Speaker 1: All right here we are. It seems like these these
Speaker 1: editions of the audible are coming like rapid fire. It is,
Speaker 1: it's still one week away, but it seems like the
Speaker 1: weeks are getting stand up and clogged up with all
Speaker 1: kinds of crap going on. And man, I tell you that, Johnny,
Speaker 1: we we've been around at around a lot of training camps.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is the Audible, John kN Jimmy
Speaker 1: kimbocamper with you, and we've been around a lot of
Speaker 1: training camps. And whether this has been a this has
Speaker 1: been a funny and strange and interesting training camp. You know,
Speaker 1: starts out with the quarterback situation, and then you you're
Speaker 1: kind of watching that offensive line and and now here
Speaker 1: you you roll in and and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know you've got cut down day coming. I think
Speaker 1: if they gotta be at I believe they gotta be
Speaker 1: a fifty three by four o'clock on Saturday. I believe
Speaker 1: that's the timing of it. And this team has already
Speaker 1: jumped a gun. I think cutdown days already started. I
Speaker 1: think I'll tell you if i'm if I'm in that
Speaker 1: locker room right now, I've got my head on the swivel.
Speaker 1: How many reps did get today? You know, Turk told
Speaker 1: Bet any moment because you look at the you know,
Speaker 1: in surprising to me that you know t J McDonald
Speaker 1: earlier in the week. You know, a bit of a surprise,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't doesn't shock me. Hasn't been playing that much.
Speaker 1: And and and I think he was. I think I
Speaker 1: think when I look at t J in this defense,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he had a spot. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a linebacker, you know. And I don't think that,
Speaker 1: you know, I think his coverage skills weren't quite what
Speaker 1: what you know, what what this team is looking for
Speaker 1: right now. So I think he was kind of a
Speaker 1: man without a position. Uh And the fact that he's
Speaker 1: hasn't been practicing a little bit, so he becomes a
Speaker 1: casualty early on will hold in the the offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: Not a surprise there whatsoever. Jordan's Mills. They let go
Speaker 1: Clive Walford, they let go Chase Allimett, they let go
Speaker 1: No surprises there because I think they put a flyer on.
Speaker 1: Walford comes in really really didn't do anything to set
Speaker 1: himself apart in that room. And you got the young
Speaker 1: guys Gasecki uh and you got uh Durham Smart Uh.
Speaker 1: You know those guys in there. And and so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of youth in there working
Speaker 1: and working through the way and everything. Who's really has
Speaker 1: been the most He's been the most perfecsistent and most
Speaker 1: productive guy that you've got in that room. So that
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me. The one that kind of surprised me
Speaker 1: was a Keem Spence. You know, a Keem is a
Speaker 1: guy that you know, not a not a not an
Speaker 1: old guy. I say that because when you start looking
Speaker 1: at start looking at the roster and the guys that
Speaker 1: are leaving the roster, you know, you look at a
Speaker 1: Chems Spence and I ken, I think he was you know,
Speaker 1: six years in seven years and maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: They let him go. And here was a guy that
Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't gonna be your starter, but he
Speaker 1: was a good rotation guy. And I always thought when
Speaker 1: he played, he played hard and he made plays. And
Speaker 1: then so they decided to let him go. And you
Speaker 1: look in that defensive tackle position. Now you talk about
Speaker 1: a youth movement. The oldest vet in there is going
Speaker 1: into his fourth year in the lead. So you've got
Speaker 1: guys going in their third year, second year and rookies
Speaker 1: going in there. That that is a young, young I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say young, but certainly talented. When you got got
Speaker 1: Shaw and you have Vincent Taylor and you've got Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: those three, you know, any one of those three could
Speaker 1: be a Pro Bowl guy for you down the road.
Speaker 1: And Wilkins you would expect to be a Pro Bowler
Speaker 1: multiple times during his career. But but you but you
Speaker 1: take numbers out of there, John, I just thought it
Speaker 1: was strange, you know, uh with a Keem Spence in
Speaker 1: terms of we saw a lot of them, and he
Speaker 1: was productive and he was been He was able to
Speaker 1: move around that defensive line and and be able to
Speaker 1: give you what you expect out of a guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he's seen a lot of football, He's been around a
Speaker 1: lot of football, and I just thought it was shocking.
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna be a guy that you
Speaker 1: could count on in that rotation for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Now there is a youth movement on this team, not
Speaker 1: only a defensive tackle, it's it's all across the board
Speaker 1: in terms of where you're looking at and that takes
Speaker 1: me back to t J McDonald. Here's the guy that's
Speaker 1: seen a lot of football. He's played free safety's played
Speaker 1: strong safeties, played close to the line of scrimmage, he's
Speaker 1: he's played man coverage against tight ends. He's done a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. But when you look at the
Speaker 1: way that Patrick Graham, the defensive coordinator, wants to play
Speaker 1: on defense, and you look at the way the head
Speaker 1: coach and Brian Flores, what his what he accentuates its speed,
Speaker 1: it's trigger, it's tenacity, it's it's things that are moving
Speaker 1: at a rapid pace. And I think that the way
Speaker 1: that they are using those guys in the defensive secondary,
Speaker 1: especially Minka Fitzpatrick, I think that was probably the key.
Speaker 1: Jamal Wilts those types of guys, when they're moving him
Speaker 1: in and out of position. What I mean by that
Speaker 1: is back off the line of scrimmage and then towards
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. You've got quicker, more agile bodies
Speaker 1: that they're using in multiple defensive sets. I think t
Speaker 1: J was kind of caught in between of a scheme
Speaker 1: change because there's no doubt this guy can play football.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind that he's going to
Speaker 1: contribute somewhere in the national but he's got a lay
Speaker 1: in a more traditional defense where you've got a strong
Speaker 1: safety of free safety, and you're not. It's like a
Speaker 1: merry go round in there. You I mean guy, And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that in a derogatory fashion. It's just
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be in different spots depending And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of this John reflects on the way
Speaker 1: the game is being played right now, the emphasis, the
Speaker 1: emphasis on offense, and John, I've been watching, whether it's
Speaker 1: high school football, college football now that started in NFL
Speaker 1: preseason games. Well, I'll tell you what. I'm throwing the
Speaker 1: ball around because you know there's every time you put
Speaker 1: the ball up in the air, now, there's a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty chance you're gonna get a past interference call, right,
Speaker 1: So why not keep the ball near and But but
Speaker 1: if that's gonna be the case, then you better have
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of coverage guys, speed guys,
Speaker 1: guys that can get to place, guys that can cover ergo.
Speaker 1: You look at you look at the linebacker Ray Kwon
Speaker 1: McMillan and Kiko both of those guys, you know, good,
Speaker 1: good overall players. But their strength, their strength isn't in coverage. Now.
Speaker 1: I think maybe at one point you could probably said
Speaker 1: about Kiko. I'm not sure if that's the case now,
Speaker 1: But you look at Jerome Baker, you look at Sam maguaffin.
Speaker 1: You know, those are two guys that can play the
Speaker 1: run with their speed and and they're big enough and
Speaker 1: strong enough to do it. But they've got skills to cover.
Speaker 1: They can cover it tight end, they can cover back
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, they can play in the slot.
Speaker 1: They can do a lot of different things. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm watching this team and and and I see you know,
Speaker 1: Keiko's not there, and and Ray Kwan's not But from
Speaker 1: just from a linebacker standpoint, you know this nine times, well,
Speaker 1: I would say eight out of ten snaps, this team's
Speaker 1: only running a two linebackers. You know, you're not seeing
Speaker 1: three linebackers. What's seeing four lineback And you have the
Speaker 1: emergence of a guy like Nick de Luca. You can
Speaker 1: play a couple of different spots. That is maybe you know,
Speaker 1: the good coachings have saying, hey, we we got a
Speaker 1: guy that's a one year linebacker. We can mold him
Speaker 1: into what we want to be and we project him
Speaker 1: three years or two years, or eight games or twelve
Speaker 1: games whatever they're that mindset is how their evaluation is
Speaker 1: going on a player like that that if somebody went down,
Speaker 1: he could play three different spots for me and and
Speaker 1: and not have the trepidation of going, well, he can't
Speaker 1: do this, and he can't do that. He can do
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything, which makes him fit into
Speaker 1: this scheme a little bit. And you know, when I
Speaker 1: look at a guy like Nick DeLuca, it and it's
Speaker 1: kind of in a reverse situation. You know, we had
Speaker 1: Rob Nickovic here. Rob was a good player, but he
Speaker 1: was just you know, he just didn't fit the scheme here.
Speaker 1: And and so the Dolphins released him in the last
Speaker 1: cut of his first year. New England picks him up
Speaker 1: and he probably has another has an eight or nine
Speaker 1: really productive years up in New England doing just what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Guy can do a number of different things.
Speaker 1: They used him to rush, he was good against the run,
Speaker 1: he was good on special teams, special teams. But and
Speaker 1: and so you know that maybe the Nick DeLuca role
Speaker 1: to be that third lineback that comes in and does
Speaker 1: some different things for it. Because a little bit bigger,
Speaker 1: a little more stout and stuff like that. But this
Speaker 1: is going to be it's gonna be Jerome Baker and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Samaguavins defense. That's their linebackers. Those guys
Speaker 1: are gonna play almost every play and then they may
Speaker 1: pepper in the line another linebacker here and then. But
Speaker 1: but if you're starting to see this defense and and
Speaker 1: and kind of scheme wise, where it's going, we've seen
Speaker 1: it so far, and it's, uh, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: defense that I think it's gonna it's gonna morph as
Speaker 1: the season goes on and they get to know more
Speaker 1: about what the guys that remain on the roster come
Speaker 1: come after Saturday, Uh, more that they can do. You know,
Speaker 1: you you may have some guys on defense that are
Speaker 1: gonna play twenty or thirties specially. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many special teams players there are a game, but twenty
Speaker 1: five special teams plays and maybe five or six plays
Speaker 1: on defense, right especially the way the fourth preseason games
Speaker 1: and notoriously go it's three plays and out or you're punning.
Speaker 1: You know, it's three players and now back to you.
Speaker 1: You're back on the on the field if you're a
Speaker 1: special teams guy, so you may get equal snaps early
Speaker 1: in the game if there's not a team that gets
Speaker 1: on a ten play, you know, a d R drive
Speaker 1: or whatever whatever the case may be. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of different bodies. Even though there was
Speaker 1: a lot of exit early exits off of this roster,
Speaker 1: you're still gonna see guys like a Trey Watson, you know,
Speaker 1: come in and play a lot of snaps. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see a Darrell Hanks play a lot at linebacker, and
Speaker 1: a lot of special teams So you'll and those defensive
Speaker 1: backs that are the nickel guys or the dime guys,
Speaker 1: they're all gonna be in there playing a lot of snaps.
Speaker 1: The other thing to John is you look at it.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking here with this team undrafted free agents, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have three start. Sam's gonna start, uh cal who
Speaker 1: uh is gonna start? And then you may have Preston Williams.
Speaker 1: You know, if he if he if you can catch
Speaker 1: the ball this week, if he can show gets back
Speaker 1: and he needs to get the confidence from the coaches
Speaker 1: back to day, I'm that guy that can go up
Speaker 1: and catch balls, you know, he if he's not a starter,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play down. Yes, So those those are three guys,
Speaker 1: three undrafted free agents that could affect your starting lineup
Speaker 1: and or give you a lot of plays. There may
Speaker 1: be another five undrafted free agents that may not be
Speaker 1: every down players, maybe special teams guys. But but I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've been around or seen a team
Speaker 1: John where there have been that many undrafted He's usually
Speaker 1: one or two guys that kind of they sprinkle in,
Speaker 1: sprinkle can become like you know, Chase Allen, Mike Hall,
Speaker 1: those guys they came at his free agents, well look
Speaker 1: at look at you know, Monterrey Hartage and Nick need Hum.
Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna play a lot of snaps in
Speaker 1: the secondary for the Miami Dolphins in this game. They
Speaker 1: played a lot of snaps in the preseason. They like
Speaker 1: something about that quick twitch. And you add a you
Speaker 1: know a couple of guys that might have been drafted
Speaker 1: in a corner Armstrong. You know, those are the types
Speaker 1: of guys that have really flashed on special teams, that
Speaker 1: have played fairly solidly after the first preseason game maybe
Speaker 1: and got their feet underneath them and got used to
Speaker 1: the accustomed to the speed of the game. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of those guys this week, you know.
Speaker 1: And then uh, you know, and you had that we
Speaker 1: talked about the undrafted free agents, and then you got
Speaker 1: a rookie like Michael Dieter. You know, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a line up playing there. Christians gonna be lining up
Speaker 1: there playing a lot of snaps for you. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. It's gonna this this, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting roster when all is said and done. And
Speaker 1: let's not forget they can go out and pick up
Speaker 1: some guys and I'm not I wouldn't be I would
Speaker 1: be shocked if they didn't pick up three to four,
Speaker 1: maybe five guys off of the off the scrapp heat.
Speaker 1: And you come come to draft and you got to
Speaker 1: remember too, on that defensive front, we we still have
Speaker 1: in the background Robert Kim d Jay who who's having
Speaker 1: seen rounding himself into shape so he can contribute somewhere
Speaker 1: down the line. Because I think when you look at
Speaker 1: a former first round draft choice and a guy that
Speaker 1: is kind of burnt, burned his opportunity one spot he
Speaker 1: might fit in down the road where he's a guy
Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, he's another young guy that
Speaker 1: you had to this roster that can contribute at a
Speaker 1: high level. And you know, you roll the dice and
Speaker 1: a guy like that because he's got such immense downside
Speaker 1: and you can get if you can get him to
Speaker 1: be the guy he should be both as a player
Speaker 1: and both as a guy a person. Um, then you've
Speaker 1: got you hit a home run, you know, And look,
Speaker 1: you know, Randy Moss was a tough guy to deal with.
Speaker 1: He went to New England and flourish that everybody flourished everywhere.
Speaker 1: He was got pretty much talent, a lot of time
Speaker 1: stretching stretch. But anyway, messing Michael Dieter because I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to get a chance to sit down
Speaker 1: with with Michael, and uh, it'll be interesting to talk
Speaker 1: to him just because what he's gone through. I mean,
Speaker 1: walking in while you're in and you're gonna get You're
Speaker 1: you're gonna swim, but you're gonna you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of you're gonna be swimming. You're gonna be swimming
Speaker 1: all season long. So the faster you learned. So him
Speaker 1: and and the guy we didn't expect show Calhoun pops
Speaker 1: up and and and and kind of lands that job.
Speaker 1: Opposite him on the other side, he has been doing
Speaker 1: the same thing. And so he got another two young
Speaker 1: guys on that offensive line that are gonna gonna play.
Speaker 1: You know, those guys are those guys are gonna play
Speaker 1: every every snap. You know when you watch, you watch
Speaker 1: him plays a tannem and you've got Daniel Kilgour in
Speaker 1: the middle, uh, you know when we haven't seen him
Speaker 1: with tonsil that much, which helps, right, And that's gonna
Speaker 1: help out a lot too with Michael on that side.
Speaker 1: But you watch him play, and the mistakes were numerous
Speaker 1: in preseason game number one, but then they fought back
Speaker 1: a little bit and and they got they trimm those
Speaker 1: you know, they corrected to some of those. Now, not
Speaker 1: saying that they played perfect, but they trimmed their mistakes
Speaker 1: and physics, they're getting better at both at both the
Speaker 1: mental side of the game and the physical side of
Speaker 1: the game each and every day. And but for an
Speaker 1: offensive linement, you need to gotta play. I mean, I
Speaker 1: remember walking, you know, early on you see him kind
Speaker 1: of leaning one way or another duck and there you know,
Speaker 1: their heads, dropping their heads, and you know, defensive line
Speaker 1: would take advantage of yes of those things. And and
Speaker 1: and now you see them a little more, a little
Speaker 1: more squared up, keeping their heads up, and you know,
Speaker 1: and they're look there. They played as many they played
Speaker 1: more downs. Those two guys have played more downs I
Speaker 1: would guess than anybody on this team since since since
Speaker 1: the starting and you can throw in the inter squad
Speaker 1: scrimmage or whatever else, and the practices against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: they've taken as much snaps as anybody on this football team.
Speaker 1: And they're going to continue to tell I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if the game in New Orleans that they're they're
Speaker 1: not there. They're they're not playing at least half of
Speaker 1: that football game. And who knows, maybe more, you don't know.
Speaker 1: And and and I think that's the great unknown about
Speaker 1: going into a preseason game number four, because it isn't
Speaker 1: the last opportunity, not particularly for those two guys, but
Speaker 1: for other guys on the roster to have a chance.
Speaker 1: I mean, you lose a guy like Jordan Mills, who
Speaker 1: was a seven year veteran, you release him, who's the
Speaker 1: next guy up? You know, you have to kind of
Speaker 1: look through and see who's gonna get that playing time?
Speaker 1: Is it Jones Smith? You know, is it Isaiah Prince
Speaker 1: who has drafted? You know, are they going to get
Speaker 1: the majority of those snaps at tackle to prove if
Speaker 1: they can sink or swim or be counted on if
Speaker 1: something were to happen in the regular season. Heck, those
Speaker 1: guys might have to play and start a number of games.
Speaker 1: You're typically you go into this this fourth preseason game,
Speaker 1: and usually I could probably pick out and say, you
Speaker 1: know what, there's maybe two jobs available going into this game.
Speaker 1: I don't know and that, but this one numbers, I
Speaker 1: mean that that number, that number could be you could
Speaker 1: you have number could be as high as four or
Speaker 1: five guys that that right now maybe have one foot in,
Speaker 1: one foot out. All they gonna do is make enough
Speaker 1: players to get that other foot in the door or
Speaker 1: not make plays and get that other foot out the door.
Speaker 1: But I think there'll be more more of these guys.
Speaker 1: There's more opportunity I think to find a roster spot
Speaker 1: in this fourth game, John, than than I've seen in
Speaker 1: a long long time. You know, It's funny, Bow because
Speaker 1: with the early releases of some of the guys that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have let go. You know, those guys are
Speaker 1: out on the streets, so there's a vacancy hanging, you know,
Speaker 1: when you look at the Miami Dolphins roster, it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see who gets released around the league and
Speaker 1: who the Miami Dolphins feel like they can take a
Speaker 1: shot at too to add either depth or continue that
Speaker 1: that young uh player that they see an upside to
Speaker 1: that they kind of stick on the practice roster. That
Speaker 1: that's at offensive tackle or defensive tackle, or at linebacker
Speaker 1: or at you know, or at wide receiver, depending on
Speaker 1: how the chips fall. To continue to stockpile this because
Speaker 1: with the releases, you know, there's a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of dead money, but there's a
Speaker 1: lot of money that the Miami Dolphins are kind of
Speaker 1: stockpiling as they look forward to the future of this
Speaker 1: plan of trying to get this roster where it needs
Speaker 1: to be not only this year, but in year two
Speaker 1: and year three. For Brian Flores, well, if you're if
Speaker 1: you're in this roster, rent don't buy that. If you're
Speaker 1: thirty eight to forty, you know, a few can we
Speaker 1: can we just stay in at the hotel and you're
Speaker 1: putting the bill force we just rate stay there for
Speaker 1: long because you know, and and and watching you know,
Speaker 1: watching Chris Greer over the years and watching these you know,
Speaker 1: they they're gonna cheern those last. If there's if there's
Speaker 1: a guy that's one step better than someone else that's
Speaker 1: thirty five to fifty three, then that guy's gone and
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick up that guy that you think is
Speaker 1: a little a little more juice and tank a little more,
Speaker 1: a little more something, a little more potential, or a
Speaker 1: little younger or you know, I think all become factors
Speaker 1: now in the body. And man, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I want to I gotta get up to thirty. Man,
Speaker 1: I get up to the thirty because any even below that,
Speaker 1: it's boy, it's a slippery slope. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: slippery slope all year long. I believe it'll it'll be
Speaker 1: a work in progress. You know, this is a team
Speaker 1: that obviously is looking for talent, and they're gonna find it,
Speaker 1: you know, within the National Football League. When cut day comes,
Speaker 1: I think they may be there may be a few
Speaker 1: additions you know that would surprises. This is the surprise
Speaker 1: has left the roster and kind of go wow, t
Speaker 1: J McDonald or Keem Spencer, Chase Allen. Now you're gonna
Speaker 1: find some guys that you may not be so familiar
Speaker 1: with their names, but they could play a role on
Speaker 1: this team. Well, and you know, we've seen enough of
Speaker 1: this defense to understand that it's gonna be a multi
Speaker 1: look defense. I mean, well, you've you've seen just about
Speaker 1: everything out of him. Three man line, four man lines,
Speaker 1: shift to the strong side, shift to the weeks, standing
Speaker 1: up one, one or two guys with their hand in
Speaker 1: the dirt. You know this, you know, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of a lot of different things. And
Speaker 1: so as guys get cut from other teams, Oh that guy, like,
Speaker 1: that guy fits our scheme better than this guy does.
Speaker 1: Let's plug him in and do that. But uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh, this is gonna be an ongoing
Speaker 1: um an ongoing process throughout the entire season. Always is,
Speaker 1: but maybe a little more volatile with with this group
Speaker 1: this year. But it's clear to see they want to
Speaker 1: get younger. They want younger is cheaper one thing, and
Speaker 1: and I think they want to get guys that are
Speaker 1: younger that they feel are gonna be here for a
Speaker 1: while that they can mold and fit into this particular
Speaker 1: scheme and and where they've seen some skills that they
Speaker 1: have that they know, I can use this guy, whether
Speaker 1: it's for whether it's two or three situations a game
Speaker 1: or ten or twelve situations a game where they can
Speaker 1: plug that guy in and he's gonna do specifically the
Speaker 1: one thing that they feel that he can take advantage
Speaker 1: of of his skills in the course of that game.
Speaker 1: Not only is this organization building this team or building
Speaker 1: this roster to try to be competitive in two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: but when you take a look back at the draft
Speaker 1: choices the Miami Dolphins have had over the past two
Speaker 1: or three seasons, a lot of these guys are playing
Speaker 1: significant roles on this roster. They want to continue to
Speaker 1: stockpile that. They want to continue to do that, and
Speaker 1: not only in free agency, which will be probably very
Speaker 1: active in and select to ven, but with that next
Speaker 1: year's draft, whether it be at quarterback, whether it be
Speaker 1: at linebacker, or whether it be a playmaking wide receiver,
Speaker 1: whether it's a shutdown corner opposite X. If that doesn't
Speaker 1: emerge this year and they have to do it by committee.
Speaker 1: I think those are the types of things that this
Speaker 1: organization is trying to put themselves in a in a
Speaker 1: position of strength, not only with dollars, not only with
Speaker 1: money to go out and get resources, but with the
Speaker 1: draft to continue to build on the Xavian Howard Laramie Tounsil's,
Speaker 1: you know, the Christian Wilkins. Uh those types of players
Speaker 1: that are that are stars, that are guys that are
Speaker 1: going to be good in this team, good for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins for not only this year, but years to come,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's funny we're talking about Nick
Speaker 1: de Luca number fifty eight. It always reminds me of
Speaker 1: someone because I used to wear fifty eight when I
Speaker 1: was here, and I remember, I remember after my after
Speaker 1: my uh after my after I got after I got released.
Speaker 1: You know, I the equipment managers a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: and so the first year out he wouldn't give anyone
Speaker 1: my name, no one war fifty eight. The next year
Speaker 1: my my first year out football. And then the next
Speaker 1: year they gave fifty eight. I think they gave it
Speaker 1: to Barry krauss Side, Barry krouss Old Alabama. Remember after
Speaker 1: and uh so I remember going to the game. I
Speaker 1: went to the game with my wife and then and
Speaker 1: she she sees a guy running over the fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, the guys were in your your number. I
Speaker 1: thought they were. I thought they were going to retire
Speaker 1: your number. I said, well, if he has ten good years,
Speaker 1: maybe they will. So now my hope for getting my
Speaker 1: number retired. Luca, come on and they can give me,
Speaker 1: give me ten years years retired, then I can claim
Speaker 1: I can claim they retired numbers up in the rafters.
Speaker 1: Come on, Nick, Yeah, Hey, if pedigree means anything, he
Speaker 1: had a hell of a college career at North Dakota.
Speaker 1: I mean North Dakota is funny because I went to
Speaker 1: school with a guy named Nick de Luca, and uh
Speaker 1: but and he was as dumb as a fence post.
Speaker 1: And uh but he was one those guys saying, Nick,
Speaker 1: I bet you can't run your head through that wall
Speaker 1: right now. But I can't. I've got two left. That
Speaker 1: kind of because if not fifty is gonna be, it's
Speaker 1: still gonna be in play for for a long time.
Speaker 1: Number sixty three is an in the the fact that Nick, Yeah,
Speaker 1: here he comes, Michael del Michael Dieter coming in and Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll tell here's a guy that, uh, you know, was
Speaker 1: was thrown into the fire giving a challenge. And you know,
Speaker 1: I remember him talking about and I'm sure we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the first time he lined up and saw ninety
Speaker 1: three in Dominican sue over. They're going, oh, that's the
Speaker 1: Dominican sux. And I remember after practice someone asked me, said,
Speaker 1: that guy's pretty good. Yeah he's big, he's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But uh, but he's been in there and getting, like
Speaker 1: you said, like we talked about earlier, getting better understanding
Speaker 1: the game. And uh, and so here comes let's have
Speaker 1: a little talk with Michael. Were here with Michael Dean,
Speaker 1: and Michael has been not kind of a whirlwind for you.
Speaker 1: You get drafted, you come in here and you go
Speaker 1: to O T A S Mini camps and all that,
Speaker 1: and you can write in the season and you kind
Speaker 1: of got thrown into the fire here, didn't you a
Speaker 1: little bit? Yeah, m but it's been fun. Um. The
Speaker 1: best way to learn is by being thrown into the fire.
Speaker 1: You're either gonna adapt or or your fall. So it's
Speaker 1: been really cool to just get out there and and
Speaker 1: and play it. It seems like nothing new to you
Speaker 1: went to college. You went to Wisconsin, just got thrown
Speaker 1: in right there and played verst Way every year, every down,
Speaker 1: every snap while you were there. Right, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Um I did red shirt my freshman year, but after
Speaker 1: that it was it was all going. So yeah, same thing.
Speaker 1: Just get in there and get playing. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the easiest way to learn. Get out there and start
Speaker 1: doing it. Hey, you're you're an Ohio kid. What got
Speaker 1: you to the University of Wisconsin was at the tradition
Speaker 1: of their their offensive line and what they've done. I
Speaker 1: mean you kind of look at Wisconsin and everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about the running game and you talk about
Speaker 1: the offensive line. When when you when when I think
Speaker 1: about Wisconsin, Yeah, it was it was definitely the offense
Speaker 1: of line tradition. I mean it was definitely my best
Speaker 1: offer as well. But then when looking at the other
Speaker 1: schools and what do they do offense wise, what do
Speaker 1: they have for an offensive line coach? All that stuff,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin was kind of a no brainer. If you want
Speaker 1: to play on line, go there. You've been an All American,
Speaker 1: you're a second team All American. You started all a
Speaker 1: bunch of games at Wisconsin. UM so you obviously had
Speaker 1: a lot of success in college. What's different about the
Speaker 1: game you're in right now than the than the college game.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked to receivers and running backs and
Speaker 1: different things about it, but the offensive line a lot
Speaker 1: more technical in a lot of ways, and even more
Speaker 1: so I think when you step up to this level
Speaker 1: from the college game. Definitely, I would say the biggest
Speaker 1: difference has been mental stuff like the verbiage of the offense,
Speaker 1: and then mentally how smart defensive linemen are in the NFL,
Speaker 1: how smart linebackers are. They know what you're trying to
Speaker 1: do and they know how they need to beat you.
Speaker 1: And in college you don't see that. You see guys
Speaker 1: just playing with effort pretty much and and using their
Speaker 1: athleticism stuff to he plays here smart, well coached, I mean,
Speaker 1: just well rounded players. So there's never a time where
Speaker 1: it seems sort of easy. I mean, guys are too smart,
Speaker 1: they play too hard. It's it's faster, definitely, But I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing is just how smart the guys
Speaker 1: are that you're playing against. They know how they need
Speaker 1: to beat you, and what you're good at and what
Speaker 1: you're bad at. You come out of college you know,
Speaker 1: you're a big guy, You're you're grown. But these are
Speaker 1: grown men, grown men with families and grown men that
Speaker 1: you know that that that are trying to earn a
Speaker 1: living and uh and it's reflected in the way that
Speaker 1: the game's played, I believe. Yeah, definitely, you can definitely
Speaker 1: feel that there's people with kids. I mean cars they
Speaker 1: have to pay off. I mean, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: different It's not just you're going to school and playing
Speaker 1: football at the same time. It's football, and that's it.
Speaker 1: That's your job, that's your life, and that's your livelihood,
Speaker 1: and it's it's cool. It's really fun to just it's
Speaker 1: just kind of a different feeling. It's cool. It's just
Speaker 1: straight football all the time. When you when you got drafted,
Speaker 1: you and your family, I don't know where you were,
Speaker 1: but what what was the what was the experience when
Speaker 1: when you you finally you got to call all that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were drafting you, and you knew you're gonna
Speaker 1: go int the Enna. You knew you're gonna go in
Speaker 1: the NFL anyway, but you know where are you gonna go?
Speaker 1: Where you're gonna end up? And coming from Wisconsin is
Speaker 1: probably tough you know, giving up that that that freezing
Speaker 1: cold weather and coming down to tropical South Floria super tough,
Speaker 1: no snow anymore. That was the biggest thing right away,
Speaker 1: as everyone was like, Oh, we can't wait to come
Speaker 1: just have vacations at your house. Hey, why not. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be in Miami, so come on down. But I'll
Speaker 1: miss the snow a little bit. Honestly. I like the
Speaker 1: snow meal stuff like that. So in the off seasons
Speaker 1: I'll definitely go back to ride snow bills and and
Speaker 1: do all that. But then once I get cold, I'll
Speaker 1: be able to come right back from a from a
Speaker 1: from a on field. Um. I don't know what it
Speaker 1: was like in Wisconsin during the summertime, but the humidity here,
Speaker 1: the heat, the environment's got to be different. For how
Speaker 1: difficult has it been for you to uh, to get
Speaker 1: yourself acclimated to the while we stay down here. It's
Speaker 1: it's you know that you go up to the cold
Speaker 1: and you don't get tired, used to get cold. You
Speaker 1: come down here and you get tired, and it's you
Speaker 1: maybe you'll take your legs right out from under if
Speaker 1: you're not prepared for definitely, And it was it's been
Speaker 1: a work in progress. I'm still on there. I'm getting there.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just getting used to being and he
Speaker 1: it's kind of getting used to just being tired. Like
Speaker 1: you gotta dig deep and and know that the elements
Speaker 1: are kind of working against you, and digging deep and
Speaker 1: just finding a way to still play with a good technique,
Speaker 1: still play smart, even though you just feel the sun
Speaker 1: beating on you. It's human. You can't really catch your breath.
Speaker 1: It feels like you're just breathing in water some days.
Speaker 1: But a lot different than being up in Wisconsin and
Speaker 1: never got near it does here. Hey, So so here
Speaker 1: you are. You were two weeks away from opening day.
Speaker 1: Um and and if if all everything stays the same,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the guy who's lining up there on
Speaker 1: on opening day to to start things off. Um. And
Speaker 1: you've already been through another You've already had two offensive
Speaker 1: line coaches. Pat Flaherty was your your first guy, and
Speaker 1: then you know he, you know he he moved out
Speaker 1: and and now you've got Googles and uh, two different
Speaker 1: kind of guys. But you know, I always say I
Speaker 1: every offensive you you've had off fensive line coaches your
Speaker 1: whole life. They're all the same guy, aren't they. They
Speaker 1: may look different one maybe tall, short, fat, skinny, whatever,
Speaker 1: but they all seem to be the same guy. Are
Speaker 1: you seeing the same thing with death? They all have
Speaker 1: their little quirks and different ways to motivate you. Some
Speaker 1: of them are more soft spoken and try to be
Speaker 1: more encouraged to other guys are just intense. They tell
Speaker 1: you what you're doing wrong, and they're blunt about it,
Speaker 1: and it's easy and both of them work and it's
Speaker 1: it's nice. But at the end of the day, they're
Speaker 1: in a line coach, they're gonna be pretty intense. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be stern. They're gonna make sure your techniques flawless,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna make sure they're gonna hold you accountable.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let anything slip. So you talked about terminology,
Speaker 1: is it? And I've always been kind of it seems
Speaker 1: like in the last I don't know, decade, maybe not
Speaker 1: a decade, but you know, it used to me when
Speaker 1: I was playing, it was the terminology. You know, it
Speaker 1: was pretty quick. Short terminology gets you in and out
Speaker 1: of the huddle. The verbiage a lot longer now, it's
Speaker 1: now it seems like, you know, it's like a paragraph
Speaker 1: when when when these guys are calling plays, is that
Speaker 1: different than than what you had throughout your college career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the play calls are definitely longer. And then I would
Speaker 1: say the biggest thing is when we get to the line,
Speaker 1: there's so many different things like versus like I want this, this, this,
Speaker 1: and this, just like I want that, that, this and this,
Speaker 1: Whereas in college it was this play, you're gonna run
Speaker 1: this verse any look, just make it work. Now it's
Speaker 1: we have this for that and then we have this
Speaker 1: for that, and that's good because we need that. It's
Speaker 1: the NFL. You need to be able to make adjustments.
Speaker 1: And if you can't think and and dissect all that,
Speaker 1: then you don't have to go to school. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is play football so you can learn it.
Speaker 1: But I think the funny thing too, is is as
Speaker 1: a playing a defensive linement in this league and you
Speaker 1: play an offensive line, you know some of those changes
Speaker 1: come like almost almost as the ball is being snapped right,
Speaker 1: someone moves the last last second. Someone moves all of
Speaker 1: a sudden all the time, and you can't say anything.
Speaker 1: You've got to go. You've got to learn to adapt.
Speaker 1: And I think for a young offensive linement where that
Speaker 1: happens a lot, that's got to be one of the
Speaker 1: difficult things for it is you kind of locked in,
Speaker 1: like you said in college. You can look like, this
Speaker 1: guy's my guy. I gotta hook him. He's on my
Speaker 1: outside shoulder. Okay, maybe I gotta get a little deeper
Speaker 1: and get it. You gotta figure it out where. But
Speaker 1: now it's this guy is here, and now someone moved here,
Speaker 1: and then a linebacker came up in here, and all
Speaker 1: this is happening within two seconds of the time they're
Speaker 1: snapping the football. And you gotta make those decisions some
Speaker 1: a lot of times on the move without even being
Speaker 1: able to communicate it. So you gotta make sure. You
Speaker 1: gotta trust that the guys around you see it. No
Speaker 1: it can think of it and boom and it's it's
Speaker 1: beautiful and it all comes in like that. But it's
Speaker 1: a mess when it doesn't feel like you. You you know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty unique here, Uh, they got you and Shaq
Speaker 1: Calhoun looks like you guys are both gonna be two
Speaker 1: rookie starting uh and and it's pretty unusual in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But I think the thing that help has helped you out,
Speaker 1: I would assume has been the fact that they made
Speaker 1: this decision early on. And you guys, between the two
Speaker 1: of you, man, you guys have gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps at practice. You've got a lot of snaps up
Speaker 1: in Tampa during the UH, during the practices with with
Speaker 1: the Bucks, and then in the preseason games, you've been
Speaker 1: getting plenty of snaps. So you you've put probably uh,
Speaker 1: compared to your college you you probably put half of
Speaker 1: a college season in already in in in snaps since
Speaker 1: you've been here. Ye, And it's it's been good. I mean,
Speaker 1: being a rookie and me and Shock like we need
Speaker 1: the reps. Just every rep is more confidence. Even if
Speaker 1: you lose. It's why I lose, what I do wrong,
Speaker 1: fix it. So it's nice that, like you said, made
Speaker 1: a decision early, get a lot of reps. So just
Speaker 1: every rep confidence, getting smarter mentally, thinking faster, And for
Speaker 1: both of us it's been huge and we're getting better.
Speaker 1: But say a long way Togo, you've got some veterans
Speaker 1: in the offensive line, but I would assume that after
Speaker 1: almost every play you and Shot kind of get together
Speaker 1: and and talk Hey what do you say? Hey? What
Speaker 1: this guy? Gee? You wouldn't believe with this guy? Did
Speaker 1: you gotta you know, I mean, you gotta compare notes
Speaker 1: because you're both at that same same spot in your
Speaker 1: career and things that other offensive linemen that have been
Speaker 1: playing for a three, four or five ten years for
Speaker 1: them that may not seem unusual. But you guys like
Speaker 1: did you see this? You know? I mean, so I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you're having a lot of those conversations post play
Speaker 1: when you're on the sideline and all those those those areas. Definitely,
Speaker 1: I'll just lean over Shack and big what do you have?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. And then what's nice is since I'm
Speaker 1: doing that, I can get Jesse will hear it and
Speaker 1: go oh that? And then Dan right, oh, no, you
Speaker 1: guys are both wrong because Dan just runs the show back. No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this this and it's nice. So any
Speaker 1: concerns that we bounce off on another, if it's not right,
Speaker 1: the guys around us, they're gonna get us right. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's this, This offensive line is it's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's it's it's important to every football team.
Speaker 1: It's very as important as this team as it is
Speaker 1: any other team in the league. And yet you guys
Speaker 1: have gotten reps, but you really haven't had that many,
Speaker 1: that many opportunities to be with You're starting five with
Speaker 1: Laramie in there, with whether it's gonna be Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: on the outside or or whoever, whoever's gonna be that guy.
Speaker 1: You kind of know that you got from from from
Speaker 1: that right guard over to the left. You know what
Speaker 1: your situation. Then where they put it that right tackle,
Speaker 1: I'm assume it's gonna be Jesse Davis. Um, you haven't
Speaker 1: had that much time to work with those guys in
Speaker 1: game days, in game situations as you will once the
Speaker 1: season starts. Is that is that hurt you guys a
Speaker 1: little bit? Um? I don't think so, just because we've
Speaker 1: gotten a ton of work and practice, and we got
Speaker 1: a lot of work and practice at Tampa, which they
Speaker 1: were practices, but it's very different, different intensity. Name it.
Speaker 1: That was my that was my next thing. You know,
Speaker 1: you know you're in the NFL and you're getting here
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you you know, the
Speaker 1: first that first practice, at first play, you put your
Speaker 1: hand in the dirt and there's there's ninety three sitting
Speaker 1: acrossing and Dominican sue. That was weird. It was it
Speaker 1: was like being a little bit star struck. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: just growing up watching the guys dominating. Then you're like, no,
Speaker 1: I gotta not get dominated by. So it was it
Speaker 1: was cool. It was a little scary, but it was
Speaker 1: super cool. Are you a guy that looks at look
Speaker 1: at what when I came out? When I came out
Speaker 1: of college, you know, I I I remember playing I
Speaker 1: remember playing my first Monday night game. We're playing the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and one of the first players they had
Speaker 1: a full back. I figured it was named John Brockington
Speaker 1: or whatever, big full back that and and I was
Speaker 1: gonna cover. I have to cover him, and um saying, no,
Speaker 1: I got this guy. Guys like two sixty pounds, I
Speaker 1: can run with him. And then they started calling plays
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they switched the backs. Now
Speaker 1: I got O. J. Simpson and he runs at Larro
Speaker 1: takeoff down the field and I'm trying to chase him
Speaker 1: down the field and I'm trying to chase them, going, damn,
Speaker 1: this is O Jason. You know, there were other piece
Speaker 1: of people have chased O. J. Simpsons since then, but
Speaker 1: I mean in that circumstance. But but I always a
Speaker 1: guy that kind of remembered those guys and was always
Speaker 1: not starstruck, but going wow, this is you know, I'm
Speaker 1: playing as Wow, this is just a cool moment. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is amazing. I walked into stadiums. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: walking into a new stadium, you know, you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is just pretty cool. You know, it's super cool
Speaker 1: different stadiums, getting a field for how different fan bases
Speaker 1: that it's just to experiences. Hey, googse we talked about
Speaker 1: offensive line coaches, and Googs is a guy that he's
Speaker 1: one of those. He's a little bit of everything. He's
Speaker 1: a screamer, he's a yeller, he's a he's a he's
Speaker 1: a demanding coach. But he also has that that that
Speaker 1: little little nap to too that you know that he's
Speaker 1: doing it, he's doing the best for you, he's invested
Speaker 1: in you and and knowing that that's a betterment for
Speaker 1: the team. So no matter, he's kind of like your
Speaker 1: dad sometimes where your dad has to discipline you, but
Speaker 1: you know, when when push comes to shove, you know
Speaker 1: he loves you, you know exactly. Yep, you never want
Speaker 1: to coach. This just gonna kind of be mean and
Speaker 1: not really coach. I've had experiences a long time ago
Speaker 1: where it was just yell, yell, yell, not a lot
Speaker 1: of coaching. It was just like they thought the way
Speaker 1: to make an offensive linement was just be mean, whereas
Speaker 1: the Googs, it's both. You know, obviously, if you're wrong,
Speaker 1: it's didn't get your right. He's gonna let you know
Speaker 1: you're wrong. But he's also gonna tell you what he
Speaker 1: wants from you, you know, watching on film, you talk
Speaker 1: about it, and if you still can't get it right,
Speaker 1: it's only gonna get worse for you because he's taken
Speaker 1: time to fix it for you. So if you don't,
Speaker 1: he's gonna just keep getting a little more angry angry,
Speaker 1: and or later you'll get it right. So September eight,
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens come to town Opening Day. You folks gonna
Speaker 1: be in the in the stands. They will, Yeah, they'll
Speaker 1: be here. They've got to be pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1: I would imagine. YEA. They came down for the first
Speaker 1: Pieceason game against Atlanta, which was cool, but to get
Speaker 1: him for a regular cheas and yeah, they'll they'll love that.
Speaker 1: So I yeah that that's gonna be good night, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking for I'm sure you're gonna you're looking forward
Speaker 1: to and that'll be a great day for you. And
Speaker 1: I gotta do this. You know, you're a first. We've
Speaker 1: had a lot of people come in here and and
Speaker 1: do the audible for us, but you hold the honor.
Speaker 1: Is the first guy ever to come in in full pads.
Speaker 1: So you know, so you got that, you got no
Speaker 1: one can take no one could take that away from
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna have to go have someone
Speaker 1: on one pass rushing quick home. Ye quick here you
Speaker 1: got gonna be like, oh you can be like oh
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams. But Ricky Williams get interviews with the Sounding
Speaker 1: Off and Michael wish you the best luck, Mats to
Speaker 1: stay healthy out here. And I know you've been working
Speaker 1: your ass off and you can see the improvement day
Speaker 1: to day, and uh, you know, there's there's gonna be,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be. It's gonna be a good trip for
Speaker 1: you here in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins, and uh,
Speaker 1: enjoy the ride, but go out and and kick some asks.
Speaker 1: Well do I appreciate it? Thank you? Alright, So Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: guys working hard. You got a great attitude, great attitude,
Speaker 1: I like, I said, first first guy to come and
Speaker 1: walk in here in full pads, he said, He said,
Speaker 1: if I don't knowing that, I brought my help and
Speaker 1: warned that too. I got a mental picture now never
Speaker 1: get out just seeing him. You know, you're a big man, right,
Speaker 1: he's sitting he's sitting in his chair with his shoulder pads,
Speaker 1: and he looked like he was seven. Was fine, He
Speaker 1: was fine when he sat down, but trying to get
Speaker 1: up with his legs under here. And I thought we
Speaker 1: were gonna have to move the whole table to get
Speaker 1: him out, get him out because he had the cleats,
Speaker 1: were bringing in the carpet to the carpet here. But
Speaker 1: you know, hey, he's one of those guys. It's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and this is gonna take me to the
Speaker 1: next The next thought is which is always next thought,
Speaker 1: but I always the first thought around here and out
Speaker 1: is that quarterback and and whether it's you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna be Jake, whether it's going to
Speaker 1: be Josh, whether it's gonna be Ryan. Um, they're gonna
Speaker 1: depend on Michael Dieter and Shot Calhoun and all those
Speaker 1: guys up front to carry the load and and and
Speaker 1: they've got to grow up fast. Um, the quarterback competition
Speaker 1: is still on, don't. I have no idea, John, no idea.
Speaker 1: What's gonna go on Thursday night? As far as started,
Speaker 1: If I was to guess it, I would guess it
Speaker 1: Josh starts. Rosen starts and gets maybe maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: equivalent of first preseason game series maybe two gets out
Speaker 1: and then uh, unless Jake Ruddock to Ruddock take the
Speaker 1: take the reins the rest of the way. That's what
Speaker 1: I would probably be along the exact same lines. But
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see a lot of Jake rudoc
Speaker 1: and and that's a good thing. He needs to play
Speaker 1: and needs to play. He's played well, he's done a
Speaker 1: good job. But I do think that, you know, with
Speaker 1: the uncertainty with Ryan Fitzpatrick and him not feeling so good,
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the week, I would think that Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen would play, might start, uh, maybe play a couple
Speaker 1: series and depending on how many the play count, uh,
Speaker 1: how it's going up front because they're still you know,
Speaker 1: the most important game is September eighth, and how they're
Speaker 1: going to decide to roll with the starting quarterback or
Speaker 1: maybe it's a maybe it's a blended situation to start
Speaker 1: the season. I'm not quite sure that I think everything's
Speaker 1: on the table right now because there hasn't been one
Speaker 1: guy that, you know, early on, I thought Ryan Fitzpatrick position.
Speaker 1: I thought Ryan Fitzpatrick with his experience, the way he's
Speaker 1: through the football, the way he's played at practice and
Speaker 1: in and in the you know, the scrimmages against Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: I thought he had a little bit of an upper hand.
Speaker 1: But then Josh Rosen comes along, and he plays better.
Speaker 1: Every time you see more of him, plays a little
Speaker 1: bit better. Uh, you love the arms strang Do you
Speaker 1: love the escapability that he showed out on the football field.
Speaker 1: You like the demeanor. The more more you know, the
Speaker 1: more confidence, the more success he's had, the more confident
Speaker 1: he's looked like, not only in the huddle, but out
Speaker 1: on the field, eluding pressure, making plays on the run,
Speaker 1: making plays from the pocket. So I think I think
Speaker 1: the decision is still a question mark for this coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and I don't think Thursday night is going to determine
Speaker 1: whether he's gonna start or not. I think that coach
Speaker 1: flora is I think they have an idea. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think unless he comes out and just lights it up.
Speaker 1: But I think that decision. I think that decision is
Speaker 1: made right now, UM, and we'll we'll see what it is.
Speaker 1: But you know, Josh, the one thing about Josh that
Speaker 1: that really impressed me in Game three, UM, was just
Speaker 1: that willingness to throw the ball downfield. Willing to drive
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. You know, we we you know,
Speaker 1: we we watched Fitzpatrick. You know those little kind of
Speaker 1: side you know, dump offs here and there, through the
Speaker 1: one down the field to sect and we need to
Speaker 1: see that. And Mike needed to get that for his
Speaker 1: own had a couple that that that really helped out there.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like Josh is a little more
Speaker 1: of that downfield guy guys willing to throw the ball
Speaker 1: deep down field. You know, there's a couple of times
Speaker 1: and out. I think there was one out pattern that
Speaker 1: that fits. Ball didn't get there. And so your question
Speaker 1: his age, your question his arms is, you know, how
Speaker 1: did you give you that age? And and oh jeez,
Speaker 1: that ball fellows short. You're thinking, oh, does he still
Speaker 1: have the strength and get that ball? Can you still
Speaker 1: throw that out when you need to throw that out
Speaker 1: and get it there in a hurry? Uh, those questions arise.
Speaker 1: I don't think you see those questions with Josh Rosan.
Speaker 1: Now you may see questions about decision making, decision making
Speaker 1: of why did you throw that ball there? Why didn't
Speaker 1: you go somewhere else? But I don't think it's the
Speaker 1: I don't think that his issue at this point is
Speaker 1: I need he's got the strength and ability make every
Speaker 1: throw that you need to throw during it. We see
Speaker 1: him do it on the run, We've seen it, throw
Speaker 1: it back across himself. We've seen a number of things
Speaker 1: from him that legion believe he can get the ball
Speaker 1: where he needs to get it. It's whether he makes
Speaker 1: the right choice, whether he eludes or makes them moves
Speaker 1: in the pocket enough, because you know, you know, certainly
Speaker 1: with this offensive line's gonna important for that guy to
Speaker 1: be able to maneuver his way in and out of
Speaker 1: that pocket in order to get the ball down. If
Speaker 1: it were me, if if I had the ultimate decision
Speaker 1: on who I would play, I don't know this. This
Speaker 1: goes against the grain of the National Football League and
Speaker 1: what you've seen franchise guys, because we're not sure right
Speaker 1: now what we have with Josh rose And I don't
Speaker 1: think I mean, we have an idea, we have an inkling.
Speaker 1: We've seen enough to know he's a good quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: a quality guy. He's had a good head on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: He he looks like he can get the job done.
Speaker 1: But I think i'd have both of those guys like
Speaker 1: up and ready to go. I might name a starter,
Speaker 1: but I would say, don't take it as a slight
Speaker 1: if if we start Brian Fitzpatrick this week and Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen the next week, because I just think that whatever
Speaker 1: is going to be the best scenario for Brian Flores
Speaker 1: to make a decision to win that particular killer game
Speaker 1: on that week, I think he's gonna roll the dice
Speaker 1: and I don't think you gotta get your emotion out.
Speaker 1: So so let's talk about that a little bit, John,
Speaker 1: and will you be in a quarterback Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the situation where Okay, let's let's assume that Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: is your starter against the Baltimore Ravens. When you open
Speaker 1: up the season September eight, he comes out four series,
Speaker 1: three and out, no product, product productivity. Are we in
Speaker 1: a situation where it might be, hey, Josh, get in there.
Speaker 1: It may be a game by game may be I don't.
Speaker 1: Josh starts and it's the same and he puts two
Speaker 1: gets two balls picked off right by throwing him in
Speaker 1: the wrong place. It maybe I think you got a
Speaker 1: clean slate every week if it were me, Because one
Speaker 1: going back to you gotta give yourself, You gotta give
Speaker 1: this team. They've you know, every team in the NFL
Speaker 1: works so hard to get to that first game and
Speaker 1: to try to win and get on a roll, try
Speaker 1: to get that positive vibe going for your season. That's
Speaker 1: why I think that you have to kind of throw
Speaker 1: all the old kind of you know, things that you
Speaker 1: believe were true about the quarterback position on this particular
Speaker 1: team out the window. How can I win this game?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it by sticking with this guy that
Speaker 1: maybe went three series of three plays and out or
Speaker 1: didn't get any points in the first half. Does that
Speaker 1: give me the best chance to win in the second half?
Speaker 1: If it does, your role with him, But if if
Speaker 1: your gut tells you it doesn't you can't stick to Well,
Speaker 1: I gave this guy the job, he won the job,
Speaker 1: Let's stick with him no matter who that guy is.
Speaker 1: I think that. I think all options are on the
Speaker 1: table for the Miami Dolphins this year. And I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised to see both of you guys play in
Speaker 1: one game. So would you being a quarterback, John, how
Speaker 1: do you manage that? Internally? For you? Ignoring that? And look,
Speaker 1: if you're the if you're the guys started the starter
Speaker 1: and you kind of know that, well, you're you're going
Speaker 1: in with some extra out of pressure. You got the
Speaker 1: pressure of lining up against the Baltimore Ravens, playing against
Speaker 1: these guys doing this and that, and also in the
Speaker 1: back of your mind as well, Ship, if I don't
Speaker 1: if I'm not productive, I'm gonna be sitting over the sidelines.
Speaker 1: You know what They've done that or the same thing
Speaker 1: on the other side. If you're the kid in the sidelines,
Speaker 1: you're going, jeez, I thought I did enough to be out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a you gotta have to two guys
Speaker 1: that are very strong willed and confident, I think to
Speaker 1: be able to go through that. I think that the
Speaker 1: one thing that gets you around that is that Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick hasn't been the guy for X amount of seasons
Speaker 1: in the National Football League to say like, this is
Speaker 1: my team. I played eight years in Buffalo. I was
Speaker 1: a starter, we had two playoff runs. You know, I
Speaker 1: played X amount of games with this franchise and we
Speaker 1: had you know, great, great teams. And you know, he's
Speaker 1: been a guy that's kind of been that filler, that
Speaker 1: gap stop. You know, you got to come in and
Speaker 1: give you a spark. So I think that allows you
Speaker 1: your mindset and say, hey, I'm open for anything. I
Speaker 1: played every role you can imagine in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: I just want to win. Well, I along that line,
Speaker 1: just just looking at these guys and being around him
Speaker 1: and and looking at age and looking at circumstance. I
Speaker 1: think Fitzpatrick would manage that better than Josh Rosen, because
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, to me, is still a little fragile from
Speaker 1: the standpoint. I was a top ten draft choice. Then boom,
Speaker 1: I get traded after one season. Never happened before he
Speaker 1: gets moved, and then he's here in a battle for
Speaker 1: his life. And so in the back of his mind
Speaker 1: there's got to be a little bit of that. You know,
Speaker 1: I can't you know where if fits is having a
Speaker 1: bad game, gets taken out, he's done that, not happy
Speaker 1: with it, Piste off of himself, but he but he
Speaker 1: has mad at himself. I thought about it, not about
Speaker 1: the coaches, not me not getting the job done for
Speaker 1: the team. Let me fight back and get it, whereas
Speaker 1: Rosen maybe a little more ship. You know here, here's
Speaker 1: another step of you know, the reality sin and you
Speaker 1: know what, I think that's the way that Brian Flores
Speaker 1: runs this team. If Josh Rosen throws a pick at
Speaker 1: practice or or fumbles a quarterback center exchange, he's out
Speaker 1: to the wall. Touch the wall. You're out now for
Speaker 1: you lost your opportunity. Next guy's up. So I think
Speaker 1: they've been kind of getting those guys used to that scenario.
Speaker 1: No matter what position you're at, make a mistake, next
Speaker 1: guy's up, You're you're in and you're gonna get another chance.
Speaker 1: But at quarterback, I just think that the mentality this
Speaker 1: year is is going to be different than anything you
Speaker 1: know that that you've seen in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: because not a lot of teams are in a position
Speaker 1: where you know, You're not gonna do that to Ben Roethlisberg.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do that to you know, Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna do that to guys that have established,
Speaker 1: guys that are potential Hall of Famers, guys that have
Speaker 1: won in this league for years. But when you look
Speaker 1: around the league, gosh, maybe some of the teams should
Speaker 1: have taken that approach because you're trying to do everything
Speaker 1: in your power to win this game today. And I
Speaker 1: think that's why the practices have gone the way they've gone.
Speaker 1: I think that's the way that the coaches have coached
Speaker 1: them hard. This This team has to have some some
Speaker 1: tough love at certain points, and I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see that throughout the year. Ultimately, though, the the the
Speaker 1: answer that you need to find is is with Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen and and and and and there's it's there's one question.
Speaker 1: Is he the guy or isn't he the guy? Both
Speaker 1: of them are important. This is this is important to
Speaker 1: know if he is the guy that we're gonna bank
Speaker 1: the franchise on, because all of a sudden, he he's
Speaker 1: playing like the guy who was the top ten draft pick.
Speaker 1: He's playing like a guy that you know, like Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a good look at Sam Donald. Last year,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, you know, had a miserable year from a
Speaker 1: statistics standpoint, but we watched him played two times and
Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind that this guy is gonna
Speaker 1: be the guy. He's a franchise guy. And look what
Speaker 1: he's doing this year. He's coming out and he's he's
Speaker 1: playing that way, you know, and so you know, you
Speaker 1: need to know at the end of this season, clearly
Speaker 1: if Josh Rosen is the guy, that's his important is
Speaker 1: knowing is he not the guy? You know? The one
Speaker 1: thing that the one thing that that concerns me is
Speaker 1: it is to have a situation where you come to
Speaker 1: the end of the season and you've won I don't
Speaker 1: care two, three, six, eight, whatever many games you've won,
Speaker 1: and you're going, well, geez, we got this guy Rosen.
Speaker 1: We think he's a guy born on a sure and
Speaker 1: you've got you know, Herbert, you got the kid from
Speaker 1: You've got to George. You've got the kid from George.
Speaker 1: You've got five or five guys lined up there. I
Speaker 1: think there are four or five guys that any one
Speaker 1: of them could be franchise guys. That you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a choice. You're gonna especially if you on the lower
Speaker 1: end of the wind call him, You're gonna have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to grab one of those guys. And you've got
Speaker 1: to know do we need to do it or can
Speaker 1: we go elsewhere because we got our quarterback? That question,
Speaker 1: to me is the biggest question of any on this
Speaker 1: in this franchise right now. I think I've seen enough
Speaker 1: of Josh Rosen to to know that he's a quality
Speaker 1: quarterback that has plenty of arm strength, has plenty of
Speaker 1: elusiveness within the pocket, has plenty of smarts at the
Speaker 1: position that he can be on a roster for a
Speaker 1: long time. Now, can he be the guy that leads
Speaker 1: you to the Super Bowl? Can he be a guy
Speaker 1: that consistently wins? Okay? Right, okay right? And the hard
Speaker 1: part about the evaluation is going to be playing on
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't isn't quite ready to challenge for X,
Speaker 1: y Z whatever that whatever your goals are, ultimately it's
Speaker 1: a super Bowl's to win a Super Bowl? Is this
Speaker 1: team gonna be ready with him in two years to
Speaker 1: do that? Is he is he good enough to to
Speaker 1: play on a team where he can make guys elevate.
Speaker 1: He can bring everybody's game up, and that team that's
Speaker 1: a three or four win team now wins six seven,
Speaker 1: eight games, and you go, wow, it was because of
Speaker 1: his play. You've got to have the feeling that the
Speaker 1: Jets have with Donald right now then, you know, than
Speaker 1: with what we got right now. Yeah, at the end,
Speaker 1: you guts to say that guy with a lot enough
Speaker 1: not for him to know that that he can get
Speaker 1: the job done. We just need to put the pieces
Speaker 1: around him now right. I just hope that the life
Speaker 1: it comes on a little bit sooner. Uh. That gives
Speaker 1: you a clear indication that a lot of heads are
Speaker 1: nodding up and down instead of ear to ear going.
Speaker 1: I don't know. One of the things that I've said
Speaker 1: it a couple of times since since last week's game.
Speaker 1: You know, you're looking for that aha moment. You're looking
Speaker 1: at wow that wow did you see that? And if
Speaker 1: you don't know that, I don't know that I saw
Speaker 1: the wow did you see that? But I did see
Speaker 1: those moments go oh wow, that's a nice that's a
Speaker 1: nice little you know, deep ball, that's a nice You're
Speaker 1: getting out of pocket running a little bit buying some time.
Speaker 1: All those things. You saw some really good things from him.
Speaker 1: Some oh that was nice out of him. You just
Speaker 1: need to see that. Man, that's a throw that not
Speaker 1: very many guys can make. That's a that's a guy
Speaker 1: that that's a guy's confident that he squeezed the ball somewhere.
Speaker 1: We probably shouldn't have thrown it in there, but had
Speaker 1: enough confidence in getting it there. I saw one throw
Speaker 1: in that game against Jacksonville where he was rolling to
Speaker 1: his left, he turned his hips and shoulders, and he
Speaker 1: threw a rocket down, you know, close in front of
Speaker 1: in front of the offense bench. For me, I go,
Speaker 1: I I didn't. I wasn't talking to anybody at the time,
Speaker 1: but if I was, I would have said, oh man,
Speaker 1: that was that. That was an elite throw. That was
Speaker 1: an elite throw. Not many guys can do that or
Speaker 1: have the have the body control, in the arm strength
Speaker 1: and the accuracy to make that throw. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: it's just for him, it's just you gotta see more
Speaker 1: of those. But that look, that's gonna be an ongoing thing,
Speaker 1: and I think that's in every week. I just I
Speaker 1: just don't know why I feel that way, because for me,
Speaker 1: going into this week, I'm linking, I'm thinking about the
Speaker 1: regular season. I'm going, Man, I don't even know if
Speaker 1: it really matters who starts, who starts the game and
Speaker 1: who the one thing we're the one thing we're not
Speaker 1: talking about John because we're not talking about coach Flores.
Speaker 1: And he's still he still wants to win football game. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Look you, he's gonna look at you. You can't be
Speaker 1: a head coach in this league and look at this
Speaker 1: roster and say, hey, we got a chance to get
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. Because let's be frank, it's it's
Speaker 1: not it's too young, it's not mature enough. You don't
Speaker 1: that you know enough playmakers to say that. Um, but
Speaker 1: he still wants to win games. And so there in
Speaker 1: kind of goes more to what you're talking about. Well,
Speaker 1: you know you can if if you throw Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: to the Wolves and he just is struggling all year
Speaker 1: long and you never take him out, he never gets better.
Speaker 1: You know what's this? What's this bullshit about you wanted
Speaker 1: to win games? But if you put if you put
Speaker 1: fits in there, I don't like we've seen you put
Speaker 1: Rosen in and then maybe next week you pull him
Speaker 1: out because he's not. Now, you see a coach that
Speaker 1: is trying to win within what he's got, So he's
Speaker 1: he's he's telling his team that, hey, we're in it
Speaker 1: to win it, and and I'm doing every move that
Speaker 1: I can to make it to this particular game right now.
Speaker 1: Whatever it takes to me for me to do that,
Speaker 1: and if that means pulling my quarterback and putting another
Speaker 1: guy in the third quarter because he hasn't been productive,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do if it gives us a
Speaker 1: chance to win. Exactly. I think everything is on the
Speaker 1: table with this roster. I think especially at the position
Speaker 1: of quarterback. I just think that it's it's gonna go
Speaker 1: against the grain of of of the normal thinking. And
Speaker 1: he has so far with the moves he's made. That's
Speaker 1: why I think it lends to even though that position
Speaker 1: is a little bit different. With the psyche, I think
Speaker 1: you gotta have a frank conversation, say, guys, get over
Speaker 1: yourself right now, because you know, Fitsy, you're going into
Speaker 1: your fifteenth year, Josh, you're going into your second year.
Speaker 1: I want to win games. I want to be here
Speaker 1: for a long long time, Okay, And I hope that
Speaker 1: the light bulb goes off for one of you guys
Speaker 1: and you start all sixteen games. We're in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and and things are going great. But I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking that far ahead. I'm thinking about the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. I'm thinking about how we're gonna win this game.
Speaker 1: Both guys. You guys, be ready, because I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's gonna go. But you're both up, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna start, and I hope you finish. You know, it's
Speaker 1: funny because the conversations I've had with people as well,
Speaker 1: if he starts that guy who means he doesn't care
Speaker 1: about winning games something, which I I you know, this
Speaker 1: whole this whole concept of tanking. Um, yeah, basketball, but
Speaker 1: I just don't, Uh, I just don't. I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it. Because quite frankly,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be safe in this league if you're
Speaker 1: not going out and and playing at your maximum effort,
Speaker 1: because you're doing you're doing a disservice to you know that,
Speaker 1: and you're probably doing a disservice to you. But be
Speaker 1: blown up by somebody and you'll be sitting the outside
Speaker 1: looking at you know, so they're doing everything they can
Speaker 1: uh to get this team ready because it is I mean,
Speaker 1: when you take a look at the schedule, you better
Speaker 1: be good early. You better not beat yourself early to
Speaker 1: have a chance to win. And you know, those first
Speaker 1: four games. So as we as we as we wrap
Speaker 1: up this preseason, it's been, it's been you know a
Speaker 1: lot of some good things, some bad things. It's it's
Speaker 1: for me, it's been as much watching coaches as watching players,
Speaker 1: because you want to see how these coaches are gonna coach.
Speaker 1: And and I like to discipline. I've said it if
Speaker 1: I like I like the way they coach the team.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that any coach on that field
Speaker 1: doesn't like something, you can stop practice and and and
Speaker 1: and have that conversation with the guy and hey, let's
Speaker 1: run it again until we get it right. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen that enough. I like the fact that the
Speaker 1: there there's an emphasis on doing the things that you
Speaker 1: can control, not no pre snap penalties, all these types
Speaker 1: of things, mental errors, you know, showing up on time,
Speaker 1: doing all those things that are easy. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that the coaches are tough on
Speaker 1: their players, I like, they're pulling guys out. And look,
Speaker 1: I've seen guys in time out. I've seen guys in
Speaker 1: you know, and go stand over there and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you when you can come back, and no move until
Speaker 1: I tell you to come in. I've seen all that
Speaker 1: stuff out here, and and all that is going back
Speaker 1: to old school and and and toughening up a young
Speaker 1: football team so they're ready for six team major battles.
Speaker 1: Is the season rolls are he set an expectation for
Speaker 1: this football team that you know, from being on time
Speaker 1: for meetings, being accountable for what you're wearing at practice,
Speaker 1: being accountable for your assignments. You know, from from A
Speaker 1: to Z, and it's every day it is. It is
Speaker 1: on that meter is pinned because the urgency to do
Speaker 1: it right and to get out of your own way
Speaker 1: to so this organization has a chance to win on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. Boy, this staff has has done it
Speaker 1: from day one. And they're not put keeping their you know,
Speaker 1: they're keeping their foot on the look they're they're they're
Speaker 1: certainly not adverse to pointing a finger at some guy
Speaker 1: and saying you gotta get better. I mean, look at you,
Speaker 1: Look at there, you look no further than last week
Speaker 1: with Kenny Stills. You know, you talk about the jay
Speaker 1: Z songs and I couldn't tell you what they gotta
Speaker 1: play twenty jay Z song and I wouldn't have known,
Speaker 1: you know, what they were. But but Anyway pulls him
Speaker 1: out and says, hey, you know, this is about this
Speaker 1: is about you, you focusing on what's important, not that
Speaker 1: other noise, including these songs and what people are saying,
Speaker 1: and what you've got going on with your own and
Speaker 1: this and that. It's about wrapping your head around what's important,
Speaker 1: and that's doing your best job. Because if you don't
Speaker 1: wrap your head around it, and you don't, you don't
Speaker 1: show that you you you belong to be here, and
Speaker 1: then then you know, we'll move on and we'll find
Speaker 1: somebody else that wants to bring that attitude with them.
Speaker 1: I don't care how many touchdowns you've scored. I don't
Speaker 1: care how long you've been in the league. I don't
Speaker 1: care what you've done. If you're not willing to commit
Speaker 1: acent then and you gotta you're you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: give to football and you're gonna spend doing that other
Speaker 1: stuff that's not good enough for us. And you know
Speaker 1: what coach Flores said this week and one of the
Speaker 1: pressers that he had with the with the local media,
Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I've had guys that we've
Speaker 1: had a release that have done everything I've asked. They've
Speaker 1: they've studied film, they were accountable, being on time, they
Speaker 1: were giving maximum effort. It just didn't work out, and
Speaker 1: I had to have hard conversations, you know, with each
Speaker 1: and every one of those guys that thank you for
Speaker 1: your effort, thank you for your passion, thank you for everything.
Speaker 1: But it just it's just not gonna happen this year
Speaker 1: on this roster. And and sometimes it works out that way.
Speaker 1: So you hope that the guys that are hanging around,
Speaker 1: you know, give you that every day that gives you
Speaker 1: a chance to have a team that's that's worth going
Speaker 1: out on a Sunday saying, hey, I got a chance
Speaker 1: to win today. Yeah. It's it's the easiest job for
Speaker 1: a coach to when you where he comes to letting
Speaker 1: go our guys that are out there bullshitting around and
Speaker 1: not not giving you the effort. Those guys you don't
Speaker 1: even you cut without even barely even a thought to
Speaker 1: him in my mind, hey, thanks, thanks for the effort.
Speaker 1: But but it's those guys like you said that in
Speaker 1: especially when you get down to you know, the guys
Speaker 1: that's fifty three, those guys that have gone in and
Speaker 1: just done everything, and you've gone out and bled for
Speaker 1: you and you busted ass and you know, volunteered to
Speaker 1: do whatever they could do. Though, those are the tough
Speaker 1: cuts for for any coach, because you admire those guys,
Speaker 1: you respect them, and you know they gave you everything
Speaker 1: they could give you. They just don't just don't fit,
Speaker 1: you know. And so you know he'll make those calls
Speaker 1: and he'll make those decisions and and and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a football team that I think you did. You're
Speaker 1: gonna see how every week that this season goes on,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go out and bust their ass and play hard.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many games are gonna win. Don't
Speaker 1: if they're gonn win two or twelve. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna win six or ten. I I don't
Speaker 1: know what those numbers are, but I do feel this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a team that's made up of guys
Speaker 1: that want to be there, Guys want to bust their
Speaker 1: ass and guys that want to win games. No matter
Speaker 1: what the makeup of this roster is going to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the and the last test is is Thursday in
Speaker 1: New Orleans where some of these guys, as you said,
Speaker 1: if you're not thirty or above, boy, you better play
Speaker 1: hard and make sure you're on your on your assignments
Speaker 1: and and try to limit the mental mistakes and and
Speaker 1: find a way to flash uh to hang on and
Speaker 1: be a member of the Miami Dolphins that get ready
Speaker 1: for September eight to play the Balton all right, if
Speaker 1: their minds are on that right now, because I know
Speaker 1: my mind on going to New Orleans is where we
Speaker 1: go eat. Well, you're focused. I mean a lot for
Speaker 1: that based on that, you know, Molly problems. I got
Speaker 1: a place stay away from the hurricane drinks. I've got
Speaker 1: a place that have been going since the first time
Speaker 1: I went where there's a place called Mr Bees be Stro.
Speaker 1: The Brennan's have a bunch of restaurants in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: They have one called Mr Bes Bistro. Then I ran
Speaker 1: a somehow well the first time I went to New
Speaker 1: Orleans with the team, and I've gone there every every
Speaker 1: every time, since we may have to drag me along. Well, barbecue,
Speaker 1: they have a little barbecue, shrimp and grits, and it's like,
Speaker 1: I was, man, just my arm, I'm man. You think
Speaker 1: Jeff and Logan those guys want to tag along with us? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they come, they come, all right? Chance, you know, look,
Speaker 1: we won't well, we'll we'll, we'll, we'll pay everything. We'll
Speaker 1: we'll give them. We'll pay one percent of every one
Speaker 1: of their checks. All right, how about that? That's up
Speaker 1: from a half. They've been pretty good this during this priest.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll go to two percent. We'll stretch it to
Speaker 1: two percent. We'll pick up two percent of the check.
Speaker 1: I'm in unlet's they screw up between now and then,
Speaker 1: we're on their own. They may be on their own.
Speaker 1: I know that track record? All right, that's gonna do
Speaker 1: for the audible. For this week, it's the uh New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints to wrap up the preseason, and then UH
Speaker 1: and then we strap it up and uh next a
Speaker 1: week from ten days later, eleven days later, how many
Speaker 1: days later, it's the Baltimore Ravens come to town. You
Speaker 1: do it for real and uh and then this season
Speaker 1: really really gets interesting. John has been a it's been
Speaker 1: a good time being around here for the preseason. Uh
Speaker 1: been a lot of stuff going on. It's been interesting,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been surprising. Uh we It's been a
Speaker 1: very very different training camp. But I've enjoyed everything, and
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed being around the coaches. I like the staff,
Speaker 1: I like the head coach, Um, I like the way
Speaker 1: they're going. And like I said, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the don't know how many wins are gonna have, but
Speaker 1: I'm confident this is gonna be a football team that
Speaker 1: Uh then if if you look at the effort that
Speaker 1: they give, you can be pretty proud of it. It's
Speaker 1: a season, yeah, and these guys have worked hard, and
Speaker 1: it's I just can't wait to see, you know, who's
Speaker 1: on the roster, who's starting at quarterback, who's playing at
Speaker 1: wide receiver, who's starting at running back, who's the guy
Speaker 1: at linebacker, who's the you know the nickels. Maybe every
Speaker 1: week you're looking at that, but it's okay, that's okay
Speaker 1: as long as it gives us the best opportunity to win.
Speaker 1: I'm all in man, all right for John Kim, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: I'm Kim bocabra that's gonna do it for the audible
Speaker 1: this week. We'll catch it next week. This regular season
Speaker 1: rolls around