WEBVTT - Drive Time - Fins Flashback with Randy McMichael 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:09.399 Factors Asafrid touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:15.080 What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.799 part of the Miami Dolphins Official podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.120 your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.600 It is Friday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.000 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.360 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're gonna flash 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.639 things back to two thousand four with former Miami Dolphins 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.040 tight end Randy McMichael. Will recap the San Francisco forty 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.880 Miami Dolphins game as well as that two thousand four season. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:45.879 A lot of change in turmoil that year. We'll get 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.480 to the bottom of some of that here with Randy McMichael. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.919 Plus we'll get John Conjemmi's Three Keys of the Game 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.400 on Sunday, get the last injury report for you guys. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.400 And also here from Seth and Juice from the Fish 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.320 Tank Podcast. All of that and more on this Friday, 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:06.800 October the ninth edition of the Drivetime Podcast. And support 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.960 for Drivetime comes from Auto Nation. There are so many 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.959 reasons to drive pink, but for Auto Nation, there's only 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:16.559 one to finish the fight against cancer. 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And 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.120 before we get into the flashback with Randy McMichael and 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.200 Seth and Juice from the Fish Tank Podcast, let's go 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.760 ahead and stop by on Friday, as we do every 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.160 week here on the Friday Drivetime podcast with John con Gemmis. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.320 Three keys to the San Francisco Game Sunday four oh 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.119 five Eastern in San Francisco, And up first contain kittle Man. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.200 We talked about this on the preview podcast Fifteen Targets 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.360 Fifteen Catches last week, and he talks about John does 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.560 about the multitude of talent and skill players this offense has, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.280 but it starts with George Kittle the talented athletic tight 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.240 end who blocks, who contributes the passing game. He also 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.840 mentions Eric row getting the toughest assignment of any Miami 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.160 defender in this game. Good matchup to watch there with 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.440 Eric Rowe and George Kittle number two battling through injuries 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.440 along the offensive line, and how there have been great 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.960 improvements so far along the offensive line, but this week, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.600 heading into the game, we know Austin Jackson left the game. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.120 Last week, we had Julian Davenport step into the game, 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.359 and Robert Hunt plays some of that extra heavy tight 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.360 end position as well, So it could be interesting to 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.200 see how the Dolphins shift the offensive line if they 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.600 are down one of the regular starters on Sunday and 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.320 number three limit the explosive plays. He says, this is 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.720 one area the Dolphins offense could use a little more 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.520 and a defense a little bit less defensive side, just 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.160 holding down the big games from last week fifty seven 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.640 thirty seven, thirty one yards that will be a big 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.200 key to this game. With George Kittle, possibly Deebo, Samuel Brandon, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.760 Yu Jerk McKinnon. He list on the list of players 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.320 here forty niners and then offensively as well, it generates 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.239 some explosive plays. Longest play of the year for the 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.520 Dolphins so far twenty seven yards. So you can find 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.919 John's keys up on Miami Dolphins dot com as well 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.520 as my written review taking a look at some matchups 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.000 and some of the forty nine personnel and how they 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.400 present challenges to this Dolphins defense and offense. Alright, the 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.399 injury report for Friday game statuses are now available. Let's 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.880 go ahead and get to the Miami Dolphins first. Austin 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.600 Jackson was added to the injured reserve list on Friday, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.280 and the Dolphins called up running back Solving Ahmed. The 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.520 former Washington Husky is now on the Dolphins active roster. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.239 As for the game, status is two players will miss 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.919 the game. Defensive end Shack Lawson and tight end Durham 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.880 Smith will not play, and wide receiver Jachem Grant is 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.200 questionable with an illness, so that means Byron Jones back 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.440 in the lineup for Sunday on game day, get the 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.000 Dolphins cornerback back and for the forty niners report, go 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.880 ahead and check out the top news article up on 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.640 Miami Dolphins dot com that will update this afternoon and 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.960 we'll have the latest on the forty nine report for 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.200 injuries on Sunday's game And joining the Drivetime podcast now 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.000 is a five year member of the Miami Dolphins. Tight 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.560 end out of Georgia. He's wearing the Bulldogs T shirt 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.920 right now as we speak. Randy McMichael, Randy, how you doing, man? Hey? 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.240 What's going on, man, I appreciate you having me on. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.440 Uh always excited to talk about my fun times in 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.800 Miami other than all the damn losing. It was cool. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.040 The other day I was talking to uh we we 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.160 haven't interned up in the PR department. She she went 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.760 to Georgia and she was talking to one of the 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.560 players that are a coach or someone that was up 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.559 there that had gone to Florida, and they were getting 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.320 into a bit of a disagreement, let's say, about the 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.880 Florida Georgia rivalry. So I'm sure you've been pretty well 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.600 involved in that one, haven't you. Oh yeah, no doubt. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.960 My first time ever going to uh or the Florida 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.760 game was being Channing Crowder and we left him for 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.840 a Lauderdale and literally I was the only person on 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.239 the plane with a Georgia shirt. Everybody had the Florida 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.159 giron and Channing when of course they beat us, but 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.920 it was one of the funnest experiences I've had. I've 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.240 been twice since in and both times Georgia has won. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.560 But yeah, I mean it's always fun. My producer here, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.479 I had my day shows here with Andy and Ready 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.920 and uh in Atlanta and our producer, she's a big 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.960 Florida fans, so we had her go back and forth 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.520 and we've won the last three, so it really hasn't 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.599 been any really ashtarted coming from her park. Well, I 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.600 was gonna say we finally got college football back on 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.040 television these days, that that game is coming up pretty soon? 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.839 Isn't it October? It's it's it's usually brown things Halloween, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.000 so probably weekend. We got tennesseee this weekend. Okay, that's 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.479 one of the games that always like tells me. Okay, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:17.320 college football is back in the full swing of things 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.479 that you know, I rivalries. You can't beat him. Man, 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:20.920 it's been it's been a challenging year this year with 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.800 college football, but it's good to see the SEC back 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.960 on TV finally. Um. One thing I always ask our 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.800 you know, our our flashback subjects here are flashback guests, 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.640 is what all you up to these days? You mentioned 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.960 your radio show, but just in general, what's Randy mc 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.400 michael up to in two thousand twenty? Oh well, I mean, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.279 you know, i'm I had my home. I'm are one 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.039 of the sports stations up here in Atlanta nine and 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.599 not the game I'm one of the midday show holds 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.760 me and Andy bonkers, so we do tend to every 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.680 single day. Uh. We just finished up our one year 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.920 anniversary a couple of a couple of months ago, so 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.840 it's been fine. Going good right now is a really 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.359 good It's just you know, it's different because you know, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.520 you get that you gotta have more of a fans 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.840 per active of things that I usually would have had 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.200 as a players. You're as a player, you really didn't care. 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.840 But now, as you know, an analyst for these things, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.880 you gotta be sympathetic to the fans here because you 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.440 know they are the ones that listened to you. I 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.280 was gonna ask, because you know it's I always love 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:18.159 seeing players make that jump from player to media because hey, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.520 hey hey I'm not a media guy. Okay, I'm a 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.880 radio guy. Right, okay, all right, let's keep asking. I'm 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:30.200 I'm a radio guy. Is that what calls himself to Yes? Yes, yes, yes, 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.080 we refused to fall into that category. So yes, I 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.640 have a radio game. Well yeah, I love hearing Channing 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.119 every every time you open the press box before the games, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.920 they have the pregame show playing on the speakers. I 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.000 love hearing him on those you know, every single Sunday, 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.640 So you're in a good company there are you and 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.280 channing that that rivalry runs deep. But getting a little 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.200 bit off the rails here, I did want to ask you, though, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.520 you know, going from player to radio guy as you 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:57.520 so say, have you have you like earned any new 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.600 level of maybe like respect for the job that people 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.240 in the media have to do, or like maybe change 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.760 your perspective a little bit on that. Well, yeah, of 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.720 course you do, man. I mean it's a hard job. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.760 I mean I would never try to downplay it as 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.360 a point of you know, you guys have a hard 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.160 job because I know, being a former athlete, especially when 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:15.840 things aren't going well, the last thing you want to 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.880 do is talk to people. So I mean, you know, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.360 I I get that part about it and everything and 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.119 trying to be as you know, a guy who asked 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.400 the question to those players, trying to be as sensitive 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.800 but not as you know, soft you know what I mean, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:31.360 Because that's the one thing that's going on up here 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.040 right now, what the Falcons losing is that you know, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.480 people getna well, y'all work for the flagship, so you 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.040 gotta actually softball questions which you really don't. But you 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.600 can't ask a question like the fan would want to 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.120 ask you, you know, so you've got to be a 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.560 find a way to around it, you know, be professional, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.200 but also keep it as really as possible. Because the 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.040 one thing I know about being in athletics for so 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:55.080 long is that we know the tap. We know we're struggling. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.360 I'm not playing that, you know, And so that's one 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.440 of those things that that was probably one of the 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.360 hardest things is trying to you know, answer the question, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.320 ask the question as a fan, but also knowing that 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.440 I know you don't want to ask answer that question. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:12.840 So yeah, that's about it. I'll get some questions sometimes 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.120 on Twitter, like hey, Travis, do you think the dolphin 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.480 should make this switch? I'm like, hey, that's that's way 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:21.720 above my pay rage, Oh my god, won't that. I 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.920 don't know. I don't work up there. I'm just I'm 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.840 reporting the facts to you, sir. That's my job exact. Randy, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.400 off the top, you mentioned some losing seasons there in Miami, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.920 but it wasn't all bad right away. You guys were 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.480 pretty good early on in your tenure, but things kind 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.960 of took a turn when a certain running back called 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.080 it a career at least the first time. And I 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.400 just I love asking players with perspective on this because 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.600 this was I was sixteen years old when when when 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.360 Ricky hung him up the first time, I was. I 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.960 read it in the newspaper, tells you kind of how 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.400 they woven go. That was I was very very heartbroken 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.000 by I had to Ricky Williams Jersey's, I had your jersey, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.040 I had Chris Chambers Jersey's, but he was kind of 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:59.000 my guy. I'm gonna be honest with you. What was 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.720 that like did you guys? Was that a total surprise 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.360 to you? And what was it like when you kind 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.240 of came to terms of ship, our our top guy 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.280 back there he's gone. Now. I wasn't surprised because I 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.480 know Ricky and got to say to spend Scott a 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.840 lot of time to spend around Ricky, you know. But 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.800 my thing was this, I never forget the night we 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.000 found out, me and Chris Samans we were actually having dinner. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.040 They they were either dinner down on the beach and 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.360 we were leaving and one of our partners that was 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.800 a teammate, dugger, he hit me in and was he 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.439 was like, what's und was like, what's up? Make that man, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:30.800 we just heard that Ricky retired. And I'm like, oh, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.920 that's exactly what I said. I was like, oh, okay, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:35.840 and I left it at that, and then you know, 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.760 and then I talked I was talking to Chris. I 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:39.959 was like, they're just on the Ricky retired, Chris like 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.760 were and so that's what it was. And then we 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.040 just went on and continued party and everything. They paid 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.200 too much attention to your people that were at the 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.280 spot we were at. We're coming up to us and like, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.800 hey man, what's going on Ricky? And okay? And so 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.760 when we first we finally got back together as a team, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.800 you know, it was it was surprising because he was 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.120 best player, but you know, we had faith in Travis 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.800 Minor and then you know, and then you hated what 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.400 happened to t Minor because as soon as he gets 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.280 his opportunity, he gets a high ankle's brain and he's 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.640 not the same all season. So well, we I mean, 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.040 I was surprised, but it was like, that's just Ricky, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.760 you know, I mean, it's just Ricky. And then they 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.520 trade for Lamar Gordon too, so there's yeah, the running 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.719 back combo there with he and Travis Minor, and you 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.720 know you mentioned it too. I always remember Travis Miner 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.800 always had such high yards per carry averages because he 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.839 would rip off those big runs on like third mode 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.079 and stuff in that third down situation. So I was 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.440 excited to see him get a chance. One guy, Randy 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.920 I was less excited about, even as a young kind 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.000 of die hard, just blind, you know, unconditional love fans 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.400 of the team was a J feely. I mean you 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.400 got to say that nothing about that and he, you know, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.040 he comes in in the trade, and you know you've 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:48.800 got Jay Fiedler there, a guy that's won a lot 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.400 of games for you guys and you played with for 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.920 a long time. How did you guys like perceive that 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.040 quarterback competition that trade? Was it like this is still 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.160 Jay's team and a J has to come take it over? 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.720 Or like was there some competition there but between the 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.120 locker room to figure out who was on whose side? 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.720 Like what was that whole situation? Like for you guys, 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.720 were we were J feelers guy? You know, we were 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.920 J feelers guy. Ted had us over for dinner all 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.559 the time. We always about to dinner, everything, and he 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.280 threw me the ball. So that's why I love him. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.319 But no, Jay's Jay is one of my good friends 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.400 that we still talk uh every now and then. And 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.000 you know, it was different because we had understood why 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:23.600 they were bringing a J in and then you don't 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.760 give up that kind of pick. We got to be 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:27.800 a backup. And then we heard you know, it was 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.000 before he got down and he heard the real California kid, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.640 California cool, all that, which he was. But he's a 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.440 fiery competitor and he and and I thought, you know, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.160 me and him, our relationship it grew as the season 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.240 one along, because I mean I was a J feeler guy. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.480 I was me and Chris we were feelers guy, and 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.640 so a J had to come in and make that adjustment. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.400 And you know, some days it was good, some days 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.079 it wasn't good, you know, And you know, the the 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.920 San Francisco Tree, and we're gonna talk about like you 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.240 remember that whole week we were out and we were 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.680 in San Francisco because we played Seattle and who plays 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.280 San France and st weekend. So we went to Seattle, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.559 play Seattle and lost, and then went down to h 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.760 to San France, and I think that week right there 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.560 in San Fran allowed a lot of us to just 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.080 get to know him and sit around and hang out with. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.559 A J is a cool cat. He just just California 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.839 cool man. And that was actually my segue into the 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.800 next question. Here was because you know, I'm from the 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.480 Pacific Northwest, Randy Is. Everybody in this podcast is probably 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.679 sick of hair about by now. But I come from 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.920 the Seattle area. And so when you guys will come 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.280 out every eight years, you let that cross conference trip 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.080 and I got to see my team once every eight years. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.679 You guys came out that year in two thousand and four, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.480 and I saw that game, and you had a chance 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.280 to drive down late. But a J had a glute injury. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.840 Do you remember that? You have to write? Okay, all right, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.400 so this is what happened. So so a J gets 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.720 hit and has his bruise all like this right cheek 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.800 or whatever, right, and so he's hurting, and it was 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.520 so funny because he was he was getting hit the 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.559 whole game. And so like a J comes in, he 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.880 subverse of all he changes the re arrangement of the huddle. 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.520 He's like, I don't like this huddle in this bace 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.640 and you go ahead. We're like, bro, we're trying to 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.800 win this game. And so a J and so a 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.600 J has a bruise butt and so we score. Something 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.960 good happens and he's walking on the field and I'll 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.640 never forget David Bowens comes and smacks him right on him, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.199 right on the bruise, and I just remember A J 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.280 hitting the ground like somebody shot him, and we're all 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.160 center her, like, man, get the hell up, man, And 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.280 that weren't that bad. But then when we saw the 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.280 bruise in the locker room, Oh, it's pretty bad. But 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.600 the funniest thing was how he hit him and how 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.480 he hit that ground, and you know, it was it 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.160 was one of the funniest thing ever sing because it 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:39.680 was just it was an AJ. We always thought he 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.800 was a drama king, but that was a big bruise. YEA. Yeah. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.679 They ran that highlight on Sports Center for not just 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.400 that day, but for the rest of the week. Him 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.800 kind of reacting to the backside slap a very common 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.560 occurrence in all sports. But you had mentioned the West 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.240 Coast trip out and I was gonna ask you, I 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.400 thought you guys would stay out for the whole, you know, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.640 the two weeks playing the Seahawks and the forty nine 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:03.160 is there. But before the trip had occurred, right, did 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.560 he just not want to go out to the West Coast. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.880 I don't know. I don't know, man, Dave took the 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.440 easy way out, man. And I'm always appreciative days him 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.680 and his lovely why she's awesome. You know, they would 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.800 always give you get whenever you have children. They would 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.640 give the kids, you know, the uh you know, like 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.559 the little bonds thing. And my son, my oldest son, Isaiah, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.840 was born the week before we left the Seattle, so 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.960 you know, they and they were so nice and everything. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.320 And I just think Dave I just didn't want to 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.000 go for that hard riding because he was gonna get 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.920 fired regardless. And it was a hard ride, man, it 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.760 really was. And you know the way that we rallied 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.960 because we love Coach Bates. Everybody offense, defense, we just 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.440 love Coach Bates. And he brought a different demeanor, old school, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.480 like if you make a mistake and practice, you gotta run. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.920 And you know, I jumped offside to the fence and 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.200 I'm sitting there like what and so but he made 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.320 everybody run to the fence. If you messed up, everybody, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.240 no matter who you was, it was me and Zach 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.960 j t didn't matter. You ran to the fence. But yeah, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.960 it was you know that caught me off guard because 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.360 I was still a young player league and didn't understand it. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.600 Like my my college coach got fired. But that was 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.360 a shot too, when they fired coach Dining. But it 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.360 wasn't this just for you to resign like that in 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.600 the middle season. We were all wondering like and still 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.080 to this day if you talked about it, he just 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.280 quit on us because I mean, hell, you had a 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.680 partners too, you know, you had a partner. All I 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.480 had a partners too. Of us druggling the way we did, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.600 and you know that that that he is hard. But 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.080 I think if anybody other than coach Bates would have 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.680 got the job, then you know, it would have been 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.800 something different. But because it was, we were cool. Yeah, 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.400 and Jim Bates certainly helped you guys deliver the you know, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.680 one of the big wins of that era of Dolphins 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.400 football on that Monday night game against the Page. We'll 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.960 get into that here in just one second. Let's go 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.320 back to the game. We have you on here for 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.920 a great, great reminiscing for sure, Randy. But I do 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.000 want to ask about that game against the forty niners, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.920 because the Dolphins do travel to San Francisco this Sunday 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.000 to take on the forty nine ers, you know, sixteen 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.120 years after the fact. I mean, I can't believe it's 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:58.840 been that long. I'm sure you can't either. It's long time. Beer. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.400 You're looking man, looking young. You still you still suit 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:04.840 him up and go out there and play a couple 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.680 of quarters or what? No, I'm good, I'm over man, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.440 I still roll out of bed. I saw a comment 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.880 from from Chris from Chambers that said that when Flow 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.240 saw him last, he was like, can you still play 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.560 like dead serious? Like he was always just trying to 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.440 over rocks? No, Yeah, I'm good. So you guys, you 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.400 guys are one and eight coming into this two game 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.040 West Coast Swing, and you drop the game in Seattle, 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.960 you come down to San Francisco. You mentioned it. That 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.000 was a good nugget there about kind of that time 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.600 to bond. Is that what that week is all about 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.320 is like you obviously you have the same schedule, but 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.840 how much different is it for a team to be 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.200 out on you know, away from home and kind of 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.760 in a makeshift practice facility for an entire week. It 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.240 was different, especially coming off that Seattle loss. You know, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.600 it was a heartbreaking loss, a pick six where I 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.440 mean it was a slamp. It was a slamp black combination. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.040 To me and Chris Side, he's like dropping a randy 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.480 unless well he didn't want to drop it rand. He 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.160 wanted to slating to Chris bolwhere kicks it off pick six, 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.440 we lose the game, And so it was. It was 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.360 different because a lot of our families went out there 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.280 and we were just in this hotel downtown San Francisco 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.959 going to practice back and forth, and we knew that 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.240 we had to find a way to get get just 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.760 something good to happen, you know, because it was a 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.919 long year. Man, it was. And I tell people all 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.160 the time, and you know, it's easy to as a 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.919 fan to dump on us and players, but I bet 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.960 you right now you don't feel no worse than we do, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:25.960 you know. And it was a hard trip and for 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.919 us to be out there in San France. Ain't none 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.800 for us from out there. It's Thanksgiving weeks or we're 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.199 not with our families and Thanksgiving and it was just 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:34.960 a bonding moment where we were like, hey man, it's 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.520 either now or never. Let's not go stay out here 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.400 for two damn weeks and not win the football game. Man. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.760 So you know, we went together, and you know that 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:44.639 was I think that was our first trip. That was 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.200 my first trip to San Francisco to play the Yeah, yeah, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.119