Speaker 1: All right, the Audibles back on the air, Kimbo Camber,
Speaker 1: John and Jammy Johnny, We're we're rounding, We're right around
Speaker 1: the right on the cusp. I guess by the time
Speaker 1: the show goes in the air, it will be it
Speaker 1: will have been the new year. We've runched over to
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty. But well, you couldn't ask a
Speaker 1: better way, Tom, two thousand nineteen. Then going up to
Speaker 1: New England, new women with a lot on the line,
Speaker 1: home field advantage, you know, a bye week opportunity to
Speaker 1: rest up for their first playoff game, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: go up there and just throw a monkey wrenching in
Speaker 1: their plans and in a game which John, you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, you look at New England, it didn't
Speaker 1: didn't play very well, Tom Brady, that that offense. Looked
Speaker 1: at Nemick, their defense is a very great deek, very
Speaker 1: good defense. But the Dolphins, you know, made their way
Speaker 1: found their way around that that that defense. But boy,
Speaker 1: I was shocked at how how poorly New England played
Speaker 1: in a game that, based on their history in the postseason,
Speaker 1: meant so much to them getting that home field advantage
Speaker 1: and not having to ride through that three run that
Speaker 1: that that three game run through the wild car the
Speaker 1: uh round to get started. I just think that you're
Speaker 1: looking at a flawed New England team in terms of
Speaker 1: the talent that you're used to, seeing the way that
Speaker 1: they execute offensively, and I just don't know if they
Speaker 1: can depend on that formula moving forward when they're gonna
Speaker 1: play that gauntlet if it gets to they either have
Speaker 1: to go through Kansas City or Baltimore, and I just
Speaker 1: don't know if that offense is gonna be able to travel.
Speaker 1: You know, usually you're worried about your defense traveling. Well,
Speaker 1: your defense, This defense can travel, But I don't know
Speaker 1: if they can score or keep up with Baltimore or
Speaker 1: Kansas City, even get by Tennessee at home is gonna
Speaker 1: be a struggle next week for them. And going back
Speaker 1: to our game, I just thought it was I mean,
Speaker 1: I I said in the beginning of the game, I
Speaker 1: felt that the Dolphins had to withstand the first five
Speaker 1: to seven to eight minutes of the game, if they
Speaker 1: could get into the rhythm of the game, if they
Speaker 1: could not allow a quick touchdown, if they can move
Speaker 1: the football offensively, not necessarily score, but move it to
Speaker 1: the fact that Hey, we're gonna be here all for
Speaker 1: four quarters. This is not gonna be a three out
Speaker 1: type of scenario where you're blitzing us and we have
Speaker 1: no answers. I thought that that very first drive went,
Speaker 1: we went down, you know, move the football effectively. Ryan
Speaker 1: did a great job and finding different receivers, moved it
Speaker 1: with his legs again, got a little bit of the
Speaker 1: running game going. I just felt that that was that
Speaker 1: was a statement. That was a statement to say, like,
Speaker 1: you know what this means something us too, might mean
Speaker 1: something to you, but we want to finish on the
Speaker 1: right note, no doubt. And you know, coming out like that,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things in New England there to me,
Speaker 1: there are two. There are two, let's say, ten minute
Speaker 1: periods that you've got to survive. You got to survive
Speaker 1: that opening ten minutes. You don't want them to come
Speaker 1: down and go tend nothing on you before you bat
Speaker 1: an eye, you know, with a pick six or something
Speaker 1: that you know they're you gotta survive that first ten minutes.
Speaker 1: And then more importantly than that, you gotta survive that
Speaker 1: ten minutes when you come out of the locker room.
Speaker 1: Because this team I've seen so many times with the
Speaker 1: Dolphins where they've gone up there and they played a
Speaker 1: pretty good first half. Feel like, man, we're in this thing,
Speaker 1: you know, we get and all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: second half comes out and go where this come from?
Speaker 1: Where these guys come from the uniform. All of sudden
Speaker 1: they're just rolling down the field that that defense is
Speaker 1: smothering and everything. These guys started cranking up the music.
Speaker 1: Only idiots getting, you know, in the problem with with it.
Speaker 1: There's this one guy I always see there and I
Speaker 1: have surmised over that they got going, hey, wear's boat camera.
Speaker 1: I'm surmised over the years that this guy is a
Speaker 1: cop because I saw like a brawl up there one
Speaker 1: end and he jumped to action, you know, put the
Speaker 1: guy in armbar. So I'm assuming he's some guy in
Speaker 1: a copy. He wears one of those spit hats. It
Speaker 1: looks like their logo, and he's got that. He's right
Speaker 1: in the front row and he's a loud mouth and
Speaker 1: he's just that. But you can't say anything because they're
Speaker 1: kickings every time. You know, I always want to walk
Speaker 1: by him and go look at this and look at
Speaker 1: the way your dressed. You know who you brought to
Speaker 1: the game, but I've never had a chance to. And
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, I don't go to the game,
Speaker 1: and I missed my chance. There you go, that's shant
Speaker 1: that you got. I might have been able to help
Speaker 1: you out. But no, I mean, but those you know,
Speaker 1: those those two that that that ten minutes after the
Speaker 1: half of that in the Dolphins did. I think they
Speaker 1: just did an awesome job of just managing the way
Speaker 1: the game was going and taking advantage of what was
Speaker 1: given to him. And and you know, we we've talked
Speaker 1: about a time and time again, almost at nauseum. Now
Speaker 1: fits and what he's meant to this team when he
Speaker 1: meets each and every week, and just all the things
Speaker 1: that he gives this team. You talked about that first
Speaker 1: drive going to Davante moving with his feet a little bit,
Speaker 1: doing everything, running in for another touchdown later in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, just he just well, I mean, I'm amazed
Speaker 1: at what he can do for where he's at in
Speaker 1: his career. And I was thinking about this. We're doing
Speaker 1: a post game last night, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: you know, we've had We've had Hall of Fame quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in Bob greasy, and Dan Marino I said, and I
Speaker 1: don't I think you know, the only time I've ever
Speaker 1: seen some a quarterback come in for a one year
Speaker 1: stint like this and and make this much impact With
Speaker 1: Chad Pennington, right, Pennington came in and realized stabilized the
Speaker 1: whole offense and took him into the playoffs, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: And and fitz didn't get in the playoffs. But but
Speaker 1: I think fitz was working with a much different palette
Speaker 1: than than than Pennington was working with from from a
Speaker 1: talent standpoint. But it's just remarkable looking back and counting
Speaker 1: this game, looking back and thinking how much Fitzpatrick has
Speaker 1: met to this football team, beginning in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of the Washington Redskins and moving forward to what this
Speaker 1: team has become right now. It's amazing how a team
Speaker 1: can respond to a player. And you would say, if
Speaker 1: he's gonna play any position, it better be quarterback because
Speaker 1: he's in control of a lot of things. You know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of getting the formations, getting the terminology correct,
Speaker 1: getting the information out to everybody, adjusting on the fly,
Speaker 1: making sure everybody has those things that they need to
Speaker 1: be successful on that particular play. But I think the
Speaker 1: intangibles you cannot put a price on what what he
Speaker 1: brings to this team. Now I don't I wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 1: limited to the offense. I would say that the defense
Speaker 1: picks up on the vibe when they're sitting on that
Speaker 1: bench and they're looking up at the big board and
Speaker 1: they go, man, he did it. Look at that did
Speaker 1: our guy didn't begin? You know, he did it again.
Speaker 1: He moved the chains again, we get to rest for
Speaker 1: another three plays or whatever the case may be. I
Speaker 1: just think that that that that brings the team together
Speaker 1: when you have a guy at that position that can
Speaker 1: do it with his action, not so much his words,
Speaker 1: but then sometimes he does it without saying much. It's
Speaker 1: just that look or that that feeling you have when
Speaker 1: he saunters into the huddle with confidence and he and
Speaker 1: he's bringing everybody's temperature down so they can think instead
Speaker 1: of just kind of flying off and you miss all
Speaker 1: those pre snap penalties and everybody's you know, on edge.
Speaker 1: He brings a calmness to the team, and I think
Speaker 1: that over over there, probably the last month and a half,
Speaker 1: you've seen that filter into everybody every phase of the game.
Speaker 1: Kind of takes on his bravado and I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a great one to have. I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think he permeates the defense as well as as
Speaker 1: he commands that offense. And and it's it's remarkable to watch.
Speaker 1: And John you you talk you, I think you mentioned
Speaker 1: the thing to me that's most it's hard to put
Speaker 1: your finger on you you see it, and you know
Speaker 1: it when you see it, But it's hard to put
Speaker 1: your finger on it. But you know, you you look
Speaker 1: at his look at the way. Not the greatest runner
Speaker 1: in in in at the quarterback position in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, not the greatest passer in in the in
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. But I don't know that I've seen
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks in this league that have the package of
Speaker 1: intangibles that he has. And you mentioned intangibles, those things
Speaker 1: that you can't you can kind of point to, but
Speaker 1: you can't put your finger on it what it is.
Speaker 1: But it's just you know, it's it's you know, I've
Speaker 1: experience I experienced that. I've said this before, I've I
Speaker 1: E arean still a lot with with with a guy
Speaker 1: that we had in Don Strock. You know, Don was
Speaker 1: the guy that rarely played. He was a backup guy.
Speaker 1: He was the ultimate backup. He was like a coach
Speaker 1: on the sideline. He was a mentor to Danny when
Speaker 1: Danny came in. He learned from Greece, you know, and
Speaker 1: so he has he's wealth of knowledge over there, and
Speaker 1: you know, and and he brought intangibles even though he
Speaker 1: wasn't in the game. He brought intangibles. You know, this
Speaker 1: guy is is very similar. But he's in the game
Speaker 1: and he and he's making things happen. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: want to how, you know, how how can that guy
Speaker 1: how can a guy see that seemed to step through
Speaker 1: and then look a guy off and then pick up
Speaker 1: ten yards to give me a critical first down. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're not expecting it, just it goes on and
Speaker 1: on on and to the point where you know, I've
Speaker 1: said this before. I was when when when they signed him,
Speaker 1: and then when the Rosen deal was done and saying, hey, great,
Speaker 1: you know, you know your guy physically be a one
Speaker 1: and done guy. He's gonna come here do whatever, and
Speaker 1: then Rosen is gonna get his chance and probably be
Speaker 1: the guy. And boy, what a what a what a
Speaker 1: what a mistaken idea entity that I put on with
Speaker 1: with the situation with the quarterback because fits you know, now,
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear that Rosen's tenure with the
Speaker 1: Dolphins is probably pretty much numbered at this point. But boy,
Speaker 1: everybody in this building, everybody that's been that's a serious
Speaker 1: fan that's watched this football team, is saying, you damn right,
Speaker 1: I want him back next year. I don't care what
Speaker 1: happens with the draft. I don't care what happens, and
Speaker 1: I don't care what happens in that quarterback room. I
Speaker 1: want him to be one of those guys in that room,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I want him to have the
Speaker 1: football first and see who can see who can take
Speaker 1: it away from him. I just think it's exciting for
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin fans to know that you're going to get
Speaker 1: a young quarterback in the next year and a half
Speaker 1: to two years that hopefully is going to be the
Speaker 1: next franchise quarterback of the Miami Dolphins. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: that opportunity um to select a guy that that might
Speaker 1: come in and be the guy for a long time.
Speaker 1: But you have a quarterback and Ryan Fitzpatrick that's going
Speaker 1: to push this guy, that's going to teach this guy
Speaker 1: that's going to all the things necessary to show him
Speaker 1: how to be the best pro he can be. At
Speaker 1: the same time going to compete with this guy to
Speaker 1: to make him be be that that player you want
Speaker 1: him to be on the field, not only in the
Speaker 1: classroom or in the meeting room, or in the lunch
Speaker 1: room or going out for a beer to kind of
Speaker 1: see what type of person this guy is, but going
Speaker 1: out on the football field and every day pushing him
Speaker 1: to be at his best so he can raise the
Speaker 1: level of the players around him. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest attribute or or you know, tip of the
Speaker 1: cap you could give to Fits is that he raised
Speaker 1: Davante Parker's level of competitiveness and consistency. He raised Mike
Speaker 1: Asiki's level of competitiveness and consistent consistency. He got a
Speaker 1: rookie that he worked with in the in the O
Speaker 1: T A S and work with you know in training
Speaker 1: camp that he was like, Hey, this kid's gonna be something.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best guys I've seen to come
Speaker 1: around in a long time. He got Alan hearns to
Speaker 1: play at a higher level. You know, he got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys. You know, let's not. Let's not forgive
Speaker 1: that this offensive line struggled and he helped that offensive line.
Speaker 1: His move his ability to move in the pocket, his
Speaker 1: ability to see that crack and you know when when
Speaker 1: everything's coming in, stepped through that crack and all now
Speaker 1: the rush is behind him. He can look across the field,
Speaker 1: throw it, run it, do whatever he needs. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's helped. He's helped every aspect of that offense, from
Speaker 1: the from the from the guy who snaps him the
Speaker 1: ball to the guy who catches the ball. The guys
Speaker 1: are blocking everybody that that participate in this offense. At
Speaker 1: some point he made them better. You know what's funny, Boat,
Speaker 1: I'm standing on the sidelines yesterday and I'm always watching
Speaker 1: it through the goggles of if I was still playing
Speaker 1: the position at quarterback. So I'm standing there and there's
Speaker 1: a TV time out and the kind of plays are
Speaker 1: going back and forth and change a possession, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get the football, and my eyes immediately go to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm making sure I'm counting who's on the field and
Speaker 1: what's out there. But then I immediately go to Ryan
Speaker 1: and I'll watch him and he's got his you know
Speaker 1: chin strap unbuckled. He's trying to get his beard right
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to fit the chin cup to
Speaker 1: get it in there just right, you know. And as
Speaker 1: he's doing it, he's kind of sauntering onto the field.
Speaker 1: He's not running, he's not walking, but he's kind of
Speaker 1: just meandering towards the huddle. And at that time, the
Speaker 1: lineman are kind of looking around, where's our guy, you know,
Speaker 1: and they see him and there's no panic because he doesn't.
Speaker 1: We don't need to go right now. You guys need
Speaker 1: to get your ship together. You guys need to get
Speaker 1: your mind right, because when I step in the huddle,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get going. So everybody kind of has their
Speaker 1: break period. And I'm thinking that's the way that that's
Speaker 1: the way I see it, and if I'm seeing it
Speaker 1: that way, those ten other guys have to be seen
Speaker 1: it that way. And it kind of brings everybody down
Speaker 1: to focus on what they need to do on that
Speaker 1: particular play or they're anticipating that play, and it gets
Speaker 1: their focus that much instead of having a guy running
Speaker 1: in there, you know, having you know, having some it
Speaker 1: just feels right, you know the other thing, and you
Speaker 1: touched on a little bit is you know, you know
Speaker 1: you watch his team, is it is it progressed through
Speaker 1: the year. I mean take take week one and week two,
Speaker 1: you know, Baltimore and in New England to to just
Speaker 1: pitiful games. It looked like it was gonna be it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a track meet all all year long, right,
Speaker 1: and you guys are gonna worn figure out. You guys
Speaker 1: are gonaad of wearing their cleats, are gonna wear track
Speaker 1: bites out there because it's gonna be running up in
Speaker 1: the field. But but as as the season went on
Speaker 1: and you talked about him helping the guys on the
Speaker 1: other side, you know, you start having drives now one
Speaker 1: to three first downs, moving the chains where it's not
Speaker 1: that three and out boom here they come, bang bang
Speaker 1: bang bang touchdown. Now you're right back on the field again.
Speaker 1: You know, he he allowed that defense time to catch
Speaker 1: their breath, time to not be in the in the
Speaker 1: in the heat all the time. Now, there were times
Speaker 1: when they're they're they're behind, and you know they're they're
Speaker 1: they're they're getting thrown on in this and that. But
Speaker 1: when that offense was moving, when they had when that
Speaker 1: offense and and look it was. This wasn't easy offense
Speaker 1: to move John, because you look at it now, seasons over,
Speaker 1: you've played sixteen games, Ryan Fitzpatrick, as you're leading rusher,
Speaker 1: how do you have an offense that's as effective as
Speaker 1: it was to win five games when you're when you're
Speaker 1: leading rusher, is your quarterback? You don't even have three
Speaker 1: hundred yards? No, you know, So it's not like he's
Speaker 1: not like DS. You know, he's not not you know,
Speaker 1: you're not You're not running for a hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: yards a game, you know. But but but still, somehow
Speaker 1: you've made an offense work with I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's been a I don't know if there has been
Speaker 1: a team in the National Football League with less total
Speaker 1: yards rushing in a season than what the Dolphins have
Speaker 1: had this year. Yet you've been able to put an
Speaker 1: offense together. It moves the chains, puts points on the board,
Speaker 1: and it's allowed you went five football games. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's a culmination of their execution got better. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously it had to the way that this team started.
Speaker 1: I just think that you know, you had a first
Speaker 1: time offensive coordinator that kind of got into a groove
Speaker 1: a little bit more than he was. You know, in
Speaker 1: the beginning, you're not sure what you have and you're
Speaker 1: not sure where you're at with your football team. You
Speaker 1: don't have a really a starting quarterback that you're gonna
Speaker 1: say this is our guy for the whole year. You're
Speaker 1: you're moving in and out of types of offenses that
Speaker 1: you can run. The offensive line was patchwork for the
Speaker 1: I don't know most of the season. You know, you
Speaker 1: had a rotation at guard, you had tackles playing, you know,
Speaker 1: different positions. I just think that there was a lot
Speaker 1: of things that contributed to the inability to move the
Speaker 1: football with any consistency. And as the middle of the
Speaker 1: season went along, or after that first quarter of the season,
Speaker 1: you started seeing more consistency at certain positions. It helps
Speaker 1: when you have a quarterback that plays at a high level,
Speaker 1: that doesn't give it away all the time. And you
Speaker 1: started getting more complimentary football too out of your defense.
Speaker 1: So I think it's it started to kind of come
Speaker 1: together a little bit more after that fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: the of the Washington game, and they got a little
Speaker 1: bit more consistent. You could argue bo uh for a
Speaker 1: team that ran the football so little, and that didn't
Speaker 1: light the scoreboard on fire. But in the games that
Speaker 1: they won, scored enough to win. This team could have
Speaker 1: been a seven six seven wins, I mean, and that's
Speaker 1: that's that's not a fan in me coming saying you
Speaker 1: look at you go for you you you make the
Speaker 1: two point conversion and and there's another one there. It's
Speaker 1: six wins, you know, and you were compared to oh,
Speaker 1: you're going down to score to make it twenty to
Speaker 1: nine in a game that you've dominated in terms of
Speaker 1: they didn't do anything, and you know, you throw the
Speaker 1: pick and all of a sudden they gone eight yards
Speaker 1: or whatever it was nine And it changes the complexion
Speaker 1: and game after the two point conversions. So there there
Speaker 1: were there were some games in there, you know that
Speaker 1: you got kind of scratch your head and go this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to credit the coaching staff. No, I look,
Speaker 1: I I you know, I I go right there and
Speaker 1: I keep I keep looking at this scenario where you've
Speaker 1: got all this money and free agency, you've got all
Speaker 1: these draft choices. But somehow my mind keeps going to
Speaker 1: the Nick Needham's, z Eric Rose, the young guys like that.
Speaker 1: So you know, some of the linebacker vice Beagles get
Speaker 1: called these guys some of them were Herns, you know,
Speaker 1: and um, how about the movement And what all this
Speaker 1: is telling me is that you know, and these are
Speaker 1: all guys half of them didn't even start with this
Speaker 1: team that came in midway here and there, and they've
Speaker 1: been thrown in. But what's telling me is that, you know,
Speaker 1: unlike this year, going in, unlike a lot of years
Speaker 1: in the past, going in where you know you're you're
Speaker 1: you're getting your depth because you're keeping every draft choice.
Speaker 1: You're probably keeping four or five free agent rookie free agents.
Speaker 1: Because if you want, you know, if you want to
Speaker 1: you want to pay big money up top, you gotta
Speaker 1: have some some nickel and dime guys at the bottom.
Speaker 1: Great job experience. But now you've got guys out here
Speaker 1: that the Rows and the Hartages and the you know, Parkers,
Speaker 1: and these guys that have played a lot of downs.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come back and they're gonna be your second
Speaker 1: and third teamers next year. They're they're gonna be someting
Speaker 1: and some may not. But those guys that may not,
Speaker 1: Nick to him, I don't see Nick need him starting
Speaker 1: a corner. But he's going to compete. But he's good.
Speaker 1: But but but if a guy goes down, he's got
Speaker 1: to come in. He's played meaningful plays, he knows the system,
Speaker 1: he's been in those games. It's nothing new to him.
Speaker 1: And you can say that across the board offensive line wise, wide,
Speaker 1: receiver wise, you know, running backwise. You get down to
Speaker 1: your down to Patrick Lairs. And Patrick Lair is a
Speaker 1: viable We'll look at Patrick. So look at Patrick Laird yesterday.
Speaker 1: Now didn't give me much in the running game this
Speaker 1: and that especially, he accounted for sixty nine total yards,
Speaker 1: sixty totally yards of offense, you know, and in an
Speaker 1: offense that you're kind of picking here and picking there
Speaker 1: a little screen patiently. But all those guys that the
Speaker 1: layers of the layers of confidence they're getting most of
Speaker 1: those guys who are special teams guys by trade and
Speaker 1: gonna be special teams guys for the most of their career.
Speaker 1: But now they've got a level of experience stacked on
Speaker 1: him of playing in games, of being in big games,
Speaker 1: of being in those situations putting standing go over receiver.
Speaker 1: You're gonna, god, damn, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: cover this guy. And then all of a sudden, you do,
Speaker 1: what about Eric Roe and what he's become This team
Speaker 1: has had, This team has had tight end envy for
Speaker 1: for for a second, you have a tight end envy
Speaker 1: because we don't have a tight end to committed to
Speaker 1: get down the middle of the field and make big plays.
Speaker 1: And you have envy because you don't have anyone to
Speaker 1: get cover him. Now you got a sky that's proven
Speaker 1: to be that guy. But Eric Roe has proven to
Speaker 1: be a valuable guy when it comes to the team.
Speaker 1: And so you know, you kind of look at you're
Speaker 1: starting to look at that that new England model up there,
Speaker 1: and you're starting to see little bits and piece of
Speaker 1: that like Eric Row. Well, you know what, Eric Row, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, bring him back next year and just let
Speaker 1: him cover tight ends, you know that's what. But that
Speaker 1: that's that find out what guys do best, put him
Speaker 1: in that position and let him play that position to
Speaker 1: be successful. I agree, I agree, And and you can't
Speaker 1: say enough about the bottom end to this roster, the
Speaker 1: way that they've been coached up, the way they had
Speaker 1: their opportunities. Now some may have thrived a little bit
Speaker 1: more than others, but they still had all that opportunity
Speaker 1: to put on tape what they can do. And now
Speaker 1: when you you have you mentioned the influx of talent.
Speaker 1: You know, you have the draft choices, you have the
Speaker 1: undrafted guys come in. Now you've got competition. Now you've
Speaker 1: got competition. Not only that is not green as you
Speaker 1: might have had it, had you had you know, some
Speaker 1: of the veterans that hung on and you weren't sure
Speaker 1: where they were gonna go. Hey, you you cut bait
Speaker 1: with a lot of guys, either through I R or
Speaker 1: through just you know, we've we've seen enough and now
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a lot of youth on this football team.
Speaker 1: This team is still gonna be young and on a
Speaker 1: team that has a lot of money to spend in
Speaker 1: free agency. Like you said, the bottom has to match
Speaker 1: the top at some point in terms of, well, we've
Speaker 1: got eight guys we've gotta pay X. We better find
Speaker 1: another ten or twelve that that can offset that that
Speaker 1: pay and be able to be viable options on this roster.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's what the Dolphins with you know,
Speaker 1: probably five six weeks into the season, when we started
Speaker 1: to know, hey, who is who's these guys? You know,
Speaker 1: who's Hey, Hayes, I don't know. Yeah, but but but
Speaker 1: who who are these Who's you know hardage at this point,
Speaker 1: and look at need them and look at the test
Speaker 1: you've put these guys too. A lot of these guys,
Speaker 1: you put them to a test. Like guy comes in
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, You're starting on Saturday. Bro, you better be
Speaker 1: ready to go because you know we're gonna teach you up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna school you up. We're gonna put you in
Speaker 1: the meeting room and let you know. But come Sunday
Speaker 1: you're play. And and what you've seen more than not
Speaker 1: is even if guys see new guys out there and
Speaker 1: they're not that, but they don't. The thing that the
Speaker 1: cool thing about this team was no one flinched. All right.
Speaker 1: We got guys that no one knows. We got guys
Speaker 1: that no one would take on their roster. But you
Speaker 1: know what, we're gonna roll with them because number one,
Speaker 1: ultimately you're you are what you are in terms of
Speaker 1: where your records canna be, We're gonna be anywhere from
Speaker 1: two or three wins to four or five I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were kind of going to the grass
Speaker 1: is green or thinking about the reality of six. But
Speaker 1: it was there with the roster that no one really
Speaker 1: would want in terms of they wouldn't want them name only.
Speaker 1: They didn't know what type of guy they were. They
Speaker 1: didn't know what type of players. Who's the guy from Now,
Speaker 1: I'll take the guy from Oklahoma. Well, maybe I'll take
Speaker 1: this guy. You know, they might not have wanted, you know,
Speaker 1: to take a chance on these guys. But when you're
Speaker 1: looking at a specific type of player, I think that's
Speaker 1: where the communication from the coaching staff to the front office,
Speaker 1: what do you need. I need a quick twitch guy
Speaker 1: that that can run. Okay, let's try this guy this week.
Speaker 1: That he didn't. He wasn't the guy who look for
Speaker 1: Let's try another guy. And they found people now through
Speaker 1: five weeks, six weeks, seven weeks of actually playing in
Speaker 1: NFL games, that they feel confident they've got tape on
Speaker 1: they can go, yeah, we like this trade. We can
Speaker 1: correct that that flaw, you know, we can correct on technique,
Speaker 1: on alignment, on how you play the position. Now they
Speaker 1: got Now they got bodies, Now they have depth, they're
Speaker 1: building that. It was almost like sixteen preseason games rolled
Speaker 1: into a season where you could evaluate and now you
Speaker 1: now you build depth. But you know, the other thing too,
Speaker 1: is that you know and I think it was I
Speaker 1: want to say it was. Hal Habib wrote an article
Speaker 1: the other day from the Palm Beach Post, and I
Speaker 1: found it interesting because he went around and talked to
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room and said, Hey, what would
Speaker 1: you say to your a friend of yours or a
Speaker 1: guy that's a potential free agent or somebody that the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are gonna trade for. What would you say to
Speaker 1: them about coming and playing for the Miami Dolphins. You know,
Speaker 1: everyone thinks there's a waste land and this and that,
Speaker 1: and and every guy said, first of all, I tell
Speaker 1: him this is a place you want to be. And
Speaker 1: then they said, but if you're gonna come, you better
Speaker 1: come ready to work, because it's it's it's not mentioning.
Speaker 1: There's one way gone. It's this west southway, and you
Speaker 1: better be on time, and you better be ready to work,
Speaker 1: and you be ready, better ready, be ready to invest
Speaker 1: your time in it and be ready to go. And
Speaker 1: and you heard that refrain over and over of of
Speaker 1: guy just saying, hey, look, man, you love to be here.
Speaker 1: But if you be here, if you're gonna come here,
Speaker 1: and and to me, you know, I've hear it. I've
Speaker 1: I've heard it too many times here, I've heard it
Speaker 1: too many times from everywhere else. It's all about culture.
Speaker 1: It's all about culture. It's all about culture. It's our culture,
Speaker 1: it's our culture. Well, you know, Adam Gays had a culture.
Speaker 1: It was a shitty culture. Everybody's gone, everyone's got a culture.
Speaker 1: But you're seeing what you're seeing here is is is
Speaker 1: a culture that demands what makes winning for what's what
Speaker 1: makes teams win is discipline. You know, don't beat yourself,
Speaker 1: study hard, be in the right place at the right time,
Speaker 1: and do your job. And I think that's the culture
Speaker 1: that's been set out in no uncertain terms to the
Speaker 1: point when you've got the players saying, hey, yeah, you
Speaker 1: want to come here because this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: good place to me. But but I'm telling you better
Speaker 1: pack your bad You're better black pack your lunch box
Speaker 1: because it's no pickling when you come here. How many
Speaker 1: times did we hear coach Florida say this year you
Speaker 1: lose more games in the NFL than your exactly and
Speaker 1: look at all the things that he tried to correct
Speaker 1: from day one. What we harped on discipline, self imposed penalties,
Speaker 1: pre snap penalties, all the little things that that beat you,
Speaker 1: all the hidden yards and special teams that you can
Speaker 1: either lose or gain, all the little things that all
Speaker 1: the unnecessary things. The Dolphins kind of cut those, probably
Speaker 1: more than in half. They probably went, you know, closer
Speaker 1: to you know, a third in terms of being able
Speaker 1: to be closer to where they want to be and
Speaker 1: to the top of those, you know, the league in
Speaker 1: that staff was listen to Joe Rose Show this morning,
Speaker 1: and he might have been talking to Omar or whoever
Speaker 1: he was talking to, and they may been Omar. I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to give anybody the wrong,
Speaker 1: wrong information. But but the comment he made was, was
Speaker 1: the last time you saw the Dolphins? Uh one of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins of pre snap jump on offense. I can't
Speaker 1: I'm I'm some driving, I'm going on, I'm throwing thing.
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I can't remember the last time the
Speaker 1: Dolphins on offense one of the guys jumped pre snap.
Speaker 1: You know how many times I mean over the last
Speaker 1: six years it was a six You would lose sixty
Speaker 1: yards on pre snaps. Yeah, yeah, and that's one of
Speaker 1: the things you're talked about, and we talked about so
Speaker 1: so it's you know, it's it's you. You you build
Speaker 1: a you build a solid house on foundation. And I
Speaker 1: think that that you know, in the course of of
Speaker 1: one season, one offseason, and one full season, you know,
Speaker 1: the foundation is pretty well set here and and and
Speaker 1: it's set because part of the pillars out foundation are
Speaker 1: the guys that we're talking to that article talking about, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know this is a place to be but you know,
Speaker 1: but but there's but there's you know, there's rules there,
Speaker 1: there's rules, there's to do it. There's rules, and you
Speaker 1: are held accountable to them. It's not like it's a
Speaker 1: bending type of ye issue where you're late, but you're
Speaker 1: really not late. And believe me, there there I've talked
Speaker 1: to guys have played in New England go, hey, look
Speaker 1: at you know it was. It's not it's not fun.
Speaker 1: It's not a lot of fun up there. But when
Speaker 1: you look back and you've got four Super Bowl rings win,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, I've always said football, football is
Speaker 1: not fun. Monday through Friday or Sunday. Sunday is the
Speaker 1: greatest day in the world, but every other day stinks,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's tough. You gotta push yourself
Speaker 1: through it. It's a grind. But but those days are winning.
Speaker 1: Those those are what it's all, what it's all worth.
Speaker 1: And when you look back, when you played for a
Speaker 1: Paul Brown, you played for Tom Landry, you played for
Speaker 1: Chuck norm, when you played for Don Shuler, you played
Speaker 1: for those old school tough guys. Boy, everybody I talked
Speaker 1: to you play for these guys. Guy, I hated the
Speaker 1: son of a bit. But then when you step back,
Speaker 1: when your career is over and the bag, well, we
Speaker 1: want a lot of games. We did a lot of
Speaker 1: things because of that guy in the way he went
Speaker 1: about it. And I just feel like Brian Flores is
Speaker 1: setting that foundation for for long term success with the with,
Speaker 1: with the with, with the fact that he can. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he's got the gravitas now after one year
Speaker 1: to be able to demand that and have his players
Speaker 1: go hey, some guy comes in and goes, hey, can
Speaker 1: you believe this bullshit this guy wants me to do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can because I did it myself. If you want
Speaker 1: to be here, be my guests, go ahead. If you don't,
Speaker 1: we'll see it, and it's almost like bow to the
Speaker 1: point where those guys are gonna stick out, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that they're smart enough as a staff
Speaker 1: and organizationally as a front office. They're not gonna put
Speaker 1: a guy that they're questionable about in a position to
Speaker 1: come on this team because they don't want that guy
Speaker 1: in the locker room, they don't want that guy in
Speaker 1: the practice field. They certainly don't want them line them
Speaker 1: up on Sundays. So I think that that that foundation
Speaker 1: has been firmly set, and I think the traits and
Speaker 1: characteristics of the guys that ended up on this roster,
Speaker 1: those are the same types that they're looking for in
Speaker 1: this offseason. Well, because they're their guys are gonna deliver
Speaker 1: the messae they're delivered the you know, the Vet, the
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins then and the got Shaws and and and
Speaker 1: some of these other guys out there, Xavien and you know,
Speaker 1: and and and you know whoever the quarterback is with
Speaker 1: Ryan next year or whoever. You know that they're gonna say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is why it is, so why it is you
Speaker 1: know self, when you get it, when you get to
Speaker 1: a team, when you get a football team, that's gonna
Speaker 1: police itself in that locker room and police itself with
Speaker 1: the things that the coaches preaching, and then you know
Speaker 1: you've made some strides. I agree, and I think that
Speaker 1: this team. The one thing I really liked about watching
Speaker 1: them up close this year was the fight that they gave.
Speaker 1: You know that it was it didn't matter if they
Speaker 1: were up in a game or if they were down
Speaker 1: in a game. They played with the same level of intensity,
Speaker 1: and they played for sixty minutes. They didn't lay down.
Speaker 1: You know, those first two games, like we're talking about,
Speaker 1: when you go back, that seems like it was a
Speaker 1: different year. Doesn't seem like it was attached to this season,
Speaker 1: because that those two teams that went out and took
Speaker 1: the field were completely different than the last maybe half,
Speaker 1: you know, half before half. The guys aren't on the
Speaker 1: you know, we're on the defense. It's it's crazy to
Speaker 1: think that way, but it's almost like you had the
Speaker 1: first I don't know, three games, three and a half
Speaker 1: games of the season was it was another season, and
Speaker 1: then you kind of meandered through a regular season with
Speaker 1: the rest of the fourteen or fifteen games you play. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's it look, I'm very real happy now. Now
Speaker 1: now you feel good about going into the offseason, feel
Speaker 1: great about it. But but as soon you know, as
Speaker 1: soon as that game was over, and you go, man,
Speaker 1: what what what what a great way to end the season,
Speaker 1: going up to New England in a very very difficult
Speaker 1: place to play, where you've just you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: doing the postgame show last night on CBS four at
Speaker 1: the studio and going, god damn, man, I've been there
Speaker 1: twenty freaking times and and and sating that sat and
Speaker 1: that that that that that room, that interview room, just
Speaker 1: like downtrodden, going god damn, we got her asses kicked again.
Speaker 1: I go, then I don't show up and gets to
Speaker 1: win up there and you get to sit there. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to walk in that room, going right, we
Speaker 1: kick their ass, don't worry both. I left something in
Speaker 1: the bathroom for it, for you. It was awesome. But
Speaker 1: but as soon as that, as soon as that ended,
Speaker 1: my mind flipped over to Chris Greer and now you know,
Speaker 1: and it looks not I'm not I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: his job begins now because his job has been going
Speaker 1: on for for years and years and years and and
Speaker 1: and but this is his draft. This is his draft
Speaker 1: solely and uh. And he's got a bushel of picks,
Speaker 1: he's got a bushel of money. Uh, he can reshape
Speaker 1: this football team. But what I tell you, talk about
Speaker 1: it being square on somebody's shoulders. Uh, No matter what happens,
Speaker 1: good batter, indifferent after this draft and what happens through
Speaker 1: the course of the next year or two, Um, well,
Speaker 1: a lot of that's gonna be squarely on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: I just think that the spotlight and the focus of
Speaker 1: that spotlight changes. You know, it was on this team,
Speaker 1: it was on this head coach, it was on this
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and Chris Greer and his staff were still
Speaker 1: doing their work stuff, but they just weren't didn't have
Speaker 1: the spotlight directly on him. Now the season's over, you
Speaker 1: have your any meetings, you're you know, you talk about
Speaker 1: who you want, But that that shift goes now to
Speaker 1: the front office and it squarely focuses on him. So
Speaker 1: that big bright spotlight and he'll embrace it. But it's
Speaker 1: on him now and it's gonna be on him until
Speaker 1: the draft. You know, it's gonna be through uh Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be through combine, it's gonna go to free agency,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go to the draft, and then it's gonna
Speaker 1: go okay after that. Now that, now, what do we have?
Speaker 1: Where are we at? How are we better? And you know,
Speaker 1: I just like the way that they've gone about if
Speaker 1: if building this roster and changing it up as frequently
Speaker 1: as they did, define guys that fit, or any indication
Speaker 1: of how they're gonna go about the off season, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm on board. I'm good with it because they don't
Speaker 1: care about egos, they don't care about reputation, they don't
Speaker 1: care about anything. If you're a fit, you're a fit.
Speaker 1: If you're not, you're not. It's not like maybe we
Speaker 1: can squeeze this guy in the culture and maybe he
Speaker 1: can we can change him. No, no, no, If you fit,
Speaker 1: you fit, here's the criteria. If you don't, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna consider you. And I think I don't know this
Speaker 1: to be fact, but that's the way my perception, and
Speaker 1: that's the way they're gonna go down this offseason. But
Speaker 1: I agree that that spotlight is now focused on the
Speaker 1: front office. Yeah, no, it's it. It is on the
Speaker 1: front office, no doubt. But the you know the I'm
Speaker 1: sure between Brian and Chris and and everybody that's involved
Speaker 1: in that, the type of guy they're looking for, I
Speaker 1: think has been well defined this year. You know, that
Speaker 1: guy that's willing to work hard, that guy's willing to bust.
Speaker 1: Is that he may not be the may not be
Speaker 1: that prototypical guy you're standing out there, but you know,
Speaker 1: there there there's a there's a there's a there's a
Speaker 1: there's a form for that guy. You know, you know,
Speaker 1: hard guy, hard worker, stay extra, get in the books,
Speaker 1: watch tapes, do all those things. That's the that's the
Speaker 1: criteria they're looking for, whether or not that you know,
Speaker 1: when the draft comes up, there's a first round or
Speaker 1: the fifth round and you pick some why are they
Speaker 1: picking that guy right now? That guy no one having
Speaker 1: had him wall you you're knowing to back their mind.
Speaker 1: It may work, it may not have been the back
Speaker 1: of the mind. There's something that guy does that they
Speaker 1: feel fits this this football exactly exactly. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the way they go about it. And and I
Speaker 1: think when you take a look at the guys, and
Speaker 1: we've been around him enough, I mean, look at look
Speaker 1: at p Ryan comes in, he might know three plays. Okay,
Speaker 1: he bolts down the first round, he goes for nine yards.
Speaker 1: I'm going all right, I want to see a little
Speaker 1: bit more said, you know, I want to see him
Speaker 1: run up in between the tackles. So you get guys
Speaker 1: in the same way with with you know, Needham's and
Speaker 1: guys like that in the back end and Heartage like
Speaker 1: or even uh, what was the nickel Wilts? He played
Speaker 1: eighteen different positions back there, but he's still playing, you know,
Speaker 1: he's still They're still trying to find a way they
Speaker 1: like get his skill set in the best opportunity, and
Speaker 1: that's what they did with Row. So so I I
Speaker 1: like the out of the box and you know, this
Speaker 1: guy might not fit complete at this position, but let's
Speaker 1: not give up on him because he has a lot
Speaker 1: of the traits we're looking for. So so let's let's
Speaker 1: let's kind of extend this out a little bit to
Speaker 1: John talking about Chris Greer and and the draft process
Speaker 1: and everything. We know. We know the Dolphins got the
Speaker 1: fifth pick, uh in the in the draft and and
Speaker 1: then the other two picks will filter out as a
Speaker 1: as a playoffs. What do they say around somewhere or
Speaker 1: somewhere around that because they've got the Pittsburgh pick, which
Speaker 1: I think is gonna be around nineteen or something, and
Speaker 1: they've got the Houston pick. I believe the other pick
Speaker 1: they got, yeah exactly, um is gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: if it's Houston pick, depending on how far they go,
Speaker 1: could be somewhere on there. But but they've got but
Speaker 1: they've got ammunition to to move around and do something
Speaker 1: some different things out there. But you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: hit in these They gotta hit in these picks. But
Speaker 1: the one thing I got is gonna gonna get to
Speaker 1: Going back to one thing we talked about earlier, how
Speaker 1: much leeway does it give you give you having fits
Speaker 1: back now to where that quarterback is? You know, it
Speaker 1: was a pen ultimate thing. Yeah, I mean before the
Speaker 1: season quarterback quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, and it's still quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, quarterback.
Speaker 1: But you know, did this give you another year if
Speaker 1: that guy's not there? If you know, look, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear Joe Burrows going, He's going to Cincinnati unless
Speaker 1: you drive no, no, no, everything, not even the Brown
Speaker 1: family construed so, but so beyond that, then then everyone
Speaker 1: else has a little yeah, you know, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: so you're kind of you're kind of looking at that
Speaker 1: formula quarterback and you know, and everything he's got. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you know it hurts injury. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he can throw it as well, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all that, yeah too of the injury. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got all that, but the injury. Yeah, there's all these
Speaker 1: all these little little red flags up there, you know
Speaker 1: that with with each of the one guy that has
Speaker 1: no red flags is Joe Burrow, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: gone with that first pick. And if you think the
Speaker 1: defensive ends going in the second, yeah I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't doubt that at all, you know, but but there
Speaker 1: are a lot of good players out there, and you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of positions to pick, and so the
Speaker 1: you know, unless you're a hundred percent sol let's say
Speaker 1: you stay at number five and you're a hundred percent soul,
Speaker 1: that that that that guy, that that quarterback that's still
Speaker 1: lingering around. If you're still there, unless you're and you
Speaker 1: got fits kind of sitting in your back pocket, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I take that that, Maybe I take that that linebacker,
Speaker 1: or that that pass rusher, or maybe that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the kid Judy from uh from the wide out
Speaker 1: from Alabama's is still floating around that. You know, you
Speaker 1: you've got some options there that don't force you to
Speaker 1: try to And I think I heard you know these conversations.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna force anybody into that pick. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna take a guy that we think is a is
Speaker 1: a twentieth round pick in the in the draft and
Speaker 1: and and take them the fifth because we have to,
Speaker 1: because we've we've got two of those in the back. Exactly,
Speaker 1: We've got some some of money in our pocket in
Speaker 1: terms of picks. And I think I think, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: if two of it was your guy and you he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to play right away. I think the answer
Speaker 1: comes back to your original question, is fits back on
Speaker 1: this roster? Number one? Does he want to play another season? Um,
Speaker 1: you know with his family in Tampa, you know that,
Speaker 1: does he number one? Does he want to play? Number two?
Speaker 1: Is that? How does that factor into the equation about
Speaker 1: you know, moving your family or do whatever you have
Speaker 1: to do with your family, whatever that situation is. Selfishly
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins love to have him back, I
Speaker 1: would say absolutely, you know, if we can do it
Speaker 1: tomorrow and get a confirmation on yeah, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: back for two thousand and twenty. Great that that's unbelievable
Speaker 1: because now that frees you up to take a guy
Speaker 1: at five at quarterback and if two is your guy,
Speaker 1: that's great. Um that doesn't have to play in terms
Speaker 1: of hey, we're not gonna rush you to play. We're
Speaker 1: gonna let you get healthy. If you're already healthy, great,
Speaker 1: now you go compete. Now you go learn how to
Speaker 1: play as an NFL quarterback. And I and who would
Speaker 1: you like to tutor? And we got a guy that's
Speaker 1: played now going into his sixteenth year, that's played at
Speaker 1: a pretty high level last season and for for the
Speaker 1: most part his whole career. You know, there's been some
Speaker 1: ups and downs, but he's still here and he's a
Speaker 1: viable option to start. You don't have to, but we
Speaker 1: want you to compete. It's become you know that this
Speaker 1: league has become so starved for quarterbacks. You know, you
Speaker 1: saw with Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray's number one pick, he's
Speaker 1: gonna start, He's gonna go in and look white Frank
Speaker 1: he played. You know, as as a season went on,
Speaker 1: You're starting to see some pretty good things out of
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, and you wonder what he had been like
Speaker 1: for him and had he been able to do the
Speaker 1: Ma Homes thing and sit behind somebody for a couple
Speaker 1: of years and and then and then get his opportunity.
Speaker 1: But but he's gotten better by playing. He's gotten better
Speaker 1: by playing, and I think that he's gotten better and
Speaker 1: I think his head coach has gotten better in in
Speaker 1: terms of how this offense is gonna fit in the
Speaker 1: National Football League with a guy that's not um maybe
Speaker 1: as dynamic of a runner as you see in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: but has different intangibles that gives him similar type skill
Speaker 1: sets that that you can then you can take advantage of.
Speaker 1: They really put pressure on somebody else on a bad team. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so not as good as Baltimore, So so you're kind
Speaker 1: of not apples to apples, right, But but they got better,
Speaker 1: and I think they got better because they learned how
Speaker 1: to use his skill set. The head coach kind of
Speaker 1: call him plays for the first time in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, kind of got into his rhythm a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I think that all worked out pretty The guy
Speaker 1: that the guy that really intrigues me in this whole
Speaker 1: quarterback thing, and look, I'm a Burrow. So I mean
Speaker 1: that guy just the game he had the other day
Speaker 1: was just I mean, I don't know which one he
Speaker 1: didn't have this right every time you look at and
Speaker 1: you just walked away. I remember seeing when we were
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis and that was the night after that was
Speaker 1: the day after the Alabama l s U game, and
Speaker 1: I'm walking back into the UH into the locker room
Speaker 1: for something before the game and Mr Ross and Danny
Speaker 1: and a bunch of guys coming with Chris Greer all
Speaker 1: walking in and so we're walking, Hey, how you guys
Speaker 1: doing it? And go, hey, yeah, I got how'd you
Speaker 1: like the game last night? He goes, I love the game?
Speaker 1: He said, Mrs love the game? Was we love those
Speaker 1: quarterbacks too? You know? He goes, that guy Burrow looks
Speaker 1: pretty good. But you know, so there there's you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's got the interest, everyone's got there the of those guys,
Speaker 1: but um, it's it's it's the guy that the guy
Speaker 1: that that just sticks out in my mind. I hated
Speaker 1: to see two of her get hurt because that that
Speaker 1: to me, you know, I just I'm so leery of
Speaker 1: seeing guys come in here that you draft high and
Speaker 1: they come in and they're hurt, and in your two
Speaker 1: weeks into training camp, you're looking, well, where's our new quot.
Speaker 1: Oh he's over there on the stationary body. You know
Speaker 1: that that that that just but that that just that
Speaker 1: that that that concerns me. But Jalen Hurts is a
Speaker 1: guy that you know, he's a little Tim Tebow from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of maybe he's not the most orthodox guy
Speaker 1: out there, but he's also Tim Tebow because all he
Speaker 1: does is win games. You can say what you want
Speaker 1: to is not the most accurate guy. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: not the best run or not, But god damn when
Speaker 1: the guys playing in the highest level that the college
Speaker 1: football can offer, two of the best programs in the country,
Speaker 1: playing against some of the best programs in the country,
Speaker 1: and all the guys done is win football games, held
Speaker 1: his hot head up high, done what's asked of him,
Speaker 1: gotten better every year, and boy, it just you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys you wanted to think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's for whatever, somehow, some way, I would like to
Speaker 1: have that guy on my team, right you know, you
Speaker 1: want to have more of that type of player on
Speaker 1: your team. And I think that's where the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: are going with this roster. I don't know, but but
Speaker 1: you kind of put a big question mark over the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks because after Joe Burrow, like he said, we're not
Speaker 1: sure what flavor is gonna fit the Miami Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: and you don't know, you know, how many hands are
Speaker 1: gonna go up when you, you know, say a name
Speaker 1: and who are we on board with? Right? Because you're
Speaker 1: not sure. You're just not sure. There's so many there's
Speaker 1: so many things out there you can't control in terms
Speaker 1: of where you're gonna select, who you're gonna pick, who's
Speaker 1: gonna be there. So let me ask you this, John,
Speaker 1: beyond beyond. Let's let's go beyond this year. Let's just
Speaker 1: move to next year. And the Trevor Lawrence in the
Speaker 1: fields and field from You've seen enough of those, enough
Speaker 1: of those two guys to say their number one and
Speaker 1: number two coming out and absolutely and and you know
Speaker 1: as much as you can say sure fires, you believe
Speaker 1: both those guys are those guys. When you go through
Speaker 1: a season of college football and you throw it as
Speaker 1: much as those guys do, and you throw forty touchdowns
Speaker 1: and only one interception, and then you know you you
Speaker 1: throw one against Clemson at the end. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was a busted route guy changed up on you.
Speaker 1: But for Fields to do that in a season and
Speaker 1: come in fourth in the Heisman voting, are you are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Right? So now on the other side,
Speaker 1: you got Trevor Lawrence. Ever, this guy is not very
Speaker 1: good this year. He's having a down year, he's having
Speaker 1: a bad year. They only beat in North Carolina by
Speaker 1: a point, and then all of a sudden, he goes
Speaker 1: on run. It doesn't throw a pick for like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, eight games in a row or something like that,
Speaker 1: and he runs of football at six six like a
Speaker 1: a train, you know, against a really good defense in
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Those guys are sure, those guys unquestionably, you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the butts on some of the
Speaker 1: guys in terms of yeah, he has this, but those guys,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see over there this year and next year.
Speaker 1: The because you know, John, we're we're seeing we're also
Speaker 1: kind of in that in that in the league wide
Speaker 1: picture of you know, all these guys are you know,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers now question what's gonna happen with him. He's
Speaker 1: in the seventeenth year. You look at Tom Brady, he's
Speaker 1: in his seventeenth or eighteenth year. Ben Roethlisberger got the shoulder,
Speaker 1: he's in sixty. All these guys are at the twilight
Speaker 1: of their care Drew Brees, there's all those guys that
Speaker 1: have been those because nowadays, going going back to probably
Speaker 1: before Danny, but right around that time is when if
Speaker 1: you became a franchise quarterback, you're gonna play fifteen to
Speaker 1: seventeen years, right, That's that's kind of the number. Now
Speaker 1: when you go back look at all these guys now
Speaker 1: and they're all their fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years. But that
Speaker 1: also leads to this whole new influx of young quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coming into the league that are stepping up and and
Speaker 1: and and stepping up behind these guys that that are
Speaker 1: that are either getting hurt like Roethlisberger, your Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: gets the opportunity to to show off a little bit,
Speaker 1: and and Minnesou the guy up in uh Jacksonville, or
Speaker 1: these young guys are getting opportunities to get out there
Speaker 1: that are gonna be the next tier, the next tiers
Speaker 1: of uh you know, uh lock now and the kidding,
Speaker 1: kidding Jones up in uh with the Giants. You're seeing
Speaker 1: some stuff out of Daniel Jones. And so this whole,
Speaker 1: this whole quarterback landscape over the next three or four
Speaker 1: years is going to completely change. And it's who's gonna
Speaker 1: have that guy that's gonna be there for the next
Speaker 1: seventeen years. It's gonna be the Russell Wilson's and the
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes are gonna be the veteran guys and and
Speaker 1: all these other guys that are coming in are trying
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Yeah, so that'll be It is
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. And that's why it's it's so critical
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins to make the right choice and
Speaker 1: not just to make a choice um in this year's
Speaker 1: draft just because you feel like you have to, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, there you want to take a quarterback. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any question they're gonna take a quarterback.
Speaker 1: It just where are they going to take it if
Speaker 1: it's not the guy they want at five? And maybe
Speaker 1: they go back and get another you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of the you know what
Speaker 1: they there's a lot of things you can do, a
Speaker 1: lot of things you can do. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: when you when you look at priorities on this team,
Speaker 1: you know, quarterback is certainly a priority, but pass rushers asked,
Speaker 1: rush is to me that that defensive van outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: that that disruptive pass rusher. To me, this as important
Speaker 1: as that quarterback in there. And you know what, that
Speaker 1: that offensive tackle or that offensive guard or that center
Speaker 1: is just as important. And that's why you're you're so
Speaker 1: happy the Miami Dolphins. They have three number ones. Two
Speaker 1: number two is two. Number three's they're gonna get. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get a quarterback, they're gonna get a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get an offensive lineman or two. And now
Speaker 1: you've got three more picks and you've got you've got
Speaker 1: free agency to go out and find some of those
Speaker 1: guys that you know that are that are that are
Speaker 1: those you know that that that guy that's maybe your
Speaker 1: third pass rusher, or maybe that guy that's that's that
Speaker 1: offensive guard that that really fits in for you, that's
Speaker 1: got three or four year four more years left in him.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah. I mean, I always got lineman. Alabama
Speaker 1: has some great lineman there. There's some good offensive lineman
Speaker 1: out there. I just think you're you're you're come away
Speaker 1: with the first round. You're gonna get a quarterback, You're
Speaker 1: gonna get a pass rusher, and then you're gonna probably
Speaker 1: get an offensive lineman. And I think, and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: rule out, they're gonna get some type of running back
Speaker 1: somewhere in those first you know, six to eight picks,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of good ones out there, and
Speaker 1: you can stockpile another young guy in here. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: funny how you you know, we came into this year
Speaker 1: and you're looking at the running back situation. You're going, hey,
Speaker 1: you're looking pretty good here with Kenyan Drake. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you got klin Blage, you got Miles Gasking, the draft choice,
Speaker 1: you got this day, You're feeling pretty good. And and
Speaker 1: then you had um get from you am I forget
Speaker 1: help quickly? Forget Oh Mark Mark Walton's were pretty stout
Speaker 1: in that, and that all of a sudden, that running
Speaker 1: back room became completely depleted, right And and I don't
Speaker 1: think there's anybody in that room other than maybe the
Speaker 1: young guys. Look, I gotta think klein Blage is probably
Speaker 1: you know, his stock is is not there. Not too
Speaker 1: bullish on his stock right now after what what they
Speaker 1: saw from him this year. But who knows what happens
Speaker 1: during the offseason and moving forward. But you know, that's
Speaker 1: another room that needs to be reloaded. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of change. It's still gonna occur. I mean, we
Speaker 1: we thought we had seen probably as much change on
Speaker 1: a roster that we would ever see. Um, I think
Speaker 1: that this is gonna be this This offseason is gonna
Speaker 1: be unbelievable in terms of getting an influx of new players,
Speaker 1: an influx of of draft choices and free agency and
Speaker 1: undrafted guys. It's gonna be uh, highly competitive to be
Speaker 1: a member of the Miami Dolphins. It's gonna be It's well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be much like this year. It's gonna be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, training camps. They're gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: guys coming through this building over the next hand full
Speaker 1: of years. And like I said that, you know that
Speaker 1: they've talked about people talking about how we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: always gonna turn the bottom of that roster, try to
Speaker 1: find that one guy. And but I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever seen a team and I've seen I've seen this
Speaker 1: team turn that roster a lot towards the end of
Speaker 1: the season, but from week one to week seventeen, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen that revolving door spin
Speaker 1: in the way it's it's it's fun. And and they
Speaker 1: found some guys that did look like there's some some
Speaker 1: some you know, some opportunity to be some pretty decent players.
Speaker 1: I think so. And you have to credit, you know,
Speaker 1: the way that the front office has worked with the
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the way that they've gotten in their
Speaker 1: guys in terms of the skill set they're looking for.
Speaker 1: And it's tough to dependcil in guys, like you said
Speaker 1: earlier in this podcast about getting a guy and signing
Speaker 1: him on Tuesday, goes out to practice on Wednesday and
Speaker 1: is playing, is starting, not just playing on special teams,
Speaker 1: He's starting and playing on special teams on that Sunday.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable at the defensive back position. You have
Speaker 1: to credit the guys on the staff that got them
Speaker 1: ready and and the guys in the front office that identified,
Speaker 1: you know, the scouts that are out there kind of
Speaker 1: pounding the payment in terms of getting the right guys
Speaker 1: on the roster. It's a it's a complete, uh you know,
Speaker 1: collaboration of the thought. I wonder what the number of
Speaker 1: players that played on this team from week one until
Speaker 1: week seventeen, the number of players that started for this
Speaker 1: football team that had practiced less than four practices and
Speaker 1: with this team and started and started. If I had
Speaker 1: to take the over underbolt, I think i'd have six. Usual. Look,
Speaker 1: I can think of the three. There were three offensive alignment.
Speaker 1: There were three d that the week one that we're
Speaker 1: here midwek So there's six right there, six right there
Speaker 1: right so there's probably the probably maybe double digits there,
Speaker 1: you know guys that did who's it? You know? So
Speaker 1: I can't even name some of them, say three weeks ago, okay,
Speaker 1: he's been around. Yeah, I can't keep tracking. I think
Speaker 1: two or three weeks. It wasn't very long. I was,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm number watching yesterday, I'm watching. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: who's who's who's back in the secondary? Now? Who's this guy?
Speaker 1: Who's that guy? Who's that guy? Who was? It was
Speaker 1: pretty crazy, but hey, we got uh speaking of defensive back.
Speaker 1: We've got Eric Row coming in to join us. We're
Speaker 1: gonna sit tight and wait for Eric to stop buy
Speaker 1: and uh and see what he's got to say. I
Speaker 1: joined out by Eric Row and Eric what a way
Speaker 1: to wrap up the season? I go up to New
Speaker 1: England and uh and take down New England. There's been
Speaker 1: a long time since his office had one up there,
Speaker 1: and uh, but it had to feel good for you,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you know, probably one of the best
Speaker 1: fell and something just because you know that the type
Speaker 1: of game it was, uh, you know, us finishing season strong,
Speaker 1: and I mean I'd never realized, you know, Dolphins haven't
Speaker 1: won up there and you know a long time and
Speaker 1: probably so you can cross that off the box too. Well,
Speaker 1: you're the good thing. You have to pick six for
Speaker 1: a touchdown off Tom Brady and then and that's the
Speaker 1: I think that's the first. That's the first pick six
Speaker 1: the Dolphins that Tom Brady's ever thrown against the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So another another first. All right, yeah, you can check
Speaker 1: it out the box too. I mean I didn't obviously,
Speaker 1: I never realized that, but should it help the team win?
Speaker 1: How about you? You were you were you played a
Speaker 1: new women. You spent time there, so you know what
Speaker 1: that cultures like up there, and for going into a
Speaker 1: game on week seventeen, that I really had a lot
Speaker 1: for them to to you know, the home field advantage
Speaker 1: and you know how huge advantages once you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, having to stay home, getting to buy a week,
Speaker 1: getting a chance to stay home, only to have it, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, have a kind of stuff down their throat
Speaker 1: by you guys. Um it says a lot about the
Speaker 1: way you played and make them look more like a
Speaker 1: human football team than we've seen in the past, certainly
Speaker 1: at this time of the year. Yeah, we just I
Speaker 1: mean obviously the coding staff came from there. I mean
Speaker 1: I came from there. I kind of know obviously be
Speaker 1: on the other side, I kind of know what it takes,
Speaker 1: you know, to win it. It's not easy, you know,
Speaker 1: to beat them. I know. One of the thing is
Speaker 1: too we have we needed to score on defense our
Speaker 1: special teams, you know. Yeah, that's yeah, every time at
Speaker 1: least I remember losing, it's always like a defense of
Speaker 1: our special team score. So I mean that and then
Speaker 1: obviously putting pressure on you know, the often. But I
Speaker 1: mean that's you know that's every opponent, but just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out with that our mindset like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we want to finish this, you know, team strong.
Speaker 1: We know what's on the line for them, even though
Speaker 1: we have nothing to play for. You know, we're playing
Speaker 1: for pride and and shoot, we got it done. You know,
Speaker 1: there's not very many people, certainly the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season and nationally there was hardly anybody to give you
Speaker 1: any any credit as a football team. Been a lot
Speaker 1: of changes, a lot of guys coming in. That secondary
Speaker 1: has been evolving door guys coming in, and guys come
Speaker 1: in and and and and maybe struggle a little bit,
Speaker 1: but eventually they get better along the way. Well, what
Speaker 1: is it about your group in the secondary that's been
Speaker 1: able to have so many guys come through there and
Speaker 1: still continue to play at a better level. It seems
Speaker 1: like each and every week that you played it really
Speaker 1: it just uh me, really, me and Jamal because we're
Speaker 1: you know, the guy has been here since O t A. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a new guy come in. You know, we
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you know, the studying to playbook grow fast.
Speaker 1: But on the field, you know, I'm telling them, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, do this do this. Obviously they know how
Speaker 1: to play the position, but getting in tune with the
Speaker 1: defense and all the checks that we have to make
Speaker 1: and communication. You know, me and Jamad I think, you know,
Speaker 1: we're trying to take you know, trying to take over
Speaker 1: that role of you know, hey, this is a situation.
Speaker 1: You know, make sure you do this, you know, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. So uh because I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of ready to have turned over, just like
Speaker 1: that guy you through the whole season, but you know
Speaker 1: just how to make it work. It's been like that
Speaker 1: pretty much on most of the positions on this football team.
Speaker 1: Defensive end, you have guys come and go. The offensive
Speaker 1: line has been changing around a lot. Running backs has
Speaker 1: been a whole new group of people. With all the
Speaker 1: changes that have going on, how do you attribute the
Speaker 1: fact too, with all those changes going on from week
Speaker 1: one till the end of the season, how has this
Speaker 1: team been able to just get better and better every
Speaker 1: week and compete? You know, early on those games that
Speaker 1: look like, oh man, it's gonna be a long season.
Speaker 1: Week one, a week two, you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: Ravens come in and run free, and then new England
Speaker 1: forty three. Nothing to go, Man, this would be a
Speaker 1: long sea. But from that point on, this team continually
Speaker 1: got better and more competitive each and every week. And
Speaker 1: it says a lot for the players on the roster,
Speaker 1: also says a lot for the staff and what they've
Speaker 1: been able to do to get you guys ready, even
Speaker 1: guys that have come in on short order and midweek
Speaker 1: and end up starting, you know, on that Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think kind of attribute to you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like the core of us you know that
Speaker 1: were you know together and you know the spring and
Speaker 1: training camp I noticed, you know, wasn't too many of us,
Speaker 1: but you know the court that were together that you know,
Speaker 1: new guy comes in, no matter what position, Hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get him up to speed. I mean, we're all
Speaker 1: we're all competitive. We're still trying to win, you know,
Speaker 1: even though you know, and we were like oh and
Speaker 1: seven you know, first seven games and a couple of
Speaker 1: blowout losses. But I mean we see that when we
Speaker 1: did things right and when everyone was you know, playing together,
Speaker 1: like you know, we were rolling things, We're working, we're
Speaker 1: making three and outs, offensive scoring, special teams, was you know,
Speaker 1: doing the thing Uh, so you know we all seen that,
Speaker 1: so it was tough. You know, new guy comes in, Hey,
Speaker 1: we gotta give him up to speed. But you know
Speaker 1: we just knew we we do got something special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's it's pretty remarkable. What's what's going on here?
Speaker 1: And uh, you know there's been this this looming thing
Speaker 1: of the draft and you know, you know who's gonna
Speaker 1: come here and who's gonna come there. Um, But but
Speaker 1: for for you guys to be able to put that
Speaker 1: aside and go out and you know, everyone can say
Speaker 1: how we're going out to win every game. You know,
Speaker 1: some guys do when some guys don't. But this football team,
Speaker 1: you know, you win five games. But I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's hard to put your finger on
Speaker 1: what's the specific thing that allowed you guys to kind
Speaker 1: of be consistent with the inconsistencies that were going on
Speaker 1: within the building, you know, to to to play that way.
Speaker 1: It's it's to me, it's one of the more remarkable
Speaker 1: things I've seen for for a team that from a
Speaker 1: national standpoint, guys know they won't win one game. If
Speaker 1: they win one game, that'd be a miracle and and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, you were in a situation this team could
Speaker 1: have won six maybe seven games the way you played,
Speaker 1: you have those opportunities were there, Yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're there was definitely games that you know, we all
Speaker 1: know that we kind of left out there, you know,
Speaker 1: I know, the Redskins, you know, the Giants, the Jets.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's you know, multiple games we were in it.
Speaker 1: I mean even even in the the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: we're against the Pages a third quarter it was only
Speaker 1: thirteen the three we're playing good. I mean, then we
Speaker 1: just kind of fell apart. So and we know that,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of games we were in. And
Speaker 1: then even with the turnover, you know, we all still believe, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're trying to win, like you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: we know, we know what's We're not really worried about
Speaker 1: what's you know, what's going on outside the locker room,
Speaker 1: like you know, oh, we should just tank and you know,
Speaker 1: get the one one spot or whatever. You don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. We're like, hey, we still got a job
Speaker 1: to do. What you know, we want to play fo
Speaker 1: we're trying to win. Speak speak a little bit about
Speaker 1: the way and then I'll give yourself for a good example,
Speaker 1: this this this football team has. Boy, it's just struggled
Speaker 1: with tight ends on both sides of the football over
Speaker 1: the last decade or so. I haven't really found that
Speaker 1: tight end that you know, that that can that's that
Speaker 1: there's become that prototypical tight end now running the scene,
Speaker 1: you know, taking you know, taking up space in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, become a productive receiver for it.
Speaker 1: And on the flip side, someone that can cover tight
Speaker 1: ends and keep them in check. Seemed to have found
Speaker 1: a tight end in in in Mike Gasecki, that guy
Speaker 1: getting down the field and all of a sudden, seems
Speaker 1: like you've been the guy that's been the tight end
Speaker 1: whisper on defense where you've you've kind of found a
Speaker 1: spot in this defense where we're you know, being a
Speaker 1: guy that that that covers some of these tight ends
Speaker 1: become a big responsibility for you. Yeah, since that change,
Speaker 1: I know, we had some injuries and they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we gonna you know, you know, needs you
Speaker 1: to play. I think at first it was like a
Speaker 1: little bit of corner, a little bit of safety. And
Speaker 1: I mean that I mean, obviously you know I can
Speaker 1: handle it, but and then once I guess the coaches
Speaker 1: saw something and you know, they started put me on
Speaker 1: tight ends. And obviously coming from receivers, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's easier to cover out. I mean no, no, just right.
Speaker 1: But you know they're different. Yeah, yeah, they're not as
Speaker 1: you know, not as quick, not as fast. I can
Speaker 1: you know, read their body language, you know, faster than
Speaker 1: the receiver you know would be. So you know they
Speaker 1: put me out there and and everything like you're really
Speaker 1: slowed down, you know, you know after you know, especially
Speaker 1: studying around so and I I just kind of just
Speaker 1: embraced the role. Is that? Do you see that? And
Speaker 1: similar as what you saw in New England where they
Speaker 1: find guys, find what they can do, find what they
Speaker 1: really do well and then give them that niche and
Speaker 1: that's your that's your deal. Yeah, yeah, because I know
Speaker 1: and you know obviously the coltons that came to me.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, first four games and five, you know,
Speaker 1: people trying to figure out, you know, kind of what
Speaker 1: role they'll have and you know defense, you know, offense, whatever,
Speaker 1: and then kind of by mid October November, you know
Speaker 1: your role is yeah set and so you know, just
Speaker 1: like it happened like I think the first four games
Speaker 1: I was a corner and they put me in safety
Speaker 1: then like room that was my role, like cover tight
Speaker 1: ends and you know, kind of fill the run and
Speaker 1: you know when you can. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: your your year here so far and and and everything
Speaker 1: you've been through in the growth and what maybe maybe
Speaker 1: just from an inside the locker room feel of what
Speaker 1: you think this organization and this team can be moving
Speaker 1: forward with. You know, there's gonna be a lot of turnover,
Speaker 1: it always is in in every team in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and some guys are gonna come, some guys
Speaker 1: are gonna go. And I think it's about is about
Speaker 1: the average on on most football teams. You know there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a turn over there. But it seems like
Speaker 1: there's a base that understands what this staff is trying
Speaker 1: to do, that's bought into it. That kind of self police.
Speaker 1: Is that locker room, like you said, getting your guys
Speaker 1: ready to play, beyond going maybe beyond what's going on
Speaker 1: with with the coaches, kind of doing your own thing,
Speaker 1: trying to get guys ready. Do you see that moving
Speaker 1: forward in a positive way with this this core of
Speaker 1: this group here. Oh, I mean yeah, definitely. Uh, just
Speaker 1: you know, from at least from a defensive standpoint, you know,
Speaker 1: me in the back end, you got like Rick Kwon
Speaker 1: and Baker and the linebackers and like gotch Ow and
Speaker 1: you know d Line and you know they're really about
Speaker 1: the year. You know, just like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: a new guy comes in and we're boom boom boom.
Speaker 1: I we you know, we gotta get this stuff done.
Speaker 1: So moving on the future when we get you know,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty positive you know next year won't be you
Speaker 1: gonna turnover like yeah, and so next year when we
Speaker 1: you know, get a group of guys and you know,
Speaker 1: from O t A to training camp and you know
Speaker 1: we all stick together. I mean, shoot, if you saw
Speaker 1: what we did with turnover, and I think it'll be
Speaker 1: a lot better next year. So what do So what
Speaker 1: do you do now you know the season's over. You
Speaker 1: kind of come in exit interviews, get that all all
Speaker 1: done in a way, What's what's on your mind over
Speaker 1: the next month? What did you get away and just
Speaker 1: kind of try to refresh yourself or what goes through
Speaker 1: your mind over this next next month or so? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: getting away like after the last game and shut it
Speaker 1: down mentally, like get that take that mental break, physical break. Um,
Speaker 1: just me and a wife. It's gonna be relaxing. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go back to Texas, relaxed with see some family,
Speaker 1: do a little traveling, you know, just have a little
Speaker 1: fun and shoot, you know it all ran back. Just
Speaker 1: a long year for you guys. You know, he because
Speaker 1: you come in when you come back in April and
Speaker 1: start conditioning, and then you got O T s and
Speaker 1: you're going to mini camps and then it's just it's
Speaker 1: from then it's like pedal of the medal. You get
Speaker 1: that a few weeks off in in in July and
Speaker 1: then it's uh and then it's full speed head. So
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a long year when when
Speaker 1: you look and start to finish for you guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: and even in July, it's it's not really like you know,
Speaker 1: vacation vacation. It's like, okay, maybe I'll take a you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of weeks, but then I gotta get
Speaker 1: right b training because training camp, get the ground running. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got hit. Yeah, you don't want to be behind
Speaker 1: the training camp. Like so so it's a long it's
Speaker 1: a long season, so you know, January February, you know, March,
Speaker 1: you know it's time to get away because shoot another
Speaker 1: you know what is it like? Eight months? Seven months?
Speaker 1: Right back at it. Eric, It's been great watching you.
Speaker 1: It's been great watching you progress here and find a
Speaker 1: little niche on this on this defense. And but it's
Speaker 1: just been fun watching this football team, you know, go
Speaker 1: through what they've gone through and with all the detractors
Speaker 1: and coming in and be as competitive as you were
Speaker 1: and winning football games and uh and knocking off New
Speaker 1: England up in New England, which is a you know,
Speaker 1: something this franchise has been trying to do for for
Speaker 1: years and years to get it done. Congratulations to you.
Speaker 1: Congratulations all the guys in this football team did a
Speaker 1: lot of things, a lot of positive things, and I
Speaker 1: think nobody expected out of this group. And I think
Speaker 1: each and every one of you guys can be be
Speaker 1: pretty proud of that. Oh yeah, yeah, no, we're all
Speaker 1: super proud, like just the way especially the way the
Speaker 1: season closed out, you know, how how strong you know
Speaker 1: we finished even with that, you know, everything that's went
Speaker 1: on this year, I mean we're all shoot and that
Speaker 1: guy lo, we are you talking about? You know, ready
Speaker 1: for now? You're ready to start right room. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can wait a little time for that. Yeah, we get
Speaker 1: a little a little time of that though. But that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for the honorble. For today, I want
Speaker 1: to thank Eric Row for stopping by for John Kenjemmy,
Speaker 1: I'm Kim Bokamper. That's gonna do it. We'll catch you
Speaker 1: next week. Eric, have a good offseason, man, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, all right,