarity 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.720 in that. So sure that'll be one of the storylines, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.360 but it's really about on the field once you get 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.560 the game going. And right now, No Jalen Hurts is 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.719 coming off a poor game with three picks against the 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.359 Jets and Tua and this offense, as I said before, 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.160 you know you want to be ready for the next 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.520 step because you may see as good a play as 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:06.880 you've seen all year in the NFL. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.120 They're that explosive. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.440 You talk about the Alabama tize, they're obviously Waddle and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.280 Smith as well, but it stays in the SEC when 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.640 you consider this Eagles defense, having so many Georgia or 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.839 former Georgia Bulldogs, I should say on that defense, And 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.320 that's kind of where my eyes trained first with this 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.520 matchup is the trenches because this Dolphins offensive line, Mike 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.320 has performed, I think, better than anyone's expectations, you know, 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.320 outside the building here, but they draw a front with 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.040 not just you know, Josh Sweat and Hassan Reddick off 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.960 the edge. But man, when I watch that tape Jalen 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.000 Carter and Jordan Davis and Fletcher Cox inside, what intrigues 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.160 you most about that matchup? 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.320 Because to me, it's good on good Mike, it is. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.839 And it's interesting you see so much of Miami's success 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.760 come outside that area. Right, do you go bang your 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.840 head against Davis and Carter and Cox and those guys 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.359 or do you just use your speed to get to 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.800 the edge. Right, there's a physicality to Philadelphia and there's 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:07.799 a a speed sleek, racing machine type mentality that people 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.880 have for the Dolphins, which doesn't mean they can't line 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.080 up to run the ball, but it's usually that speed 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:12.880 that gets it done. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.920 So that's always a fascinating matchup. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.680 Right when we have the speed against power, you got 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.200 to catch them to use that power, right, So how 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.520 is that? How is that gonna play out? But yeah, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.440 you you hit on something good. I didn't mean to 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.280 have Jaalen Waller. We can go on and on with 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.840 all the SEC talent in this game. But you got Davis, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.320 you got Cardi, getting Kobe Dean as well a linebacker 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.240 for Philadelphia. You know it's we should probably get Greg Sankey, 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.200 the SEC commissioner, to come to the game and just 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.760 kind of you know, say it just means more as 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.840 the SEC likes, likes to remind us. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.239 All there as well. Right, they gotta get somehow right. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:53.560 Yeah, right, the voice of the SEC. But look, these 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.880 are two teams that when you look at these rosters 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.560 have that talent which come from great program. Do you know, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.440 they're pro ready And that's a credit to the drafting 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.320 on each side, what Chris Career has been able to 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.360 do with Miami and to build this Dolphins team with 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.560 trades and acquisitions, and in the same way with Howie Roseman. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:16.520 So you start to look at it, you say, okay, 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.600 there aren't similarities. There are similarities in these teams. That's 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.920 why I think getting a matchup like this of great 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.040 on great in the AFC and the NFC, and it 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:27.800 could be a Super Bowl type matchup. 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.760 That just adds to the intrigue of all of this. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.000 Plus, you know, when you start to look at Philadelphia 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.720 in the NFC East, they look this much better than Dallas, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.800 but they've got the games against Dallas coming up. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.079 You know, Chris said something to me a few weeks ago, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.000 and it's so true. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.439 We get our mindset around what it's going to look 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.120 like for the whole year after September, and we always 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.520 have eleven month memories. Just think back a year ago, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.440 it all looked very different, right, So we have to 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.400 be patient with it. I think this is a great 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.760 test for both teams to see, Okay, where are we, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.600 how good are we, and maybe more importantly, where do 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.599 we need to be better in the next ten to 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.120 eleven games to make sure that we're with the best 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.880 in the league going into the playoffs. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.840 To your point about Chris's point, I mean, shoot, Dolphins 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.800 fan know this as well as anybody that going back 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.719 over the last twenty years, the best run anybody had 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.120 was the Patriots, and it seemed like every single year 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.320 they would kind of start off five hundred and then 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.679 make their run win ten eleven straight games and roll 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.600 into another Super Bowl and go get another ring for themselves. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.240 You also touched on the big time test for both 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.120 these teams. You talk about the matchups the Sunday night 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.800 football platform. You know, can the Dolphins get their first 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.680 big win of the season against a you know, really 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.880 really good team that has a good winning record. But 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.400 the thing that I'm curious about, Mike, because I've never 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.800 been there before, you've been there, what do you expect 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.000 the atmosphere to be like at Lincoln Financial come eight twenty. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.319 It's got to be rocket and rockin that night. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.920 Be ready, Travis, be ready, I'll tell I'll tell you that. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:05.840 You know, Look, Philly fans have had this notorious image 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.560 for years. The one thing that you can never bet 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.200 against is their passion, their loyalty to their Philadelphia teams, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.120 and what great knowledgeable fans they are, so they will 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.280 bring it now. I'm going to tell you this sounds stupid, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.000 but I really believe the Phillies being on another run 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.560 in the baseball playoffs and won their first two games 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.679 at home, that just ants up the crowd even more. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.720 It sounds like there's no possible way. But we were 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.120 there last year right in the middle of the league 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:39.160 Championship series, and those games were nuts at the ballpark 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.520 Citizens Bank, which is right across the street from Lincoln 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.680 Financial Field, and then where the seventy six ers in 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.000 Flyers Player or just another parking lot away. They're all 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.680 in the same area in South Philly down Broad Street. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.959 So there's an energy to those fans all the time. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.800 But I think there's an even heightened energy right now 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.160 as they're going through this nirvana. Our football team team 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.520 went to the Super Bowl, our baseball team took it 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.280 all the way to the World Series. They got a 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.200 chance to run that back again. Football teams five and one. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.559 There's just like an excitement to be a Philadelphia sports 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.800 fan right now. They know they can be a factor 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.599 in the game. They like to live up to the 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.679 legacy and the reputation that the generations before set for them. 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:20.839 It's an experience. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.720 They let you know that you're not loved in the 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.320 area if you come into enemy colors. But man, they're 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.960 good fans and it's a great atmosphere to play a 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.319 game in. And you think about where the road games 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.080 have happened for the Dolphins at the Chargers is not 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.839 an intimidating home field. Is the Chargers still build a 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.480 fan base there at New England's never easy, but we 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.520 know the Patriots are struggling and the fans were turning 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.600 on the Patriots during that second half there when we 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.520 saw you. Week two at Buffalo is at Buffalo, right, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.319 So you've been in one road atmosphere and that's where 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.160 the built. The Dolphins played their worst game of this 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.760 season so far. So what a great road test here 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.840 against a terrific team. So enjoy it, be ready for it. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.800 Perhaps some extra saltiness over the fact that the Heat 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.120 have bounced the Sixers a few times in the playoffs 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.599 the last couple of years. I don't know, I'm just 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.920 trying to add in some more Miami Philly flair there. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.680 But you talk about having the Dolphins back in Week 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:16.040 two against the Patriots, you know you had them twice 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.440 last year as well, and so it lends me this 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.360 question to ask you, Mike, what have you seen in 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.040 terms of growth in this Dolphins team? You know, going 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.040 from year one and Mike McDaniel covering that Steelers and 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.719 Chargers game a year ago to now Patriots this year 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.400 and then coming up on Sunday against the Eagles. How 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.600 have you seen this team grow under Mike McDaniel. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:38.240 It's a really good question. Let's start with this. You know, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.600 for you, for me, for anybody listening and watching us. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.320 You know, you're always better year two at something than 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.000 year one year one. You may have new and may 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.360 connect and all that, but you're still figuring out. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.640 You know, where do we keep the mints? Where are 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:54.959 the extra pillows hidden? Right? 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.160 You just try to hear it everything that's the nuanced 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.199 little stuff right as you said, as you set it up. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.400 Now Mike and his staff know that, and now I 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.800 think you're just seeing it go to another level. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:11.320 And same thing in the personnel office with career. As 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.960 I mentioned before, Hey. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.080 Add h Chen right, it's a shame we're not going 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.000 to see him with injury and change from a fantasy 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:23.400 team too. By the way, but you're okay, we've got speed, 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.360 but we had some injuries in the running back. Let's 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.800 bring in more speed, right, Let's go speed there and 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.079 add on top of it so when Moster's out and 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.600 a chance it there's no drop in the speed. Matter 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.720 of fact, there may be a different level of speed factor. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.400 So those kind of things you start to see in 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.840 year two, you're laid up foundation and now you're building 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.720 on it. And I think we're seeing that now. Where 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.080 I think this season is going to be decided is 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.240 going to be on the defensive side of the ball. Right, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.080 How will Vic Fangia's defense emerge? How will it settle in? 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.679 It doesn't feel like it's the some of the parts 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.640 being greater, just but you're starting to see signs of that, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.080 and I think the communication having the same group out 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.800 there will be important. You know, entry ban Ginkle's been 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.559 outstanding this year in every role he's in. Right, I 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.720 almost like him as an edge rusher more than a 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:18.440 backer at this point, but as the safety settle in 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.840 to what Vic wants and how he wants it, the 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.960 dictation of the defense from back there. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.040 On through each level. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.160 There are there are enough pass rushers here to mess 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.160 up a game. And if you go back to watch 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.760 the Philadelphia Jets game Travis, for me, one of the 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.280 big things was the pressure that plush Jalen Hurts on 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.040 a regular basis. Though you can Jalen philps back in 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.080 the lineup last week and he get more snaps to 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.800 impact the game, and Van Ginkel Steelers already got four sacks. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.920 Bradley Chubb has a chance to play again and play 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.680 at a high level, right, So can those. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.840 Guys do that? For me? That would be another level 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:56.480 of jump. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.840 As year two comes in that defense and how Vic 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.600 plays out, I think it's going to be really important 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.760 to the growth of this Miami team that's got the 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.880 right pieces on the offensive side to be on a 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.160 run here for the next couple of years. 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.320 And perhaps a catalyst coming down the pipeline here as 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.600 well as Jalen Ramsey has had his twenty one day 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.760 window activated to begin. I mean, what a mid season 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.640 boost that's going to be to this defense getting a 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.400 playmaker like him on the back end. One more thing 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.720 for you here, Mike. We mentioned it earlier. You were 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.560 here for Dolphins and Steelers and honoring the nineteen seventy 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.840 two perfect team just last October I believe it was, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.680 and you mceed the banquet for those guys. I have 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.320 to imagine you have hundreds countless stories from that night, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.120 but I'm really curious just how special it was for 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.320 you personally to be a part of a night that 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.520 was so special to so many other people. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.120 Three things I'll hit you with quickly on that night, Travis. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.960 The first one is bravo to Steve Ross and everybody 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:57.040 of the Dolphins, Garf Finkele, the whole crew for pulling 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.120 that together right. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.760 What a vision one a night. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.840 And the personal for me was to walk out on 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.000 that stage be the seventy two Dolphins and Dolphin greats 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:13.120 and alumni in their aqua jackets, right, the blue jackets 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.000 just signifying who they were in terms of Dolphins greatness. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:20.120 And to look around the room and see that plus the. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.600 Gold jackets of Hall of Famers, You're like, Wow, what 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:27.840 a special organization and what an honor for everyone to 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.200 stop and pause and celebrate something we haven't seen in 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.880 the NFL for a half century, realize how tough it is. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:39.040 The second part was extremely personal as somebody who is 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.239 in his mid fifties who grew up on these Dolphins 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:48.640 and watched that Super Bowl just to see heroes who 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.040 we talked about for fifty years and be able to 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.600 say hi and have a conversation with them and watch 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.520 them celebrate together, some of whom hadn't been in the 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.040 same room together for quite some time. And then the 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.680 third one for me, there are a couple of members 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.320 of the Kansas City Chiefs and a couple of members 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.360 of the Pittsburgh Steelers legendary teams there that said everything 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.320 to me. To hear them tell the stories of the 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.919 respect that they had for what those Dolphins did, and 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.520 especially the Steeler guys who pointed out that the Dolphins 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.320 set the target that the Steelers aspired to and really 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.239 helped inspire that four championships in a six seven year 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.240 stretch that Pittsburgh achieved. I never thought of that, never 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.880 put that together. But to hear the Steelers share that 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:37.239 to the Dolphins, just that respect from one dynasty that 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.760 passed it on to another, well, what a special night. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.040 And for those of us who love football and I 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.639 love this game, for those of us who love it 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.840 and are blessed to be a part of it professionally, 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.720 to share in that night was one of the memories 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.520 that I will take with me for a long time. 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.679 But like I said, bravoo to the Dolphins organization. You 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.600 could say a lot of things about this Miami organization. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.000 The one thing that has to start the top is 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.919 how first class an organization it has been under the 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.520 ownership of Stephen Ross. They have not spared an expense. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.200 Look at that training facility across the way from the stadium, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.840 look at the F one Race, look at the tennis there. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:16.920 They have invested. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.560 Stephen Ross is of a deep belief that when you 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:26.000 own a professional sports team, you have the absolute need 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.480 to connect with your community, and he takes that responsibility 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.560 seriously and from events. 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.840 Like that, or the experience in Hard Rock. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.800 Or the F one Race, all that you see it 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.280 and the Dolphins are doing everything that they can. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.679 They have all the resources to be as successful. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.960 As any team in the league as fans to me 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.400 and haven't seen a bunch of sports and a bunch 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.119 of owners not do this. That's all you could ask for. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.600 So it's a long way of saying that night sticks 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.159 in my mind forever. And you could have just said, hey, halftime, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:57.880 love of those guys go out there, but no, they 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.399 turned it into an event at the hard Rock, and dang, 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.680 it was a special night and honor that I got 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.560 to share it, the little piece of it. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.800 It's my third year coming to this building. Every single day, 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.720 Mike and I still pinch myself every day because this 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.439 place is. It's beautiful, It really is, and I think 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.080 you hit the nail on the head there, and Dolphins 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.040 fans and mister Ross as well, certainly hoping for the 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.159