Speaker 1: All right, here we go. The audible's back on the
Speaker 1: air little after the holiday break a little bit. And
Speaker 1: I know, if you didn't notice and you're listening to
Speaker 1: the auto, we kind of did the best of last week.
Speaker 1: Did pitched in a few guys so we could take
Speaker 1: a little time off. And John, how are your golf
Speaker 1: scores up there? I know you want to picture South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Went to South Carolina, keywa Island. Uh, it was awesome.
Speaker 1: It was hotter than South Florida. Number one, the golf
Speaker 1: was okay. Gained about ten pounds, ten pounds over Fourth
Speaker 1: of July. You had everything. I was just nodding my
Speaker 1: head yet bringing on it. So I hope everyone had
Speaker 1: a happy and a safe Fourth of July out there.
Speaker 1: And you know, to me, all it tells us is
Speaker 1: we're a little bit closer to training camp now. And
Speaker 1: you know Miami Dolphins unveiled there Back to Football Power
Speaker 1: by South Florida. Ford training camp schedules. Funny, Johns, I'm
Speaker 1: looking around you see, boy, teams are getting pretty stingy
Speaker 1: with these practices that fans can come watch. I think
Speaker 1: there's a couple of teams. I think the Raiders aren't
Speaker 1: showing aren't aren't allowing any fans, and I think they're
Speaker 1: I think they've got a couple of practices where they're letting,
Speaker 1: you know, some season to the holders or something come in.
Speaker 1: But from a general population standpoint, no, no, no, no
Speaker 1: viewing and some you know four or five and Dolphins
Speaker 1: have a pretty good list of of of of a
Speaker 1: practice that are available to fans, since you can check
Speaker 1: that out on Miami Dolphins dot com. But you know,
Speaker 1: the rookies come in one or a little over a
Speaker 1: week away. Vets will report on the four. They'll begin
Speaker 1: practice on thet I think they get started for practice
Speaker 1: if you're if you're gonna get a chance to come
Speaker 1: out and see. Then they'll have a scrimmage later on
Speaker 1: August three at UH at hard Rock Stadium. That's one o'clock. Uh.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna get those scenes that we had last
Speaker 1: year underneath the I think so yeah, we're going to drink.
Speaker 1: You know those are comfortable a little drink, but they
Speaker 1: can bring me a little umbrella. Logan can upgrade us.
Speaker 1: He has that you go to know. City Furniture is
Speaker 1: a big sponsor to Dolphins. Maybe didn't get us a
Speaker 1: couple of a couple of recliners were comfortable right on
Speaker 1: the sideline, you know, just kind of talking. I remember,
Speaker 1: is that more? And Tom Garfi go walking up, just
Speaker 1: shaking their head, going, are you guys serious? I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, my legs that might get up to
Speaker 1: shake your hand. Yeah, yeah, you lean over because I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna get up to shake your hand. That's and
Speaker 1: so anyway, we're we're getting close, John, We're getting close.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny to me, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about this the other day. You know, did the whole offseason?
Speaker 1: You know, you get done with the season and you go, geez,
Speaker 1: I got six months and you know, and and that
Speaker 1: kind of flew by did But I think in the
Speaker 1: last last the last month to me has been like
Speaker 1: a snail crawling, you know, just so I go, Jesus,
Speaker 1: I thought we're only three weeks away, you know, two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. You know how you cross them off on
Speaker 1: the calendar, you put the line through through the number. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get to March and April, you're
Speaker 1: kind of flying through there. And now you're going, man,
Speaker 1: I thought I crossed out eight yesterday. I'm back on eighties.
Speaker 1: Especially you know, you got the NBA Finals or roll over,
Speaker 1: Hockey's over championship. Golf is just coming around. Now, we've
Speaker 1: got the Open Championship next, and you know baseball and
Speaker 1: you know a baseball you know that's a you know
Speaker 1: now now, no one wants to watch baseball now it's
Speaker 1: too hot. And the first time right now you mentioned baseball,
Speaker 1: the first time, I thoroughly enjoyed the home run derby
Speaker 1: some of it the other night. Yeah, it was actually
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Yeah, I enjoyed that. Well, the
Speaker 1: the Guerrero kid talk about ball and didn't win. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so so anywhere we're there. So then then you really
Speaker 1: the only thing to look forward to now is uh
Speaker 1: is training camp coming and getting this thing going so
Speaker 1: we can take a look at our football team, see
Speaker 1: what we're see what we got, and I think John,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is let's let's go ahead kind of
Speaker 1: look at it's that kind of breakdown. We have a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, well to do a couple of shows
Speaker 1: until until training camp. Let's kind of take a look
Speaker 1: at both sides of the Footballfense, what you like, what
Speaker 1: you don't like? Defense, which like what you don't like
Speaker 1: and before they do we do that, though, we gotta
Speaker 1: kind of send a send a shout out to Kendrick
Speaker 1: nor Man. What a what a tough tough situation and
Speaker 1: automobile accident. Uh, you know, had to have his amiar
Speaker 1: arm amputated, which well, I tell I, I you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we we've all had injuries in football. And
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, jump, but I've you know,
Speaker 1: been in a hospital bed waiting to go to surgery,
Speaker 1: you know, the next morning or whatever, and you have
Speaker 1: all these thoughts that go through your mind of you know,
Speaker 1: is my career over? Is that in? Is it sad?
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen? Am I gonna come out of annesthesia
Speaker 1: or not? All these things, And then you have a
Speaker 1: guy like this, it gets an accident like that and
Speaker 1: and lose his arm and and you know, and ends
Speaker 1: his career. And and I know he sent out some
Speaker 1: tweets and some some photos on Instagram that he's doing okay,
Speaker 1: and he's thanking people for the support. But but what
Speaker 1: what a tough tough thing to go through for a
Speaker 1: for a young kid. That's it's really kind of attraction
Speaker 1: just getting his career exactly attraction is is the best
Speaker 1: way to describe that. Because he's picked up, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was last maybe November December by the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. He's on the roster. He has a chance
Speaker 1: to compete this year in terms of it's a wide
Speaker 1: open position when you look at the depth at defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: And to go through something so horrific in that accident
Speaker 1: and losing his arm and ending his career, uh, you
Speaker 1: just feel so horrible for him. Uh, you know, freak
Speaker 1: accident that that changes his life. You know, thank goodness,
Speaker 1: it didn't end his life, but it changes and alters
Speaker 1: his life forever. So you know, you our thoughts and
Speaker 1: prayers go out to Kendrick Norton and and just hopefully
Speaker 1: he you know, it seems like he's he's doing okay.
Speaker 1: You know, the signs on Instagram and Twitter and the
Speaker 1: pictures and you know, former teammates and current teammates supporting him.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure the National Football League is going to
Speaker 1: support him in the Miami Dolphins are going to suppor
Speaker 1: him anyway they can. But just our our thoughts and
Speaker 1: prayers and our best, you know, in in his recovery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him around Tony hopefully comes
Speaker 1: by and uh, you know, I know that would probably
Speaker 1: be tough for him, but it also would be good guys.
Speaker 1: And and you know guys are you know they you
Speaker 1: know they're one of your it's one of your own.
Speaker 1: You're gonna gonna put your arms around the guy and
Speaker 1: you're gonna embrace him and make sure that that everything
Speaker 1: goes well for him. And I know this organization. I've
Speaker 1: been with this organization a long long time, and I
Speaker 1: know they're gonna do everything they can, um to help
Speaker 1: him move on to the next phase in his career.
Speaker 1: And and like I said, we just wish him the
Speaker 1: best in our thoughts. Look at my thoughts, been with
Speaker 1: him really since um you heard about it. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's tough, tough things. So um anyway, we we really hope,
Speaker 1: hope the best for Kendrick. And I know he's he's
Speaker 1: moving along. But let's go ahead and look at that.
Speaker 1: Le's gonna look at the offensive side of the football
Speaker 1: a little bit, Johnny and what this team is gonna
Speaker 1: be in. But it's tough because you know what, you
Speaker 1: we've seen him in mini camps and O T A
Speaker 1: s and this and that. But really until training camp
Speaker 1: comes and in they're competing in a at a higher level,
Speaker 1: it's as you're not not not sure what's gonna look like.
Speaker 1: But I think, to me, when you look at this,
Speaker 1: this this offensive football team, you say, hey, what's gonna
Speaker 1: be the driving force between success and failure whatever or
Speaker 1: whatever number you put on success and failure for this
Speaker 1: football team this year? To me, it all starts at
Speaker 1: the line of screams with this offensive line. Offensive line
Speaker 1: has been you know, moved around a little bit. Jesse
Speaker 1: Davis kind of a guy that's you know, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of uh, you know, you can find have to
Speaker 1: find him a spot in there. You go out and
Speaker 1: get Michael Dieter, who's really seems like the guy's gonna
Speaker 1: fit right in there, and and and being a good spot. Um,
Speaker 1: you get Daniel Kilgore back from injury last year, a
Speaker 1: guy that you know, I think his his his injury
Speaker 1: Week one really began. It kind of was a setback
Speaker 1: for the whole tim and then you and then you
Speaker 1: and then Josh Sitting the next week goes down and
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden that you know, they just
Speaker 1: the domino start falling at that point, but nice to
Speaker 1: have him back. Isaiah Prince, a rookie coming in, you know,
Speaker 1: can he step in and be a tackle? So I
Speaker 1: think that offensive line for this football team, offensively is
Speaker 1: probably from day one until the last whistle blows to
Speaker 1: end the season, is going to be as influential on
Speaker 1: whether this team's or wins or not as well as
Speaker 1: any other position on the field, both offensively in defense.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody always wants to talk about the quarterback
Speaker 1: or who your high price wide receiver is, or who
Speaker 1: you've got it running back and how you can move
Speaker 1: the football, but it really does the offensive line really does.
Speaker 1: It comes down to being able to stay on the
Speaker 1: field and sustain drives and being able to be dominant
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. And I think you know
Speaker 1: that pretty good core there. I think with the addition
Speaker 1: in the off season Jordan Mills comes in and you know,
Speaker 1: at that right tackle because you have a vacancy with
Speaker 1: Jowan James leaving in free agency. I think that you know,
Speaker 1: that is a question mark that has to be answered
Speaker 1: at training camp. Is it gonna be a young guy
Speaker 1: in Isaiah Prince, Is it gonna be somebody else? That
Speaker 1: steps up at that position to be able to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm the guy you can count on as a Zach Syrup.
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of questions there. But you
Speaker 1: mentioned the center in Daniel Kilgore. I think that's the
Speaker 1: most vital piece because he's the communicator. He's the guy
Speaker 1: who gets everything started. And you know that that center
Speaker 1: piece in that center position can be dominant. He can
Speaker 1: still be a dominant player as a veteran guy. He's
Speaker 1: played in a numerous games. He's a good guy, he's
Speaker 1: a smart guy's tough player. So I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: help Chris Reid, you know, came over from Jacksonville. I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be another interesting piece of the puzzle.
Speaker 1: Uh in free agency he comes over when the pads
Speaker 1: come on is Mills and read the guy you can
Speaker 1: count on those guys. Can you count on those guys
Speaker 1: to start and not put you know, Michael Dieter in
Speaker 1: a position where he's got to start as a rookie.
Speaker 1: So I think there's a lot of interesting parts there.
Speaker 1: And and the big thing for me, I want to
Speaker 1: see Laramie Tuns will be the dominant offensive left tackle
Speaker 1: that I know he can be. Now, he's had good seasons.
Speaker 1: He you know, he started at the guard, kicked him
Speaker 1: back outside, took him a while to adjust to that
Speaker 1: left tackle spot. But I really believe that he's got
Speaker 1: to be a guy just a I want to see
Speaker 1: that nasty streak in him come out this and that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's the thought that was going through my
Speaker 1: mind both with with Daniel Kilgore and with Laramie Tunsil.
Speaker 1: You know, both those guys, I know kill Gore, you know,
Speaker 1: you like that guy on your offensive line. That's a
Speaker 1: that's a tough guy, that's a nasty guy. That that
Speaker 1: you know that the you know, don't pick a guy
Speaker 1: up off the ground, you know, you know, you nudge
Speaker 1: him down, back down, exactly, play right on the border
Speaker 1: of it and be that guy. That's just such a
Speaker 1: because that because to me, if you have that guy
Speaker 1: in there, it permeates that offensive line because the other
Speaker 1: guys are gonna want to follow suit the other guy
Speaker 1: who want to be in that in that type of
Speaker 1: in that type of line. And I think with the
Speaker 1: kid with Michael Dieter, you get that type of guy.
Speaker 1: I think, you know he's gonna be that type of
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman coming from Wisconsin, and in the history
Speaker 1: they've had, in the success they've had on the offensive
Speaker 1: line with guys coming from Wisconsin, I think he'll fit
Speaker 1: that mode. But I think you're right, Laramie Tousible to
Speaker 1: me is that guy that you know, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: He's a nice guy, but he's got to be that
Speaker 1: malling tough in your face, you know. I know he's
Speaker 1: I know he's upset. He's upset that he didn't make
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl last year. And he was right on
Speaker 1: the verge of being a pro bowler. And if he
Speaker 1: wants to be a Pro bowler, he's got to go
Speaker 1: out and be a pro bowler. He's got to go
Speaker 1: out and be a guy that can dominate the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you know, running in the running game, and dominate the
Speaker 1: offensive line in the past protection side of it. And
Speaker 1: and he can do it, and he can be that guy.
Speaker 1: And you know John James Leaving to me, I like
Speaker 1: to want John. You know, you're they're talking about him
Speaker 1: in Denver, TI. We've seen come here, but you know
Speaker 1: he he's more of a passive guy, you know. And
Speaker 1: and I and and Laramie and him were close, and
Speaker 1: I'm kind of nice to kind of see see Juwan
Speaker 1: move where. I would love to have him here. Believe me,
Speaker 1: if I had my druthers, I'd rather have you Jawans
Speaker 1: line up in that right tackle meantime he's there. But
Speaker 1: I think that allows Laramie to be his his own self,
Speaker 1: his own personality a bit, and kind of bring some
Speaker 1: of that toughness in that mean streak out that that.
Speaker 1: I think this offensive line, they may not be the
Speaker 1: best offensive line in National Football League, but they think
Speaker 1: if they can be tough, physical and hardcore, then I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna make them a unit that you gotta
Speaker 1: that you gotta contend with on a week week basis.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, bo, You always talk about offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and you say, well, if we don't hear from them,
Speaker 1: or if we don't mention their names, if if if
Speaker 1: they're kind of you know, hidden, that means they're doing
Speaker 1: their job. I want to see Laramie Touncil this year.
Speaker 1: I want to see him because I want to see
Speaker 1: him come and raise his game to the level that
Speaker 1: he hasn't reached yet. Now he's played very well, but
Speaker 1: I still think there's a lot more in the tank.
Speaker 1: I watched him in college. I think he does. I
Speaker 1: think he wants to raise his game and be noticed
Speaker 1: and be one of those guys that, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to see him at the end of play, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, gotta be smart, but I want to see
Speaker 1: him finish. I want to see him dragging somebody down,
Speaker 1: you know, six seven yards past the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: I want to see a guy be a wall at
Speaker 1: that left side of the offensive line and past protection.
Speaker 1: So I think that I'm excited, but I've got my
Speaker 1: fingers crossed because I just hope that the changes, you know,
Speaker 1: the subtle changes at right guard and whoever is gonna
Speaker 1: emerge at left tackle, those guys gotta be players, and
Speaker 1: they've gotta be players for sixteen games or else. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see the depth of the offensive line be tested.
Speaker 1: They have no doubt about it. So that's that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a an interesting battle here during training camp because
Speaker 1: there are positions that rough for grabs, and we'll get going. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and certainly the the the biggest beneficiary of a
Speaker 1: good offensive line or the biggest victim of a poor
Speaker 1: offensive line is going to be the guy standing behind him.
Speaker 1: It's it's at the quarterback spot and right and look
Speaker 1: right now, after after all we've seen so far during
Speaker 1: the offseason, I think everyone's pretty everyone's kind of in
Speaker 1: the in the camp that Hey, Ryan Fitzpatrick going into
Speaker 1: training camp, Ryan Fitzpatrick had the better off season of
Speaker 1: the three quarterbacks that are going to go into the season.
Speaker 1: Um as they begin to compete for that starting job,
Speaker 1: you got you got, uh Josh Rosen coming in, Jake Rudock,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Fitzpatrick. And I think the Patrick pecking morton
Speaker 1: right now is Fitzpatrick Rosen and going in there. The
Speaker 1: question I've got for that John is what's the right
Speaker 1: pick for the quarterback spot? And and I've been pretty
Speaker 1: vocal about my opinion of that. In my opinion, very
Speaker 1: very simple, is that if you don't have a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback in this league, your chances of going to
Speaker 1: the playoffs and sustaining a playoff run or slim to none.
Speaker 1: Make it up there for a year, you may get
Speaker 1: a you may get a run up there for a year,
Speaker 1: a wild card spot. Sustainability, you've got to have one
Speaker 1: of those guys. And if you're looking for that guy,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick has been in the league for fifteen years
Speaker 1: and hasn't proven yet to be that guy. He's bounced
Speaker 1: around and I got nothing against Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's been
Speaker 1: very you know. To me, Ryan Fitzpatrick is a guy
Speaker 1: that could give you three fifty yards and three touchdowns
Speaker 1: one interception in the game. The next week give you
Speaker 1: four twenty yards and two inter set or two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in a game, and then game three he can give
Speaker 1: you a hundred and thirty yards and three interceptions. Right
Speaker 1: and he've seen he's a little bit of that up
Speaker 1: up and he can be real hot or canna be
Speaker 1: real cold. Um doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. I mean,
Speaker 1: he could take a bad team and give them two
Speaker 1: wins that they wouldn't have gotten from somebody else. But
Speaker 1: he's also gonna throw some stinkers in there on you.
Speaker 1: To me, the guy, the the the wild card to
Speaker 1: me is Josh Rosen And and somehow at the end
Speaker 1: of the season, John, I've got to feel that yes
Speaker 1: he's the guy, or no he's not the guy. But
Speaker 1: there's a treasure trove of guys in the draft early
Speaker 1: on the next season, and we can go over those
Speaker 1: guys later on. But to me, I'm thinking to myself, Okay,
Speaker 1: if we if you start Ryan Fitzpatrick, um, every snap
Speaker 1: that Josh Rosen doesn't get is one less snap you
Speaker 1: can see if he's the guy. And how many wins
Speaker 1: are you gonna get from Ryan Fitzpatrick? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: get five or six? Are you gonna get ten or twelve?
Speaker 1: You're gonna be a playoff team or not? If you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be a playoff team, if you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get more than four or five or six wins, then
Speaker 1: why not just try and see if this guy he's
Speaker 1: already played fifteen games in the league, fourteen or fifteen
Speaker 1: games at least, so he's not a rookie. And it
Speaker 1: was a bad football team. But somehow you gotta come
Speaker 1: come out of the end of this tunnel and know
Speaker 1: that he is the guy or he's not the guy.
Speaker 1: To me, the worst case, John is if you come
Speaker 1: out at the end of the season, you go, well,
Speaker 1: maybe he is, maybe he isn't. We didn't see enough
Speaker 1: of him. That's the concern I've got. Well, that is
Speaker 1: a concern, and I think it's legitimate because you feel
Speaker 1: like if you've gone out in the draft and you
Speaker 1: go out and trade and you get the tenth pick
Speaker 1: overall from last year's draft class, and he's played fifteen
Speaker 1: games on a bad team in Arizona. You want to
Speaker 1: find out if he's the guy. The problem I have
Speaker 1: with it is my eyes are in my gut. Have
Speaker 1: watched O t a s now Now it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: you know, offseason, but it does to a certain extent
Speaker 1: because you're learning the offense and you're learning how good
Speaker 1: a guy can adapt to what is given to him.
Speaker 1: And maybe the experience factor plays a role in that.
Speaker 1: But I didn't see one practice where I felt like
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen was the best quarterback on the field. Now
Speaker 1: is that a concern Maybe a little bit at this point. Yes. Now,
Speaker 1: I did see some flashes of his arm strength. I
Speaker 1: did see some flashes of his awareness getting the ball
Speaker 1: to certain places where quarterbacks naturally get the football where
Speaker 1: I didn't hadn't seen that in seven years in an
Speaker 1: off season in terms of the starter. But what I
Speaker 1: do like about the situation is if I'm the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and I'm Brian Flores or you know, I'm Chris Greer,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've got a bargain, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to waste I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 1: to rush this kid. He's played fifteen games and he's
Speaker 1: been on a bad football team. Now, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are the Arizona Cardinals of two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: but I'm I am saying they're not far from the
Speaker 1: national perception. They're not far from it. I think they're
Speaker 1: better personally, but I'm just going off of what we're
Speaker 1: constantly hearing. I don't want to put this kid in
Speaker 1: a new system again for from one year bad offense,
Speaker 1: bad system to a better system, because I know that
Speaker 1: the new England system works. I've seen it work with
Speaker 1: a with a really you know, one of the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks of all time running it. I want to let
Speaker 1: this kid learn the offense at his pace because I'm
Speaker 1: not paying him anything. It's not costing us anything. It
Speaker 1: may cost us time, it may cost us aggravation next
Speaker 1: year when it gets to the point of what do
Speaker 1: we do? What do what do we know we have
Speaker 1: a quarterback or not? But I do feel that Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: if I'm Brian Flores and I go out every practice
Speaker 1: in now in training camp, and I have the same
Speaker 1: feeling that I had during O t S that he's
Speaker 1: the best guy. I think we're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of Fitzpatrick in terms of unless Rosen takes that step
Speaker 1: in training camp that light bulb goes off suddenly because
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. Like to my satisfaction, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: if this guy is the tenth pick in the overall
Speaker 1: draft last year and they're thinking about moving up for
Speaker 1: this guy to go higher, I didn't hadn't seen that
Speaker 1: guy yet. Now it's it's he's good, But I hadn't
Speaker 1: seen that guy yet, So I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it in this offense in
Speaker 1: year one. I hope he gets to play. I hope
Speaker 1: this guy is the guy that we all think that
Speaker 1: he can be a franchise quarterback. But right now, I
Speaker 1: think Fitzpatrick for me, gives the Dolphins the best chance
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah, and and well my question, but my
Speaker 1: question how how much winning and how much winning how
Speaker 1: much winning does it take to not know at the
Speaker 1: end of the season if your guy, I think, I
Speaker 1: think you made a good point before we started, BO.
Speaker 1: I think there has to be a line in the sands,
Speaker 1: somewhere in the season of Okay, after eight games, let's
Speaker 1: go halfway through the season. Are we four and four?
Speaker 1: Are we two and six? Are we five and three? Now?
Speaker 1: I know the schedule is tough to start out, but
Speaker 1: if if you think Fitzpatrick's the best guy to get
Speaker 1: you through that stretch, let's let's ride with him. If
Speaker 1: he's proven he's beating out the other two guys, let's
Speaker 1: ride with him. But I do believe somewhere during this
Speaker 1: season you made a good point and you kind of
Speaker 1: convinced me on it. There's gotta be a line in
Speaker 1: the sand and say, okay, we're not going any further
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick because he's a one year guy for us.
Speaker 1: We're trying to put all our chips in the middle,
Speaker 1: see how well we could do. But it hasn't gotten there.
Speaker 1: We're three and five. Let's play Josh Rosen now and
Speaker 1: see where he takes because then you then you killed
Speaker 1: two birds with one stone. You you know that Ryan
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is a guy that's in his fifteenth year,
Speaker 1: one and done guy, and he's won some games for you,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't won games for you, so you kind
Speaker 1: of know that he's the same guy he's been his
Speaker 1: whole career. In you also at the end, you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: we've had Rosen for whether it's six games, seven games,
Speaker 1: eight games, he's gotten better, gotten better to understand the other,
Speaker 1: the thing, the thing I don't the thing and look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a quarterback, never been a quarterback. The thing
Speaker 1: I don't understand. The thing I'm not sure about is
Speaker 1: you know you had you had Ryan Fitzpattrick. He's been
Speaker 1: he's been with numerous teams, seven teams going into his
Speaker 1: fifteenth year, and he's used to changing and and and
Speaker 1: he's a smart kid and adapting. Now he was here
Speaker 1: about a month or so or a couple of months
Speaker 1: prior to Rosen, so now he's got a little depth
Speaker 1: of knowledge of the of the pok Mike. My thing
Speaker 1: watching Rosen more during the the t was just his
Speaker 1: arm strength, his ability moved around the podcast, those types
Speaker 1: of things, because you know, he in that meeting room,
Speaker 1: he was the least guy with the experience, last guy
Speaker 1: in for with with this new with this new staff.
Speaker 1: So he had basically a month where these other guys
Speaker 1: have had to three months to to to go through
Speaker 1: all this stuff, so there's something there to see. So Okay,
Speaker 1: now you know he's had a month or so away
Speaker 1: to to to get himself after me. Let's see how
Speaker 1: he does with the new you know, I think understanding
Speaker 1: this offense and coming out that way once training camp
Speaker 1: comes and it gets real, I think the smartest thing
Speaker 1: for this staff to do is have a clean slate
Speaker 1: coming in. You know, you have some knowledge from O. T. A. S.
Speaker 1: You have some knowledge from hearing these guys talk about
Speaker 1: the offense, throwing him up on the white board, letting
Speaker 1: him go through practice tape, you know, figuring out the mistakes,
Speaker 1: figuring out the corrections, looking at the good things that
Speaker 1: they've done. I think the best thing if I were
Speaker 1: the head coach in the Miami Dolphins, this is exactly
Speaker 1: what I would do. I'd walk in. Ryan Fitzpatrick, You're
Speaker 1: you're starting right, You're right now. Josh your job and
Speaker 1: Jake your job is to beat him out. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna evaluate every practice. I'm evaluate every preseason snap in
Speaker 1: a game that we take. But I'm I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: the best guy that gives us the best chance to
Speaker 1: beat the Baltimore Ravens on September eight. That's the guy's
Speaker 1: playing at hard rock stage. I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on the fact that here day day one, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you're the guy. Uh, Josh your second Jake, here's the peck,
Speaker 1: here's here's the ball. When do you guys go win
Speaker 1: the job? And I'm not I'm not gonna hesitate in
Speaker 1: day three of training camp. If Jake's had two good days,
Speaker 1: he's he's the second guy. Or if Josh has had
Speaker 1: two good days, he's the first guy. That's just the
Speaker 1: way it's gonna go. But I want you all to
Speaker 1: know that this is how we're gonna start, and that's
Speaker 1: how we're gonna roll. Now that doesn't mean that Josh
Speaker 1: or Jake isn't gonna get some first team reps, a
Speaker 1: lot of first team reps on certain days because you
Speaker 1: gotta find out. But I will say, going back to
Speaker 1: that line in the sand, we were talking about maybe
Speaker 1: eight games in, if the Dolphins are six and two,
Speaker 1: well then you gotta ride that horse and ride that
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. But I six, you're you're
Speaker 1: going let's let's let's get Now we've got to check.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna matter. Let him either crash and burn
Speaker 1: or let him rise to the to evaluate. Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna that's gonna be It's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how that plays out. And and look, you
Speaker 1: know we we we started off talking about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: When training camp starts, everybody, everybody's eyes are gonna be
Speaker 1: on the other top. Yeah, that that's gonna be it.
Speaker 1: And that now the other thing that that that you know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be effect. Those guys are gonna be the
Speaker 1: running backs and the receivers and there. And there's some
Speaker 1: guys in there that you have big questions on him.
Speaker 1: You know, Kenyan Drake. You know, can Kenyan can be
Speaker 1: the guy? Can he be that guy that's your your
Speaker 1: bell cow that you're gonna give him the majority of
Speaker 1: that carries. He's gonna be your first down, second pound,
Speaker 1: third down back. And you know Calin Ballads come in
Speaker 1: and kind of, you know, be the change up guy
Speaker 1: or as you know, as Miles Gaskin is he gonna
Speaker 1: come in and and show you something. And and we
Speaker 1: we talked about the fullback in there, so you know,
Speaker 1: the the running back position and I think there's a
Speaker 1: couple of guys in that wide receiver room that that
Speaker 1: need to step up. I mean, you know what you've
Speaker 1: got in your team. You've got Albert coming back. It's
Speaker 1: like he's healthy. Uh, you know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: with UM number ten, with Kenny Kenny Stills. You know,
Speaker 1: to me, the big wild card in the whole thing
Speaker 1: is DeVante Parker. You know, is DeVante Parker gonna be
Speaker 1: the DeVante Parker that we've been looking for for it
Speaker 1: seems like seven years. I know he's been here with
Speaker 1: four years or whatever it is, But is he gonna
Speaker 1: be that guy? Kenny Kenny stay healthy And that's the
Speaker 1: biggest question. I think when he's been healthy, he's been
Speaker 1: fairly productive. You know, you could count on him when
Speaker 1: he's on the field. It's it's when he gets nicked
Speaker 1: and he's at eighty, he's at seventy, he's still wearing
Speaker 1: a uniform and he and he disappears from the offense.
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing. And that's why you
Speaker 1: bring a guy like Preston Williams, who really no one's
Speaker 1: heard of, and you watch him through O T A
Speaker 1: S and you've got who's you know, who's eighty two? Bo,
Speaker 1: Who's eighty two? And he kept telling me Preston Wilson,
Speaker 1: how many times am I gonna tell you? You know Williams?
Speaker 1: And and the guy kept making plays. Now is it
Speaker 1: gonna be too big for him to continue that? That
Speaker 1: progression you know during training camp, when the pads come on,
Speaker 1: when there's more contact at the line of scrimmage, when
Speaker 1: he has to fight to get off, you know, the line,
Speaker 1: to stay on his route to be open when the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks ready to throw the football. But I think I
Speaker 1: think a couple other guys Isaiah four plays into that
Speaker 1: role too. Can he emerge? Can he be the fifth guy,
Speaker 1: the sixth guy, depending on how you want to roll
Speaker 1: out the offense in terms of each week, because I
Speaker 1: think there's plenty of talent there and the way the
Speaker 1: system is set up, at least during O t A
Speaker 1: s the balls out very quickly. So those guys UH
Speaker 1: have to come along as well as the running backs,
Speaker 1: because if we can have success on first sound, it's
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot of pressure where we started off
Speaker 1: the offensive line. You've got play action. Both Klein, Balage
Speaker 1: and and Drake can catch the football out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: so you feel like you've got some some security there
Speaker 1: and you've got some speed guys too. I really liked
Speaker 1: the way Mark Walton looked in O. T. S. You know,
Speaker 1: just as well as a guy like Miles Gaskins. I
Speaker 1: thought Walton was kind of like the same type of back.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna kind of even out during training game,
Speaker 1: it's all, you know, you all, it's all gonna even out,
Speaker 1: like you know. It's funny because I remember over the
Speaker 1: years seeing it's always seem to be the one receiver
Speaker 1: that you you saw in O T. A S that
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. You know that guy there's a
Speaker 1: free agent. Oh man, that guy looks pretty good. And
Speaker 1: then you get to the game and first first preseason
Speaker 1: game he drops three football or he never gets because
Speaker 1: he's not open. Yeah exactly. I think, gosh, how about
Speaker 1: seven eleven way back? Yeah, you know, with Chris Hogan,
Speaker 1: we we were kind of watching up up in the
Speaker 1: press box there up in the stands at training camp, going,
Speaker 1: they gotta keep this guy. Yeah. Well, I hope the
Speaker 1: same thing happens to Preston Williams. I hope that he's
Speaker 1: that type of guy that just continually gets better and better,
Speaker 1: and that on a team looking for playmakers, looking for
Speaker 1: explosive plays, that he's that guy that the Dolphins finally
Speaker 1: hang onto and find. Yeah, no doubt they they look.
Speaker 1: You know. The funny thing about it is is as
Speaker 1: I look down these listen, like I look at the
Speaker 1: running backs, and I look at Drake, and I look
Speaker 1: at Bullage, and I look at Walton and and Gascon
Speaker 1: and the the other guys are gonna be battling for that.
Speaker 1: And just just give me Drake and and and and
Speaker 1: Bellage and both those guys I like a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: I I and and we we talked about this a
Speaker 1: little bit with with with the addition of a fullback
Speaker 1: and channeler Cox, and he's gonna make the team. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming he should do. He's a draft pick. They usually
Speaker 1: all do make the team. But he makes a team.
Speaker 1: And and if he can give Kenyon a little bit
Speaker 1: of room on first down, that could that could completely change,
Speaker 1: that could make Kenyon. That could take Kenyan from a
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty yard guy to a thousand yard guy,
Speaker 1: a thousand yard guy running football, which is which is
Speaker 1: exactly the footprint that you would want him to walk
Speaker 1: into when he goes into this season. For for Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake and and Caitlin Blage, we saw enough of him
Speaker 1: that big, strong, powerful guy, but he's got enough speed
Speaker 1: to run away from you and uh and and I'm
Speaker 1: excited about seeing that. So so to me, that's one
Speaker 1: of the one of the one of the position rooms,
Speaker 1: one of the meeting rooms. Then I'm really looking for
Speaker 1: a lot of production out of those guys, both as
Speaker 1: as a running back and as a pass catcher when
Speaker 1: they're putting that situation. Yeah, because I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have the flexibility to go, you know, two tights, three
Speaker 1: types of in in one back and two backs at
Speaker 1: certain times and being able to do that. I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think there's gonna be some flexibility in
Speaker 1: terms of formations, in terms of what guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be asked to do. And I would throw one other
Speaker 1: name if we go back to the wide receivers at
Speaker 1: Trent and Irwin, he's a guy in the slot. We
Speaker 1: catches a lot of punts during O t A s.
Speaker 1: He was dependable doing that. If you don't want Yakim
Speaker 1: doing you know a little bit of everything. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: spotting Jachim on a long field and you're putting Irwin
Speaker 1: back if he ends up making the team, you know,
Speaker 1: like a Danny Amendola, like a Jarvis Landry did closer
Speaker 1: to the goal line. And about this, how about you
Speaker 1: want to look at maybe the most competitive meeting room
Speaker 1: in there, look at the so so you got, you got,
Speaker 1: you got the returning and right now in my mind
Speaker 1: watching them, I don't know you know that you know
Speaker 1: the to me the most the most reliable guy that
Speaker 1: I saw, no Nicole Leary. Nick just always gets open,
Speaker 1: always knows what he's doing, always makes the play when
Speaker 1: he's given to him, always does the right thing. And
Speaker 1: he may not be the flashiest guy out there, and
Speaker 1: he catches everything, he blocks well, he does everything for you.
Speaker 1: So he got a Leary, you got Clive Walford, you
Speaker 1: got Duyne Allen, all guys that have played and know
Speaker 1: how to play and have been productive where they've been.
Speaker 1: And then you got the two, and you got you
Speaker 1: got Durham Smith, and you've got Mike Gasecki. Who, man,
Speaker 1: you know that if I'm those guys, if I'm those
Speaker 1: guys and I'm sitting here today going man, I gotta
Speaker 1: have my ass. I gotta have the best training camp
Speaker 1: I've ever had a starting from Pop Warner football or
Speaker 1: whatever youth lead you played in all the way through
Speaker 1: high school and college. This is the most important important
Speaker 1: training camp I've been in because they they they went
Speaker 1: out and drafted with high numbers second round and what
Speaker 1: was second round and fourth round or third round, and
Speaker 1: so they you know, they've gotta they've got to step
Speaker 1: up and get to you know, they don't play one one.
Speaker 1: Those guys could be on the outside looking in with that,
Speaker 1: with that meeting room, the way it's set up with
Speaker 1: you know Walford can play. You know Dwayne Allen can play.
Speaker 1: We've seen Nicole Leary. Uh, those two guys are battling
Speaker 1: for it may be battling for one spot. If if
Speaker 1: those guys don't break down somewhere, I'm gonna use the
Speaker 1: same philosophy I did with quarterback as as tight end
Speaker 1: when I went out every day at O T A practice.
Speaker 1: I will definitely tell you that Nico Leary and Clive
Speaker 1: Wolford were one A and one V and you could
Speaker 1: change either way. You could change him around. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter Dayne Allen was asked to do what he does,
Speaker 1: he at it perfectly. If I'm anybody else in that
Speaker 1: meeting room, I'm worried because now you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to be productive on special teams. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where Derham Smith gets a little bit of an
Speaker 1: advantage because he can do more. Now can he beat
Speaker 1: one of those other guys out being able to be
Speaker 1: a flex tight end, being able to catch the football.
Speaker 1: I'm worried if I'm Mike Kasicky, because not that he's
Speaker 1: done anything wrong, but he hasn't. He hasn't made the
Speaker 1: leap you're looking for in my opinion. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: he has in the eyes of the coaches, But I'm
Speaker 1: looking for him to be a difference maker. I'm looking
Speaker 1: for him to create separation. I'm looking for him to
Speaker 1: do a lot of things. And I think this is
Speaker 1: as you said, the most important training camp of their
Speaker 1: lives wasn't last year because they were they were on grace.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what you do, you're making the team,
Speaker 1: it's this year. You've got to be able to separate
Speaker 1: yourself from the pack in that crowded tight endmy and look,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like to cast dispersions on people,
Speaker 1: but you know, they go out and they get to
Speaker 1: George Gotzia tight for the tight end coach. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that they were coached up very well
Speaker 1: in my opinion, you know. And I'm not in meeting rooms.
Speaker 1: I'm not behind closed doors. But you know, I remember
Speaker 1: when Dan Campbell is here and they had we we
Speaker 1: drafted the kid from Missouri, the tight end, uh, Michael
Speaker 1: Michael eg knew. I watched him for ten minutes. I said,
Speaker 1: this kid can't play. This kid cannot play. He was
Speaker 1: the third round pick out of Missouri. And I thought
Speaker 1: that that. I thought that, uh. I thought that Campbell
Speaker 1: made him into a player as as as good. I
Speaker 1: saw more improvement in one person based on watching Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell coach with that guy. That's what George Gotzie needs
Speaker 1: to do with these young guys. He's got to spend
Speaker 1: the time with them, work with them, and and and
Speaker 1: and get them better. You know, I think, to me,
Speaker 1: I think it was a disservice to them last year
Speaker 1: to have that tight end coach. And I look again,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm maybe I'm sticking my neck out,
Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, but you gotta, you gotta
Speaker 1: your team, especially on offense, You're only as good as
Speaker 1: your weakest position or your weakest link. That whole room
Speaker 1: needs to kind of rise us and kind of meet
Speaker 1: the expectation of the running backs, and then the wide
Speaker 1: receivers need to do that as well. Every position. So
Speaker 1: you're not looking at hey, we're good, but we've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a down trodden area X Y,
Speaker 1: and look into a situation where you're look and go,
Speaker 1: you know, we're good, but we're not. But then you
Speaker 1: look around the league and you look at almost every
Speaker 1: yame everybody's good, and everyone's got a tight end running
Speaker 1: down the middle of the field arts and and this
Speaker 1: guy and that guy and and they're all six ft
Speaker 1: six five six six and and they don't care if
Speaker 1: they can block or not. They run them down the field.
Speaker 1: And I think that's we're gonna see a little bit
Speaker 1: about Mike Gasecki. I hope. So I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: look at Michael and say, hey, we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: put him in a situation where we move him around
Speaker 1: a little bit, get him in in in positive situations
Speaker 1: where he can make make plays and get him the football,
Speaker 1: and if he can, if he can block a little,
Speaker 1: and then then then that's a bonus. You know. I
Speaker 1: hope I hope that the Miami Dolphins get to that point.
Speaker 1: Because if you can stretch and and threaten the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, when you've got speed on the outside
Speaker 1: like we do with Jachim and Kenny and Albert, I
Speaker 1: mean covering up the middle and being able to run
Speaker 1: it out of that position as well. Boy, you can
Speaker 1: really put stress on a defense. All that being said, John,
Speaker 1: all this conversation about the offensive line, the quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: running backs, the wide receivers and the tight ends, and John,
Speaker 1: I look at this. I keep looking at this offense.
Speaker 1: I keep looking at these guys and going, We've got
Speaker 1: some pretty damn good guys here, got some pretty damn
Speaker 1: good players here. If if you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: the offensive line, if kill Gore stays healthy, if Laramie
Speaker 1: steps his game up a little bit, if Mills yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and then and and and you can give
Speaker 1: you and your receivers stay healthy. You know you got
Speaker 1: the speed fit there. You've got guys that are possession guys.
Speaker 1: You've got I just you know, I know there's not
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that aren't given this team
Speaker 1: a whole lot of of opportunity or think they're gonna be.
Speaker 1: But I look at this offense. I go, man, you
Speaker 1: get a couple of guys that fall in the right way,
Speaker 1: and you get a quarterback that you know that that
Speaker 1: that it can move a team. You know, maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I'm maybe I'm a homer, maybe I'm whatever,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm an asshole I am, but but but I
Speaker 1: just that's all right. But I look at this team,
Speaker 1: and I offensively, I go, They've got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be a pretty good team. How good can they be
Speaker 1: is going to depend on them taking the next step,
Speaker 1: especially in the young guys, to being better players than
Speaker 1: they were last year and the year before that. Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna find out right away because the schedule does
Speaker 1: not do any favors the Miami Dolphins. They've got Baltimore,
Speaker 1: They've got New England and back to back games, They've
Speaker 1: got Dallas, and they've got the l A Chargers. Now
Speaker 1: those are some those are some good football teams. So
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team coming out of training camp, coming
Speaker 1: out of the preseason. They better have it figured out
Speaker 1: on offense because you've got to have a quarterback that
Speaker 1: can stay on the field move the team. Most importantly,
Speaker 1: that surrounding cast, that supporting casts. As you said, the
Speaker 1: offensive line that has to Everybody has to raise their
Speaker 1: game if they're going to get out of the first
Speaker 1: quarter of the season with a five record or a
Speaker 1: winning record. The one thing that the one thing I
Speaker 1: do look at to Also when you look at the
Speaker 1: coaching side, I know that Brian Flores has talked about
Speaker 1: a lot. He said, we'll look, we're gonna be We're
Speaker 1: gonna be, uh one of the one of the most
Speaker 1: conditioned football teams, and you can do it. I've never
Speaker 1: seen that. You probably haven't seen a team run like
Speaker 1: this since Don Shula was that coach. Maybe Jimmy Maybe
Speaker 1: Jimmy ran and deep. But you know, and I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about the other things we talked, attention to detail,
Speaker 1: all those things, just conditioned and and in discipline. If
Speaker 1: you can do at you can be conditioned down here.
Speaker 1: You've got a chance to win every game in September
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be hot as hell. You got chances
Speaker 1: to win those stember because because other teams are gonna
Speaker 1: wear out and and and I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a team that's gonna be in position to do
Speaker 1: that and maybe win some games that they might not
Speaker 1: otherwise had it been later in the year or somewhere else.
Speaker 1: Going to play San Diego out in or l A
Speaker 1: out in l A where there's no humidity in seventy
Speaker 1: five degrees. Perfect, Yeah, exactly. You got excited for football, man,
Speaker 1: I'm ready reading camps. Alright, we're gonna wrap it up
Speaker 1: here for John kim Jimmy, I'm Kimbo Camper. We'll be
Speaker 1: back with you again next week. John, we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at the defensive side that next week. Can see
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of a lot of names
Speaker 1: and faces changed there. And again you kind of breeze
Speaker 1: soon you go. Man, We got a pretty good second
Speaker 1: theary a lot of guys back there from young linebackers.
Speaker 1: If we can get some of those defense. So we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that next week, but for now, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for the audible. We'll catch you again next
Speaker 1: week for John. Kim Jimmy, I'm Kimbo Camper. Have a
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