Speaker 1: Sorry, no, I was. I was gonna try to get him.
Speaker 1: I was gonna try to get him to turn us
Speaker 1: on here so you could hear the bullshit. You guys
Speaker 1: we're talking about before the show again. Okay, we're ready, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm good. You know. It was a disappointing end to
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, but I gotta say this, things are
Speaker 1: looking up in two thousand nineteen. We're back. I don't
Speaker 1: know who the hell is gonna be on this team.
Speaker 1: I don't know who the hell the coach is gonna be.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the team's gonna look like. But
Speaker 1: Joe Rose is back. Joe Rose back. You need studio,
Speaker 1: I need a little fixed stuff building up through this
Speaker 1: team and everything that's happened. Jimmy Kim This is Audible
Speaker 1: Audible brought to you by Verizon the Best Unlimited is
Speaker 1: on America's most awarded network. And uh, here we are.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's it's it seems like it
Speaker 1: seems like a annual three year occurrence where we're sitting
Speaker 1: here wonder who's gonna be our next code, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do this and that? And uh and look
Speaker 1: there's you know they've gone out. They've talked to Brian
Speaker 1: Flores from New England, Eric the Enemy from Kansas City.
Speaker 1: These are confirmed interviews they've had. Chris Richard, the Kid
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys, d C, and Dennis Allen all have
Speaker 1: been talked to you by this football team with with
Speaker 1: some more coming obviously. Uh, Darren Rizzy is a guy
Speaker 1: that name has been thrown out there is as getting
Speaker 1: a deal here, So I'm just gonna throw it out
Speaker 1: you with with with the parade of people that have
Speaker 1: come through right now, how are we feeling about this
Speaker 1: football team, this franchise, this entire organization and the direction
Speaker 1: they're they're looking at for for these players, are these coaches?
Speaker 1: Is there anybody in your mind that kind of jumps
Speaker 1: out and says, you know that that guy would be
Speaker 1: really interesting to me considering a lack of talent on
Speaker 1: this team and where they are. No matter what anybody
Speaker 1: says that a little bit with you, I know you
Speaker 1: you want to buy. We have a lot of young talent.
Speaker 1: I do some and you and I some so some
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like twenty guys, but but but
Speaker 1: I would say you know you you got you got
Speaker 1: actually took three years to get to the Pro Bowl. Fine,
Speaker 1: Minko is probably gonna be a Pro Bowl player, Thoms
Speaker 1: should probably be a good Jesse Davis played well for you.
Speaker 1: I think got you on Vincent Taylor or two guys
Speaker 1: you can build with. To me, the big question mark
Speaker 1: with the young guys or are those two linebackers gonna
Speaker 1: make that next step to being the type of linebackers
Speaker 1: you thought that they could be. And I'm not so
Speaker 1: you got a little bit. But but but the covers
Speaker 1: are not empty. Look I'm not I'm not dead on Gasecki.
Speaker 1: I think a year in the weight room, a little
Speaker 1: work in there, I think he's get Well you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get an argument from me on that talent. Better quarterbacks. Well,
Speaker 1: there you go. There there goes and to me, there
Speaker 1: we're going a lot of different avenues. There goes the
Speaker 1: ultimate decision on this football team this year, next year,
Speaker 1: the year after, whenever they make that decision. But before
Speaker 1: we get to that, let's kind of get back. Let's
Speaker 1: let's let's put the cart before the horse, because I'm
Speaker 1: pushing that car pretty hard, you know, on the quarterback there. Um,
Speaker 1: But but let's talk about these guys a little bit, Joe.
Speaker 1: The guys that that you've seen come through and look,
Speaker 1: you know, we we know him from arms and length.
Speaker 1: We know him from I remember at the Enemy when
Speaker 1: he played in Colorado. This guy, that guy, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. You know, I haven't
Speaker 1: delved into these guys, but obviously they're they've they've they've
Speaker 1: done enough to where they've putting themselves in the forefront
Speaker 1: of every coaching search that's out there. Right now. I
Speaker 1: have I have a whole bunch of thoughts because we've
Speaker 1: all talked about this a lot since the end of
Speaker 1: the season, even before. These guys are these defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: mostly that that we're talking about our offensive coordinators. We're
Speaker 1: talking about guys that have talented teams. We wouldn't argue
Speaker 1: that are having great success, whether Dallas Cowboys defense or
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs offense. That they're all coming from good programs.
Speaker 1: I've seen. I'm gonna think outside the box. Uh. The
Speaker 1: guy I like and been jumping all over is Darren Rizzy.
Speaker 1: I would love to see Darren Rizzy. He knows this thing,
Speaker 1: he's seen it. He's got tough love in him. I
Speaker 1: think a big thing is and it's not that though.
Speaker 1: Adam Gates under the bus, but he's been there his
Speaker 1: assistant head coach and has been involved in a lot
Speaker 1: of things to see it, I would say most things
Speaker 1: as a head coach. In other words, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you know, we know, we know Adam was Adam
Speaker 1: was a play caller. Adam play called and now what
Speaker 1: he was he game day? It was Rizzy that had
Speaker 1: the red flag in his pocket. It was Rizzy that
Speaker 1: made decisions on personnel. It was Rizzy that had time
Speaker 1: man clock management. So Rizzy wasn't was responsible on game day. Now,
Speaker 1: I look, I always I always try to to to
Speaker 1: to start out with this. I'm not in those meeting
Speaker 1: rooms behind closed doors, and that's where everything happens. We
Speaker 1: know that. But from a game day standpoint, to me,
Speaker 1: the guy that was most closest to the head to
Speaker 1: a head coach on that day Darren Rizzy, more so
Speaker 1: than Adam gave to me. Adam Gates was more of
Speaker 1: a on game day the same game day, was more
Speaker 1: of an offensive coordinator than a head coach, and Rizzy
Speaker 1: was more the head coach than the special team coaches
Speaker 1: on the team. I mean, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: when you go for evaluations of a roster from nine
Speaker 1: to fifty three or you know, practice squad, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: it's him usually from thirty five to forty to fifty
Speaker 1: three that's going yea or nay. You know, how does
Speaker 1: he fit for me? How many teams is he on?
Speaker 1: How how valuable is he as a defensive back or
Speaker 1: an outside linebacker or a wide receiver going down on
Speaker 1: special teams. That's the guy that's making the ultimate decision
Speaker 1: or the evaluation for that decision to be made. So
Speaker 1: for me, I think Darren Rizzy right now. No disrespect
Speaker 1: to anybody, we always have to start with that. No,
Speaker 1: I'm all right, does in Floridas do anything for me? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: does Eric Bienemy do anything for me? It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: they're not real good coaches. But I know this guy.
Speaker 1: I know what he brings to the table. Um Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you know, because we're not in the interview process
Speaker 1: to get to know these guys and evaluate them, apples
Speaker 1: apples to say like, Okay, I know what Darren is
Speaker 1: gonna bring to the table. I don't know what these guys.
Speaker 1: Rizzi's interview is legit that I hope it's legit. And
Speaker 1: they asked him stuff like he's a serious candidate, because
Speaker 1: if he's not, he's gone staying around because they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to keep him and he's gonna go. Now that
Speaker 1: one hurt. And that's another thing with Darren Rizzi. You know,
Speaker 1: look at all the look at the changes, all these
Speaker 1: head coaches that have come and gone, but they've all
Speaker 1: chosen to keep him. You know what why is that?
Speaker 1: You know they all have different opinions on the way
Speaker 1: they should run teams, the way they should where, the
Speaker 1: way they want to do things, but they've all kept him,
Speaker 1: all kept him. So the other thing is Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: Eric Biona Me, Chris Richard, Dennis Allen. What are they
Speaker 1: all have in common? What's the one thing they all
Speaker 1: have in common? I'll give it to you right now.
Speaker 1: Tom eighty um, the kid from what's the Kansas City Kids?
Speaker 1: The quarterback Mahomes? What Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott and Drew Brees.
Speaker 1: They all got damn good quarterbacks? Are they are? They?
Speaker 1: Are they a product or the quarterbacks product of the
Speaker 1: coordinator or the quarter or the coordinator's products. Think the
Speaker 1: fact that they've got one of them. They've all got
Speaker 1: very good quarterbacks. To have very good quarterbacks, and that's
Speaker 1: what you have to have in this Now you can
Speaker 1: say that for anybody in this league. By by the way,
Speaker 1: any well that that's what that was goes back to
Speaker 1: my point. Doesn't matter what the name of our quarterback
Speaker 1: is in the Miami Dolphins, you have to be able
Speaker 1: to get consistent play from that position, and sometimes you
Speaker 1: need that position to to mask a lot of deficiencies
Speaker 1: on your football team from week to week. If you
Speaker 1: don't have that in the National Football League over a
Speaker 1: sixteen game season, you're not getting to the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: every one of those guys that you mentioned on those
Speaker 1: teams and those players on those teams have guys at
Speaker 1: that position that are either gonna win you a game
Speaker 1: masks some deficiencies that you have. They're bad. Games aren't
Speaker 1: a hundred and five yards passing. So what you're saying
Speaker 1: until the front office, because it's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: front office, Chris Career and his gang, they got to
Speaker 1: find a quarterback before we have success with a head coach.
Speaker 1: They need to find saying I'm saying, to find consistent
Speaker 1: play from from either a draft choice or a or
Speaker 1: a free agent that that's gonna come in and be
Speaker 1: able to take the reins of this team for one
Speaker 1: or two years or whatever it is until you get
Speaker 1: your guy that you think is a franchise quarterback. I'm
Speaker 1: more and more convinced to be a successful head coach
Speaker 1: in this league you have to have a top ten quarterback.
Speaker 1: I bar none, it doesn't matter. And you know you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be a good quarterback coach unless you've got
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. You got it to me. I'm this
Speaker 1: league more and more and more has boiled down to
Speaker 1: that one position being the ultimate position in this and
Speaker 1: everyone it's a tame game. But yeah, it is a
Speaker 1: team game. But if you don't have that guy on
Speaker 1: your team, you ain't got much of a game. It's
Speaker 1: more of a quarterback league now with the new rules
Speaker 1: and ever we we we have got to find a quarterback.
Speaker 1: We can't. It's nothing against Ryan Tannell is a nice guy.
Speaker 1: Know he works hard and all that stuff. Just same
Speaker 1: mistakes are being popped up. Just drop back Sack. I
Speaker 1: know it's been through it. It's time to move on.
Speaker 1: He's thirty years old. This is not a twenty four
Speaker 1: year old guy. The experience, even going back that he
Speaker 1: played a wide receiver for a couple of years in college.
Speaker 1: It's over, like it's time to move on and get
Speaker 1: some new quarterbacks in here on this cross. No, there's
Speaker 1: no question there's a couple of rooms that are gonna
Speaker 1: be vacant that you're gonna go have a lot of
Speaker 1: occupancy to go out and have names and come in.
Speaker 1: And whether that's free agency, whether that's through the draft,
Speaker 1: whether it's a blend of two, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: few rooms. And I could I could go through the
Speaker 1: cornerbacks room and go, wow, you know after X, you
Speaker 1: know where you at. You can't keep Bobby outside. He's
Speaker 1: a nickel about that drop off at the second cornerback.
Speaker 1: It's about a cliff drop that we and what do
Speaker 1: you do a defensive end. I mean, you've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of names, but where's the production of a bunch
Speaker 1: of veterans They got to disside. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: decisions that need to be made about that one. Chris Career,
Speaker 1: by the way, got his he's got his work cut
Speaker 1: out with all these decisions, and he's got that big decision, Joe,
Speaker 1: that big decision right there is going to be what's
Speaker 1: gonna and and and looked at to me, you know,
Speaker 1: the big the whole to me, the whole landscape change
Speaker 1: in this upcoming draft. When Dwayne Haskins said, I'm in
Speaker 1: on the draft, whole new landscape, now everything changes. And
Speaker 1: and my position on that, if he's there, do whatever
Speaker 1: the hell you gotta do to get him. You're talking
Speaker 1: about John Harbor, hardball. We may have to trade for him, bullshit.
Speaker 1: I don't want to trade for a coach. If you
Speaker 1: if you want to trade for a coach, and then
Speaker 1: we'll lose for a couple of years till we get
Speaker 1: our guy. On't you want you put all your eggs
Speaker 1: in the basket trade for a quarterback. Still lose for
Speaker 1: another year too, But at least you got a quarterback
Speaker 1: that maybe your franchise guy a year or two down
Speaker 1: the road. You know what I mean. Agree, we need
Speaker 1: to put the car in front of the horse in
Speaker 1: this organization if you want to have success. I hope
Speaker 1: and everything I've heard the last two weeks about Haskins,
Speaker 1: I haven't heard one bad, not not one bad thing
Speaker 1: about physically all the things he can do. Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: if we got a nitpick hasn't played enough games in
Speaker 1: college played one year, and it might have to develop
Speaker 1: a little bit. But some of it throws Washington. And
Speaker 1: that zone defense was supposed to be so good, one
Speaker 1: of the best zonned defense in college football. He picked
Speaker 1: out apart like a fifth grade flag football team. He
Speaker 1: looked pretty damn good. There was a lot of games
Speaker 1: that he looked pretty damn good. Michigan. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: I look, I I'm and I've said this before and
Speaker 1: I'll continue to say it is this team is not
Speaker 1: going to get the traction that the fans want, that
Speaker 1: the organization wants until they get that guy in there.
Speaker 1: And you talk about Ryan Tannehills. The last four game,
Speaker 1: to me, the last four games that Ryan Tannehill played
Speaker 1: were the four most important games in his entire career
Speaker 1: because those were games that hey, meaningful games, chance to
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, chance to get to a winning record,
Speaker 1: just go out there and win and win. And I
Speaker 1: don't think either one any one of those games he
Speaker 1: threw from more than two yards. It was very pedestrian
Speaker 1: in in in every game, and and and bad in
Speaker 1: in you know, certainly the last game, right. So I
Speaker 1: mean your arguments, boy, Ryan Tannehill, if you're looking for so,
Speaker 1: I'm consistency you need. You need more consistency and a
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be able to win you two or
Speaker 1: three games a year. And I just I just hope
Speaker 1: that he's there in free agencies there in the draft.
Speaker 1: And it may not happen in a year or two,
Speaker 1: but it's it sure needs to restart that process again
Speaker 1: because we've gone down that exhaustive road way way too
Speaker 1: long in this situation that we're in. And and look,
Speaker 1: you know, you look around and you look at New
Speaker 1: England and they have Brady up there, but they also
Speaker 1: that the two guys, the kid that went out to
Speaker 1: San Francisco, you know, Garoppolos. I mean, he comes out
Speaker 1: there and all those all they do is start winning.
Speaker 1: You know, they had the other kid. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they they had good players that they had, you know,
Speaker 1: but and we're the we're kind of the lone range here.
Speaker 1: We got our one guy and let's kind of pick
Speaker 1: off the scrap heap a couple other guys that back
Speaker 1: there that know that if if if you if they've
Speaker 1: got to play, then you've got no chance to winning.
Speaker 1: We're having a young guy that we're really developing, which
Speaker 1: is we don't have that young guy that's like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get you and we see potential in you.
Speaker 1: We just got a bunch of big band aids in there.
Speaker 1: So Chris Greer coming into situation, we all know Chris Greer,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, and I think I'm assuming. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I like the I like to move with
Speaker 1: Chris uh and and it kind of goes part of
Speaker 1: it kind of goes along the line with me with
Speaker 1: with Darren Rizzy is you know, you look at the
Speaker 1: teams in this league that have been successful over the years,
Speaker 1: you know, the New York Giants, that the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh Steelers, you know the teams of that ILK
Speaker 1: they do. It's consistency, consistency in the front office consistency,
Speaker 1: not this constant churning of people that we've had here.
Speaker 1: And to me with with Chris coming in, and if
Speaker 1: you do make that move to keep down, it starts
Speaker 1: to give you a little bit of continuity of thought
Speaker 1: with this organization. Instead of going out and grabbing eric
Speaker 1: enemy and Eric comes in and says, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: You know, you guys have a quick team here. You
Speaker 1: know it wants to be a power team. Now, we
Speaker 1: gotta still still go start getting some big guys, which
Speaker 1: is a two to three year process. And then here
Speaker 1: we are sitting in two and three years going, he's
Speaker 1: that guy, Eric, the enemy, He's not winning. We need
Speaker 1: to get rid of this guy. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And that's where we've been and for
Speaker 1: that for that to happen, in my opinion, this process
Speaker 1: can't be a three year turn. Now. This cannot be
Speaker 1: a whoever whatever name gets underneath head coach of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins are beside. That title cannot be Hey, in
Speaker 1: three you've got three years, and if if you don't
Speaker 1: do it in three years, you're you're out. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, but it can't be. But but if you
Speaker 1: pick the right guy, you know you're gonna struggle next year.
Speaker 1: There's I don't care if you one of us three
Speaker 1: coaches team we're gonna struggle. No, I think we'd be
Speaker 1: all right. We're gonna win as many games whoever we
Speaker 1: bring in guarantee you. But my my thought on this
Speaker 1: is it's gotta be a five. It's gotta be at
Speaker 1: least five years to be the right guy. You have
Speaker 1: to pick the right guy and give him time because
Speaker 1: if you don't, just gonna be changing pain on the
Speaker 1: wall game, it's not gonna happen five years. You guys
Speaker 1: are dreaming. If you think a guy is gonna get
Speaker 1: five years, well you know, but but so if you don't.
Speaker 1: But Mr Rossa about I know, if you do, but
Speaker 1: what do you get? And like even when he came,
Speaker 1: We're gonna hire a guy for two years, and now
Speaker 1: he's on the hot seat. Yeah, well you know what.
Speaker 1: And so he says, look, we need to we we
Speaker 1: need to build through the draft, we need to build
Speaker 1: through young players all this, and he even said, hey,
Speaker 1: look it's time. If it's two years, if it's three years,
Speaker 1: gonna be two or three years. But but but the
Speaker 1: fan base, the fan base, they can't under they can't
Speaker 1: grasp that, you know, I mean, you can't blame the
Speaker 1: fans on this. Bo No, I'm not blaming the fans
Speaker 1: on it. And you know what, Joe you and you
Speaker 1: know it, and John you will anybody's been around this
Speaker 1: organization has had this conversation with some some dad or
Speaker 1: some mom. You know, my son is sixteen years old
Speaker 1: and he's never seen that the diamond offens be any good.
Speaker 1: Never and and and I never in my life would
Speaker 1: I think that word, that that phrase could be uttered
Speaker 1: from somebody's mouth about the Miami Dolphins and it'd be true.
Speaker 1: But that's where we are. But part of that reason
Speaker 1: is it's the one step forward to step back. So
Speaker 1: at some point you gotta plant your flag in the
Speaker 1: ground and say, this is my guy. I'm giving him
Speaker 1: a six year deal and he's gonna get six years
Speaker 1: to turn this around. You know, you can go back
Speaker 1: to Adam, you know, you know, to me, to me,
Speaker 1: Adam would be the guy I would invested more time
Speaker 1: in myself. You know, the guy comes in kind of
Speaker 1: gets things going. Next year, he loses his quarterback right
Speaker 1: off the bad you're bringing Jake Cutler, then you don't
Speaker 1: have you, then you then you get him, finally get
Speaker 1: him back, and you realize not the same guy he
Speaker 1: was when he got hurt two years ago. And now
Speaker 1: you've wasted two and a half years and injuries this year. Everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, everyone says, oh, everyone has the injuries.
Speaker 1: Everyone has injuries. This this team got gut punched almost
Speaker 1: every week beginning with Kilgore sitting William Hayes and on,
Speaker 1: and well, it was hard. It was hard on our depth.
Speaker 1: I mean it really exposed something. It exposed some positions
Speaker 1: of of that you felt like we're positions of strength
Speaker 1: in terms of playmakers and explosive plays and being able
Speaker 1: to be dynamic on offense to totally bringing you know,
Speaker 1: bringing guys in and and being happy that Frank at
Speaker 1: thirty five was able to get four yards on first down.
Speaker 1: You know, that's where we were sorounded. Yeah, that wasn't
Speaker 1: That's what I was hanging my hat on her. Frank's
Speaker 1: gonna get you three or four yards and flows down
Speaker 1: our offense. But it's so hard in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: with the way we played for the first maybe five
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, with all those four yard routes
Speaker 1: that went for fifty yard touchdowns, to to turn now
Speaker 1: and go okay, and how do we how do we
Speaker 1: mask our inefficiencies in terms of being able to get
Speaker 1: explosive plays, to be able to grind out ten twelve
Speaker 1: play drives without making a mistake or a pre snap
Speaker 1: penalty or a holding call or a drop and then
Speaker 1: punt the football back. That's where we were at. That's
Speaker 1: one side of the football. We're all so bad on
Speaker 1: the other side. Yeah, yeah, I got a feeling, Joe,
Speaker 1: you got you got something seething in you that I
Speaker 1: just think do I think it's really bad. I'm just
Speaker 1: not just not not enough. Has turned out to be
Speaker 1: a wasted Not that these guys are totally on the watch,
Speaker 1: although Mike Tannebaum was um, but that's that's a waste
Speaker 1: that's gone. One guy was we we released a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle that we needed help at and Avante lost his confidence,
Speaker 1: got injured. That combo he was just played his worst
Speaker 1: football year. He just he just got worse. So now
Speaker 1: you're putting added pressure on T. Six team, which has
Speaker 1: been really good. Great draft, and to be seen right right,
Speaker 1: I agree with that some good picks don't make his fantastic.
Speaker 1: I know Maka unfortunately this rookie class of first round
Speaker 1: picks at the end of really good. But what Minka
Speaker 1: did this year, yea, he ended up being by far
Speaker 1: your second best cover corner. Hey, look to me, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's he's one of the top two or three
Speaker 1: players on your football team. I mean, can you hope
Speaker 1: for the first time you hope for a long time.
Speaker 1: The other question, now that you know they're talking about
Speaker 1: X and his contract and you know there's room at all,
Speaker 1: can you afford to keep him? I mean, you know
Speaker 1: that's and Joe you kind of touched on a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, you need to become a football team that
Speaker 1: just because you don't get along with a player, or
Speaker 1: just because you know you can't give away talent. You
Speaker 1: can't give away the talent you've got because you you
Speaker 1: you can't manage them. You need to figure out how
Speaker 1: to manage them, keep them and have them be productive,
Speaker 1: not just say you know, god, this guy doesn't you
Speaker 1: have to coach, doesn't Okay, they didn't get out of here,
Speaker 1: You're out of here. You know, believe if that happened there,
Speaker 1: you know, we wouldn't have had a team. If you know,
Speaker 1: if everyone that after coach, you know, after coach, there
Speaker 1: have been he'd have been playing with Corn and Billy
Speaker 1: Davis or something like that. Bringing up some old names there.
Speaker 1: Right there, boy, you just hit a rock bottom from
Speaker 1: old school right there. You made your points strong right, Okay,
Speaker 1: So anyway, so so getting back to the coach, I mean,
Speaker 1: I would assume and I would assume that this this process,
Speaker 1: what do you give another week? Within maybe another week,
Speaker 1: everybody out the talk to anybody you're still playing. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's gonna be a couple other names that
Speaker 1: are going to surface in terms of being able to
Speaker 1: have their availability a little bit earlier for their interview,
Speaker 1: and if they decide on them, could happen before the weekend.
Speaker 1: But the four names that they brought in, the four
Speaker 1: coaches that they brought in, are still coaching, so no
Speaker 1: decision is going to be made before Sunday. Well, and
Speaker 1: the other thing is a lot of those guys are
Speaker 1: being interviewed for other places, and there's some of those
Speaker 1: other places might be better jobs. They are much higher
Speaker 1: on the list. I was kind of compiling names and teams,
Speaker 1: and you can go six, seven, and eight in any
Speaker 1: order you want out of the eight jobs available, and
Speaker 1: we're one of those three high in my opinion, that's
Speaker 1: pretty accurate opinion right there. I'd agree, Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know they're you know, they're just you start to think about, um,
Speaker 1: guys that that aren't interviewing for this this this job,
Speaker 1: and you wonder who whose decision is that? Is that
Speaker 1: the team says, oh, you know, we're we're just not
Speaker 1: the interest, with the guys saying ath like, I thanks,
Speaker 1: but no thanks. I've seen that. I've seen. I see
Speaker 1: what's going on down there, and I'm not real comfortable
Speaker 1: with diving into that pool until you guys find some
Speaker 1: in structured right now. Though, I will say one thing
Speaker 1: with Chris career, I think he's well respected. People don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think questions for me and I still don't know.
Speaker 1: And if you guys know, maybe you can answer this
Speaker 1: for everybody when this comes out. I need your help
Speaker 1: on this. So Adam Gates had finals say Chris crews
Speaker 1: in the middle, do whatever you need. I'll go out
Speaker 1: and find him. But but I also have some say so.
Speaker 1: And then Mike Tannon bombs at the top, who had
Speaker 1: VP of football operations. He's running the show, so who
Speaker 1: had final say on all that stuff. I'm still yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I can't three guys can't make a decision,
Speaker 1: ain't buying. No one's gonna agree. We could sit here
Speaker 1: all day and us and I would say this, I
Speaker 1: would say that when when it comes to the j Gies,
Speaker 1: the the Jarvis Landry's and Dominican sus my my guess
Speaker 1: would be that's that's an Adam move right there and
Speaker 1: nobody else. And he may have a command to convince
Speaker 1: those guys. He was, but he was the impetus three
Speaker 1: and he's mpet behind that the other the other stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, you know who signed this guy, who signed
Speaker 1: that guy that that let's extend this guy, Let's let's
Speaker 1: get the kindent, we free up some money, let's give
Speaker 1: this guy. Think he'll be around and be a good
Speaker 1: player for another year. So speaking of that, when when
Speaker 1: we talk about X, because again going back to to
Speaker 1: my thought is, you know, don't let your good players
Speaker 1: go keep your players. And I think we you know,
Speaker 1: I was. I was having a conversation with it with
Speaker 1: a friend of mine last night and we're talking about it,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know, I've I've all, I've gotten
Speaker 1: to the point now in free agency when the Dolphins
Speaker 1: signed somebody a free agent, Hey, this guy's out there,
Speaker 1: we want that guy, we want that And I've gotten
Speaker 1: the point now where my first thought when they signed
Speaker 1: a guy is well, how come they didn't want to
Speaker 1: sign him? How come those guys that know him the best,
Speaker 1: that's that have had him for four or five years,
Speaker 1: and his team, how come they don't want him anymore?
Speaker 1: How come they're willing to let him go to free
Speaker 1: agency without compensation? Come? Then, what what you know? You know?
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I'm saying? Are are we just?
Speaker 1: You know? Are we have we become everybody's garbage sheep,
Speaker 1: every's garbage disposal? Hey, you know, this guy's a really
Speaker 1: good player. You know what we're going, They're going to
Speaker 1: meet all they're going, we need to get rid of
Speaker 1: this guy because he can't play, and those guys they
Speaker 1: need a Cornerbacks of the time, you think of the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers when when that happens? Those two teams that
Speaker 1: have been very successful over a number of years. But
Speaker 1: I would say there's been on a couple of occasions
Speaker 1: that when I saw William Hayes come, I was elated.
Speaker 1: Yes to see a guy who didn't say much went
Speaker 1: out and worked his ass off at practice and went
Speaker 1: out in games and played multiple positions. I was going, Wow,
Speaker 1: he's almost as good or better than anybody we've got yes,
Speaker 1: I tell he he was before he got hurt. He
Speaker 1: was he was, he was the best defensive line we
Speaker 1: had before he got close. I would, but the injury bug, yep.
Speaker 1: There it is the same thing with the left cards
Speaker 1: and there in is the same thing with free agency.
Speaker 1: Is you know we've made you go back to Mark
Speaker 1: Dixon and back to those guys right even back then
Speaker 1: where you got, Oh, this guy played for so and so.
Speaker 1: It was a really good player, but had some injury problems.
Speaker 1: So we signed him and then what do you get
Speaker 1: It gets injured and has an injury problem. Did that
Speaker 1: with Kilgore? Did? It was sitting and we and over
Speaker 1: the years that's been the case. And you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's that old thing, you know, if you if you
Speaker 1: if you don't learn by your mistakes, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: just continue to make those same mistakes over and over
Speaker 1: and at some point. But look, having said that, you
Speaker 1: know there's a new guy in charge now. Chris Greer
Speaker 1: is a guy with clear thinking. His thought process and
Speaker 1: will time will tell what his process and thoughts on
Speaker 1: free agency. Putting this roster together, keeping guys like like
Speaker 1: Xavian and and so, I was kind of leading to
Speaker 1: the point about X. What do you do with X?
Speaker 1: X is gonna want? You know, you want the top
Speaker 1: cornerback money a lot of money, right and moving forward,
Speaker 1: I think you have to find a way to keep them.
Speaker 1: I think you have to find a way to keep
Speaker 1: whatever you can think. He's one of you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about Minka, and we talked about him playing multiple positions.
Speaker 1: He's probably the second best cover guy we have. But
Speaker 1: he's a natural safety in the National Football League in
Speaker 1: my opinion watching a movie. Now, he can play corner
Speaker 1: and he can guard you, but I think he's more natural.
Speaker 1: You want to put him off from the middle, you know,
Speaker 1: making place in there. So when you look at the roster,
Speaker 1: if you don't have X on it, boy, you've got
Speaker 1: a lot of you got to keep problem to keep
Speaker 1: your good players. You got a lot of problems players.
Speaker 1: We sit here and bitch that we we end up
Speaker 1: having all these first and second and third round picks
Speaker 1: and I'll work out and we end up getting rid
Speaker 1: of him before their contracts are even done. Finally we
Speaker 1: got some guys want to keep it Now comes down
Speaker 1: to money. I want to have that problem. Every year
Speaker 1: Tuncil has gotten really good at left tackle, and now
Speaker 1: we gotta pay him, you know, probably like je if
Speaker 1: that guy makes guy makes all this incentive, man, you
Speaker 1: an extra five million dollars. I wish I had to
Speaker 1: pay him ten million dollars if it's all on incentives,
Speaker 1: you know, because you're gonna get the best out of
Speaker 1: the guy. But you know, I'm with you. You gotta
Speaker 1: keep these guys, and you gotta look, I'm so I'm
Speaker 1: so tired of this salary cap bullshit that because everyonees on,
Speaker 1: we're tucked. Sorry, But the point being is this. I
Speaker 1: remember a few years back, Tampa went on a tear
Speaker 1: just signing guys, and I'm going, how the hell can
Speaker 1: they sign all these a big contracts? And it made
Speaker 1: me realize, these guys can manipulate this salary cap in
Speaker 1: ways to fit whatever they want in there. So don't
Speaker 1: sit here and tell me I can't. We can't. We
Speaker 1: can't sign X one, one of our best players, one
Speaker 1: of our two or three best players. We can't sign
Speaker 1: him because he wants too much money. When you look
Speaker 1: at everyone else, you're gonase that guy's got an all
Speaker 1: pro in that corner. You gotta allpro on that corner.
Speaker 1: You gotta all pro line. Those guys are all making money.
Speaker 1: How can you fit them in? And and we can't.
Speaker 1: You know, there's gotta be I say, damn the salary cap.
Speaker 1: Push it as far as you can get your people
Speaker 1: in here and money world. But but that's what you've got,
Speaker 1: you know. You know what, And I'm gonna say we
Speaker 1: because we're involved with this organization, we've got no one
Speaker 1: to blame but ourselves. We have no one to blame
Speaker 1: for ourselves for the situation we're in right now. Salary cap,
Speaker 1: dead money cap, all those types of things. They decided
Speaker 1: to give Ryan a hundred and whatever million dollars they
Speaker 1: did a few years ago. That's on that's on this team.
Speaker 1: Ryan didn't Hey, Ryan wasn't didn't. I didn't hold a
Speaker 1: gun to his head. You know they made you tell me.
Speaker 1: They don't say to Ryan, hey will give you eighty
Speaker 1: five million? Get where do I sign? You know? Thank you?
Speaker 1: I'll work hard over there. Every cut my finger, I'll
Speaker 1: use the blood right if I can't find a pen,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's you know, you just gotta
Speaker 1: you just gotta do it. But it made some bad decisions.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody wants to take responsibility, whether
Speaker 1: it's coach, GM VP of football operations. We made some
Speaker 1: bad decisions put us in this situation, but I'm with you.
Speaker 1: That doesn't stop me from getting guys signed. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it, especially when they're they're impact and they're young. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that are going to be able to grow with the organizations.
Speaker 1: Come on, we had to keep those guys. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I came John, we had this conversation before I go
Speaker 1: back to when I came into the league that the
Speaker 1: seventeen O team they were all getting along in the tooth.
Speaker 1: And I remember I came in. I think Dicky Anderson
Speaker 1: was on injured reserve. I think Manny Fernandez on injured
Speaker 1: dessert reserve, Bill Stanfield. They were all, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is the end of your career. You just start
Speaker 1: breaking down, and and that's what they had. And so
Speaker 1: then they then they draft they draft myself, uh, Larry
Speaker 1: Gordon and Duriel. The next year they draft a j
Speaker 1: and bomb Hower. The next year they get Dwight Tony
Speaker 1: Nathan don McNeil, and all of a sudden, you put
Speaker 1: three drafts together and now you got a nucleus. You
Speaker 1: just named ten or twelve really good, and you go
Speaker 1: and you go, and you've got to you've got a team.
Speaker 1: You know what. I would like to grab all these
Speaker 1: young guys and put them in a room and say, look,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, when you go to you go
Speaker 1: to go to Colorado, anyone knows who you are, and
Speaker 1: anyone recognize you. No, No, when you go to New Orleans,
Speaker 1: any reckon, I don't know. I said, you know what
Speaker 1: I go places now, I'm sixty four years old, and people, hey,
Speaker 1: you can both yeah. And you know why that is
Speaker 1: because we played in playoff games. We played on Natalie
Speaker 1: televised games, we played on Monday night games, we played
Speaker 1: on Thursday night games. Everybody in the country saw us play.
Speaker 1: No one sees these guys play. You want people to
Speaker 1: know you, get your ass out there, police your own
Speaker 1: locker room, make sure the guys who want a player
Speaker 1: playing and the other ones tell him, get the hell
Speaker 1: out of my huddle. Get someone else in there. Do
Speaker 1: you guys be the backbone of the team and and
Speaker 1: and police your team and and and making a team
Speaker 1: instead of being guys and oh jee oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: get my carries and you know it's at some point.
Speaker 1: That's my point being, at some point the players need
Speaker 1: to look themselves in the mirror and say this ship
Speaker 1: is on us, not none. You know, coaches are coaches.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that stuff is changed in
Speaker 1: the league. Both, No, you don't want to hear that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to agree with it. But but until
Speaker 1: what's going on in Pittsburgh. Yeah, the ultimate in continuity.
Speaker 1: They have a quarterback, and they have and they have
Speaker 1: you know, a coach that's been there for a long
Speaker 1: time and ever, and they have stability in the front office.
Speaker 1: You know, it could happen anywhere. But but going back
Speaker 1: to one of our points that we were talking about,
Speaker 1: that's why I think this time around, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to create some sense of stability at the top. Now,
Speaker 1: So say say you have Now it's streamlined with Chris
Speaker 1: career as the g M, he's making all football decisions. Great,
Speaker 1: I'm all on board with it. We got one guy
Speaker 1: doing it. Whoever, the head coach is bringing a quality
Speaker 1: defensive offensive coordinator, let them run both sides of the football.
Speaker 1: Be the CEO of this football team and see how
Speaker 1: it works. For three or four years, that way. You know,
Speaker 1: we've tried the other ways. Obviously, the other ways are
Speaker 1: it's like a roller coaster. You know, you're gonna struggle
Speaker 1: with the roster that you have, but you're trying to
Speaker 1: build on the sixteen draft, the seventeen draft, the eighteen draft,
Speaker 1: and hopefully the nineteen draft. And and that's kind of
Speaker 1: the point I was trying to make, is that you've
Speaker 1: got some guys here that that you can build around,
Speaker 1: some young guys I think got you on Taylor. Those
Speaker 1: guys have you kind of worked on the right way, Taylor,
Speaker 1: no doubt about. So you've got some guys there. Is
Speaker 1: that is that enough for you to be a team
Speaker 1: that's gonna be five hundred when ten games next year?
Speaker 1: I don't think it is. You gotta put some but
Speaker 1: but but at least and Joe, maybe maybe I'm the
Speaker 1: guy that's just I'm grasping for I'm grasping for a
Speaker 1: vine here, you know, I'm I'm swinging through the John.
Speaker 1: I was grasping for a vine to say, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is good enough to get me where I need to go.
Speaker 1: You know, instead of grabbing on this one over here,
Speaker 1: there's gonna drop my ass into the quicksand and then yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you never see me again. Oh, we don't
Speaker 1: want that. But you're feeling better for a couple of months,
Speaker 1: he's crawled himself back to us. I have been I've
Speaker 1: seen you know, And so I think you've been beat
Speaker 1: down by the Joseph Pembroke Pines and and the Billy's
Speaker 1: from Cooper City. And I've been beat down by stories
Speaker 1: of coming out out of this facility, from veteran players
Speaker 1: telling young guys not to play at the end of
Speaker 1: the year because we're not playing for nothing. You've got
Speaker 1: a new contract to get hey, man, make sure you
Speaker 1: get your money. And instead, and you got a coaching
Speaker 1: staff called, man, we need to win some these freaking games.
Speaker 1: And you realize you've got questionable guys and now they're
Speaker 1: not playing because you know, and it's just it's frustrating
Speaker 1: to hear. But and then I gotta step back and
Speaker 1: go the game has changed, man, because it's not just here,
Speaker 1: it's everywhere everywhere and stuff. I never thought you put
Speaker 1: your if you put your finger right on when when
Speaker 1: when The Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the great franchises in
Speaker 1: the history of the National Football League, when you talk
Speaker 1: about stability, what they've had three coaches, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: and players that have been there forever. When they start
Speaker 1: coming apart at the seams, then you know players are
Speaker 1: changing in this league. I mean in a big, big way.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's let's let's take one more step forward,
Speaker 1: our our buddy Brent Grimes. You know, here's a guy
Speaker 1: comes out after the season and says he was what
Speaker 1: he felt disrespected. He asked to play against the top
Speaker 1: receiver and Tonio Brown because to take him all over,
Speaker 1: because he wasn't making enough money to be that guy. Right,
Speaker 1: that's his You're not paying me enough money to go
Speaker 1: cover that guy. With the money you're paying me, I
Speaker 1: can only cover the second and third receivers, you know,
Speaker 1: not the first receiver. What kind of bullshit is that?
Speaker 1: How do you come over to the sideline to tell
Speaker 1: the coach say, you know what, I want you to
Speaker 1: follow an Tony Brown? No, no, coach, you're not paying
Speaker 1: money and I've been working at that guy. I'll go
Speaker 1: with this other guy over there. You know. I It's disgusting,
Speaker 1: is what it is that's coming out from guys. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, Wow, there's just it's unbelievable. Yeah, the guys
Speaker 1: that feel disrespected or wondering because you're you're the best
Speaker 1: corner on the team and you're being asked to take
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown mirror them all over the field, Like that's
Speaker 1: a compliment. Man. Your coaches think you're really good and
Speaker 1: that we'll give you some help in certain situations, but
Speaker 1: we want you to take them, and you take that
Speaker 1: as disrespect. That's the most respect you can you know.
Speaker 1: I'm watching now, have to have a salary cap on. Hey,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, no, get over here on this guy.
Speaker 1: You're paying you waiting. It is time out. Somebody called
Speaker 1: time and we got we don't have enough money on
Speaker 1: the field. The bottom part of that big paper is
Speaker 1: like who can play where and when? No, no, wait,
Speaker 1: wait wait, let me tweet my agent, let me teck
Speaker 1: on my let me pull my phone out and check
Speaker 1: on my That's the other thing I'm I'm watching pregame more.
Speaker 1: The guy's got their phones in their pocket. I'm going, really,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't leave the locker room and go
Speaker 1: out in the field and get warmed up. So and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about I'm not talking about just the Dolphins
Speaker 1: I'm talking about every you know, the phones in their
Speaker 1: pockets and yeah, hey, hey, what's going I'm thinking, really,
Speaker 1: I don't know it's but look, look we can look
Speaker 1: at it has changed, and the league's change, and the
Speaker 1: players are changing, their attitudes are changing. I think agents
Speaker 1: have really really gummed this whole thing up, like from
Speaker 1: from from everything from from leaks that are coming out
Speaker 1: to when guys should player, when they shouldn't play, you know,
Speaker 1: the ankle stor you know, you know you shouldn't go
Speaker 1: out there and play. And meanwhile, I'm standing on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: I'm watching Bobby McCain all year. He had like what
Speaker 1: he went out twice with concussion protocol twice or three times.
Speaker 1: He's got other other problems, and I'm talking to doctor
Speaker 1: and they go, damn, Kim, we we can't keep this
Speaker 1: guy off the field. That guy, that guy, you know,
Speaker 1: he could have his arm dangling out there and he's
Speaker 1: whatever you want, I don't care who you want me
Speaker 1: to cover, you know you And and maybe maybe you've
Speaker 1: got to be a maybe if you're a GM a
Speaker 1: personnel guy, maybe your mindset has to be, hey, let
Speaker 1: me let me, let me just get those guys. Let
Speaker 1: me get as many of those guys I can, and
Speaker 1: not those guys that in the fourth quarter of a
Speaker 1: game when the game's on the line and you asked
Speaker 1: him to do something, the guy said, I don't do that. No,
Speaker 1: I don't do that. You know, that's not my that's
Speaker 1: not my thing. You know. I just think boat coaches
Speaker 1: today and I only have to coach, But they have
Speaker 1: to have different personalities for different guys. The old school
Speaker 1: of hey, this is the way we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Damn it. I don't think it's had way both. I
Speaker 1: think everybody's got different personalities. They grew up differently. And
Speaker 1: it's it's also a byproduct of a free agency Joe
Speaker 1: back in the day before even even when you had
Speaker 1: Plan B, which was a very limited free agent situation,
Speaker 1: you have nowhere to go. So that coach was gonna
Speaker 1: dictate to you, Well, what whether it's Chuck Nol, whether
Speaker 1: it was Tom Landry, whether it's Dick Nolan, you know,
Speaker 1: bum Field, whoever it was, that guy was gonna be
Speaker 1: the determining factor on what your career was going to be. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, you come to a team and you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta coach. It's a yeller and screamer, and I
Speaker 1: don't think there are very many of those guys. You
Speaker 1: can't be those guys in because if you're a yelling,
Speaker 1: screamer and you keep beating somebody down, you know the
Speaker 1: guy's gonna Hey, you know what, jeez, another another six months.
Speaker 1: I'm a free agent and I ain't coming here. I'm out.
Speaker 1: I'm out. These guys are too mean here. They yelled
Speaker 1: too much and we worked too hard. I'm getting out
Speaker 1: of here right. You know. It's like when I went
Speaker 1: to I went to u n l V to visit
Speaker 1: to visit a recruiting trip, and and Ron Meyer was
Speaker 1: a coach here and I talked to five players and
Speaker 1: they go, you know what, man, we have the hardest
Speaker 1: practices in the country. I said, well, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Thanks, That's all I needed and be coming here.
Speaker 1: Friend of samose state where we had popsicle breaks and says, he,
Speaker 1: this is more, this is more of my Now. I
Speaker 1: made the right decision. Yeah, man, Hey, you know what.
Speaker 1: You can listen to this on the Apple Music tune
Speaker 1: in Radio, Dolphins app, Dolphins dot Com, and Joey's your
Speaker 1: phone that there has been in your back pocket. It
Speaker 1: looks like he's got a little little bow to it. Man,
Speaker 1: Well you sit on it a little bit, and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't answer calls, so absolutely, yeah, it is a
Speaker 1: little crooked. Yeah, it looks like a little I don't
Speaker 1: know how because I've been talking on a much. No, no,
Speaker 1: I've been listening on it sometimes. Who it is? All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so here we are. I mean, but you know, it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's I would I wouldn't say semi anial,
Speaker 1: but it's a triannual. It seems like a triannual time
Speaker 1: for us in this situation. And so John, when let's
Speaker 1: kind of let's kind of time frame some things a
Speaker 1: little bit here. The Senior Bowl is when Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: is the end of January Super Bowl, and so I'm
Speaker 1: my assumption is that teams want to have their head
Speaker 1: coach in place and some staff in place before that begins,
Speaker 1: so they can start the evaluation process. And as we
Speaker 1: all know, the Senior Bowl, if you've got a few
Speaker 1: spots to feel there are plenty of guys there. There's
Speaker 1: plenty of those guys there that, Yeah, everybody looking for
Speaker 1: a job goes you need an offense and coach. Well,
Speaker 1: I've never been an offensive line coach, but I can
Speaker 1: do the job. I guarantee I can do that job.
Speaker 1: I've been getting a lot of calls recently, many dias
Speaker 1: people have been asking me about many hiring coaches. People
Speaker 1: wanted to get to him that you know, guys looking
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah. Absolutely, those those jobs for offensive coaching staff. Right,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's probably talking about um, there's probably former
Speaker 1: players that are lining up that want to be able
Speaker 1: to be positioned for receiver coaches, defensive back coaches, offensive
Speaker 1: line coaches. I'm sure that's happening. Hey, uh not not
Speaker 1: to not to kind of jump out of this for
Speaker 1: a second, but uh, I gotta, I gotta go to
Speaker 1: the National championship. Clemson and Alabama really really one of
Speaker 1: the great nights to watch football. Just that sour puss
Speaker 1: on the Alabama sideline fall almost from the get go,
Speaker 1: was was just it was just a wonderful experiences in
Speaker 1: a great mood, and I was trying to why am
Speaker 1: I such a great mood? The game ended up not
Speaker 1: being that good. Clempson kicked their ass Alabama, that great offense,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest offenses in college football score three
Speaker 1: points the last three quarters. Junking. Why do I feel
Speaker 1: like this? Could you can imagine? I mean I was.
Speaker 1: I thought Clemson did a great job everything, every position,
Speaker 1: every single position. They took an ingredient from every team
Speaker 1: that Alabama played and applied it to what they do
Speaker 1: well offensively and scheme the hell out of him now defensively.
Speaker 1: The zone blitz is that the disguising that being able
Speaker 1: to be predictable for Alabama to come out and go,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do what we do. This is our side
Speaker 1: of justice. Is how we run it. Clemson to them
Speaker 1: from the opening whistle. I turned it off in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I didn't see a whole lot of celebration
Speaker 1: to miss anything, but it was the two the two
Speaker 1: big guys inside were just disruptive all night long. And
Speaker 1: they try to run those little belly options and little
Speaker 1: things and they just blew everything up in there. And
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I knew Clemson was a good
Speaker 1: football team. Uh you know, obviously they've been there for
Speaker 1: the last four years. But boy, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I mean. I thought that Alabama. I thought they're athletes,
Speaker 1: would would would eventually take eventually take over. But Clemson, well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you they just and and listen to Dabbo
Speaker 1: Sweeney after the game, the anti Nick, I mean he
Speaker 1: still I think I think it's I think his interview
Speaker 1: on the field was like about fifteen minutes to still
Speaker 1: be talking about fun for those He really does he
Speaker 1: lost those players, Boohn. He matches talent pretty good, no doubt. Clemson, like,
Speaker 1: we looked at your talent across the board, and we
Speaker 1: actually like a lot of our matchups, like the Clemson
Speaker 1: wide receivers Clemson freshman quarterback. Yeah, well they had the kid,
Speaker 1: the number four, that receiver. I guess he was a
Speaker 1: guy that Nick really coveted. Nick was he and he
Speaker 1: slipped over to uh going over? Yeah. But I think
Speaker 1: Dabbo relishes in the fact that he plays that underdog
Speaker 1: role no matter who they're playing. I'm with you on
Speaker 1: that behind, I'm with you on He goes, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're better than this football team. I went through every matchup.
Speaker 1: We're better. I'm a better coach, you're a better player,
Speaker 1: I guarantee. He tells him that. But but in public,
Speaker 1: I think he kind of yeah, he does. He plays
Speaker 1: that old country boy. Right, well, dag nab, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna bring my fellas out here and
Speaker 1: hopefully because we got a chance. You know, the first
Speaker 1: thing you brought up after the game, I saw it
Speaker 1: this morning. So after the game, he says, yeah, all
Speaker 1: the talk was about one of the greatest college football teams.
Speaker 1: I knew that we're fifteen and know, but they were
Speaker 1: talking about Nick. So he took that time. He took
Speaker 1: that time to begin his recruiting process right then, right now,
Speaker 1: no question. Yeah, Alabama. Yeah, they're a great football team,
Speaker 1: great football team. We're the first you know, what was
Speaker 1: it four touchdowns? We beat him by Yeah, beat him
Speaker 1: by by four touchdowns. So yeah, don't don't know. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. He that that football team is loaded.
Speaker 1: Now you look at those two teams, look at Alabama Clemson,
Speaker 1: and how far behind everybody because you look at those
Speaker 1: semifinal games except maybe Georgia, Georgia, Georgia would be off
Speaker 1: e how State Michigan gotta be scratching their head a
Speaker 1: little bit with we may have there. They're probably in
Speaker 1: the mindset on our best day, yeah, yeah, but on
Speaker 1: our best on our best day, and they've got a
Speaker 1: kind of they've gotta they gotta slip up a little bit,
Speaker 1: they've gotta they gotta make some mistakes out there. But
Speaker 1: I thought the coaching, though, made the difference. Clemson baited
Speaker 1: Alabama some throws that they knew in that blitz break off,
Speaker 1: the blitz break off that we used to run, and
Speaker 1: after a while everybody knew, like, guy over just coming,
Speaker 1: we can't block him, run a quick out. They baited
Speaker 1: Clemson's corners. They didn't even budge. They got one of
Speaker 1: the judy on the outside of the fastest guys in
Speaker 1: the country. He played six yards off with his head
Speaker 1: right on the quarterback. His eyes were on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: The guy could have ran right by him, but he
Speaker 1: knew he wasn't going to. He stepped that and looked
Speaker 1: that way. He didn't like. Then they run the run,
Speaker 1: the fake fake field goal, and that thing was like, surprise,
Speaker 1: I'm looking the guy that the defensive linement almost snapped.
Speaker 1: That guy snapped kicker almost snapped him in half when
Speaker 1: he brought him down. So yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: very impressive, really impressive by uh by Clemson. And you
Speaker 1: know what's funny, you watch that game. And you know,
Speaker 1: one side is loose, one side is having fun, and
Speaker 1: obviously the score dictates that. But but you know, even
Speaker 1: on even on Alabama's if Alabama was winning, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: be as loose. And you know and and and his
Speaker 1: egg is active. Is that Clemson sideline was the semifinal games.
Speaker 1: If you'd have told me that was the score, I
Speaker 1: would have said, no, no way, correct. I think Alabama.
Speaker 1: I thought Alabama. You just said that it's gonna be blowout.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a blowout, that someone's gonna win by
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. You go, Alabam right, Alabama? Right after it
Speaker 1: was gonna be the other way. Alright, fellas, So that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it from the program, but a little better
Speaker 1: mood next, No, no, no, no. I like it when
Speaker 1: you when you're a little salty here. You know, you
Speaker 1: come in and bring some of that that radio dirt
Speaker 1: with you. You know that that that Buffalo game I
Speaker 1: was with you was a little bit of a punch
Speaker 1: in the stomach. Yeah it was. Well, look I I
Speaker 1: I still kind of believe that had had had that
Speaker 1: been a better played game and maybe you lost by
Speaker 1: three or you beat one that game. We still have
Speaker 1: the same head coach here right now. I think that
Speaker 1: was just such a game. But I think he was
Speaker 1: teetering on it right there. But that that that game,
Speaker 1: that performance, that lack of performance, Um, it's just too
Speaker 1: too much, overlook a lot of money to be on
Speaker 1: that private plane coming back to South floor more Dan Marino. No,
Speaker 1: we were on the uh, Tom Guard, Finkel, Mike Tannonball
Speaker 1: and the owner piste Off in front of all those
Speaker 1: security guys. I went up. I went up into the
Speaker 1: tunnel to get ready for the post game show with
Speaker 1: about six minutes left in the game, about six minutes left,
Speaker 1: So I walk up there and I'm standing waiting to
Speaker 1: go in, and there's a there's a little monitor so
Speaker 1: I could watch the watch what was going on the game.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, the elevator opens up and
Speaker 1: here comes the crowd, right you know, Danny, Nat, Tom,
Speaker 1: Mr Ross, all the security guys, and I looked at
Speaker 1: their face and I went, oh, this isn't a good thing.
Speaker 1: Isn't a good thing? Serious? You know what? Meeting getting
Speaker 1: ready to I just felt like after the game, he
Speaker 1: was I see Steve Ross going you you you you you,
Speaker 1: and you on my plane. You're coming home. What about
Speaker 1: our luggage. We'll get it home. Don't worry. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: You'll get your luggage, Get your ass on the plane.
Speaker 1: That'd be on comfortable, I feel I would. If they
Speaker 1: walked by me as I was going, I'm telling you what,
Speaker 1: I was standing right there when they walked by. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of trying to give him the like the lazy eye,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm kind of looking, but I'm kind of
Speaker 1: like letting it droop down little bit because I did
Speaker 1: that too. I looked and I saw pissed everybody was,
Speaker 1: and I kind of looked down at my sandwich, like
Speaker 1: I've never seen the sandwich. I'm saying, I got my
Speaker 1: little clip works. They walked, they walked by, took my clip.
Speaker 1: Hey see what am I looking for here? Yeah? That
Speaker 1: was We're going to the principal's office and this is
Speaker 1: not you know, I gotta tell you. The only the
Speaker 1: only situation I've been in when in a staff situation
Speaker 1: like that was more uncomfortable than that was when we
Speaker 1: were coming back from London, uh, the day before they
Speaker 1: let go Joe Philbin. Because we're coming through Heathrow Airport,
Speaker 1: which is a crowded, crowded airport, and we had to
Speaker 1: go through T s A. And she had those lines
Speaker 1: at zigzag So you'd walk by then, so you're kind
Speaker 1: of you're kind of coming from and everybody everybody knew,
Speaker 1: and and you'd walk back and here you're going, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Turn? Hey, look at look at there's
Speaker 1: gate fifty three over. That was the most awkward time
Speaker 1: because the signal had already been by everybody. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: throw cutting the philbin was gone and he was still
Speaker 1: going through. And I was like, it was Joe, Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: I didn't say I didn't say I I I avoided
Speaker 1: I can you know he had his wife with him too,
Speaker 1: and you just well you talk about just an uncomfortable
Speaker 1: to thinking about. You're you're done as soon as we
Speaker 1: get offer. I tried to get to sleep as fast
Speaker 1: as possible on that airplane. Oh that's a bad feeling.
Speaker 1: That store is a good way to end it right there.
Speaker 1: That's a good way to Our stories used to be about. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: you know when that game in the last minute. Now
Speaker 1: it's like man walking down that coach when he was
Speaker 1: getting well write a book on some of the awkward.
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