WEBVTT - Fins Flashback: Jed Weaver on the 2000 Wildcard Winner Over Indianapolis 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:07.360 Factors were Alfords Patrick drawing touchdown. What a win for 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:12.560 this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.120 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.919 Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.880 every day. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.599 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.360 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.680 we are flashing back to the millennium the two thousand 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:38.120 wild card playoff victory over Peyton Maning and the Indianapolis Colts, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.280 a twenty three seven team overtime victory in the postseason, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.600 and we are joined by the man that caught the 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.200 touchdown pass to send that game into overtime to set 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.720 up the eventual game winner in overtime, by Lamar Smith. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.880 We are joined by tight end Jed Weaver on this Friday, 0:00:55.000 --> 0:01:01.680 June the twelfth edition of the Drivetime Podcast Miami and 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.440 I don't want to waste any more time. Let's go 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.120 ahead and get right to my interview with former Dolphins 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.000 tight end Jed Weaver. And joining me now on the 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.000 Drive Time Podcast is the Dolphins tight end from two 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.840 thousand to two thousand two. He spent three of his 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.440 six NFL years with the Dolphins, and he caught one 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.480 of the biggest touchdowns of this century for Miami. He 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.760 is Jed Weaver. Jed, thanks for jumping in, man, Hey, 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.000 thanks for having me. I appreciate it. We're happy to 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.760 have you in. I was just telling you off air 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.120 how this is one of my favorite Dolphins games of 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.080 all time, and you had the play that sent it 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.840 into overtime. We'll get to that here in just a 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.520 little sec or just in one minute. But I always 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.520 do a little bit of research on my guest here, 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.960 and I found that you were born in Bend, Oregon. 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.280 Is that where you are right now? No, we're down 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.560 here in Pembroke Punts. My wife grew up in Seattle 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.200 from central Oregon, so once we got to the heat, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.400 we never left. Well, I'm making the same pilgrimage here 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.040 pretty soon. I actually from the Northwest. I was born 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.920 in southeastern Washington and I still live out here, but 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.000 I'm moving to Miami year my first year with the Dolphins. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.760 So what can you say or what can you tell 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:09.600 a Northwestern transplant going down to South Florida. Um, bring 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.560 lots of swim trunks and flip flops because it's hot here. Well, 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.280 the will the breweries be able to match up? Because 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.720 I know Bend is like home of all the breweries. Um, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.679 definitely not, but you know, there's more influence here and 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.720 there's a lot of local spots that are popping up 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.480 and definitely not like in the Pacific Northwest for sure, 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.600 but there's some there's some good local brewis here for sure. Yeah, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.680 I'm a big fan of Funky Buddha. I always making 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.600 a point to go there when I'm down in that 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.040 neck of the woods. Um, as far as you know, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.880 what you do in Pembroke Pines, what are you up 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.160 to these days? What's what's life like now? For Jed Weaver? 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.200 We have a six year old daughter, so chaos all 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.560 day every day, and then we just got done with 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.080 home school. So we're happy that no one lost their 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:55.400 life during that process during the covid vandemic here and 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.680 but we're over, we're on summer break now and so, um, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.880 she's a lot of funds. You's a blast and I 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.960 do real estate, so you know that's been obviously crushed 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.960 by everyone being quarantined and staying at home, but it's 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.519 opening up here, so I can't beat that, and hopefully 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.680 um'll be interesting to see how the summer goes with 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.600 this thing. And lots of people have been stuck in 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.560 New York for a long time, so I think they're 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:23.079 they're gonna be getting that itch to get down here 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.440 and when I have places here. So we're looking for 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.440 a good summer and a good fall for so people 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.960 aren't stuck in in New York and the Northeast if 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.560 they got to be in quarantine next year without a vaccine, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.520 and they want to be here in Florida. And you 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.800 mentioned the Northeast there. You spent your first year in 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.240 the NFL, a seventh round draft pick with the Philadelphia Eagles, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.000 but by year two you're with the Dolphins. How did 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.600 that decision to uh, you know, take your talents to 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.960 South Beach come to be? Well, I wasn't like Lebron 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:54.920 went to work one day in Philly and they told 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.880 me I wasn't. I wasn't. They didn't have a spot 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.200 for me. So I act really called my buddy Blake, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.960 who was with the Jets, and he was the tight 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.400 end ahead of me at Oregon. So we were really close, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.320 and he answered his phone and he shouldn't have. He 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.920 should have been in meetings or working out, and he 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.200 didn't have a job. I didn't have a job. So 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.240 we met up in Atlantic City, gambled a little bit, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.760 had a few beers, and the next day I got 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.760 picked up by the Dolphins. He got picked up by 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.440 Tampa and came down here three days later. Played in 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.200 the ole very last preseason game. I played the entire 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.240 second half, caught a touchdown, caught four or five passes, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.919 and I was on the team. So I stayed here 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.719 until then my contract was up, and then we moved on. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.200 But it was awesome to be here a great team, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.240 and twenty years later, you would have never told me 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.560 this is going to be the last Dolphin playoff win, 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.280 but it was that season so unbelievable, and I was 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.559 one of my favorite all time Dolphins games. You mentioned 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.000 a touchdown catch in the preseason. We're gonna get to 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.320 a much bigger touchdown you caught in this game here 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.520 in just one second. But I'm curious to ask you 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.000 because it was your second year in the NFL and 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.320 you had a big impact in that game. What was 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.720 the difference like for you in terms of regular season 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:09.159 game compared to postseason atmosphere. Playing there at the current 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.479 hard Rock Stadium, I believe it was Pro Player Stadium 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.800 at the time. What was the playoff atmosphere for you 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.719 like that day? I mean it was you know, I 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.800 looked it up on YouTube, you know and checking out 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:24.159 some of the highlights and stuff. Fifty seven degrees, so 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.080 you know, it was beautiful, sunny, and the stadium was 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.920 bigger than than it is now. They didn't you know, 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.160 they took out some seats when they did the renovation. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.680 But it's funny because it was black. The game was 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.080 blacked out on TV here because it wasn't a sell 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.760 but you know, it was full and loud and raucous, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.039 and you know, I think they showed a stat that 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.240 we played the Colts three times in fifteen days or 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.880 something like that and then twenty one days or something 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.160 crazy like that. The only time that had happened before 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.560 was in the nineteen forties, so and you know, they 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.160 were in our division obviously, so it was it was 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.200 a huge rivalry game. We knew them well, and you know, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.120 the playoffs is there's nothing like the regular season it's 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.040 a whole another step above, and uh, it was fun. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.800 It was a blast. Yeah. As a lifelong Dolphins fan, 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.599 I still arbor some anks for the Colts because I 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.520 just didn't like the other teams in the a f 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.320 C East, and they were back at that time, I 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.919 think for two more years after that before they jumped 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.080 to the a f C South. And you mentioned playing 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.080 them three times in fifteen days, and the defense got 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.360 after Peyton Manning a little bit that day, and they 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.560 had Marvin Harrison, Edgar and James. I know you're a 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.120 tight end, but can you maybe give us some reasoning 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.480 for why the Dolphins defense was able to kind of 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.599 hold those triplets who were just killing people all year long, 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.840 James Harrison and Peyton Manning. How did the Dolphins defense 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.279 handle that offense the way they did well? I mean 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.400 we had you know, Sam Madison past certain were on 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.000 the outside, so those guys were locking down. I mean, 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.280 watching some of the highlights, Trent Gamble was covering Marvin 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.240 Harrison a couple of plays. I mean he made some 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.640 good plays and defended passes. But I don't know how 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.880 that ended up on our defense with the guys that 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.520 we had. You know, and we got a rookie from 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.320 University of Wyoming out there playing against Marvin Harrison, the 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.800 Hall of Famer, but you know, he made a good place. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.760 We had Brock Marion and Brian Walkers, so I think, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.160 you know, we matched up well with them that way. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.280 Edger had a good game. Um, but you know, I 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.800 mean I would take Zack Thomas over any linebacker that 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.560 ever played. And and you know, it really was a 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.880 tribute to the defense. They kept us in the game. 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:29.760 I mean, we had three or four turnovers in the 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.920 first half. My boy from Oregon, Chad ConA, had two interceptions, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.320 and you know, so I mean it was just hanging around, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.080 hanging around. And then you know, obviously Lamar Smith had 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.680 a great game, the record breaking game, and you know, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:45.800 Mike vander Jack, I think that was the l i 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.840 field goal he ever missed that season, was the one 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.720 in overtime. And then we got the ball and went 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.160 down and scored in the Lamar scored that long run 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.000 to win the game. So you know, it was it 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.960 could have been way out of hand, but it was 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.600 a tribute to the defense and those guys and that 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.960 was an awesome defense on that team. That's for sure. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.600 There was a great clip on the broadcast of that 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.360 game where the broadcast both is talking about Peyton Manning 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.840 and Mike Vanderjacked having this this animossity between the two 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.240 of them because Peyton said something about their idiot kicker 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.360 speaking out of turn at some point. So it was 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:17.960 kind of funny the way they all built up to 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.240 that miss. But you mentioned the slow start for the 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.160 offense and some turnovers. It was fourteen zip at the break. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.560 What was the halftime mood like for you guys in 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.960 that locker room. Did anybody come in fired up and 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.120 give you that al Pacino speech or digit was it 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.199 kind of more chill or what was the mood like 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.520 in the locker room at halftime? Down by fourteen? No, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.280 I mean, I think in a situation like that, it 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.600 was just you know, Dave wasn't really a screamer guy. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.560 You know, he was just more of a kind of 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.120 be positive and get motivated, and Chan Gailey was really 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.520 um as the coordinator, just the x is and those guy. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.640 He wasn't a huge motivational ted guy, so um or 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.240 a screamer guy, and so I mean it was really little. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.880 I mean, the defense is key been us in the game. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.800 We're just shooting ourselves in the foot and playing terrible. 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.439 So get it together. You know, the running game was working, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.960 but you know, Fiedler had his shoulder injury, and you know, 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.079 for whatever reason, there's a couple of bad throws and uh, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.000 you know, turnovers obviously kill you. And I mean that's 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.760 a great example of the score not being indicative of 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:22.559 the reality of the game. You know. I mean we 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.920 were we were having decent drives and one of the 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:27.800 one of the interceptions was in the end zone, so 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.160 we were in scoring positions. So it was just really 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.760 you know, getting it together and not hurting ourselves, you know. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.080 And so um, you know, the defense obviously they had 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.959 a huge challenge and they were they were up to 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.680 the challenge, and you know, we just had to hold 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.199 onto the ball and get back in the game. We've 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.760 got Jed Weaver here. Dolphins tied end from two thousand 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.760 to two thousand two on the Drivetime podcast doing the 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.800 flashback Friday two thousand wild card playoff victory over the 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.840 Indianapolis Colts, and Jed, you tied me up perfectly once again. 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.240 You're really leading me into these segways here he talked 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.440 about Fiedler's shoulder injury. I was always curious for the 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.040 players on offense that were not Jay, other guys on 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.920 his team, what was it like for you to see 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.960 him go through those practices beforehand, because he was doing 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.200 the thing where he was giving the handoffs with the 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.440 same hand every time. I forget if it was left 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.400 or right, but it looks so awkward the way he 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.160 was just executing simple handoffs. Because that something you guys 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.560 saw in practice or maybe like I don't know about this, 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.960 um now, I mean, you know, he was practicing it, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:32.160 and it's definitely was awkward, and you know, not the 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.280 way that it were usually done. But you know, I 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.800 mean I don't think that anyone thought that, um, there 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.960 was a risk of losing a handoff or mishandling it 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.480 or anything like that. So and he was practicing it 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.559 all week, So um, you know, I mean that's one 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.680 thing you can say about Jay. He was aware. He 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.280 played hurt, he played injured, and um, you know, I 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.320 mean even a couple of those runs out there, he 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.680 was throwing his body around. There was a fork down 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.680 that he converted on the fourth and one where he scrambled, 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.079 and you know a couple other runs where he was 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.480 just diving it forward, you know, rather than trying to 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.000 get out of bounds or any of that. I mean, 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.200 his shoulder was pretty jacked up. I don't remember the 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.520 exact injury, but he was he got after it, you know. 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.120 I do think that toughness and the way he played 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.680 the game was really what you know, made Dolphins fans 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.320 so fond of Jay Fieedler in Miami. And it all 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.280 led up to that big moment in that game where 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.000 you really made your big contribution, that big play. It 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.320 was your only target of the game, and boy did 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.960 you make it count your first NFL touchdown. I have 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.960 several parts of this question here, but let's go ahead 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.400 and start with this little stick route, little pivot move 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.720 working off the leverage of the defender. What was your 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.640 mental checklist on that play? Do you remember the call 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.719 and the defense and the matchup. Can you just kind 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.960 of break that play down for us? Well, they were 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.920 in Amanda, man, and it was kind I don't remember 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.520 the protection, but it's that was called wine loop. So um, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.319 you know, we had the receiver comes in motion down 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.400 close and then you have a fullback and that's offset 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.079 on the strong side behind the guard and the tackle, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.840 and um, you know there's always a route combination. It's 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.880 West Coast style route combination. You have a flat route. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.680 Then you know when one receiver goes up and either 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.880 runs a corner route or they'll run an en route, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.320 and then someone else comes in and like the fullback 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:20.160 will come in behind and do like a checkdown or 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.200 check up right there in the middle, right over where 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.640 the tackle is. And um, you know we uh, we've 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:30.000 run that formation and the motion a lot, and you 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.720 know it's interchangeable. The receiver can do the flat route. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.000 You know, you never know which receivers going where, but 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:40.800 it's all the same combination. So, um, I had the 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:45.280 quarterback came down and with the receiver and then so 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.600 they were playing his own defense. And you know, I'm 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.760 a wy loop as you're running towards the flat acting 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:54.480 like it's the flat route in that in that route tree, 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.960 and then you just loop back in, put your outside 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.439 foot in the ground, pivot back in. And I mean 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.480 he was out side leverage because he came down. I 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.080 don't know, I think O. J. Mcduffey was the receiver 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.280 and he just came down. You could see him bouncing down, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.560 so I knew it was his own defense. And I 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.959 mean I didn't even push him out very far because 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.320 he would you know. I mean, he's just floating back 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.880 there waiting. So I just went out and when he 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.199 was sitting there and pivoted and he was he was 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.439 pretty deep, pretty far off of me. So I mean 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.400 I was open the entire time Jay hit me, and 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.160 it was pretty awesome to score that touchdown. I uh, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.280 you know, went to school with Chad ConA. He was 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.360 the man in Oregon a senior year when we went 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.760 to the Rose Bowl and I was in. I was 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.560 rich or a freshman and on the scout team, so 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.560 I went against him every single day. You know, I 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.720 really looked up to him. He had a great NFL career. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.400 This was kind of at the end of it, so 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.640 you know, I got some great pictures. The Dolphin photographer 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.960 was actually standing right in the corner of the end 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.440 zone there and he got a series of like five 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.920 or six pictures. So there's one there with me reaching 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.240 the ball over the goal line and chat Coda's laying 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.240 on me, you know, so that's pretty cool. I got 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.960 it up in the office. So yeah, you get that 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.680 catching you about a yard short of the end zone 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.319 before you did dive into the end zone for the touchdown. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.600 And I'm curious because the ball was there like right 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.640 on time, right when you turn and put your numbers 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.600 to the quarterback. Did you have a pretty good idea 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.480 the ball was coming your way on that play? Yeah, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.120 for sure, I was expecting it when he's slept off. 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.160 I knew as soon as I turned around because the 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.920 linebacker they're playing zone, so the linebackers just kind of 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.480 sitting in the middle, and so I knew it would 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.760 be a tight window and he was gonna hit me 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.520 right when I turned around, and so you know, he 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.920 put it right on my body, and uh, I was 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.640 able to you know, there was enough room there to 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.320 be able to lunge in and get in the end 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.240 zone and score the touchdown. And um, yeah, that was 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.480 you know, those are feelings and excitement that you can't 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.640 you definitely can't duplicate in real estate. It's hard to 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.160 duplicate in anything else in life. And uh, you know, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.840 just the you know, first touchdown in my career in 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.160 the NFL, and in that situation was dream come true 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.160 pretty much. Was there some nerves going into that because, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.960 like you mentioned, knew the ball was coming your way. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.000 I want to say it was third down, so it 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.000 was pretty much do or die at that point. Was 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:12.560 there some nerves leading up to that? Or is that 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.400 one of those things where you've wrecked this thing so 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.440 many times and it's just like another play at the office, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.800 another day at the office. I should say yeah, No, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.760 I mean my wife fastening that were nervous and I 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.680 was like, no, you know, when he called that play, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.960 I know it was mine because you know why, Loup, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.640 you're the primary guy, that's the number one look. So 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.160 um and for me, I mean I always every team 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.200 I ever played on, I always had the best hands. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.880 I always caught the ball, you know, cleaner than anyone else. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.600 And so you know, I mean that's what that's what 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.400 your job is, that's what you're gonna pay to do, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.080 and that's what you have fun doing. So um, you know, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.280 I was hoping he would throw it to me. I 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.160 mean basically every route in my whole career I was open, 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.360 the quarterback just never threw me the ball. So I'm 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.440 glad that finally threw me the ball on this and 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.760 you paid it off big time right there, the game 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.280 tying touch on to send it into overtime. There, of 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.560 course Dolphins are going to win that game with the 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.560 overtime run by Lamar Smith. You mentioned him earlier, the 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.920 record breaking performance two hundred and nine yards including his 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.280 game winner, And I'm curious to ask you because you 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.680 had to be around him every day. He had to 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.400 be in some kind of ridiculous physical condition to put 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:21.240 together a forty carry game in late December, right yeah, 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.440 and he uh, you know, it wasn't like he wasn't 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.640 getting a lot of carries, you know, so he was 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:28.400 um and you know, I mean all the running back 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.520 for young pretty young and Utry Dinson and J. J. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.000 Johnson and Rob Conrad was my year, so his second year, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.560 and um, you know he was like eight or nine 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.520 years in the league and he had bounced around, so 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.560 he wasn't like a workhorse type guy everywhere he went. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.480 But you know he was kind of the old man, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.120 you know, so um he used to just you know, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.360 cruising along, you know, telling us a young bucks, you 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.760 better getting the tub, you know. You know, he was 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.440 a huge ice tub guy to recover after games and 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.800 after practice, steam room nic stop alternating and like, man, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.520 you gotta you know you're doing that because you're old. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.240 He's like, yeah, well, if you're do it now when 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.400 you're young, you'll be feeling a lot better when you're old, 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.440 you know. So, um, he had his regimen and uh, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.760 you know, you had a couple of kids at that time, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.359 and he was you know, he always this called the 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.720 old man, and he was a workforce. He worked hard 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.879 in practice. He always uh you know, I mean I 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.119 think Ricky Williams took it to the next level and 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:29.080 practice like um finishing runs, but lamarred in the same 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.520 you know, obviously defense isn't tackling you, but you know 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.000 he breaks through the line and go fifteen twenty yards 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.960 at a dead sprint. You know, just working on that conditioning, 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.480 being used to getting you know, so you don't run 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.360 out of gas when you break along one because you're 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.719 not used to it. Because you know, once the season starts, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.280 especially towards the end in the playoffs, you're not doing 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:50.320 a lot of that conditioning because you're trying to save 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:54.159 the energy for the game on Sunday. So um, you know, 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.800 I mean it was just an attribute to him how 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.560 hard he worked his you know, his career and knowing 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.480 what he knew and being able to, you know, play 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.800 with good guys before he came here and putting in 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.520 the work and having a payoff in the end. You know. Yeah, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.119 And that kind of reminds me of a bit of 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.480 an inside baseball question I have for you here, Jed, 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.760 because I told you I was twelve years old watching 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.960 that game, and so when the Dolphins won, I just thought, Okay, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.840 they're gonna go beat Oakland. They're gonna go beat I 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.080 think it was Baltimore in the a f C championship game, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.280 and they're gonna win a super Bowl because I'm young 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.399 and I don't know any better than my team is 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.840 the best team in the NFL. And I'm curious to 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.000 get your take because nowadays you look at that game 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.520 and you say, well, the star running back had forty carries, 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.520 they played an extra overtime period. Maybe they're gonna be 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.639 a little bit sluggish next week on the road against 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.000 a team that has a bye week. Did you sense 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.040 any of that the week leading up to the Oakland game, 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.639 that maybe Lamar is a little bit a little bit 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.400 tired this week and the team maybe is a little 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.520