Speaker 1: Factors Asafrid touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
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Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: It is Friday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
Speaker 1: I am here to bring you your daily dose of
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're gonna flash
Speaker 1: things back to two thousand four with former Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: tight end Randy McMichael. Will recap the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins game as well as that two thousand four season.
Speaker 1: A lot of change in turmoil that year. We'll get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of some of that here with Randy McMichael.
Speaker 1: Plus we'll get John Conjemmi's Three Keys of the Game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, get the last injury report for you guys.
Speaker 1: And also here from Seth and Juice from the Fish
Speaker 1: Tank Podcast. All of that and more on this Friday,
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Speaker 1: before we get into the flashback with Randy McMichael and
Speaker 1: Seth and Juice from the Fish Tank Podcast, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and stop by on Friday, as we do every
Speaker 1: week here on the Friday Drivetime podcast with John con Gemmis.
Speaker 1: Three keys to the San Francisco Game Sunday four oh
Speaker 1: five Eastern in San Francisco, And up first contain kittle Man.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the preview podcast Fifteen Targets
Speaker 1: Fifteen Catches last week, and he talks about John does
Speaker 1: about the multitude of talent and skill players this offense has,
Speaker 1: but it starts with George Kittle the talented athletic tight
Speaker 1: end who blocks, who contributes the passing game. He also
Speaker 1: mentions Eric row getting the toughest assignment of any Miami
Speaker 1: defender in this game. Good matchup to watch there with
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe and George Kittle number two battling through injuries
Speaker 1: along the offensive line, and how there have been great
Speaker 1: improvements so far along the offensive line, but this week,
Speaker 1: heading into the game, we know Austin Jackson left the game.
Speaker 1: Last week, we had Julian Davenport step into the game,
Speaker 1: and Robert Hunt plays some of that extra heavy tight
Speaker 1: end position as well, So it could be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how the Dolphins shift the offensive line if they
Speaker 1: are down one of the regular starters on Sunday and
Speaker 1: number three limit the explosive plays. He says, this is
Speaker 1: one area the Dolphins offense could use a little more
Speaker 1: and a defense a little bit less defensive side, just
Speaker 1: holding down the big games from last week fifty seven
Speaker 1: thirty seven, thirty one yards that will be a big
Speaker 1: key to this game. With George Kittle, possibly Deebo, Samuel Brandon,
Speaker 1: Yu Jerk McKinnon. He list on the list of players
Speaker 1: here forty niners and then offensively as well, it generates
Speaker 1: some explosive plays. Longest play of the year for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins so far twenty seven yards. So you can find
Speaker 1: John's keys up on Miami Dolphins dot com as well
Speaker 1: as my written review taking a look at some matchups
Speaker 1: and some of the forty nine personnel and how they
Speaker 1: present challenges to this Dolphins defense and offense. Alright, the
Speaker 1: injury report for Friday game statuses are now available. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get to the Miami Dolphins first. Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson was added to the injured reserve list on Friday,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins called up running back Solving Ahmed. The
Speaker 1: former Washington Husky is now on the Dolphins active roster.
Speaker 1: As for the game, status is two players will miss
Speaker 1: the game. Defensive end Shack Lawson and tight end Durham
Speaker 1: Smith will not play, and wide receiver Jachem Grant is
Speaker 1: questionable with an illness, so that means Byron Jones back
Speaker 1: in the lineup for Sunday on game day, get the
Speaker 1: Dolphins cornerback back and for the forty niners report, go
Speaker 1: ahead and check out the top news article up on
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins dot com that will update this afternoon and
Speaker 1: we'll have the latest on the forty nine report for
Speaker 1: injuries on Sunday's game And joining the Drivetime podcast now
Speaker 1: is a five year member of the Miami Dolphins. Tight
Speaker 1: end out of Georgia. He's wearing the Bulldogs T shirt
Speaker 1: right now as we speak. Randy McMichael, Randy, how you doing, man? Hey?
Speaker 1: What's going on, man, I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1: Uh always excited to talk about my fun times in
Speaker 1: Miami other than all the damn losing. It was cool.
Speaker 1: The other day I was talking to uh we we
Speaker 1: haven't interned up in the PR department. She she went
Speaker 1: to Georgia and she was talking to one of the
Speaker 1: players that are a coach or someone that was up
Speaker 1: there that had gone to Florida, and they were getting
Speaker 1: into a bit of a disagreement, let's say, about the
Speaker 1: Florida Georgia rivalry. So I'm sure you've been pretty well
Speaker 1: involved in that one, haven't you. Oh yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: My first time ever going to uh or the Florida
Speaker 1: game was being Channing Crowder and we left him for
Speaker 1: a Lauderdale and literally I was the only person on
Speaker 1: the plane with a Georgia shirt. Everybody had the Florida
Speaker 1: giron and Channing when of course they beat us, but
Speaker 1: it was one of the funnest experiences I've had. I've
Speaker 1: been twice since in and both times Georgia has won.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's always fun. My producer here,
Speaker 1: I had my day shows here with Andy and Ready
Speaker 1: and uh in Atlanta and our producer, she's a big
Speaker 1: Florida fans, so we had her go back and forth
Speaker 1: and we've won the last three, so it really hasn't
Speaker 1: been any really ashtarted coming from her park. Well, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say we finally got college football back on
Speaker 1: television these days, that that game is coming up pretty soon?
Speaker 1: Isn't it October? It's it's it's usually brown things Halloween,
Speaker 1: so probably weekend. We got tennesseee this weekend. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: one of the games that always like tells me. Okay,
Speaker 1: college football is back in the full swing of things
Speaker 1: that you know, I rivalries. You can't beat him. Man,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a challenging year this year with
Speaker 1: college football, but it's good to see the SEC back
Speaker 1: on TV finally. Um. One thing I always ask our
Speaker 1: you know, our our flashback subjects here are flashback guests,
Speaker 1: is what all you up to these days? You mentioned
Speaker 1: your radio show, but just in general, what's Randy mc
Speaker 1: michael up to in two thousand twenty? Oh well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, i'm I had my home. I'm are one
Speaker 1: of the sports stations up here in Atlanta nine and
Speaker 1: not the game I'm one of the midday show holds
Speaker 1: me and Andy bonkers, so we do tend to every
Speaker 1: single day. Uh. We just finished up our one year
Speaker 1: anniversary a couple of a couple of months ago, so
Speaker 1: it's been fine. Going good right now is a really
Speaker 1: good It's just you know, it's different because you know,
Speaker 1: you get that you gotta have more of a fans
Speaker 1: per active of things that I usually would have had
Speaker 1: as a players. You're as a player, you really didn't care.
Speaker 1: But now, as you know, an analyst for these things,
Speaker 1: you gotta be sympathetic to the fans here because you
Speaker 1: know they are the ones that listened to you. I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask, because you know it's I always love
Speaker 1: seeing players make that jump from player to media because hey,
Speaker 1: hey hey I'm not a media guy. Okay, I'm a
Speaker 1: radio guy. Right, okay, all right, let's keep asking. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a radio guy. Is that what calls himself to Yes? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we refused to fall into that category. So yes, I
Speaker 1: have a radio game. Well yeah, I love hearing Channing
Speaker 1: every every time you open the press box before the games,
Speaker 1: they have the pregame show playing on the speakers. I
Speaker 1: love hearing him on those you know, every single Sunday,
Speaker 1: So you're in a good company there are you and
Speaker 1: channing that that rivalry runs deep. But getting a little
Speaker 1: bit off the rails here, I did want to ask you, though,
Speaker 1: you know, going from player to radio guy as you
Speaker 1: so say, have you have you like earned any new
Speaker 1: level of maybe like respect for the job that people
Speaker 1: in the media have to do, or like maybe change
Speaker 1: your perspective a little bit on that. Well, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course you do, man. I mean it's a hard job.
Speaker 1: I mean I would never try to downplay it as
Speaker 1: a point of you know, you guys have a hard
Speaker 1: job because I know, being a former athlete, especially when
Speaker 1: things aren't going well, the last thing you want to
Speaker 1: do is talk to people. So I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I I get that part about it and everything and
Speaker 1: trying to be as you know, a guy who asked
Speaker 1: the question to those players, trying to be as sensitive
Speaker 1: but not as you know, soft you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Because that's the one thing that's going on up here
Speaker 1: right now, what the Falcons losing is that you know,
Speaker 1: people getna well, y'all work for the flagship, so you
Speaker 1: gotta actually softball questions which you really don't. But you
Speaker 1: can't ask a question like the fan would want to
Speaker 1: ask you, you know, so you've got to be a
Speaker 1: find a way to around it, you know, be professional,
Speaker 1: but also keep it as really as possible. Because the
Speaker 1: one thing I know about being in athletics for so
Speaker 1: long is that we know the tap. We know we're struggling.
Speaker 1: I'm not playing that, you know, And so that's one
Speaker 1: of those things that that was probably one of the
Speaker 1: hardest things is trying to you know, answer the question,
Speaker 1: ask the question as a fan, but also knowing that
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to ask answer that question.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's about it. I'll get some questions sometimes
Speaker 1: on Twitter, like hey, Travis, do you think the dolphin
Speaker 1: should make this switch? I'm like, hey, that's that's way
Speaker 1: above my pay rage, Oh my god, won't that. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't work up there. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: reporting the facts to you, sir. That's my job exact. Randy,
Speaker 1: off the top, you mentioned some losing seasons there in Miami,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't all bad right away. You guys were
Speaker 1: pretty good early on in your tenure, but things kind
Speaker 1: of took a turn when a certain running back called
Speaker 1: it a career at least the first time. And I
Speaker 1: just I love asking players with perspective on this because
Speaker 1: this was I was sixteen years old when when when
Speaker 1: Ricky hung him up the first time, I was. I
Speaker 1: read it in the newspaper, tells you kind of how
Speaker 1: they woven go. That was I was very very heartbroken
Speaker 1: by I had to Ricky Williams Jersey's, I had your jersey,
Speaker 1: I had Chris Chambers Jersey's, but he was kind of
Speaker 1: my guy. I'm gonna be honest with you. What was
Speaker 1: that like did you guys? Was that a total surprise
Speaker 1: to you? And what was it like when you kind
Speaker 1: of came to terms of ship, our our top guy
Speaker 1: back there he's gone. Now. I wasn't surprised because I
Speaker 1: know Ricky and got to say to spend Scott a
Speaker 1: lot of time to spend around Ricky, you know. But
Speaker 1: my thing was this, I never forget the night we
Speaker 1: found out, me and Chris Samans we were actually having dinner.
Speaker 1: They they were either dinner down on the beach and
Speaker 1: we were leaving and one of our partners that was
Speaker 1: a teammate, dugger, he hit me in and was he
Speaker 1: was like, what's und was like, what's up? Make that man,
Speaker 1: we just heard that Ricky retired. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I said. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: and I left it at that, and then you know,
Speaker 1: and then I talked I was talking to Chris. I
Speaker 1: was like, they're just on the Ricky retired, Chris like
Speaker 1: were and so that's what it was. And then we
Speaker 1: just went on and continued party and everything. They paid
Speaker 1: too much attention to your people that were at the
Speaker 1: spot we were at. We're coming up to us and like,
Speaker 1: hey man, what's going on Ricky? And okay? And so
Speaker 1: when we first we finally got back together as a team,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was surprising because he was
Speaker 1: best player, but you know, we had faith in Travis
Speaker 1: Minor and then you know, and then you hated what
Speaker 1: happened to t Minor because as soon as he gets
Speaker 1: his opportunity, he gets a high ankle's brain and he's
Speaker 1: not the same all season. So well, we I mean,
Speaker 1: I was surprised, but it was like, that's just Ricky,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's just Ricky. And then they
Speaker 1: trade for Lamar Gordon too, so there's yeah, the running
Speaker 1: back combo there with he and Travis Minor, and you
Speaker 1: know you mentioned it too. I always remember Travis Miner
Speaker 1: always had such high yards per carry averages because he
Speaker 1: would rip off those big runs on like third mode
Speaker 1: and stuff in that third down situation. So I was
Speaker 1: excited to see him get a chance. One guy, Randy
Speaker 1: I was less excited about, even as a young kind
Speaker 1: of die hard, just blind, you know, unconditional love fans
Speaker 1: of the team was a J feely. I mean you
Speaker 1: got to say that nothing about that and he, you know,
Speaker 1: he comes in in the trade, and you know you've
Speaker 1: got Jay Fiedler there, a guy that's won a lot
Speaker 1: of games for you guys and you played with for
Speaker 1: a long time. How did you guys like perceive that
Speaker 1: quarterback competition that trade? Was it like this is still
Speaker 1: Jay's team and a J has to come take it over?
Speaker 1: Or like was there some competition there but between the
Speaker 1: locker room to figure out who was on whose side?
Speaker 1: Like what was that whole situation? Like for you guys,
Speaker 1: were we were J feelers guy? You know, we were
Speaker 1: J feelers guy. Ted had us over for dinner all
Speaker 1: the time. We always about to dinner, everything, and he
Speaker 1: threw me the ball. So that's why I love him.
Speaker 1: But no, Jay's Jay is one of my good friends
Speaker 1: that we still talk uh every now and then. And
Speaker 1: you know, it was different because we had understood why
Speaker 1: they were bringing a J in and then you don't
Speaker 1: give up that kind of pick. We got to be
Speaker 1: a backup. And then we heard you know, it was
Speaker 1: before he got down and he heard the real California kid,
Speaker 1: California cool, all that, which he was. But he's a
Speaker 1: fiery competitor and he and and I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: me and him, our relationship it grew as the season
Speaker 1: one along, because I mean I was a J feeler guy.
Speaker 1: I was me and Chris we were feelers guy, and
Speaker 1: so a J had to come in and make that adjustment.
Speaker 1: And you know, some days it was good, some days
Speaker 1: it wasn't good, you know, And you know, the the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Tree, and we're gonna talk about like you
Speaker 1: remember that whole week we were out and we were
Speaker 1: in San Francisco because we played Seattle and who plays
Speaker 1: San France and st weekend. So we went to Seattle,
Speaker 1: play Seattle and lost, and then went down to h
Speaker 1: to San France, and I think that week right there
Speaker 1: in San Fran allowed a lot of us to just
Speaker 1: get to know him and sit around and hang out with.
Speaker 1: A J is a cool cat. He just just California
Speaker 1: cool man. And that was actually my segue into the
Speaker 1: next question. Here was because you know, I'm from the
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest, Randy Is. Everybody in this podcast is probably
Speaker 1: sick of hair about by now. But I come from
Speaker 1: the Seattle area. And so when you guys will come
Speaker 1: out every eight years, you let that cross conference trip
Speaker 1: and I got to see my team once every eight years.
Speaker 1: You guys came out that year in two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: and I saw that game, and you had a chance
Speaker 1: to drive down late. But a J had a glute injury.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? You have to write? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so this is what happened. So so a J gets
Speaker 1: hit and has his bruise all like this right cheek
Speaker 1: or whatever, right, and so he's hurting, and it was
Speaker 1: so funny because he was he was getting hit the
Speaker 1: whole game. And so like a J comes in, he
Speaker 1: subverse of all he changes the re arrangement of the huddle.
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't like this huddle in this bace
Speaker 1: and you go ahead. We're like, bro, we're trying to
Speaker 1: win this game. And so a J and so a
Speaker 1: J has a bruise butt and so we score. Something
Speaker 1: good happens and he's walking on the field and I'll
Speaker 1: never forget David Bowens comes and smacks him right on him,
Speaker 1: right on the bruise, and I just remember A J
Speaker 1: hitting the ground like somebody shot him, and we're all
Speaker 1: center her, like, man, get the hell up, man, And
Speaker 1: that weren't that bad. But then when we saw the
Speaker 1: bruise in the locker room, Oh, it's pretty bad. But
Speaker 1: the funniest thing was how he hit him and how
Speaker 1: he hit that ground, and you know, it was it
Speaker 1: was one of the funniest thing ever sing because it
Speaker 1: was just it was an AJ. We always thought he
Speaker 1: was a drama king, but that was a big bruise. YEA. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They ran that highlight on Sports Center for not just
Speaker 1: that day, but for the rest of the week. Him
Speaker 1: kind of reacting to the backside slap a very common
Speaker 1: occurrence in all sports. But you had mentioned the West
Speaker 1: Coast trip out and I was gonna ask you, I
Speaker 1: thought you guys would stay out for the whole, you know,
Speaker 1: the two weeks playing the Seahawks and the forty nine
Speaker 1: is there. But before the trip had occurred, right, did
Speaker 1: he just not want to go out to the West Coast.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, man, Dave took the
Speaker 1: easy way out, man. And I'm always appreciative days him
Speaker 1: and his lovely why she's awesome. You know, they would
Speaker 1: always give you get whenever you have children. They would
Speaker 1: give the kids, you know, the uh you know, like
Speaker 1: the little bonds thing. And my son, my oldest son, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: was born the week before we left the Seattle, so
Speaker 1: you know, they and they were so nice and everything.
Speaker 1: And I just think Dave I just didn't want to
Speaker 1: go for that hard riding because he was gonna get
Speaker 1: fired regardless. And it was a hard ride, man, it
Speaker 1: really was. And you know the way that we rallied
Speaker 1: because we love Coach Bates. Everybody offense, defense, we just
Speaker 1: love Coach Bates. And he brought a different demeanor, old school,
Speaker 1: like if you make a mistake and practice, you gotta run.
Speaker 1: And you know, I jumped offside to the fence and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there like what and so but he made
Speaker 1: everybody run to the fence. If you messed up, everybody,
Speaker 1: no matter who you was, it was me and Zach
Speaker 1: j t didn't matter. You ran to the fence. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was you know that caught me off guard because
Speaker 1: I was still a young player league and didn't understand it.
Speaker 1: Like my my college coach got fired. But that was
Speaker 1: a shot too, when they fired coach Dining. But it
Speaker 1: wasn't this just for you to resign like that in
Speaker 1: the middle season. We were all wondering like and still
Speaker 1: to this day if you talked about it, he just
Speaker 1: quit on us because I mean, hell, you had a
Speaker 1: partners too, you know, you had a partner. All I
Speaker 1: had a partners too. Of us druggling the way we did,
Speaker 1: and you know that that that he is hard. But
Speaker 1: I think if anybody other than coach Bates would have
Speaker 1: got the job, then you know, it would have been
Speaker 1: something different. But because it was, we were cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Jim Bates certainly helped you guys deliver the you know,
Speaker 1: one of the big wins of that era of Dolphins
Speaker 1: football on that Monday night game against the Page. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that here in just one second. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the game. We have you on here for
Speaker 1: a great, great reminiscing for sure, Randy. But I do
Speaker 1: want to ask about that game against the forty niners,
Speaker 1: because the Dolphins do travel to San Francisco this Sunday
Speaker 1: to take on the forty nine ers, you know, sixteen
Speaker 1: years after the fact. I mean, I can't believe it's
Speaker 1: been that long. I'm sure you can't either. It's long time. Beer.
Speaker 1: You're looking man, looking young. You still you still suit
Speaker 1: him up and go out there and play a couple
Speaker 1: of quarters or what? No, I'm good, I'm over man,
Speaker 1: I still roll out of bed. I saw a comment
Speaker 1: from from Chris from Chambers that said that when Flow
Speaker 1: saw him last, he was like, can you still play
Speaker 1: like dead serious? Like he was always just trying to
Speaker 1: over rocks? No, Yeah, I'm good. So you guys, you
Speaker 1: guys are one and eight coming into this two game
Speaker 1: West Coast Swing, and you drop the game in Seattle,
Speaker 1: you come down to San Francisco. You mentioned it. That
Speaker 1: was a good nugget there about kind of that time
Speaker 1: to bond. Is that what that week is all about
Speaker 1: is like you obviously you have the same schedule, but
Speaker 1: how much different is it for a team to be
Speaker 1: out on you know, away from home and kind of
Speaker 1: in a makeshift practice facility for an entire week. It
Speaker 1: was different, especially coming off that Seattle loss. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a heartbreaking loss, a pick six where I
Speaker 1: mean it was a slamp. It was a slamp black combination.
Speaker 1: To me and Chris Side, he's like dropping a randy
Speaker 1: unless well he didn't want to drop it rand. He
Speaker 1: wanted to slating to Chris bolwhere kicks it off pick six,
Speaker 1: we lose the game, And so it was. It was
Speaker 1: different because a lot of our families went out there
Speaker 1: and we were just in this hotel downtown San Francisco
Speaker 1: going to practice back and forth, and we knew that
Speaker 1: we had to find a way to get get just
Speaker 1: something good to happen, you know, because it was a
Speaker 1: long year. Man, it was. And I tell people all
Speaker 1: the time, and you know, it's easy to as a
Speaker 1: fan to dump on us and players, but I bet
Speaker 1: you right now you don't feel no worse than we do,
Speaker 1: you know. And it was a hard trip and for
Speaker 1: us to be out there in San France. Ain't none
Speaker 1: for us from out there. It's Thanksgiving weeks or we're
Speaker 1: not with our families and Thanksgiving and it was just
Speaker 1: a bonding moment where we were like, hey man, it's
Speaker 1: either now or never. Let's not go stay out here
Speaker 1: for two damn weeks and not win the football game. Man.
Speaker 1: So you know, we went together, and you know that
Speaker 1: was I think that was our first trip. That was
Speaker 1: my first trip to San Francisco to play the Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was because we went. I mean, we did so
Speaker 1: many different things with Alcatrez and we were playing Have
Speaker 1: you ever been in Alcatraz? You know, they have that
Speaker 1: little baseball diamond field, So we got to pretend we're
Speaker 1: playing baseball and Alcatrez, uh, you know, made the Fisherman's Dwarf,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, doing things as a team, and I
Speaker 1: think time on that Sunday, where would you be on
Speaker 1: a baseball diamond if that was the career path you chose.
Speaker 1: I'm a third base man. I played that hot ConA man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I play I played the hot coner man. Yeah. That's
Speaker 1: these days aren't coming about buns anymore. You can just
Speaker 1: sit back there and pick those one hops off the
Speaker 1: off the bat there because you play no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Like I'm watching my Braves right now, play the Marlins.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, they're down four three. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: it myself right now, so you got to come back.
Speaker 1: Push here. But good stuff, man, um, so you're get
Speaker 1: in that game. You talked about the bonding experience and
Speaker 1: the desire to get away, which is such an interesting,
Speaker 1: you know, dynamic. And I'm not going to say that
Speaker 1: any player has ever thought this, but when the when
Speaker 1: a team gets to one and eight, fans start thinking
Speaker 1: about where can our draft pick be? Right, Like, that's
Speaker 1: that's common place for a fan, But you guys still
Speaker 1: have it in the back of your mind, like forget that,
Speaker 1: we want to go and win a football game, and
Speaker 1: you start hot. It goes to the twenty five yeard
Speaker 1: touchdown pass from Pheely to Chambers. And when you're on
Speaker 1: a team that has struggled that much, does getting that
Speaker 1: first score, like getting that first lead, does that kind
Speaker 1: of change the mindset of the team. It just helped.
Speaker 1: It did. Man. It's always easier to you know, not
Speaker 1: don't once you that it's not easier playing with the lead.
Speaker 1: But it was fun too for something good to happen
Speaker 1: to us. And I think that was one of the
Speaker 1: biggest things and another funny a j feeling story a
Speaker 1: j okay so on that past and Chris AJ dislocates
Speaker 1: his finger on his his right index finger right and
Speaker 1: literally again he's hobbling about the Fallout past. I were like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is wrong now? Right now? And so
Speaker 1: I'll run over there and I'm looking at like what
Speaker 1: what he points to showing the finger. I said, that's it, Like,
Speaker 1: come on, man, And so they popped it back and
Speaker 1: we go back in and and continue to fight. And
Speaker 1: I think you know, if you look at that game,
Speaker 1: it was just it was a complete team for defense
Speaker 1: play lights Out has some good plays on special teams offense.
Speaker 1: We came and showed up and that's why we were
Speaker 1: able to get that football game. And Randy a lot
Speaker 1: of times in this podcast, I love getting into the weeds,
Speaker 1: the X and those and stuff. I had not more
Speaker 1: on one of the first Drive Time Flashback podcast we did,
Speaker 1: and he was breaking down touchdowns the heat score in
Speaker 1: one day night went over the Bears and so that
Speaker 1: the Nyers come back and put the next ten points
Speaker 1: on the board, and then we come back and take
Speaker 1: a lead with a fifteen yard touchdown pass from yourself.
Speaker 1: Do you recall that play? Oh? Yeah, it was trips left.
Speaker 1: So we had once we had one receiver backside, we
Speaker 1: had trips to the to the left side. I was
Speaker 1: the inside receiver closer to the tackle, and then then
Speaker 1: three by one Chris, whoever it was the X was
Speaker 1: I think what was was it Darius? Then Darius? So whatever,
Speaker 1: he run a takeoff outside release. The inside guy who
Speaker 1: was inside's like he wants up the field outside the
Speaker 1: runs up the field. I run a middle read uh
Speaker 1: steam route. So basically I'm just going across the formation.
Speaker 1: And as soon as I go across the formation, I
Speaker 1: don't even see the ball lead a J's hand. I
Speaker 1: just look and there's the ball. I just put my
Speaker 1: hands and it's stuck to it. And we had me
Speaker 1: and him. That was one thing then AJ had. We
Speaker 1: had chemistry on that route. And I always knew if
Speaker 1: if he was gonna hit, it was gonna come as
Speaker 1: soon as I got past that linebacker, and as soon
Speaker 1: as I got passed the linebacker, it was it got
Speaker 1: right there on that fast and touchdown. How long would
Speaker 1: you say that chemistry takes a develop I mean in
Speaker 1: your in your you know experience from that particular moment,
Speaker 1: But in general, does that chemistry like that's a big
Speaker 1: training camp troupe all the times, like, oh they have
Speaker 1: to get this chemistry developed. How long does it truly
Speaker 1: take for a quarterback and a pass catcher to develop chemistry?
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't even know because I've never
Speaker 1: had a problem. I think that because I know, like
Speaker 1: my first year in St. Louis, me and Mark Bolgi
Speaker 1: could never get on the same page, you know, and
Speaker 1: it was the point where you know, like balls, I'm
Speaker 1: open and he wasn't used to throwing the tight ends either,
Speaker 1: So that I mean, but I think one thing about
Speaker 1: the chemistry of a quarterback, you know, pass catcher, it
Speaker 1: starts with your friendship pretty much, and men marketing know
Speaker 1: each other. And I got to, you know, and I
Speaker 1: had to you know, sit down with him at lunch
Speaker 1: and do all those things, and it eventually worked with
Speaker 1: with j J said. It was different because you know,
Speaker 1: they were putting him in with the first team when
Speaker 1: he got there, so we got a chance to get
Speaker 1: from biliar with him and how the ball was gonna
Speaker 1: come out of And one thing about him, dude can
Speaker 1: spend it. He can he can spend the ball. But
Speaker 1: you know, we were still Jameston, we were still you know,
Speaker 1: Jay's I got you know, weren't going away from Jane
Speaker 1: Jay's I do. But at the same time, we knew
Speaker 1: why they brought A J. Feeley in to be the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, and so you know, we were still at
Speaker 1: the practice of times catching. You know, he was like Randy,
Speaker 1: but this goes on, I want you to be here here,
Speaker 1: and that's how it worked like that after a while.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we were all we were always we liked
Speaker 1: a J a lot, but we were always a feelers.
Speaker 1: We were always Yeah, and you mentioned the rams. Was
Speaker 1: that Mike marsh Were you there with Mike Marts? No,
Speaker 1: that was that was linehand Okay, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: because yeah, Mike Marts never ran He always ran that
Speaker 1: twenty personnel pack and so you wouldn't be for those ones.
Speaker 1: But that up in, Yeah, exactly, That's why he learned
Speaker 1: to Yeah, grew up in so yeah, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest thing with UH, with
Speaker 1: all of us past catcher skilled position players with a
Speaker 1: J was the you know, because he wasn't a I'm hey, guys,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go out to dinner, Let's go have
Speaker 1: a beer something like that. It was more always us
Speaker 1: a man, come on, let's go over here and describe it,
Speaker 1: drank real quick, Let's buy a dinner on the road
Speaker 1: and do things. He was that, I mean because he
Speaker 1: was he wasn't a raw rock guy, you know, his shield,
Speaker 1: and we had to kind of bring him along well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I worked out there for those for that
Speaker 1: particular game and a couple more wins later in the season.
Speaker 1: And you guys do finish it off with a Derek
Speaker 1: Pope scoop and score from one yard away to give
Speaker 1: you a four teen point lead. Is that kind of
Speaker 1: when you relax in that game? Yeah? You know, no,
Speaker 1: you don't ever relax because, especially when you're one and eight,
Speaker 1: you're like, what else can go wrong? You know, That's
Speaker 1: what that's your thought process. It's like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: going too good. Something has to go wrong. And it
Speaker 1: didn't right there, And I mean, and that was a
Speaker 1: big play by Polk. I think when did it sacked?
Speaker 1: Bumbled by j T? Yeah, it might have been a
Speaker 1: stackphone by JT. And for Pope, who was a young
Speaker 1: player himself, scoop and score and we can find a
Speaker 1: way to get that win, and then you get the
Speaker 1: long plane ride back home, probably five or four and
Speaker 1: a half hours or so. I always love asking the
Speaker 1: question about plane rides home, and this one obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't clinch a playoff spot or anything like that.
Speaker 1: You just got your second one of the season. But
Speaker 1: it had to be a fun one, right yo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like plane rides, you just have fun. It's
Speaker 1: even more fun when you getta win, though, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that was the biggest thing. And it
Speaker 1: was a long flight and retired and everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: we've been out there. We haven't seen our families. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about a funch for it,
Speaker 1: because you know, you get the ball for coach Bates
Speaker 1: and everything. And like I said, Candlestick is a just
Speaker 1: a blank hole. It was awful, raggedy field, raggedy locker room.
Speaker 1: But you can feel when you're in there all the
Speaker 1: historic San Francisco games or Dallas and Joan Tannada Park
Speaker 1: and all these things. You can build those things where
Speaker 1: you're in there. But we were so happy to get
Speaker 1: the hell out of San Francisco. I love sanc who
Speaker 1: has a city. But I mean we were so ready
Speaker 1: to get the hell out of there and get back
Speaker 1: to Miami. Well, you certainly know a thing or two
Speaker 1: about multipurpose fields playing at Pro Player there for so long,
Speaker 1: and oh my god, Yeah, it's awesome. The renovations. Now
Speaker 1: it's it's incredible. Hard Rock is a freaking Hard Rocks
Speaker 1: game is a freaking palace. Now it's it's incredible now.
Speaker 1: But I do want to finish up this podcast. You
Speaker 1: talked about Jim Bates a little bit. We talked to
Speaker 1: about the Monday night, the night that Courage War Orange
Speaker 1: as it was called. Just talk to us about that
Speaker 1: game briefly here. For us, first of all, we were like,
Speaker 1: we're what, Oh no, they got these orange jerseys for you?
Speaker 1: Oh cool, you know, and it was you know, we
Speaker 1: knew our season was over. We knew that, you know,
Speaker 1: And we knew the Patriots who they were, and we
Speaker 1: knew all about that and everything, and we knew we
Speaker 1: have probably had no chance to win that football game. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a magical night, and I know
Speaker 1: that the stadium was not full, but you couldn't tell
Speaker 1: us that stadium was not jam packed with Dolphin fan.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable and for us as a team, because
Speaker 1: that was a complete team victory, for us as a
Speaker 1: team to go get that win, and for Darius to
Speaker 1: catch that ball and for a day to find the
Speaker 1: match up with Troy Brown being the slot receiver on
Speaker 1: on and it was the same place because I caught
Speaker 1: touchdown on against San Francisco. It was trips left, I
Speaker 1: run across, I took the safety with me. Darius Betroy
Speaker 1: off the ball, A j threw it per quickly and
Speaker 1: it was just a great, uh, you know, great feeling.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't over yet. Tom Brady still had to
Speaker 1: dag on ball. But you know, Jason Taylor, being the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame mad to play Brandon MNDJO picks the
Speaker 1: ball off and we get to win. And the funniest
Speaker 1: thing we also talked about the best playing sports and
Speaker 1: football is big performation, and so we're victory and we're
Speaker 1: like just and I never get riding. The Harrison comes
Speaker 1: over to it to y'all, still going home, I said,
Speaker 1: but this feelings good tonight though, you know, And that
Speaker 1: was the funny thing. That's exactly yeah, still going I said, Well,
Speaker 1: but this one feels good right here to night. You
Speaker 1: couldn't tell us that that wasn't a playoff winning for
Speaker 1: us right there that night. It was specially that one
Speaker 1: of my favorite nights ever playing football. Yeah, twenty four
Speaker 1: hour ut you guys get to enjoyed for twenty four
Speaker 1: hours and reality after that. Oh if you don't think
Speaker 1: we told south of each up that night, that's a
Speaker 1: perfect way. And this podcast, I think five years with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, two three receptions for over three thousand
Speaker 1: yards and eighteen scores in the aquand Orange ran. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for your time today, man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And so there goes Randy McMichael out one door and
Speaker 1: then the other, the hosts of the fish Tank podcast.
Speaker 1: Who gets it first this week? Guys, Seth Juice, who
Speaker 1: wants it first? I don't take it first. I want
Speaker 1: to take it first, especially talking about my man, Randy McMichael. Man,
Speaker 1: you know that's my that's my guy. That was the
Speaker 1: best player to ever wear eighty one after myself of course. Um,
Speaker 1: it's so funny about that, Travis, because it took a
Speaker 1: little while for Joey and Charlie and the equipment room
Speaker 1: to give that number away to anybody right after I
Speaker 1: was after I was done playing, and so it was.
Speaker 1: I got a phone call from from the equipment room
Speaker 1: after I was already retired, sitting at home, you know,
Speaker 1: still crying about being retired, you know, being kicked off
Speaker 1: the field, and they said, Juice, we gotta give your
Speaker 1: number away. I'm like, for real, like I was upset.
Speaker 1: He said, but but this guy is worthy, this guy
Speaker 1: is worthy, He's good. He's gonna represent it well. And
Speaker 1: of course that became random McMichael, and boy did he
Speaker 1: he represented very well. And then he wound for them
Speaker 1: to make right. It was I don't call you called Juice.
Speaker 1: I guaranteed well. And then Randy wound up and I
Speaker 1: think you guys cover this on the on the episode
Speaker 1: he was on the fish tank. He wound up in
Speaker 1: that Sports illustrated photos of the was it the century
Speaker 1: or I mean that was That was the craziest image
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Yeah, the lead the Superman that was
Speaker 1: at hell. But you know it, what's so funny, people said,
Speaker 1: Juice man that pictured he was awesome. I don't even
Speaker 1: all they see is like they don't even see the
Speaker 1: hard of the back. I said, I wish that was me. Man,
Speaker 1: You get that one, Juice and the one where he
Speaker 1: was dancing with the cheerleaders us that Jim all the
Speaker 1: time and like it's awesome, But that's not juice. That's
Speaker 1: too good. Well, the reason we had a mom was
Speaker 1: to talk about a game in oh four and Seth
Speaker 1: you mentioned that, you know, a couple of couple of
Speaker 1: bad football teams. That was the Dolphins second win of
Speaker 1: that season. They were on the West Coast Swing, and
Speaker 1: Randy talked about, you know, you go out there for
Speaker 1: the double dip on the West Coast and you stay
Speaker 1: out there for the whole week, and he believed that
Speaker 1: was kind of a I don't want to say bonding
Speaker 1: moment for that team, because they still didn't. They won
Speaker 1: four games, but he said that that was kind of
Speaker 1: a turning moment. And the reason he thinks they won
Speaker 1: that game is that, I mean, do you recognize that
Speaker 1: when you go out in those West coach trips and
Speaker 1: spent a bunch of time with the team and kind
Speaker 1: of get that time together. Well, we didn't. I don't
Speaker 1: think we ever did that, Juice. When I mean the
Speaker 1: eight years that I was there, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think Jimmy. Jimmy definitely didn't do that, and I don't
Speaker 1: remember Dave doing that unless it was for you know,
Speaker 1: training camp for preseason, So we never had anything like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you would go and you'd get on that
Speaker 1: plane and come back. But I could totally see where
Speaker 1: a team, when things aren't going right, anything that just
Speaker 1: breaks that monotony of losing and not feeling really good
Speaker 1: about yourself. I remember, you know, the year that they
Speaker 1: went to London, was that was that? And when they
Speaker 1: went one in fifteen was that a London trip as well?
Speaker 1: And I think that that was another moment where a
Speaker 1: lot of teams hate that interrupt, that disturbance, that interruption
Speaker 1: in their normal routine because everything is so regimented in
Speaker 1: football more than any other sport. But but you need
Speaker 1: an interruption when you're a one in nine team, when
Speaker 1: you're an O and whatever team. I think that sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, for those teams, for that group of guys,
Speaker 1: that I could absolutely see where that would be beneficial
Speaker 1: and that would get guys to maybe just relax, maybe
Speaker 1: get out of South Florida and not have to be
Speaker 1: scared to go to publics or not want to go
Speaker 1: to the movies because they don't want to be recognized
Speaker 1: and and be you know, asked when you're gonna win
Speaker 1: a game. So I absolutely could see that, and I
Speaker 1: can imagine juice, right, you're one in nine there, one
Speaker 1: in nine, somebody's gonna have to lose that game, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to be on that because then you're
Speaker 1: really you know, now you're you're learning about yourself if
Speaker 1: you can't beat the one in nine team and you
Speaker 1: know exactly who you are. So I think that that's
Speaker 1: why it was probably a big one for those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of times, you know, you guys, you need
Speaker 1: to spend time together. You know, South Florida is a
Speaker 1: tough place where you know, when you guys come to
Speaker 1: work and when works over, they all go different ways
Speaker 1: and they don't get to spend that time to get other.
Speaker 1: I think once you get to know somebody off to
Speaker 1: feel a little bit more, I think you go to
Speaker 1: battle better for him on the field. And when you
Speaker 1: go on those trips and you guys are going to
Speaker 1: eat together, you might go to a movie together. You
Speaker 1: might be stuff that you wouldn't do at home. You know,
Speaker 1: it does, it does bond you a little bit. But
Speaker 1: obviously when you get back home, things get back to
Speaker 1: the normal way of doing things. And you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I wish it would carry over a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Look at some of these other cities, like
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about it before, like a Green
Speaker 1: Bay or somewhere there's not much else to do. So
Speaker 1: guys spent a lot of time together. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of time working together. It's it's been a lot
Speaker 1: of time maybe going out to dinner together, and the
Speaker 1: results come out out on the field that way. You know. Here,
Speaker 1: I just hate to say it, Chad was what she
Speaker 1: wants to do well, I mean way much, way too
Speaker 1: much to do. But you also come back to the
Speaker 1: same problems, right, Like you said, you're one of nine
Speaker 1: that doesn't It's like it's like your credit man. It
Speaker 1: follows you around the grids, so you can't get away
Speaker 1: from it. But you also mentioned going to battle with guys,
Speaker 1: and and one of the big topics we talked about
Speaker 1: with Randy was one guy that didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to battle on that West Coast trip, and I'm made
Speaker 1: a joke to him and I said, is the reason
Speaker 1: that wants to resign before that West Coast swing because
Speaker 1: he just didn't want to go out there and he
Speaker 1: thought maybe there was other motives involved, but he you know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't a fan of wants as decision to hang
Speaker 1: it up in season. He believed that was a a
Speaker 1: quitter's mentality, Seth, can you weigh on that? What do
Speaker 1: you think about the decision to call it quits and
Speaker 1: no for I mean, that was a tough year for
Speaker 1: this team. You know, obviously wants to relide on Ricky
Speaker 1: Williams and he calls it a career to day before
Speaker 1: training camp. We won't get into that again on you, Seth.
Speaker 1: Well documented so, but but I mean, what was the
Speaker 1: what's what's it like in season for for a coach
Speaker 1: to kind of bail like that and the guys just
Speaker 1: to be left to their own devices almost you know, again,
Speaker 1: I never experienced that. I actually, um, that was the
Speaker 1: first season where I had left and taken the job
Speaker 1: with Jason to run the foundation. I was still very
Speaker 1: close just again, working with Jason was almost like not
Speaker 1: leaving in a lot of ways, and and particularly that
Speaker 1: first year I remained really close with everybody there and
Speaker 1: maybe because they hadn't heard the Ricky story, so at
Speaker 1: that point I was I was getting the uh. But
Speaker 1: I worked all the games. I helped the PR staff
Speaker 1: transition Mike Phannick, who is not with Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: and a great PR man, but he had he had
Speaker 1: was an intern who then elevated to to my position.
Speaker 1: And UM had the split press box format then, and
Speaker 1: so I worked. I still worked all of the games
Speaker 1: in that press box, and so I was close and
Speaker 1: around the team. The one thing I do remember, and
Speaker 1: you know Jason was he was disappointed by Ricky's decision
Speaker 1: and he loved Dave, he really did. He was very
Speaker 1: loyal to Dave UM and I remember him that he
Speaker 1: was asked about it and he said, Dave didn't quit,
Speaker 1: he resigned. Ricky quit and there's a difference, So, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that was his perspective then. But then he
Speaker 1: also became very loyal to Jim Bates later that year.
Speaker 1: And there's also there's a great I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was a pregame er postgame interview with j T
Speaker 1: and they asked him about Nick Saban. You know, the
Speaker 1: rumors swirling about Nick Saban coming to town and he says,
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn about Nick Saban, Jim Bates
Speaker 1: is my head coach, and then it became Nick's best friends.
Speaker 1: So how the credibility you got to put in all
Speaker 1: of that? But I can imagine where that would be tough, Jeams,
Speaker 1: I don't know that. You clearly never had to deal
Speaker 1: with that either, um, but at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes again this whole idea of fresh start, and I
Speaker 1: think that when coach Bates did get in, we did
Speaker 1: see a difference in the team's performance. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: to think about it, though, Seth is, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta coach has been riding you all all training camp,
Speaker 1: most of the season, you know, about hanging in there,
Speaker 1: being tough, you know, uh, you know, not letting your
Speaker 1: teammates down, and then you have something like that happen,
Speaker 1: you know, so I mean, what is that? What are
Speaker 1: you what were you preaching to us about if that's
Speaker 1: how you're going to handle anything. You know, most coaches
Speaker 1: don't resign it wait to get fired, you know, dude,
Speaker 1: keep doing your job until that you know, your owner
Speaker 1: says it's time for you to go. You don't just
Speaker 1: you know, up and leave like that man. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a it's gotta be frustrated on players when you
Speaker 1: sit there and you're you know, they're going through all this,
Speaker 1: all these mental toughness things that they go through. How
Speaker 1: they're telling you gotta fight through this injury or a
Speaker 1: fight through this, you know, whatever is going on at home,
Speaker 1: and then they upen and they can bail out and
Speaker 1: coaches have no uh, there's there's no punishment for coaches
Speaker 1: shutting it down like that. You know, do you think
Speaker 1: that that could be a rallying point juice for guys?
Speaker 1: I mean, because you know what I wonder and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I have no idea. In fairness to Dave,
Speaker 1: he might have been asked to resign, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't know how that went down. But does that
Speaker 1: what you're what you're expressing, is there perhaps that sentiment
Speaker 1: could go through the locker room and maybe even bring
Speaker 1: guys closer together and rallying. And not that they became
Speaker 1: world beaters, but when they go three and four, I
Speaker 1: think at that point, Travis, and so you know, do
Speaker 1: you think that maybe that bombing will hell, we all
Speaker 1: we got is each other and let's rally behind Jim
Speaker 1: Bates that that could work in their favor. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: believe so, you know, I've I've had a coach, you know.
Speaker 1: I think they asked coach Sula to resign at one point,
Speaker 1: I believe. You know, I'm not sure that says accurate,
Speaker 1: but you know there's some remmants about that. But he said, no,
Speaker 1: you've got to fire me. I know they asked Joe
Speaker 1: per turn to a couple of times to resign. He said, no,
Speaker 1: you don't have to fire me, you know, And uh
Speaker 1: so that's why they did. They were looking for a
Speaker 1: reason to firemen. They found a pretty good one obviously.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you, man, these guys, most of
Speaker 1: these coaches, man, they're they're in it until the end, man,
Speaker 1: because they know that what they what they put their
Speaker 1: players through, and they know what it means for those guys.
Speaker 1: Um you know, they have their their head man fight
Speaker 1: it out with them. Even when times are rough. Nobody
Speaker 1: really gets fired when their team is you know, seven
Speaker 1: and one, do they you know what I mean tending
Speaker 1: to you know, it's always all it was. It was
Speaker 1: a tough time. So when you know, when you know
Speaker 1: the tough times come, you hate for see a guy
Speaker 1: bailt out like that, But it does bond the other
Speaker 1: guys because what else you have? And bates that guy
Speaker 1: that looked like he was a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: they did bring the team together, you know, they did
Speaker 1: play hard for him, you know, and that was a
Speaker 1: different story. I'm upset when the guys don't play hard
Speaker 1: for whoever the head man is. But if you don't
Speaker 1: have a guy that's got you going, got you motivated,
Speaker 1: got you inspired, you know, coaches, you know, we we
Speaker 1: we've heard so many amazing speeches. Man, you just don't
Speaker 1: know what it takes to get guys going when you
Speaker 1: gotta coach. Most of the time the talents there, they
Speaker 1: have to have a guy to put your position to
Speaker 1: be successful and somebody's that's inspirational. And if that's not
Speaker 1: the case, and you got to move on. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, Marty Schottenheimer got fired after a fourteen and
Speaker 1: two season because he lost in the divisional round. So yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty rare that it happens, but it has happened before.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, though, I guess the stacking up
Speaker 1: playoff losses gets old at a certain point, I suppose,
Speaker 1: But hey, I'll take fourteen to any day of the week, man.
Speaker 1: But um, so you know, Randy talks about this game
Speaker 1: a little bit and talked about, um, you know, we
Speaker 1: got into talking talking about Jim Bates and and how
Speaker 1: you know, you mentioned Jason Taylor was a big fan
Speaker 1: of Jim Bates and that seemed to be the entire
Speaker 1: locker room having that belief and and that was kind
Speaker 1: of where the podcast turned because, like you mentioned, Seth,
Speaker 1: not a lot of history at this team. We played
Speaker 1: a super Bowl against this team, but we're not gonna
Speaker 1: bring that back up. Um, but let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about maybe next week we have an a FC
Speaker 1: opponent on the dockets. We have some some history with them,
Speaker 1: and I know, Juice you've played some games against the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos for sure. But how about what's coming up
Speaker 1: this week and what's in the can? I know you
Speaker 1: guys just had Keith Jackson and the Todd Wade episode
Speaker 1: as well. What else is coming up here next on
Speaker 1: the fish Tank podcast? Next week really had a great run.
Speaker 1: Todd was amazing, and then Keith Jackson, one of one
Speaker 1: of OJ's favorite teammates, one of my favorite players to
Speaker 1: watch and Keith was just so much fun to have
Speaker 1: in the tank. Some great stories. Incredibly bright guy and
Speaker 1: for me, juice and you know, you lived it. You
Speaker 1: got to experience it and I guess learned from it
Speaker 1: at that stage of your career. But the stories of
Speaker 1: Keith coming over to the sidelines telling Gary Stevens and
Speaker 1: Danny what he saw and what he thinks should be run,
Speaker 1: whether it was to him or to somebody else. And
Speaker 1: and the way he would break down the defense like
Speaker 1: a quarterback or an offensive coordinator. Where those were absolutely
Speaker 1: fascinating stories to me. Yeah, and absolutely And and and free
Speaker 1: agency we talked about it a lot now, you know
Speaker 1: Keith Keith take on free agency that we got what
Speaker 1: the first true free agent really in NFL, I think
Speaker 1: as he fought it out in the court system to
Speaker 1: be released from the Philadelphia Eagles, to get an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play where he want to play, and missing the
Speaker 1: first four games of the season, you know, while he
Speaker 1: waited four court decision to get down here to Miami. Man,
Speaker 1: it was that was awesome stuff as well. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: said he learned the whole playbook in five days by
Speaker 1: the end of the week, Like is that really following
Speaker 1: us here. Yeah, right, I don't know. That was tough,
Speaker 1: like two me a year and a half, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it worked out for you. Juice.
Speaker 1: We talked about, you know, the eighty one jersey and
Speaker 1: Randy McMichael and stuff. Hey, every day I walk in
Speaker 1: this building, the first jersey I see is Oji McDuffie
Speaker 1: catching the pass that eighty one jersey. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's in a strategic place. I've seen where it's at.
Speaker 1: You know, he's right walking right by those stairs, are
Speaker 1: going in that room. You have to stick at that location, Juice.
Speaker 1: He had. He had the best locker location Travis when
Speaker 1: he played there, and now he's got the best photo
Speaker 1: location in the lobby. That's right. You gotta go right
Speaker 1: at it. Another one going up the stairs, you go,
Speaker 1: you'll see me your periphery, but you mind, you gotta
Speaker 1: go right at it. First I missed it. I'm waiting
Speaker 1: to see to walk in one of these days and
Speaker 1: see Juice like you know, um installing like one of
Speaker 1: those lights above it. So that's I got the light on,
Speaker 1: the proper lighting and the proper cleaning and stuff on it.
Speaker 1: So there, Oh, j McDuffie and Seth Levitt, the host
Speaker 1: of the fish Tank Podcast. Boys, I really appreciate your
Speaker 1: time today. We'll do it again next week. Thanks for
Speaker 1: man and away they go, Seth and Juice. The fish
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