WEBVTT - Dolphins 2022 Assistant Coaching Staff Opening Media Availability Highlights 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:06.240 Two fires touch stop Waddle knocked into the end zone 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.400 of Miami type broke window. They had to get that 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:16.680 touchdown on that play, they give it. What is up? 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:21.119 Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:27.040 the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.720 How's it going? Everybody? I am your host Travis Wingfield. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.600 And on today's show we heard from Dolphins assistant coaches. 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.120 This week, we'll play the audio from that and get 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.680 the details of my key and day with a handful 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.440 of the Dolphins assistant coaching staff plus another signing will 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.120 break down quarterback Chris Traveler's game from somewhere in South Florida. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:54.240 This is the Drive Time Podcast. Dolphins want to kick 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:57.280 off this Friday edition of the Drivetime Podcast by looking 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.880 into new Dolphins quarterback Chris Streveler. And this is a 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.760 pretty interesting player here joining the squad and from just 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.440 gathering some of the reaction from the media around the league, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.759 there's some belief in s Traveler's upside here among draft 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.319 knicks and beat writers and national coverage guys. And we 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.840 talked in the podcast on Monday about having to find 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.040 a solution at quarterback to whether that's finding one on 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.680 the free agent market, in the draft or retaining Jacoby Brissette. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.080 But if you could get a player like Straveler in 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.440 here and develop his game and a little bit of 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.600 you know, identifying him as such for the season, and 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.800 that's not to cap his potential there by any means, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.440 but if you can get him into that role for 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.760 the season and feel good about that, what a boon 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.399 that would be. So another tire in the fire, so 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.440 to speaker and iron in the fire, I should say, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.600 with Chris Traveler. And he served as the Cardinals backup 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.560 under Colt McCoy for that stretch of games last year 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.360 when Kyler Murray was down, so technically QB three, but 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.000 he has seen some NFL action the last couple of years. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:03.280 Not of his passes came last year the rest He 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.200 had seven total rushing attempts for twenty one yards. More 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.160 on that in just one moment in his career seventeen 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.920 twenty five for a buck forty one, a touchdown and 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.720 a pick, and a total of fifty four snaps played 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:19.000 thirty and twenty four last year, and though he was 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.800 not deployed in this role with the Cardinals in the 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.400 regular season. He's the type of quarterback that can function 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.840 is part of your game plan with specific packages because 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.840 of his very unique running skill set. And we talked 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:36.360 about fullback John Lovett on the Wednesday podcast and his awesome, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.919 fun to watch Princeton tape where he's taken direct snaps 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.320 and bowling over defensive backs. That's Streveler at South Dakota, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.120 and that's Straveler in the Canadian Football League. Like, go 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.840 watch those clips. It's kind of hilarious. I think Josh 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.840 Howtz posts a clip of him just bulldozing some unassuming 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.000 defensive back up there in the Great White North six 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.600 fifteen pound guy, and he packs a real punch. And 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:06.520 his pro day numbers back in were a four five 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.600 one forty yard dash with a one inch broad jump 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.480 and a thirty eight point five inch vertical with a 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:18.480 seven point three five three cone time. Those are really good, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.560 like middle linebacker numbers and for the layman, very very 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.800 very explosive metrics at the quarterback position. We're gonna have 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.800 Kent Lee Platt on the podcast after the combine. He's 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:34.000 the creator of the Relative Athletics scorecard, which cumulatively measures 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.640 a player's workout numbers and categorizes the best scores by 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.040 position and overall, going back to like you know, N 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.440 seven or something crazy like that. And Cam Newton is 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.080 his number one quarterback ever on that chart who scored 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.320 a perfect ten. And while pro days have traditionally produced 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.160 better numbers in the combine and Traveler did not work 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.640 out the combine that year, but Cam was in the green, 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.280 which is the elite category for every measure with a 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.320 four sixty six three cone for a quarterback at that size. Nonetheless, 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.800 it is completely absurd vertical and a one inch broad 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.080 jump lower body explosion. That's the name of the game, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.279 for every position, for every sport. It all starts in 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.880 the lower half. As Chubbs once said, it's all in 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.120 the hips. That's the play style for Traveler, the power 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.280 running ability. So that alone fascinates me for the possibility 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.400 of incorporating him as an offensive weapon in addition to 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.039 his duties as a full time reserve quarterback. If that 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.520 were how it shook out watching some of his preseason 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.440 work with the Cardinals, you better freaking maintain your rush 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:42.680 Land integrity because he can hit the top of that 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.560 drop and then get the hell out of there in 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.239 a flash. There's a great moment from this past August 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.480 against the Cowboys where he just hits the top of 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.840 the drop on a third down in three sees a 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.560 lane open up in the middle against you know, man coverage, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.159 so there's no underneath hook linebacker hanging out, and he 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.159 takes off for like twenty five yards and five of 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.680 those yards were after contact as he just lowers his 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.160 shoulder and like he did in college, like he did 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.279 in the CFL, runs over a defensive back. And you 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.839 go back to his CFL tape, they're throwing passes to 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.240 him like Philly specials, letting him take those quarterback lead 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.520 slash quarterback power snaps, as well as playing a true 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.800 drop back game. And we should mention that the running 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.440 game and the CFL. You know, after thoughts are strong word, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.840 but they don't use it very often because well, you 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.520 only get three downs. So to call those quarterback runs 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.359 that shows you how much confidence they had in his 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.520 ability to get positive yards and ultimately led to them 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.360 winning a great cup up there under Straveler. That's their 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.839 super Bowl. Something else I think speaks to his athletic ability. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.120 He spent time with the Ravens and look at the 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.200 quarterbacks the Ravens have developed or attempted to develop under 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.839 Lamar Jackson. Tyler Huntley this past season successfully in my opinion. 0:05:58.120 --> 0:05:59.640 We know what he can do with his legs in 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.520 the running game. That's what he was a Utah, That's 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.039 what he was as a pro. In relief of Lamar Jackson, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.160 Trace mcsolier was drafted there. He was a scramble and 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.960 create type of quarterback at Penn State and in his 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.440 brief cameo there in the National Football League and even 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.680 r G three who came back out of retirement, what's 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.920 the theme there? They wanted athletic quarterbacks who could help 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.720 maintain some semblance of that offense that Lamar Jackson ran. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.839 And nobody in the National Football League can run the 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.800 same style as Lamar Jackson, but you want to have 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.400 at least comparable analogs. And they always had that. And 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.799 that's where s Traveler wound up at one point his career. 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.680 And just watching more of the Cardinals preseason tape, I 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.680 see a triple option reverse on tape. He's a trigger man. 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.919 I see him dropping a dime over the top of 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.440 a fade route. From about twenty five yards out where 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.599 his receiver stacked his defensive back and he just drops 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.240 that thing right into the elevator shaft and down it 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.960 goes into the bucket. His loan career touchdown pass was 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.479 a jet sweet pop pass where he takes off on 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.200 miss directions. So you get the idea of the skill 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.520 set here, right. You have to go to the CFL 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.200 to get a better grasp of his passing game skill set, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.599 but even there you see a ton of touchdown runs 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.160 on goal to go situations. Quarterback lead quarterback pilot you 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.120 talked about, but with the arm, there's a lot of dropback, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.800 see it's not there, and then go off script and 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.440 ad lib. And he was fantastic at that up in 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.800 the Great White North. He can really drive the ball 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.880 to the perimeter. So a big, strong arm, which to 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.200 me is always a nice pairing as far as getting 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.280 a quarterback into your system and working with him and 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.600 developing him to pair that with a good plus running 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.160 skill set, you'll always take a chance on guys like that. 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.520 To me, he's an intriguing player for two reasons here 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.600 for a couple of reasons, with the main two to 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.960 develop him under McDaniel, Smith and Bevil and staff curious 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.600 about that. And then also number two, what he did 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.520 in zone read design quarterback runs from the pistol with 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.040 the motion and misdirection game, there could be a possibility 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.080 of something there with an eye towards some packages you 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.320 can utilize that skill set within. So good stuff there, 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.120 Chris Traveler, another signing here in the month of I'm 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.480 worried for the Miami Dolphins. Let's take a quick break 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.720 here and go back to quite literally my favorite content 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.480 we do here on the Drivetime Podcast. It's almost exclusively 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.000 an in season segment, but today we get to treat 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.280 you to assistant coaches media availability. They met with us 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.360 earlier this week that next Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:26.720 presented by a donation back here on the Friday edition 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.760 of the Drive Time Podcast. And I am very excited 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.000 about this as I was bi weekly on the in 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.800 season editions of Drive Time to bring you guys assistant 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.960 coaches media and we have a lot to get to here. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.280 I spoke to almost every single coach. I couldn't quite 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.400 get to everybody. Pat and Sam had a lot of 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.520 the scrum around them throughout the course of the day, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.679 so I didn't get any audio from Pat and I 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.840 only spoke to Sam or was around Sam for a 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.839 couple of minutes. So we'll go ahead and play the 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.120 entirety of what I have for you guys here, starting 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.640 with Mike McDaniel, who came out and addressed us before 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.680 the assistant coaches came out and met with us. And 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.439 he starts off with a great joke, So American went 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.360 out here, so I couldn't resist, you know. UM, So 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.000 excited UM today for you guys to meet the the 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:19.360 entire coaching staff. Feel extremely proud, UM and UH and 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.360 blessed to have these men working with me. UM. The 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.800 The biggest thing with with coaches in general, UM that 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.200 shouldn't be lost in all of it, is it's about 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.800 their ability to communicate to players, because it's all about 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.160 the players, really, And that's why I'm so excited about 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.040 the group of guys you guys are about to meet, UM, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.640 not only for their aptitude in coaching, but really who 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.240 they are as human beings and their ability to connect 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:51.239 to players. I think will prove the the Miami Dolphins organization. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.079 UM very proud. Moving forward, UM, Starting with an on 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.160 offense Frank Smith. UM. I couldn't be happier to work 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:03.400 with us this guy. He's very diligent, very good at 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.360 his job, and a great leader of men that I 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.719 think all the players will really respond to and that 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:14.200 people will enjoy working for UM. And also very excited 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.600 UM to be working with Josh Boyer. UH. Not only 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.640 is his you know, I hated going against the scheme 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.880 really UM. Not only does he do a great job 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.600 with that, but his ownership of that scheme UM is 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.320 really gonna be awesome moving forward for the Miami Miami 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.959 Dolphins and all the players involved. And he's surrounded by 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:39.000 by outstanding individuals UM that command the respective players. But 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.960 also no UH are are true to the whole vision 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.920 of what coaching should truly be and that's a dedication 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.679 to getting each and every player better, UM, one day 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.560 at a time. So without further ado, I want to 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.360 induce them as fast as possible so you guys can 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.920 get through it, so then we can, I don't know, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.280 continue our planned Wes Welker versus Pat certain and Sam 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.800 Madison one of the ones that barring old man injury, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:12.400 UH hopefully it's a fixture for Miami practices moving forward. 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:14.760 I believe most of us would pay to see that. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.600 So he's just joking around there, maybe about the one 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.720 on ones, the old man injury. But let's go ahead 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.959 and kick this off here with let's go to Frank Smith, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.079 who you heard Coach talk about first. There he did 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.000 us talk about Josh Boyer and hating going against that scheme. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.800 I asked Boyer about that. We'll come back to that. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.040 Let's go ahead and get to Frank Smith here first. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.520 And first, when I approached Coach Smith, he was answering 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.800 a question from another reporter who had asked about outside 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.800 zone wide zone schemes, and he basically talked about how 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.720 in his coaching career, in his stops they were able 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.079 to adapt to the players they had in their systems, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.000 and he referenced his time with the Oakland Raiders before 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.200 the move to Las Vegas with Rodney Hudson and Collecchio Assemmibly, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.400 who are two massive, massive human beings. And you might recall, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.880 you might not, the Raiders were one of the primary 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.319 gap slash power scheme teams in the NFL those years. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.760 So it's not just about zone outside zone, the type 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.040 of thing it's about adapting to your scheme. So that 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.800 was a big part of really all these coaches messages 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.760 here on this Wednesday, we spoke to them. Let's go 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:18.079 ahead and get back to Frank Smith, her Dolphins offensive coordinator. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.880 I asked him about what is the one common theme 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.320 across all these players for yourself and all these other 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.560 coaches who have managed to get career years out of 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:31.320 players so many stops along the way in your guys career, 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:35.000 what's the key to that? I think that the biggest 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:40.800 thing that UM collectively us as coaches, I think we're uh. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.120 Communication skills are really strong, uh. And that starts as listening. 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.880 So I would think that UM listening to your players here, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.360 hearing what they have to say about what they're doing, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.200 and also when you're explaining to them, you're listening at 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.760 the same time. So I think that it's a game 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.839 of people, and when you want to win with people, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.760 it's a two way communication. In the one way, I 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.880 think that's where a lot of art the staff you 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.280 would tell they're really really good communicators and makes our 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.959 process so far been really from that point so UM. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.040 And that's also holding players to a standard that you're 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.800 gonna hold yourself too. So I think a lot of 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:26.240 people sometimes it's easy to you know, say one thing 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.480 and not be about it. And I think that's one 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.760 thing here is gonna be. We're gonna try to excel 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.880 in communication and hold ourselves and basically running the program 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.960 to a standard of excellent. Up Next, I wanted to 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.760 ask coach about the idea of the collaboration across the 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.960 staff with his offensive coordinator and run game title, Darryl 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:46.200 Bevil's passing game title, Coach McDaniel as the play caller, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.400 and how all of that and the entirety of the 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.080 staff comes together for one ultimate plan. Here's Coach Smith. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.040 I think the big thing of regardless of whatever title 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.880 you have, because we have a tremendous amount of experience 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.760 on his staff, I think whatever it is is ultimately 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.640 um game playing process, building the offense processes U collaborative 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.480 together as you're looking at UH what they did in 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:14.840 San Francisco versus UH experiences that I've had different things 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.160 we've done U. Matt Common has a little bit of 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.080 the college perspective John and West for with UH, Mike 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.320 and San Francisco. Bevan his wealth of experience, Eric and 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.280 everywhere he's been. I mean, you look at the staff, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.240 there's a ton of experiencing different facets, a lot of 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.720 NFL experience, and then um perspective, And I think when 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.800 you have perspective and experience with good guys, guys who 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.960 communicate well, we're gonna build something that is obviously tailored 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.480 to our players. That's gonna hopefully bring out what they 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.120 do well. And I think all those like you could 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.440 do circle back around titles and all that just give 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:51.440 you know, the wealth of like you know what ever 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.120 whatever for the hiring process. But ultimately it's gonna be 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.760 all of us coming together, putter has together, and make 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:57.920 sure we get if that's right for the players. Next night, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.280 I asked coach about playing and sell Florida and recognizing 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.440 the early season temperature as you get in September and 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.840 October and the like. Here's Coach talking about what that 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.240 weather has been like on the other side of the sidelines. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.200 I've been on the other part of it where the 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.480 team melted when we came here. So in Oakland and 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.640 the fourth quarder we do guys were passing out on 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.240 the sideline. I mean, it was unbelievable and now, that 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:22.920 was the first thing I thought about when I was 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.840 in the building staring at the stadium, going, this is 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.720 gonna be awesome because now we get to be a 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.360 part of watching them melt uh. So literally that was 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.400 one of the first things that I remember talking to 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.560 Mike about. But I mean, I think it starts with 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.560 you know, ultimately circle back around to what we're trying 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.520 to build here and as a as a program is 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.680 UH standard performance. And the standard performance takes parts every day, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.280 whether it's inside or outside. And if you have that 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.600 UH measuring stick, the practice field will be so competitive 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.120 that it would be just basically you'll take that from 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.920 out here and to put it on the field so 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.280 as I'm not trying to knock over the table, but 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.000 basically like that is where you want to go. You 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.640 create that practice habits that go onto the field on 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.960 Sundays and Mondays that just make it all worthwhile. And 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.680 the training is really as hard or if not harder 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.720 than the games. You've been watching this here about twenty years. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.240 I'd say every two years, there's a guy on TD 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.960 that throws up on the opposition self. I know, okay, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.520 I had I had one guy almost passed out and 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.280 then another one have full body cramps. Goodness, So it 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.320 was it was like, and we're from northern California, so 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.160 we're like, you know, there's nothing you can do because 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.160 you can't simulate this environment. There's so that you have 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.280 coach Frank Smith talking about his experiences here in some 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.000 early season games in South Florida. Let's go ahead and 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.120 spend this over to the defensive coordinator, Josh Boyer, who 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.200 was asked about the philosophy of building the defense. Is 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.760 it back to front and the way you build a defense? 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.400 Here's coach Boyer, so, I I think basically what you 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.560 do is you try to accumulate good players. That again, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.600 and there's there's certain guys that are fits for different schemes, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.440 and you know, you always try to get at guys 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.320 that you feel like you can fit in your scheme 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.359 or have a skill set that will fit in your scheme. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.360 And I think you take from that pool, you take 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.600 the best players available, and then you kind of retool 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.840 what you're doing from there. And next back to the 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.960 question I asked coach Boyer about what Mike McDaniel said 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.159 about hating going up against this defensive scheme that Bowyer 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.919 has overseen the last couple of years. Here's Josh Boyer 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.000 on how he and McDaniel can kind of help give 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.000 each other eyes on the opposite side of the football. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.800 It's awesome, you know, because especially when you you get 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.920 firsthand knowledge of a certain scheme or a certain how 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:39.120 certain type of offense, of why they're installing, what their 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.600 adjustments are. Um, you know, and I I've been in 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.320 such a you know, call it one system type thing 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.240 that the offense has kind of been this and this 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.480 is from afar. You're like, you think this, you think that, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.200 And sometimes it's like yeah, okay, you were right on that. Okay, 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.240 this is how they do it. And then there's other little, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.080 um say, little tweaks to how they do it or 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.560 how they teach it to kind of give you a 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.280 knowledge of you know, when you're going up against guys 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.160 that you know for common systems, you're like, okay, when 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.040 you see it on film, you're like, all right, okay, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.280 that makes sense. Or you know, and again you like 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:15.800 week the week you go you go in and you 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.639 study guys and like, you know, okay, or and just 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.880 because somebody comes from someplace like Zach Taylor. He's he's 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.520 a great example of like you know, everybody's like, oh, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.200 it's McVeigh, it's McVeigh. It's like, no, it's not really McVeigh. 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.840 I mean, you know, Mike Sherman, you know that that's 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.480 his big influence, and like you know, and again they're 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.840 all intertwined and they all have their own little thing 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.280 about him and they all do a great job at it. Yeah, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.280 it's been awesome to sit there and talk to Mike 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.000 about his experiences and how he builds an offense and 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.240 the things that he does. There. Did you ever get 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:45.600 back in the paper for a big hit later on 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.040 after the fresh Now, Josh Biner, that was it? So 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.480 that's that, that's what happened. You can't you can't get 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.000 it because I can't. I can't ever come back in 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.000 the varsity again, like three more years. You have to 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.800 have had something. Oh yeah, yes, yes, yes, so yeah, 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.639 I mean I was but like that was the but 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.280 I stopped But to be honest, I stopped looking. I 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.639 want ahead and included that last little note there because 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.800 Coach talked about how when he was a freshman in 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.679 high school he got called upon for a big spot 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.879 in a varsity baseball game and got the game winning knock, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:13.960 and he was so pumped to go check the paper 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.320 the next day, and when he did, they put Josh 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.080 Biner in the newspaper. So he never looked at the 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.400 paper again after that. And I know exactly what you're 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.720 talking about, coach, because in our paper it was if 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.320 you get two hits in the game, your name automatically 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.159 goes in the paper. So I was always pumped up 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.320 to check it after that. Luckily it was never Winfield, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.200 even though I head coach always called me Travis Winfield. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.359 Let's go ahead and go back to the offensive side 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:40.639 of the football now and quarterbacks coach Darryl Bevil, And 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.480 I asked coach, as you heard Frank Smith say earlier, 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.480 about his wealth of experience and knowledge in this game 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.960 as an offensive coordinator going back to two thousand six, 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:51.919 that's been the role he's been in and now as 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.359 the quarterbacks coach here, he talked a little bit about 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.600 how the offense goes with the quarterback. Thought it was 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.160 very good insight here from coach about how that experience 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.240 helps him in this position at quarterbacks coach and passing 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.639 game coordinator with the Miami Dolphins. Oh, I mean I've 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.120 I've been around UM. I'm very fortunate in my career 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.639 to be around some great quarterbacks you know, also some 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.000 great quarterback coaches. UM as an offensive coordinator never got 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.360 far away from that that spot, you know, I mean 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.480 that's really where the you know, the game has played 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.560 on offense. UM. So I spent a lot of time 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:22.439 in that room, so a lot of confidence to be 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.840 over the term's quarterback friendly offenses all the time. Where 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.080 does that How would you describe with a quarterback friendly? 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.239 I think it's you know, things that that the one 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.680 of the things that the quarterback does best. And then 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.200 to UM is when you have we were just talking 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.240 about when you have the ability to run the ball. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.879 You know that that is very quarterback friendly. You know, 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:45.320