WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 50 | Assistant Coaches Breakdown 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.920 All right, let's go the audible's on the air, kimbocamper 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.440 John can Jammy and uh John. We're kind of in 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.880 that uh in no man's land right now when it 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.800 comes to UH want walking around the National Football League 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.279 and look what's going on, and there's a lot of 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.400 speculation about UM draft choices and everything heading that way 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.560 now that staffs are getting done. We'll talk about the 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:25.919 Dolphins coaching staff as it looks like, you know, they're 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.600 Brian Flores has got his group together and they're setting stones. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.400 We'll talk about that a little bit, um, but it's 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.640 that time of the year where you know, the next 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.760 big thing coming up as a combine. Right, let's get 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:42.400 All Star game over. I walked into the facility, walked 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.080 through the front door, and I'm walking through the halls 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.360 coming back here to the studio, and they're not a 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.360 camn person moving in that building. I know there's coaches there. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.839 I'm in the building there there, they're a hold up. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.080 I don't have to hide from anybody because I get 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.240 sitting right in the middle lobby. No one's gonna see me, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.279 pretty much, was the only one in there. You're okay, Hey, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:04.040 what's going on nothing. No, you're right, I I we 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.160 count the minutes now for lunch exactly. Take you watch 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.360 the clock on the wall. Tick tick tike, come on lunch. 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.240 But you know it's it's it's you can bet that uh, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.480 Brian Floores and his staff are up there. Um. You know, 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.640 that's gotta be an interesting situation when a head coach 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.920 comes in, a new head coach, especially a guy that's 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.800 never been a head coach before, comes in and be 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.000 interesting to talk to him about. You know, what do 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.959 you do first? What? What? What's the first most important thing? 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.840 Is it taking a look at every game tape and 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.760 seeing how they played? Evaluating players? You know what? What? 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.160 What is the what is the thing that you that 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:45.319 that you do first to start building a your staff, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:50.400 your identity, your ideas and your plans to move forward. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.800 How do you begin that construction? You know, it's it's 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.560 kind of funny when you break it down and think 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.360 about it that way, because there's gotta be a lot 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.840 of moving parts, and we talk, we're kidding a lot 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.520 of about you know, there there's so much downtime because 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.960 no one's there's no players here. That's the big thing. 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.520 There's no players but the coaches and the scouting department 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.760 and the general manager and everybody that's watching tape on 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:17.520 quarterbacks and wide receivers and defensive linemen and free agents 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.560 that are going to be out there, and that stuff 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.040 goes on on a daily basis, and it goes from 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.239 early in the morning till late at night. Now, we 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.680 talked about walking through that building is empty. When you 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:33.200 walk upstairs and it's there, it looks like because people 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.400 are going around and doing their daily routine of business 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.360 and being able to prepare themselves for the off season, because, 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.120 like you said, not only does this staff have to 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.119 get to know each other and gel during the off 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.080 season so that when o t as hit and training 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.520 camp its and the regular season hit, that these guys 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.799 are all on the same page and they're all following, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.040 you know, the direction of their new head coach and 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.880 Brian Flores. But they've got to be able to prepare 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.680 each position on how they're gonna be able to coach 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.280 who's gonna be in those positions, Who's who are they 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.440 gonna be talking to in those seats in those position meetings, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.360 and how are they going to be able to put 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.280 together an offensive system, put together a philosophy on defense. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.799 Have a new special teams coach come in and learn 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.280 the entire roster. You know, that's that's a big job 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.960 for Danny Crossman, one of the new head coaches, who's 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.240 gonna be in charge of special teams here for the 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.680 Miami Dolphins. All those things you kind of take for granted, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.080 But that's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.040 It's a lot of preparation, and it's getting down to 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.200 who's gonna be on this roster and how that kind 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.880 of comes together at the end of the day. And 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.240 then you know, some of the speculation with these guys 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.320 and who's gonna do what and this and that. But 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.560 you know, you'd like to think that this team is 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.720 about this. This coaching staff is gonna be a lot 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:53.120 about looking at players. Uh, you know, I'm not talking 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.400 about draft and pushing the side right now. I'm just 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.320 talking about familiarizing yourself with this roster's gonna be here, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.320 and it's gonna be here. Who do we want to 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.000 be here on it? And who fits Now there's two 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.800 philosophies of of of of putting together a team with 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.680 the coaching staff is Hey, this is what we're gonna run. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.680 Let's find those guys and we can plug in to 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.520 our scheme. The the other one, which is my preferred 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.960 side of it, is let's look at who we got 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.640 and see what we can build around these guys taking 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.719 advantage of what they do best. You know that that 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.360 that you're like, hey, okay, look, you know we got jeezs, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.240 we got a bunch of defensive ends and we don't 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.520 have a bunch of defensive tackles. You know, maybe that 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.560 maybe that brings the three four into into play. And 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.880 I think based on kind of what we've heard and 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.760 what we've read and what we've what we've talked about 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.719 with um with Brian Flores, I think he's kind of 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.800 a you know, morphin kind of a guy. I think 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:54.440 he's I think you're gonna look at the defense that 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.520 you know, you may see a team at at some 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:58.760 point running the three four and you know through the 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.159 first court, next thing, you know, into four three and 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.560 doing everything. So they're gonna do multiple things I think 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.520 defensive there. But but that being said, you know, to me, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.640 the best teams, in the best coaching staffs to the 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.520 find guys that say, hey, we got this guy, and 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.040 this guy does one thing really well. Let's not put 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.320 him in some position where we're asking to do something 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.279 that he doesn't do well. Let's take advantage of what 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.520 he does the best. Let's find a way to to 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.960 formulate that to add that into our repertoire. Yeah, my 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:27.880 biggest question is, and I agree with a lot of 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.680 that bow, My biggest question is with coach floor is 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.600 coming from New England and having some more influence that 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.480 that it's going to be on the staff with chat 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:42.240 O'shay coming over and Jerry uh Saplinsky coming over. Uh, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.960 there's a lot of guys that are going to come 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.520 from the school of well, this is what we did 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.200 this week to beat the Jets. How are we going 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.160 to morph into ourselves and beat the Bills next week 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.520 and then go on the road and beat Washington the 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.680 next week and then for three weeks in a row. 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.599 We're gonna just be ourselves. We're gonna do what we 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.239 do us. Now. New England was in a different position 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.040 than the Miami Dolphins because they're coaching quarterback in their 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.560 philosophy of being a chameleon on whatever works that week. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.080 To beat that team is gonna be you know, more 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.680 than good enough if we execute. So I think it's 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.479 gonna be a fine line to see how the Dolphins 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.240 try to portray that in their systems. Of Hey, let's 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.920 put of our offense, defense, special teams in on our 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.600 core beliefs and what we believe in. Now, let's figure 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.479 out our guys and who we have and what do 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.560 they do best out of that? Now, how can we 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.679 build the next end of the offense, defense and special 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.479 teams around the core of the players that we have. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:42.720 So I want to be able to have a team that, 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.039 you know, I don't want to be in shotgun all 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.240 the time because we drafted Kyler Murray and he's our quarterback. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:49.720 But I want to be able to do a little 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.240 bit of everything because that's what our guys need to 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.359 do to beat each and every week or have the 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.920 best chance to win each and every week against whoever 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.480 they play. It's gonna be interesting to see. And then, 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.880 like I said, that's kind of what's going on upstairs 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.880 right now, is just trying to figure out, you know, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.800 what the players you got, who you like, who you 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.360 might like to change around, who you who you don't like? 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.080 Some other people? Hey, you know this guy is out there. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:13.920 You know, there a lot, there's a lot of like 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.760 you said, there's a lot of getting to know each 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.080 other in that in that even with the guys that 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.360 came from New England, because they they've known each other, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.640 but now they know each other in a different lights 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.800 and in different responsibilities, and they're they're used to doing 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.960 things in a certain way because they've had people around 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.280 him in that culture that has done it that way 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.200 for a very very long time. I'm interested to see 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.160 what this staff is going to morph into. You know, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.840 they're gonna have to recreate themselves to be able to 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.040 get the best out of whoever is on this roster. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.480 Because I think that's the biggest quality of a coach 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.360 is how he's gonna be able to get the best 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.400 out of each individual and bring that as a team, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.960 you know, bring that every individual to their collective best. Now, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.440 how does that work for all fifty three? How does 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.040 that going? But but that but that lies with the 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.240 head coach. I mean he's you know, you you got 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.360 all your other guys kind of doing their their due 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.840 diligence and doing their work, and then you're the guy 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.760 that's got to get it all put it all together 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:14.640 and get it. You know, when you start, when you 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.360 start stuffing that sausage. He's the guy who's cranking at 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.440 that that thing and making sure that it goes the 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.400 right way and and making sure that you know that. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.040 And look, I like the deal of And I've said 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.640 this before and and really one of my concerns with 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.520 with Adam Gays was I would like to see it's 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.840 seen him be more of a head coach. You know, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.720 if if something's going on with the defense, good or bad, 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.560 go down there and be a part of it and 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.960 having having in have your input in there. So those guys, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.520 because look, you know, I don't care who who it was. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.440 I like even I go back and I keep I 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.719 go back to my my career. You know, I had 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.960 a defensive coordinator in Bill Arnes Barker that was as 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.080 good as any that's ever been in National Football League. 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.680 Yet there were times when he and Coach Shula butted heads, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.520 and Coach Hill would come in and and and and 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.199 throw his two cents in. Uh, and then it was 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:02.920 up to him and say you you I got it. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:04.920 You you get out of here. I take care. But 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.200 you know there's got But I knew this, you know, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.960 Bill Arnsberger meant one thing to me. He was my coach, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.640 he was my you know, my position coach. He was 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.080 my coordinator. But I know if Don Shula came over there, 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.920 he stepped right over his shoulder and he became the guy. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:25.600 I listened to you from them because that's the guy 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.040 ultimately that's going to decide my fate long term on 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.800 this football team. I'm listen to him. And not that 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.199 he tried to overstep anybody. I think his was more 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.080 just like a reinforce what this guy said, what they 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.880 were saying, Hey, you am right, listen to him. You 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:44.960 got damn better, you know, I mean, and let you 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.520 know about it. And sometimes, you know, sometimes I think 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.439 there needs to be that across the board with a 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.439 head coach there. You know. I don't know about you, John, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.559 but to me, I've always I had one time when 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.760 when I was in college, I had a head coach, uh, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.960 Darryl Rodgers. It was more of a kind of you 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.480 can kind of go up and you know, have a 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.120 little relationship. But most of my other coaches, there's been 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.400 a cushion there, you know. And and Don Shore there 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.719 was a cushion there because he didn't want to be 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.560 close enough. You don't want to be so close to 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.760 you that if he had to make that tough decision 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.640 on letting you go, that that clouded his decision. Makes 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.440 So you know, to me, you've gotta have a head 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:27.360 coach that a first first and foremost players respect, and 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.040 that's what that's what Brian, Brian Flores has got to do. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.280 He's got to stand up their day one and earn 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.240 their respect, and earn it every single day so that 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.280 no matter what he says, whether you agree with him 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.240 or disagree with him, you still respect the way, respect 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.400 the way that he brings it to you. And so 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.720 I think that for him is is gonna be a huge, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.439 huge step to get him that. And haven't had the 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.640 change you've been around him, I've been around him. I 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.280 don't see that as being an issue with this. I 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.000 don't either. I don't think that's gonna even be a 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:57.080 question when when you when you can control the room 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.600 and your message is what he's trying to talk about. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.960 He's talking about family, he's talking about team, he's talking 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.679 about everything we do in this building, out of this 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.680 building is going to be about this football team, and 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.840 it's gonna be about how can we get to where 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.760 we want to be, how can we be the best? 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.439 And gosh, if you don't buy into that and you 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.319 don't believe in that, you're in the wrong business of 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.640 the wrong profession. But one of the things, too, bo 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.840 is there's gonna be a lot of less miles talking 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.840 to these players in terms of meetings, in terms of coaching, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.760 in terms of all the things that you do as 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.080 a coaching staff. I mean some some staff sets up 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.360 to twenty two. I think the Dolphins last year had 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.600 twenty two coaches on I want to I mean there 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.400 was a there was that move for a long time 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.600 of more coaches, more coaches, more coaches. And I remember 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.439 when Nick, I want to say, Nick had a cornerbacks 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.880 coach and assist a safety coach and a nickel coach 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.520 and I'm going away and wait a minute, and those 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:01.040 three guys probably had an assistant just for the defensive backs. Yeah. 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.120 And so so you look at this team and now 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.800 now they're down to including Brian Flores's seventeen members on 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.840 their staff, and we'll go through them, and to me, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.600 you know, I think he's made a lot of good 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.840 choices here. Um, I don't think any better to me 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.920 than Jim Calledwell. I love Jim Caldwell coming in here. Uh, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.320 you know he's got he knows. Jim Caldwell. Guy's been 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.439 a head coach twice in this league. Uh, he's a 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.160 very respected guy. And and I think any new coach, 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.920 any new first time head coach coming in, you need 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.120 to have that guy that you can kind of look 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.720 over and say, hey, you know, I'm not sure this 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.160 is new to me. How did you handle this? Or 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.320 a guy to step in and say and not to 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.000 be afraid to say, I don't know about what we're 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.079 what we're going with this, I don't know what we're going. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.440 I'm unclear. If so, if I've done this myself and 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.760 it didn't turn out so right, what you can now 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.480 you can do whatever you want. But I'm just giving 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.320 you my my input on what what this is. And 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.480 I think that's a good sounding board for the first 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.880 time head coach for a guy that you know as 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.520 made the leaps and bounds that Brian has made over 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.520 his coaching career to now to get his first opportunity 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.200 in a five year deal to know that hey, you've 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.160 got time. You don't have to, you know, make this 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.839 decision right now because you know you want to win 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.920 and lose. But let's think about what we're trying to 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.600 build here. You know, you're making your decisions, you're making 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.080 your statements, you're standing on your principles for one reason 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.320 is that that's to be the best you can be. 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.360 And I think a good sounding board for a guy 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.920 that's been in his seat twice in the National Football League, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.679 as you said, is a great thing to happen. You 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.760 can talk about Danny Croftsman coming in the crossman a 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:41.079 special teams coordinator Patrick Graham, defensive coordinator chattel Shay, offensive 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.520 coordinator Josh Bowyer, the defensive passing game coordinator Carl Dorell. 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:49.680 Like Carl carlos here before, I think I like what 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.679 he brings the table. I mean, I met Pat Flay, 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.800 talk to him, to talk to him seems like it 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.920 seems like an offensive line coach. You know, you know 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.960 it's funny, those offensive line coaches, they they're all cut 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.800 him the same cloth. Either know, you know who you're 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.880 talking to. If you don't within the first five or 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.240 ten seconds, if it's an offensive line coach. Well that 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.280 George God see tight ends, you know, like you know 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.559 that that's it's It's funny. That's one of the choices 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.400 that one of the pics I looked at and said, boy, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.760 there there's a guy that that can make a big, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.160 big difference on this football team between the day he 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.080 was he was signed until this year, because you know, 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.400 you got Gasecki, uh, you got Durham Smith, you got 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.320 these young tight ends that you really want to see 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.520 make that Derby step, make a big step between last 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.720 year and this year. And and look, he's gonna fall 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.760 on his shoulders to make sure that they get there. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.720 I like George. You know, he was a college quarterback. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.040 He's had experienced coaching quarterbacks, so he's gonna be able 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.160 to relay that term in terms of when you're supposed 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.160 to be open, when you're coming out of breaks, what 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.400 the quarterbacks seeing in you, what he needs out of you, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.800 And in terms of having that experience he coached on 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.960 him Caldwell staff in Detroit, So there's gonna be that 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.360 synergy on the offensive side with him at tight end 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.720 like that. Marrion Hobby defensive line coach, Rob Leonard linebackers 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.440 Tony Odin Uh stayed over from the old staff. I 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.760 like Tony, he'll be he'll be handling the safety's uh 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.840 really really good guy. Good uh energetic guy. He works 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.640 well with those players, so he's got a great message 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.200 and he's always at practice. Man, he's always upbeat, always talking, 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.440 always trying to get the football out. So that was 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.479 a good hold over. Jerry Schaplinski assistant quarterbacks, Eric Stuttsville 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.280 another guy running back. Coaches all hold over from that staff. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.880 Josh Grazard quality control will hold over from the staff, 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.480 Manta Lombardi quality control, and Ti Kuan Underwood quality control. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.040 I never knew what quality control, never quite knew what that. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.120 I think. I think that means master of everything, because 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.840 you have to be able to touch the entire coaching staff, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:52.720 and you gotta be you gotta bring coffee, and I 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.040 think you gotta do all that that goes with the territory. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.440 I mean, I'm sure that day's gonna happen, but those 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.880 guys are probably overworked and underpaide, but they're happy to 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.720 have have an opportunity to doubt. So seventeen coaches, a 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:10.400 hundred seventy nine years of NFL coaching spirits in this 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.440 group nineteen Super Bowl rings with four different organizations, the 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:19.240 vast number of those coming from one organization at North. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.920 But but so that's your that's your coaching staff, uh 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.560 for for the Miami dolphense and look, you know, you 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.600 look at them and some of the names, you know, 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.840 some of them are new names or new faces that 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.120 you're gonna see. And but John, you know, we've been 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.560 around enough where you have these changes and it's like 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.280 we ran into the offensive line coach path the other day. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.760 He just just starts right and starts with id on 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.720 the thing, and you feel like you've been around him 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.200 for for a month. It's pretty cool because you're one 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.720 person away from really knowing the guy. You know. It 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.920 seems like, hey, you played songs, Oh yeah, and I 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.560 coached with him or I know him. And it's funny 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.720 because the coaching fraternity, there's so many coaches. If you 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.080 go around and you think about high schools and colleges 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.920 at every every level in the end of l in Canada, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.480 wherever they're playing in the new leagues now, there's so 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.959 much crossover with guys that have been on certain staffs 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.240 or guys that grew up together, guys from the same 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.200 hometown that you're really one or two people from knowing 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:15.520 that guy really well, I'll tell you, tell you if 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.280 we talk about about that. And we got a lot 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.400 of stuff to get to here, but let me so. 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.440 So I'm coming out of junior college. I've been to 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.119 a small school in Minnesota and left there and went 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.239 to junior college, and you know, and and then I 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.280 wasn't getting recruited by anybody from out junior college. And 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.120 so I'm kind of I'm kind of like that that 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.600 that sailboat in the doll in the doll drums. I'm 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.560 just sitting there. The water was flat. I wasn't going anywhere. 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:40.960 No one was looking for me. All of a sudden, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:42.960 I get a call from somebody at the University of 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:48.439 Pacific in Stockton, California, which is it's the stockyards of 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.200 northern California. It's it's it is one of the you know, 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.680 you put it this way when you go to visit California, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:56.840 the last place you want to go to a stat 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.360 stock And so I get a call and they say, well, looking, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:02.840 I was playing tight end. He say, we're looking for 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.840 a tight end. Uh, you know you interested? And I said, yeah, 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.680 I have. No one else has asked, no one else 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.840 is knocking on my door, so I might as well. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.080 So so my recruiting trip to u OP was he calls, 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.240 the coach calls and says, uh, I'll tell you what. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.600 I'll leave two tickets in a program for you will call. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.760 Drive on up and watch the game. Set. So, being 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.480 a buddy in my drive up to Stockton, go to 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.960 go to go to the wheel, call get my tickets, 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.359 go sit in the stands. But we're having this shitty stadium, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.800 shitty football team. After lights are out, you know, it 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.159 was just a dump and and so I so my 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.400 buddy looks at me good in the second half, he goes, well, 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.440 what are you gonna do? You can come here? And says, yeah, yeah, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.240 I'm gonna come here. I go. I got nowhere else 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.760 to go. I got nowhere to go. So so the guy. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.560 I get a call on Monday from the guy. He goes, hey, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.040 did you go to go? Yeah? He guys yeah. He goes, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:50.880 what do you think I got? Fine? He says. He says, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.760 you're ready to come? I said, yeah, I'm ready. He says, 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.000 I'll come I'll be down there Friday. I'll be down Saturday. Friday, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.800 we get papers signed, and you good to go. I'd 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.560 be awesome man. Thursday, I get a call from Hey, Kim, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.760 how are you doing good? You know, we found it tighten, 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:08.760 We like a little better. We gave him your scholars 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.600 you know what, my scholarship brutal. Now I'm back in 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:19.359