WEBVTT - Drive Time: Introducing Anthony Weaver 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.560 To on the move going. 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:08.600 Jeeve spiegwas peas dolls from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.720 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 He's good, my advans in the playoffs. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.920 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.800 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.600 it's the Anthony Weaver episode. He is here, his defense 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.520 is here. He's in the building. He is glorious. He's 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.479 here to coach defense and chew bubble gum and you 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:43.040 know the rest. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:44.600 He's all out of the bubble gum. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.000 We're gonna go ahead and meet Coach Weaver his introduction 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.280 press conference today. But first we're gonna hear from Mark Vandermere, 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.320 the voice of the Houston Texans, who covered Coach Weaver 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.200 his loan season as a DC in Houston back in 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.440 twenty twenty. All of that and a whole heck of 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.800 a lot more from the Baptist Hell Studio inside the 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.120 Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.960 This is the Drift Time Podcast. Maggie Jeff. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.000 My guest today Texans play by play. Texans VP of Broadcasting, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.600 Mark vandermre joined the Drift Time Podcast once again. Today 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.280 is the voice of the Houston Texans, Mark Vandermere. Mark, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.920 I believe this is appearance number three, if not mistaken. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.440 Welcome back in Thanks Travis. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.399 Always a pleasure to be on and talk Texans and 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.560 Dolphins and NFL and whatever. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.039 Else comes up. 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.360 Speaking of the Texans, first off, congrats on an amazing season. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.720 I was really pulling for you guys once we bout 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.200 out in the first round of the postseason. But I 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.520 want to go back a few years here to the 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.520 pandemic season. Is when I refer to it twenty twenty, 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.040 which I see that on my screen here, it's like, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.000 oh yeah, that really strange year, right, And it was 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.280 the one year that Anthony Weeber was a defensive coordinator 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.520 in the National Football League. He of course was the 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.240 defensive line coach there in Houston prior to that as well. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.680 And Mark, I've spent a lot of time scouring the web, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.000 finding quotes and pressers and trying to get to know 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.440 this guy a little bit. And I gotta say, you 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.000 just really can't find anybody with a bad thing to 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:04.320 say about coach Weaver, can you. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.400 Well, there's no question he's a great guy, and I 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:10.320 know it's not just about being a great guy in 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.840 this league. I've interviewed him numerous times. And John Harris, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.880 who I do shows with here, We've always thought, way 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.359 before he was a defensive coordinator, that Anthony Weaver is 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:21.920 a head coach. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.880 He's a head coach in this league eventually. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.040 And I was not surprised when he started getting interviews 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.880 and things like that because I knew that he had 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:34.639 that capability. He's very intelligent, great football mind. I think that, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.200 and this is similar to Demigo Ryans, who's here now. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.720 I think that when you played at the level Anthony 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.079 played at, and he was one of the first, if 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.120 not the first, really pretty high priced ish free agents 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.519 they got here with the Houston Texans organization in the 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.079 early days, signed by Rick Smith, I think that when 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.239 you play at his level and you understand the game 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.880 at his level, and players I'm not saying they remember 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.720 Anthony Weaver as a player necessarily, he might have some 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.280 you know, vague memories or whatever, because time is passing 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:05.280 by as we speak. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.720 Travis right, he's. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.079 One of those guys who still kind of looks like 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.320 a player, you know, and he has slimmed down a 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.520 little bit from his d Lineman days because I remember 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.040 seeing him at the combine once. I thought that's Anthony Weaver, 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.680 but he looks kind of bitter to me, and he 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.520 was with the Bills at the time, just breaking in 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.160 into the coaching circuit, and I just always thought that 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:28.880 he had the makeup to be a head coach and 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.960 certainly to be a coordinator. In the one year he 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.480 was a coordinator here, I know you're gonna ask me 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.800 about it, but it was not a great year for 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.040 the team, and there were a variety of things contributing 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.279 to that, so I won't put that on him. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.120 Yeah, we'll circle back to that, like you mentioned here 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.360 in just a minute. But I want to follow up 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.120 on the head coaching comment because and watching all the 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.960 press conferences, like the command is the first thing you 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.120 really noticed, right, I'm curious maybe why you might think that, 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.120 or maybe if there was a moment where you realized 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.360 this guy kind of has the chops to run an 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:56.280 organization that way. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.360 You know, it's funny because look at Mike McDaniel, right, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.640 how many people would have pegged him as a head 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.120 coach a few years ago. I don't know how many, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.760 but maybe the numbers not large. Now, maybe the guys 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.880 who works closest with him thought, yes, there's no question 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.400 about that. So certain people, and I think he has 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:14.960 great command of the room, by the way, and I 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.720 watched all the hard knocks and everything like that, but 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.960 put that aside for a moment. Certain guys look like 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.320 they're from central casting to be a head coach. 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.520 Tamiko Ryans, Mike Rabel. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.320 People like that who played and have the football know how, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.720 they have the chops, they have the whole package coming 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.640 in to be the head coach, at least on paper, right. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.240 And Anthony Weaver is one of those guys. 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.760 You know, he's got the commanding presence, he's really smart, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.440 and he has commanded the room and that's what you want. Now, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.119 there's a lot more to it than that, right, putting 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.680 together your staff and making those great decisions in development 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:48.520 of the team in the offseason and on the fly 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.080 throughout games. And we all know that, but I think 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.200 that he's got the makeup to do it. All the 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.560 conversations I've had with him on and off the air 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.279 would point to this. So I'm excited for him to 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.720 have this opportunity with the Dolphins, and I wish him 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.560 well Other than a certain day at NRG Stadium next year, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.440 which has not been determined yet. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.400 We'll know that when we get the schedule in May. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.640 Yeah, looking forward to that. A fun matchup for the 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.599 quarterbacks for the teams. Kind of both on the rise 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:12.120 here as well. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.080 And like you talked about the return of coach Weaver, 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.280 and one of the things that I'm most excited about, 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.839 as I mentioned, watching all those press conferences, all the 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.960 media I can get my hands on with coach Weaver, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.279 is how similar his messaging really is to what coach McGinn. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:25.520 I'm glad you watch Hard Knocks now. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.320 I don't have to describe this for you, but just 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.880 I guess a quick crash course is that McDaniel's culture 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.159 is accountability, maximizing players, their value of players in the 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.320 finite window that is their career. He's very big on 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.359 that positive reinforcement and it's player empowerment. How do you 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.159 think coach Weaver fits into that collection of culture bullet points? 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.360 Well, and again it's just Hard Knocks knowledge and Mike 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.960 McDaniel was here a thousand years ago as you all know, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.560 and he talked about that during those Hard Knocks episodes, 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:54.640 and a lot of guys were here, you know, Matt 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.039 Lafleur was here, Rob Salah was here. We had a 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.120 lot of Kyle Shanahan was here. We had a lot 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.120 of This is the coach's cradle, Travis the Houston Texas, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.040 Although can every NFL franchise say that because these guys 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.800 move around so much. But anyway, when I was watching 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.440 McDaniel and the way he handled himself, at least the 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.000 stuff I saw, I thought, what a great guy to 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.560 work for, because you know that he just wants the 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.960 very best. He is going to be big on accountability, 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.320 but he's not going to belittle berate you, right. He 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.440 is going to nurture to foster whatever greatness you possibly 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.000 have in you and bring that out. And I think 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.120 for his staff, that's got to be the biggest thing here. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.680 For Anthony Weaver, to work for a coach like McDaniel 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.640 is perfect. He will get the very best out of 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.080 Anthony Weaver as a coordinator as they put together plans 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.840 together and go over what's important each week. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.880 So the biggest descriptor of our culture we have here, 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.080 and that's again that collaboration seems to be a really 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.919 big sticking point for not just coach McDaniel, but Frank Smith, 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.840 the offensive coordinator, and all the way down the line 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.800 for the coaching staff. But one of the biggest credos 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.800 we have here is that adversity is an opportunity again 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:03.280 hard knocks. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.520 I know you saw that plenty of times. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.320 I've seen pressers from that twenty twenty season where coach 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.720 Weaver addresses some of the university from that season head 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.200 on that you alluded to earlier here on the show. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.440 I'm curious what you might have learned about him as 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.480 both a person and a coach during what was a 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.920 very challenging year as far as the on field product goes. 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.160 You want to stay the same guy even though you're struggling, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.240 and that was a major struggle that year for the Texans. Travis. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.360 I mean, there it is. And I thought this in 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.960 the off season of that year. The teams that handled 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.000 their offseason great in the COVID year are in a 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.480 real great situation once we get into playing games, because 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.120 you're playing in empty stadiums and some stadiums have maybe 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.680 five to ten thousand fans, whatever the number is. And 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.720 I thought with the Houston Texans, I thought things were 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.120 going okay, but they made some controversial moves. Bill O'Brien 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.040 took over as general manager. We know the rest of 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.720 the story, gets fired four games in, so everything they 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.320 had set up in the offseason did not work, and 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:03.040 the leadership, obviously was it was the opposite of being rewarded. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.440 You were dismissed, and then what are you gonna do? 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.000 Romeo Crenell takes over as interim head coach, and I 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.520 think a lot of guys, you know, they had a 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.120 lot of injuries, and it just wasn't an ideal situation to, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.840 you know, baptize yourself as a coordinator. So I didn't 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.960 think that was a fair assessment of what Anthony could do. 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.200 But he maintained his cool, his poise all throughout the year. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.400 They had a lot of games. The thing about that year, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.000 and you know, like I, as you do, I'd look 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.600 at every game very carefully. They had a lot of 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.760 games that could have turned on any particular play. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.040 And I know this league is like that. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:34.520 We could say that about a lot of teams and 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.640 a lot of games, but man, there were a lot 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.840 of instances where just to play here, play there, and 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.160 you have a completely different record. But that's the NFL 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.720 and that happened. And I'm just glad Anthony has an 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.200 opportunity now because that was a ridiculously tough year for 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.880 this organization, everything they were going through at the time. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.800 So funny enough, Maybe not funny for you, but the 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.439 audience here knows that because we watched all those games 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.240 that year. Because if you recall, we had the Texans 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.480 first round draft pick, and as I continued to grow 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.400 and grow up up the draft board, the Dolphins were 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.760 able to spin that into multiple first round picks with 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.840 the trade back, So it was very imperative to whatsoever 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.480 I know, but those I remember watching those games being like, 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.880 I'll come on that, come on opposition, you can help 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.680 us out here, and it usually went that way for 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.400 us that year. But now you guys are back and 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.480 on the on the up and up, so that looks 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.800 good there. So one of the other things I wanted 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.240 to ask you about was his work as a positional 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.040 coach and how that might translate to getting the most 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.160 out of his players here on this Dolphins defense, because 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.240 you know, we have we just booked the franchise record 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.920 for sacks. We have guys all up and down the 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.120 front that can get out for the quarterback and play, 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.559 you know, the run game as well. I'm curious why 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.679 you think in his career with Jadevian Clowney, where all 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.640 of his all Pro Pro Bowl seasons come from? 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.120 With who am I thinking of? 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:41.240 Oh? 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.320 JJ Watt had a Pro Bowl year under him as well. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.080 Why do you think guys tend to have some of 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.480 their best years under coach Weaver on the defensive line. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.400 Well, I think it's that positive approach that he has, right. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.439 I think again, he wants to get the very best 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.600 out of every player. And I know that sounds kind 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.160 of cliche, but guys want to work for him. Guys 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.160 want to play for him. Guys don't want to let 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.080 him down. He's one of these coaches that he's got 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.840 the fiery side to him and he's got the great 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.320 attention to detail. But I don't want to make a 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.760 mistake if I'm working for Anthony, I mean I would 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.559 feel like personally, I'd feel like, I don't want to 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.080 do a bad job if Anthony's my head coach. I 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.720 want to do a better job on the air, you know, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.760 That's how Demiko Ryans is here, you know, because he's 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.959 the head coach. It's Anthony. You want to support that 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.400 what he stands for. So I think it goes well 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.480 beyond football. He as a man and the guys we had. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.440 Clowney is an interesting character, There's no question about it. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.240 But yeah, he did have good times under Anthony Weaver 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.200 and obviously JJ Watts. So I just think as a 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.120 position coach, it's all there. D line coaches. I don't 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.840 know how you feel, but D line coaches and special 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.960 teams coaches. If we're going classic rock band analogies, they're 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.160 the drummers. You know, they're the drummers. Some of them 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.319 are the crazy guys. You know, you don't always have 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.640 to be crazy. And again, I think if you played 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.160 the position at a high level, it really helps. You 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.960 don't have to doesn't have to be a requisite to 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.240 be a good head coach, position coach coordinator, but I 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.880 think it certainly helps. As you address the troops and 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.360 have them ask them to do certain things, they're like, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.439 well he did it, and look he still looks like 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:19.120 he can play. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:20.840 So that means something to me. 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.800 That's funny because I believe that coach, Austin Clark, our 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.040 defensive line coach, the incumbent here and Danny Crossman Special 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.080 teams Cordnator. I feel like both those guys would fit 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.560 that descriptor very very well. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.320 So I think you are spot on with your analogy there. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.080 I have one more question for you here, and this 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.319 might be tough to answer because it's four years ago, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:38.840 and I don't want to put too much on you 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.240 from a scheme perspective, but I'm curious, you know, trying 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.440 to figure out what this defense might look like, because 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.400 you know, it's been a while since he coached the defense. 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:49.240 He's got all these influences that have, you know, aggression 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.960 blitz heavy type of defenses up and down his resume 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.040 at the guys he's worked with. But I'm curious what 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.080 you might have learned about his defensive philosophy, albeit just 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.120 one year and like you mentioned, a challenging year. What 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.080 do you think we can from that year that might 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:02.520 be able to see it going forward with what his 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.520 defense looks like from his comatics perspective. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.400 Yeah, when you look at his recent history, then you 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.440 look at working for Romeo Crenell, and I'll be curious 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.360 to see what his identity is right now, because he 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.280 might be changing it adapting it. 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:16.800 Now. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.240 When you look at Romeo, Romeo's really good at shifting 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.240 gears right he's oh. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.880 We're in a three four now, we're more like a 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.760 four to three. This week in a Super Bowl. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.120 He did it against the Philadelphia Eagles that won in Jacksonville. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.360 Romeo can definitely spin the wheel, as Bill O'Brien used 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.480 to like to say, and give you different looks, be 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.600 a different defense almost every week. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.480 Now. You know that's saying a lot. You're not really that. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:48.559 Different, but just the ability to disguise, to deceive the offense, 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.240 and to send extra people when necessary. But you know, 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.400 for all we know Travis, he's gonna come out there 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.120 and say, look, we're just get a pressure with four 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.040 guys and that's it. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:58.520 You never know, play on the back end. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.079 And you know, because every I think every coach and 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.280 I'm sure you agree with this, every defensive coach would 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.120 do that if it's working. Oh yeah, if I'm getting 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.600 crusher with four, I'll do that all day long. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.480 I mean, that's that's the way to live, you know. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.640 But most often we see situations where you know, the 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.719 offenses in this league are so good. Right now, you 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.839 got five block and four, you're gonna get some. You're 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.600 gonna make some, hey if you have a good quarterback. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.200 But I'll be curious to see how he handles it 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.880 because and I'm not sure what he said yet, So 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.840 I've been following what Anthony's been saying about this particular 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.040 gig and how he's gonna set it up. But when 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:33.640 you work for a guy like McDaniel, I got a 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.720 feeling McDaniel's gonna want it. You know, Hey, let's let's 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.800 be versatile, let's be diverse in our approach to stopping 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:41.800 opposing offenses. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.679 And he certainly has the players in the back end 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.880 with Javon Holland, Gelen Ramsey and the like, so he's 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:46.720 got the options there. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:48.600 The bullet and the nightmares. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.320 They are just like your Jalen Petrie was this past 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:52.319 year for the Houston Texans. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.520 So of plenty of good players on both these squads. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.920 VP of broadcasting play by a player for the Houston 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.040 Texans and now officially a frequent guest here on the 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.439 Draft Time podcast, Mark vandermer at Texan's Voice on social 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.559 and Mark, I've been looking forward to this closing line 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:05.080 right here for you. 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.439 Thanks a bunch and rock and roll, my friend. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:12.199 All right, Gokaines, I can't say go Dolphins, so go 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:13.800 Thanks Travis. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:14.320 Appreciate it, man. 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.480 So rock and Roll is Mark's touchdown call. It's his 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.320 signature call on Texans touchdowns there on the radio. And 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.160 I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of not just like 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.240 sports talk radio from back in the day when it 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.680 was good, but also football game radio and the art 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.360 of it and what I would do if I was 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:35.920 in that position because my dream job, and I tell 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.440 you guys this is to be the Dolphins of radio 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.200 play by play guy. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:39.920 One day we shall see on that. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.280 But anyway, Mark Vandermer there he goes, let's go ahead 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.240 and take our first break rate there, come back on 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.160 the other side and meet coach's staff. And we'll also 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.240 introduce him at his introductory press conference here from Miami 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.200 Gardens on Thursday. It kicked off at one o'clock. Podcast 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.280 coming to you here on Friday morning. That's all next 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.960 Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:14:58.960 --> 0:14:59.640 by Auto Nation. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.520 This is exciting day for me and the Miami Dolphins 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:10.360 to be able to formally introduce Anthony Weaver as the 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.880 defensive coordinator, and the whole process of it was really 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.840 cool for me because it started as as the person 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:23.160 and who our team would or who could have the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.960 biggest impact as a person, and then in the process 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.120 got to get down to some nitty gritty on some 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:33.760 schematic football side of it that really allows us to 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.480 build on what we've been good at and continue forward 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.800 in twenty twenty four, which is what we're. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:40.400 All focused on. 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:47.880 So, without further ado, Anthony Weaver. 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:52.640 That is head coach Mike McDaniel's introduction to the introduction 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.840 press conference for Dolphins defensive coordator Anthony Weaver, And like, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.320 you don't forget that he's here, But I haven't talked 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.640 to coach in a month and I miss him. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:04.280 How could you not? 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.920 That little ending part there saying good luck following that, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.960 just the little quick wits man, the little quick jabs 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.680 and jokes he has and serious moments. That's that's my 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.920 kind of person, man. And speaking of my kind of person, 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.440 we had this joke a little bit back here in 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:19.880 the control of me and a couple of people that 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.840 I work with, where like uh not. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:23.160 Vic Fangio anymore is it? 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.240 And you know, Vic obviously was a great defensive coordinator 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.680 for a long time, but in terms of the personality 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.160 kind of left you wanting there a little bit and 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.960 a little more close to the head coach before McDaniel, Right, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.200 But now with those guys and Frank Smith, and you know, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.240 Frank Smith's not McDaniel, but now I kind of feel 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.960 like with coach Weaver kind of feels like we have 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.000 two McDaniels here in terms of great personalities. And my god, 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.920 if you want to talk about what a head coach 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.760 looks and sounds like if this defense performs, well, I 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.360 don't think coach he was gonna be for very long 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.920 because I think the heat it looks and sounds and 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.480 has the cut of his jib just says head coach 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.960 across the board, so excited to meet him. We're going 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:02.880 to go over the press conference here in just one second, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.480 but first before that, we do have some reported finalizations 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.840 in terms of the coaching staff that you heard or 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.040 will hear, I should say, from coach throughout this press conference. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.359 And we know by now that he's brought in a 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.439 few of his own guys, right, so we know outside 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:22.160 linebackers coach Ryan Crow. That's official. Joe Berry is also 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.920 official the linebackers coach and run game coordinator. He did 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.040 also mention that Ryan Slok, who coached the outside linebackers 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.600 last year, will move to a role in the secondary. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.600 We do not know exactly what that is just yet, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.680 but we know Ryan Sloan will be retained in some 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.359 capacity within the secondary. We also learned about Brian Duker 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.160 and Deshaun shed is a new one. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:41.480