Speaker 1: The honorable is presented by Sylvestor Comprehensive Cancer Center in
Speaker 1: pursuit of your cure. All right, same castor character, same
Speaker 1: as every week. Can bocamper John con Gemmy with you.
Speaker 1: They keep asking us back. I'm hard, but it's hard
Speaker 1: to believe. I thought, I thought after our first two
Speaker 1: or three shows, we'll be you've been the outside looking in.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I don't think they really know
Speaker 1: what we're doing in here, so we just kind of deep.
Speaker 1: We just kind of yeah, yeah, there's not many people here. Yeah, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: So it's good. It's good. It's it's you know, it's good.
Speaker 1: It gives us a little job assurance, you know, keeps us,
Speaker 1: keeps us around, keeps us doing something. All that's good stuff. Hey, John,
Speaker 1: the t a s in the second week, we've had
Speaker 1: a chance to go out there and look around a
Speaker 1: little bit. Just your initial thoughts. Again, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: on the side of watching. I'm looking at guys, and
Speaker 1: I'm kind of looking at guys just to see how
Speaker 1: they move around. Right now, you know, some of the
Speaker 1: you know, offensive lineman guy, you know, just guys. New
Speaker 1: guys kind of get to feel for them. But I
Speaker 1: and I've said this before, I'm kind of spent more
Speaker 1: time now watching the coaching staff and how they coach
Speaker 1: coach upter football team and what the differences are. And
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see, you know, because I know you've
Speaker 1: been out there every day that they've had these ots.
Speaker 1: I've been out a couple of days. Um, what do
Speaker 1: you see different? Competitive competition? Um, constant reinforcing of fundamentals. Uh,
Speaker 1: A lot of coaching, a lot of teaching, a lot
Speaker 1: of hustle, all those things, all those good things that
Speaker 1: that good teams have, character traits that you look for.
Speaker 1: I think this team is building those character traits. I
Speaker 1: think this team is finally figuring out that you need
Speaker 1: to work hard to get better at your craft, and
Speaker 1: you need to be able to be accountable on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. I mean, the slate is white clean every day,
Speaker 1: even though you're you're collecting money in the bank and
Speaker 1: you're feeling like, hey, I put a good day on
Speaker 1: top of a good day when you hit the field
Speaker 1: on them one day, when you hit it on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the slate is clean. You gotta go prove it again.
Speaker 1: And I think that's when I see The most uh
Speaker 1: thing that I can draw upon is competition. Competition, hustle,
Speaker 1: get on guys, and constructively, you know, good job, Hey,
Speaker 1: that needs to be better. We can't line up like that.
Speaker 1: We gotta line up quicker, we can't jump offsides, we
Speaker 1: can't do all those things. It's just accountability for every detail.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest thing I've seen over
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks in O. T are certainly
Speaker 1: competitive out there, and you know they get to when
Speaker 1: they're where they get into team offensive defensive drills. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a competition and whoever we end up
Speaker 1: come down to the last player, the last couple of players,
Speaker 1: and you'll say, hey, alright, this is for push ups
Speaker 1: and offense wins defait. Whatever loses goes down and coaching
Speaker 1: staff goes down, and you know so so and those
Speaker 1: kind of things, you know what they they're kind of
Speaker 1: twofold John. They create it's fun because now you've got
Speaker 1: a little something on the line, and uh and and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's competitive because neither so I wants to lose.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot about push ups. It's all. It's
Speaker 1: about winning and losing. It's about winning and losing, and
Speaker 1: which which every single play in every single game should
Speaker 1: be looked at that way. It's about win this plin,
Speaker 1: this play, and then move on to the next one
Speaker 1: and do your best there. So so I like that
Speaker 1: and and it brings an enthusiasm to the to the
Speaker 1: football team, which I and and and and that enthusiasm
Speaker 1: also brings a camaraderie I think with both sides. You know,
Speaker 1: you get in the locker room, yeah, we kicked your guys,
Speaker 1: and and so and and and you know, and on
Speaker 1: the surface those things look like little things, but in
Speaker 1: a situation where you've got a new staff a lot
Speaker 1: of young players, I think that team building is very important.
Speaker 1: It is for this team. And the other thing that
Speaker 1: I see that that that I really like is I
Speaker 1: see them really stand tight on the details. You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen too many times I've seen out here and
Speaker 1: proud in the practice fielding in games where a guy
Speaker 1: makes a mistake, comes over and either the coach says
Speaker 1: nothing to him or kind of says, hey, I know
Speaker 1: you won't let that happen again, and just kind of
Speaker 1: walks back, looks by, And I'm not saying these guys are.
Speaker 1: They're out there, you know, ripping these guys. But if
Speaker 1: a guy makes a mistake, they say, hey, no, let's
Speaker 1: come back, do it again, get it right. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so and I and I like that and because you
Speaker 1: you can't. You know, we we talked when when we
Speaker 1: had Brian in here, we talked to Brian says, I mean,
Speaker 1: I want this team to be disciplined where they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be be there, and you can't expect them to
Speaker 1: be there if you're not reinforcing that every single day
Speaker 1: on the practice field. And you see it. I see
Speaker 1: it constantly out there, you know, on the practice field
Speaker 1: work guy makes a mistake and that his position coaches
Speaker 1: right over there with him, and every now and then,
Speaker 1: you know, they get a little heated with them. Damn it.
Speaker 1: You know, we just went over this, do it right,
Speaker 1: and you know, so there's a little No, they're not
Speaker 1: not be rating guys, not making them feel like crap,
Speaker 1: but just letting you know, hey, this is important. These
Speaker 1: there's a little thing. They're small details, but you know,
Speaker 1: small details lead to big success. And I think they're
Speaker 1: reinforcing that to the point where I really like what
Speaker 1: I see from what they're doing out there, and the
Speaker 1: other thing I like much different than I'm not taking
Speaker 1: a shot at at Adam Gaze because he's doing his
Speaker 1: thing and gone up to New York doing his thing.
Speaker 1: And I always said, you know, someone just asked me
Speaker 1: down there, did you you know, what what do you
Speaker 1: think about? I go, well, you know, all I know
Speaker 1: is this. The Dolphins fired him two days later. He
Speaker 1: had three interviews lined up, and so it tells you
Speaker 1: a little something about what and what people think about him.
Speaker 1: But there was there was also, you know, the one
Speaker 1: thing I saw with it, there was a that kind
Speaker 1: of las fair we'll get it, we'll get it together,
Speaker 1: we'll get it together, you know, And and it doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, whereas now these guys they see that mistake,
Speaker 1: they don't wait till they get in the film room.
Speaker 1: They you know, they take care of it right on
Speaker 1: the field, and then sure enough when they get back
Speaker 1: in the meeting room. And look, we're not in the
Speaker 1: meeting room, but I'm my assumption, my assumption is is
Speaker 1: in there they're gonna go over it again and let
Speaker 1: you know again how important it is. And I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I think for any football team to be successful.
Speaker 1: I think that's a must. I think if you would
Speaker 1: go back John and look at and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: talk about New England, but let's take the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: The success in the in the in the consistency that
Speaker 1: the Steelers have. I bet you if you sat in
Speaker 1: those meeting rooms, it would be the same thing. You know,
Speaker 1: we had my whole career where well, you know, you
Speaker 1: made the mistake on the field and all that was.
Speaker 1: It was a precursor in the same age when we
Speaker 1: get my ask tune and we get that in that
Speaker 1: meeting for half an hour later, right exactly. So I
Speaker 1: think especially with this team where it's at, I think
Speaker 1: it's I'm just really happy to see that. The good
Speaker 1: thing about it is both not only the negative but
Speaker 1: the positives of the reinforced. You know, the negatives you
Speaker 1: can hear, you know, you can hear the coach's tone,
Speaker 1: you can hear the players uh, you know, discomfort and
Speaker 1: not wanting to do that again. And you can hear
Speaker 1: the moans and groans out on the practice field of
Speaker 1: that's got to be better. This needs to be better.
Speaker 1: But when player X, Y or Z makes a big
Speaker 1: play in the end zone, or makes the correct read
Speaker 1: on a throw, or is in coverage in the right spot.
Speaker 1: You're hearing that worse too. So I think it's it.
Speaker 1: It goes both ways to where hey, this is the
Speaker 1: way we want it done. That's a great job, Davante,
Speaker 1: I want you to do it again. Or Bobby, that
Speaker 1: was good positioning, you know, in coverage, that's good. Good
Speaker 1: talking on defense. That's the way we need to communicate.
Speaker 1: All those little things are being reinforced too. So not
Speaker 1: only are the negative traits trying to you know, get
Speaker 1: the eras route and say, hey, we gotta get rid
Speaker 1: of those, but the positive traits are being reinforced so
Speaker 1: that you you know, that guy did it, but the
Speaker 1: guy taking mental reps, the rookie that's waiting his turn,
Speaker 1: knows that he did it right. That's the way I
Speaker 1: need to do it. And I think those are the
Speaker 1: things that build success. Those are the things that build
Speaker 1: repetition in a positive way. So you don't you stay
Speaker 1: away from the negative as well? Yeah, well you know,
Speaker 1: and you look long term, two years, three years down
Speaker 1: the road where that becomes the ingrained. And so now
Speaker 1: everybody that comes in kind of gets they get this this,
Speaker 1: they look this way you do it, and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, we've all been in situations, whether it's
Speaker 1: training camp or mini camps or whatever, where you really
Speaker 1: screwed something up and you just feel like shit. You know,
Speaker 1: we're walk in the locker room and you know, you guys,
Speaker 1: hey don't you want you know, hey, just keep your
Speaker 1: head up or or the other way. Hey good, hey man,
Speaker 1: that was a nice play you made down the you know,
Speaker 1: it permeates into the locker room and it really creates
Speaker 1: that environment that I think that that you need. So
Speaker 1: I'm very Look, it's it's it's very premature, but but
Speaker 1: I think from from where I sit right now, what
Speaker 1: I've been able to see out there, I'm very happy with. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy with the way this staff goes. And
Speaker 1: I look at Brian Flores and I kind of getting
Speaker 1: back to Adam Gaze when when Adam was here, you know,
Speaker 1: Adam was you know, Adam was a you know, he
Speaker 1: was an offensive coordinator. You know, he was a head coach,
Speaker 1: but he was more offensive coordinator than head coach because
Speaker 1: he you know, he concentrated on what it was his thing, offense,
Speaker 1: play calling. That was that was his saying, offense play calling,
Speaker 1: let me play that chess game. Defense, I'm gonna beat
Speaker 1: you with the scheme. But you know, when the defense
Speaker 1: was struggling, when special teams were struggling, or when they're
Speaker 1: playing well on either side, you know, you never saw
Speaker 1: him engage with those guys. I look out here, and
Speaker 1: I see I see on on on on the on
Speaker 1: a practice given practice day. I think Brian has something
Speaker 1: to say to virtually every single group, whether it's offensive line,
Speaker 1: special peckers, special teams, secondary. You know, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: putting his fingerprint on that. And you know what, Unfortunately
Speaker 1: for for the Miami Dolphins, the talent might not have
Speaker 1: been where Adam Gates wanted it. But I think Adam
Speaker 1: Gates is gonna be a better coach the second time around,
Speaker 1: learning from what maybe his deficient season where in terms
Speaker 1: of doing those little things that mean a lot to
Speaker 1: All fifty three or All ninety when you're when you're
Speaker 1: getting together, you know, getting ready for training camp. I
Speaker 1: think the second time around, now, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be more cognizant of doing those little things that
Speaker 1: maybe he thought, you know what I can get by
Speaker 1: because I really need to concentrate on the offensive side.
Speaker 1: We put a lot of trust in his assistant coaches
Speaker 1: to do that. You know, his defensive coordinators. Hey, that
Speaker 1: that's you know that that that that's your team. That's
Speaker 1: that's your group. You take care of your group. I'll
Speaker 1: take care of mine. And I was. I was in that.
Speaker 1: I was in that same mode during my career. Bill
Speaker 1: Arensberger is my defensive coordinator. But there are there were
Speaker 1: plenty of times where coach Shula came over and you know,
Speaker 1: and let you know, you know what you're doing, what
Speaker 1: you need to do. Time Sometimes when you're one sided
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't mean to say coach. Some
Speaker 1: coaches are just one sided. They don't know anything on
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball. But when you know,
Speaker 1: when you jump in at you know, halfway through the season,
Speaker 1: the message just doesn't come through. You know, it's almost
Speaker 1: like window dressing you. I'm gonna go over and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take control of a few things. But then you
Speaker 1: go back to that one voice that you've been listening
Speaker 1: to for two years now, and that's the guy you trust,
Speaker 1: and you got you got the defensive coordinator, you got
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator unless they head coach is one of
Speaker 1: those positions. He's the ultimate guy. So this defensive quarter
Speaker 1: may say something to you, and certainly it carries resonates,
Speaker 1: it carries weight, It resonates to you. You better listen
Speaker 1: to him, you better do it. But then when that
Speaker 1: head coach comes over, now you're thinking our ship, that's
Speaker 1: the final how you're talking about you. I hope I
Speaker 1: don't get cut. I hope I don't don't don't get demote.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a little more. There's a he's a
Speaker 1: step Hires, always a little bit more influence. So I like,
Speaker 1: I like the fact that you know that he's a
Speaker 1: head coach that touches every aspect of the football team,
Speaker 1: both from a standpoint of reinforce positive reinforcement as well
Speaker 1: as reinforcing that deal that we're gonna be committed. Two
Speaker 1: small details. No jumping off sides, no pre snap penalties,
Speaker 1: none of these things that none of these you know,
Speaker 1: post play personal fouls that that cost you big And
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know what this team is
Speaker 1: gonna be. Like everyone asked me, Hey, what do you
Speaker 1: think why? I don't know. We got seven draft choices
Speaker 1: I don't or six whatever we got here, six draft choices.
Speaker 1: I go. I know all all of them are probably
Speaker 1: gonna make the team, because that's the way it is now.
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you. I mean, I've seen guys
Speaker 1: come in where there were you know, big first round
Speaker 1: draft choices and and and never Barrett never never made
Speaker 1: the field basically. And I've seen guys that came in
Speaker 1: as six, you know, thirteen, fourteen round draft picks that
Speaker 1: came in and became productive players. So you know those
Speaker 1: I said, And so my answer is always, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it looks good like the guys that got in here,
Speaker 1: but I gotta wait and see how they play. I
Speaker 1: gotta wait and see when when the Pats come on
Speaker 1: in July, or those guys gonna be able to play
Speaker 1: at the level of the next level up and step
Speaker 1: up and play at the National Football League level after
Speaker 1: coming out of college. Just so obviously, time, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you, but I don't know
Speaker 1: until I see these guys and watch them play a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I'm not talking about but we can
Speaker 1: watch these o tas all day. You know, It's funny
Speaker 1: because I listen to reading I was reading a tweet
Speaker 1: from from our big our friend old Mark Kelly and
Speaker 1: and uh and rose and throws a touchdown. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's not important, you know, because it's a mini care
Speaker 1: or whatever. And then DeVante Parker catches the past and
Speaker 1: he goes on and on about Dvante catching touch I go,
Speaker 1: what's the difference? What's it there? What's so? So? A
Speaker 1: quarterback throwing the touchdown is really not important, but the
Speaker 1: receiver catching the touchdown? Oh, that's a that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: What is it? It's one or the other? That? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have it both ways. Want is your buddy? Okay?
Speaker 1: I get that, So okay you you pump up your boy.
Speaker 1: But you can't, you know, you gotta you gotta be
Speaker 1: you gotta be on equal footing. Here. The most fun
Speaker 1: I tell you watching O t as you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you you go through the you know, the Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.
Speaker 1: But to watch the guys compete at the level that
Speaker 1: they're competing at and watch the code, just getting engaged
Speaker 1: with the guys. I think that that means something because
Speaker 1: now you're starting to build an expectation of where your
Speaker 1: team starts and where your team needs to be. And
Speaker 1: I think the coaches setting the tempo and you get
Speaker 1: it to the guys, the leaders on the team take
Speaker 1: it to another level because those are the guys that
Speaker 1: are ultimately gonna control you wins and lossuits. You can
Speaker 1: scheme as much as you want, but the guys on
Speaker 1: the field are controlling whether you win or lose a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, the majority of the time, they're gonna make
Speaker 1: the plays that determine you know, first downs, third downs,
Speaker 1: off the field on defense. So it's fun to watch
Speaker 1: guys compete at every drill, you know, and and it
Speaker 1: seems like the guys are taking control of the coaches
Speaker 1: at the tone, but then the players ultimately are responsible
Speaker 1: for keeping that level of consistency in concentration and competitiveness,
Speaker 1: and that gets it to where you need it to be.
Speaker 1: I I can't watch these O t a S and
Speaker 1: tell you are they gonna win three games, five games,
Speaker 1: six games, eight games, ten? I can't tell you that.
Speaker 1: But I and tell you just from early on watching
Speaker 1: these O t a S, I think this team is
Speaker 1: going to be more disciplined, more detail oriented, and and
Speaker 1: a team that's not gonna beat itself, you know, as
Speaker 1: much as we've seen in the past, but it takes
Speaker 1: time to grow that Bobbycain joining us. Now, Bobby, you're
Speaker 1: there every day and it's a it's a different uh
Speaker 1: you know, just just watching these O t A s
Speaker 1: and practics out there, a little different feeling coaching staff,
Speaker 1: new coaching staff. You you're getting a feel for him.
Speaker 1: What do you see is different about what they bring
Speaker 1: to the table and the expectations that they're putting on.
Speaker 1: Your guys played each and every day. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you know, we have to pay more attention to detail,
Speaker 1: have to be more discipline because that's what at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, that's what can lose ball games.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, you can take it each every
Speaker 1: day through these O tas and put the pieces together,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it's about focusing
Speaker 1: attention on detail because the little things that don't matter,
Speaker 1: that's what winning ball games. You know. It's funny, not
Speaker 1: so long ago, I remember doing shows with you sitting
Speaker 1: here and talking going, man, you know, Bobby, young guy
Speaker 1: here now now you now you're you're getting you're one
Speaker 1: of the gray hairs now a little bit you're getting
Speaker 1: on a little bit left. Young guys out there. Is
Speaker 1: it a different Um? Is it a different job for
Speaker 1: you now? Is it now that you've you've been around,
Speaker 1: you understand you're playing multiple positions, doing a lot of
Speaker 1: different things out there. Uh do you feel like you
Speaker 1: have to be someone that's helping the younger guys? It's
Speaker 1: being a mentor to these guys and maybe don't mean
Speaker 1: but but just kind of getting them acclimated, Uh, to
Speaker 1: understand what it's gonna take. Yeah, definitely, you know what
Speaker 1: young guys coming in. You know that. I remember when
Speaker 1: I was rookie coming in and I was just you
Speaker 1: know why I and I had no clue what was
Speaker 1: going on. I was just running around. But you know
Speaker 1: I asked the vest that took me under their wing
Speaker 1: and taught me some things and taught me how to
Speaker 1: be responsible and how to take care of my body. Uh,
Speaker 1: taught me the defense. So I tried to do the same.
Speaker 1: You know, there's never when I told the guys here
Speaker 1: that came in, um, all the rooks that come in. Uh,
Speaker 1: personally I told a Jamal he Uh he was like, UM,
Speaker 1: He's like, man, I need a little help. And I
Speaker 1: was like, man, don't ever be at don't ever be
Speaker 1: scared to ask anyone of us for help me t
Speaker 1: j x X, any guy's being for a minute, especially
Speaker 1: in the back end, We're gonna help you know, no
Speaker 1: matter what the no matter what it is, has it
Speaker 1: been fun kind of getting getting your hands and getting
Speaker 1: your mind around a new defense scheme, new terminology, because
Speaker 1: as veteran as you are and experience as you are
Speaker 1: on the field playing, anytime I feel like a player
Speaker 1: gets introduced to something new, it's like, Okay, I gotta
Speaker 1: pay attention now. I need to get back to to
Speaker 1: my fundamentals. I need to get back to, you know,
Speaker 1: taking bits and pieces of what I've learned in the
Speaker 1: past and apply it to this new scheme. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, you just gotta you gotta go into like
Speaker 1: you like like you You're like you're a rookie. I
Speaker 1: go in like I'm a rookie, and I work every
Speaker 1: day just as hard as I can. And uh, I
Speaker 1: try to be better each and every day because I
Speaker 1: learned something in his defense each and every day, like
Speaker 1: especially being in a new position, just knowing looking at
Speaker 1: things out of the middle field, understanding where you're going
Speaker 1: and play entries, everything like that. You know, you you
Speaker 1: gotta changes changes for good and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, that's what that's how you gotta take it.
Speaker 1: It's it been fun to kind of look around all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you see Brian Floores and your drill,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden he's gone somewhere else, And
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, five minutes later he's back and
Speaker 1: you hear another voice. He's everywhere on the practice field.
Speaker 1: It seems like to me, is that is that fun
Speaker 1: to see your head coach kind of get into every drill,
Speaker 1: special team's offense, defense. Yeah, he's very active. He's very active,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know he started off his career as
Speaker 1: especially in coach, and so he takes pride in it.
Speaker 1: And uh, we understand that if you the one thing
Speaker 1: two things that make you tough in this team they
Speaker 1: appreciate all the time is uh what you can do
Speaker 1: in the run game? Can you tackle in the run game,
Speaker 1: in the kicking game, And so just understanding that those
Speaker 1: are gonna be vital to winning. You know, they take
Speaker 1: it very seriously. We when we started the show, as
Speaker 1: you know, talking to John about just say what your
Speaker 1: you've been out of practice watching and I've watched a
Speaker 1: little bit of practice out there, and what's the difference
Speaker 1: you see? And and and we both kind of came with
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's it's competitive out there. I mean, O,
Speaker 1: T A S. And you know, it's you know, they
Speaker 1: little really even even like you know, last play offense,
Speaker 1: defense wins, whoever whoever loses has to do push ups
Speaker 1: and coaches and everybody, and it creates creates a lot
Speaker 1: of things. That creates competition, creates camaraderie, creates all a
Speaker 1: lot of things. And it's you know, I I know
Speaker 1: it's kind of a you know, people may look at
Speaker 1: and go, oh, it's it's but but it's there's value there.
Speaker 1: And you you're going one of the guys on the field,
Speaker 1: do you see value in the he's running his practice,
Speaker 1: of the assistant coaches and the way they're going out
Speaker 1: and and and harping on details. Yet for me, how
Speaker 1: I how I see it is, Uh, you don't create
Speaker 1: chemistry by just being around each other every day. You
Speaker 1: create chemistry through competition. So when you're competing against each
Speaker 1: other every day, and you know you could you want
Speaker 1: let this got down next to you, that's chemistry. When
Speaker 1: you know that this guy's got my back. Dask. Chemistry,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's about competing and winning.
Speaker 1: So we have to understand that when we have when
Speaker 1: the push ups on the line, nobody wants to get
Speaker 1: down to push ups. You know, we got we want
Speaker 1: to make the offense do push ups and vice versas.
Speaker 1: So uh that for me, that's that's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: about chemistry, And I believe it just brings a new
Speaker 1: standard of competition around here and that's what we need.
Speaker 1: How did what's your mindset going into these o t
Speaker 1: A S. I know it's a necessary evil, but with
Speaker 1: a new scheme, boy, you really gotta every day is
Speaker 1: like a clean slate for you guys. And I hear
Speaker 1: I hear that the team preaching that, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: you did on Monday, erase it because you gotta go
Speaker 1: prove it every day. Is that is that kind of close? Yeah?
Speaker 1: For sure? For sure. Whatever it is, you know at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, like how I see it
Speaker 1: is okay, you may mistake yes day, trying to make
Speaker 1: the same mistakes again. And you made a good play yesterday,
Speaker 1: try to repeat it, try to make a better play
Speaker 1: the next day. And that's what's gonna keep you here,
Speaker 1: and that's what's gonna keep you around at the end
Speaker 1: of the day because just me being here, I've seen
Speaker 1: I've seen this, this entire locker room change is my
Speaker 1: first day coming in here, you know what they say.
Speaker 1: So there may be there may be two guys that's
Speaker 1: still here from my rookie year that I that I
Speaker 1: that I can remember, such as Walk and Mike Hole.
Speaker 1: You know, so I can't really name too many more vantee,
Speaker 1: so um, you know there's only about four or five
Speaker 1: more guys I'm missing, and uh, so, hey, you gotta
Speaker 1: just make sure you prove it each and every day
Speaker 1: because those seats aren't aren't given. You know, they're they're
Speaker 1: taking you right exactly exactly. You may run it for
Speaker 1: a long time time, six months, you never know. Hey,
Speaker 1: did you uh did you? Did you watch the draft
Speaker 1: at a little bit so you saw Christian Wilkins. So
Speaker 1: he comes up and you know everyone's talked about him
Speaker 1: with Roger Goodell now and now he's in your locker room.
Speaker 1: Do you see some of that personality uh coming out
Speaker 1: in him? Yeah, you can definitely see it. Uh, he
Speaker 1: especially shows it sometimes, especially throughout the d line when
Speaker 1: you hear him talking, and uh, you know, you can
Speaker 1: see he's you can see he's a really good football player.
Speaker 1: And we take a good football player and Grey has
Speaker 1: a he does a good job of that all the time.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, just showing his athleticism from Clemson,
Speaker 1: like you can see, he's very he's very athletic. He
Speaker 1: can move around, he can play different spots on the um,
Speaker 1: he can play d and he can play the tackle.
Speaker 1: No matter where you put him, he's gonna be he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good player. And you look at him
Speaker 1: with that group especially, I mean he can play outside
Speaker 1: and play inside. But you look at him with Gotschaw
Speaker 1: and and and Vincent Taylor and those guys in there.
Speaker 1: Uh look, it looks like and those two guys just
Speaker 1: keep getting better every year. So it looks like, you know,
Speaker 1: in an area that may have been going into the draft,
Speaker 1: kind of an area where you want a little need
Speaker 1: a little help, and it certainly seems like a guy
Speaker 1: that can really help help out in that a team.
Speaker 1: Spence still around, he steps in and play as well,
Speaker 1: so you know you've got a tackle position with him
Speaker 1: in there. It looks like it's showing up pretty well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, we got we had a good guys.
Speaker 1: We got a good group up front and uh, you
Speaker 1: know coming along each every day. Like you said, got
Speaker 1: Child VT. Spence Wilkins. They're all getting better each and
Speaker 1: every day. Charles Harris. We've got guys that have you know,
Speaker 1: been around for a couple of years, and you know,
Speaker 1: just gonna just gotta keep putting it together and keep
Speaker 1: and keep stacking, and keep keep working and keep grinding.
Speaker 1: Are your dogs doing? You got one dog? You got
Speaker 1: one dog. He's done, he's doing. He's doing good. He's
Speaker 1: doing Look on you, I see your Instagram or see
Speaker 1: your dogs doing good. He's doing good. Little dog. What
Speaker 1: do you do? He's a Yorkie. I got a Yorkie too,
Speaker 1: So don't worry. I'm right now. I'm right. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: not here, savage, don't get it twisted. Ye Archie's three
Speaker 1: pounds and he thinks he's like you have you have
Speaker 1: a daughter too? No no, no, no no kids, no kids,
Speaker 1: I repeat, no kids. You knows wrong, you know, just
Speaker 1: we're just trying to throw something up there, you know,
Speaker 1: And but what is it about? It's funny because I've
Speaker 1: talked to you, I've talked to uh KD about it.
Speaker 1: He's got dogs, a lot, a lot, a lot of
Speaker 1: small dogs on this team. Yeah, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of Katie's got a small dog. I know actually got
Speaker 1: a little small dog as well. He keeps hiding, but
Speaker 1: he I know, I know that. But now you know
Speaker 1: that at the end of the days. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's he's a family member at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So we go through O, T, A S and uh
Speaker 1: you know, the team talking about the team building together,
Speaker 1: getting together. How have you seen this this young group
Speaker 1: with with you know, some exceptions on the football team.
Speaker 1: Have you seen you guys kind of grow together with
Speaker 1: this new coaching staff. Do you do you feel like
Speaker 1: that the communication is where it needs to be. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like the tempo and the pace and the
Speaker 1: concentration to detail is there and it's building each and
Speaker 1: every practice, And be honest with it's not where we
Speaker 1: need to be yet to be to be a championship
Speaker 1: football team that we want to be, but you can
Speaker 1: tell it's it's getting better each and every day. And um,
Speaker 1: you know it's like you say, it's ot a number
Speaker 1: four believe numbers. So at the end of the days,
Speaker 1: she's gonna keep building and keep working because but you
Speaker 1: can tell communication, chemistry, everything that works together is getting
Speaker 1: there and it's getting better better each and every day.
Speaker 1: You're going one of your coach, Tony Odin, one of
Speaker 1: the two guys held over from the last regime. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I like Tony. I watched what he did last
Speaker 1: year and like, how do you how do you feel
Speaker 1: about having him back? Given some continuity in your room?
Speaker 1: And I feel good. You know, was a great coach.
Speaker 1: He's a great coach. And uh, it was actually funny
Speaker 1: because coming out for the come behind, he uh he's
Speaker 1: with the Lions when I was coming out to combine
Speaker 1: and ever since I've had him until last year, I
Speaker 1: had him saved this Tony Old and Detroit Lions just
Speaker 1: when I keep calling for the from the line. So
Speaker 1: that was just a funny story for him. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just bringing just just having a familiar face around,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's nice, but um, you know, we
Speaker 1: all got we all got a job to do. He's
Speaker 1: got a job to do and we all got everybody
Speaker 1: here has got something to prove, So you know, and
Speaker 1: that's players, coaches, that's everybody, and he's done a great
Speaker 1: job so far. Some offenser coaches, I'm still try to
Speaker 1: get that. It's pretty that's pretty scare hold. That's how
Speaker 1: is that have a staff change of that magnitude. I
Speaker 1: mean we're we're basically like I said, yeah, the only
Speaker 1: guys that did have stayed behind something. But I mean,
Speaker 1: this is my this will be my that's my fifth year.
Speaker 1: This would be my fourth head coach and my third staff.
Speaker 1: So you know, um, it's happened to me once before
Speaker 1: a couple of times before, and it just it just
Speaker 1: you just gotta keep like I said, you gotta go
Speaker 1: into like your rookie man, like just have you have
Speaker 1: you have your pen, pen and paper ready and understand
Speaker 1: that Asian, every year, each and every day, you've got
Speaker 1: something to prove. So you know, with the new coaching staff,
Speaker 1: you know, I look at it as an opportunity and
Speaker 1: that's that's all you can do. That's all it can be.
Speaker 1: So are you a golfer or a fisherman when it
Speaker 1: comes when it comes to you know, I'm a caddy
Speaker 1: and now I got to top golf and I can
Speaker 1: drive the ball a little bit. My put game, my
Speaker 1: pluck game is not very good. So but I'm not
Speaker 1: your desonated driver. I'm a desgnated drive. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: on that. I'm getting on the course a little bit
Speaker 1: this year. That big oh yeah, five ft wide hole
Speaker 1: like the top golf that when you gotta put it though,
Speaker 1: it's a little tough. You gotta have everything right now,
Speaker 1: you with anybody on the team when you ride around
Speaker 1: or do you just so, how's X's game? He's terrible. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's really bad. But he'll tell you. He'll tell you
Speaker 1: he's good, though I ask him. So you don't fish,
Speaker 1: you don't fish. I can't fish, but i'd rather not fish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're going deep sea fishing. You're out you want to
Speaker 1: you want to catch a bass or something. I'm your guy.
Speaker 1: You put me out there with my guess told me
Speaker 1: at an early age you either have to you have
Speaker 1: to pick one. If you're a golfer, you're a golfer.
Speaker 1: If you're a fisherman, you're a fisherman. But you can't
Speaker 1: do you know that happened to me. I bought a
Speaker 1: boat when I was playing, and uh, I got it
Speaker 1: all set up for fishing, had it for about six
Speaker 1: months fish and then started playing golf. That boat you
Speaker 1: sat and sat, so no more. Hey, we're talking about
Speaker 1: Finn's weekend June one. Uh So it's always a big weekend,
Speaker 1: you know, if alumni comes back. A lot of current
Speaker 1: players are are involved in it, whether it's fishing, whether
Speaker 1: it's playing golf off. Uh And it's really a chance
Speaker 1: to kind of mingle and mix with the with the
Speaker 1: community a little bit. And I know it's something that
Speaker 1: it just continues to get bigger and bigger and bigger
Speaker 1: down here. Um, you enjoy doing that. You enjoy meeting
Speaker 1: different people and getting a chance to be with the
Speaker 1: fans a little more, a little more closer environment than
Speaker 1: in a casual environment. That's it's pretty fun. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: it's uh. You know, you can go down, you can
Speaker 1: have a drink if you like, you know, or just
Speaker 1: meeting around, meeting around with some important people. Man, it's
Speaker 1: good to make relationships and just understand that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's bigger than football, and it's bigger than you. So
Speaker 1: I understand that you you have to make those relationships
Speaker 1: to kas football don't last forever. Well, you know what
Speaker 1: It's funny because I've talked to guys said, you know
Speaker 1: what it's you know, I retired when I was thirty
Speaker 1: one years old. I played ten years and I was
Speaker 1: thirty one years old. I'm sixty four now, you know
Speaker 1: that that's a long time. That's that's you know, thirty
Speaker 1: two thirty three years. Then you gotta fill in after that.
Speaker 1: So you're you're absolutely right. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: football and certainly when you're in that game, you're the
Speaker 1: center of the universe. It's all swirling around you. Then
Speaker 1: you step out in all of sun your whoa, you
Speaker 1: gotta find and you gotta it's a long Save your money,
Speaker 1: my man, Save your money because you know you're along.
Speaker 1: You've got a long way to go afterwards, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's uh, it's it's like we always does
Speaker 1: a great job. And I still go to some of
Speaker 1: those means, especially the finance means and you know, the
Speaker 1: budget meetings, just to see like because you always need help.
Speaker 1: You you never know enough, you know, just like football,
Speaker 1: you never know it all and um, you know, so
Speaker 1: anything that helps, and like I know football, then last fever,
Speaker 1: I want to play seven eight more years. But you know,
Speaker 1: lord willing and um, but after that, you know I
Speaker 1: want to us I want to live another sixty or
Speaker 1: seventy years after that. So, UM, I understand that. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta save your money, you gotta budget your money,
Speaker 1: and and just be responsible for yourself. Hey, Uh, you're
Speaker 1: like you said, you're far four or five years into
Speaker 1: your career. Um, you don't like the way things been
Speaker 1: going for you. I mean it's so far. I know
Speaker 1: you got, like you said, another five, six, seven years
Speaker 1: left in you, a lot of things look forward to.
Speaker 1: But uh, did you ever think you'd be sitting here
Speaker 1: right now in this circumstance and being where you are
Speaker 1: with with a number of years going. I'm be honest
Speaker 1: with you. I don't want to sound boastool when I
Speaker 1: say this, but yeah, yeah, for sure, because I know,
Speaker 1: I know I put the work in, and I know
Speaker 1: I knew from day one. Um, when I stepped on campus,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, if I just do what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do, do as you told and make
Speaker 1: the plays when they come to you, you know you'll
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. And that's that's what That's what my
Speaker 1: my first coach told me. And it's stuck with me,
Speaker 1: luing a remo. It's stuck with me since uh, since
Speaker 1: the day defensive coordinator and since good hey, Bobby, take
Speaker 1: a look at yourself and like both said, you know,
Speaker 1: four or five years into it, I view you last
Speaker 1: year watching your play. You're one of the leaders on
Speaker 1: this football team. Now you can be a vocal leader.
Speaker 1: You can lead by example. I don't care how you
Speaker 1: do it. But when I look at you, I feel
Speaker 1: your leader because one you make plays, you communicate, and
Speaker 1: your accountable. Do you feel that way when you look
Speaker 1: at yourself? Like every day I gotta go out and
Speaker 1: I want to be myself because if I'm myself, I'm
Speaker 1: one of the leaders of this football team. I just
Speaker 1: I focus on being me. You know, you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't stop me from being me. And U if that's
Speaker 1: being a vocal leader, if that's leading through play, if
Speaker 1: that's no matter what it is, just being yourself is
Speaker 1: what that That'll last you a long way and being
Speaker 1: and after the end of day. My mom and my
Speaker 1: dad taught me a long time ago, just being respectful
Speaker 1: to people, you know, because people people see that. You know, um,
Speaker 1: when you're talking to elders, Yes, sir, No certain, yes, ma'am. No, ma'am.
Speaker 1: You know that's it's always taken me a long way.
Speaker 1: And um understanding that, you know, I gotta responsibility, be
Speaker 1: accountable to myself and my family. And there's other young
Speaker 1: guys looking up to me like, oh man, he's he's here,
Speaker 1: So how do I get there? And I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just here to lead the way. It's a football season,
Speaker 1: a long grind, you know. When you get to the
Speaker 1: end of that season and season ends one way or another,
Speaker 1: whichever way it ends, Uh, and you do a little
Speaker 1: way time. What what did you do for yourself to
Speaker 1: kind of get away a little bit, refresh your mind
Speaker 1: and get yourself ready to come back and and get
Speaker 1: to work. Did you travel a little bit or travel
Speaker 1: a little bit? I travel a little bit. I travel
Speaker 1: with some friends too. You know. One of my closest
Speaker 1: friends still to this day is that Tony Lippett. And um,
Speaker 1: he's still my guy. He never never, that's always gonna
Speaker 1: be my dog. And UM, you know, I just I
Speaker 1: live in I'm sorry, I mean in Uh. I live
Speaker 1: in Miami, Florida, so you know there there's always sunshine
Speaker 1: and uh, I try to stay out of Miami. But
Speaker 1: I live in for a lot of else so you know,
Speaker 1: it's not too bad. You can go out and go
Speaker 1: to the beach if you like, or go you know,
Speaker 1: it's just you live here. So I live in a
Speaker 1: place where your vacations. Yeah, and and it's big. My
Speaker 1: mom's gonna hate me for this, but uh, Fortnite will
Speaker 1: keep you out of trouble. Man. Really well, that's true.
Speaker 1: So you haven't done any traveling you even know Europe? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you haven't done any at all, not yet, not yet.
Speaker 1: Just been around, just been around the country and uh,
Speaker 1: just you know, around just such as Texas, l A.
Speaker 1: Just you know, minor, minor things. But I plan on going.
Speaker 1: I plan on I want to go to Spain. I
Speaker 1: want to go to Spain when we get a little
Speaker 1: time off. Um. But I'm gonna make sure I'm running
Speaker 1: each and every day because if you're not, you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna make it when you get back. Get up to
Speaker 1: you especially he and flow again, I were talking about
Speaker 1: a little bit like like a kid like Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in northern California. He's a
Speaker 1: California guy, and I had never been. I've never been
Speaker 1: east of Nevada. When I came down here and that humidity,
Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa. I mean, it took me two years
Speaker 1: to get used to it. And we're talking to a
Speaker 1: couple of gold balls will come out of his hands,
Speaker 1: and you wonder about him getting used to You see
Speaker 1: guys coming in from the especially from the West coast
Speaker 1: where there's no humidity, coming here and have to deal
Speaker 1: with with the humidity and getting through it. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: definitely different. It's definitely different. And uh it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the guys out there saying now that uh oh
Speaker 1: we um man, it's so hot out here, and I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at him like, yeah, it's not here. You ye,
Speaker 1: you don't understand it's coming, and it's it's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna be bad, but you'll get used to it and
Speaker 1: you have to either adapt this. It's the thing in
Speaker 1: our defensive room, and said the adapter, die, so do
Speaker 1: one or the other, Bobby. We certainly appreciate you stop.
Speaker 1: Always great to have you on the on the show
Speaker 1: and wish you the best luck, stay healthy and uh
Speaker 1: let's just see you keep growing. And uh, I can
Speaker 1: seeing the pro Bowl on these days would be nice too.
Speaker 1: Nice to see your your number flashing round out there.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Appreciate it, buddy, appreciate it. Vivian McCain.
Speaker 1: Good to watch. I gotta watch. And uh, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you talk about the guys. Just worked and got himself
Speaker 1: to where he needed to be. And and like you said,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I mean you look at guys
Speaker 1: and you were pointing guys, whether it's the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football or defensive side of football, and you go, hey,
Speaker 1: who are the leaders and this football team? And he's
Speaker 1: and he's one of those guys that you know. And
Speaker 1: he came in, he came in as a special teams guy.
Speaker 1: You got his snaps here and there, and every time
Speaker 1: you get a snapper, so he'd make something happen. And
Speaker 1: so that's how you more and more and then and
Speaker 1: then you put him down to me, he's I don't know,
Speaker 1: he may not be a starter, but I consider him, yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt. You look around, you go, wow, who can
Speaker 1: play multiple positions? Who can be accountable? Who's not going
Speaker 1: to make that mental mistake? And uh, and who's the
Speaker 1: guy that has seen a lot of football's I had
Speaker 1: a conversation yesterday. I was out in the field and uh,
Speaker 1: I asked about Mike Gasecki. You know, because because I
Speaker 1: was watching Mike last year and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: he needs to get in the weight room, he needs
Speaker 1: to be in every aspect. It was gonna get a
Speaker 1: little stronger there. And so I asked about him there
Speaker 1: and they're pretty happy with where he's right now. He's
Speaker 1: gained some gain some weight, gas and gain a lot
Speaker 1: of weight, but he's gained. He looks, he looks game
Speaker 1: masks against gain some muscle. We're talking a little bit
Speaker 1: and he says, you know what, And I think this
Speaker 1: coaching staff believes in in his place. It's let's put
Speaker 1: let's do what he does best. Let's let's get him
Speaker 1: in movement, let's get him in crossing routes. Let's do this,
Speaker 1: and then let's not him. Let's not trying to force
Speaker 1: him to do it. And I said, what about blocking, Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, we've got guys. We've got guys can block.
Speaker 1: Let's let's and I think this, I think that is
Speaker 1: I think that's part of that m O that you're
Speaker 1: getting from the guys that have come down from from
Speaker 1: up North is the way they've used the tight end.
Speaker 1: And I think I think the way that they've seen
Speaker 1: the tight end used up in New England is going
Speaker 1: to allow a lot of different options now, whether it's
Speaker 1: whether it's Gooseki, whether it's smythe whether it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got it. And I'll tell you what, what's the name?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Every time I look at that guy,
Speaker 1: he's doing something good, you know. I mean, I'm watching
Speaker 1: that maybe the best tide and they've got out there
Speaker 1: and he and he was he was waiting for a
Speaker 1: job last year early in the season, a pick up
Speaker 1: and and what a job that that that kid has done.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a you talk about hard work, effort guys,
Speaker 1: he's a guy does everything well. So I like, I
Speaker 1: like our tight end competition, like we you know, Bobby
Speaker 1: talked about competition, especially on the defensive side, and being
Speaker 1: more you can do. You know, that tight end room.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see how it how it
Speaker 1: shapes out and how the plays are allotted two week
Speaker 1: to week. You know what coach o'sha the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: and his play calling and being able to be flexible
Speaker 1: at that position, because as you alluded to, New England
Speaker 1: did a lot of different things with Cronk, but Alan
Speaker 1: only caught maybe two or three balls. But he's a
Speaker 1: guy that consistently was knocking people off the lane scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And that's why New England was so balanced. They were
Speaker 1: able to run the football effectively with multiple backs, you know,
Speaker 1: sharing the wealth and being able to get guys flexed
Speaker 1: out and being able to get two different four nations
Speaker 1: and put pressure on defense. And the other conversation that
Speaker 1: seems to be out there a lot is run defense,
Speaker 1: run defense and tackling, you know, the two things that
Speaker 1: you know you you if you you know you look
Speaker 1: at the It doesn't take a genius to look at
Speaker 1: the numbers on from this football team over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years, giving up well over a hundred thirty
Speaker 1: yards of game. Whatever those numbers are there there, they're
Speaker 1: gaudy numbers that you don't really want attached to you.
Speaker 1: That's got to change, and and and and even at
Speaker 1: this point early on, as early as this is, you
Speaker 1: know there, that's become an emphasis for this football team.
Speaker 1: I'm watching, you know, I watched the drills, you know,
Speaker 1: just the different drills. You know, I'm watching the tackling
Speaker 1: drill where they're not tackling, but it's about getting in position.
Speaker 1: You know, if guys, if they if the sidelines of
Speaker 1: the outside, you play, you know, take from inside out,
Speaker 1: work from inside out, use that right the right angle.
Speaker 1: But they got guys, you know, dropping to the ground,
Speaker 1: having to get up off the ground. Then go and
Speaker 1: make a play, which is more real, is much more
Speaker 1: realistic then if you stand on your feet and running
Speaker 1: up and a guy jumps up and you and you
Speaker 1: put a bear hug and look, you can't not you know,
Speaker 1: in this day and age, you're not gonna have live
Speaker 1: tackling drills out there. But I like the fact that
Speaker 1: they're getting them as closer close to what you're gonna
Speaker 1: close to live action is possible without actually laying the
Speaker 1: wood on on anybody out there. So so in different drills,
Speaker 1: you say, I just I don't know, I just I
Speaker 1: just like the way the coaching staff and kind of
Speaker 1: getting back to where we started. We just like the
Speaker 1: way the coaching staff is coaching these guys up. Um.
Speaker 1: There's no detail that's too small out on the field
Speaker 1: for O t S. And they're putting in an importance
Speaker 1: on that. And I think it starts with you know,
Speaker 1: all ninety guys, even the quarterbacks are throwing the football
Speaker 1: and they're involved in those drills that are those those
Speaker 1: simulated tackling drills. You know, the blocking dummies to get
Speaker 1: through when you catch the football from the quarterback to
Speaker 1: get through. You know, those receivers and tight ends and
Speaker 1: and running backs are getting hit and then the defender,
Speaker 1: as you said, it's on the ground, he's up, he's
Speaker 1: at I having to identify which way the runners going
Speaker 1: and then kind of tag him, you know, tag him
Speaker 1: around the waist and make sure you're in right position
Speaker 1: and all the little things that you do as a
Speaker 1: football team. These guys are ingraining every day and it's
Speaker 1: it's like no stone is unturned to be able to
Speaker 1: we'll do it again. You know if if if a
Speaker 1: guy start start to drool over, your jog over, start
Speaker 1: to drool over. We want to hustle everywhere we go.
Speaker 1: And I think that comes from the top down, and
Speaker 1: I think every coach has that mentality. It's just not
Speaker 1: you know, coach flows, it's every coach that metal. There's
Speaker 1: been a couple of times I've seen assistant coaches run
Speaker 1: that over. Usually that's the quarter of the head coaches
Speaker 1: job to you know. But you know when you got
Speaker 1: an assistant coach that that, and he may not be that,
Speaker 1: he may not be that head position coach. Maybe the
Speaker 1: guy down, Hey, run it again. This, we talked about this,
Speaker 1: let's do and and that that and and and allowing
Speaker 1: your coaches to coach and do those types of things
Speaker 1: is just rather than you know, we run that over again,
Speaker 1: we're gonna miss out into well, you know what, Well then,
Speaker 1: so so let's run eight extra shitty plays instead of
Speaker 1: getting these two plays right. No, that that and get
Speaker 1: it done. You know, I mean, you get better because
Speaker 1: not only the guys that screwed up are doing it
Speaker 1: over again, but the guys that are watching are are
Speaker 1: getting a good taste. And man, I hope that's not me.
Speaker 1: I better not be me. Next. Well, one of the
Speaker 1: guys we haven't talked about much this offseason um is Davante.
Speaker 1: And look, you know it's no surprise to anybody. Davante
Speaker 1: kind of you know, kind of hanging by a thread there.
Speaker 1: They decided to extend him out and and and have
Speaker 1: him back for this year and and and this is
Speaker 1: a boy if if if he doesn't realize that this
Speaker 1: is a critical year for him. And I'm certainly certainly
Speaker 1: sure that he does UM. Every practice out here for
Speaker 1: him with this new staff is extremely extremely important. And
Speaker 1: I know Carl Durrell, the receiver's coach, he was here
Speaker 1: before I got to know him a little bit, and
Speaker 1: I think Carl maybe a guy that really really is
Speaker 1: a good fit UM for DeVante. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: smart guy, good guy, He's got a good way about him.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see what DeVante Parker is
Speaker 1: going to do this year. I like, I like the
Speaker 1: way DeVante's responded so far in O t A's just
Speaker 1: watching him play number one. When you look at his
Speaker 1: brief history with the Miami Dolphins, it's health. He's got
Speaker 1: to be available, he's got to be on the field
Speaker 1: producing at at a more consistent level. And and look,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to compete and he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: produce uh when he's not. And I think that's been
Speaker 1: probably the biggest knock on him is you know, you
Speaker 1: remember a couple of years ago, he's having a really
Speaker 1: game and he had that one ball where landed right
Speaker 1: on his back. And then and then from the rest
Speaker 1: of the year was you know, hit or miss what
Speaker 1: you're gonna give a week to week and and the
Speaker 1: same thing. And you know, he's he's had nagging injuries
Speaker 1: that have really affected his ability to play sometimes even
Speaker 1: ability to suit up out to be available to be
Speaker 1: one of those and and he you know, he's got
Speaker 1: to find a way to be more healthy. He's got
Speaker 1: to take care of himself more. And he talked about
Speaker 1: that last year. I got to continue to do that.
Speaker 1: But you know, at some point he's gonna say, you
Speaker 1: know what I just come from. I just gotta push
Speaker 1: through it. I don't care. I don't care if my
Speaker 1: ankles swollen. I don't care if this is that you know,
Speaker 1: if it's if it's a pulled hamps. You know, certain
Speaker 1: things like that. But you know, some things you can't
Speaker 1: play with or something things you can't pay. Stuff that
Speaker 1: that has gotten Davante and I like how he's responded
Speaker 1: so far. But I've said that before of Davante Parker.
Speaker 1: We've seen you've seen him camp, you know, every every
Speaker 1: year at this time Mini camps and then the season starts.
Speaker 1: I think this has got to be I mean this,
Speaker 1: this has gotta be his. Look, this guy could this
Speaker 1: guy could easily be a Pro Bowl player this year,
Speaker 1: or it could be a guy that's out in the
Speaker 1: street next year looking for a job. No, it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's black or white, and we need to
Speaker 1: see more of the good, you know, more of the availability,
Speaker 1: the more productive guy on the field, because with his
Speaker 1: size and his speed, boy, he sure is a threat.
Speaker 1: You know, he puts pressure on the defense when he's
Speaker 1: at his best, and he needs to be at his
Speaker 1: best this year. So good stuff so far. I mean
Speaker 1: we're you know, one more, two more, got a couple
Speaker 1: more weeks and then the mandatory is June four to six,
Speaker 1: I believe, and then they're gone after June and then
Speaker 1: they're and then they're off until I think around the
Speaker 1: twenty six of July something like that of July. And
Speaker 1: that's uh, it's a long time to be off. So
Speaker 1: that's why Bobby was saying, you know, I might, i
Speaker 1: might travel a little bit, you know during this downtime,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm gonna be running every day. That's how
Speaker 1: you know that that time of years has got to
Speaker 1: be for NFL. Cross your fingers. Coaches, it's just don't
Speaker 1: I don't even want to. I don't want our name.
Speaker 1: And they wake up and read a paper or put
Speaker 1: on Sports Center or do whatever. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see an update on my phone coming through that I'm watching.
Speaker 1: I'm looking to paper. And this guy Cespitus is playing
Speaker 1: for the Mets. Okay, you know he's out, he's had
Speaker 1: to say, heal problems. He's out, he's on the injury
Speaker 1: so he's his ranch where and he breaks his ankle
Speaker 1: and you're you really, you know, you kind of wonder
Speaker 1: what some of these guys baseball guys. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm not so sure. I don't get I
Speaker 1: don't get to you know what. It's just funny because
Speaker 1: he's on the d L and her, Well, if you
Speaker 1: could do sh it in your rants, get out here
Speaker 1: and play BA go sitting the dugget. You know, the
Speaker 1: guys making sillions of dollars and stuff. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. But tell but that period
Speaker 1: that that that five weeks or whatever, boy, that's a
Speaker 1: and you see it every year. You see something every
Speaker 1: yearly with a young team you know, I think that's
Speaker 1: what you're and that's why I think the coaching staffs
Speaker 1: coaching the guys the way they are. I mean, every
Speaker 1: little detail, it's on you, it's on you. You know,
Speaker 1: clean slate, let's go new day. You know, you haven't
Speaker 1: proved anything yet today. So I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, reinforced all the way through the mandatory camp
Speaker 1: and then like you said, you hope that you come
Speaker 1: back in July with a full roster that you've coached
Speaker 1: up and you've done a good job with and and
Speaker 1: you're ready to go for the preseason because this is
Speaker 1: a young team that needs that needs every practice they
Speaker 1: can get on the field, every every bit of coaching
Speaker 1: to get them ready to be competitive in two thousand
Speaker 1: and nineteen. So I got another couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: then they go and um, but but they're important weeks again,
Speaker 1: and we keep, you know, we keep kind of emphasizing it.
Speaker 1: But that's where we're at. And um, you know, if
Speaker 1: it's trying to watch a team trying to look at
Speaker 1: new foot faces, a lot of guys gone big change
Speaker 1: at quarterback, you know that that's a huge change that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you just kind of every day you sit
Speaker 1: there and you're looking to evaluate and I don't know
Speaker 1: who's you know, who's moving up, who's moving down. But well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's fun watching the quarterbacks. It's it's pretty
Speaker 1: even reps. You know, Ryan Fitzpatrick's getting a lot of
Speaker 1: the reps, Josh Rosen is getting a lot of the reps,
Speaker 1: and Jake Rudock's getting some good reps. He's been impressive
Speaker 1: over the last couple of days. So that's a good rotation.
Speaker 1: It's a good smart room of quarterbacks that have live arms, uh,
Speaker 1: that that have that have been productive. You know, they've
Speaker 1: they've been productive throughout these O T A s And
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch, uh, these guys progress and and
Speaker 1: those guys be competitive because that's one that everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: zero in no doubt. Does Josh Rosen need to play?
Speaker 1: You know, is Fitzpatrick better coming off the bench? Is
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick gonna play? Do we waste a year with Rose
Speaker 1: and we need to find out what he is? You know,
Speaker 1: all those questions will be answered when we see who's
Speaker 1: ultimately named a starter and who's lining up at home
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium against Baltimo and these practices for
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen are extremely important because you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: learning a new one. He's about a month behind. He's
Speaker 1: a month behind Fitzpatrick. He's a month behind Jake Jake,
Speaker 1: you know, because those guys have they've seen that, they've
Speaker 1: seen it, they know what they they they've been they
Speaker 1: got the terminology, they got the playbook. You know, he's
Speaker 1: new to the game, and so he's playing a little catchup.
Speaker 1: And is this goes is this goes on? I think
Speaker 1: the the evaluation, uh will will become um more competitive certainly,
Speaker 1: and a little easier to see who's gonna rise to
Speaker 1: the top in this deal. And he's got four teen
Speaker 1: games of experience. But now you couple that with a
Speaker 1: new environment, new team, new teammates, new scheme, and a
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder and a bruised ego. About that,
Speaker 1: I mean, your tenth overall last year and you get
Speaker 1: shipped away. I mean, he's not complaining because the Cardinals
Speaker 1: paid him handsomely for those four teams. But but but competitively,
Speaker 1: as an athlete, you want to be the guy. You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I've talked to people about this before
Speaker 1: and I don't think they don't think they understand it.
Speaker 1: They all talk about the money, the money, the money.
Speaker 1: But it look look they're great. I mean there there's
Speaker 1: plenty of money out there for these guys. But when
Speaker 1: push comes to shove, when you step out on the
Speaker 1: field and say, am I better than that guy or
Speaker 1: that guy better than and all the money in the
Speaker 1: world isn't gonna doesn't make it difference. It didn't make
Speaker 1: you feel any better, doesn't make you feel more confident.
Speaker 1: And you know that they, hey, this is my job
Speaker 1: right now, because as soon as you think that, you
Speaker 1: see this guy throws a pass it like us may
Speaker 1: not be my job. Yeah, And it happens every day.
Speaker 1: You know, these guys are so many reps and so
Speaker 1: many uh you know, individual drills and little things that
Speaker 1: you have to be. You know, you have to be
Speaker 1: bang on, you have to be a hundred percent. And
Speaker 1: when you make a bad reading the balls going the
Speaker 1: other way and you're chasing, you know, it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: very good because you know you're gonna see it in
Speaker 1: an hour. You know it was a bad read, it
Speaker 1: was a bad throw, poor location, it was late. You know,
Speaker 1: all those things come into factor in why you were
Speaker 1: you know, a negative on that play. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting as we continue going on. I
Speaker 1: want to remind you guys, June one, Finn's Weekend all
Speaker 1: down in Miami. I think the fishing is that Miami Marina,
Speaker 1: the Miami Beach Marina down there where they're going out
Speaker 1: and they do a big way and I know Joe's
Speaker 1: usually Joe Rose is usually the appearance he doesn't make.
Speaker 1: You don't go out in he doesn't go out in
Speaker 1: the water. He does he mcs the the way in
Speaker 1: so he bust people's balls for small fish and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. He does that. And then and then they
Speaker 1: got the I don't where the golf turning. Where the
Speaker 1: golf maybe Miami Beach. I think it is golf course.
Speaker 1: It was a nice venue out there last year. So
Speaker 1: and then people are welcome to come out and do
Speaker 1: this stuff. There's a there's a a gala event one night.
Speaker 1: I believe that you probably go to the Dolphin's webs
Speaker 1: website and look up Finn's Weekend and and see if
Speaker 1: you want to participate in black And we're talking to Bobby,
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, to me, this is a
Speaker 1: nice time because you know, it's it's it's just going
Speaker 1: into their vacation time. Those that those weeks off that
Speaker 1: they have, you know, they've gone through the otis, they've
Speaker 1: gone through manicamps and there, and they're they're feeling a
Speaker 1: little you know, time to relax a little bit. And
Speaker 1: and if you're a fan, you get a chance to
Speaker 1: rub shoulders where you you know, I think you get
Speaker 1: a good you know, it's a it's a good time.
Speaker 1: Like you Bobby said, have a drink or two, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fun. They're not just talking to people and relaxed atmosphere.
Speaker 1: You know, the Miami Dolphin Foundation they raised a lot
Speaker 1: of money. It's a good environment. If you're a Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin fan. You want to be around the players. You
Speaker 1: want you like fishing and you like golf, or you
Speaker 1: just want to come out to the party. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty cool atmosphere. I talking about the party.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you can sign up and play golf with
Speaker 1: with whoever. And then like I think last year I
Speaker 1: was out there, it seems like everybody was out in
Speaker 1: the golf course. Greasey was out there, Danny was out there.
Speaker 1: She's just about every everybody was out trying to sneak
Speaker 1: in with the scouts, you know, if they're if they're
Speaker 1: short of a guy kind of, I'm like a last
Speaker 1: minute draft. I don't see who goes out in those boats. No,
Speaker 1: I because I don't go out on the boat. But
Speaker 1: but I've been told and I've seen because our production
Speaker 1: crew covers it so well. You know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun, A lot of fun, A lot of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll watch it on the video because that's what I
Speaker 1: get my takes from. Yah something, Hey, we got a
Speaker 1: boat for it? How big is itt? No, I don't
Speaker 1: thank you, but we will partake if you catch something
Speaker 1: nice that I don't want to know anything about it.
Speaker 1: The only fish I want to see is on my
Speaker 1: plate with with some oregan atto, a little little you know,
Speaker 1: stef or trade to you know, go out on one
Speaker 1: of those boats, prepare something for us. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: don't don't be catching on of those mud fish in
Speaker 1: these canals and trying to pass it our way. I
Speaker 1: guess the nice group or something, yea dolphins. Stuff is
Speaker 1: all right? Johns so hey, look by the way, reminder
Speaker 1: June one, Fins weekend, go to Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: Check it out if you want to part just face.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's still space for anybody wants to be
Speaker 1: part of that. And it's a great, great weekend and
Speaker 1: and a lot of fun for players and everyone everyone
Speaker 1: involved and everyone everyone, you know what I know that
Speaker 1: week everyone seems to be smiling and happy. So so
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good deal to do. Hi. John
Speaker 1: will be back again next week. We'll find out, we'll
Speaker 1: have a skill update. We'll keep up on the Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen deal, where he's at. We'll go and keep a
Speaker 1: looking on all the different position guys out there and
Speaker 1: who seems to be making headway and uh and again
Speaker 1: kind of keep watching the the personnelity, the personality that
Speaker 1: this UH coaching staff is is beginning to influence on
Speaker 1: this football team. I think that's gonna be something interesting
Speaker 1: to watch really really throughout the course of the season
Speaker 1: this year. I can't wait. You know, they keep seeing
Speaker 1: this team grow and get better at their craft because uh,
Speaker 1: it's hard to listen and read when you hear the
Speaker 1: local or national media you know kind of downplay where
Speaker 1: they think the Miami Dolphins might be. You can't tell
Speaker 1: these guys any different, and they're the only guys that
Speaker 1: can change it. So it's fun to watch them work
Speaker 1: as hard as they're working, no doubt about it. For
Speaker 1: John con Jammy, I'm Kimbo Camper. That's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for the audible this week. We'll catch you next week,
Speaker 1: so tune in. In fact, you can hear us in
Speaker 1: there you go, Miami, Dolfice dot Com, all those places,
Speaker 1: podcast Ville wherever. I don't know where, the Hellcatville podcast.
Speaker 1: I might come up with that one myself. Can I
Speaker 1: trademark that right now? Podcast Ville? Jeff said it. It's Griffith,
Speaker 1: you know it leads away. Here are fearless leader here
Speaker 1: in the uh in the room anyway, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it first this week. We'll catch you next week. Stay
Speaker 1: safe and have a good one. And Bo, we can't forget.
Speaker 1: Today's Audible was presented by Sylvestor Comprehensive Cancer Center in
Speaker 1: pursuit of your Cure.