Speaker 1: Factors were Alfords Patrick drawing touchdown. What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and
Speaker 1: every day. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are flashing back to the millennium the two thousand
Speaker 1: wild card playoff victory over Peyton Maning and the Indianapolis Colts,
Speaker 1: a twenty three seven team overtime victory in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and we are joined by the man that caught the
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to send that game into overtime to set
Speaker 1: up the eventual game winner in overtime, by Lamar Smith.
Speaker 1: We are joined by tight end Jed Weaver on this Friday,
Speaker 1: June the twelfth edition of the Drivetime Podcast Miami and
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste any more time. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get right to my interview with former Dolphins
Speaker 1: tight end Jed Weaver. And joining me now on the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast is the Dolphins tight end from two
Speaker 1: thousand to two thousand two. He spent three of his
Speaker 1: six NFL years with the Dolphins, and he caught one
Speaker 1: of the biggest touchdowns of this century for Miami. He
Speaker 1: is Jed Weaver. Jed, thanks for jumping in, man, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I appreciate it. We're happy to
Speaker 1: have you in. I was just telling you off air
Speaker 1: how this is one of my favorite Dolphins games of
Speaker 1: all time, and you had the play that sent it
Speaker 1: into overtime. We'll get to that here in just a
Speaker 1: little sec or just in one minute. But I always
Speaker 1: do a little bit of research on my guest here,
Speaker 1: and I found that you were born in Bend, Oregon.
Speaker 1: Is that where you are right now? No, we're down
Speaker 1: here in Pembroke Punts. My wife grew up in Seattle
Speaker 1: from central Oregon, so once we got to the heat,
Speaker 1: we never left. Well, I'm making the same pilgrimage here
Speaker 1: pretty soon. I actually from the Northwest. I was born
Speaker 1: in southeastern Washington and I still live out here, but
Speaker 1: I'm moving to Miami year my first year with the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So what can you say or what can you tell
Speaker 1: a Northwestern transplant going down to South Florida. Um, bring
Speaker 1: lots of swim trunks and flip flops because it's hot here. Well,
Speaker 1: the will the breweries be able to match up? Because
Speaker 1: I know Bend is like home of all the breweries. Um,
Speaker 1: definitely not, but you know, there's more influence here and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of local spots that are popping up
Speaker 1: and definitely not like in the Pacific Northwest for sure,
Speaker 1: but there's some there's some good local brewis here for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Funky Buddha. I always making
Speaker 1: a point to go there when I'm down in that
Speaker 1: neck of the woods. Um, as far as you know,
Speaker 1: what you do in Pembroke Pines, what are you up
Speaker 1: to these days? What's what's life like now? For Jed Weaver?
Speaker 1: We have a six year old daughter, so chaos all
Speaker 1: day every day, and then we just got done with
Speaker 1: home school. So we're happy that no one lost their
Speaker 1: life during that process during the covid vandemic here and
Speaker 1: but we're over, we're on summer break now and so, um,
Speaker 1: she's a lot of funds. You's a blast and I
Speaker 1: do real estate, so you know that's been obviously crushed
Speaker 1: by everyone being quarantined and staying at home, but it's
Speaker 1: opening up here, so I can't beat that, and hopefully
Speaker 1: um'll be interesting to see how the summer goes with
Speaker 1: this thing. And lots of people have been stuck in
Speaker 1: New York for a long time, so I think they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna be getting that itch to get down here
Speaker 1: and when I have places here. So we're looking for
Speaker 1: a good summer and a good fall for so people
Speaker 1: aren't stuck in in New York and the Northeast if
Speaker 1: they got to be in quarantine next year without a vaccine,
Speaker 1: and they want to be here in Florida. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned the Northeast there. You spent your first year in
Speaker 1: the NFL, a seventh round draft pick with the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: but by year two you're with the Dolphins. How did
Speaker 1: that decision to uh, you know, take your talents to
Speaker 1: South Beach come to be? Well, I wasn't like Lebron
Speaker 1: went to work one day in Philly and they told
Speaker 1: me I wasn't. I wasn't. They didn't have a spot
Speaker 1: for me. So I act really called my buddy Blake,
Speaker 1: who was with the Jets, and he was the tight
Speaker 1: end ahead of me at Oregon. So we were really close,
Speaker 1: and he answered his phone and he shouldn't have. He
Speaker 1: should have been in meetings or working out, and he
Speaker 1: didn't have a job. I didn't have a job. So
Speaker 1: we met up in Atlantic City, gambled a little bit,
Speaker 1: had a few beers, and the next day I got
Speaker 1: picked up by the Dolphins. He got picked up by
Speaker 1: Tampa and came down here three days later. Played in
Speaker 1: the ole very last preseason game. I played the entire
Speaker 1: second half, caught a touchdown, caught four or five passes,
Speaker 1: and I was on the team. So I stayed here
Speaker 1: until then my contract was up, and then we moved on.
Speaker 1: But it was awesome to be here a great team,
Speaker 1: and twenty years later, you would have never told me
Speaker 1: this is going to be the last Dolphin playoff win,
Speaker 1: but it was that season so unbelievable, and I was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite all time Dolphins games. You mentioned
Speaker 1: a touchdown catch in the preseason. We're gonna get to
Speaker 1: a much bigger touchdown you caught in this game here
Speaker 1: in just one second. But I'm curious to ask you
Speaker 1: because it was your second year in the NFL and
Speaker 1: you had a big impact in that game. What was
Speaker 1: the difference like for you in terms of regular season
Speaker 1: game compared to postseason atmosphere. Playing there at the current
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium, I believe it was Pro Player Stadium
Speaker 1: at the time. What was the playoff atmosphere for you
Speaker 1: like that day? I mean it was you know, I
Speaker 1: looked it up on YouTube, you know and checking out
Speaker 1: some of the highlights and stuff. Fifty seven degrees, so
Speaker 1: you know, it was beautiful, sunny, and the stadium was
Speaker 1: bigger than than it is now. They didn't you know,
Speaker 1: they took out some seats when they did the renovation.
Speaker 1: But it's funny because it was black. The game was
Speaker 1: blacked out on TV here because it wasn't a sell
Speaker 1: but you know, it was full and loud and raucous,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think they showed a stat that
Speaker 1: we played the Colts three times in fifteen days or
Speaker 1: something like that and then twenty one days or something
Speaker 1: crazy like that. The only time that had happened before
Speaker 1: was in the nineteen forties, so and you know, they
Speaker 1: were in our division obviously, so it was it was
Speaker 1: a huge rivalry game. We knew them well, and you know,
Speaker 1: the playoffs is there's nothing like the regular season it's
Speaker 1: a whole another step above, and uh, it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a blast. Yeah. As a lifelong Dolphins fan,
Speaker 1: I still arbor some anks for the Colts because I
Speaker 1: just didn't like the other teams in the a f
Speaker 1: C East, and they were back at that time, I
Speaker 1: think for two more years after that before they jumped
Speaker 1: to the a f C South. And you mentioned playing
Speaker 1: them three times in fifteen days, and the defense got
Speaker 1: after Peyton Manning a little bit that day, and they
Speaker 1: had Marvin Harrison, Edgar and James. I know you're a
Speaker 1: tight end, but can you maybe give us some reasoning
Speaker 1: for why the Dolphins defense was able to kind of
Speaker 1: hold those triplets who were just killing people all year long,
Speaker 1: James Harrison and Peyton Manning. How did the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: handle that offense the way they did well? I mean
Speaker 1: we had you know, Sam Madison past certain were on
Speaker 1: the outside, so those guys were locking down. I mean,
Speaker 1: watching some of the highlights, Trent Gamble was covering Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison a couple of plays. I mean he made some
Speaker 1: good plays and defended passes. But I don't know how
Speaker 1: that ended up on our defense with the guys that
Speaker 1: we had. You know, and we got a rookie from
Speaker 1: University of Wyoming out there playing against Marvin Harrison, the
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, but you know, he made a good place.
Speaker 1: We had Brock Marion and Brian Walkers, so I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we matched up well with them that way.
Speaker 1: Edger had a good game. Um, but you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I would take Zack Thomas over any linebacker that
Speaker 1: ever played. And and you know, it really was a
Speaker 1: tribute to the defense. They kept us in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had three or four turnovers in the
Speaker 1: first half. My boy from Oregon, Chad ConA, had two interceptions,
Speaker 1: and you know, so I mean it was just hanging around,
Speaker 1: hanging around. And then you know, obviously Lamar Smith had
Speaker 1: a great game, the record breaking game, and you know,
Speaker 1: Mike vander Jack, I think that was the l i
Speaker 1: field goal he ever missed that season, was the one
Speaker 1: in overtime. And then we got the ball and went
Speaker 1: down and scored in the Lamar scored that long run
Speaker 1: to win the game. So you know, it was it
Speaker 1: could have been way out of hand, but it was
Speaker 1: a tribute to the defense and those guys and that
Speaker 1: was an awesome defense on that team. That's for sure.
Speaker 1: There was a great clip on the broadcast of that
Speaker 1: game where the broadcast both is talking about Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: and Mike Vanderjacked having this this animossity between the two
Speaker 1: of them because Peyton said something about their idiot kicker
Speaker 1: speaking out of turn at some point. So it was
Speaker 1: kind of funny the way they all built up to
Speaker 1: that miss. But you mentioned the slow start for the
Speaker 1: offense and some turnovers. It was fourteen zip at the break.
Speaker 1: What was the halftime mood like for you guys in
Speaker 1: that locker room. Did anybody come in fired up and
Speaker 1: give you that al Pacino speech or digit was it
Speaker 1: kind of more chill or what was the mood like
Speaker 1: in the locker room at halftime? Down by fourteen? No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think in a situation like that, it
Speaker 1: was just you know, Dave wasn't really a screamer guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he was just more of a kind of
Speaker 1: be positive and get motivated, and Chan Gailey was really
Speaker 1: um as the coordinator, just the x is and those guy.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a huge motivational ted guy, so um or
Speaker 1: a screamer guy, and so I mean it was really little.
Speaker 1: I mean, the defense is key been us in the game.
Speaker 1: We're just shooting ourselves in the foot and playing terrible.
Speaker 1: So get it together. You know, the running game was working,
Speaker 1: but you know, Fiedler had his shoulder injury, and you know,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, there's a couple of bad throws and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, turnovers obviously kill you. And I mean that's
Speaker 1: a great example of the score not being indicative of
Speaker 1: the reality of the game. You know. I mean we
Speaker 1: were we were having decent drives and one of the
Speaker 1: one of the interceptions was in the end zone, so
Speaker 1: we were in scoring positions. So it was just really
Speaker 1: you know, getting it together and not hurting ourselves, you know.
Speaker 1: And so um, you know, the defense obviously they had
Speaker 1: a huge challenge and they were they were up to
Speaker 1: the challenge, and you know, we just had to hold
Speaker 1: onto the ball and get back in the game. We've
Speaker 1: got Jed Weaver here. Dolphins tied end from two thousand
Speaker 1: to two thousand two on the Drivetime podcast doing the
Speaker 1: flashback Friday two thousand wild card playoff victory over the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, and Jed, you tied me up perfectly once again.
Speaker 1: You're really leading me into these segways here he talked
Speaker 1: about Fiedler's shoulder injury. I was always curious for the
Speaker 1: players on offense that were not Jay, other guys on
Speaker 1: his team, what was it like for you to see
Speaker 1: him go through those practices beforehand, because he was doing
Speaker 1: the thing where he was giving the handoffs with the
Speaker 1: same hand every time. I forget if it was left
Speaker 1: or right, but it looks so awkward the way he
Speaker 1: was just executing simple handoffs. Because that something you guys
Speaker 1: saw in practice or maybe like I don't know about this,
Speaker 1: um now, I mean, you know, he was practicing it,
Speaker 1: and it's definitely was awkward, and you know, not the
Speaker 1: way that it were usually done. But you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't think that anyone thought that, um, there
Speaker 1: was a risk of losing a handoff or mishandling it
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So and he was practicing it
Speaker 1: all week, So um, you know, I mean that's one
Speaker 1: thing you can say about Jay. He was aware. He
Speaker 1: played hurt, he played injured, and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean even a couple of those runs out there, he
Speaker 1: was throwing his body around. There was a fork down
Speaker 1: that he converted on the fourth and one where he scrambled,
Speaker 1: and you know a couple other runs where he was
Speaker 1: just diving it forward, you know, rather than trying to
Speaker 1: get out of bounds or any of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: his shoulder was pretty jacked up. I don't remember the
Speaker 1: exact injury, but he was he got after it, you know.
Speaker 1: I do think that toughness and the way he played
Speaker 1: the game was really what you know, made Dolphins fans
Speaker 1: so fond of Jay Fieedler in Miami. And it all
Speaker 1: led up to that big moment in that game where
Speaker 1: you really made your big contribution, that big play. It
Speaker 1: was your only target of the game, and boy did
Speaker 1: you make it count your first NFL touchdown. I have
Speaker 1: several parts of this question here, but let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and start with this little stick route, little pivot move
Speaker 1: working off the leverage of the defender. What was your
Speaker 1: mental checklist on that play? Do you remember the call
Speaker 1: and the defense and the matchup. Can you just kind
Speaker 1: of break that play down for us? Well, they were
Speaker 1: in Amanda, man, and it was kind I don't remember
Speaker 1: the protection, but it's that was called wine loop. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, we had the receiver comes in motion down
Speaker 1: close and then you have a fullback and that's offset
Speaker 1: on the strong side behind the guard and the tackle,
Speaker 1: and um, you know there's always a route combination. It's
Speaker 1: West Coast style route combination. You have a flat route.
Speaker 1: Then you know when one receiver goes up and either
Speaker 1: runs a corner route or they'll run an en route,
Speaker 1: and then someone else comes in and like the fullback
Speaker 1: will come in behind and do like a checkdown or
Speaker 1: check up right there in the middle, right over where
Speaker 1: the tackle is. And um, you know we uh, we've
Speaker 1: run that formation and the motion a lot, and you
Speaker 1: know it's interchangeable. The receiver can do the flat route.
Speaker 1: You know, you never know which receivers going where, but
Speaker 1: it's all the same combination. So, um, I had the
Speaker 1: quarterback came down and with the receiver and then so
Speaker 1: they were playing his own defense. And you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a wy loop as you're running towards the flat acting
Speaker 1: like it's the flat route in that in that route tree,
Speaker 1: and then you just loop back in, put your outside
Speaker 1: foot in the ground, pivot back in. And I mean
Speaker 1: he was out side leverage because he came down. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I think O. J. Mcduffey was the receiver
Speaker 1: and he just came down. You could see him bouncing down,
Speaker 1: so I knew it was his own defense. And I
Speaker 1: mean I didn't even push him out very far because
Speaker 1: he would you know. I mean, he's just floating back
Speaker 1: there waiting. So I just went out and when he
Speaker 1: was sitting there and pivoted and he was he was
Speaker 1: pretty deep, pretty far off of me. So I mean
Speaker 1: I was open the entire time Jay hit me, and
Speaker 1: it was pretty awesome to score that touchdown. I uh,
Speaker 1: you know, went to school with Chad ConA. He was
Speaker 1: the man in Oregon a senior year when we went
Speaker 1: to the Rose Bowl and I was in. I was
Speaker 1: rich or a freshman and on the scout team, so
Speaker 1: I went against him every single day. You know, I
Speaker 1: really looked up to him. He had a great NFL career.
Speaker 1: This was kind of at the end of it, so
Speaker 1: you know, I got some great pictures. The Dolphin photographer
Speaker 1: was actually standing right in the corner of the end
Speaker 1: zone there and he got a series of like five
Speaker 1: or six pictures. So there's one there with me reaching
Speaker 1: the ball over the goal line and chat Coda's laying
Speaker 1: on me, you know, so that's pretty cool. I got
Speaker 1: it up in the office. So yeah, you get that
Speaker 1: catching you about a yard short of the end zone
Speaker 1: before you did dive into the end zone for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious because the ball was there like right
Speaker 1: on time, right when you turn and put your numbers
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Did you have a pretty good idea
Speaker 1: the ball was coming your way on that play? Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I was expecting it when he's slept off.
Speaker 1: I knew as soon as I turned around because the
Speaker 1: linebacker they're playing zone, so the linebackers just kind of
Speaker 1: sitting in the middle, and so I knew it would
Speaker 1: be a tight window and he was gonna hit me
Speaker 1: right when I turned around, and so you know, he
Speaker 1: put it right on my body, and uh, I was
Speaker 1: able to you know, there was enough room there to
Speaker 1: be able to lunge in and get in the end
Speaker 1: zone and score the touchdown. And um, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: you know, those are feelings and excitement that you can't
Speaker 1: you definitely can't duplicate in real estate. It's hard to
Speaker 1: duplicate in anything else in life. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just the you know, first touchdown in my career in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and in that situation was dream come true
Speaker 1: pretty much. Was there some nerves going into that because,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, knew the ball was coming your way.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was third down, so it
Speaker 1: was pretty much do or die at that point. Was
Speaker 1: there some nerves leading up to that? Or is that
Speaker 1: one of those things where you've wrecked this thing so
Speaker 1: many times and it's just like another play at the office,
Speaker 1: another day at the office. I should say yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I mean my wife fastening that were nervous and I
Speaker 1: was like, no, you know, when he called that play,
Speaker 1: I know it was mine because you know why, Loup,
Speaker 1: you're the primary guy, that's the number one look. So
Speaker 1: um and for me, I mean I always every team
Speaker 1: I ever played on, I always had the best hands.
Speaker 1: I always caught the ball, you know, cleaner than anyone else.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I mean that's what that's what
Speaker 1: your job is, that's what you're gonna pay to do,
Speaker 1: and that's what you have fun doing. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: I was hoping he would throw it to me. I
Speaker 1: mean basically every route in my whole career I was open,
Speaker 1: the quarterback just never threw me the ball. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad that finally threw me the ball on this and
Speaker 1: you paid it off big time right there, the game
Speaker 1: tying touch on to send it into overtime. There, of
Speaker 1: course Dolphins are going to win that game with the
Speaker 1: overtime run by Lamar Smith. You mentioned him earlier, the
Speaker 1: record breaking performance two hundred and nine yards including his
Speaker 1: game winner, And I'm curious to ask you because you
Speaker 1: had to be around him every day. He had to
Speaker 1: be in some kind of ridiculous physical condition to put
Speaker 1: together a forty carry game in late December, right yeah,
Speaker 1: and he uh, you know, it wasn't like he wasn't
Speaker 1: getting a lot of carries, you know, so he was
Speaker 1: um and you know, I mean all the running back
Speaker 1: for young pretty young and Utry Dinson and J. J.
Speaker 1: Johnson and Rob Conrad was my year, so his second year,
Speaker 1: and um, you know he was like eight or nine
Speaker 1: years in the league and he had bounced around, so
Speaker 1: he wasn't like a workhorse type guy everywhere he went.
Speaker 1: But you know he was kind of the old man,
Speaker 1: you know, so um he used to just you know,
Speaker 1: cruising along, you know, telling us a young bucks, you
Speaker 1: better getting the tub, you know. You know, he was
Speaker 1: a huge ice tub guy to recover after games and
Speaker 1: after practice, steam room nic stop alternating and like, man,
Speaker 1: you gotta you know you're doing that because you're old.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, well, if you're do it now when
Speaker 1: you're young, you'll be feeling a lot better when you're old,
Speaker 1: you know. So, um, he had his regimen and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you had a couple of kids at that time,
Speaker 1: and he was you know, he always this called the
Speaker 1: old man, and he was a workforce. He worked hard
Speaker 1: in practice. He always uh you know, I mean I
Speaker 1: think Ricky Williams took it to the next level and
Speaker 1: practice like um finishing runs, but lamarred in the same
Speaker 1: you know, obviously defense isn't tackling you, but you know
Speaker 1: he breaks through the line and go fifteen twenty yards
Speaker 1: at a dead sprint. You know, just working on that conditioning,
Speaker 1: being used to getting you know, so you don't run
Speaker 1: out of gas when you break along one because you're
Speaker 1: not used to it. Because you know, once the season starts,
Speaker 1: especially towards the end in the playoffs, you're not doing
Speaker 1: a lot of that conditioning because you're trying to save
Speaker 1: the energy for the game on Sunday. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it was just an attribute to him how
Speaker 1: hard he worked his you know, his career and knowing
Speaker 1: what he knew and being able to, you know, play
Speaker 1: with good guys before he came here and putting in
Speaker 1: the work and having a payoff in the end. You know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that kind of reminds me of a bit of
Speaker 1: an inside baseball question I have for you here, Jed,
Speaker 1: because I told you I was twelve years old watching
Speaker 1: that game, and so when the Dolphins won, I just thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go beat Oakland. They're gonna go beat I
Speaker 1: think it was Baltimore in the a f C championship game,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna win a super Bowl because I'm young
Speaker 1: and I don't know any better than my team is
Speaker 1: the best team in the NFL. And I'm curious to
Speaker 1: get your take because nowadays you look at that game
Speaker 1: and you say, well, the star running back had forty carries,
Speaker 1: they played an extra overtime period. Maybe they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit sluggish next week on the road against
Speaker 1: a team that has a bye week. Did you sense
Speaker 1: any of that the week leading up to the Oakland game,
Speaker 1: that maybe Lamar is a little bit a little bit
Speaker 1: tired this week and the team maybe is a little
Speaker 1: bit sluggish going into that game. Um no, I mean
Speaker 1: we were excited to go out there and play, and
Speaker 1: you know, but obviously after the game and how it
Speaker 1: went and looking back and knowing what I know, now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there was there was no chance we won
Speaker 1: that game. In Oakland, you know, they had a bye
Speaker 1: week that was. I grew up a Raider fan and
Speaker 1: in Oregon, so, um, you know, for me to go
Speaker 1: there and play in that game, that was the very
Speaker 1: first playoff game in Oakland and like thirty five years
Speaker 1: because they went to l A and then when they
Speaker 1: came back to Oakland that was you know, they hadn't
Speaker 1: been to the playoffs until that season. So you know,
Speaker 1: I mean driving into the stadium, it was like the
Speaker 1: entire place was on fire and smoldering from all the
Speaker 1: barbecues and um, you know, I mean going out there
Speaker 1: for warmups, everyone's in the black hole calling you over
Speaker 1: there to try to fight, and uh, you know, dog
Speaker 1: cussing you. You know, Jack Tatum's showing out there. You know,
Speaker 1: I said hi to him. Bill Russell was hanging out
Speaker 1: before the game, and it was just amazing to me
Speaker 1: being a Raider fan, and uh, you know, I got
Speaker 1: like forty tickets for family that all went down there
Speaker 1: from the West Coast Oregon and in California and stuff,
Speaker 1: and uh but yeah, I mean they had a buy week.
Speaker 1: We had an overtime game, you know. And I have
Speaker 1: a picture after the um that we got going off
Speaker 1: the field after the Colts game, and I mean Hunter Goodwin,
Speaker 1: he was out there working so hard, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a couple of linemen Hunter good when Larry
Speaker 1: is those in the picture. But Hunter, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean we're like holding him up because he was so
Speaker 1: out of gas from blocking, you know, so all game
Speaker 1: and just pounding and pounding and pounding, you know, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, then you got the long flight out to
Speaker 1: Oakland and um, so you know, I mean it was
Speaker 1: you think you got a fair shot when you go
Speaker 1: into that game, but in reality you're you're playing on
Speaker 1: a half to take a gas and they got super
Speaker 1: chargers because it's the home game and they had a
Speaker 1: bye week, you know. So um but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: knowing what I know now and after being in New
Speaker 1: England winning the Super Bowl, there's no chance we would
Speaker 1: have wanted. Hey, twenty years after the fact, I think
Speaker 1: it could be a little bit transparent. So we appreciate
Speaker 1: that here on the podcast. And I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you about how it wasn't the locker room after the game,
Speaker 1: but it's like you guys were pretty much just on empty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, but it was exuberation, you know.
Speaker 1: Um Mr Hensinga was in there, and everyone was super
Speaker 1: stoked and excited, you know. I mean, you have the
Speaker 1: mindset of going to go play, you know, and we
Speaker 1: had the team, we had the ability, you know, we
Speaker 1: had the team to go out there and win, you know,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, I mean it's just you look
Speaker 1: at what the Patriots did over the last twenty years
Speaker 1: with Tom compared to last year not having the bye week.
Speaker 1: It is just such a huge advantage to have the
Speaker 1: bye week, and because you know, you don't know who
Speaker 1: you're playing until the wild cards over, but you're practicing
Speaker 1: both teams, you're kind of you know, you're getting familiar
Speaker 1: with them. So just that extra um preparation is is
Speaker 1: a huge advantage. And then obviously you know, flying across
Speaker 1: the country at different times one all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: because really when you come I guess it's it's better
Speaker 1: to go from east to west for the timing, you know,
Speaker 1: rather than west to east, because it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: your plan at ten am. But um, you know, it
Speaker 1: was still um you know, I mean we were definitely
Speaker 1: out of gas, you know. But after the game and
Speaker 1: everyone was tired. But you know, I mean, you you recover.
Speaker 1: That's what you're used to, that's what you do, and
Speaker 1: you go forward. I mean, if you can't get ready
Speaker 1: for the next Sunday in the playoffs and you've got problems, absolutely,
Speaker 1: let's let's go ahead and circle back here to the
Speaker 1: Colts Gaming and get back into happier thoughts and talk
Speaker 1: about some of the plays that maybe did get you
Speaker 1: guys a little bit gas. I'm curious if you have
Speaker 1: a specific play that stands out to you, or maybe
Speaker 1: a specific series or a couple of plays where you
Speaker 1: worked as an inline blocker. Because there were forty rushes
Speaker 1: from Lamar Smith in that game, are there any plays
Speaker 1: that the fans might not see initially that you really
Speaker 1: think should be appreciative from your standpoint as a blocker
Speaker 1: in that game? Um? No, I mean, nothing really sticks out, Lamar.
Speaker 1: You know, there was just huge, wide open holes and
Speaker 1: the Colts. The way that they played defense, you were
Speaker 1: able to get you know, good running lanes against them
Speaker 1: because they were you know, that was the beginning of
Speaker 1: like Dwight Free and those guys. You know, they had
Speaker 1: Cornelius been at coming off the edge and then they
Speaker 1: were like straight up you know, rusher's penetration type guys.
Speaker 1: So you could, you know, you could get him running
Speaker 1: and moving and get cutbacks, you know. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw one player I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: Jay kind of scrambled and then hit Lamar and he
Speaker 1: broke all the way back across the field, you know,
Speaker 1: and Jay's running down the field trying to get a block.
Speaker 1: He didn't box nobody, but he looked like he was
Speaker 1: going to The announcers gave him a shout out. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he didn't need to. He didn't
Speaker 1: need to hit anybody. But you know, I mean it
Speaker 1: was just there was wide open lanes and they played,
Speaker 1: uh you know, they played a deep cover to or
Speaker 1: quarters covered four coverage with two safeties kind of back,
Speaker 1: you know, and we had fast receivers Tony Martin and
Speaker 1: um so you know, I mean, just watching the game
Speaker 1: over recently, it was, you know, I mean there was big, wide,
Speaker 1: open running lanes and Lamar. You know, I mean he
Speaker 1: was making guys miss and he was a heavy runner
Speaker 1: and a big guy. But he made some nimbo runs
Speaker 1: and some quick cuts in that game and to make
Speaker 1: guys miss and make a lot of extra yards, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. You mentioned Jay on the peel back block
Speaker 1: or kind of getting reverse field and you get your
Speaker 1: quarterback involved. He made a bit of a habit of that.
Speaker 1: There was some place I actually did a top ten
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams runs on a previous podcast, and he j
Speaker 1: was one of the lead blockers on one of those runs.
Speaker 1: It was a game against Jacksonville and Ricky winds it
Speaker 1: back across the field. He has to hit a block
Speaker 1: and he actually does take out the I think it
Speaker 1: was a linebacker gets him down around the knees and
Speaker 1: takes him out. So he was he was used to
Speaker 1: doing that. And and Jed, I have one more question
Speaker 1: for you here. We just had the fish Tank podcast
Speaker 1: with Larry Izzo. You mentioned him in an earlier question
Speaker 1: on this podcast, and I was out mode my lawn
Speaker 1: today before I jumped on here with you. You and
Speaker 1: I had scheduled this podcast, I think yesterday, and then
Speaker 1: today I listened to the fish Tank podcast and he
Speaker 1: tells the story and your name comes up, and I
Speaker 1: want to hear your perspective on it real quick. He
Speaker 1: mentioned that he had sent you guys a photo from
Speaker 1: the Patriots Super a Bowl banquet with the rings and everything,
Speaker 1: and that you took that photo, hung it up in
Speaker 1: your locker room and you wound up getting him fine
Speaker 1: by Belichick, You have your perspective on that story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was yeah. I mean, you know one season, you
Speaker 1: know they go on and uh, you know, we were
Speaker 1: really close with Larry my our wives now girlfriends at
Speaker 1: the time, we're really close, so um, you know we
Speaker 1: hung out in the off season and stuff, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so they you know, that year, the Patriots came down here, Tom,
Speaker 1: I think it was a second or third start, and
Speaker 1: we smoked them, and uh it was kind of over
Speaker 1: at halftime, and then they started going on a role
Speaker 1: obviously it was nine eleven. You know, Joe andrewsie the
Speaker 1: outline and his brothers are all firefighters in New York City,
Speaker 1: so you know, they just they start rolling and rolling
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, three quarters of the way through
Speaker 1: the season. I looked at her. We were watching the
Speaker 1: Monday night game or something, and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go win the Super Bowl, and she was like,
Speaker 1: the Patriots, no way. My first of all they got
Speaker 1: is that guy has you know, the golden the you know,
Speaker 1: the golden ticket, he has got the four leaf clover,
Speaker 1: you know. And and I'm like, who they got the
Speaker 1: you know, the Patriot guy. You know, the guys the
Speaker 1: ever America's all pulling for them. And so they go win,
Speaker 1: which was great, you know, and that was obviously one
Speaker 1: of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history and um,
Speaker 1: the start of amazing twenty years. But so yeah, they
Speaker 1: send that picture and you know the next year, oh two. Um,
Speaker 1: Dave was always uh trying to find ways for motivation.
Speaker 1: Obviously all coaches are, but Dave, you know, he was
Speaker 1: always using different props and all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 1: But that year he had someone come in and um
Speaker 1: it was Mario Lemieux. Oh no, yeah, I'm very yager
Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh Penguins who played with Mario. But you know,
Speaker 1: he was from one of the Eastern Block, Hugoslavia or
Speaker 1: Czech countries. Somewhere over there. I'm not sure exactly which one,
Speaker 1: but he wore night. He knew war number sixty eight
Speaker 1: because they were invaded I think by Russian in nine eight.
Speaker 1: So that was his motivation. Um, you know, how do
Speaker 1: you get motivated to play? What's your motivation? What's your while?
Speaker 1: You know? And so I didn't say anything to anyone.
Speaker 1: I just hung the picture in my locker with just
Speaker 1: a piece of athletic tape that was just had sixty
Speaker 1: eight written on it and sharpie. And so then you know, um,
Speaker 1: one day, you know, the media is in the locker
Speaker 1: room and at lunchtime and stuff, talking to guys whatever,
Speaker 1: and I'm working out eating lunch. Everyone's coming and going,
Speaker 1: and I noticed the picture was all crooked, and uh,
Speaker 1: the tape was kind of jacked up, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what the heck? And didn't you know? I had no
Speaker 1: one said anything. I didn't ask anyone. I didn't really matter,
Speaker 1: you know, it was this kind of weird someone was
Speaker 1: jacking with something in my locker. And then you know,
Speaker 1: that article comes out, you know, and then like Larry
Speaker 1: calls man, he's dog customing about you know, the Belichick
Speaker 1: Final fifteen hundred bucks, he said for that, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's uh and that Belichick is a master that
Speaker 1: using the other team anything the other team puts out
Speaker 1: there to motivate guys, you know, motivate you. And um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, Bill, Bill gave him a customer in the
Speaker 1: meeting and for extra motivation. And you know, they always
Speaker 1: had a hard time with Patriots, even as good as
Speaker 1: they always were, even when I was up there and
Speaker 1: we were fourteen and two and won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: we came down here and got beat you know. So
Speaker 1: um that was no no obviously, no more, no no
Speaker 1: need for extra billboard material, locker room talk, you know.
Speaker 1: So as those you know calling me, what's up, man,
Speaker 1: why did you do that? I'm like, bro, I didn't
Speaker 1: say nothing to nobody. You know, it's just sitting in
Speaker 1: my lucker. That's my own motivation, you know. Oh well,
Speaker 1: the media got it. Did he send you a bill?
Speaker 1: Did he send you a bill for the fine? No? No,
Speaker 1: you never did. He went to the Pro Bowl for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and got some money. He
Speaker 1: got all that play, that Super Bowl money, So I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have paid him out, no way. Oh man, that's
Speaker 1: justice there. You go the him and Zack out there
Speaker 1: getting in fights at the bars and stuff. That's that's
Speaker 1: his stories were great on that fish Tank podcast. I
Speaker 1: just I heard your name. I was like, how perfect
Speaker 1: is that we can go ahead and cross promote the
Speaker 1: fish Tank podcast with Larry Is. Oh, so we got Jed.
Speaker 1: We were here, Jed. That's all I got for you today. Man. Again,
Speaker 1: I told you I was twelve years old in that
Speaker 1: game happened. I remember it like it was yesterday, and
Speaker 1: how nervous I was watching it as a fan. Great memories.
Speaker 1: And we are grateful for your time today, sir. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Yeah, absolutely can't wait to meet you
Speaker 1: in personally. Get down here. You need some novel real estate?
Speaker 1: You got my m hit me up. I will need that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hit you up. All right, sounds good?
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Jed? Sure I was safe. Talk to
Speaker 1: you soon. That sounds good, Jed. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Take care man, And there he goes. Jed Weaver, Dolphins
Speaker 1: tight end for three years two thousand through two thousand two.
Speaker 1: First career NFL touchdown was a special one, the one
Speaker 1: that sent the Dolphins and Colts into overtime in that
Speaker 1: two thousand wild Card thriller. We have an article up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com taking a look at that
Speaker 1: game a little bit more and depth. Of course, you
Speaker 1: can find the game. I think there are highlight clips
Speaker 1: on YouTube, not the full game, but highlight clips available
Speaker 1: for you there, so you can go back and reminisce
Speaker 1: on some nostalgia there and that two thousand playoff win
Speaker 1: over the Colts. As for today's episode, that is gonna
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