WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 95 | Eric Rowe 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:01.840 All right, the Audibles back on the air, Kimbo Camber, 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:04.680 John and Jammy Johnny, We're we're rounding, We're right around 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:06.320 the right on the cusp. I guess by the time 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.119 the show goes in the air, it will be it 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:09.920 will have been the new year. We've runched over to 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.840 two thousand and twenty. But well, you couldn't ask a 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.639 better way, Tom, two thousand nineteen. Then going up to 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.080 New England, new women with a lot on the line, 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.560 home field advantage, you know, a bye week opportunity to 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.240 rest up for their first playoff game, and the Dolphins 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.600 go up there and just throw a monkey wrenching in 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:31.000 their plans and in a game which John, you know, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.600 first of all, you look at New England, it didn't 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.960 didn't play very well, Tom Brady, that that offense. Looked 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.680 at Nemick, their defense is a very great deek, very 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.920 good defense. But the Dolphins, you know, made their way 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.760 found their way around that that that defense. But boy, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.159 I was shocked at how how poorly New England played 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.440 in a game that, based on their history in the postseason, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.000 meant so much to them getting that home field advantage 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.040 and not having to ride through that three run that 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.240 that that three game run through the wild car the 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.600 uh round to get started. I just think that you're 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.520 looking at a flawed New England team in terms of 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.600 the talent that you're used to, seeing the way that 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:14.120 they execute offensively, and I just don't know if they 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.240 can depend on that formula moving forward when they're gonna 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.760 play that gauntlet if it gets to they either have 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.400 to go through Kansas City or Baltimore, and I just 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.479 don't know if that offense is gonna be able to travel. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.760 You know, usually you're worried about your defense traveling. Well, 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.280 your defense, This defense can travel, But I don't know 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.440 if they can score or keep up with Baltimore or 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.479 Kansas City, even get by Tennessee at home is gonna 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.240 be a struggle next week for them. And going back 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.319 to our game, I just thought it was I mean, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.840 I I said in the beginning of the game, I 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.559 felt that the Dolphins had to withstand the first five 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.680 to seven to eight minutes of the game, if they 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.080 could get into the rhythm of the game, if they 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.600 could not allow a quick touchdown, if they can move 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.280 the football offensively, not necessarily score, but move it to 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.480 the fact that Hey, we're gonna be here all for 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.559 four quarters. This is not gonna be a three out 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.880 type of scenario where you're blitzing us and we have 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.400 no answers. I thought that that very first drive went, 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.679 we went down, you know, move the football effectively. Ryan 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.720 did a great job and finding different receivers, moved it 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.760 with his legs again, got a little bit of the 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.520 running game going. I just felt that that was that 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.920 was a statement. That was a statement to say, like, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.840 you know what this means something us too, might mean 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:24.760 something to you, but we want to finish on the 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.560 right note, no doubt. And you know, coming out like that, 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.080 there's a couple of things in New England there to me, 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.640 there are two. There are two, let's say, ten minute 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.760 periods that you've got to survive. You got to survive 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.480 that opening ten minutes. You don't want them to come 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.160 down and go tend nothing on you before you bat 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.360 an eye, you know, with a pick six or something 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.040 that you know they're you gotta survive that first ten minutes. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.920 And then more importantly than that, you gotta survive that 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.520 ten minutes when you come out of the locker room. 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.080 Because this team I've seen so many times with the 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.560 Dolphins where they've gone up there and they played a 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.079 pretty good first half. Feel like, man, we're in this thing, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:02.440 you know, we get and all of a sudden that 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.600 second half comes out and go where this come from? 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.640 Where these guys come from the uniform. All of sudden 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.200 they're just rolling down the field that that defense is 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.640 smothering and everything. These guys started cranking up the music. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:22.679 Only idiots getting, you know, in the problem with with it. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.959 There's this one guy I always see there and I 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.920 have surmised over that they got going, hey, wear's boat camera. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.720 I'm surmised over the years that this guy is a 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.120 cop because I saw like a brawl up there one 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.960 end and he jumped to action, you know, put the 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.160 guy in armbar. So I'm assuming he's some guy in 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.520 a copy. He wears one of those spit hats. It 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.760 looks like their logo, and he's got that. He's right 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.960 in the front row and he's a loud mouth and 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.520 he's just that. But you can't say anything because they're 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.480 kickings every time. You know, I always want to walk 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.720 by him and go look at this and look at 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.640 the way your dressed. You know who you brought to 0:03:55.680 --> 0:04:00.240 the game, but I've never had a chance to. And 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.680 now all of a sudden, I don't go to the game, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.240 and I missed my chance. There you go, that's shant 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.360 that you got. I might have been able to help 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.080 you out. But no, I mean, but those you know, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.000 those those two that that that ten minutes after the 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.560 half of that in the Dolphins did. I think they 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.800 just did an awesome job of just managing the way 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.479 the game was going and taking advantage of what was 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.880 given to him. And and you know, we we've talked 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.279 about a time and time again, almost at nauseum. Now 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.320 fits and what he's meant to this team when he 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.159 meets each and every week, and just all the things 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.120 that he gives this team. You talked about that first 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.839 drive going to Davante moving with his feet a little bit, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.279 doing everything, running in for another touchdown later in the game. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:48.280 I mean, just he just well, I mean, I'm amazed 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.359 at what he can do for where he's at in 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.840 his career. And I was thinking about this. We're doing 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.120 a post game last night, and I'm thinking to myself, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.840 you know, we've had We've had Hall of Fame quarterbacks 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.479 in Bob greasy, and Dan Marino I said, and I 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.600 don't I think you know, the only time I've ever 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.640 seen some a quarterback come in for a one year 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.600 stint like this and and make this much impact With 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.960 Chad Pennington, right, Pennington came in and realized stabilized the 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.800 whole offense and took him into the playoffs, the whole thing. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.080 And and fitz didn't get in the playoffs. But but 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.719 I think fitz was working with a much different palette 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.719 than than than Pennington was working with from from a 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:31.120 talent standpoint. But it's just remarkable looking back and counting 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.880 this game, looking back and thinking how much Fitzpatrick has 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.800 met to this football team, beginning in the fourth quarter 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.960 of the Washington Redskins and moving forward to what this 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.960 team has become right now. It's amazing how a team 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:48.280 can respond to a player. And you would say, if 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.279 he's gonna play any position, it better be quarterback because 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.400 he's in control of a lot of things. You know, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.880 he's kind of getting the formations, getting the terminology correct, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.880 getting the information out to everybody, adjusting on the fly, 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.000 making sure everybody has those things that they need to 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.320 be successful on that particular play. But I think the 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.040 intangibles you cannot put a price on what what he 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.880 brings to this team. Now I don't I wouldn't necessarily 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.160 limited to the offense. I would say that the defense 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.120 picks up on the vibe when they're sitting on that 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.800 bench and they're looking up at the big board and 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.600 they go, man, he did it. Look at that did 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.560 our guy didn't begin? You know, he did it again. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.480 He moved the chains again, we get to rest for 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.000 another three plays or whatever the case may be. I 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.159 just think that that that that brings the team together 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.599 when you have a guy at that position that can 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:40.200 do it with his action, not so much his words, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.720 but then sometimes he does it without saying much. It's 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.040 just that look or that that feeling you have when 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.680 he saunters into the huddle with confidence and he and 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.240 he's bringing everybody's temperature down so they can think instead 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.640 of just kind of flying off and you miss all 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.320 those pre snap penalties and everybody's you know, on edge. 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.320 He brings a calmness to the team, and I think 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.679 that over over there, probably the last month and a half, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.080 you've seen that filter into everybody every phase of the game. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.920 Kind of takes on his bravado and I think that's 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.520 that's a great one to have. I think you're right. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.880 I think he permeates the defense as well as as 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.440 he commands that offense. And and it's it's remarkable to watch. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.960 And John you you talk you, I think you mentioned 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.480 the thing to me that's most it's hard to put 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.840 your finger on you you see it, and you know 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.600 it when you see it, But it's hard to put 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.080 your finger on it. But you know, you you look 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.320 at his look at the way. Not the greatest runner 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.840 in in in at the quarterback position in the National 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.040 Football League, not the greatest passer in in the in 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.280 the quarterback position. But I don't know that I've seen 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.760 many quarterbacks in this league that have the package of 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:49.320 intangibles that he has. And you mentioned intangibles, those things 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.280 that you can't you can kind of point to, but 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.880 you can't put your finger on it what it is. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.760 But it's just you know, it's it's you know, I've 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.680 experience I experienced that. I've said this before, I've I 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.480 E arean still a lot with with with a guy 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.760 that we had in Don Strock. You know, Don was 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:06.640 the guy that rarely played. He was a backup guy. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.920 He was the ultimate backup. He was like a coach 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.720 on the sideline. He was a mentor to Danny when 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.800 Danny came in. He learned from Greece, you know, and 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.640 so he has he's wealth of knowledge over there, and 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:19.880 you know, and and he brought intangibles even though he 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.080 wasn't in the game. He brought intangibles. You know, this 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.559 guy is is very similar. But he's in the game 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.040 and he and he's making things happen. And sometimes you 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.480 want to how, you know, how how can that guy 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.560 how can a guy see that seemed to step through 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:35.960 and then look a guy off and then pick up 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.880 ten yards to give me a critical first down. Well, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.880 when you're not expecting it, just it goes on and 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.439 on on and to the point where you know, I've 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.040 said this before. I was when when when they signed him, 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.520 and then when the Rosen deal was done and saying, hey, great, 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.719 you know, you know your guy physically be a one 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.959 and done guy. He's gonna come here do whatever, and 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.719 then Rosen is gonna get his chance and probably be 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.960 the guy. And boy, what a what a what a 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.160 what a mistaken idea entity that I put on with 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.760 with the situation with the quarterback because fits you know, now, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.520 I think it's pretty clear that Rosen's tenure with the 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.360 Dolphins is probably pretty much numbered at this point. But boy, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.600 everybody in this building, everybody that's been that's a serious 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.120 fan that's watched this football team, is saying, you damn right, 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.200 I want him back next year. I don't care what 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.360 happens with the draft. I don't care what happens, and 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.880 I don't care what happens in that quarterback room. I 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.640 want him to be one of those guys in that room, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.319 and you know what, I want him to have the 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.720 football first and see who can see who can take 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.960 it away from him. I just think it's exciting for 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.240 Miami Dolphin fans to know that you're going to get 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.200 a young quarterback in the next year and a half 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.520 to two years that hopefully is going to be the 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.040 next franchise quarterback of the Miami Dolphins. You're gonna have 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.920 that opportunity um to select a guy that that might 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.240 come in and be the guy for a long time. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.160 But you have a quarterback and Ryan Fitzpatrick that's going 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.920 to push this guy, that's going to teach this guy 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.959 that's going to all the things necessary to show him 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.760 how to be the best pro he can be. At 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.760 the same time going to compete with this guy to 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.000 to make him be be that that player you want 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.040 him to be on the field, not only in the 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.080 classroom or in the meeting room, or in the lunch 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.160 room or going out for a beer to kind of 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.840 see what type of person this guy is, but going 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.080 out on the football field and every day pushing him 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.440 to be at his best so he can raise the 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.360 level of the players around him. And I think that's 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.280 the biggest attribute or or you know, tip of the 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.560 cap you could give to Fits is that he raised 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.480 Davante Parker's level of competitiveness and consistency. He raised Mike 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:41.079 Asiki's level of competitiveness and consistent consistency. He got a 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.000 rookie that he worked with in the in the O 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.440 T A S and work with you know in training 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.680 camp that he was like, Hey, this kid's gonna be something. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:49.640 He's one of the best guys I've seen to come 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.880 around in a long time. He got Alan hearns to 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.440 play at a higher level. You know, he got a 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.600 lot of guys. You know, let's not. Let's not forgive 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.040 that this offensive line struggled and he helped that offensive line. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.440 His move his ability to move in the pocket, his 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.079 ability to see that crack and you know when when 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.679 everything's coming in, stepped through that crack and all now 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.200 the rush is behind him. He can look across the field, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.679 throw it, run it, do whatever he needs. I mean, 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.440 he's helped. He's helped every aspect of that offense, from 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.160 the from the from the guy who snaps him the 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.400 ball to the guy who catches the ball. The guys 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.439 are blocking everybody that that participate in this offense. At 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.760 some point he made them better. You know what's funny, Boat, 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.120 I'm standing on the sidelines yesterday and I'm always watching 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.559 it through the goggles of if I was still playing 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.120 the position at quarterback. So I'm standing there and there's 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.080 a TV time out and the kind of plays are 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.080 going back and forth and change a possession, we're gonna 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.240 get the football, and my eyes immediately go to the quarterback. 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.600 I'm making sure I'm counting who's on the field and 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.520 what's out there. But then I immediately go to Ryan 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.920 and I'll watch him and he's got his you know 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.520 chin strap unbuckled. He's trying to get his beard right 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.040 and you know, trying to fit the chin cup to 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:56.959 get it in there just right, you know. And as 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.600 he's doing it, he's kind of sauntering onto the field. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.240 He's not running, he's not walking, but he's kind of 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.160 just meandering towards the huddle. And at that time, the 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.640 lineman are kind of looking around, where's our guy, you know, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:12.360 and they see him and there's no panic because he doesn't. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.520 We don't need to go right now. You guys need 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.960 to get your ship together. You guys need to get 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.160 your mind right, because when I step in the huddle, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.280 we're gonna get going. So everybody kind of has their 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.960 break period. And I'm thinking that's the way that that's 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.880 the way I see it, and if I'm seeing it 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.280 that way, those ten other guys have to be seen 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.120 it that way. And it kind of brings everybody down 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.920 to focus on what they need to do on that 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.160 particular play or they're anticipating that play, and it gets 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.840 their focus that much instead of having a guy running 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:45.760 in there, you know, having you know, having some it 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.719 just feels right, you know the other thing, and you 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.680 touched on a little bit is you know, you know 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.840 you watch his team, is it is it progressed through 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.320 the year. I mean take take week one and week two, 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.600 you know, Baltimore and in New England to to just 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.079 pitiful games. It looked like it was gonna be it's 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.160 gonna be a track meet all all year long, right, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:05.640 and you guys are gonna worn figure out. You guys 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.280 are gonaad of wearing their cleats, are gonna wear track 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.640 bites out there because it's gonna be running up in 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.440 the field. But but as as the season went on 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.520 and you talked about him helping the guys on the 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.600 other side, you know, you start having drives now one 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.800 to three first downs, moving the chains where it's not 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.040 that three and out boom here they come, bang bang 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.240 bang bang touchdown. Now you're right back on the field again. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.439 You know, he he allowed that defense time to catch 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.720 their breath, time to not be in the in the 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.160 in the heat all the time. Now, there were times 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.640 when they're they're they're behind, and you know they're they're 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.760 they're they're getting thrown on in this and that. But 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.800 when that offense was moving, when they had when that 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.360 offense and and look it was. This wasn't easy offense 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.040 to move John, because you look at it now, seasons over, 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.480 you've played sixteen games, Ryan Fitzpatrick, as you're leading rusher, 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.160 how do you have an offense that's as effective as 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.360 it was to win five games when you're when you're 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.760 leading rusher, is your quarterback? You don't even have three 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:03.199 hundred yards? No, you know, So it's not like he's 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:07.080 not like DS. You know, he's not not you know, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.880 you're not You're not running for a hundred and thirty 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.640 yards a game, you know. But but but still, somehow 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.840 you've made an offense work with I don't know if 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.679 there's been a I don't know if there has been 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.840 a team in the National Football League with less total 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.160 yards rushing in a season than what the Dolphins have 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.400 had this year. Yet you've been able to put an 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.400 offense together. It moves the chains, puts points on the board, 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:33.680 and it's allowed you went five football games. I think 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.800 it's it's a culmination of their execution got better. I mean, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.480 obviously it had to the way that this team started. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.680 I just think that you know, you had a first 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.160 time offensive coordinator that kind of got into a groove 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.000 a little bit more than he was. You know, in 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.560 the beginning, you're not sure what you have and you're 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.760 not sure where you're at with your football team. You 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.400 don't have a really a starting quarterback that you're gonna 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.120 say this is our guy for the whole year. You're 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.080 you're moving in and out of types of offenses that 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.280 you can run. The offensive line was patchwork for the 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.880 I don't know most of the season. You know, you 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.040 had a rotation at guard, you had tackles playing, you know, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.960 different positions. I just think that there was a lot 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.080 of things that contributed to the inability to move the 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.920 football with any consistency. And as the middle of the 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.640 season went along, or after that first quarter of the season, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.480 you started seeing more consistency at certain positions. It helps 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.480 when you have a quarterback that plays at a high level, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.000 that doesn't give it away all the time. And you 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.480 started getting more complimentary football too out of your defense. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.880 So I think it's it started to kind of come 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.840 together a little bit more after that fourth quarter of 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.120 the of the Washington game, and they got a little 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.480 bit more consistent. You could argue bo uh for a 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.000 team that ran the football so little, and that didn't 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.280 light the scoreboard on fire. But in the games that 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.960 they won, scored enough to win. This team could have 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.720 been a seven six seven wins, I mean, and that's 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.800 that's that's not a fan in me coming saying you 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:02.360 look at you go for you you you make the 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.400 two point conversion and and there's another one there. It's 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.800 six wins, you know, and you were compared to oh, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.800 you're going down to score to make it twenty to 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.680 nine in a game that you've dominated in terms of 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.840 they didn't do anything, and you know, you throw the 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.200 pick and all of a sudden they gone eight yards 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.640 or whatever it was nine And it changes the complexion 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:24.280 and game after the two point conversions. So there there 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.400 were there were some games in there, you know that 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.720 you got kind of scratch your head and go this, Yeah, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.640 you got to credit the coaching staff. No, I look, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.000 I I you know, I I go right there and 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.080 I keep I keep looking at this scenario where you've 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.840 got all this money and free agency, you've got all 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.920 these draft choices. But somehow my mind keeps going to 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:50.600 the Nick Needham's, z Eric Rose, the young guys like that. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:56.880 So you know, some of the linebacker vice Beagles get 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.880 called these guys some of them were Herns, you know, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:07.880 and um, how about the movement And what all this 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.679 is telling me is that you know, and these are 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.679 all guys half of them didn't even start with this 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.520 team that came in midway here and there, and they've 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.879 been thrown in. But what's telling me is that, you know, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.000 unlike this year, going in, unlike a lot of years 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.160 in the past, going in where you know you're you're 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.679 you're getting your depth because you're keeping every draft choice. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.679 You're probably keeping four or five free agent rookie free agents. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.480 Because if you want, you know, if you want to 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.560 you want to pay big money up top, you gotta 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.919 have some some nickel and dime guys at the bottom. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:45.280 Great job experience. But now you've got guys out here 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.200 that the Rows and the Hartages and the you know, Parkers, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.320 and these guys that have played a lot of downs. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.600 They're gonna come back and they're gonna be your second 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.439 and third teamers next year. They're they're gonna be someting 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.560 and some may not. But those guys that may not, 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.359 Nick to him, I don't see Nick need him starting 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.040 a corner. But he's going to compete. But he's good. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.160 But but but if a guy goes down, he's got 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:11.600 to come in. He's played meaningful plays, he knows the system, 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.080 he's been in those games. It's nothing new to him. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.960 And you can say that across the board offensive line wise, wide, 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.320 receiver wise, you know, running backwise. You get down to 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.399 your down to Patrick Lairs. And Patrick Lair is a 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.880 viable We'll look at Patrick. So look at Patrick Laird yesterday. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.080 Now didn't give me much in the running game this 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.040 and that especially, he accounted for sixty nine total yards, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.800 sixty totally yards of offense, you know, and in an 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.080 offense that you're kind of picking here and picking there 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:45.800 a little screen patiently. But all those guys that the 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:49.960 layers of the layers of confidence they're getting most of 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.040 those guys who are special teams guys by trade and 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.440 gonna be special teams guys for the most of their career. 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.359 But now they've got a level of experience stacked on 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.280 him of playing in games, of being in big games, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.520 of being in those situations putting standing go over receiver. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:04.679 You're gonna, god, damn, I don't know if I can 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.520 cover this guy. And then all of a sudden, you do, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.639 what about Eric Roe and what he's become This team 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.560 has had, This team has had tight end envy for 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.120 for for a second, you have a tight end envy 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:16.480 because we don't have a tight end to committed to 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.439 get down the middle of the field and make big plays. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.760 And you have envy because you don't have anyone to 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.120 get cover him. Now you got a sky that's proven 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.199 to be that guy. But Eric Roe has proven to 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.520 be a valuable guy when it comes to the team. 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.440 And so you know, you kind of look at you're 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.200 starting to look at that that new England model up there, 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.760 and you're starting to see little bits and piece of 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.560 that like Eric Row. Well, you know what, Eric Row, Uh, 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:45.520 you know, bring him back next year and just let 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:49.639 him cover tight ends, you know that's what. But that 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.720 that's that find out what guys do best, put him 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.840 in that position and let him play that position to 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.880 be successful. I agree, I agree, And and you can't 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.960 say enough about the bottom end to this roster, the 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.280 way that they've been coached up, the way they had 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.560 their opportunities. Now some may have thrived a little bit 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.240 more than others, but they still had all that opportunity 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.119 to put on tape what they can do. And now 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.000 when you you have you mentioned the influx of talent. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:16.639 You know, you have the draft choices, you have the 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.440 undrafted guys come in. Now you've got competition. Now you've 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.480 got competition. Not only that is not green as you 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.719 might have had it, had you had you know, some 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.040 of the veterans that hung on and you weren't sure 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.360 where they were gonna go. Hey, you you cut bait 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.199 with a lot of guys, either through I R or 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:36.960 through just you know, we've we've seen enough and now 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:38.960 you're gonna have a lot of youth on this football team. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.199 This team is still gonna be young and on a 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:42.840 team that has a lot of money to spend in 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.640 free agency. Like you said, the bottom has to match 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.080 the top at some point in terms of, well, we've 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.600 got eight guys we've gotta pay X. We better find 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.920 another ten or twelve that that can offset that that 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.800 pay and be able to be viable options on this roster. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.119 And I think that that's what the Dolphins with you know, 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.080 probably five six weeks into the season, when we started 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.600 to know, hey, who is who's these guys? You know, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.720 who's Hey, Hayes, I don't know. Yeah, but but but 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.520 who who are these Who's you know hardage at this point, 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.399 and look at need them and look at the test 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.440 you've put these guys too. A lot of these guys, 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.720 you put them to a test. Like guy comes in 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.760 on Wednesday, You're starting on Saturday. Bro, you better be 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.280 ready to go because you know we're gonna teach you up. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:24.720 We're gonna school you up. We're gonna put you in 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.040 the meeting room and let you know. But come Sunday 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:32.919 you're play. And and what you've seen more than not 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.760 is even if guys see new guys out there and 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.399 they're not that, but they don't. The thing that the 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.399 cool thing about this team was no one flinched. All right. 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.720 We got guys that no one knows. We got guys 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.840 that no one would take on their roster. But you 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.000 know what, we're gonna roll with them because number one, 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.760 ultimately you're you are what you are in terms of 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.840 where your records canna be, We're gonna be anywhere from 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.879 two or three wins to four or five I don't know. 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:00.800 I mean, we were kind of going to the grass 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.359 is green or thinking about the reality of six. But 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:06.760 it was there with the roster that no one really 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.440 would want in terms of they wouldn't want them name only. 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:12.119 They didn't know what type of guy they were. They 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:17.280 didn't know what type of players. Who's the guy from Now, 0:22:17.359 --> 0:22:19.800 I'll take the guy from Oklahoma. Well, maybe I'll take 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.359 this guy. You know, they might not have wanted, you know, 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.760 to take a chance on these guys. But when you're 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.400 looking at a specific type of player, I think that's 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.399 where the communication from the coaching staff to the front office, 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:33.360 what do you need. I need a quick twitch guy 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:36.399 that that can run. Okay, let's try this guy this week. 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:38.440 That he didn't. He wasn't the guy who look for 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:42.160 Let's try another guy. And they found people now through 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.960 five weeks, six weeks, seven weeks of actually playing in 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.960 NFL games, that they feel confident they've got tape on 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:50.680 they can go, yeah, we like this trade. We can 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:55.040 correct that that flaw, you know, we can correct on technique, 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.320 on alignment, on how you play the position. Now they 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.120 got Now they got bodies, Now they have depth, they're 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:05.280 building that. It was almost like sixteen preseason games rolled 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.439 into a season where you could evaluate and now you 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.680 now you build depth. But you know, the other thing too, 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.240 is that you know and I think it was I 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:15.480 want to say it was. Hal Habib wrote an article 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:18.680 the other day from the Palm Beach Post, and I 0:23:18.680 --> 0:23:21.960 found it interesting because he went around and talked to 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.160 guys in the locker room and said, Hey, what would 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.639 you say to your a friend of yours or a 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:30.680 guy that's a potential free agent or somebody that the 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.119 Dolphins are gonna trade for. What would you say to 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.520 them about coming and playing for the Miami Dolphins. You know, 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.399 everyone thinks there's a waste land and this and that, 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:41.959 and and every guy said, first of all, I tell 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:44.280 him this is a place you want to be. And 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.880 then they said, but if you're gonna come, you better 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:50.040 come ready to work, because it's it's it's not mentioning. 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:53.439 There's one way gone. It's this west southway, and you 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:55.919 better be on time, and you better be ready to work, 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.119 and you be ready, better ready, be ready to invest 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:01.120 your time in it and be ready to go. And 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:06.000 and you heard that refrain over and over of of 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:08.960 guy just saying, hey, look, man, you love to be here. 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:10.840 But if you be here, if you're gonna come here, 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:13.880 and and to me, you know, I've hear it. I've 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:16.679 I've heard it too many times here, I've heard it 0:24:16.680 --> 0:24:19.320 too many times from everywhere else. It's all about culture. 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:21.359 It's all about culture. It's all about culture. It's our culture, 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:23.639 it's our culture. Well, you know, Adam Gays had a culture. 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.760 It was a shitty culture. Everybody's gone, everyone's got a culture. 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:32.159 But you're seeing what you're seeing here is is is 0:24:32.200 --> 0:24:36.560 a culture that demands what makes winning for what's what 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:41.639 makes teams win is discipline. You know, don't beat yourself, 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:45.480 study hard, be in the right place at the right time, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:49.120 and do your job. And I think that's the culture 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:52.000 that's been set out in no uncertain terms to the 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:54.439 point when you've got the players saying, hey, yeah, you 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:55.800 want to come here because this is gonna be a 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:59.360 good place to me. But but I'm telling you better 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:01.760 pack your bad You're better black pack your lunch box 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:03.960 because it's no pickling when you come here. How many 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:06.159 times did we hear coach Florida say this year you 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:09.160 lose more games in the NFL than your exactly and 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:11.600 look at all the things that he tried to correct 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:16.800 from day one. What we harped on discipline, self imposed penalties, 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:20.200 pre snap penalties, all the little things that that beat you, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.000 all the hidden yards and special teams that you can 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:26.120 either lose or gain, all the little things that all 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.800 the unnecessary things. The Dolphins kind of cut those, probably 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:33.240 more than in half. They probably went, you know, closer 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:36.040 to you know, a third in terms of being able 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:38.000 to be closer to where they want to be and 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:40.440 to the top of those, you know, the league in 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:42.760 that staff was listen to Joe Rose Show this morning, 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:45.480 and he might have been talking to Omar or whoever 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:47.040 he was talking to, and they may been Omar. I 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:48.760 don't want to I don't want to give anybody the wrong, 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:52.280 wrong information. But but the comment he made was, was 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:54.679 the last time you saw the Dolphins? Uh one of 0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:58.760 the Dolphins of pre snap jump on offense. I can't 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:01.560 I'm I'm some driving, I'm going on, I'm throwing thing. 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.040 I can't remember. I can't remember the last time the 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:08.240 Dolphins on offense one of the guys jumped pre snap. 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:10.560 You know how many times I mean over the last 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:15.320 six years it was a six You would lose sixty 0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:19.280 yards on pre snaps. Yeah, yeah, and that's one of 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:21.320 the things you're talked about, and we talked about so 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:25.320 so it's you know, it's it's you. You you build 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:28.399 a you build a solid house on foundation. And I 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.439 think that that you know, in the course of of 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.760 one season, one offseason, and one full season, you know, 0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:38.280 the foundation is pretty well set here and and and 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:42.480 it's set because part of the pillars out foundation are 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:45.200 the guys that we're talking to that article talking about, Hey, 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:48.240 you know this is a place to be but you know, 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:51.000 but but there's but there's you know, there's rules there, 0:26:51.080 --> 0:26:53.960 there's rules, there's to do it. There's rules, and you 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:57.199 are held accountable to them. It's not like it's a 0:26:57.280 --> 0:27:01.080 bending type of ye issue where you're late, but you're 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:03.120 really not late. And believe me, there there I've talked 0:27:03.160 --> 0:27:04.720 to guys have played in New England go, hey, look 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:06.960 at you know it was. It's not it's not fun. 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:09.840 It's not a lot of fun up there. But when 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.840 you look back and you've got four Super Bowl rings win, 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:15.919 it's it's you know, I've always said football, football is 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:19.919 not fun. Monday through Friday or Sunday. Sunday is the 0:27:19.920 --> 0:27:22.520 greatest day in the world, but every other day stinks, 0:27:22.560 --> 0:27:25.280 you know, it's it's it's tough. You gotta push yourself 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:29.399 through it. It's a grind. But but those days are winning. 0:27:29.840 --> 0:27:31.440 Those those are what it's all, what it's all worth. 0:27:31.440 --> 0:27:33.880 And when you look back, when you played for a 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.800 Paul Brown, you played for Tom Landry, you played for 0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:39.320 Chuck norm, when you played for Don Shuler, you played 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:43.000 for those old school tough guys. Boy, everybody I talked 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:44.320 to you play for these guys. Guy, I hated the 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:46.240 son of a bit. But then when you step back, 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:48.119 when your career is over and the bag, well, we 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:49.560 want a lot of games. We did a lot of 0:27:49.600 --> 0:27:52.160 things because of that guy in the way he went 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.960 about it. And I just feel like Brian Flores is 0:27:55.280 --> 0:28:00.680 setting that foundation for for long term success with the with, 0:28:00.680 --> 0:28:03.600 with the with, with the fact that he can. It 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:05.880 sounds like he's got the gravitas now after one year 0:28:05.920 --> 0:28:07.800 to be able to demand that and have his players 0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:10.879 go hey, some guy comes in and goes, hey, can 0:28:10.920 --> 0:28:12.920 you believe this bullshit this guy wants me to do? Yeah, 0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:15.600 I can because I did it myself. If you want 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:17.760 to be here, be my guests, go ahead. If you don't, 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:19.919 we'll see it, and it's almost like bow to the 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:22.840 point where those guys are gonna stick out, you know. 0:28:23.200 --> 0:28:25.600 And I think that they're smart enough as a staff 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:28.840 and organizationally as a front office. They're not gonna put 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:31.480 a guy that they're questionable about in a position to 0:28:31.520 --> 0:28:33.560 come on this team because they don't want that guy 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:34.879 in the locker room, they don't want that guy in 0:28:34.920 --> 0:28:37.160 the practice field. They certainly don't want them line them 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:41.240 up on Sundays. So I think that that that foundation 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:44.560 has been firmly set, and I think the traits and 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:47.080 characteristics of the guys that ended up on this roster, 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:49.760 those are the same types that they're looking for in 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:51.760 this offseason. Well, because they're their guys are gonna deliver 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:53.840 the messae they're delivered the you know, the Vet, the 0:28:53.880 --> 0:28:56.920 Christian Wilkins then and the got Shaws and and and 0:28:57.000 --> 0:28:59.760 some of these other guys out there, Xavien and you know, 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:02.320 and and and you know whoever the quarterback is with 0:29:02.440 --> 0:29:04.880 Ryan next year or whoever. You know that they're gonna say, hey, 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:06.760 this is why it is, so why it is you 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:08.560 know self, when you get it, when you get to 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:10.800 a team, when you get a football team, that's gonna 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:13.560 police itself in that locker room and police itself with 0:29:13.600 --> 0:29:15.840 the things that the coaches preaching, and then you know 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:19.200 you've made some strides. I agree, and I think that 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:22.120 this team. The one thing I really liked about watching 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:24.960 them up close this year was the fight that they gave. 0:29:25.240 --> 0:29:26.800 You know that it was it didn't matter if they 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:28.160 were up in a game or if they were down 0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:30.960 in a game. They played with the same level of intensity, 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:33.760 and they played for sixty minutes. They didn't lay down. 0:29:34.120 --> 0:29:36.520 You know, those first two games, like we're talking about, 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:38.200 when you go back, that seems like it was a 0:29:38.240 --> 0:29:41.880 different year. Doesn't seem like it was attached to this season, 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.520 because that those two teams that went out and took 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:48.600 the field were completely different than the last maybe half, 0:29:48.680 --> 0:29:53.360 you know, half before half. The guys aren't on the 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:56.920 you know, we're on the defense. It's it's crazy to 0:29:57.040 --> 0:29:59.520 think that way, but it's almost like you had the 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:01.960 first I don't know, three games, three and a half 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:04.800 games of the season was it was another season, and 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:07.400 then you kind of meandered through a regular season with 0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:10.200 the rest of the fourteen or fifteen games you play. Yeah, yeah, 0:30:10.280 --> 0:30:12.640 but it's it look, I'm very real happy now. Now 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:16.920 now you feel good about going into the offseason, feel 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:19.280 great about it. But but as soon you know, as 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:21.400 soon as that game was over, and you go, man, 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:23.920 what what what what a great way to end the season, 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:27.400 going up to New England in a very very difficult 0:30:27.440 --> 0:30:30.280 place to play, where you've just you know, I'm just 0:30:30.280 --> 0:30:33.120 doing the postgame show last night on CBS four at 0:30:33.160 --> 0:30:35.640 the studio and going, god damn, man, I've been there 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:38.720 twenty freaking times and and and sating that sat and 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:42.520 that that that that that room, that interview room, just 0:30:42.600 --> 0:30:45.200 like downtrodden, going god damn, we got her asses kicked again. 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:49.040 I go, then I don't show up and gets to 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:51.000 win up there and you get to sit there. I 0:30:51.040 --> 0:30:53.120 just wanted to walk in that room, going right, we 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:58.840 kick their ass, don't worry both. I left something in 0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:03.320 the bathroom for it, for you. It was awesome. But 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.920 but as soon as that, as soon as that ended, 0:31:06.600 --> 0:31:10.840 my mind flipped over to Chris Greer and now you know, 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:12.960 and it looks not I'm not I'm not saying that 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:16.120 his job begins now because his job has been going 0:31:16.160 --> 0:31:19.240 on for for years and years and years and and 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:22.240 and but this is his draft. This is his draft 0:31:22.280 --> 0:31:26.080 solely and uh. And he's got a bushel of picks, 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:29.240 he's got a bushel of money. Uh, he can reshape 0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:32.440 this football team. But what I tell you, talk about 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:36.160 it being square on somebody's shoulders. Uh, No matter what happens, 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:40.280 good batter, indifferent after this draft and what happens through 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:43.400 the course of the next year or two, Um, well, 0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:45.520 a lot of that's gonna be squarely on his shoulders. 0:31:45.680 --> 0:31:48.600 I just think that the spotlight and the focus of 0:31:48.600 --> 0:31:51.520 that spotlight changes. You know, it was on this team, 0:31:51.560 --> 0:31:53.400 it was on this head coach, it was on this 0:31:53.480 --> 0:31:56.240 coaching staff, and Chris Greer and his staff were still 0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:58.520 doing their work stuff, but they just weren't didn't have 0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:01.960 the spotlight directly on him. Now the season's over, you 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:04.080 have your any meetings, you're you know, you talk about 0:32:04.080 --> 0:32:06.440 who you want, But that that shift goes now to 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.800 the front office and it squarely focuses on him. So 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:13.240 that big bright spotlight and he'll embrace it. But it's 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:15.680 on him now and it's gonna be on him until 0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:19.480 the draft. You know, it's gonna be through uh Senior Bowl. 0:32:19.760 --> 0:32:23.120 It's gonna be through combine, it's gonna go to free agency, 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:25.440 it's gonna go to the draft, and then it's gonna 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:28.480 go okay after that. Now that, now, what do we have? 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:31.800 Where are we at? How are we better? And you know, 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:35.600 I just like the way that they've gone about if 0:32:35.680 --> 0:32:39.640 if building this roster and changing it up as frequently 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:42.880 as they did, define guys that fit, or any indication 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:45.520 of how they're gonna go about the off season, I'm 0:32:45.640 --> 0:32:49.680 I'm on board. I'm good with it because they don't 0:32:49.720 --> 0:32:52.080 care about egos, they don't care about reputation, they don't 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:54.640 care about anything. If you're a fit, you're a fit. 0:32:54.760 --> 0:32:57.360 If you're not, you're not. It's not like maybe we 0:32:57.400 --> 0:33:00.120 can squeeze this guy in the culture and maybe he 0:33:00.200 --> 0:33:03.320 can we can change him. No, no, no, If you fit, 0:33:03.440 --> 0:33:07.080 you fit, here's the criteria. If you don't, we're not 0:33:07.120 --> 0:33:10.120 gonna consider you. And I think I don't know this 0:33:10.200 --> 0:33:14.080 to be fact, but that's the way my perception, and 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:16.400 that's the way they're gonna go down this offseason. But 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:18.920 I agree that that spotlight is now focused on the 0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:21.440 front office. Yeah, no, it's it. It is on the 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:23.960 front office, no doubt. But the you know the I'm 0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:28.480 sure between Brian and Chris and and everybody that's involved 0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:31.440 in that, the type of guy they're looking for, I 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:33.680 think has been well defined this year. You know, that 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:36.440 guy that's willing to work hard, that guy's willing to bust. 0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:37.960 Is that he may not be the may not be 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:41.400 that prototypical guy you're standing out there, but you know, 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:45.560 there there there's a there's a there's a there's a 0:33:45.640 --> 0:33:48.400 there's a form for that guy. You know, you know, 0:33:48.600 --> 0:33:52.520 hard guy, hard worker, stay extra, get in the books, 0:33:52.920 --> 0:33:55.960 watch tapes, do all those things. That's the that's the 0:33:56.240 --> 0:33:58.960 criteria they're looking for, whether or not that you know, 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:01.560 when the draft comes up, there's a first round or 0:34:01.560 --> 0:34:03.120 the fifth round and you pick some why are they 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:05.160 picking that guy right now? That guy no one having 0:34:05.240 --> 0:34:07.840 had him wall you you're knowing to back their mind. 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:09.560 It may work, it may not have been the back 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:12.040 of the mind. There's something that guy does that they 0:34:12.080 --> 0:34:15.799 feel fits this this football exactly exactly. And I think 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:17.480 that's the way they go about it. And and I 0:34:17.520 --> 0:34:19.680 think when you take a look at the guys, and 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:21.799 we've been around him enough, I mean, look at look 0:34:21.840 --> 0:34:25.200 at p Ryan comes in, he might know three plays. Okay, 0:34:25.440 --> 0:34:28.000 he bolts down the first round, he goes for nine yards. 0:34:28.000 --> 0:34:30.080 I'm going all right, I want to see a little 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:32.200 bit more said, you know, I want to see him 0:34:32.280 --> 0:34:35.360 run up in between the tackles. So you get guys 0:34:35.400 --> 0:34:38.280 in the same way with with you know, Needham's and 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:40.640 guys like that in the back end and Heartage like 0:34:41.200 --> 0:34:45.400 or even uh, what was the nickel Wilts? He played 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:49.239 eighteen different positions back there, but he's still playing, you know, 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:51.719 he's still They're still trying to find a way they 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.440 like get his skill set in the best opportunity, and 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:56.680 that's what they did with Row. So so I I 0:34:56.760 --> 0:34:58.880 like the out of the box and you know, this 0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:01.399 guy might not fit complete at this position, but let's 0:35:01.440 --> 0:35:02.680 not give up on him because he has a lot 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:05.560 of the traits we're looking for. So so let's let's 0:35:05.640 --> 0:35:07.400 let's kind of extend this out a little bit to 0:35:07.520 --> 0:35:10.520 John talking about Chris Greer and and the draft process 0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:12.239 and everything. We know. We know the Dolphins got the 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:14.520 fifth pick, uh in the in the draft and and 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:17.080 then the other two picks will filter out as a 0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:20.360 as a playoffs. What do they say around somewhere or 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:22.600 somewhere around that because they've got the Pittsburgh pick, which 0:35:22.600 --> 0:35:25.000 I think is gonna be around nineteen or something, and 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:27.560 they've got the Houston pick. I believe the other pick 0:35:27.600 --> 0:35:31.640 they got, yeah exactly, um is gonna be you know, 0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:34.239 if it's Houston pick, depending on how far they go, 0:35:34.360 --> 0:35:38.719 could be somewhere on there. But but they've got but 0:35:38.760 --> 0:35:41.960 they've got ammunition to to move around and do something 0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:47.040 some different things out there. But you know, you gotta 0:35:47.080 --> 0:35:48.759 hit in these They gotta hit in these picks. But 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:50.719 the one thing I got is gonna gonna get to 0:35:50.800 --> 0:35:53.239 Going back to one thing we talked about earlier, how 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:55.680 much leeway does it give you give you having fits 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:59.080 back now to where that quarterback is? You know, it 0:35:59.160 --> 0:36:02.000 was a pen ultimate thing. Yeah, I mean before the 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:07.120 season quarterback quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, and it's still quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, quarterback. 0:36:07.680 --> 0:36:11.799 But you know, did this give you another year if 0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:14.160 that guy's not there? If you know, look, it's it's 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:17.440 pretty clear Joe Burrows going, He's going to Cincinnati unless 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:20.800 you drive no, no, no, everything, not even the Brown 0:36:20.920 --> 0:36:26.440 family construed so, but so beyond that, then then everyone 0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:30.560 else has a little yeah, you know, yeah, I think 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:33.239 so you're kind of you're kind of looking at that 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:37.719 formula quarterback and you know, and everything he's got. Yeah, 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:41.279 but yeah, you know it hurts injury. I don't know 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:43.040 if he can throw it as well, but yeah, yeah, 0:36:43.360 --> 0:36:45.920 it's all that, yeah too of the injury. Yeah, he's 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:47.839 got all that, but the injury. Yeah, there's all these 0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:50.719 all these little little red flags up there, you know 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:52.480 that with with each of the one guy that has 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:54.719 no red flags is Joe Burrow, and he's gonna be 0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:56.840 gone with that first pick. And if you think the 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:58.880 defensive ends going in the second, yeah I don't. I 0:36:58.880 --> 0:37:02.040 don't doubt that at all, you know, but but there 0:37:02.040 --> 0:37:03.799 are a lot of good players out there, and you've 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:07.160 got a lot of positions to pick, and so the 0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:10.719 you know, unless you're a hundred percent sol let's say 0:37:10.719 --> 0:37:13.920 you stay at number five and you're a hundred percent soul, 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:17.600 that that that that guy, that that quarterback that's still 0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:22.040 lingering around. If you're still there, unless you're and you 0:37:22.160 --> 0:37:25.640 got fits kind of sitting in your back pocket, you know, 0:37:25.760 --> 0:37:28.920 maybe I take that that, Maybe I take that that linebacker, 0:37:29.040 --> 0:37:31.400 or that that pass rusher, or maybe that you know, 0:37:31.600 --> 0:37:34.319 maybe the kid Judy from uh from the wide out 0:37:34.400 --> 0:37:37.200 from Alabama's is still floating around that. You know, you 0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:39.239 you've got some options there that don't force you to 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:42.279 try to And I think I heard you know these conversations. 0:37:42.680 --> 0:37:45.160 We're not gonna force anybody into that pick. We're not 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:47.520 gonna take a guy that we think is a is 0:37:48.640 --> 0:37:50.920 a twentieth round pick in the in the draft and 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:54.719 and and take them the fifth because we have to, 0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:58.320 because we've we've got two of those in the back. Exactly, 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:01.239 We've got some some of money in our pocket in 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:04.120 terms of picks. And I think I think, quite frankly, 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:06.279 if two of it was your guy and you he 0:38:06.320 --> 0:38:08.520 doesn't have to play right away. I think the answer 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:12.279 comes back to your original question, is fits back on 0:38:12.320 --> 0:38:15.600 this roster? Number one? Does he want to play another season? Um, 0:38:15.640 --> 0:38:17.680 you know with his family in Tampa, you know that, 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:20.680 does he number one? Does he want to play? Number two? 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:24.320 Is that? How does that factor into the equation about 0:38:24.680 --> 0:38:27.200 you know, moving your family or do whatever you have 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:30.600 to do with your family, whatever that situation is. Selfishly 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:32.800 with the Miami Dolphins love to have him back, I 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:36.520 would say absolutely, you know, if we can do it 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.400 tomorrow and get a confirmation on yeah, I'm gonna be 0:38:39.440 --> 0:38:42.759 back for two thousand and twenty. Great that that's unbelievable 0:38:42.960 --> 0:38:45.680 because now that frees you up to take a guy 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:48.000 at five at quarterback and if two is your guy, 0:38:48.080 --> 0:38:51.040 that's great. Um that doesn't have to play in terms 0:38:51.040 --> 0:38:53.319 of hey, we're not gonna rush you to play. We're 0:38:53.320 --> 0:38:56.160 gonna let you get healthy. If you're already healthy, great, 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:58.640 now you go compete. Now you go learn how to 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:02.040 play as an NFL quarterback. And I and who would 0:39:02.040 --> 0:39:03.719 you like to tutor? And we got a guy that's 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:06.279 played now going into his sixteenth year, that's played at 0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:08.799 a pretty high level last season and for for the 0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:11.000 most part his whole career. You know, there's been some 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:14.160 ups and downs, but he's still here and he's a 0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:17.160 viable option to start. You don't have to, but we 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:19.359 want you to compete. It's become you know that this 0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:22.120 league has become so starved for quarterbacks. You know, you 0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:24.200 saw with Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray's number one pick, he's 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:26.040 gonna start, He's gonna go in and look white Frank 0:39:26.040 --> 0:39:28.040 he played. You know, as as a season went on, 0:39:28.120 --> 0:39:29.840 You're starting to see some pretty good things out of 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:32.200 Kyler Murray, and you wonder what he had been like 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:33.920 for him and had he been able to do the 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:36.640 Ma Homes thing and sit behind somebody for a couple 0:39:36.680 --> 0:39:38.719 of years and and then and then get his opportunity. 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:41.200 But but he's gotten better by playing. He's gotten better 0:39:41.200 --> 0:39:43.080 by playing, and I think that he's gotten better and 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:45.000 I think his head coach has gotten better in in 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:48.040 terms of how this offense is gonna fit in the 0:39:48.120 --> 0:39:51.280 National Football League with a guy that's not um maybe 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:54.480 as dynamic of a runner as you see in Baltimore, 0:39:54.880 --> 0:39:58.879 but has different intangibles that gives him similar type skill 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:01.440 sets that that you can then you can take advantage of. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:05.240 They really put pressure on somebody else on a bad team. Yes, okay, 0:40:05.280 --> 0:40:07.719 so not as good as Baltimore, So so you're kind 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:10.720 of not apples to apples, right, But but they got better, 0:40:11.360 --> 0:40:13.560 and I think they got better because they learned how 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:16.120 to use his skill set. The head coach kind of 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:17.920 call him plays for the first time in the National 0:40:17.920 --> 0:40:20.640 Football League, kind of got into his rhythm a little bit. 0:40:20.719 --> 0:40:23.080 So I think that all worked out pretty The guy 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:25.959 that the guy that really intrigues me in this whole 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:28.960 quarterback thing, and look, I'm a Burrow. So I mean 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:30.839 that guy just the game he had the other day 0:40:30.920 --> 0:40:33.319 was just I mean, I don't know which one he 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:35.600 didn't have this right every time you look at and 0:40:35.680 --> 0:40:38.560 you just walked away. I remember seeing when we were 0:40:38.600 --> 0:40:42.520 in Indianapolis and that was the night after that was 0:40:42.560 --> 0:40:45.880 the day after the Alabama l s U game, and 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:48.960 I'm walking back into the UH into the locker room 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:52.680 for something before the game and Mr Ross and Danny 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:54.759 and a bunch of guys coming with Chris Greer all 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:57.040 walking in and so we're walking, Hey, how you guys 0:40:57.040 --> 0:40:58.960 doing it? And go, hey, yeah, I got how'd you 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:00.640 like the game last night? He goes, I love the game? 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.160 He said, Mrs love the game? Was we love those 0:41:03.200 --> 0:41:05.919 quarterbacks too? You know? He goes, that guy Burrow looks 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:08.279 pretty good. But you know, so there there's you know, 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.920 everyone's got the interest, everyone's got there the of those guys, 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:17.160 but um, it's it's it's the guy that the guy 0:41:17.200 --> 0:41:21.040 that that just sticks out in my mind. I hated 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:22.920 to see two of her get hurt because that that 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:26.640 to me, you know, I just I'm so leery of 0:41:26.680 --> 0:41:30.120 seeing guys come in here that you draft high and 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:32.600 they come in and they're hurt, and in your two 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:34.640 weeks into training camp, you're looking, well, where's our new quot. 0:41:34.680 --> 0:41:36.840 Oh he's over there on the stationary body. You know 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:39.879 that that that that just but that that just that 0:41:39.880 --> 0:41:44.360 that that that concerns me. But Jalen Hurts is a 0:41:44.400 --> 0:41:48.040 guy that you know, he's a little Tim Tebow from 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:52.439 the standpoint of maybe he's not the most orthodox guy 0:41:52.480 --> 0:41:55.480 out there, but he's also Tim Tebow because all he 0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:58.080 does is win games. You can say what you want 0:41:58.080 --> 0:42:00.000 to is not the most accurate guy. You know, maybe 0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:02.319 not the best run or not, But god damn when 0:42:02.320 --> 0:42:05.400 the guys playing in the highest level that the college 0:42:05.400 --> 0:42:09.040 football can offer, two of the best programs in the country, 0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:12.960 playing against some of the best programs in the country, 0:42:13.000 --> 0:42:16.600 and all the guys done is win football games, held 0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:19.160 his hot head up high, done what's asked of him, 0:42:19.520 --> 0:42:22.440 gotten better every year, and boy, it just you know, 0:42:22.440 --> 0:42:23.920 he's one of those guys you wanted to think, you know, 0:42:24.120 --> 0:42:27.040 it's for whatever, somehow, some way, I would like to 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:29.520 have that guy on my team, right you know, you 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:32.200 want to have more of that type of player on 0:42:32.239 --> 0:42:34.719 your team. And I think that's where the Miami Dolphins 0:42:35.360 --> 0:42:38.560 are going with this roster. I don't know, but but 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:41.000 you kind of put a big question mark over the 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:45.160 quarterbacks because after Joe Burrow, like he said, we're not 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:49.040 sure what flavor is gonna fit the Miami Dolphins. And 0:42:49.040 --> 0:42:51.640 and you don't know, you know, how many hands are 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:53.399 gonna go up when you, you know, say a name 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:56.040 and who are we on board with? Right? Because you're 0:42:56.080 --> 0:42:58.719 not sure. You're just not sure. There's so many there's 0:42:58.719 --> 0:43:01.520 so many things out there you can't control in terms 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:04.000 of where you're gonna select, who you're gonna pick, who's 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:05.680 gonna be there. So let me ask you this, John, 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:08.279 beyond beyond. Let's let's go beyond this year. Let's just 0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:11.120 move to next year. And the Trevor Lawrence in the 0:43:11.120 --> 0:43:16.600 fields and field from You've seen enough of those, enough 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:19.000 of those two guys to say their number one and 0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:22.880 number two coming out and absolutely and and you know 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:28.240 as much as you can say sure fires, you believe 0:43:28.239 --> 0:43:30.279 both those guys are those guys. When you go through 0:43:30.320 --> 0:43:32.880 a season of college football and you throw it as 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:35.720 much as those guys do, and you throw forty touchdowns 0:43:35.719 --> 0:43:38.400 and only one interception, and then you know you you 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:40.279 throw one against Clemson at the end. I don't know 0:43:40.280 --> 0:43:42.600 if it was a busted route guy changed up on you. 0:43:42.719 --> 0:43:45.359 But for Fields to do that in a season and 0:43:45.400 --> 0:43:48.480 come in fourth in the Heisman voting, are you are 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:51.799 you kidding me? Right? So now on the other side, 0:43:51.800 --> 0:43:53.759 you got Trevor Lawrence. Ever, this guy is not very 0:43:53.760 --> 0:43:56.120 good this year. He's having a down year, he's having 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:58.200 a bad year. They only beat in North Carolina by 0:43:58.200 --> 0:43:59.799 a point, and then all of a sudden, he goes 0:43:59.840 --> 0:44:01.719 on run. It doesn't throw a pick for like, I 0:44:01.719 --> 0:44:04.640 don't know, eight games in a row or something like that, 0:44:05.200 --> 0:44:07.959 and he runs of football at six six like a 0:44:07.960 --> 0:44:11.040 a train, you know, against a really good defense in 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:16.080 Ohio State. Those guys are sure, those guys unquestionably, you know, 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:17.960 we were talking about the butts on some of the 0:44:18.000 --> 0:44:21.480 guys in terms of yeah, he has this, but those guys, 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:25.160 I'm not sure. I think, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:27.239 interesting to see over there this year and next year. 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:30.359 The because you know, John, we're we're seeing we're also 0:44:30.440 --> 0:44:34.320 kind of in that in that in the league wide 0:44:35.120 --> 0:44:38.359 picture of you know, all these guys are you know, 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:40.839 Philip Rivers now question what's gonna happen with him. He's 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:43.839 in the seventeenth year. You look at Tom Brady, he's 0:44:43.840 --> 0:44:47.800 in his seventeenth or eighteenth year. Ben Roethlisberger got the shoulder, 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:50.280 he's in sixty. All these guys are at the twilight 0:44:50.320 --> 0:44:52.759 of their care Drew Brees, there's all those guys that 0:44:52.840 --> 0:44:56.880 have been those because nowadays, going going back to probably 0:44:56.920 --> 0:45:00.680 before Danny, but right around that time is when if 0:45:00.719 --> 0:45:03.520 you became a franchise quarterback, you're gonna play fifteen to 0:45:03.600 --> 0:45:07.000 seventeen years, right, That's that's kind of the number. Now 0:45:07.320 --> 0:45:09.040 when you go back look at all these guys now 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:12.120 and they're all their fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years. But that 0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:17.080 also leads to this whole new influx of young quarterbacks 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:19.960 coming into the league that are stepping up and and 0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:22.719 and and stepping up behind these guys that that are 0:45:22.760 --> 0:45:26.000 that are either getting hurt like Roethlisberger, your Mason Rudolph 0:45:26.040 --> 0:45:28.399 gets the opportunity to to show off a little bit, 0:45:28.480 --> 0:45:32.480 and and Minnesou the guy up in uh Jacksonville, or 0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:35.600 these young guys are getting opportunities to get out there 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:38.480 that are gonna be the next tier, the next tiers 0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:44.320 of uh you know, uh lock now and the kidding, 0:45:44.600 --> 0:45:49.600 kidding Jones up in uh with the Giants. You're seeing 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:52.040 some stuff out of Daniel Jones. And so this whole, 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:55.439 this whole quarterback landscape over the next three or four 0:45:55.520 --> 0:45:59.200 years is going to completely change. And it's who's gonna 0:45:59.239 --> 0:46:01.359 have that guy that's gonna be there for the next 0:46:01.400 --> 0:46:04.920 seventeen years. It's gonna be the Russell Wilson's and the 0:46:04.960 --> 0:46:08.000 Patrick Mahomes are gonna be the veteran guys and and 0:46:08.040 --> 0:46:09.959 all these other guys that are coming in are trying 0:46:10.000 --> 0:46:13.520 to be that guy. Yeah, so that'll be It is 0:46:13.560 --> 0:46:15.840 gonna be interesting. And that's why it's it's so critical 0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:18.600 for the Miami Dolphins to make the right choice and 0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:21.640 not just to make a choice um in this year's 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:24.319 draft just because you feel like you have to, you know, 0:46:24.480 --> 0:46:26.759 I mean, there you want to take a quarterback. I 0:46:26.960 --> 0:46:29.800 don't think there's any question they're gonna take a quarterback. 0:46:30.160 --> 0:46:32.480 It just where are they going to take it if 0:46:32.480 --> 0:46:36.040 it's not the guy they want at five? And maybe 0:46:36.040 --> 0:46:39.920 they go back and get another you know, I don't know. 0:46:40.160 --> 0:46:42.040 I mean, there's a lot of the you know what 0:46:42.080 --> 0:46:43.640 they there's a lot of things you can do, a 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:45.920 lot of things you can do. I mean, you know 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:48.080 when you when you look at priorities on this team, 0:46:48.080 --> 0:46:52.759 you know, quarterback is certainly a priority, but pass rushers asked, 0:46:52.800 --> 0:46:57.160 rush is to me that that defensive van outside linebacker, 0:46:57.280 --> 0:47:01.160 that that disruptive pass rusher. To me, this as important 0:47:01.200 --> 0:47:03.800 as that quarterback in there. And you know what, that 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:07.480 that offensive tackle or that offensive guard or that center 0:47:07.840 --> 0:47:10.520 is just as important. And that's why you're you're so 0:47:10.600 --> 0:47:13.560 happy the Miami Dolphins. They have three number ones. Two 0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:16.680 number two is two. Number three's they're gonna get. They're 0:47:16.680 --> 0:47:18.880 gonna get a quarterback, they're gonna get a pass rusher, 0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:22.359 they're gonna get an offensive lineman or two. And now 0:47:22.400 --> 0:47:25.279 you've got three more picks and you've got you've got 0:47:25.320 --> 0:47:27.960 free agency to go out and find some of those 0:47:28.000 --> 0:47:30.359 guys that you know that are that are that are 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:32.880 those you know that that that guy that's maybe your 0:47:32.960 --> 0:47:35.480 third pass rusher, or maybe that guy that's that's that 0:47:35.560 --> 0:47:38.000 offensive guard that that really fits in for you, that's 0:47:38.000 --> 0:47:40.560 got three or four year four more years left in him. 0:47:40.600 --> 0:47:43.080 You know, yeah. I mean, I always got lineman. Alabama 0:47:43.120 --> 0:47:45.680 has some great lineman there. There's some good offensive lineman 0:47:45.680 --> 0:47:48.160 out there. I just think you're you're you're come away 0:47:48.200 --> 0:47:50.719 with the first round. You're gonna get a quarterback, You're 0:47:50.760 --> 0:47:53.040 gonna get a pass rusher, and then you're gonna probably 0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:55.800 get an offensive lineman. And I think, and I wouldn't 0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:58.080 rule out, they're gonna get some type of running back 0:47:58.600 --> 0:48:01.160 somewhere in those first you know, six to eight picks, 0:48:01.800 --> 0:48:03.680 because there's a lot of good ones out there, and 0:48:03.719 --> 0:48:05.960 you can stockpile another young guy in here. Yeah. It's 0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:07.719 funny how you you know, we came into this year 0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:09.719 and you're looking at the running back situation. You're going, hey, 0:48:09.760 --> 0:48:12.920 you're looking pretty good here with Kenyan Drake. Uh, you know, 0:48:13.000 --> 0:48:16.880 you got klin Blage, you got Miles Gasking, the draft choice, 0:48:16.960 --> 0:48:19.440 you got this day, You're feeling pretty good. And and 0:48:19.480 --> 0:48:23.240 then you had um get from you am I forget 0:48:23.600 --> 0:48:27.880 help quickly? Forget Oh Mark Mark Walton's were pretty stout 0:48:27.920 --> 0:48:29.560 in that, and that all of a sudden, that running 0:48:29.600 --> 0:48:34.319 back room became completely depleted, right And and I don't 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:37.560 think there's anybody in that room other than maybe the 0:48:37.600 --> 0:48:41.640 young guys. Look, I gotta think klein Blage is probably 0:48:42.040 --> 0:48:44.279 you know, his stock is is not there. Not too 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:46.759 bullish on his stock right now after what what they 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:49.080 saw from him this year. But who knows what happens 0:48:49.120 --> 0:48:51.520 during the offseason and moving forward. But you know, that's 0:48:51.520 --> 0:48:54.520 another room that needs to be reloaded. Yeah, there's a 0:48:54.560 --> 0:48:56.520 lot of change. It's still gonna occur. I mean, we 0:48:56.520 --> 0:48:59.400 we thought we had seen probably as much change on 0:48:59.440 --> 0:49:02.600 a roster that we would ever see. Um, I think 0:49:02.640 --> 0:49:05.080 that this is gonna be this This offseason is gonna 0:49:05.080 --> 0:49:08.800 be unbelievable in terms of getting an influx of new players, 0:49:09.000 --> 0:49:12.360 an influx of of draft choices and free agency and 0:49:12.560 --> 0:49:17.319 undrafted guys. It's gonna be uh, highly competitive to be 0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:19.680 a member of the Miami Dolphins. It's gonna be It's well, 0:49:19.719 --> 0:49:21.960 it's gonna be much like this year. It's gonna be uh, 0:49:22.040 --> 0:49:23.840 you know, training camps. They're gonna be a lot of 0:49:23.840 --> 0:49:25.839 guys coming through this building over the next hand full 0:49:25.880 --> 0:49:27.520 of years. And like I said that, you know that 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:31.000 they've talked about people talking about how we're gonna we're 0:49:31.000 --> 0:49:32.880 always gonna turn the bottom of that roster, try to 0:49:32.880 --> 0:49:34.839 find that one guy. And but I don't think I've 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:36.960 ever seen a team and I've seen I've seen this 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:38.800 team turn that roster a lot towards the end of 0:49:38.800 --> 0:49:42.600 the season, but from week one to week seventeen, well, 0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:44.560 I don't know if I've seen that revolving door spin 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:46.120 in the way it's it's it's fun. And and they 0:49:46.160 --> 0:49:49.320 found some guys that did look like there's some some 0:49:49.320 --> 0:49:51.840 some you know, some opportunity to be some pretty decent players. 0:49:52.040 --> 0:49:54.520 I think so. And you have to credit, you know, 0:49:54.800 --> 0:49:57.000 the way that the front office has worked with the 0:49:57.040 --> 0:49:59.120 coaching staff and the way that they've gotten in their 0:49:59.160 --> 0:50:02.080 guys in terms of the skill set they're looking for. 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:04.879 And it's tough to dependcil in guys, like you said 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:08.240 earlier in this podcast about getting a guy and signing 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:11.080 him on Tuesday, goes out to practice on Wednesday and 0:50:11.200 --> 0:50:14.280 is playing, is starting, not just playing on special teams, 0:50:14.520 --> 0:50:18.440 He's starting and playing on special teams on that Sunday. 0:50:18.480 --> 0:50:21.319 It was unbelievable at the defensive back position. You have 0:50:21.400 --> 0:50:23.520 to credit the guys on the staff that got them 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:27.000 ready and and the guys in the front office that identified, 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:28.640 you know, the scouts that are out there kind of 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:31.400 pounding the payment in terms of getting the right guys 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:34.600 on the roster. It's a it's a complete, uh you know, 0:50:34.640 --> 0:50:37.400 collaboration of the thought. I wonder what the number of 0:50:37.480 --> 0:50:41.520 players that played on this team from week one until 0:50:41.719 --> 0:50:47.680 week seventeen, the number of players that started for this 0:50:47.760 --> 0:50:52.160 football team that had practiced less than four practices and 0:50:52.520 --> 0:50:55.120 with this team and started and started. If I had 0:50:55.120 --> 0:50:59.399 to take the over underbolt, I think i'd have six. Usual. Look, 0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:01.600 I can think of the three. There were three offensive alignment. 0:51:02.400 --> 0:51:04.960 There were three d that the week one that we're 0:51:05.080 --> 0:51:07.480 here midwek So there's six right there, six right there 0:51:07.560 --> 0:51:13.080 right so there's probably the probably maybe double digits there, 0:51:13.160 --> 0:51:17.319 you know guys that did who's it? You know? So 0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:22.640 I can't even name some of them, say three weeks ago, okay, 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:24.839 he's been around. Yeah, I can't keep tracking. I think 0:51:24.840 --> 0:51:27.960 two or three weeks. It wasn't very long. I was, 0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:32.200 I'm I'm number watching yesterday, I'm watching. I'm like, okay, 0:51:32.200 --> 0:51:34.680 who's who's who's back in the secondary? Now? Who's this guy? 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:36.600 Who's that guy? Who's that guy? Who was? It was 0:51:36.640 --> 0:51:40.880 pretty crazy, but hey, we got uh speaking of defensive back. 0:51:41.000 --> 0:51:42.960 We've got Eric Row coming in to join us. We're 0:51:42.960 --> 0:51:44.839 gonna sit tight and wait for Eric to stop buy 0:51:44.880 --> 0:51:46.600 and uh and see what he's got to say. I 0:51:46.680 --> 0:51:48.960 joined out by Eric Row and Eric what a way 0:51:49.000 --> 0:51:50.680 to wrap up the season? I go up to New 0:51:50.680 --> 0:51:53.400 England and uh and take down New England. There's been 0:51:53.400 --> 0:51:55.040 a long time since his office had one up there, 0:51:55.040 --> 0:51:57.279 and uh, but it had to feel good for you, 0:51:57.640 --> 0:51:59.759 Oh my gosh, you know, probably one of the best 0:51:59.760 --> 0:52:02.319 fell and something just because you know that the type 0:52:02.360 --> 0:52:06.080 of game it was, uh, you know, us finishing season strong, 0:52:06.840 --> 0:52:10.120 and I mean I'd never realized, you know, Dolphins haven't 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:12.680 won up there and you know a long time and 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:15.640 probably so you can cross that off the box too. Well, 0:52:15.719 --> 0:52:17.040 you're the good thing. You have to pick six for 0:52:17.080 --> 0:52:19.680 a touchdown off Tom Brady and then and that's the 0:52:19.760 --> 0:52:22.479 I think that's the first. That's the first pick six 0:52:22.520 --> 0:52:25.400 the Dolphins that Tom Brady's ever thrown against the Miami Dolphins. 0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:28.920 So another another first. All right, yeah, you can check 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:32.000 it out the box too. I mean I didn't obviously, 0:52:32.000 --> 0:52:34.799 I never realized that, but should it help the team win? 0:52:35.680 --> 0:52:37.840 How about you? You were you were you played a 0:52:37.880 --> 0:52:39.719 new women. You spent time there, so you know what 0:52:39.760 --> 0:52:43.239 that cultures like up there, and for going into a 0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:47.200 game on week seventeen, that I really had a lot 0:52:47.239 --> 0:52:49.880 for them to to you know, the home field advantage 0:52:49.960 --> 0:52:52.480 and you know how huge advantages once you get to 0:52:52.480 --> 0:52:54.920 the playoffs, having to stay home, getting to buy a week, 0:52:54.920 --> 0:52:58.040 getting a chance to stay home, only to have it, uh, 0:52:58.239 --> 0:52:59.839 you know, have a kind of stuff down their throat 0:52:59.840 --> 0:53:04.040 by you guys. Um it says a lot about the 0:53:04.040 --> 0:53:08.120 way you played and make them look more like a 0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:10.400 human football team than we've seen in the past, certainly 0:53:10.400 --> 0:53:13.480 at this time of the year. Yeah, we just I 0:53:13.520 --> 0:53:15.799 mean obviously the coding staff came from there. I mean 0:53:15.840 --> 0:53:19.239 I came from there. I kind of know obviously be 0:53:19.239 --> 0:53:20.920 on the other side, I kind of know what it takes, 0:53:21.040 --> 0:53:22.840 you know, to win it. It's not easy, you know, 0:53:22.920 --> 0:53:25.120 to beat them. I know. One of the thing is 0:53:25.200 --> 0:53:27.360 too we have we needed to score on defense our 0:53:27.400 --> 0:53:30.880 special teams, you know. Yeah, that's yeah, every time at 0:53:30.920 --> 0:53:33.319 least I remember losing, it's always like a defense of 0:53:33.320 --> 0:53:36.279 our special team score. So I mean that and then 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:38.560 obviously putting pressure on you know, the often. But I 0:53:38.600 --> 0:53:41.640 mean that's you know that's every opponent, but just uh, 0:53:41.680 --> 0:53:44.200 you know, coming out with that our mindset like, hey, 0:53:44.520 --> 0:53:46.440 you know, we want to finish this, you know, team strong. 0:53:46.520 --> 0:53:48.040 We know what's on the line for them, even though 0:53:48.080 --> 0:53:49.560 we have nothing to play for. You know, we're playing 0:53:49.560 --> 0:53:52.120 for pride and and shoot, we got it done. You know, 0:53:52.400 --> 0:53:54.440 there's not very many people, certainly the beginning of the 0:53:54.480 --> 0:53:57.200 season and nationally there was hardly anybody to give you 0:53:57.239 --> 0:54:00.359 any any credit as a football team. Been a lot 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:02.839 of changes, a lot of guys coming in. That secondary 0:54:02.920 --> 0:54:05.960 has been evolving door guys coming in, and guys come 0:54:06.040 --> 0:54:08.279 in and and and and maybe struggle a little bit, 0:54:08.320 --> 0:54:11.160 but eventually they get better along the way. Well, what 0:54:11.280 --> 0:54:13.920 is it about your group in the secondary that's been 0:54:13.960 --> 0:54:17.080 able to have so many guys come through there and 0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:19.920 still continue to play at a better level. It seems 0:54:19.960 --> 0:54:22.720 like each and every week that you played it really 0:54:22.760 --> 0:54:27.359 it just uh me, really, me and Jamal because we're 0:54:27.680 --> 0:54:30.279 you know, the guy has been here since O t A. Uh, 0:54:30.320 --> 0:54:32.480 you know, a new guy come in. You know, we 0:54:33.040 --> 0:54:35.399 you know, obviously you know, the studying to playbook grow fast. 0:54:35.400 --> 0:54:37.440 But on the field, you know, I'm telling them, hey, 0:54:37.520 --> 0:54:39.160 you know, do this do this. Obviously they know how 0:54:39.160 --> 0:54:41.960 to play the position, but getting in tune with the 0:54:42.000 --> 0:54:43.879 defense and all the checks that we have to make 0:54:43.920 --> 0:54:47.040 and communication. You know, me and Jamad I think, you know, 0:54:47.080 --> 0:54:49.000 we're trying to take you know, trying to take over 0:54:49.040 --> 0:54:51.680 that role of you know, hey, this is a situation. 0:54:52.120 --> 0:54:53.879 You know, make sure you do this, you know, blah 0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:57.160 blah blah blah blah. So uh because I mean it's 0:54:57.200 --> 0:54:58.880 it's kind of ready to have turned over, just like 0:54:58.920 --> 0:55:01.239 that guy you through the whole season, but you know 0:55:01.360 --> 0:55:03.279 just how to make it work. It's been like that 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:07.239 pretty much on most of the positions on this football team. 0:55:07.640 --> 0:55:09.760 Defensive end, you have guys come and go. The offensive 0:55:09.760 --> 0:55:12.160 line has been changing around a lot. Running backs has 0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:15.160 been a whole new group of people. With all the 0:55:15.239 --> 0:55:17.440 changes that have going on, how do you attribute the 0:55:17.440 --> 0:55:20.520 fact too, with all those changes going on from week 0:55:20.520 --> 0:55:22.680 one till the end of the season, how has this 0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:24.960 team been able to just get better and better every 0:55:24.960 --> 0:55:27.560 week and compete? You know, early on those games that 0:55:27.600 --> 0:55:29.120 look like, oh man, it's gonna be a long season. 0:55:29.200 --> 0:55:31.799 Week one, a week two, you know, just you know, 0:55:32.120 --> 0:55:34.160 Ravens come in and run free, and then new England 0:55:34.320 --> 0:55:35.800 forty three. Nothing to go, Man, this would be a 0:55:35.840 --> 0:55:39.400 long sea. But from that point on, this team continually 0:55:39.400 --> 0:55:42.239 got better and more competitive each and every week. And 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:44.000 it says a lot for the players on the roster, 0:55:44.400 --> 0:55:46.680 also says a lot for the staff and what they've 0:55:46.680 --> 0:55:48.680 been able to do to get you guys ready, even 0:55:48.680 --> 0:55:51.000 guys that have come in on short order and midweek 0:55:51.040 --> 0:55:54.200 and end up starting, you know, on that Sunday. Yeah, 0:55:54.239 --> 0:55:56.520 I mean I think kind of attribute to you know, 0:55:56.600 --> 0:55:58.399 kind of like the core of us you know that 0:55:58.480 --> 0:56:01.600 were you know together and you know the spring and 0:56:01.600 --> 0:56:04.520 training camp I noticed, you know, wasn't too many of us, 0:56:04.560 --> 0:56:06.680 but you know the court that were together that you know, 0:56:06.760 --> 0:56:08.759 new guy comes in, no matter what position, Hey, we're 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:11.160 gonna get him up to speed. I mean, we're all 0:56:11.160 --> 0:56:13.440 we're all competitive. We're still trying to win, you know, 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:15.600 even though you know, and we were like oh and 0:56:15.680 --> 0:56:18.080 seven you know, first seven games and a couple of 0:56:18.080 --> 0:56:21.040 blowout losses. But I mean we see that when we 0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:24.200 did things right and when everyone was you know, playing together, 0:56:24.360 --> 0:56:26.839 like you know, we were rolling things, We're working, we're 0:56:26.840 --> 0:56:29.839 making three and outs, offensive scoring, special teams, was you know, 0:56:29.880 --> 0:56:33.160 doing the thing Uh, so you know we all seen that, 0:56:33.280 --> 0:56:35.640 so it was tough. You know, new guy comes in, Hey, 0:56:35.680 --> 0:56:37.279 we gotta give him up to speed. But you know 0:56:37.320 --> 0:56:39.759 we just knew we we do got something special. Yeah, 0:56:40.000 --> 0:56:42.520 it's uh, it's it's pretty remarkable. What's what's going on here? 0:56:42.560 --> 0:56:45.919 And uh, you know there's been this this looming thing 0:56:46.040 --> 0:56:49.399 of the draft and you know, you know who's gonna 0:56:49.440 --> 0:56:52.279 come here and who's gonna come there. Um, But but 0:56:52.680 --> 0:56:54.080 for for you guys to be able to put that 0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:58.399 aside and go out and you know, everyone can say 0:56:58.400 --> 0:57:00.839 how we're going out to win every game. You know, 0:57:01.239 --> 0:57:05.560 some guys do when some guys don't. But this football team, 0:57:05.600 --> 0:57:09.080 you know, you win five games. But I don't know, 0:57:09.200 --> 0:57:11.160 it's just it's it's hard to put your finger on 0:57:11.560 --> 0:57:13.960 what's the specific thing that allowed you guys to kind 0:57:13.960 --> 0:57:19.160 of be consistent with the inconsistencies that were going on 0:57:19.240 --> 0:57:22.280 within the building, you know, to to to play that way. 0:57:22.680 --> 0:57:25.760 It's it's to me, it's one of the more remarkable 0:57:25.760 --> 0:57:28.640 things I've seen for for a team that from a 0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:31.560 national standpoint, guys know they won't win one game. If 0:57:31.600 --> 0:57:34.520 they win one game, that'd be a miracle and and 0:57:34.600 --> 0:57:36.400 quite frankly, you were in a situation this team could 0:57:36.440 --> 0:57:39.959 have won six maybe seven games the way you played, 0:57:39.960 --> 0:57:43.080 you have those opportunities were there, Yeah, I mean, yeah, 0:57:44.200 --> 0:57:46.320 we're there was definitely games that you know, we all 0:57:46.360 --> 0:57:48.440 know that we kind of left out there, you know, 0:57:48.960 --> 0:57:53.480 I know, the Redskins, you know, the Giants, the Jets. 0:57:53.760 --> 0:57:55.920 I mean, there's you know, multiple games we were in it. 0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:58.160 I mean even even in the the beginning of the year, 0:57:58.760 --> 0:58:01.400 we're against the Pages a third quarter it was only 0:58:01.800 --> 0:58:04.400 thirteen the three we're playing good. I mean, then we 0:58:04.480 --> 0:58:07.160 just kind of fell apart. So and we know that, 0:58:07.240 --> 0:58:09.040 you know, a lot of games we were in. And 0:58:09.040 --> 0:58:12.240 then even with the turnover, you know, we all still believe, like, hey, 0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:14.480 we're trying to win, like you know what, you know, 0:58:14.520 --> 0:58:16.560 we know, we know what's We're not really worried about 0:58:16.560 --> 0:58:18.800 what's you know, what's going on outside the locker room, 0:58:18.920 --> 0:58:23.120 like you know, oh, we should just tank and you know, 0:58:23.400 --> 0:58:26.160 get the one one spot or whatever. You don't worry 0:58:26.160 --> 0:58:27.600 about that. We're like, hey, we still got a job 0:58:27.680 --> 0:58:29.240 to do. What you know, we want to play fo 0:58:29.400 --> 0:58:31.840 we're trying to win. Speak speak a little bit about 0:58:31.880 --> 0:58:33.520 the way and then I'll give yourself for a good example, 0:58:33.560 --> 0:58:37.320 this this this football team has. Boy, it's just struggled 0:58:37.360 --> 0:58:40.200 with tight ends on both sides of the football over 0:58:40.240 --> 0:58:42.640 the last decade or so. I haven't really found that 0:58:42.680 --> 0:58:45.120 tight end that you know, that that can that's that 0:58:45.280 --> 0:58:48.040 there's become that prototypical tight end now running the scene, 0:58:48.560 --> 0:58:50.240 you know, taking you know, taking up space in the 0:58:50.240 --> 0:58:52.480 middle of the field, become a productive receiver for it. 0:58:52.880 --> 0:58:55.439 And on the flip side, someone that can cover tight 0:58:55.520 --> 0:58:57.919 ends and keep them in check. Seemed to have found 0:58:57.920 --> 0:59:00.520 a tight end in in in Mike Gasecki, that guy 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:02.600 getting down the field and all of a sudden, seems 0:59:02.600 --> 0:59:04.600 like you've been the guy that's been the tight end 0:59:04.600 --> 0:59:06.960 whisper on defense where you've you've kind of found a 0:59:07.000 --> 0:59:10.600 spot in this defense where we're you know, being a 0:59:10.600 --> 0:59:13.000 guy that that that covers some of these tight ends 0:59:13.040 --> 0:59:17.480 become a big responsibility for you. Yeah, since that change, 0:59:17.800 --> 0:59:20.160 I know, we had some injuries and they were like, hey, 0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:22.440 you know, we gonna you know, you know, needs you 0:59:22.440 --> 0:59:24.000 to play. I think at first it was like a 0:59:24.000 --> 0:59:26.680 little bit of corner, a little bit of safety. And 0:59:26.720 --> 0:59:28.400 I mean that I mean, obviously you know I can 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:31.600 handle it, but and then once I guess the coaches 0:59:31.640 --> 0:59:34.160 saw something and you know, they started put me on 0:59:34.240 --> 0:59:37.960 tight ends. And obviously coming from receivers, it's it's you know, 0:59:38.000 --> 0:59:40.000 it's easier to cover out. I mean no, no, just right. 0:59:40.040 --> 0:59:42.680 But you know they're different. Yeah, yeah, they're not as 0:59:42.720 --> 0:59:44.960 you know, not as quick, not as fast. I can 0:59:45.040 --> 0:59:47.480 you know, read their body language, you know, faster than 0:59:47.480 --> 0:59:49.920 the receiver you know would be. So you know they 0:59:49.920 --> 0:59:52.240 put me out there and and everything like you're really 0:59:52.280 --> 0:59:56.360 slowed down, you know, you know after you know, especially 0:59:56.400 --> 0:59:58.880 studying around so and I I just kind of just 0:59:58.960 --> 1:00:01.960 embraced the role. Is that? Do you see that? And 1:00:02.040 --> 1:00:04.640 similar as what you saw in New England where they 1:00:04.680 --> 1:00:06.760 find guys, find what they can do, find what they 1:00:06.800 --> 1:00:09.920 really do well and then give them that niche and 1:00:10.040 --> 1:00:13.960 that's your that's your deal. Yeah, yeah, because I know 1:00:14.280 --> 1:00:16.480 and you know obviously the coltons that came to me. 1:00:16.560 --> 1:00:21.560 So it's you know, first four games and five, you know, 1:00:22.040 --> 1:00:23.760 people trying to figure out, you know, kind of what 1:00:23.920 --> 1:00:27.200 role they'll have and you know defense, you know, offense, whatever, 1:00:27.280 --> 1:00:31.120 and then kind of by mid October November, you know 1:00:31.560 --> 1:00:36.600 your role is yeah set and so you know, just 1:00:36.680 --> 1:00:38.880 like it happened like I think the first four games 1:00:38.880 --> 1:00:40.640 I was a corner and they put me in safety 1:00:40.680 --> 1:00:43.560 then like room that was my role, like cover tight 1:00:43.640 --> 1:00:46.160 ends and you know, kind of fill the run and 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:49.720 you know when you can. How do you feel about 1:00:49.960 --> 1:00:52.600 your your year here so far and and and everything 1:00:52.640 --> 1:00:56.040 you've been through in the growth and what maybe maybe 1:00:56.120 --> 1:00:59.560 just from an inside the locker room feel of what 1:00:59.760 --> 1:01:03.760 you think this organization and this team can be moving 1:01:03.840 --> 1:01:06.320 forward with. You know, there's gonna be a lot of turnover, 1:01:06.320 --> 1:01:08.160 it always is in in every team in the National 1:01:08.200 --> 1:01:10.560 Football League, and some guys are gonna come, some guys 1:01:10.600 --> 1:01:13.240 are gonna go. And I think it's about is about 1:01:13.720 --> 1:01:15.680 the average on on most football teams. You know there's 1:01:15.720 --> 1:01:18.520 gonna be a turn over there. But it seems like 1:01:18.520 --> 1:01:21.400 there's a base that understands what this staff is trying 1:01:21.440 --> 1:01:25.320 to do, that's bought into it. That kind of self police. 1:01:25.400 --> 1:01:27.720 Is that locker room, like you said, getting your guys 1:01:27.760 --> 1:01:31.280 ready to play, beyond going maybe beyond what's going on 1:01:31.360 --> 1:01:33.880 with with the coaches, kind of doing your own thing, 1:01:33.960 --> 1:01:36.000 trying to get guys ready. Do you see that moving 1:01:36.000 --> 1:01:38.680 forward in a positive way with this this core of 1:01:38.680 --> 1:01:42.720 this group here. Oh, I mean yeah, definitely. Uh, just 1:01:43.440 --> 1:01:46.520 you know, from at least from a defensive standpoint, you know, 1:01:46.600 --> 1:01:48.919 me in the back end, you got like Rick Kwon 1:01:49.000 --> 1:01:52.000 and Baker and the linebackers and like gotch Ow and 1:01:52.160 --> 1:01:55.440 you know d Line and you know they're really about 1:01:55.440 --> 1:01:57.400 the year. You know, just like I said, you know, 1:01:57.520 --> 1:01:59.919 a new guy comes in and we're boom boom boom. 1:01:59.920 --> 1:02:01.600 I we you know, we gotta get this stuff done. 1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:04.960 So moving on the future when we get you know, 1:02:05.200 --> 1:02:07.200 I'm pretty positive you know next year won't be you 1:02:07.200 --> 1:02:10.920 gonna turnover like yeah, and so next year when we 1:02:11.000 --> 1:02:13.200 you know, get a group of guys and you know, 1:02:13.280 --> 1:02:15.160 from O t A to training camp and you know 1:02:15.200 --> 1:02:18.600 we all stick together. I mean, shoot, if you saw 1:02:18.640 --> 1:02:20.040 what we did with turnover, and I think it'll be 1:02:20.080 --> 1:02:22.280 a lot better next year. So what do So what 1:02:22.320 --> 1:02:24.440 do you do now you know the season's over. You 1:02:24.520 --> 1:02:27.120 kind of come in exit interviews, get that all all 1:02:27.160 --> 1:02:29.440 done in a way, What's what's on your mind over 1:02:29.480 --> 1:02:31.760 the next month? What did you get away and just 1:02:31.840 --> 1:02:34.640 kind of try to refresh yourself or what goes through 1:02:34.680 --> 1:02:39.000 your mind over this next next month or so? Oh yeah, yeah, 1:02:39.120 --> 1:02:42.680 getting away like after the last game and shut it 1:02:42.680 --> 1:02:47.360 down mentally, like get that take that mental break, physical break. Um, 1:02:47.400 --> 1:02:49.400 just me and a wife. It's gonna be relaxing. We're 1:02:49.440 --> 1:02:52.360 gonna go back to Texas, relaxed with see some family, 1:02:52.760 --> 1:02:55.240 do a little traveling, you know, just have a little 1:02:55.240 --> 1:02:57.920 fun and shoot, you know it all ran back. Just 1:02:58.000 --> 1:02:59.600 a long year for you guys. You know, he because 1:02:59.600 --> 1:03:01.400 you come in when you come back in April and 1:03:01.640 --> 1:03:03.640 start conditioning, and then you got O T s and 1:03:03.680 --> 1:03:06.160 you're going to mini camps and then it's just it's 1:03:06.360 --> 1:03:08.160 from then it's like pedal of the medal. You get 1:03:08.200 --> 1:03:10.760 that a few weeks off in in in July and 1:03:10.800 --> 1:03:12.960 then it's uh and then it's full speed head. So 1:03:13.040 --> 1:03:15.960 it's a it's a it's a long year when when 1:03:15.960 --> 1:03:17.880 you look and start to finish for you guys, yeah, 1:03:17.960 --> 1:03:20.800 and even in July, it's it's not really like you know, 1:03:21.360 --> 1:03:24.800 vacation vacation. It's like, okay, maybe I'll take a you know, 1:03:24.840 --> 1:03:26.440 maybe a couple of weeks, but then I gotta get 1:03:26.480 --> 1:03:30.800 right b training because training camp, get the ground running. Yeah, 1:03:30.800 --> 1:03:32.320 you got hit. Yeah, you don't want to be behind 1:03:32.320 --> 1:03:35.400 the training camp. Like so so it's a long it's 1:03:35.440 --> 1:03:39.280 a long season, so you know, January February, you know, March, 1:03:39.880 --> 1:03:43.640 you know it's time to get away because shoot another 1:03:43.960 --> 1:03:45.880 you know what is it like? Eight months? Seven months? 1:03:46.760 --> 1:03:49.040 Right back at it. Eric, It's been great watching you. 1:03:49.080 --> 1:03:51.160 It's been great watching you progress here and find a 1:03:51.200 --> 1:03:54.120 little niche on this on this defense. And but it's 1:03:54.120 --> 1:03:56.360 just been fun watching this football team, you know, go 1:03:56.440 --> 1:03:59.320 through what they've gone through and with all the detractors 1:03:59.320 --> 1:04:01.080 and coming in and be as competitive as you were 1:04:01.120 --> 1:04:04.080 and winning football games and uh and knocking off New 1:04:04.120 --> 1:04:06.040 England up in New England, which is a you know, 1:04:06.080 --> 1:04:08.080 something this franchise has been trying to do for for 1:04:08.160 --> 1:04:11.160 years and years to get it done. Congratulations to you. 1:04:11.240 --> 1:04:13.800 Congratulations all the guys in this football team did a 1:04:13.840 --> 1:04:16.120 lot of things, a lot of positive things, and I 1:04:16.160 --> 1:04:18.360 think nobody expected out of this group. And I think 1:04:18.400 --> 1:04:19.800 each and every one of you guys can be be 1:04:19.840 --> 1:04:21.800 pretty proud of that. Oh yeah, yeah, no, we're all 1:04:21.800 --> 1:04:24.720 super proud, like just the way especially the way the 1:04:24.760 --> 1:04:27.240 season closed out, you know, how how strong you know 1:04:27.280 --> 1:04:29.360 we finished even with that, you know, everything that's went 1:04:29.440 --> 1:04:31.920 on this year, I mean we're all shoot and that 1:04:31.920 --> 1:04:33.480 guy lo, we are you talking about? You know, ready 1:04:33.480 --> 1:04:40.720 for now? You're ready to start right room. Yeah, we 1:04:40.840 --> 1:04:42.640 can wait a little time for that. Yeah, we get 1:04:42.640 --> 1:04:44.880 a little a little time of that though. But that's 1:04:44.920 --> 1:04:46.640 gonna do it for the honorble. For today, I want 1:04:46.640 --> 1:04:48.800 to thank Eric Row for stopping by for John Kenjemmy, 1:04:48.840 --> 1:04:50.840 I'm Kim Bokamper. That's gonna do it. We'll catch you 1:04:50.920 --> 1:04:53.720 next week. Eric, have a good offseason, man, appreciate it. 1:04:53.760 --> 1:04:55.680 All right, thank you, all right,