Speaker 1: That's your looking down field, cutsdown, Miami Quarters Run. What's up?
Speaker 1: Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the
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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winkfield,
Speaker 1: and as always, I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it's a deep Dive Wednesday, and we're kind of diving
Speaker 1: into a waterless swimming pool, but we're gonna do it anyways.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna explore some expectations versus actual results. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from the coordinators as they spoke to the media on Monday,
Speaker 1: and we'll play another SoundBite from the post game show
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcast, Dophins. You guys ever has
Speaker 1: with soup? You know, I never was a soup guy,
Speaker 1: and then I got to Miami and the stuff here
Speaker 1: is fire. And it's it's interesting that you get to
Speaker 1: Miami and all of a sudden you're interested in the
Speaker 1: hottest type of food that there is. But I think
Speaker 1: it's partly because the office is here are pretty cold
Speaker 1: to kind of offset the heat outside. But man, I
Speaker 1: got into the different types of soup, starting with a
Speaker 1: chicken dumpling soup, and I'm like, I'm thirty four. I
Speaker 1: think I turned thirty four this month. I just discovered dumplings,
Speaker 1: Like dumplings are an elite food if you ask me,
Speaker 1: and especially in these different turkey or chicken soups. My goodness,
Speaker 1: it me soup guy at this point. But enough of that.
Speaker 1: I had to mention that because that's what we had
Speaker 1: for lunch today and it was very, very good. And
Speaker 1: I just cannot stop messing with all the soup around here.
Speaker 1: And this is typically our deep dive podcast, but we'll
Speaker 1: call it a shallow dive today and talk about things
Speaker 1: like soup. I became curious about the week to week
Speaker 1: league mentality and extrapolating that over year to year and
Speaker 1: even multiple year to multiple year. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if this was subconscious of me or just two things
Speaker 1: that found each other in my brain or whatever, because
Speaker 1: with this job, I'm basically always working because my brain
Speaker 1: is always thinking about different ideas or concepts or research
Speaker 1: ideas to explore on the podcast or on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. But there was a thread by Chris Coffin.
Speaker 1: You guys know who he is on Twitter at c
Speaker 1: K Parrot does a bunch of great Dolphins content. He
Speaker 1: had a great threat on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, Actually,
Speaker 1: why don't we go ahead and pulled up here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pull this thing up real quick, pause the podcast
Speaker 1: and come right back. And no time went by there
Speaker 1: because it's a podcast. But I found the thread, and
Speaker 1: in this threat he details the fluid nature of the
Speaker 1: sport and of this league. And I think it's more
Speaker 1: so the NFL than college, but for the sport in general,
Speaker 1: things can definitely change. Look at or dron at l
Speaker 1: s U and that's about where the deep dive today starts.
Speaker 1: And you've heard me complain about this a lot, right,
Speaker 1: And I think complain is the right word, because even
Speaker 1: I'm sick of it at this point. But the point
Speaker 1: does remain that we tend to come to these grand
Speaker 1: conclusions based on one or two events. It can be
Speaker 1: a play or a drive or a quarter, and usually
Speaker 1: it's a game, but sometimes it can be whittled down
Speaker 1: to those very small events. An example, I talked about
Speaker 1: this in draft season, how I really liked Waddle and
Speaker 1: Smith way more than the rest of the receiver class. Right,
Speaker 1: and then Jamar Chase has about as difficult of a
Speaker 1: camp and summer as one player can possibly endure. Reports
Speaker 1: about him talking about the difference between the stripes on
Speaker 1: the college ball versus the all brown NFL ball, talking
Speaker 1: about him dropping multiple passes in practice then walking to
Speaker 1: the other end of the field with his head and
Speaker 1: a towel like it sounded dire before he even played
Speaker 1: his first game. Now we're five games in and he
Speaker 1: has Randy Moss types of production in terms of first
Speaker 1: five games of his career. So the point is that
Speaker 1: things are fluid week to week most of the time,
Speaker 1: but way more so year to year. So to see
Speaker 1: case thread here, And this is back on September twenty nine,
Speaker 1: so it's a couple of weeks old. And I want
Speaker 1: to start Dolphins related first, and not about the quarterback,
Speaker 1: because he did go to a defensive end and he says,
Speaker 1: remember when Jason Taylor was a hot young pass rusher
Speaker 1: who had been exposed the book had been written on him.
Speaker 1: Chris writes that the way to negate j t S
Speaker 1: skill or production was to be physical and body him.
Speaker 1: Then second year he's a nine sack player, you're number four.
Speaker 1: He's an All Pro. By year ten, he's the defensive
Speaker 1: player of the leader in the NFL. And I won't
Speaker 1: go through this whole thing, but that's the gist of it.
Speaker 1: And just for you know, Posterity Drew Brees early on
Speaker 1: while they drafted Philip Rivers. After his first three years there,
Speaker 1: he goes to New Orleans and basically rewrites the history
Speaker 1: of the Saints franchise. C K mentions Josh Freeman's ten
Speaker 1: rookie season compared to fellow classmate and banged up rookie
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. What happened to Josh Streaman after that? And
Speaker 1: mass Stafford now? He mentions r G threeeve rookie season
Speaker 1: compared to Andrew Luck or even Russell Wilson and Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill to that degree. He mentions Baker and Dak and
Speaker 1: the ups and downs they've had. Blake Bortles in season
Speaker 1: with forty passing yards or total yards rather and thirty
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns. Talks about Cam Newton going from being a
Speaker 1: player who was lighting college football up, but you cannot
Speaker 1: draft that guy in the first round. Then he winds
Speaker 1: up being the first pick of the draft to number
Speaker 1: two league MVP after being the number one overall pick.
Speaker 1: Very few things in this league are linear. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: remember when people are writing off Aaron Rodgers a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, even week one this season, remember how
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was. And I really want to emphasize the
Speaker 1: air quotes done after nineteen Yeah. And look, if this
Speaker 1: sounds like some plea to tell you to be patient
Speaker 1: or to be okay with losing now because it might
Speaker 1: change next week, that's not my intent here, I promise.
Speaker 1: I don't want to blow that smoke in your guy's direction.
Speaker 1: I'm just tired of trying to do that. And my
Speaker 1: intent here is to show you that the evidence you
Speaker 1: have now can be instructive, but it's hardly a definitive
Speaker 1: actor of future success and future results. And that's just
Speaker 1: with regards to the quarterback position and the expansion into
Speaker 1: the other thoughts are ideals. I wanted to look at
Speaker 1: teams in this way, entire operations, and this is entirely
Speaker 1: opinion based. How can it not be because we don't
Speaker 1: have defined media darlings each season, but a consensus grows,
Speaker 1: and that's how expectations begin to develop. A team you
Speaker 1: talked about through the course of spring, after a good
Speaker 1: draft and into summer and O T A s. Then
Speaker 1: they put it on the training camp practice field and
Speaker 1: you get all the tweets and reports about that, and
Speaker 1: expectations develop over the course of the off season. And
Speaker 1: I don't think the Dolphins were that specific team this year.
Speaker 1: I think it was probably the Chargers, maybe the forty Niners,
Speaker 1: maybe the Rams, though the Patriots in there too as
Speaker 1: a team that everyone thought was gonna make a huge jump,
Speaker 1: and they still might. I mean, that's not it's part
Speaker 1: of the argument. Two of those teams are off to
Speaker 1: a hot start, the other two not so much. But
Speaker 1: the point here is something I mentioned on yesterday's podcast
Speaker 1: that there was a budding consensus that's Dolphins team was
Speaker 1: on the rise and someone to be reckoned with with
Speaker 1: great coaching, a great defense, and a quarterback who could
Speaker 1: have sent to that next level as long as he
Speaker 1: had the offensive line production protection around him because he
Speaker 1: now has all the weapons to work with. That was
Speaker 1: the idea, right And so I wanted to go back
Speaker 1: and look at some of the previous teams that were
Speaker 1: kind of defined that way by local and social media
Speaker 1: and especially the fan base. I think, you know, just
Speaker 1: being on Dolphins Twitter all the time, I think there
Speaker 1: was a lot of excitement going into this year about
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team. But what about the Cardinals? I think
Speaker 1: were that team and they started off hot, they were
Speaker 1: I think a was it a five and two football
Speaker 1: team before the Dolphins beat them in like Week ate
Speaker 1: last year, and people bought all the way in on
Speaker 1: that Cardinals team, and that includes me because I'm such
Speaker 1: a big Kyler Murray fan. Then they stumbled down the
Speaker 1: stretch and finish the season eight and eight, and all
Speaker 1: you hear all off season is Cliff Kingsbury's Texas Tech record.
Speaker 1: He had Patrick Mahomes and he still couldn't have a
Speaker 1: five hundred record there at Texas Tech. It's all you
Speaker 1: saw in Cardinals Twitter all summer long. Now they're five
Speaker 1: and oh the only unbeaten team in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and that might change, but right now it's what they are.
Speaker 1: What about a team that found its footing in last year?
Speaker 1: It was a Cleveland Browns team one year after they
Speaker 1: had big expectations in twenty nine team because they acquire
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Sheldon Richardson, Olivier Vernon, Kareem Hunt. I
Speaker 1: think there was another big one that too, But I
Speaker 1: forget they go six and ten after a two and
Speaker 1: six start, no less, then they go eleven and five
Speaker 1: and your number two after expectations, and now they're three
Speaker 1: and two. But that's what a tough loss in an
Speaker 1: incredible game against the Chargers, and even tougher loss against
Speaker 1: the you know, reigning a f C champions twice over
Speaker 1: three times over in the Kansas City Chiefs two times, yeah,
Speaker 1: the last two times. Every year you go back, there
Speaker 1: are examples of this factor in losing your quarterback was
Speaker 1: a sixty four minutes into the season this year, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna need some more games, some bigger sample size
Speaker 1: before I opened up the evaluation mode and start playing
Speaker 1: around with the mock draft simulators like it's October. Man.
Speaker 1: I can't. We just did all. I can't get back
Speaker 1: into that. I want to see more evidence and not
Speaker 1: put work into something that will certainly change over the
Speaker 1: next twelve weeks. So again, just to really drive this
Speaker 1: point home, this does not mean it will automatically turn
Speaker 1: around from Miami. But the point is that hope is
Speaker 1: not all lost. It never is in this game, because
Speaker 1: you're only as good as the day of work you've
Speaker 1: just put in. So let's get back to work, shall we.
Speaker 1: And speaking of getting back to work, we had Coordinator
Speaker 1: Media on Monday, and I want to cover that here briefly.
Speaker 1: Then we'll play a postgame show segment and get out
Speaker 1: of here for a short Wednesday podcast. Tomorrow we have
Speaker 1: the preview podcast coming up, the in depth, deep dive
Speaker 1: look at the Jacksonville Jaguars in a game that hopefully
Speaker 1: Miami can get back into the winner circle in and
Speaker 1: I want to play the sound bites for the comments
Speaker 1: I found most interesting at Coordinator Media on Monday. And
Speaker 1: let's start with George Godzy COOC starting with him talking
Speaker 1: about pre snap process, and if you recall the mail
Speaker 1: bag a couple of weeks ago, I talked about all
Speaker 1: the things there are to check pre snap as just
Speaker 1: an observer, someone trying to get good notes for a podcast.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to play this from coach Godzi because
Speaker 1: for those guys, especially someone that watches the entire offense,
Speaker 1: not just a position coach, it's tenfold let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and go to George Godzi. Um, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that you know, I feel
Speaker 1: like I see before the before the snap. So as
Speaker 1: much as as you know, I can communicate to those guys, um,
Speaker 1: you know, especially from upstairs, I think will help them. Um,
Speaker 1: whether it's just breaking the huddle communication offensively, defensively, whether
Speaker 1: our line right. Um. So I think that that streamlined
Speaker 1: things a lot. Um. Yeah, and uh, I kind of
Speaker 1: leave it to that. Some pretty interesting comments there from
Speaker 1: coach Godzy about being upstairs and being able to communicate
Speaker 1: that with this quarterback as well as streamline they process there.
Speaker 1: And leaving that at that. Another hot topic is the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Why don't we go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: coach Godzi on his evaluation of the Dolphins offensive line,
Speaker 1: which of course we saw re shuffled offensive line for
Speaker 1: this Week five game in Tampa Bay. Coach gods He
Speaker 1: was asked about how he feels Liam and Austin did
Speaker 1: in those positions and how the Dolphins feel about that
Speaker 1: offensive line going forward. Yeah. I think that that there
Speaker 1: are some plays that that you know, we're really impressive, honestly,
Speaker 1: and then some that we'd like to, you know, get corrected. UM.
Speaker 1: I think Austin's kind of working his way through some things. Uh.
Speaker 1: And for you know, within a week he made some
Speaker 1: pretty big steps there. Um. Liam is just going to
Speaker 1: continue to get better. UM and Uh, hopefully that group
Speaker 1: can maintain some consistency and some um cohesiveness we've had,
Speaker 1: whether it's that position that that group or the receiver
Speaker 1: group kind of been some plug and play with some
Speaker 1: different players. And the more cohesive and consistent we can
Speaker 1: be with the same people out there, the better off
Speaker 1: will be. And you hear a coach talk there about
Speaker 1: continuity and hopefully that cohesion can be a thing to
Speaker 1: develop over the final where's the twelve third team weeks
Speaker 1: of this football season? I love to see the same
Speaker 1: offensive line combination play going forward. Hopefully they can get
Speaker 1: to a place where they feel comfortable about that. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we also get to a place where you feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: Abou getting too a tungul By Lowa back under center
Speaker 1: on the field, coach was asked about what toa can
Speaker 1: build on from what he did before he was injured
Speaker 1: to go ahead and continue the success he saw in
Speaker 1: that first game through training camp to the summer. I
Speaker 1: don't want to play two sound bites here from coach Godzi,
Speaker 1: one about that, but also one about what they have
Speaker 1: to see from two to feel comfortable to play him
Speaker 1: on Sunday in the game against Jacksonville. Let's play the
Speaker 1: first part here from coach Gotzi. You know it was
Speaker 1: it was basically, you know, we go and play the
Speaker 1: New England game and we had some I said, a
Speaker 1: couple of couple of plays or a couple of plays
Speaker 1: within the series that we'd like to have back. But overall,
Speaker 1: as far as leading the group, you know, it was
Speaker 1: pretty consistently done. Um, and you know that was starting
Speaker 1: to build some relationships with you know, each position, and
Speaker 1: so you know, whenever there's a lapse of time like that,
Speaker 1: it's kind of I want to say restarting. But you know,
Speaker 1: we're getting back on the field now. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of an injury deal, so um, it's getting back
Speaker 1: that confidence that really you develop all training camp. So
Speaker 1: for for two of it will be getting back on
Speaker 1: out there on the field, being decisive, um, you know,
Speaker 1: getting back that silent alarm and and really getting back
Speaker 1: to you know where he was he was building off
Speaker 1: from training camp, um, you know, and and kind of
Speaker 1: taking it from there. Found that answer very interesting because
Speaker 1: we talked all summer long about how good of a
Speaker 1: camp to a did have and week one is so
Speaker 1: wonky and so awkward, and look at the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: was into the Pittsburgh Steelers back in week one. You
Speaker 1: just there's not a lot that could be taken away
Speaker 1: long term from week number one. And hopefully what you
Speaker 1: get back here as Too comes back and gets cranking
Speaker 1: is he develops and builds upon that stuff we saw
Speaker 1: in the training camp portion of this season, this year,
Speaker 1: this calendar year. And if he does that, well, then
Speaker 1: I feel pretty goo about going forward into the season.
Speaker 1: And beyond that, let's go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with coach Gudzia with what they have to see from
Speaker 1: Too in order to feel comfortable playing him in a
Speaker 1: game on Sunday against Jacksonville. That's a unique week to Amar,
Speaker 1: you know, with us traveling and and uh and and
Speaker 1: getting ready here for the you know, the London it's
Speaker 1: called itinerary. So but you know, whenever there's an injury
Speaker 1: at any position obviously or looking to see you know,
Speaker 1: what happens. You know, on a hit or you know,
Speaker 1: get get tackled, whether it's another position or not. So
Speaker 1: you know, maybe won't be able to find those things
Speaker 1: out honestly till till game time. But as far as
Speaker 1: certain throws, making sure you know, he's able to rip
Speaker 1: a ball out to the sideline if he asked to,
Speaker 1: you know, show some touch over some linebackers avoid movements
Speaker 1: in the pocket. Those are obviously things that are gonna
Speaker 1: happen throughout the game that you'd like to get a
Speaker 1: look at and practice and hopefully they come up him
Speaker 1: a um, you know, just and whether it's the play
Speaker 1: that develops a defensive linement that kind of gets an
Speaker 1: edge on an offensive linement, you'd like to see those
Speaker 1: movements take place. It's a little bit different when there
Speaker 1: are no movements, which is kind of what's going on
Speaker 1: right now. Um, just to make sure that you actually
Speaker 1: have the functionality to execute that when that happens. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's always a touchy thing with all injuries, but obviously
Speaker 1: when he has a ball in his hand, still be
Speaker 1: making those movements. And um, you know, we'll take a
Speaker 1: day by this week and see if we can kind
Speaker 1: of arrive at a place that we feel comfortable with
Speaker 1: before for the game, and if you guys are following
Speaker 1: me on Twitter at Wingfield NFL, I'll be out there
Speaker 1: getting you updates on practice on Wednesday, let you know
Speaker 1: about the status of QB one as well as what
Speaker 1: coach says on this press conference. Dad, you probably already
Speaker 1: happened or we'll be happening here soon, depending on when
Speaker 1: you hear the podcast. We'll have you updated on that
Speaker 1: on my timeline, on the podcast and everywhere in between.
Speaker 1: We cover this team inside and out. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and move ard here to Josh Boyer,
Speaker 1: who discussed rub routes and man coverage and the difficulty
Speaker 1: of defending those types of looks with that type of
Speaker 1: look I thought it was a very intriguing insight offered
Speaker 1: here from coach Boyer, and he was specifically asked about
Speaker 1: linebackers roles in that man coverage and crossing routes, but
Speaker 1: he went further and and talked more about it because
Speaker 1: there's more than just a couple of players in the
Speaker 1: field that deal with that. So let's go to coach
Speaker 1: Boyer on man coverage versus rub routes. Well, it depends
Speaker 1: like if you're sometimes you pure man coverage, like those
Speaker 1: guys could have particular coverage as well, like we we
Speaker 1: don't always have somebody free. Uh sometimes um, you know
Speaker 1: they are free, and you know they'll force one crosser,
Speaker 1: you know, to go in a different direction. But if
Speaker 1: you've got multiple crossers, then obviously you can't get all
Speaker 1: of them in that situation. And again, um, you know
Speaker 1: that there's you know, different coverages, different things that you
Speaker 1: can do to those crossers, and you know, and then
Speaker 1: there's different ways you can handle man too, So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of variables that go into that. So um,
Speaker 1: you know, again, obviously I've got to do a better
Speaker 1: job putting our players in position to defend those. So
Speaker 1: there's coach talking about those rub routes and man coverage.
Speaker 1: I want to finish up here with Boyer with his
Speaker 1: comment about you know, I talked to Rashad Butler and
Speaker 1: playing about playing on a team that started nine and
Speaker 1: one and one that started oh and five, and he
Speaker 1: talked about how it's never as good or as bad
Speaker 1: as you might think it is, and the fan reaction
Speaker 1: after a bad performance is going to be who do
Speaker 1: you have to replace? Like, who's the blame on that
Speaker 1: you can replace that guy with a free agent or
Speaker 1: a draft pick, or a new high or whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. That's generally the thought that fans have,
Speaker 1: and I get it. It's therapeutic and it helps you
Speaker 1: maybe cope with the difficulties of losing because in this
Speaker 1: game and as a sports fan, winning is so great
Speaker 1: because losing sucks so bad, and when you do lose,
Speaker 1: I get it. We all want solutions and resolution. We
Speaker 1: want it now. We want to know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: better next week and going forward. But the truth is,
Speaker 1: the real growth and turnaround almost always occurs from within,
Speaker 1: which is why I want to play this SoundBite here
Speaker 1: from Josh Boyer when he was asked about his earlier
Speaker 1: comment about maybe changing some things up. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Let's listen in. Well, you know, I think again, all
Speaker 1: of our guys, you know that you see out there
Speaker 1: on the field, we feel comfortable with. So I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a matter of you know, finding
Speaker 1: fine tuning better, whether it's schemes or you know, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, or different calls in different situations, you know,
Speaker 1: to put the players in better position. Like ultimately, that's
Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. And I would just say
Speaker 1: for me that that that's where it starts. The term
Speaker 1: fine tuning was the point of emphasis. They're gott to
Speaker 1: fine tune this thing because your results are not going
Speaker 1: to come from outside help. You have to get it
Speaker 1: fixed internally. And that's what the Dolphins have to The
Speaker 1: challenge they're facing right now is to find ways to
Speaker 1: get this thing right at internally here with his Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team and coaching staff. And finally we hear from
Speaker 1: coach Crossman, who had a good Q and A about
Speaker 1: the direction of the kickoff part of the game and
Speaker 1: the direct and it's trending. But he talked about how
Speaker 1: the numbers skew towards touchbacks this time a year, but
Speaker 1: as the year goes along, the typically will be more
Speaker 1: kickoffs that are in play. I thought that was very
Speaker 1: intriguing because he also talked about whether being a contributing
Speaker 1: factor to that point about more kickoffs, almost like home
Speaker 1: runs and baseball. There's your baseball reference there. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: one of my friends on Twitter mentioned that I talked
Speaker 1: a lot about baseball and he has no clue. But
Speaker 1: in the summer months and baseball, the ball flies further
Speaker 1: and home run numbers go up. Something similar to what
Speaker 1: Coach Croftsman said here about kickoffs. Again, just interesting commentary
Speaker 1: and insight to me. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: coach on Jalen Waddle as a punt returner and the
Speaker 1: limited opportunities he had on Sunday in that game. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you know he is. You know his history,
Speaker 1: very very gifted player history in their turn game, both
Speaker 1: in points, in kickoffs in college. Maybe an opportunity get
Speaker 1: him some more touches. We feel like we have several
Speaker 1: good players and uh obviously with jail And being one
Speaker 1: of them, and got him out on the field on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately didn't get many opportunities. So there you have Coach
Speaker 1: Crossmen talking about Jillen Waddles punt return prospects. That's it,
Speaker 1: all right? Where are we at? Do we have time
Speaker 1: for a postgame segment? I believe we have plenty of
Speaker 1: time for that. Let's go ahead and get out of
Speaker 1: here though, and stay tuned after the outro for the
Speaker 1: postgame segment with myself, O J McDuffie and Seth Levitt.
Speaker 1: I thought our show on Sunday was great, So I
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Speaker 1: Vinza sold out already having there of course, they was
Speaker 1: such a good job over there of getting fans in
Speaker 1: the stands. One of my favorite things is watching all
Speaker 1: the different team jerseys even though they're not playing the
Speaker 1: game and they're going crazy. They're chairing for for different
Speaker 1: touchdowns and field goals and they love the field. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful thing though over there in London, man.
Speaker 1: You know, you go over there and they almost make
Speaker 1: it like an NFL experience every week, you know, all
Speaker 1: the different things that they actually do. It a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you know, they have that type of like I think
Speaker 1: it's a high park because where we were last year
Speaker 1: when I last time I went there um to with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and it's it's really cool for the fans
Speaker 1: and they do love it. Man, It's such a great atmosphere.
Speaker 1: It's loud, it's entertaining, you know, and hopefully the game
Speaker 1: is entertaining for you know, for those for the fans.
Speaker 1: But look, let's just be real about this. A change
Speaker 1: the venue is nice, but we're playing against Jacksonville. So
Speaker 1: change the venue and Jacksonville. Change the venue and Jacksonville
Speaker 1: should be should equal dub for us. It's better equal
Speaker 1: dub for us. But like these players can't say that way,
Speaker 1: can they, juice? They need to prepare like they're playing
Speaker 1: against Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champions, don't
Speaker 1: they or you or you will get nicked. You will
Speaker 1: get beat if you if you're not ready for a
Speaker 1: team like jackson Look at me, Jacksonville got beat today
Speaker 1: by Tennessee. They ran for almost twohundred yards today, you know,
Speaker 1: so we gotta worry about that. And James Robinson, you know,
Speaker 1: Arvor Lawrence is he's going to be the truth don't
Speaker 1: they even start being the truth against us, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? He had a heck of a day
Speaker 1: to two hundred seventy three yards passing, so it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be a cake walk. But obviously Tennessee women there,
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're Derreck Henry way of doing things
Speaker 1: and running down their throats, you know, and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's always been a you know, a way of succeeding.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, though, man, you can't sleep
Speaker 1: on anybody in this league, especially a team like I mean,
Speaker 1: He's they're they're cornered on in five like we're sitting
Speaker 1: one in four there. They're desperate team as well. So
Speaker 1: you got good damn right, they get paid. And I
Speaker 1: actually want to go to you on this again, Juice,
Speaker 1: because it springs up an interesting thought that I had, Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean just kind of came to me. But the
Speaker 1: podcast last year on Drivetime, we had all Vanois in
Speaker 1: the podcast and I talked to him about I think
Speaker 1: they were coming off of a four or five game
Speaker 1: winning streak. At some point he came on the podcast
Speaker 1: and I asked him, what was it that turned this
Speaker 1: this season around? Because you'll recall last year they were
Speaker 1: one in three and they wind up finishing this season
Speaker 1: nine and three and obviously get on the doorstep of
Speaker 1: the playoffs there and Kyle said that the trip to
Speaker 1: San Francisco where they had an extra day to kind
Speaker 1: of hang out together, a long flight over there, he
Speaker 1: said that really galvanized the team. So maybe going to
Speaker 1: London can do the same thing. Have you ever had
Speaker 1: an experience like that and you're playing time where a
Speaker 1: long trip kind of brought the team together. You know what?
Speaker 1: It's it's really weird because we never ever went out early.
Speaker 1: It seemed like there was maybe one time with Jimmy
Speaker 1: you might have gone out early, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: Man Schula and we we never went even even the
Speaker 1: West Coast trip, he still went on that Saturday, if
Speaker 1: you might be Saturday morning instead of Saturday afternoon. So
Speaker 1: you really got there, you ate, you walked through, you played,
Speaker 1: you got back on a plane, So you didn't really
Speaker 1: get a chance to do one of the times you
Speaker 1: might have galvanized teams when you're doing some of the
Speaker 1: you know during training camp, when you working together with
Speaker 1: each other against other teams, like went out to San Diego,
Speaker 1: and I spent a lot more time with Danny and
Speaker 1: I ever, did you know it was actually with Junior?
Speaker 1: Say I, which was nice because he was the king
Speaker 1: out there? Is that when you and John bakin Junior
Speaker 1: and that's what he said? Yeah, he was, he was
Speaker 1: our plus one on that one. But I don't I
Speaker 1: don't recall. I don't recall sixty being there. But hey,
Speaker 1: if he was there, he was there. Yeah, if he
Speaker 1: was there, he was there. So I hope that this
Speaker 1: works in our favorite, this trip works in our favorite.
Speaker 1: They get out there a little bit early. I think
Speaker 1: the last time that we kind of went almost like
Speaker 1: it was just a regular road game. I don't think
Speaker 1: they were out there very long. I remember before teams
Speaker 1: just be out there for like a super Bowl week.
Speaker 1: But I think that this could be an opportunity for
Speaker 1: us to turn the page with Basically, that's what means
Speaker 1: the first quarter seasons over, it's time to move on,
Speaker 1: and I think London could be the answer versus Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: But like we said, Travis, like you said, they get
Speaker 1: paid too, so be ready. Well, look at last year
Speaker 1: we talked about prior to this game. Hey, this is
Speaker 1: the same place that we found ourselves. Last year the
Speaker 1: team was one in three and then they got high
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. Well, the reality is
Speaker 1: one in three. They played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this year.
Speaker 1: So last year they beat Jacksonville and we saw fits
Speaker 1: come out with the shirt open and the hair and
Speaker 1: the whole thing and beating Jacksonville. While they lost to
Speaker 1: Seattle next week in a close game, I think they won.
Speaker 1: Beating Jacksonville was the beginning of winning eight out of ten.
Speaker 1: So that you know, London whatever, I don't care long
Speaker 1: trip bonding. My hope is that this team can get
Speaker 1: a W and that it does propel them to getting
Speaker 1: on a streak where they start winning a significant amount
Speaker 1: of games because they need to. And here's the other
Speaker 1: thing I want to say about London. You talked about
Speaker 1: the podcast I don't know about you, Travis with drive Time.
Speaker 1: When Juice and I go look at the metrics. Outside
Speaker 1: of this great listenership we have for the fish tank
Speaker 1: in the States, there's no country on this earth that
Speaker 1: listens to the fish tank more than London other than
Speaker 1: the United States. How how's your London, listeners? The UK
Speaker 1: is a phenomenal football country. It's the best. I mean
Speaker 1: they are just to put it how they have to
Speaker 1: to even be fans of the game. The Sunday night
Speaker 1: game starts at like two o'clock in the morning for them,
Speaker 1: So if you want to watch primetime football, you basically
Speaker 1: don't sleep. And it's basically Monday morning football, Tuesday morning football,
Speaker 1: and Friday morning fooball not the typical Monday night Thursday nights.
Speaker 1: And then that we've could come used to here in
Speaker 1: the United States. Those guys are die hard football fans
Speaker 1: over there, shows by the fact that they can sell
Speaker 1: out Jets and Falcons and and for sure Dolphins and
Speaker 1: Jaguars next week. We're still on the kind of Jacksonville here,
Speaker 1: I think red juice. I mean, one thing we talked
Speaker 1: about here a little bit was the second took a
Speaker 1: little bit of time. But where we are, but one
Speaker 1: thing I guess we can discuss here before we get
Speaker 1: here just a few minutes, juice is I'm just curious
Speaker 1: for for people out there that don't know, how difficult
Speaker 1: is it to play a football game when your body
Speaker 1: clock is still waking up at like nine thirty am.
Speaker 1: Because next week Miami is gonna play a game that
Speaker 1: starts at nine thirty Eastern time and traveling on Thursday,
Speaker 1: with the practice Friday, then off day Saturday. I have
Speaker 1: to imagine they're gonna stay on the same routine, same schedule.
Speaker 1: How tough is that? Yeah, it's going to be tough
Speaker 1: for them. You know, I've never obviously made that trip
Speaker 1: to play a game. I just made that trip, you know,
Speaker 1: just to kick it on on occasion. But you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen some of the you know, some of the
Speaker 1: West Coast teams have that same issue when they come
Speaker 1: over and play a one o'clock game. You know, when
Speaker 1: the bodies used to being ten am. Um, you know
Speaker 1: what you think? I was thinking about that try we're
Speaker 1: talking about it. It's kind of like when training camp.
Speaker 1: You know, training camp, you have those morning practices. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get fired up and get going for him.
Speaker 1: But Jacksonville is on the same clock world body wise,
Speaker 1: you know body clock the world. I don't know when
Speaker 1: they're going over or whatever. So everybody's got to get
Speaker 1: up and take a couple of hits to wake up maybe,
Speaker 1: but they'll be fine. They'll be fine, man, because it'll
Speaker 1: be what time of day is that over there? Five
Speaker 1: or so five thirties, five hours ahead, thirty three, they'll
Speaker 1: be okay, they'll be okay, They're they'll be They'll just
Speaker 1: by the end and they'll be ready to go. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a postgame show without me bringing up some
Speaker 1: type of baseball from my past. And it reminds me
Speaker 1: of those traveling tournament baseball eight am. The dust all
Speaker 1: in the grass and you gotta go face a kid
Speaker 1: that's throwing low nineties. That was always my least favorite
Speaker 1: thing to do. But the football is different story as well.
Speaker 1: And then speaking of football, we have the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: coming up for you guys later on Sunday evening as
Speaker 1: well as the rest of the week. Five days a
Speaker 1: week we have the show. The Tuesday show is the
Speaker 1: film review, my favorite one of the entire week, where
Speaker 1: I break down the all twenty two and tell you
Speaker 1: the good, the bad, and the ugly from the week
Speaker 1: that was of Miami Dolphins football.