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Speaker 1: as he does each and every week, John Cojemmy, I'm
Speaker 1: Kim Bokamper and not a lot of stuff to get
Speaker 1: to today. When we look at during the show, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll take a look back at at the game against
Speaker 1: the forty Niners. We'll have an opportunity for us sit
Speaker 1: down to sit down with wide receiver Preston Williams, who's
Speaker 1: starting to really starting to pick up hit the pace
Speaker 1: of his game. And then we'll go behind enemy lines
Speaker 1: after that and take a look at our next opponent,
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, and we'll have xs and bows
Speaker 1: to wrap things up. But John, before we do that,
Speaker 1: let's look back presented by Morgan law on the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niner game and John, this one I thought,
Speaker 1: really there was a couple of things early in the
Speaker 1: game that that kind of set the tempo for me.
Speaker 1: Once certainly coming out being able to stop the Niners
Speaker 1: uh Niners in their first possession, to make a force
Speaker 1: him to punt, and then going down put points on
Speaker 1: the board. And then the Niners come back and they
Speaker 1: get in a situation where you know, they go for
Speaker 1: that fourth and one and uh and you're able to
Speaker 1: stop him. And I thought, just I thought as the
Speaker 1: game progressed, I kept looking back at that play and
Speaker 1: just thinking about scoring a touchdown, stopping him and then
Speaker 1: stopping him in that fourth down really kind of set
Speaker 1: the tempo uh and and and kind of set the
Speaker 1: feel for what this game was. Like. I agree with you, Kim,
Speaker 1: because the defense really did set the tempo in that game.
Speaker 1: You go three and out, especially on the road, and
Speaker 1: you feel like that you're you're you're getting some rhythm
Speaker 1: early defensively. You know all the explosive plays that have
Speaker 1: happened against the Miami Dolphins over the last two or
Speaker 1: three or four weeks that you had to put a
Speaker 1: stop to him. And I think the defense did that
Speaker 1: on their first set of downs, and then the Dolphins
Speaker 1: come back with an explosive play of their own, going
Speaker 1: down the sideline to Preston Williams. He gets things started.
Speaker 1: They score on their first two opportunities, and you feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: this might be like the Jacksonville game again on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: You might get on roll, but you're playing a superior team.
Speaker 1: Are they going to respond? And I think you know
Speaker 1: to your point the fourth and one that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: come back the stuff Agba does a great job. I
Speaker 1: thought the defensive front, the tackle has really got a
Speaker 1: good push inside with Christian Wilkins and those guys, and
Speaker 1: Baker was there as well. And then the fake punt.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's opportunities in a game where you
Speaker 1: have to seize sees those chances. And I thought last
Speaker 1: week against Seattle, when the Dolphins didn't go for it
Speaker 1: on a fourth down, they end up kicking another field goal.
Speaker 1: I think that might have played into the into the
Speaker 1: mind of the head coach and Brian Flores and saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think we're We're in a better
Speaker 1: shape positionally as a team in this one. But let's
Speaker 1: let's possess the football and not give it back, not
Speaker 1: let get a chance to get back into the game.
Speaker 1: So I thought there were some key plays in a
Speaker 1: really dominant performance by the Dolphins. Yeah, that that gay.
Speaker 1: I think it was a thirty to fourteen at that point,
Speaker 1: forty Niners had just scored, and you go, hey, we
Speaker 1: still they're still time in this game. And then the
Speaker 1: Dolphins go on, go on the fake punt on fourth
Speaker 1: and in short make it and they're able to They're
Speaker 1: able to put a touchdown on the board and really separated,
Speaker 1: and really I think at that point it was all
Speaker 1: over but the crying for the forty niners. But but
Speaker 1: it all, it was all built up by everything that
Speaker 1: had gone on before. And first of all, I got
Speaker 1: to talk about Ryan Fitzpatrick another game you know, you got,
Speaker 1: you got, I don't know, pretty pretty big percentage of
Speaker 1: people down here, Dolphin fans clamoring to see two and
Speaker 1: Went two are gonna play. Went's two are gonna play.
Speaker 1: And every time Ryan you know, misses a receiver or something,
Speaker 1: get two in there and he just keeps holding on.
Speaker 1: And he had one of those games last yesterday or Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, um, three touchdowns, three fifty yards on the football. Uh,
Speaker 1: it spread the ball around to a lot of receiver's,
Speaker 1: got Gaseki back involved, and and you talked about you
Speaker 1: talking about Preston Williams and DeVante Parker and all those guys,
Speaker 1: and I just thought the offense really played well. And
Speaker 1: John with Robert Hunt being kicked in there and having
Speaker 1: to play right tackle for the first time, Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: flipping over the left tackle, and I gotta tell you, you
Speaker 1: you know, we can talk about it right now, I
Speaker 1: mean going through still, you know, the the offensive line.
Speaker 1: You know, you didn't have to talk about them, talk
Speaker 1: about him very much, and you know, it's it's good
Speaker 1: to have not to be able to talk about an
Speaker 1: offensive line because they're playing so well and playing so consistently.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what we saw out of that game,
Speaker 1: especially even even with those moves, which which is another
Speaker 1: step for me, which is just really starting to make
Speaker 1: me believe in this offensive line moving forward, not this year,
Speaker 1: next year, the year down, because this is such a
Speaker 1: young offensive line and to see them being able to
Speaker 1: grow into each other as as three rookies playing a lot,
Speaker 1: the other young guys they're playing a lot, I think
Speaker 1: it boats well for what this offensive line is gonna
Speaker 1: be like moving forward. Well, you know everybody coaches always
Speaker 1: say it takes all eleven, you know, on offense, on defense,
Speaker 1: on special teams, and it does, but you have you
Speaker 1: need an orchestrator, and Ryan Fitzpatrick's that guy right now.
Speaker 1: Everybody always is clamoring for the second guy, whether it's
Speaker 1: the fifth pick in the draft, the first pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. They always want that guy out there playing
Speaker 1: for your team. But Patients is probably on the side
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins because like it or not, Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick gives this team the best chance to win each
Speaker 1: and every week. And he showed that again on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He was magnificent. And you mentioned the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a terrific job done by a rookie
Speaker 1: getting put in a tough spot. You know, you get
Speaker 1: a couple of days of practice, there's really no pads,
Speaker 1: you go out and you play a seamless game. You
Speaker 1: didn't even notice Robert Hunt was playing in the game.
Speaker 1: And that's a great thing. He didn't notice it because
Speaker 1: of his ability to take that spotlight and be ready
Speaker 1: for it. And I think you credit the other four guys.
Speaker 1: Jesse moving from right to left Uh, the guy next
Speaker 1: to him and Solomon Kinley doing a great job, the
Speaker 1: two rookies together that might be there for a long time.
Speaker 1: And getting back to the explosive play, Kausiki had a
Speaker 1: one seventy yarder down the field, a twenty two yarder
Speaker 1: you know, over the top on third and goal from
Speaker 1: the twenty two you know, the Davante parker, and then
Speaker 1: two big plays from Preston Williams on the four catches,
Speaker 1: especially the one down in the middle for the touchdown
Speaker 1: where he cradles it gets into the end zone. I
Speaker 1: just thought that that matched with the takeaways and the
Speaker 1: number of quarterback hits and the sacks by the defense,
Speaker 1: Miami was just too much for the forty niners on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you talked about the defense. Uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: really came together and I thought played certainly their best
Speaker 1: game of the year. Was nice getting seeing Byron Jones
Speaker 1: back there and X comes up with another interception, You
Speaker 1: get an interception from Bobby McCain. Uh, you got to
Speaker 1: force fumble, you know, So a lot of lot of
Speaker 1: good things on the defensive side. But I think the
Speaker 1: thing to me, John, like even even we've seen the
Speaker 1: defense over the last few weeks start to get better,
Speaker 1: started tighten up a little bit a little better, and
Speaker 1: run defense a little better. On pass rushed a little bitter,
Speaker 1: and pass coverage. It all seemed to come together against
Speaker 1: the forty Niners because they got pass rush and they
Speaker 1: got in a number of ways that you know, they
Speaker 1: blitched a number of times that the forty Niners couldn't solve. Uh,
Speaker 1: they were able to get pressure with a fore man
Speaker 1: rush and let guys get back and cover. They're able
Speaker 1: to do all of those types of things. And and
Speaker 1: and I think the one thing that that that I
Speaker 1: really wanted to see improvement on from the prior week
Speaker 1: and and the weeks prior to that was eliminating the
Speaker 1: big chunk plays, not allowing the your opponent to come
Speaker 1: down and in it. I think in the in the
Speaker 1: against Seattle, I think I counted ten or eleven chunk
Speaker 1: plays against the Dolphin defense. And and in this game,
Speaker 1: I think there was one, maybe two that you would
Speaker 1: call a chunk play, but they fizzled out and didn't
Speaker 1: really go anywhere. So, you know, as much as you
Speaker 1: look at this offense and with the offense did I
Speaker 1: thought it was a game I thought it was a
Speaker 1: game that you can you can you can just as easily,
Speaker 1: you know, pat the back. So those guys that that
Speaker 1: played defense out there against U still a pretty good
Speaker 1: football team with some really talented players. You George Kittle,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe with one of the top two or three
Speaker 1: tight ends in the National Football League, and he was
Speaker 1: all but all but forgotten on Sunday, arguably the best.
Speaker 1: You know, the week before against the Eagles, he had
Speaker 1: fifteen targets, he had fifteen catches, uh, you know, for
Speaker 1: well over a hundred yards. He had four catches for
Speaker 1: forty four yards in this game. So Eric Row did
Speaker 1: a magnificent job, and I think Josh Bowyer, the defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: did a really good job preparing the Dolphins for multiple looks,
Speaker 1: especially up front that front seven. We haven't said Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker's name in a long time. That's not a good
Speaker 1: thing for the Miami Dolphins defense. And and a number
Speaker 1: of times we saw a fifty five flash against the
Speaker 1: forty niners. That's a great thing when you have him
Speaker 1: rushing and pinning his ears back and being able to
Speaker 1: get in multiple fronts where you see guys five guys
Speaker 1: on the right side of a center and maybe two
Speaker 1: guys to the left, and you don't know who's dropping.
Speaker 1: That becomes an identification problem for the for the opposing lineman,
Speaker 1: for the tight end, for the running backs, and I
Speaker 1: think that led to a lot of pressures against the
Speaker 1: forty niners, and it really led to those five sacks,
Speaker 1: that eight quarterback hits and the two interceptions. So overall,
Speaker 1: but this was a team effort. You don't miss in
Speaker 1: your field goals. You have a good punning day, yeah,
Speaker 1: you cash in on explosive plays. I think at one
Speaker 1: point I kind of we were nine of ten in
Speaker 1: possessions on offense and we got scores. So there was
Speaker 1: some really good stuff for the Miami Dolphins in all
Speaker 1: three phases. And that's how you you become a dominant team.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anything about Jason Sanders. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be one of those golfing now, so we'll
Speaker 1: just we'll just let sleeping dogs let him go with
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman's exactly. All right. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: Got Preston Williams and here's a guy, John We saw
Speaker 1: him last year at training camp. He was flashing it
Speaker 1: seemed like every day. Then he got the opportunity to
Speaker 1: to play in this was the season started and really
Speaker 1: was one of the breakout players for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: last year. Gets injured and and and I think right now,
Speaker 1: I think we're just starting to see the close to
Speaker 1: the Preston Williams that we saw last year before he
Speaker 1: got hurt. You know, I think there's been some times
Speaker 1: where he's kind of been, you know, trying of feeling
Speaker 1: his way around out there. But I think we're starting
Speaker 1: to see Preston Uh at his best. And I think
Speaker 1: there's still a lot left in uh in the tank
Speaker 1: for him as we move forward. Well, I think he's
Speaker 1: gaining confidence with every game and every practice. I think
Speaker 1: that in the back of his head. You know, this
Speaker 1: is his second e c L one in college, one
Speaker 1: in the pros last year, and he's only played thirteen
Speaker 1: football games for the Miami Dolphins. You know, this was
Speaker 1: the first time he was able to eclipse a hundred
Speaker 1: yards and he did it on only four catches, so
Speaker 1: he had career highing yards. Um He's he's a big
Speaker 1: target on the outside for what the Dolphins want to do.
Speaker 1: And he's a great compliment to Davante Parker, Mike Kasicki
Speaker 1: because he can dominate one side of the field and
Speaker 1: he really dictates coverage. So I think Preston, as you said,
Speaker 1: he's coming into his own a little bit more closer
Speaker 1: to the guy we saw a last season before the injury,
Speaker 1: and he's an upbeat guy. He's a young player, another
Speaker 1: young player that shows promise for years to come in
Speaker 1: in a Miami Dolphins uniform. It was nice to see
Speaker 1: Mike Gasecki kind of getting back into the flow last
Speaker 1: couple of games. I mean like he's caught everything that's
Speaker 1: thrown his way. He was targeted twice in the last
Speaker 1: two games, caught both balls and been both of them
Speaker 1: pretty pretty tough catches. But he got a little more,
Speaker 1: a little more action out there, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's gotta he gotta, he gotta get out there
Speaker 1: before the games and tug on. Ryan Fitzpatrick said back
Speaker 1: from Jersey, but say, hey, hey, big fella, don't don't
Speaker 1: forget that I'm still out here. You know, he's gotta
Speaker 1: pull that old nat More trick and make sure he's
Speaker 1: the last guy to tap the quarterback out of the
Speaker 1: huddle to make sure he knows where he's going. That's
Speaker 1: exactly and no doubt about it. But no, it's nice.
Speaker 1: Nice to see him getting back and uh and and
Speaker 1: you know, Miles gaskon again continue and used to You know,
Speaker 1: he's not setting the world on fire. He's not putting
Speaker 1: numbers out there that are that are gonna blow your
Speaker 1: socks off. But he's giving you productive yards. He's putting
Speaker 1: you in good situations second and medium, second and short
Speaker 1: those types of things. Now, you know, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I would like to see, you know, it'd be nice
Speaker 1: to have, you know, a running back or a couple
Speaker 1: of running backs will really break out and have some
Speaker 1: some big games. But he's catching the ball well for you.
Speaker 1: He's blocking when he needs to block, and he's giving
Speaker 1: you some some impetus in the running game when he
Speaker 1: gets the opportunity. And I think it's gonna help. With
Speaker 1: the addition of seeing Matt Breda being installed in the
Speaker 1: offense a little bit more, I think it's gonna help
Speaker 1: Miles because it's gonna take some of the pressure off
Speaker 1: of the running game and also in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are so good in the open field.
Speaker 1: When they get their hands on the football, they usually
Speaker 1: make the first guy miss. And that's a good sign
Speaker 1: coming out of the backfield when you're getting a four
Speaker 1: yard pass and you turn it into a fourteen yard
Speaker 1: game and you're moving the chains for that offense. So
Speaker 1: I think Ryan Fitzpatrick right now, the way things are
Speaker 1: going up front, he's gonna have a lot of time
Speaker 1: to to it. Can choose his weapons on the outside.
Speaker 1: All right, So we kind of kind of get a
Speaker 1: little way from Preston. So let let's get back. Let's
Speaker 1: get back into it and uh and listen to what
Speaker 1: your conversation with Preston John contemning here was wide receiver
Speaker 1: Preston Williams and Preston. Uh, First of all, congratulations on
Speaker 1: a great victory out West against San Francisco. How was
Speaker 1: the team? Uh? During the game and then maybe after
Speaker 1: in the locker room, you guys had to feel really
Speaker 1: good about what you accomplished. Uh, you know, going to
Speaker 1: the game, you know it was just real lot. Then
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to execute. You know, he's playing a
Speaker 1: real good team in the four nights. They got a
Speaker 1: good little squads, so you know, you just want to
Speaker 1: play a bus game. Uh, you know we execute that areas,
Speaker 1: so you know that helped a lot. And then after
Speaker 1: the game, you know that win and feeling that win
Speaker 1: and feeling I always feel good. So yeah, it has
Speaker 1: to put a smile on your face and something else
Speaker 1: that probably made you happy or made you smile. How
Speaker 1: cool was it to open up with a shot play
Speaker 1: you first played from scrimmage forty seven yard completion? Talk
Speaker 1: us through that route, maybe what you saw in coverage
Speaker 1: and if you felt like it was gonna be successful
Speaker 1: or not. Uh, you know, we were just preaching all
Speaker 1: week it was gonna take shots on these guys. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then the first play of the game, it comes
Speaker 1: a shot um the corner out there. He was he
Speaker 1: had eyes in the backfield looking at fits. So I
Speaker 1: end up getting in this blind spot and fishes through
Speaker 1: a great ball because are and there let me run
Speaker 1: under it. So you know, it was just a good
Speaker 1: pitching catch for all of us that that aren't receivers.
Speaker 1: What does it feel like when that ball is just
Speaker 1: kind of like hanging in the air and you're going,
Speaker 1: you know, as fast as you can. What what are
Speaker 1: you thinking that's the only thing that matter at that
Speaker 1: point right now? You know, just me getting that over him,
Speaker 1: like I wanted more to him, so you know, you know,
Speaker 1: just my whole mind said, you know, just catch everything.
Speaker 1: So you know, you you had four catches for a
Speaker 1: hundred and six yards. It was the first time in
Speaker 1: your career you went over a hundred yards. You had
Speaker 1: a recreer career receiving yards at one of those sex.
Speaker 1: Did you know you were having that type of game
Speaker 1: during the game or was it just like, hey, give
Speaker 1: me some more. I just want I just want to
Speaker 1: keep contributing. I just want to keep making catches and
Speaker 1: keep us moving so we can score points. Uh, it
Speaker 1: was more just you know, I just wanted to make plays.
Speaker 1: You know, whoever you threw the ball too, you know,
Speaker 1: as you know, my mind set would just catch everything,
Speaker 1: like I said, So if he threw my way, you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make the most out of my opportunity.
Speaker 1: Uh didn't. I didn't know what my yards was, but
Speaker 1: you know, I probably I had a good idea that
Speaker 1: I was running a lot of d D routes. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well when you were running those deep routes, especially on
Speaker 1: your touchdown pass, you ran faster than any wide receiver
Speaker 1: had on the field all day. What did you know
Speaker 1: in your mind to set up that corner? How you
Speaker 1: had to beat him? And can you talk us through
Speaker 1: that process? Because Fitz took a heck of a shot
Speaker 1: in the pocket and he was able to get you
Speaker 1: the ball? What were you thinking about getting open for him? Uh?
Speaker 1: He actually got me audible, I was I was out there.
Speaker 1: He looked out out to me. He was like, just rhyme.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, if that don't work right, the
Speaker 1: nickel blitzed the corner platt over and the safety of
Speaker 1: the top of the head end up getting too wide,
Speaker 1: So I just split both of them fish. You know,
Speaker 1: he just laid it out there for me. He took
Speaker 1: the heads. You know, he took a hit, so I
Speaker 1: gotta make the catch from that. So yeah, it works.
Speaker 1: It works both ways. And you know something else that
Speaker 1: works both ways. You're making plays. Devonte is making plays,
Speaker 1: Mike's making plays in the passing game. Do you guys
Speaker 1: feed off of each other when you see somebody get
Speaker 1: you know, like a chunk yardage? Players he sold to
Speaker 1: make a tough catch. Does that kind of get you
Speaker 1: guys all going, Yeah, we definitely feel off each other. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the energy thing. You know, Devantey made
Speaker 1: plays just think you have. They're making incredible catches. You know,
Speaker 1: we all just feed off each other. Just say, you
Speaker 1: beat running down the sideline, which you should have scored
Speaker 1: on in my opind hey, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We feed off that. You know. You know, we knew that,
Speaker 1: we knew we needed that, go into that game with
Speaker 1: no fans too, So it's just you know, he's feed
Speaker 1: up the defense too. It was giving defense energy and
Speaker 1: defense giving us energy. Well, the good thing about it
Speaker 1: was you're right three and out by the defense. You
Speaker 1: guys go right down and score after your big play. Uh.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of thing you you build on in practice,
Speaker 1: Like you you work your way in practice and you're
Speaker 1: taking shots, you're doing things, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it happens in the game. Does that make you want
Speaker 1: to get right back and kind of get back to
Speaker 1: that mentality of grinding and out during the week so
Speaker 1: you can happen a little bit easier on Sundays. Yeah, definitely. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, practice made perfect. You know, it's one thing
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta practice what I'm saying. More you
Speaker 1: pressure your crafty, the better you're gonna get at it.
Speaker 1: You know, we just try to play compromentary football out there.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, defense is getting a lot of time overs.
Speaker 1: You know, every time they turn up all over we
Speaker 1: want to you know, contribute and score off that drive.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just it's all. It's all about
Speaker 1: execution and just coming football. And like you sell me,
Speaker 1: tell me the relief you feel a little bit about
Speaker 1: not having to get on a plane on a Friday
Speaker 1: and go back out west to Denver, and now you
Speaker 1: get a home game with the schedule coming back out,
Speaker 1: You get the Jets at home, you get to play
Speaker 1: in front of your fans. That how to make you
Speaker 1: guys feel really good. On the way coming back from
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Yeah, you know, we wasn't. Uh no, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it too much. If it's cool that
Speaker 1: we're getting the home game as we actually you know,
Speaker 1: we're coming home play, so you know it's pretty cool. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, me being going to Colorado State and then
Speaker 1: pushing the game bag. You know, so now I'm kind
Speaker 1: of expecting snow. Dude. It was gonna be cold, but
Speaker 1: you know it's now. But you know, you know we
Speaker 1: list about any any task we need to, so well,
Speaker 1: I hope you keep it going. Uh, you look great.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're you're getting closest as you can do
Speaker 1: a hundred percent, because you sure look like it. On
Speaker 1: the football field, Preston, good luck this week against the
Speaker 1: Jets at home and continued successful man thirteen games in.
Speaker 1: You got that, Hunter yards, keep it going, You got it.
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Speaker 1: little bit of a change up here and scheduling, John,
Speaker 1: it looked like the Dolphins we're gonna be headed to
Speaker 1: the Mile High City to play the Denver Broncos on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But lo and behold, things have changed. And the good
Speaker 1: old New York Jets coming to a hard rock stadium
Speaker 1: from four four or five kickoff here, and nothing I
Speaker 1: like better than seeing a New York Jet team. That's uh,
Speaker 1: where the wheels are kind of round, rock wheels are
Speaker 1: wobbling as they come into into hard rock. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's tough to look at the look
Speaker 1: it's tough to look at the Jets, and and and
Speaker 1: and I feel optimistic about what they're bringing to the
Speaker 1: table because so far has been a dumpster fire. But
Speaker 1: I think we all have been around the Jets and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins rivalry long enough to know that it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what's going on between each team before they get together.
Speaker 1: When they get together, anything can happen. Well, you're right,
Speaker 1: and and a dangerous team is a winless team because
Speaker 1: you never know when they're gonna put it together. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody gets paid in this league obviously, and it's their job,
Speaker 1: and you never know when Sam Donald or Joe Flacco,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, lavy On Bell is gonna be able
Speaker 1: to come out and be that player that they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be. So a lot of problems right now in
Speaker 1: New York. They haven't been able to score points, they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to keep people out of the opposing
Speaker 1: end zone. I'm just glad we're playing them at at
Speaker 1: this point in time, maybe before they figure it out,
Speaker 1: and early enough in the air where you get a
Speaker 1: hot day down here, and it might have an effect
Speaker 1: on an opposing team. I think the Dolphins kind of
Speaker 1: get a bad draw because go out to Denver a
Speaker 1: little bit later, so it might be cooler for them
Speaker 1: when they go out there. But uh, you know, let's
Speaker 1: get the wins while we can and have the best
Speaker 1: opportunity to get those. And that's playing a team that's
Speaker 1: winless coming into hard Rock stating here. And you've got
Speaker 1: like a wounded, little wounded animal coming into the Jets,
Speaker 1: And you don't want to be the Dolphins to to
Speaker 1: kind of pat them on the head and say, oh,
Speaker 1: you'll be all right. They gotta keep putting on their
Speaker 1: their their quarterback situation is in turmoil right now. Sam
Speaker 1: Donald heard his shoulder. He may be ready to play
Speaker 1: this week. Joe Flacco was playing, and you know, Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco still got some some game left in him. And
Speaker 1: they still, like you said, they still have Leivia Levan
Speaker 1: Bell and and I'm I'm you know, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about it the earlier day. I'm just so happy not
Speaker 1: to see Robbie Anderson running out there with the Jets
Speaker 1: and to all, I have to get those guys out
Speaker 1: of there, and and and it's gonna be an interesting thing.
Speaker 1: But it's not a game for the Dolphins to allow
Speaker 1: the Jets and Adam Gays and those guys to get healthy.
Speaker 1: Uh But, John, I tell you I I saw listening
Speaker 1: to that game yesterday when I was riding driving down
Speaker 1: the TV station and I'm listening, and the Jets have
Speaker 1: a third and one, they get stuffed. They go for
Speaker 1: it on fourth and one, they get stuffed and and
Speaker 1: they're down in there. They're on a twelve play drive,
Speaker 1: and that's how the drive ended with with no points.
Speaker 1: They throw, they get an interception, and they get the
Speaker 1: ball and then they get a five yard delay of
Speaker 1: the game penalty. They can't even they can't even get
Speaker 1: on the field and put it get a snap off
Speaker 1: in time after a change of possession. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a snapshot of what's wrong with this
Speaker 1: football team right now, and and probably stretching out a
Speaker 1: little bit part of what's wrong with Adam Gaze and
Speaker 1: and why he struggled as a as a head football coach. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm glad we're playing the Jets right now,
Speaker 1: because I don't think they're gonna figure it out in
Speaker 1: four or five days, and I think they have deeper
Speaker 1: rooted issues than just who who's playing quarterback or who's
Speaker 1: getting the ball running back or who's playing left tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, you get Beckton from Louisville, who uh played
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago that wasn't a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: He's still not a hundred percent, and you're going to
Speaker 1: you know, I don't I have so much respect for
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, but how many times can you give it
Speaker 1: to Frank Gore? You know, on the on those those treads.
Speaker 1: You know that he has left on the wheels and
Speaker 1: he's still gonna give you everything he has. But there's
Speaker 1: just not a whole lot left in the cupboard. It
Speaker 1: seems like for me offensively, there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: weapons on the on the offensive wide receiver position, uh,
Speaker 1: for Adam Gates to kind of scheme up what he
Speaker 1: wants to do offensively if he doesn't have Sam Donald
Speaker 1: at quarterback. Now, Joe Flacco is a talented quarterback, but
Speaker 1: he's trending on the older side of things as well.
Speaker 1: He looked good in Spurts, but there's just not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of weapons out there at his disposal. So
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins are in a good spot. I
Speaker 1: think this is a week bow. The Dolphins have to
Speaker 1: take care of the Miami Dolphins. They have to practice
Speaker 1: with the purpose. They have to go out and play
Speaker 1: a discipline game as they played the first five games.
Speaker 1: They stay away from penalties, stay away from the turnovers.
Speaker 1: If they do those types of things, I think the
Speaker 1: Jets will implode at some point in this game and
Speaker 1: make it a little bit easier for mind Me to
Speaker 1: win it home. Yeah, they still look still got some
Speaker 1: good player Quinin and Williams on the other side of
Speaker 1: a disrupting guy. He's a disrupting force in the middle there,
Speaker 1: and he's just getting better and better. Avery Williamson the
Speaker 1: linebacker is another guy that's all over the field making play.
Speaker 1: So they certainly have some some players out there that
Speaker 1: can do some damage. But you're right, it's if you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't the time for the Dolphins to worry about
Speaker 1: what problems the Jets are having. It's time for them
Speaker 1: to look internally again and you know what and just
Speaker 1: and just say, hey, look, let's you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: watch film, We're gonna watch tape, we're gonna see what
Speaker 1: they do. But we're gonna spend more time talking about us,
Speaker 1: talk about us and playing a little better. You know,
Speaker 1: A hold that block for a little bit longer, you know,
Speaker 1: go after that, go after the ball, carry with a
Speaker 1: little bit more, a little bit more fever pitch and
Speaker 1: all those types of things, because because I think we
Speaker 1: can see as we see the Jets trying to tend
Speaker 1: to be a group that's kind of the they're they're
Speaker 1: fraying at the edges a little bit. I think when
Speaker 1: you look at the Dolphins over the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: you're looking at the team that's kind of becoming a
Speaker 1: little closer. Nick. They're tightening every thing up, and and
Speaker 1: I think there's another good opportunity to tighten up in
Speaker 1: your own backyard and get yourself to five hundred. Anything
Speaker 1: can happened after that. John Well, I'm not saying the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are the team that everybody's picking to to go
Speaker 1: far in the playoffs and win a Super Bowl right now,
Speaker 1: but I will tell you through five games, they've had
Speaker 1: every opportunity to win games. And that's including New England,
Speaker 1: it's including Seattle and and the games that they have won.
Speaker 1: And then that's including the Bills. You know, this team
Speaker 1: has put themselves in positions to to make plays or
Speaker 1: not make plays, and and the majority of the time
Speaker 1: I thought they've come through. I think it's the big
Speaker 1: plays on the defense that have hurt them early in
Speaker 1: the season, which they corrected against San Francisco that I
Speaker 1: don't know. The Jets have the ability, you know, to
Speaker 1: go downtown, to go over the top of this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense. And I think the defensive line in the
Speaker 1: different sets and formations that they gave San Francisco are
Speaker 1: really gonna cause issues to the New York Jets and
Speaker 1: that offensive line that has had trouble protecting Donald and
Speaker 1: Flacco last week. So I think if the Dolphins play
Speaker 1: the way they're capable of, they should be in a
Speaker 1: good spot heading to the bye week, which is which
Speaker 1: is a nice thing to do to try to get
Speaker 1: to five, get to that bye week, and then get
Speaker 1: ready for that long haul. You know. Well, well, well
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that a little bit our next second
Speaker 1: when we come back to next XS and ohs, because
Speaker 1: we'll talk about changing schedules. And let's just say for
Speaker 1: now they have a bye week after the Jets game,
Speaker 1: and that's right, but that's it might have spoke too soon,
Speaker 1: but that could change and even a stick around. We'll
Speaker 1: let you know about it when we come back. Welcome
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Speaker 1: for XS and bows. And I gotta give my I
Speaker 1: gotta get my paperwork out, John, you know I, you
Speaker 1: know I I just before the Dolphins game, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden or you've heard all this, all these changes
Speaker 1: and then you know one time they're gonna be a
Speaker 1: by this next week and then the Jets are coming
Speaker 1: to town, and so trying to make himps but let
Speaker 1: me kind of just go through over the next six
Speaker 1: weeks with the Miami Dolphins and what the schedule is
Speaker 1: right now. As we said, this week was gonna be
Speaker 1: a back to back, tough trip because they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to turn around go right back to Denver after going
Speaker 1: all the way to San Francisco. That's changed and and
Speaker 1: so this week the Jets come to hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: That's a four oh five start, and then the following
Speaker 1: week October bye week for the Dolphins, and then November
Speaker 1: one to following week a one o'clock game against the Rams.
Speaker 1: At hard Rock. November eight, they go to Arizona for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, that's a four start, and then November at
Speaker 1: hard Rock the Charges come to town for a four
Speaker 1: oh five kickoff there, and then November twenty two they'll
Speaker 1: make that trip to Denver uh AT for a four
Speaker 1: oh five start, and no telling what the weather is
Speaker 1: gonna be like in Denver in in November, so we'll
Speaker 1: do that. But that's the way it sets up. So
Speaker 1: it's the Jets, it's a bye week, it's the Rams
Speaker 1: at home, it's Arizona on the road, it's the Charges
Speaker 1: at home, and then it's a trip to Denver uh
Speaker 1: for the schedule, and uh, I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with any of that. I mean, if that's if that
Speaker 1: plays out that way, to me, it looks like a
Speaker 1: pretty good schedule. And and I thought, I think, I
Speaker 1: just think, you know, my first thought was, oh God,
Speaker 1: I'm really happy they don't have to go come back here,
Speaker 1: turn around and go right back to Denver, back to
Speaker 1: back and in a tough place to play, even though
Speaker 1: there's not not done many fans or I don't know
Speaker 1: how many fans they have let in there, whether they
Speaker 1: do or not, but just making that trip back to back,
Speaker 1: which normally was gonna be a go out to San
Speaker 1: Francisco staying staying there or Denver and then and then
Speaker 1: just do the dough two games and what fell swoop.
Speaker 1: But I think I think the Dolphins got a break
Speaker 1: by not having to go back to Denver and having
Speaker 1: a Jets team come in next week. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: bo Uh. You know that that is a tough turnaround,
Speaker 1: going all the way to San Francisco, coming back on
Speaker 1: a limited week, and then getting back on the plane
Speaker 1: on a Friday, not Saturday, to go back out. That
Speaker 1: kind of gets to you as a player and a coach,
Speaker 1: I would think. So you get a home game against
Speaker 1: the Jets, then you get that by and they kind
Speaker 1: of shifted around a little bit with the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Charges were back to back. Now they've slipped Arizona
Speaker 1: in between, so the Dolphins don't stay at home for
Speaker 1: three weeks in a row, and then you'll slide in
Speaker 1: that Enver a game on the road where the bye
Speaker 1: week was initially on the schedule, in between the two
Speaker 1: Jets encounters. So I think it does it does bode
Speaker 1: well for the Dolphins. They get back to hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: They'll get the bye week, but then they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to stay healthy for the duration, and that will be
Speaker 1: the tough part of the schedule coming up. I think
Speaker 1: as it gets a little cooler on the road when
Speaker 1: they go to Denver and places like that. I know
Speaker 1: they still have trips uh to the Jets as well
Speaker 1: coming up and to Buffalo to round out the season.
Speaker 1: So it'll be it'll be interesting to see how the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can get through the middle of this of this
Speaker 1: tough schedule, because right now, you know, you took care
Speaker 1: of the San Francisco forty niners, which a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't think would happen on the road, and then
Speaker 1: turn around and have to go to Denver. I think
Speaker 1: you'd get a break playing the Jets at home. All
Speaker 1: that being said, this is all written in chalk, because
Speaker 1: we we know it's as we saw last week, this
Speaker 1: could all change in a in a sneeze, quite literally,
Speaker 1: right somewhere around the country, someone snee and someone someone
Speaker 1: gets gets COVID and everything changes. But I find it
Speaker 1: hard to believe John that here we are six weeks.
Speaker 1: This is really the first week there's been like a
Speaker 1: lot of turmoil is is schedule wise, you know, it
Speaker 1: just it makes me just kind of hold my breath
Speaker 1: a little bit. And because you've gotta feel if it's
Speaker 1: happened now, there's gonna be some more of this down
Speaker 1: the road. And I don't know when it gets to
Speaker 1: a point where these changes get too muddied to where, uh,
Speaker 1: where the league kind of goes, it just throws your
Speaker 1: hand up and uh, we don' don't know what we
Speaker 1: do now, you know, well, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if the NFL, I I can't remember at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season what the protocol was going to be
Speaker 1: and how far they could kick back potentially the playoffs
Speaker 1: in the in the Super Bowl and keep going back
Speaker 1: into the winter, uh in February. But I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: they might because you kind of get to that benchmarks
Speaker 1: of the season, You get to the quarter mark, you
Speaker 1: get to the halfway mark, you want to get three
Speaker 1: quarters and then hopefully to the finish line. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that right now everybody's got their fingers crossed
Speaker 1: that they could get to the halfway point and only
Speaker 1: have this amount of changes that they have to deal with.
Speaker 1: Get everybody's schedule figured out, and then move on weekend
Speaker 1: and week out from there and take each week at
Speaker 1: a time, and hopefully, you know, the problems that were
Speaker 1: in Tennessee and the problems that were in New England,
Speaker 1: and maybe some of the other cases, the minimal cases
Speaker 1: will be rectified and it might go a little bit
Speaker 1: smoother from here. But you're right, but everybody's got their
Speaker 1: fingers crossed when in terms of trying to figure out
Speaker 1: where you're going in each week, and and hopefully the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can continue uh to be seamless in their operation
Speaker 1: with COVID. Well, we know, we know what the schedule
Speaker 1: is for the next six weeks. We know the jets
Speaker 1: are coming to town, and let's get out there and
Speaker 1: let the chips fall with They may always a pleasure
Speaker 1: to be with you. John, same here, Bo. Alright, that's
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