Speaker 1: All right, let's go the audible's on the air, kimbocamper
Speaker 1: John can Jammy and uh John. We're kind of in
Speaker 1: that uh in no man's land right now when it
Speaker 1: comes to UH want walking around the National Football League
Speaker 1: and look what's going on, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: speculation about UM draft choices and everything heading that way
Speaker 1: now that staffs are getting done. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins coaching staff as it looks like, you know, they're
Speaker 1: Brian Flores has got his group together and they're setting stones.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a little bit, um, but it's
Speaker 1: that time of the year where you know, the next
Speaker 1: big thing coming up as a combine. Right, let's get
Speaker 1: All Star game over. I walked into the facility, walked
Speaker 1: through the front door, and I'm walking through the halls
Speaker 1: coming back here to the studio, and they're not a
Speaker 1: camn person moving in that building. I know there's coaches there.
Speaker 1: I'm in the building there there, they're a hold up.
Speaker 1: I don't have to hide from anybody because I get
Speaker 1: sitting right in the middle lobby. No one's gonna see me,
Speaker 1: pretty much, was the only one in there. You're okay, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on nothing. No, you're right, I I we
Speaker 1: count the minutes now for lunch exactly. Take you watch
Speaker 1: the clock on the wall. Tick tick tike, come on lunch.
Speaker 1: But you know it's it's it's you can bet that uh,
Speaker 1: Brian Floores and his staff are up there. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be an interesting situation when a head coach
Speaker 1: comes in, a new head coach, especially a guy that's
Speaker 1: never been a head coach before, comes in and be
Speaker 1: interesting to talk to him about. You know, what do
Speaker 1: you do first? What? What? What's the first most important thing?
Speaker 1: Is it taking a look at every game tape and
Speaker 1: seeing how they played? Evaluating players? You know what? What?
Speaker 1: What is the what is the thing that you that
Speaker 1: that you do first to start building a your staff,
Speaker 1: your identity, your ideas and your plans to move forward.
Speaker 1: How do you begin that construction? You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny when you break it down and think
Speaker 1: about it that way, because there's gotta be a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts, and we talk, we're kidding a lot
Speaker 1: of about you know, there there's so much downtime because
Speaker 1: no one's there's no players here. That's the big thing.
Speaker 1: There's no players but the coaches and the scouting department
Speaker 1: and the general manager and everybody that's watching tape on
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and wide receivers and defensive linemen and free agents
Speaker 1: that are going to be out there, and that stuff
Speaker 1: goes on on a daily basis, and it goes from
Speaker 1: early in the morning till late at night. Now, we
Speaker 1: talked about walking through that building is empty. When you
Speaker 1: walk upstairs and it's there, it looks like because people
Speaker 1: are going around and doing their daily routine of business
Speaker 1: and being able to prepare themselves for the off season, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, not only does this staff have to
Speaker 1: get to know each other and gel during the off
Speaker 1: season so that when o t as hit and training
Speaker 1: camp its and the regular season hit, that these guys
Speaker 1: are all on the same page and they're all following,
Speaker 1: you know, the direction of their new head coach and
Speaker 1: Brian Flores. But they've got to be able to prepare
Speaker 1: each position on how they're gonna be able to coach
Speaker 1: who's gonna be in those positions, Who's who are they
Speaker 1: gonna be talking to in those seats in those position meetings,
Speaker 1: and how are they going to be able to put
Speaker 1: together an offensive system, put together a philosophy on defense.
Speaker 1: Have a new special teams coach come in and learn
Speaker 1: the entire roster. You know, that's that's a big job
Speaker 1: for Danny Crossman, one of the new head coaches, who's
Speaker 1: gonna be in charge of special teams here for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. All those things you kind of take for granted,
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of work. That's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of preparation, and it's getting down to
Speaker 1: who's gonna be on this roster and how that kind
Speaker 1: of comes together at the end of the day. And
Speaker 1: then you know, some of the speculation with these guys
Speaker 1: and who's gonna do what and this and that. But
Speaker 1: you know, you'd like to think that this team is
Speaker 1: about this. This coaching staff is gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: about looking at players. Uh, you know, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about draft and pushing the side right now. I'm just
Speaker 1: talking about familiarizing yourself with this roster's gonna be here,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be here. Who do we want to
Speaker 1: be here on it? And who fits Now there's two
Speaker 1: philosophies of of of of putting together a team with
Speaker 1: the coaching staff is Hey, this is what we're gonna run.
Speaker 1: Let's find those guys and we can plug in to
Speaker 1: our scheme. The the other one, which is my preferred
Speaker 1: side of it, is let's look at who we got
Speaker 1: and see what we can build around these guys taking
Speaker 1: advantage of what they do best. You know that that
Speaker 1: that you're like, hey, okay, look, you know we got jeezs,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of defensive ends and we don't
Speaker 1: have a bunch of defensive tackles. You know, maybe that
Speaker 1: maybe that brings the three four into into play. And
Speaker 1: I think based on kind of what we've heard and
Speaker 1: what we've read and what we've what we've talked about
Speaker 1: with um with Brian Flores, I think he's kind of
Speaker 1: a you know, morphin kind of a guy. I think
Speaker 1: he's I think you're gonna look at the defense that
Speaker 1: you know, you may see a team at at some
Speaker 1: point running the three four and you know through the
Speaker 1: first court, next thing, you know, into four three and
Speaker 1: doing everything. So they're gonna do multiple things I think
Speaker 1: defensive there. But but that being said, you know, to me,
Speaker 1: the best teams, in the best coaching staffs to the
Speaker 1: find guys that say, hey, we got this guy, and
Speaker 1: this guy does one thing really well. Let's not put
Speaker 1: him in some position where we're asking to do something
Speaker 1: that he doesn't do well. Let's take advantage of what
Speaker 1: he does the best. Let's find a way to to
Speaker 1: formulate that to add that into our repertoire. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: biggest question is, and I agree with a lot of
Speaker 1: that bow, My biggest question is with coach floor is
Speaker 1: coming from New England and having some more influence that
Speaker 1: that it's going to be on the staff with chat
Speaker 1: O'shay coming over and Jerry uh Saplinsky coming over. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that are going to come
Speaker 1: from the school of well, this is what we did
Speaker 1: this week to beat the Jets. How are we going
Speaker 1: to morph into ourselves and beat the Bills next week
Speaker 1: and then go on the road and beat Washington the
Speaker 1: next week and then for three weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just be ourselves. We're gonna do what we
Speaker 1: do us. Now. New England was in a different position
Speaker 1: than the Miami Dolphins because they're coaching quarterback in their
Speaker 1: philosophy of being a chameleon on whatever works that week.
Speaker 1: To beat that team is gonna be you know, more
Speaker 1: than good enough if we execute. So I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fine line to see how the Dolphins
Speaker 1: try to portray that in their systems. Of Hey, let's
Speaker 1: put of our offense, defense, special teams in on our
Speaker 1: core beliefs and what we believe in. Now, let's figure
Speaker 1: out our guys and who we have and what do
Speaker 1: they do best out of that? Now, how can we
Speaker 1: build the next end of the offense, defense and special
Speaker 1: teams around the core of the players that we have.
Speaker 1: So I want to be able to have a team that,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to be in shotgun all
Speaker 1: the time because we drafted Kyler Murray and he's our quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I want to be able to do a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything because that's what our guys need to
Speaker 1: do to beat each and every week or have the
Speaker 1: best chance to win each and every week against whoever
Speaker 1: they play. It's gonna be interesting to see. And then,
Speaker 1: like I said, that's kind of what's going on upstairs
Speaker 1: right now, is just trying to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: what the players you got, who you like, who you
Speaker 1: might like to change around, who you who you don't like?
Speaker 1: Some other people? Hey, you know this guy is out there.
Speaker 1: You know, there a lot, there's a lot of like
Speaker 1: you said, there's a lot of getting to know each
Speaker 1: other in that in that even with the guys that
Speaker 1: came from New England, because they they've known each other,
Speaker 1: but now they know each other in a different lights
Speaker 1: and in different responsibilities, and they're they're used to doing
Speaker 1: things in a certain way because they've had people around
Speaker 1: him in that culture that has done it that way
Speaker 1: for a very very long time. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: what this staff is going to morph into. You know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to recreate themselves to be able to
Speaker 1: get the best out of whoever is on this roster.
Speaker 1: Because I think that's the biggest quality of a coach
Speaker 1: is how he's gonna be able to get the best
Speaker 1: out of each individual and bring that as a team,
Speaker 1: you know, bring that every individual to their collective best. Now,
Speaker 1: how does that work for all fifty three? How does
Speaker 1: that going? But but that but that lies with the
Speaker 1: head coach. I mean he's you know, you you got
Speaker 1: all your other guys kind of doing their their due
Speaker 1: diligence and doing their work, and then you're the guy
Speaker 1: that's got to get it all put it all together
Speaker 1: and get it. You know, when you start, when you
Speaker 1: start stuffing that sausage. He's the guy who's cranking at
Speaker 1: that that thing and making sure that it goes the
Speaker 1: right way and and making sure that you know that.
Speaker 1: And look, I like the deal of And I've said
Speaker 1: this before and and really one of my concerns with
Speaker 1: with Adam Gays was I would like to see it's
Speaker 1: seen him be more of a head coach. You know,
Speaker 1: if if something's going on with the defense, good or bad,
Speaker 1: go down there and be a part of it and
Speaker 1: having having in have your input in there. So those guys,
Speaker 1: because look, you know, I don't care who who it was.
Speaker 1: I like even I go back and I keep I
Speaker 1: go back to my my career. You know, I had
Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator in Bill Arnes Barker that was as
Speaker 1: good as any that's ever been in National Football League.
Speaker 1: Yet there were times when he and Coach Shula butted heads,
Speaker 1: and Coach Hill would come in and and and and
Speaker 1: throw his two cents in. Uh, and then it was
Speaker 1: up to him and say you you I got it.
Speaker 1: You you get out of here. I take care. But
Speaker 1: you know there's got But I knew this, you know,
Speaker 1: Bill Arnsberger meant one thing to me. He was my coach,
Speaker 1: he was my you know, my position coach. He was
Speaker 1: my coordinator. But I know if Don Shula came over there,
Speaker 1: he stepped right over his shoulder and he became the guy.
Speaker 1: I listened to you from them because that's the guy
Speaker 1: ultimately that's going to decide my fate long term on
Speaker 1: this football team. I'm listen to him. And not that
Speaker 1: he tried to overstep anybody. I think his was more
Speaker 1: just like a reinforce what this guy said, what they
Speaker 1: were saying, Hey, you am right, listen to him. You
Speaker 1: got damn better, you know, I mean, and let you
Speaker 1: know about it. And sometimes, you know, sometimes I think
Speaker 1: there needs to be that across the board with a
Speaker 1: head coach there. You know. I don't know about you, John,
Speaker 1: but to me, I've always I had one time when
Speaker 1: when I was in college, I had a head coach, uh,
Speaker 1: Darryl Rodgers. It was more of a kind of you
Speaker 1: can kind of go up and you know, have a
Speaker 1: little relationship. But most of my other coaches, there's been
Speaker 1: a cushion there, you know. And and Don Shore there
Speaker 1: was a cushion there because he didn't want to be
Speaker 1: close enough. You don't want to be so close to
Speaker 1: you that if he had to make that tough decision
Speaker 1: on letting you go, that that clouded his decision. Makes
Speaker 1: So you know, to me, you've gotta have a head
Speaker 1: coach that a first first and foremost players respect, and
Speaker 1: that's what that's what Brian, Brian Flores has got to do.
Speaker 1: He's got to stand up their day one and earn
Speaker 1: their respect, and earn it every single day so that
Speaker 1: no matter what he says, whether you agree with him
Speaker 1: or disagree with him, you still respect the way, respect
Speaker 1: the way that he brings it to you. And so
Speaker 1: I think that for him is is gonna be a huge,
Speaker 1: huge step to get him that. And haven't had the
Speaker 1: change you've been around him, I've been around him. I
Speaker 1: don't see that as being an issue with this. I
Speaker 1: don't either. I don't think that's gonna even be a
Speaker 1: question when when you when you can control the room
Speaker 1: and your message is what he's trying to talk about.
Speaker 1: He's talking about family, he's talking about team, he's talking
Speaker 1: about everything we do in this building, out of this
Speaker 1: building is going to be about this football team, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be about how can we get to where
Speaker 1: we want to be, how can we be the best?
Speaker 1: And gosh, if you don't buy into that and you
Speaker 1: don't believe in that, you're in the wrong business of
Speaker 1: the wrong profession. But one of the things, too, bo
Speaker 1: is there's gonna be a lot of less miles talking
Speaker 1: to these players in terms of meetings, in terms of coaching,
Speaker 1: in terms of all the things that you do as
Speaker 1: a coaching staff. I mean some some staff sets up
Speaker 1: to twenty two. I think the Dolphins last year had
Speaker 1: twenty two coaches on I want to I mean there
Speaker 1: was a there was that move for a long time
Speaker 1: of more coaches, more coaches, more coaches. And I remember
Speaker 1: when Nick, I want to say, Nick had a cornerbacks
Speaker 1: coach and assist a safety coach and a nickel coach
Speaker 1: and I'm going away and wait a minute, and those
Speaker 1: three guys probably had an assistant just for the defensive backs. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so so you look at this team and now
Speaker 1: now they're down to including Brian Flores's seventeen members on
Speaker 1: their staff, and we'll go through them, and to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's made a lot of good
Speaker 1: choices here. Um, I don't think any better to me
Speaker 1: than Jim Calledwell. I love Jim Caldwell coming in here. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know he's got he knows. Jim Caldwell. Guy's been
Speaker 1: a head coach twice in this league. Uh, he's a
Speaker 1: very respected guy. And and I think any new coach,
Speaker 1: any new first time head coach coming in, you need
Speaker 1: to have that guy that you can kind of look
Speaker 1: over and say, hey, you know, I'm not sure this
Speaker 1: is new to me. How did you handle this? Or
Speaker 1: a guy to step in and say and not to
Speaker 1: be afraid to say, I don't know about what we're
Speaker 1: what we're going with this, I don't know what we're going.
Speaker 1: I'm unclear. If so, if I've done this myself and
Speaker 1: it didn't turn out so right, what you can now
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want. But I'm just giving
Speaker 1: you my my input on what what this is. And
Speaker 1: I think that's a good sounding board for the first
Speaker 1: time head coach for a guy that you know as
Speaker 1: made the leaps and bounds that Brian has made over
Speaker 1: his coaching career to now to get his first opportunity
Speaker 1: in a five year deal to know that hey, you've
Speaker 1: got time. You don't have to, you know, make this
Speaker 1: decision right now because you know you want to win
Speaker 1: and lose. But let's think about what we're trying to
Speaker 1: build here. You know, you're making your decisions, you're making
Speaker 1: your statements, you're standing on your principles for one reason
Speaker 1: is that that's to be the best you can be.
Speaker 1: And I think a good sounding board for a guy
Speaker 1: that's been in his seat twice in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: as you said, is a great thing to happen. You
Speaker 1: can talk about Danny Croftsman coming in the crossman a
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator Patrick Graham, defensive coordinator chattel Shay, offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Josh Bowyer, the defensive passing game coordinator Carl Dorell.
Speaker 1: Like Carl carlos here before, I think I like what
Speaker 1: he brings the table. I mean, I met Pat Flay,
Speaker 1: talk to him, to talk to him seems like it
Speaker 1: seems like an offensive line coach. You know, you know
Speaker 1: it's funny, those offensive line coaches, they they're all cut
Speaker 1: him the same cloth. Either know, you know who you're
Speaker 1: talking to. If you don't within the first five or
Speaker 1: ten seconds, if it's an offensive line coach. Well that
Speaker 1: George God see tight ends, you know, like you know
Speaker 1: that that's it's It's funny. That's one of the choices
Speaker 1: that one of the pics I looked at and said, boy,
Speaker 1: there there's a guy that that can make a big,
Speaker 1: big difference on this football team between the day he
Speaker 1: was he was signed until this year, because you know,
Speaker 1: you got Gasecki, uh, you got Durham Smith, you got
Speaker 1: these young tight ends that you really want to see
Speaker 1: make that Derby step, make a big step between last
Speaker 1: year and this year. And and look, he's gonna fall
Speaker 1: on his shoulders to make sure that they get there.
Speaker 1: I like George. You know, he was a college quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's had experienced coaching quarterbacks, so he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to relay that term in terms of when you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be open, when you're coming out of breaks, what
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks seeing in you, what he needs out of you,
Speaker 1: And in terms of having that experience he coached on
Speaker 1: him Caldwell staff in Detroit, So there's gonna be that
Speaker 1: synergy on the offensive side with him at tight end
Speaker 1: like that. Marrion Hobby defensive line coach, Rob Leonard linebackers
Speaker 1: Tony Odin Uh stayed over from the old staff. I
Speaker 1: like Tony, he'll be he'll be handling the safety's uh
Speaker 1: really really good guy. Good uh energetic guy. He works
Speaker 1: well with those players, so he's got a great message
Speaker 1: and he's always at practice. Man, he's always upbeat, always talking,
Speaker 1: always trying to get the football out. So that was
Speaker 1: a good hold over. Jerry Schaplinski assistant quarterbacks, Eric Stuttsville
Speaker 1: another guy running back. Coaches all hold over from that staff.
Speaker 1: Josh Grazard quality control will hold over from the staff,
Speaker 1: Manta Lombardi quality control, and Ti Kuan Underwood quality control.
Speaker 1: I never knew what quality control, never quite knew what that.
Speaker 1: I think. I think that means master of everything, because
Speaker 1: you have to be able to touch the entire coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and you gotta be you gotta bring coffee, and I
Speaker 1: think you gotta do all that that goes with the territory.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure that day's gonna happen, but those
Speaker 1: guys are probably overworked and underpaide, but they're happy to
Speaker 1: have have an opportunity to doubt. So seventeen coaches, a
Speaker 1: hundred seventy nine years of NFL coaching spirits in this
Speaker 1: group nineteen Super Bowl rings with four different organizations, the
Speaker 1: vast number of those coming from one organization at North.
Speaker 1: But but so that's your that's your coaching staff, uh
Speaker 1: for for the Miami dolphense and look, you know, you
Speaker 1: look at them and some of the names, you know,
Speaker 1: some of them are new names or new faces that
Speaker 1: you're gonna see. And but John, you know, we've been
Speaker 1: around enough where you have these changes and it's like
Speaker 1: we ran into the offensive line coach path the other day.
Speaker 1: He just just starts right and starts with id on
Speaker 1: the thing, and you feel like you've been around him
Speaker 1: for for a month. It's pretty cool because you're one
Speaker 1: person away from really knowing the guy. You know. It
Speaker 1: seems like, hey, you played songs, Oh yeah, and I
Speaker 1: coached with him or I know him. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because the coaching fraternity, there's so many coaches. If you
Speaker 1: go around and you think about high schools and colleges
Speaker 1: at every every level in the end of l in Canada,
Speaker 1: wherever they're playing in the new leagues now, there's so
Speaker 1: much crossover with guys that have been on certain staffs
Speaker 1: or guys that grew up together, guys from the same
Speaker 1: hometown that you're really one or two people from knowing
Speaker 1: that guy really well, I'll tell you, tell you if
Speaker 1: we talk about about that. And we got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to get to here, but let me so.
Speaker 1: So I'm coming out of junior college. I've been to
Speaker 1: a small school in Minnesota and left there and went
Speaker 1: to junior college, and you know, and and then I
Speaker 1: wasn't getting recruited by anybody from out junior college. And
Speaker 1: so I'm kind of I'm kind of like that that
Speaker 1: that sailboat in the doll in the doll drums. I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there. The water was flat. I wasn't going anywhere.
Speaker 1: No one was looking for me. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I get a call from somebody at the University of
Speaker 1: Pacific in Stockton, California, which is it's the stockyards of
Speaker 1: northern California. It's it's it is one of the you know,
Speaker 1: you put it this way when you go to visit California,
Speaker 1: the last place you want to go to a stat
Speaker 1: stock And so I get a call and they say, well, looking,
Speaker 1: I was playing tight end. He say, we're looking for
Speaker 1: a tight end. Uh, you know you interested? And I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have. No one else has asked, no one else
Speaker 1: is knocking on my door, so I might as well.
Speaker 1: So so my recruiting trip to u OP was he calls,
Speaker 1: the coach calls and says, uh, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I'll leave two tickets in a program for you will call.
Speaker 1: Drive on up and watch the game. Set. So, being
Speaker 1: a buddy in my drive up to Stockton, go to
Speaker 1: go to go to the wheel, call get my tickets,
Speaker 1: go sit in the stands. But we're having this shitty stadium,
Speaker 1: shitty football team. After lights are out, you know, it
Speaker 1: was just a dump and and so I so my
Speaker 1: buddy looks at me good in the second half, he goes, well,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? You can come here? And says, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come here. I go. I got nowhere else
Speaker 1: to go. I got nowhere to go. So so the guy.
Speaker 1: I get a call on Monday from the guy. He goes, hey,
Speaker 1: did you go to go? Yeah? He guys yeah. He goes,
Speaker 1: what do you think I got? Fine? He says. He says,
Speaker 1: you're ready to come? I said, yeah, I'm ready. He says,
Speaker 1: I'll come I'll be down there Friday. I'll be down Saturday. Friday,
Speaker 1: we get papers signed, and you good to go. I'd
Speaker 1: be awesome man. Thursday, I get a call from Hey, Kim,
Speaker 1: how are you doing good? You know, we found it tighten,
Speaker 1: We like a little better. We gave him your scholars
Speaker 1: you know what, my scholarship brutal. Now I'm back in
Speaker 1: the dold room with no wind blowing, you know, and
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? Just then I get my
Speaker 1: junior college offensive line coach got hired by San Jose State.
Speaker 1: He tells the coach head there's a guy there that
Speaker 1: nobody knows, nobody wants, and he's a pretty good player.
Speaker 1: You might want to check him out. So I get
Speaker 1: so anyway, got long story short, I end up going
Speaker 1: to Sanjose State in the last minute deal, right. What's funny?
Speaker 1: But so we played Pacific every to two years. I
Speaker 1: was there for two years out of I mean, I
Speaker 1: must have had six sacks. I must have hit that
Speaker 1: quarterback every other play. I mean, had a crappy offensive
Speaker 1: tackles playing yet and I just two years just beat
Speaker 1: him up for two years, you know, just took it
Speaker 1: out on him. Years later, years later later, I'm standing
Speaker 1: down on the on the field after a game and
Speaker 1: Uh and Joey it was probably then Joe Robbie Stadium,
Speaker 1: and Uh, guy comes up and taps me on the shoulder.
Speaker 1: Dolphins he just played the Jets. Guy comes up passed
Speaker 1: me on the shoulder. I turned around like, yeah, he goes,
Speaker 1: Uh he goes, You remember me, I go, no, he goes.
Speaker 1: I recruited the University of Pacific and I said, now,
Speaker 1: I gave your scholarship when you killed us for two years.
Speaker 1: You know who it was, Pete Carroll. Carroll there was
Speaker 1: that his job at the University Pacific was his first
Speaker 1: paid coaching job, and as an assisted as a coach,
Speaker 1: he had been a student assistant there. He got paid.
Speaker 1: I was one of the first guys he recruited. And
Speaker 1: then he gave up on me. You know, he says,
Speaker 1: he goes, he goes, that was the worst mistakement makes
Speaker 1: you killed it for two years? That what you get.
Speaker 1: I can tell Pete got a little bit better than
Speaker 1: the leave the two tickets in the program. There was
Speaker 1: a little cash in the program. Yeah, you think about
Speaker 1: a little bit. I said, you know, you gotta you
Speaker 1: know you gotta get those renegades there those guys and
Speaker 1: nobody wants so. But the point being, you never know
Speaker 1: where you talk about you. You know, you meet Flaherty
Speaker 1: and you're sorry, oh I know this guy. You know
Speaker 1: you played for that guy. Yeah, next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got eight guys in your back pocket, did you guys?
Speaker 1: You feel and it makes you feel good about a
Speaker 1: guy because especially if you give a guy a call
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what about so and so like a
Speaker 1: solid guy, really good coach, You're gonna love dealing with him.
Speaker 1: You know, that makes you feel good about the staff.
Speaker 1: And there's not a whole lot to you know, you
Speaker 1: got to get to know this staff first of all.
Speaker 1: But when you read about him and where they've been
Speaker 1: in the success that they've had, you put them together
Speaker 1: and you've got a chance to have a pretty good staff.
Speaker 1: And there's a couple of things that uh, the coach
Speaker 1: Flores said when he was here, John that to me,
Speaker 1: are are are a a direct line to success in
Speaker 1: my mind. And there two things that stuck out with
Speaker 1: me from our conversation was we're gonna be concern with penalties,
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna look new England's number two, number two,
Speaker 1: the second least penalized team and then and have been
Speaker 1: for a long time, and look at their success rate.
Speaker 1: Go back to the Dolphin success rate when they were
Speaker 1: the least penalized team year after year and the success
Speaker 1: rate that they had to me there there, that's that
Speaker 1: is a that's an easy fix, and that is a
Speaker 1: direct that's a direct route to becoming a better football
Speaker 1: team by by eliminating the Those are the first that
Speaker 1: was the first thing he said. The second thing he
Speaker 1: said was sweat the details, you know, the small details.
Speaker 1: Paying attention to small details is gonna make you a
Speaker 1: better football team. And I think those are tote two
Speaker 1: things that he talked about to me that just like
Speaker 1: we're two fastballs right down the middle of the plate.
Speaker 1: As far as I was concerned, you don't have to
Speaker 1: have talent to improve in either one of those areas.
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with your athletic ability. You
Speaker 1: go back to mental discipline, self discipline, being taught the
Speaker 1: right way, and being an accountable for yourself. That's only
Speaker 1: thing that corrects those two things. And they don't show
Speaker 1: up on the statue most times. You don't see him
Speaker 1: in in terms of how many yards you had in
Speaker 1: receptions or how many yards you through or how many
Speaker 1: tackles for loss, But they do show up, I would
Speaker 1: say twice a year, and wins or loss, I would
Speaker 1: say maybe more, maybe more, Well, you know what, you
Speaker 1: know what, Probably it does more than anything. But it
Speaker 1: keeps you in a four quarter game a lot longer,
Speaker 1: and you can get out of him a lot quicker
Speaker 1: when you're bad in those two areas. I mean, how
Speaker 1: how many times John, during the course of the game
Speaker 1: did we see you know you gotta you gott a
Speaker 1: third and third and twelve, you connect for fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden there's the flag boom that
Speaker 1: not only not only do you lose the yardage, but
Speaker 1: you give up on that first down, and using your
Speaker 1: drive stalls and business, you expose your defense or offense
Speaker 1: or whatever way you know, you're giving up the football,
Speaker 1: and it kind of demoralizes you after a while as
Speaker 1: a football team, because when things aren't going well and
Speaker 1: then you start to beat yourself in terms of penalties
Speaker 1: or mistakes or turnovers or just lack of discipline discipline plays,
Speaker 1: you kind of look up at the board and you're
Speaker 1: you're sitting on the bench as you're as the other
Speaker 1: units out there going what the hell are we doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't practice this way while all of
Speaker 1: a sudden doesn't show up all the time on game bag,
Speaker 1: or maybe we did practice this way and no one
Speaker 1: really said anything about it. And I'm like, I believe
Speaker 1: the two. The two they're their one A and one B.
Speaker 1: To me, they're both the same thing at tension to detail.
Speaker 1: You know, if if I've got to have outside leverage
Speaker 1: on a guy and he's trying to hook me, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fight that thing as hard as I can instead
Speaker 1: of you know, the easy way is to okay, let
Speaker 1: me slide behind you and run around and make that play,
Speaker 1: and it never works for you. To me, that's as
Speaker 1: bad as as as a stupid penalty in as it's
Speaker 1: like a dropper of thumb. It doesn't show up on
Speaker 1: the on the statue, but you have twelve yards in
Speaker 1: the first down. It's help help you lose a football, right,
Speaker 1: That's it. And so those are the two things things
Speaker 1: that I think if if this coaching staff can adhere
Speaker 1: to it and make it work, is gonna immediately make
Speaker 1: your football team a better football team. It gives you
Speaker 1: a chance to win each and every week when you're
Speaker 1: the most disciplined, least penalized football team lining up on
Speaker 1: that Thursday night, Sunday or Monday night. Absolutely, and that's
Speaker 1: where all the good teams are. You look at and
Speaker 1: I don't want you. They have better players or or
Speaker 1: adhering to their game plan that much closer, but they're lacking.
Speaker 1: They're staying away from the disciplinary issues that get your
Speaker 1: football teams into trouble, whether it's a block in the back,
Speaker 1: whether it's a mental bust on a play where you
Speaker 1: miss a block or completely shoot a wrong gap, or
Speaker 1: you just drop the football or you're throwing it into
Speaker 1: a crowd. Though you can put them all into a basket,
Speaker 1: all things that didn't need to be done a couple
Speaker 1: of other things. Uh, John Denny, it's continues, the old
Speaker 1: guy continues. I saw him with the u DC tournament
Speaker 1: and uh, he looks still looks like he's about twenty
Speaker 1: five years old. Teachs himself in good shape, and so
Speaker 1: you're long snappers. So he's got another How long has
Speaker 1: he been here? Always have been like thirteen fourteen. He's like,
Speaker 1: I know he's the longest tenure he's out there, and uh,
Speaker 1: and good for him. You know, he's a guy works
Speaker 1: at it hard, he stays in shape. He's here in
Speaker 1: the off season. We see him in the building, you
Speaker 1: know there. You know, there's a lot of guys coming
Speaker 1: in and out doing stuff with rehab. And he's always
Speaker 1: working on his craft and working on his body to
Speaker 1: stay in a position where he can help the football team.
Speaker 1: And looking, I mean, he's been here for a long
Speaker 1: time and uh, you know, he's carved out a great career.
Speaker 1: He's made a lot of money, he's got you know,
Speaker 1: he's got a good name down here. I think he's
Speaker 1: going into yeah, amazing. Yeah. And if you're a if
Speaker 1: you're a dad out there, if you're a mom out
Speaker 1: there and your teacher, get how long snap? You know,
Speaker 1: Jeff dellen By t Jeff Dellenbach, former Dolphin, you know,
Speaker 1: he taught his son. He's taught his son. Had a
Speaker 1: long snap, got a full right, got a full right
Speaker 1: to Auburn decide like Auburn came back out a full
Speaker 1: right to Talahouse, but the Florida States snapped the whole time.
Speaker 1: Got a couple of tryouts in the NFL. But I
Speaker 1: gotta completely paid for education just because his dad. You know,
Speaker 1: look look, hey, you know here you go. Not the
Speaker 1: biggest kid, but he had that skill to to to
Speaker 1: snap the football long snap and you know, extra points
Speaker 1: and field goals and punts and stuff, and got himself
Speaker 1: a nice college education out of it. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean when you can, and especially at that position,
Speaker 1: because it seems like that position is getting younger and younger.
Speaker 1: But when you've got a veteran guy that you trust, boy,
Speaker 1: it's sure put your mind at ease because you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get the unexpected uh bust on a snap. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get one of those that are sailing over
Speaker 1: your your you know, snapper, the kicker's head or the
Speaker 1: holder's head or it's off target and your time and
Speaker 1: gets messed up. And it sure does help with the
Speaker 1: two or three young kickers the Dolphins have had over
Speaker 1: the last four or five years. That those guys come
Speaker 1: in and see, you know, of their career or to
Speaker 1: start their career, have a great year, have no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. So congratulations to John Danny. Good to have
Speaker 1: him back for a for another year. He's always a
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a union president union or as
Speaker 1: a union rep. And so he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: involvement with his football and a lot of influence in
Speaker 1: that in that locker room. So good to have John
Speaker 1: Danny back. The other thing John is is this week
Speaker 1: it's certainly a tough week for for down to South Florida. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the anniversary of the stone Stoneman Douglas tragedy
Speaker 1: last year. There's last seventeen students, teachers, administrators in that
Speaker 1: whole thing, and John, the hangover that of that whole
Speaker 1: day just continues to cast up Paul. Down here in
Speaker 1: South Florida's so much going on, and these kids have
Speaker 1: become activists out there and promoting you know, reasonable you know,
Speaker 1: responsible use of guns and n r A issues or
Speaker 1: all whatever the issues are out there that all these
Speaker 1: kids are trying to Uh, you know, the most important
Speaker 1: thing is they're trying to make our schools safer for
Speaker 1: for our kids out there. And they're doing it you
Speaker 1: know in a in a grassroots Uh meth, did you
Speaker 1: really have to give them credit for? But uh so
Speaker 1: it's a fourteenth and you know, Broward County are trying
Speaker 1: to get the Broward County Athletics trying to get everyone
Speaker 1: to kind of take days off fourteenth and fifteenth, no practice,
Speaker 1: no games, just to remember that, uh, you know that
Speaker 1: the pain that they're going through and at uh U
Speaker 1: in Parkland Stoneman Douglas so um horrible, horrible thing and
Speaker 1: just you know, it seems John, since that's happened, uh,
Speaker 1: down here in the South Florida, day doesn't go by
Speaker 1: where you don't see a stone, you know, a Stoneman
Speaker 1: Douglas strong or a knee shirt or or storying the
Speaker 1: news or a story in the newspaper something about it.
Speaker 1: The impact is uh is gonna be felt down here
Speaker 1: for a long time. So we just wanted to remember
Speaker 1: that that is the anniversary this week and all the
Speaker 1: people that are out there still um going through with
Speaker 1: just unimaginable pain over all that just want to give
Speaker 1: them our thoughts. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean just a horrible
Speaker 1: tragedy as you mentioned, and you know, teams around the
Speaker 1: county are are you know, would think all of them
Speaker 1: are gonna get adhere to not playing on Thursday and
Speaker 1: Friday with the memorial of that sad day coming up
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth and uh It's just one of those
Speaker 1: things where both you know, you you're riding on the
Speaker 1: saw grass and you kind of take a peek over
Speaker 1: and you start seeing camera crews, you know, setting up
Speaker 1: last week at least I did, and people coming out
Speaker 1: and there's still memorials there, and you know, the students
Speaker 1: can't use the one wing that the tragedy you know, happened,
Speaker 1: and and they've got portables up and it just it
Speaker 1: just reminds you of that that entire awful, you know,
Speaker 1: pit in your stomach, you know, from from that day
Speaker 1: on and you still feel it. There's all, like you said,
Speaker 1: there's reminders on on cars all driving around Broward Dade County,
Speaker 1: Palm Beach County where you see MSD Strong or you know,
Speaker 1: you you start seeing and you have those feelings hit
Speaker 1: you again, and it's one of those things that you
Speaker 1: hope that these young people and the parents of of
Speaker 1: of these young students that were tragically lost a year
Speaker 1: go it can make some kind of improvements on on
Speaker 1: keeping the school safe keeping not only in this county,
Speaker 1: but every county around it. It's everywhere, you know, and
Speaker 1: you and you you talk about these shootings, these schools
Speaker 1: and stuff, and and you know, quite frankly, in the
Speaker 1: inner city and stuff goes on every day, you know,
Speaker 1: and they kind of get lost in the shuffle um
Speaker 1: and where you know, I think I'd like to see
Speaker 1: where some of this diet, some of this dialogue that's
Speaker 1: come along with these these shootings, and how do we
Speaker 1: resolve them, how do you minimize them, how do you
Speaker 1: make sure that these schools are safe? Takes its way
Speaker 1: into the inner city to where these kids are dealing
Speaker 1: with it, you know, on a you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they do on it on a
Speaker 1: day to day basis. Every time they walk out of
Speaker 1: their house. You never know. And so you hope that
Speaker 1: there's you know, there's there's some help coming down there too.
Speaker 1: But anyways, look at something we've gone through with, something
Speaker 1: we're gonna deal with, you know, for a long time
Speaker 1: down here. And I just want to remember him on
Speaker 1: this on this week. Uh. The other thing, John is
Speaker 1: getting back to the Miami Dolphins and football and now
Speaker 1: you know, the drafts right around the corner coming up
Speaker 1: in April, we got the combine coming up here and
Speaker 1: the end of the month. At the end of the month,
Speaker 1: so you'll start, you know, you really start getting into
Speaker 1: draft mode and everything, and and now you've got um, uh,
Speaker 1: the kid from Oklahoma comes out. He's out. You know,
Speaker 1: he's saying, hey, I'm a I'm a football guy. Although
Speaker 1: the Oakland A's I'm sure you're still gonna try to
Speaker 1: tug that thing. And you know, I don't know that
Speaker 1: was me. I don't know if I was, I would be,
Speaker 1: I would see, well, you know, I like football, but cheese.
Speaker 1: I like baseball too, you know, yeah, I being that
Speaker 1: middle seat, you know, get that, get that whole thing
Speaker 1: going one way or another. He's already he's already cashed
Speaker 1: that check from the So they've got four million reasons
Speaker 1: say no, no, no doubt about that. Uh. But you know,
Speaker 1: now's the time you start kind of looking and and
Speaker 1: seeing what you want. And you know that the mock
Speaker 1: drafts are coming out hot and heavy, all yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: they I mean, well it's pretty easy to right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, based on everything that's gone out there, we're
Speaker 1: a team without a quarterback right now. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: but you know that's I guess that doesn't get resolved
Speaker 1: until when the new league year opens up and something
Speaker 1: like that. And um, you know, all that stuff will
Speaker 1: take its course. But when you talk about the draft
Speaker 1: and you talk about the Dolphins, you know, sitting where
Speaker 1: they're sitting, there's probably three teams, probably three teams ahead
Speaker 1: of them that you know could say, yeah, I could
Speaker 1: take a quarterback. I could take one, for sure. And
Speaker 1: in a draft where the quarterback position there's no clear
Speaker 1: cut really Number one, it's your flavor of the of
Speaker 1: the month, whoever it fits your system, or whoever you
Speaker 1: believe is going to be in two years. Maybe the
Speaker 1: better quarterback of the bunch, that's the one you want
Speaker 1: to hang onto. But the Miami Dolphins might be in
Speaker 1: a position where they need the best one for this year.
Speaker 1: They well, John I we've talked about this a little bit.
Speaker 1: I've gotten the point now where you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: the Dolphins or any other team out there, if you
Speaker 1: don't have a top ten quarterback, you're you're you're you're
Speaker 1: swimming upstream. You know it, And it's a tough streen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't know where you want to go. If you
Speaker 1: get that right leap, you may pop up there for
Speaker 1: a little bit. But but I think we're all talking
Speaker 1: about the same thing, and I think I think Mr Ross,
Speaker 1: I think Tom Garfinkel, I think on down the list,
Speaker 1: I think Brian Flores, I think everyone you know, we're
Speaker 1: looking looking at that not that one year pop up
Speaker 1: every now and then you know that this this franchise
Speaker 1: is dead set on finding a way to be in
Speaker 1: that playoff picture each and every year and battling from
Speaker 1: from that point. And if you're gonna do that, I
Speaker 1: think it's been proven over the last two decades that
Speaker 1: if you don't have one of those top ten quarterback
Speaker 1: may not It may not have been that way back
Speaker 1: when I played, it may not have been that way,
Speaker 1: you know, in the league long time ago, but it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear to see now and you take those final
Speaker 1: eight teams and look at those four quarterbacks, they're there
Speaker 1: that if you don't have one of those top ten guys,
Speaker 1: you your chances are pretty slim. So I think I
Speaker 1: think at this point, if you're if you're not a
Speaker 1: team in this league with one of those top ten
Speaker 1: guys and you're not trying to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to get you one, then then you're missing the boat
Speaker 1: in a big way. So the offense, whatever way, whoever
Speaker 1: it is, whatever the guy I'm of the York that says, hey,
Speaker 1: go out and grab one of these guys, and if
Speaker 1: you got a trade up to get him, go ahead
Speaker 1: and get him. And if you bring him here and
Speaker 1: maybe he's not the guy when, then do it again
Speaker 1: next year, Do it again next year. You've got to
Speaker 1: find a way to make that position as as solid
Speaker 1: as you possibly can and then as elite as you
Speaker 1: possibly can for as long as you possibly can. And
Speaker 1: you and it's it doesn't mean you know the hot
Speaker 1: guy all the time. It doesn't mean you know Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray is the hot guy right now. You know you
Speaker 1: can go, you know, the guy to the house stay too.
Speaker 1: Then those and then there's you know, secondary guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna fall into place. You know Will Greers of
Speaker 1: the world and the guy from Missouri, and you can
Speaker 1: continue down the line. Even even the guy from North
Speaker 1: Dakota State Eastern Stick is gonna get is gonna get
Speaker 1: some play, and he might be another guy you look
Speaker 1: at the back end of the drafts, that guy might
Speaker 1: be the best of the bonds, So let's take him.
Speaker 1: But um, you've got to find You've got to find
Speaker 1: a guy that your team can rally around. Your team
Speaker 1: believes in and most importantly, that you know what you're
Speaker 1: going to get out of that guy each and every
Speaker 1: week for your football team. There can be no question marks.
Speaker 1: And that's a guy that that is going to be
Speaker 1: the leader and he's gonna be the carry the flag
Speaker 1: of your franchise. So it's such an important position to
Speaker 1: go out and investigate, and that's why the teams that
Speaker 1: need him are spending so much time going out and saying,
Speaker 1: you know, is this the right guy or no. You
Speaker 1: look at this Dan Age in the quarterbacking and I
Speaker 1: think Danny was kind of one of the first guys
Speaker 1: kind of in that ilk of guys that you look
Speaker 1: at the top quarterbacks. Now you go back to the
Speaker 1: Brett Farve and Dan Marinos and Jim Kelly's and John
Speaker 1: Always and and you could I'm not sure how far
Speaker 1: past them you could go. But when you get to
Speaker 1: that crop moving forward to today, most of these quarter
Speaker 1: most of the quarterbacks for in that era or been
Speaker 1: or playing fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen years. So you
Speaker 1: get that guy, you've got him for fifteen years. That
Speaker 1: means your franchise, That means your kids are gonna grow
Speaker 1: up and say, man, we were really good for a
Speaker 1: long time. And that's what I did as a kid
Speaker 1: watching the Dolphins. We're really good for a long time.
Speaker 1: Look at the guy, look at look at the San
Speaker 1: Diego Charger fans or now l A Charger fans who've
Speaker 1: been watching Philip Rivers for fifteen years Eli Manning with
Speaker 1: the Giants. The point being is, if you get that guy,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there for fifteen years, seventeen years, and
Speaker 1: you don't gotta worry about it anymore. I gotta worry
Speaker 1: about him being hurt, no doubt about that. But you know,
Speaker 1: you you those guys aren't sitting there going every draft,
Speaker 1: jezs we need another quarterback. Well they'll find one third, fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth round to be a you know, a backup or
Speaker 1: a guy get But you know, instead of being what
Speaker 1: we've gone through and kind of just h didn't missing
Speaker 1: guys for three or four years. And you know you
Speaker 1: had Ryan for seven years and and that's really seven
Speaker 1: dead years. To be honest with you, it's hard. It's hard.
Speaker 1: It's a hard position to play. It's a hard position
Speaker 1: to be consistent over a long stretch of time. And
Speaker 1: it seems like it's a hard position to narrow down
Speaker 1: on who to choose. UH can do it for a
Speaker 1: long and extended period of time, because when you're right
Speaker 1: when you mentioned the names you mentioned, I remember growing
Speaker 1: up as a kid. I can tell you every quarterback
Speaker 1: on every team because those guys were there, whether the
Speaker 1: team was average, whether the team was elite. I mean,
Speaker 1: you go back to Steve Droell, Grogan's, Bobby douglas Is
Speaker 1: and guys like that who played for long We're very good,
Speaker 1: played for a long time in the league, and they
Speaker 1: were pretty good quarterbacks. But but again, those those that era,
Speaker 1: although it was a quarterback driven era, I don't think
Speaker 1: it was a quarterback driven as you could have a
Speaker 1: middle of the road quarterback and pretty pretty damn good
Speaker 1: if you had a couple of good running backs or
Speaker 1: in the middle of the road quarterback hung around on
Speaker 1: because the team was pretty damn and wanted to both
Speaker 1: sides of football. Yeah, but but now if you don't
Speaker 1: have that guy, you you really have very little chance
Speaker 1: along the line. John want to actually you you being
Speaker 1: a quarterback, and I've I've kind of kind of got
Speaker 1: into this mode over the last couple of years. Is
Speaker 1: that I don't know that it's ever been easier to
Speaker 1: be a successful quarterback in the league as it is now.
Speaker 1: Not that it's any easier to throw the football, not
Speaker 1: but but the rules that are out there a h
Speaker 1: to protect a quarterback. You don't see his quarterbacks getting
Speaker 1: hurt as much assign that's by design. They're not taking
Speaker 1: the beating that they used to take before. So I
Speaker 1: think that's one thing. And the other thing is they've
Speaker 1: made it so putative on the defensive side to be
Speaker 1: a defensive back, to be a linebacker where where coverage
Speaker 1: is now is so loose because you can't be physics
Speaker 1: fear of quarterbacks or receivers in the middle of the football.
Speaker 1: So they so they just go and so you know,
Speaker 1: if you're in an era where it's never been easier
Speaker 1: to be a quarterback, which to me means I'm more
Speaker 1: to have to get a guy in here and get
Speaker 1: him in there, a s a p and learn on
Speaker 1: the fly, because you know, there's no more year two
Speaker 1: sitting around and learning the offense. The offense. The coach
Speaker 1: might change, the offense might change by the time you
Speaker 1: get your chance. You're right, that's the way society is
Speaker 1: that it's win now, and if you're gonna win now,
Speaker 1: you better try to do it with the best players
Speaker 1: that are on your roster. And most of the time
Speaker 1: it's the young guy that's sitting there because you picked
Speaker 1: him for a reason. Yea, So that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: kind of uh I think going in that that's certainly
Speaker 1: on this football team, that's gotta be priority one. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, figuring out what's going on and then getting
Speaker 1: the offense around the guy that you got um. And
Speaker 1: then beyond that, there's a lot of you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of needles and so will over the next month
Speaker 1: or so, you know, coming up the draft, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: kind of go into depth into all that stuff and
Speaker 1: get that work out. Let's go ahead and try some
Speaker 1: uh some questions. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm so happy
Speaker 1: to have the questions back. You know, I could see
Speaker 1: and you love him. I love him? Um M C
Speaker 1: corn mean Twitter guy at mc corn mean on Albert Wilson.
Speaker 1: Can we all just take a moment and realize how
Speaker 1: much of a dynamic shift this legend brings. I think
Speaker 1: I speak for all the Dolphin fans when I say
Speaker 1: that we love Albert Wilson. I tell you what he was.
Speaker 1: He was. You talk about a lightning in a bottle man.
Speaker 1: That guy came in. And then I had seen him
Speaker 1: in Kansas City using most when I saw in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: we're using mostly as a decoy because his speed. But boy,
Speaker 1: I tell you, put the ball in his hands, and
Speaker 1: then between him and Jachim where you really had two
Speaker 1: guys that could score from anywhere. So I think that
Speaker 1: was a that was a hard one when when he
Speaker 1: went down, and that was just like a it was
Speaker 1: like just a punch in the gut when he had
Speaker 1: the whole error went out of hard Rock Stadium when
Speaker 1: he went down, because you could just feel, what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do now? How are we gonna be able
Speaker 1: to run these quick screens and all these picks and
Speaker 1: all these under off and in the passing game and
Speaker 1: have no explosion and have no one to take that
Speaker 1: four yard pass and go forty fifty yards. And boy,
Speaker 1: he could do that. And Albert was a guy that
Speaker 1: the more chances you gave him the better. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then so look, you know, I don't know where he's
Speaker 1: at rehab wise. I haven't seen Albert. So a couple
Speaker 1: of things on social media. He's doing some squats with
Speaker 1: the bar and then lightweight, so he's working. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be ready. I saw Jr Team over the weekend in
Speaker 1: an event and then he looks like he's he's doing well.
Speaker 1: So get those two guys back to get their speedback.
Speaker 1: Twitter at Jack Cross three sixty six. Can any of
Speaker 1: the current defense players be considered solid this unit rank
Speaker 1: thirty one? Nothing solid about that. No Dolphin defensive players
Speaker 1: should feel secure in their position. I I don't agree
Speaker 1: with that, And I mean, I'm looking at you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm looking at Gotcha. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Vincent Taylor coming back as being a big part of it. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at both. I'm looking at Ray Kwad McMillan
Speaker 1: to have I'm looking at Baker, Jerome Baker, same thing.
Speaker 1: And uh so, I look, I think there are some
Speaker 1: good players on the defensive side of the football. I
Speaker 1: think they've got to be coached up there. To me,
Speaker 1: to me, a lot of the things that that have
Speaker 1: to go on on the defensive side of football, to
Speaker 1: me go back to the details of playing the game,
Speaker 1: details of doing your job the way you're supposed to
Speaker 1: do it now. Look, they certainly you certainly like you
Speaker 1: got more more production of the defensive end position. Um
Speaker 1: and I think, like you know, the William Hayes, I
Speaker 1: don't expect to see him back, which is really disappointing.
Speaker 1: I thought he was because I think he's he was
Speaker 1: one of the better players coming into the season that
Speaker 1: you had. Man, this guy can do multiple positions and
Speaker 1: he doesn't take a playoff. He does it the right way.
Speaker 1: That was a huge disappointment for me. But I think
Speaker 1: there's you know, Xavier still is just a going to
Speaker 1: the fourth year. Whatever happens with him contract rising. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm I'll throw my hand in the in the up
Speaker 1: in the airs. I'm all for giving what he wants,
Speaker 1: giving what he needs and and bring him back. Just
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm a dad. Let's let's not get
Speaker 1: rid of our talent anymore. Let's manage our talent and
Speaker 1: make him work for us. Facebook Jim rp. Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: wants out of Antonio Brown wants out of Pittsburgh. Why
Speaker 1: not Miami? Uh, you know, I don't know that Miami
Speaker 1: is the kind of team right now to take on
Speaker 1: a guy like Antonio Brown that if he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be um if you if I'm not gonna get what
Speaker 1: he wants, if he's not gonna be as productive as
Speaker 1: he can be and wants to be, I just think
Speaker 1: he becomes I think he becomes an issue that that
Speaker 1: you that a young football team can ill afford to have.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could have the year Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown had, or years and Antonio Brown has had with
Speaker 1: a potential Hall of Fame quarterback throwing you the football
Speaker 1: and be so upset and not happy in a town
Speaker 1: that just praises their football team on a daily basis. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I hate to say it, but he's taking
Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh franchise that has been proud, steadfast, has been
Speaker 1: a rock in the National foot Ball League and as
Speaker 1: well run and as well respected of a franchise as
Speaker 1: they are in the National Football League and took and
Speaker 1: took the gold in the Black and Gold and drug
Speaker 1: it through the mud that that Antonio Brown you pile
Speaker 1: onto that, the stuff that's gone on in the off season, Boy,
Speaker 1: that's a headache. I'm not so sure Brian Floores uh
Speaker 1: might be willing to take in in year one. No,
Speaker 1: I'm that will come along with it. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: don't think that. I don't think he's a fit in
Speaker 1: in a football team like this. You know, if you
Speaker 1: can't fit with Pittsburgh, I don't know what you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you go? Twitter at at T
Speaker 1: do you t ed up twenty five? T d up
Speaker 1: twenty five? I sometimes I like to get these guys saying,
Speaker 1: you what what does that mean? Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what is the T d up? T d up? There
Speaker 1: you go? Look at Gotcha has been quite a steel
Speaker 1: for us, and hopefully he gets even better with coach
Speaker 1: Floors in town. I'm with you. I like I like
Speaker 1: Devon Gotcha. I like I like Vincent Taylor. I think
Speaker 1: those are two really young, blurd knows nose guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just uh, they just won't just like to go
Speaker 1: out and play. I like, you know what, Vincent Taylor
Speaker 1: is a guy that's just a block of man. I
Speaker 1: mean that guy. He's good on special teams, gets his
Speaker 1: hands on football's can block you know, extra points and
Speaker 1: field wal opportunities, and on his core job, he's hard
Speaker 1: to move and look he's he's you know, if you
Speaker 1: remember kim A Gotcha came in and really had an
Speaker 1: impact early on, and Vincent was kind of the other guy.
Speaker 1: And then I think this last year, I think Vincent
Speaker 1: kind of toward the injury will step over there before
Speaker 1: he got hurt, and he did. He kind of became
Speaker 1: the guy. So you've got two good young guys there that,
Speaker 1: you know, if they continue to show improvement. Again, I
Speaker 1: keep going back to the the the Xavier, the the
Speaker 1: x Men. You know, three years if if you get
Speaker 1: those guys on that that rise that he took and
Speaker 1: they've all got the Cape Bill, they all have got
Speaker 1: the athletic ability to be that type of players if
Speaker 1: they can get there. Twitter at light on the Dome, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad we resigned John. Danny talked about that
Speaker 1: he's one of the best long snappers in the lead.
Speaker 1: That's a position you don't talk about unless it's a
Speaker 1: bad snap. Well, look, you haven't had a bad snap
Speaker 1: and we're talking about we talked about it. We have.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, good to have him back. Uh Twitter
Speaker 1: at uh raw L s FL John, maybe you can
Speaker 1: give me a little bit of help out the w
Speaker 1: w R A w L s f's that's all San
Speaker 1: Diego State I want to comment and and say just
Speaker 1: how excited I am about the coaching lineup, but I
Speaker 1: do feel obligated to laying my thoughts on our new
Speaker 1: coaches until mits. I Look, everyone's been asking me, what
Speaker 1: do you think of a new coach? What do you
Speaker 1: think of new coach? I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: like conversations I've had with him, everything. I like what
Speaker 1: he said, like wait, carries himself. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: like a lot of things about about what he's done. Um,
Speaker 1: but it all comes down to, yeah, by mid season,
Speaker 1: you'll have uh, you know whatever, whatever your opinion is
Speaker 1: of him right now, I'm sure it's gonna change a
Speaker 1: hundred handful of times with the fan base out there
Speaker 1: by mid season. Well, it's hard, man, It's it's hard.
Speaker 1: And you know what, to be honest with you, and
Speaker 1: we've talked about we've talked about this, You're honest. Opinion
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't come after five games, ten games, sixteen games
Speaker 1: in a regular season. You might be able to start
Speaker 1: formulating an opinion, but you you got to give this
Speaker 1: guy a chance to get his philosophy. To me, if
Speaker 1: I was a fan or someone who covers the team,
Speaker 1: would be if you get halfway through the season, you've
Speaker 1: had a lot of class clock mismanagement, you know, replay,
Speaker 1: you know, replay requests. Just don't you know, you see
Speaker 1: your ten guys on the field, the feld, you go, hey,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this team looks a little unorganized, you know.
Speaker 1: But but I don't. I don't see that being a case.
Speaker 1: But to me, that's the only way where where you
Speaker 1: could say midway through the season, yeah or no, you
Speaker 1: know so, but yeah, I don't. I don't you know
Speaker 1: that that's a that's a long term deal there, Uh, Facebook, Jamie.
Speaker 1: One thing I couldnot stand was it seemed every time
Speaker 1: we got the ball, we got a false start unless
Speaker 1: we're talking about fall started holding call, put ourselves in
Speaker 1: bad position. Coach Forest, Coach florest Stead, he has no
Speaker 1: tallest penalties that alone to play good, sound, fundamental football.
Speaker 1: And that's where right on there, Twitter, h Jen Tink
Speaker 1: Todd Jr. You know what you think? Joe's on here
Speaker 1: just messing with logan and putting some bad names. I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking, who Gen Tink June names their kid Gen Tink.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe that's a family name. Jen Tink
Speaker 1: thinks so and I agree defense wins championships. Focus on
Speaker 1: building the defense. In this draft, I don't know the
Speaker 1: defense has win championship much and well I don't know
Speaker 1: three yeah, so yeah, I'm with you on that. To
Speaker 1: the most prolific offenses in a long time, I would
Speaker 1: say I would say, if I'm looking at this, I
Speaker 1: would put priority one would be quarterback. Priority too would
Speaker 1: be uh, defensive line and offensive line, and then and
Speaker 1: and and probably those would be two A and two B.
Speaker 1: H Ron Bellamy. Flores is winning over the fans already. Man,
Speaker 1: sounds like a winner in life. Dolphins will have a
Speaker 1: top ten defense this year. Watch. I'd love to see that.
Speaker 1: But but I do with this. I think that it's
Speaker 1: hard to it's hard to have listened to Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and these press conferences. It's hard to have not been
Speaker 1: around him. We had him on the program, uh last week,
Speaker 1: I know you did an interview with him. He came
Speaker 1: out for the DOLF of the d c c UH
Speaker 1: Golf Tournament, spoke to everybody and said, Hey, I got
Speaker 1: a million things to be doing back in training camp
Speaker 1: right now, he said, but my mother is going through
Speaker 1: cancer and this is a place I need to be
Speaker 1: right now, so you can, you know, you really get
Speaker 1: a good a good snapshot of of the type of
Speaker 1: person he is, the type of coaches and and uh,
Speaker 1: but he's all about business. You know. I've talked him
Speaker 1: a couple of times, and you know, he knows, he knows,
Speaker 1: he knows the magnitude of the job that's in front
Speaker 1: of him. He knows. He said, Look, I gotta I
Speaker 1: got a mountain of things on my desk. I gotta
Speaker 1: get through it, he says, And I'm gonna just kinda
Speaker 1: chip away at it every single day. So I think
Speaker 1: he's going about at the same same bing And I've
Speaker 1: got you know, I got no I've got, I've gotten.
Speaker 1: There's not one I owed to a concern that I
Speaker 1: can have for him other than the fact that I've
Speaker 1: never seen him as head coach exactly. And I don't
Speaker 1: know the team he's gonna have around here. That that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. The I don't have any doubt that
Speaker 1: he's gonna install discipline, he's gonna make this team, you know, work,
Speaker 1: He's gonna make him earn everything that that that that
Speaker 1: whoever is on this final roster. And I really don't
Speaker 1: have any doubt that he's going to be successful because
Speaker 1: he's been successful everywhere he's been and he and he's
Speaker 1: done it on the defensive side of the football. The
Speaker 1: only question I have is who's going to make up
Speaker 1: the nucleus of this football team and how is he
Speaker 1: going to be able to craft that into something that
Speaker 1: that that wins championship. And don't don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not one of these guys that's for
Speaker 1: tanking to get the next quarterback that's coming out next year.
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I just don't no idea. I
Speaker 1: have no idea how you do that. I have no
Speaker 1: idea how you gotta coach. It's pretty easy if you
Speaker 1: listen to some some of our buddies that we talk
Speaker 1: to all the time. Um, but I'm gonna say this,
Speaker 1: you know I would be I wouldn't be upset if
Speaker 1: if if if I see if the Dolphins win six
Speaker 1: games next year, five games next year, if I've watched
Speaker 1: the football team that doesn't beat themselves, if you've cleaned
Speaker 1: up the penalties, if you've cleaned up the you know,
Speaker 1: if you've got the discipline and you just don't have
Speaker 1: the horses right now. But you see a football team
Speaker 1: that has the basics you do. You've done a lot
Speaker 1: of good things, but you just can't get over the hump.
Speaker 1: I can live with that because if you can see
Speaker 1: that philosophical change of how you're playing the game moving,
Speaker 1: and then you know it's gonna get better as years
Speaker 1: go on. What I wouldn't be happy with is seeing
Speaker 1: a four win football team that's disorgan eyes, that penalty ridden,
Speaker 1: that you've got malcontents, guys that don't want to go
Speaker 1: you know, you know, all the kind of things that
Speaker 1: are cancerous to a football team. Um, that's that's what
Speaker 1: would be hard to swallow. You know what, I'll take
Speaker 1: some wins next year that we go, wow, how did
Speaker 1: we win that one? I don't know. I'm glad we
Speaker 1: did because you know, quite frankly, when this team started
Speaker 1: three and oh, everybody's looking around, everybody was happy, and
Speaker 1: we're going, holy cow, how do we do that? Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we're gonna steal a couple more and sneak into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Uh Twitter, gent Tech Todd Jr. Defense win champions.
Speaker 1: Just forment, we got that Rob Bellamy Flores is winning
Speaker 1: over the fans already. Man, sounds like winner already did
Speaker 1: that one? Right? Yeah? Okay, last one? Frederico Ariola, mhm,
Speaker 1: that must be Logan. Well, I know I know where
Speaker 1: Riola is on his mind all the time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's Frederico. But uh, it's gonna get worse
Speaker 1: before it's get big it's better. So what's the answer, John,
Speaker 1: if it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And
Speaker 1: Fredrico's got the answer, I'm gonna see if you know
Speaker 1: the answer. If it's gonna get worse before it gets better,
Speaker 1: drink heavily. Bring back the old logo. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can ever ask a question. I don't think you
Speaker 1: could ever ask a question about the Miami Dolphins, whether
Speaker 1: it's good bad, whether they've just one lost, demolished, the
Speaker 1: team got demolished themselves. Somebody where, somebody has come go
Speaker 1: when you're gonna change back the old big time? At
Speaker 1: some point. I know this, there's a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people inside that building. I would love
Speaker 1: to have it back, but you know, and the uniform
Speaker 1: would be quite honest with the colors that AWM is awesome.
Speaker 1: It looks like we're gonna have maybe three opportunities, are
Speaker 1: four opportunities to wear the throwbacks in two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: Maybe version might as well make it eight. Could be cool, right,
Speaker 1: all right, that's gonna do it for the program. We'll
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