Speaker 1: To our remove going Deep Spiegals Pass from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: He's got my hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfeld. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are going to hear from three more players from
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. We're going to the offensive line. Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson and Patrick Paul will join me in a breakdown
Speaker 1: heading into the twenty twenty four campaign and much much more.
Speaker 1: Plus we go to the other side of the football
Speaker 1: and the guys. Those guys are trying to block in
Speaker 1: rookie Muhammad Kamara from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Maie Gaffish.
Speaker 1: Let's go first, that's the rule. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: welcome in my guest today that Dolphins a great right
Speaker 1: tackle Austin Jackson joining us now on the Draft Time
Speaker 1: Podcast is Dolphins right tackle. I guess just a tackle
Speaker 1: right and Austin Jackson. Austin, welcome in, man. How you
Speaker 1: doing today?
Speaker 4: Man? Doing well? Doing well? How about yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm great. It's always good to talk to you. We
Speaker 1: came into this thing the same year. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it that before, but it's year five. Man, Yeah, is
Speaker 1: that crazy to you?
Speaker 3: It is crazy. It's crazy and it's exciting. But I
Speaker 3: look back and I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't
Speaker 3: believe this is your five already.
Speaker 1: I know it goes so fast. It goes by so fast.
Speaker 1: And speaking of that, you know, first couple years of
Speaker 1: your career, you play some left tackle, some right tackle,
Speaker 1: you play some guard. Twenty twenty two you get a
Speaker 1: chance to kind of solidify that right tackle spot. And
Speaker 1: what was it the first quarter?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: We get injured, first quarter, rolled my ankle up really bad,
Speaker 3: Grade two strain. Actually got put on an ir right away, right.
Speaker 3: And then I'm rehabbing from that injury. And as I'm
Speaker 3: coming back to practice that week, we're playing the Vikings
Speaker 3: at home, and I strained my calf that same week,
Speaker 3: the same leg, same leg or no opposite leg. They
Speaker 3: call it the compensation injury. So I strained the opposite leg,
Speaker 3: and then I rehab that, get off, I r I'm
Speaker 3: ready to come back. Week ten, Week eleven, we're gonna
Speaker 3: make a playoff push, you know. And then that same
Speaker 3: game in the third quarter, we're playing the Texans in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, third quarter, I get hit again, roll
Speaker 3: my ankle again, but it's as much worse as time.
Speaker 3: My coaches look at it or my trainers look at it,
Speaker 3: and they're saying, yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Needs surgical word done for the year.
Speaker 4: Done for the year.
Speaker 3: So a small hiccup in my third year, which is
Speaker 3: one of the biggest years, you know, especially for a
Speaker 3: first rounder. But you know, everything that happened to happen
Speaker 3: here we are, got healthy and got into the best
Speaker 3: shape of my life from that so great.
Speaker 1: I remember watching you when when that injury first happened
Speaker 1: in the Patriots game, the opener, and like you were
Speaker 1: kind of like testing it out, and I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: that's that's usually a bad sign when the guys trying
Speaker 1: to test the limits of what he can do, because
Speaker 1: it's like, I think you played like one more snap
Speaker 1: and then you probably you had to know it right away, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I tried to do one more snap and almost
Speaker 4: fell on my face.
Speaker 1: So that's that's gotta be. Like, you know, if I
Speaker 1: injured a hand then I can't type anymore. That's a
Speaker 1: big deal for me, your entire livelihood, your body, and
Speaker 1: you're going through a situation where again I talk about
Speaker 1: like you jump around little bit. You finally have a
Speaker 1: home at right tackle. Mentally, Take me through what that
Speaker 1: was like, man, because that had to have been really
Speaker 1: difficult to deal.
Speaker 3: With, right, Yeah, it was a lot to deal with,
Speaker 3: but I was. I was grateful throughout it all. My
Speaker 3: experience in twenty twenty two helped me too, just because
Speaker 3: I had wanted to play football so bad and I
Speaker 3: just had external forces prohibiting me from doing what I wanted,
Speaker 3: you know, But finally having the opportunity and being at
Speaker 3: right tackle, I was just really glad to get back
Speaker 3: in the groove of competing and performing, you know how
Speaker 3: the starter position on the offensive line, and just keep
Speaker 3: getting better every week. You know, That's my favorite part.
Speaker 1: About the season, is getting better every single week, every
Speaker 1: single week. Right, And So, how does did you feel
Speaker 1: that kind of coming into play last year? Like from
Speaker 1: where you were in Week one to the wild card
Speaker 1: game in Kansas City, do you feel like you made
Speaker 1: a lot of strides from that time?
Speaker 3: Definitely, I definitely do think I made a lot of
Speaker 3: strides because the nature of you know, football in the NFL,
Speaker 3: it's ever changing, and just being able to have the
Speaker 3: opportunity to play and get better it helps.
Speaker 4: You a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the way I look at it, and I'm really
Speaker 3: glad I got to experience that.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the training of overcoming the jury from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two kind of put you in a position to
Speaker 1: be in the best shape of your life. Is that
Speaker 1: that's what you said, right, Yes, So how did that
Speaker 1: benefit you? And just I guess take us through that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I got injured in my ankle. It's my
Speaker 3: third lower extremity and injury and like the all in
Speaker 3: one year, one season, so not even a year. And
Speaker 3: with the system we have there's a lot more running.
Speaker 3: It's not your usual pro style offense. It's more so
Speaker 3: it's more spread out with a lot of other stuff
Speaker 3: as you can see. And the choice to just lose
Speaker 3: weight and really focus in on a routine that allowed
Speaker 3: my body to perform daily.
Speaker 4: That was the main focus. And I'm glad I found that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all are, man, it was really cool. And
Speaker 1: then and then I guess it kind of culminates her.
Speaker 1: You know, you finish out the season and the most
Speaker 1: important part of the games. But the extension comes in November.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was Tell me about that, man,
Speaker 1: how how good did that feel? And just tell us
Speaker 1: about that moment.
Speaker 3: Oh, it was a crazy experience. You know, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: training to be the best tackle on the Dolphins, you know,
Speaker 3: throughout the year, and then you know, in the midst
Speaker 3: of that, you know, the extension comes. I wasn't I'm
Speaker 3: not going to say I was not expecting it, but
Speaker 3: it did come as a surprise when it did came.
Speaker 4: So it was just really exciting.
Speaker 3: I'm really glad for the opportunity, really thankful to be here.
Speaker 4: It's very exciting.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most cliche questions somebody can
Speaker 1: ever ask, but I gotta ask it because I'm just
Speaker 1: curious myself. You just go buy something, What was it?
Speaker 1: What was the first big purchase you made after that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: The first big purchase? Oh, I would say the first
Speaker 3: big purchase was I took my family to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Okay, good deal.
Speaker 3: I took my family to Hawaii, but we enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: We went to the Big Island. Okay, well, yeah, we
Speaker 3: stayed in like WAYI and I on the west, the
Speaker 3: west side, they call it.
Speaker 4: So he was beautiful. I would say that was a
Speaker 4: big purchase.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll that'll do. I mean that's uh. I'm West
Speaker 1: Coast guy as well, so I've been to Hawaii a
Speaker 1: few times and my wife, actually my wife and I
Speaker 1: got married in Hawaii, so we we hold that place
Speaker 1: very near and dear to our hearts. That's where they
Speaker 1: filmed Jurassic Park.
Speaker 5: It's yes, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, No, no, no, I was gonna say we went
Speaker 3: to Cool Island, Cooler Ranch, but.
Speaker 4: It's just like a tost spot.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, they filmed some of Jurassic Park. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about all of it.
Speaker 1: It's so gorgeous. It's it's the most beautiful backdrop in
Speaker 1: the entire world. Now, I come out here and it's
Speaker 1: like the waves on the East Coast. Man, they doing
Speaker 1: it for me the same way the West Coast does
Speaker 1: in Hawaii.
Speaker 4: Uh, Hawaii is in its own category, for sure.
Speaker 1: Definitely is that. Then you get southern California, which you
Speaker 1: spent some time there as well.
Speaker 4: California's competing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's right up there. Let's uh, let's let's
Speaker 1: finish with some more football here. So, you know, coinciding
Speaker 1: with your breakout year last year, coach Butch Barrier arrives
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this a little bit. You and
Speaker 1: I just you know, in passing, but I just wanted
Speaker 1: to explain to Dolphins fans what he meant to your
Speaker 1: career and just how valuable Butch has been to the
Speaker 1: offensive line room.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's been a lot to you know, my career
Speaker 3: in the offensive line room. You know, he's a coach
Speaker 3: that takes his job very seriously. It's very detailed oriented
Speaker 3: and execution oriented, but also is able to hold a
Speaker 3: He's able to keep all of us to a standard
Speaker 3: of being at our best, you know, recognizing our best,
Speaker 3: finding the tools to tell us how to stay at
Speaker 3: our best, and then you know, keeping us there. And
Speaker 3: you know, not everyone will take the steps to maximize
Speaker 3: your best and then hold you accountable. So I think
Speaker 3: he does a great job of that. He's done a
Speaker 3: great job with helping me transition into this offense. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's been in it for a long time, coaching in it.
Speaker 3: He has a lot of confidence in it. So it's
Speaker 3: been great to you know, have someone with a lot
Speaker 3: of knowledge and just it must. But I don't know
Speaker 3: how long Butch has been coaching, but he's got a
Speaker 3: lot of experience.
Speaker 4: You can tell he's been around the block. Definitely.
Speaker 1: He's fun to watch coach too. Man, I love the
Speaker 1: passion that he shows up. Well, you can hear from
Speaker 1: the stands when you guys are on the other side
Speaker 1: of the field and we're way over here on the
Speaker 1: other side of the field watching. You know, I think
Speaker 1: they have like DB's in front of us most of
Speaker 1: the days, but you guys are on the other side.
Speaker 1: I can still hear Butch from from very far away exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the sun had on and the who the whole
Speaker 1: get up, it's a whole persona. Okay, So we talked
Speaker 1: about the kind of shape you got into. You know,
Speaker 1: I've seen beat guys have talked about like Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: looks like a d n You just you just don't
Speaker 1: look like a typical offensive lineman. Sometimes guys in your
Speaker 1: position group they have guts, right, you don't have a gut.
Speaker 1: And so I'm curious because every time I watched d
Speaker 1: Lineman on micd up shows whatever it's NFL film, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, They're always coming after you guys for being
Speaker 1: too big, right, fat guys? What do they say to you?
Speaker 1: Because they can't say that to you.
Speaker 4: They don't say anything exactly.
Speaker 1: What are they gonna say.
Speaker 3: Fighting power, talking power, you know, unless it's technique.
Speaker 4: But that's about it.
Speaker 1: Well it's pretty good last year too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting you say that most people are surprised
Speaker 3: that I play offensive line. Yeah, even outside of football,
Speaker 3: Like take your person with you know, just your average
Speaker 3: football knowledge.
Speaker 4: You ask me, are you a linebacker? Are you a
Speaker 4: defensive end?
Speaker 3: That's right, and telling my playoffensive line is it's a
Speaker 3: fun conversation.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know the whole six six right, Yes,
Speaker 1: that might do it too. I think that that probably
Speaker 1: plays a part. Austin, you're the best man. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you so much for your time today, and I enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of the day.
Speaker 4: Man appreciate And.
Speaker 1: There he goes. Really good stuff with Austin. As always,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our first break. Come back
Speaker 1: on the other side, and welcome in the God's trying
Speaker 1: to get pressure on those off offensive tackles. Rookie fifth
Speaker 1: round draft pick from Colorado State, Mohammed Kamara that's next
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Speaker 1: Draft Time podcast. Another player guest on the show today,
Speaker 1: Dolphin's rookie edge pass rusher, defensive vent outsidelnebacker. Wherever the
Speaker 1: hell they call you, guys, what are they called edges
Speaker 1: these days?
Speaker 6: Just damn athlete, damn athlete, man, God, damn athlete, that's
Speaker 6: what the hell.
Speaker 1: I am a guy that can go dunk a basketball
Speaker 1: and maybe hit a home I can't those two things.
Speaker 5: No, no, are you not going to see me above
Speaker 5: the room.
Speaker 1: Below the rim camara, Hey, what did I jump?
Speaker 5: I jumped like a what did I jump?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: I brought it eleven? No ten? I mean ten three
Speaker 5: or something like.
Speaker 1: That side of the gym right there. That's pretty good, man.
Speaker 5: Oh I jumped a thirty four and a half.
Speaker 1: That's not You're not dunking with that? I thank you.
Speaker 5: No, No, No, I can dunk a tennis ball, not
Speaker 5: a real got to hoop up back.
Speaker 1: We can go check it out now.
Speaker 5: I made football player.
Speaker 1: That's what we want you here for. Yeah, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about that here real quick. So coming
Speaker 1: from Colorado State and we talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: your experience there before I jump on the podcast. Here,
Speaker 1: I won't go into the Washington State game.
Speaker 5: Go coops.
Speaker 1: Just that's all gonna do real quick.
Speaker 5: Can I curse?
Speaker 1: I got edited out if you do.
Speaker 4: But go ahead.
Speaker 1: That's gonna play so good in my podcast the Cooks.
Speaker 5: Hey, oh you know who I was training over there
Speaker 5: in Arizona.
Speaker 6: I was over there with my two good friends, Number ten,
Speaker 6: Brian Jackson and number eight. Yeah, shout out to them. Yeah,
Speaker 6: shout out to them, boys. Man, let's go shout out
Speaker 6: to the r J Brand and Jackson.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I hope they do well. Man, those my guys right there.
Speaker 1: They were fun to watch for for for a fan,
Speaker 1: for sure, as a alumni.
Speaker 6: It's crazy because I watched their highlights. I was like,
Speaker 6: oh okay, I see yeah, now they was wrecking some people.
Speaker 6: I mean, but when I played them, I had yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, you know too, when I had sex, you know,
Speaker 6: strip sack, you know, beating up camp war the deal
Speaker 6: not crazy.
Speaker 1: We get a chance to go watch cam Woard this
Speaker 1: year across the street at the at the heart Rock City.
Speaker 1: In the game, I think they play Florida State here,
Speaker 1: I could be right anyway, Les, Let's let's move on here.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about someone else that
Speaker 1: also went to Colorado State and Shack Barrett. I know
Speaker 1: you've probably asked by him a lot, but I just
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and just ask you how cool
Speaker 1: it was for you to be here with another guy
Speaker 1: that was also at the same school as you and
Speaker 1: was so dominant. You know, had the path where he
Speaker 1: was kind of overlooked as a a collegiate, gets an
Speaker 1: NFL and becomes a star pass pressure Like, how is
Speaker 1: how important I have to have that.
Speaker 4: For you here?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: He made it.
Speaker 6: It's not just him. You also got the Joey Joey
Speaker 6: Porters of the world. Those guys made it. They crawl
Speaker 6: so I can walk. That's how I look at it,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. So uh, he had a
Speaker 6: Defensive Player of the Year. I got Defensive Play of
Speaker 6: the Year. And you know, the film speaks for itself.
Speaker 6: He does a great job. He does a great job
Speaker 6: of always getting to the quarterback and even our coach,
Speaker 6: even our coach right now, Coach Crow Like, he still
Speaker 6: shows us Shack Barry's highlights, you know, because he has
Speaker 6: so many forced fumbles because he's so aggressive on the
Speaker 6: ball and on the quarterback. So excuse me, you know,
Speaker 6: from him going from Colorado State into continuing to do
Speaker 6: that in the league, you know, that's that's just a blessing.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get where he is at.
Speaker 1: Because you guys kind of similar builds, right in terms
Speaker 1: of like not the tallest edges, but he he kind
Speaker 1: of has that way of getting under those tackles too.
Speaker 1: Is that you kind of play your advantage in terms
Speaker 1: of just using your build to your advantage because you
Speaker 1: got to get that great get off right and then
Speaker 1: you kind of duck under that tackles like shoulder. Is
Speaker 1: that a good advantge for how you angle to the quarterback?
Speaker 6: Definitely, I mean, it definitely is. And I mean it's
Speaker 6: not just Shaq Barry, who's I don't know how tall
Speaker 6: it is, but there's a lot of great pass rushes
Speaker 6: that are six one six foot you know. You know,
Speaker 6: And here's the thing about pass rushers. They all come
Speaker 6: and shape, different shapes and sizes, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: And that's the that's the beauty of the game. You know,
Speaker 6: being sure. I mean, I don't think I'm sure, but
Speaker 6: that's not that's not true. But you know what I
Speaker 6: mean being sure, that's that's what people call me. But
Speaker 6: I mean I think I'm all right.
Speaker 1: It's not like a sligh. I'm just curious if it
Speaker 1: helps you be like, because like you know, some of
Speaker 1: these six foot seven tackles, maybe they can't get a
Speaker 1: hands on you done there.
Speaker 5: I don't know, No, they definitely can't.
Speaker 6: They definitely can't, you know what I mean, Like, there's
Speaker 6: different ways to rush from my from my perspective, you know,
Speaker 6: he had, like from my perspective being short, quote unquote,
Speaker 6: uh six seven, even even six four, I don't know,
Speaker 6: Like whatever, six whatever you can be, you still have
Speaker 6: to play to my level. You still have to block me.
Speaker 6: And that's just my philosophy. Like that's just how I
Speaker 6: look at it. Like, at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: you still have to block me.
Speaker 5: So you can be.
Speaker 6: Six ' eight to I don't know the average old
Speaker 6: line outside that's the outside line tackles, eight ranges or
Speaker 6: whatever the case may be, but you still have to
Speaker 6: block me.
Speaker 5: You still have to get me.
Speaker 6: And I do believe that being shorter quote unquote, you
Speaker 6: have a smaller surface area, and that's just how I
Speaker 6: look at it, you know, being longer and taller, it's cool.
Speaker 6: And they have their way of rushing and I have
Speaker 6: my way of rushing. So I'm okay with being you know,
Speaker 6: the short guy. You gotta love your short kings too, That's.
Speaker 1: Right, because most of the time you want to rush
Speaker 1: half man anyway, right, So that's kind of exactly a
Speaker 1: position to do that, you know what I mean, A
Speaker 1: half man that's short.
Speaker 5: Come on, now, that's hard?
Speaker 1: Is that a quarter man? Is that? Is that how
Speaker 1: that works?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Yeah, quarterman. That is a quarterman.
Speaker 1: So okay, So I love one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: about football in general. And I might not look like it,
Speaker 1: but I watched this game a lot, I say you
Speaker 1: as much as I possibly can, is you know, is
Speaker 1: the idea of a pass rush like matchup for a
Speaker 1: whole game, because like one rep, yeah, you can get
Speaker 1: someone whatever, but like the idea of rushing someone for
Speaker 1: fifty sixty snaps, like you have to have a plan,
Speaker 1: how to kind of alter that plan right as it
Speaker 1: goes along?
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's where I it's excel at you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, because I always come in with a plan.
Speaker 6: You know, it's a little bit harder right now because
Speaker 6: I'm just getting I'm just getting here. These are whole
Speaker 6: different tackles that I gotta learn and study. But when
Speaker 6: it comes down to gain time, that's why I excel at,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. These guys you watch film,
Speaker 6: you like not film, you watch the TV copy people
Speaker 6: in the stands, they only see the finished product. But
Speaker 6: most of the time, that guy was probably working on
Speaker 6: his craft for years and years just to get that
Speaker 6: one moment, you know what I mean. And it's hard
Speaker 6: work because sometimes sometimes you might get it, sometimes you
Speaker 6: may not, you know what I mean, And it's just
Speaker 6: always gotta you always gotta pick it back up and
Speaker 6: just try again. So but for me personally, that's why
Speaker 6: I see that, uh excel excel at because I'm always
Speaker 6: gonna come into the to the game prepared.
Speaker 1: Let's let's we'll go ahead and finish up here. So
Speaker 1: you come into a room that has so many good
Speaker 1: pass rushers already, you know, ready to work with you.
Speaker 1: I'm here. Is how you've kind of leaned into those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, not just shack, but JP and Bradley and
Speaker 1: all the guys that have had success here. What's that
Speaker 1: process been like kind of getting to know those guys.
Speaker 6: One thing about it, they all come, they all like
Speaker 6: had their own confidence, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 6: that's where you have to go into the room. Like
Speaker 6: if you I feel as though if I can survive
Speaker 6: that room, I can survive being on the being on
Speaker 6: the playing field, because they all dogs, like they are
Speaker 6: all dogs. They're all great past rushers in their own right,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. But I'm also coming in
Speaker 6: that room. I'm a dog too, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Just like Shock got defensive player, I got defensive player too.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm second on the on my on my team,
Speaker 6: not team, my school's record book for the amount of
Speaker 6: sacks I had, you know, one.
Speaker 1: Of two players with thirty sacks in colleor state history.
Speaker 6: And history, you know what I mean history, You know
Speaker 6: thirteen and I had sacks like last year, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. So like I'm i gotta, I gotta,
Speaker 6: I'm a I gotta fine word where I need to,
Speaker 6: you know stand. But you know I'm gonna find my
Speaker 6: way in that room. I didn't get here for no reagions.
Speaker 6: So just as they are dogs, I'm a dog too.
Speaker 5: I lean on them.
Speaker 6: You first, you have to find the confidence to lean
Speaker 6: on them, you know, understanding that. And they do a
Speaker 6: great job of like communicating, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: some guys, you know, I hear other like crazy stories,
Speaker 6: how like some of the veterans don't really want to help.
Speaker 6: They do a great job of helping me any type
Speaker 6: of way, you know what I mean. And it's little
Speaker 6: things and it's not it may not even be like, oh,
Speaker 6: the the play, this is the play, but just just
Speaker 6: encouraging me with a little bit of confidence, you know.
Speaker 6: And like Bradley Bradley Chubb, he said it the other day,
Speaker 6: he was like, man, you gotta put on number eight
Speaker 6: for you to for you to do something. I was like, damn,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, because that's that was my
Speaker 6: original number, you know what I mean. So it's like damn,
Speaker 6: I you know, I had to really think about it,
Speaker 6: like nah, I don't. So it's just stuff like that.
Speaker 6: It's little things like that, or just have and the
Speaker 6: ability to ask them questions and you know, see the
Speaker 6: type of person they are, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And in seeing how they are themselves.
Speaker 6: Because uh, if you realize some of the best players
Speaker 6: have the craziest or the weirdest personalities, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean, And you'd be like, Okay, I see why,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, That's just how I look
Speaker 6: at it.
Speaker 1: That's great, ste have Mokomara. Appreciate your time today. Man,
Speaker 1: you're a Jim. Can't wait to watch you play.
Speaker 5: Dude. Thank you appreciate much.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know, right, last break right there?
Speaker 1: Come back on the other side, Patrick Paul. You have
Speaker 1: you just have. You have to follow Dave Chappelle, you
Speaker 1: have to follow Luis c. K. You have to follow
Speaker 1: Bill Burth. That's the task at hand for Patrick Paul,
Speaker 1: and I promise you he won't disappoint. That's next Draft
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Speaker 4: Pat.
Speaker 1: Welcome in, man. How you doing I'm doing good?
Speaker 5: Nice, I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1: Does Pat work for you?
Speaker 5: Pat works works, Pat Paul.
Speaker 1: That's a good that's a good name. So How how
Speaker 1: you adjusting to things so far? Man? I know you
Speaker 1: wanted to be here, Now you're here.
Speaker 3: How's it?
Speaker 1: How does that treating you so far?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: That's great? Honestly, I'm so excited to be here. Every
Speaker 2: day feels like a dream, honestly, just getting to know everybody,
Speaker 2: getting to know the system, and you know, working my
Speaker 2: way around the place.
Speaker 1: I saw you earlier bump into the into butcher Berry
Speaker 1: in the hallway and you threw some some hands at him,
Speaker 1: some some past pro work.
Speaker 2: There is work in progress at all times, every single day,
Speaker 2: every single day. That's an emphasis, you know, so working
Speaker 2: on it. Even when I see him in the hallway,
Speaker 2: just messing with him a little bit, you know, keeping
Speaker 2: him on.
Speaker 1: But is the best man.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 2: It comes every day with the same amount of energy
Speaker 2: and passion and you know, go through a big quaal
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to show it to you right now,
Speaker 1: but I do a pretty good butcher Bery impression. All
Speaker 1: Maybe after we got off the air, we'll jump into that.
Speaker 5: Please don't want to hear it, you bet.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you've heard on the field, but
Speaker 1: it's basically when he calls you guys into your like
Speaker 1: when he has the snapcount for you when you're out
Speaker 1: doing the drills. I know exactly what you do.
Speaker 5: It's so fast. Oh my good, I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this. Okay, So we talked about
Speaker 1: this before you jumped on the air with me here,
Speaker 1: and you know, Chris Career mentioned it as press conference
Speaker 1: after we drafted you in the second round late in
Speaker 1: the evening there. I'm sure that was a very happy
Speaker 1: phone call for you to get first of all, right,
Speaker 1: that was probably a pretty fun night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was, Yeah, it was definitely.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So first night, you know, I'm there, I'm dressed up,
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to hear my name. I don't, unfortunately, but
Speaker 2: you know, all things happen for a reason. Then the
Speaker 2: next day comes, you're just seeing it and it seems
Speaker 2: like time is going by so slow, and you know,
Speaker 2: when it gets to some teams that I felt like,
Speaker 2: you know, might have some interest, I was kind of like,
Speaker 2: So I was telling my agent, you know, Miami's where
Speaker 2: I want to be in the second day, and I
Speaker 2: did take a thirty visit here, so you know, i'd
Speaker 2: been out here. I'd talked to them all throughout the
Speaker 2: process Senior Bowl Combine met with them every single step
Speaker 2: of the way. So this is where I wanted to
Speaker 2: be in it. You know, everything does happen for a reason.
Speaker 2: And then I got that call ecstatic, So I want.
Speaker 1: To fall up on that, but I want to tell
Speaker 1: you a quick story. So I'm watching the Senior Ball
Speaker 1: as I always do every year, and I'm watching a
Speaker 1: one on ones throw dudes at the ground, like all right,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. And then I'm like, I ask this guy
Speaker 1: get out of his stance because we have a certain
Speaker 1: you know, requisite level of get off down here. And
Speaker 1: the first rep you run, dude, you get outside the
Speaker 1: numbers and you buried someone. I'm like, okay, that's a dolphin.
Speaker 1: Dolphin right there, I see him. And so it just
Speaker 1: makes so much sense that you wanted to be here,
Speaker 1: that they wanted you here. But you talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about like two things you talk about a lot.
Speaker 1: One of your aspirations in life, right, Like you seem
Speaker 1: very in touch with what you want from life. I
Speaker 1: just kind of want to get you to talk about that,
Speaker 1: and like, I guess kind of pair that with that draft.
Speaker 1: DC happitent of being so eager to be in Miami. Like,
Speaker 1: what gives you that zeal for life?
Speaker 5: What gives me the zeal for life? That's a great question.
Speaker 2: So you know, growing up was raised in America and
Speaker 2: also Nigeria, and that's where my entire family is from,
Speaker 2: is Nigeria. Growing up, you know, my grandfather he was
Speaker 2: the President of Nigeria. And with that, just learning about
Speaker 2: him and his story and how he worked his way
Speaker 2: up in London and you know, working behind the Queen
Speaker 2: of England being her emissary, and how he took over
Speaker 2: the country of Nigeria. It's always motivated me. It's always
Speaker 2: gave me some sort of drive, some sort of purpose
Speaker 2: that I can't even described. Just knowing that someone has
Speaker 2: done great things and I know I never got to
Speaker 2: meet him, So with that, he just gives me that
Speaker 2: drive and ask persons on what I want to do.
Speaker 2: Football was just something I found when I came to America.
Speaker 2: I instantly fell in love with it. But you know,
Speaker 2: this is just a step in my journey of my
Speaker 2: life and what I want to do. But you know, football,
Speaker 2: want to have a ten plus year career here at
Speaker 2: the with the Miami Dolphins and then after that, I
Speaker 2: want to be the president of Nigeria. I'm going to
Speaker 2: do it one day and yeah, football first and then
Speaker 2: president after that is that is first of.
Speaker 1: All, I don't talk to anybody that has that type
Speaker 1: of goal. So I've like, I have a million follow
Speaker 1: up questions in my head right now. But what do
Speaker 1: I ask you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: What what brought you to that?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: What makes you like?
Speaker 1: Those are two such different walks of life, Like how
Speaker 1: do you kind of manage the both of those?
Speaker 2: Just understanding the now and the now Right now is
Speaker 2: becoming a franchise tackle. And that's what I'm going to
Speaker 2: focus on. But I also know that after football's done,
Speaker 2: which it does not last forever. You know, no one,
Speaker 2: not everyone gets a Tom Brady career, and even at that,
Speaker 2: even after that, you still have a whole life ahead
Speaker 2: of you. You know, he's still trying to figure out
Speaker 2: things to do. So with that, I know that I
Speaker 2: want to be the president of Nigeria. That's just something
Speaker 2: I want to take over my grandfather's legacy because the
Speaker 2: country needs help. Our money's not worth anything. You know,
Speaker 2: I can go down and it's it's so deep. So
Speaker 2: that's what I want to do, and I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 2: do my best to fix my country up every country
Speaker 2: around it as well, bring them out of the dark age.
Speaker 1: I'd say, well, that's fantastic to hear man. Perhaps that's
Speaker 1: a different podcast that we get into more, because I
Speaker 1: I you're just I have a million questions for you.
Speaker 1: But I'll try to stay on topic here and get
Speaker 1: you out of Here's past weekend. You got a busy
Speaker 1: day today, so put a pin in that. Still I
Speaker 1: want to come back to it. Let's let's talk about
Speaker 1: some football, he real quickly, because I love hearing you
Speaker 1: talk technique and watching you block butch burying the hallway here.
Speaker 1: But you've talked a lot about like kind of your
Speaker 1: technique at Houston, what you're trying to progress towards. Now
Speaker 1: I'm curious did you talk about like the catching versus punching? Right, Like,
Speaker 1: this is kind of where you're you're in the in
Speaker 1: the process of kind of changing things a little bit,
Speaker 1: Like is that is that accurate?
Speaker 4: To say?
Speaker 2: That's very accurate? I mean that's a day to day process.
Speaker 2: And actually you know, each day you notice it getting better.
Speaker 2: You just have to get those live wrapps. And I've
Speaker 2: been getting them with the OTAs and just fine tuning,
Speaker 2: knowing when to punch, knowing that striking distance, knowing how
Speaker 2: far defender needs to because I have very long arms.
Speaker 2: Just finding that distance. It's a lot quicker than you
Speaker 2: always think, especially with thirty six. So you know, every
Speaker 2: day getting with the Butch and then getting with Lem
Speaker 2: and we're working. Even the Vets they helped me out
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 4: With it too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you mentioned the Vets and I want to
Speaker 1: come back to toron Armstead real quick. But first, was
Speaker 1: that something that right after the season ended, like going
Speaker 1: into the All Star Games. Obviously you're working for your
Speaker 1: forty and all that stuff. It's not football training. That
Speaker 1: kind of drives me crazy a little bit because like
Speaker 1: you have to like put football hole for a couple
Speaker 1: of months and you go back into it. But after
Speaker 1: the season, were you already kind of diving into that
Speaker 1: technique change a little bit?
Speaker 4: Of course? Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I worked with Duke for my pre draft training
Speaker 2: and you know he's a big old line NFL guru,
Speaker 2: So with that he helped me out with drills that
Speaker 2: would help me. You know, whenever I get to the team,
Speaker 2: I make it on and just work the hands. Also
Speaker 2: for the All Star Games. You trained us for those
Speaker 2: as well. Just being there since December and you know,
Speaker 2: working with him a lot and we're getting those those
Speaker 2: drills set in. But then it's always it's always different
Speaker 2: when you go live, So just working getting the fine
Speaker 2: tune it for it.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it's correlated.
Speaker 1: So you you met Taran at Masterminds correct, Yes, and
Speaker 1: now you're here with him every day. Is that kind
Speaker 1: of surreal for you to have him in the building
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 2: It's definitely. It's definitely a great player to have in
Speaker 2: your O line room, especially everyone in there. You know,
Speaker 2: we have ten year guys, two ten year guys, Kendall
Speaker 2: Lamb and then also Tron, So I'd say just having
Speaker 2: guys that have played in the NFL for so long,
Speaker 2: it's it's great. Even the younger guys, you know, you
Speaker 2: have Agent they're great technician. Liam great technician, so all
Speaker 2: the guys in there can pick their brains.
Speaker 1: Kendall Lamb is an interesting dude, is any Definitely, He's
Speaker 1: one of the most interesting, but fun and thoughtful men
Speaker 1: I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 2: So definitely, You've got a good group of guys I'm
Speaker 2: telling you, and he shows up every single day ready
Speaker 2: to work, even in his tenth year, and I respect it.
Speaker 1: Watch him do media too, He's the great on media
Speaker 1: and interviews.
Speaker 4: He's the best.
Speaker 1: He's smart, exactly. There you go, Patrick Paul, New Dolphins
Speaker 1: left tackle Pat. I could do this for hours with you,
Speaker 1: but we'll get you out of here. Appreciate your time,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, good stuff. There he goes, that's
Speaker 1: his time, that is my time. We're going to come
Speaker 1: back next week. I'm still not one of one hundred
Speaker 1: percent sure what the plan is schedule wise, kind of
Speaker 1: in between thoughts right now, so I'll keep you guys posted,
Speaker 1: but we have a lot more of these to come,
Speaker 1: and we'll be doing NFL coverage as well at some
Speaker 1: point the summer. I'm just not sure exactly what it
Speaker 1: looks like yet. But go ahead and stay tuned, go
Speaker 1: back and check out the Specialist and David Long episode
Speaker 1: if you have not done that. We'll have plenty of
Speaker 1: podcasts coming away this summer to get you through this
Speaker 1: non football portion of the calendar. But until then, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be my time.
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