Speaker 1: To us byres touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is Up Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, we are wrapping up
Speaker 1: draft pick interviews on this edition of the Draft Time
Speaker 1: Podcast to seventh round selections are going to join me today.
Speaker 1: Cameron Good out of cal Skyler Thompson out of Kansas State.
Speaker 1: They both jumped into the studio and a pair of
Speaker 1: really fun chats with those guys. Will hear from them
Speaker 1: and then get to the tape as we have done
Speaker 1: here from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami's office. We've
Speaker 1: got our last two interviews of the Dolphins draft class.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start right there. Up first from
Speaker 1: cal Cameron Good. What's up Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here, the
Speaker 1: host of the Drivetime Podcast on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network,
Speaker 1: and I'm joined today by new Dolphins outside linebacker Cameron
Speaker 1: Good Camera. What's up man, Hey, I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 1: It's great to be back. Excited to have you down here. Man,
Speaker 1: So welcome to Miami. First off, you got the call yesterday,
Speaker 1: but you get here today. Is it all hitting me yet?
Speaker 1: How does it feel? Uh, it's still still kind of
Speaker 1: settling in. Um. But yeah, I got that call. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. It was emotional with the family, so we're
Speaker 1: all excited. I'm just really happy to be here. So
Speaker 1: go in a little bit further on that draft day
Speaker 1: set up. Give us the picture where you're watching the
Speaker 1: draft on TV. Something else to keep your mind distracted,
Speaker 1: Like what was draft day like for you? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're sitting there in living room Watchington, Watchington draft all day. Um.
Speaker 1: I had the little cousins around, so I was kind
Speaker 1: of playing with them. They're they're on the iPads, so
Speaker 1: I was playing the games with them. And then uh yeah,
Speaker 1: phone rang and had to pick up and saw Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins pub up caller. I d got too excited. Were
Speaker 1: you the most excited one in the room where someone
Speaker 1: else kind of a little more pumped up for you?
Speaker 1: She I was the most excited, but I was. I
Speaker 1: was emotional, so I didn't want to show it to
Speaker 1: too much. But Mom, she was showing all of it,
Speaker 1: so she was real pumped. So we were talking a
Speaker 1: little bit about your college career before you before before
Speaker 1: I started recording here, and I was looking back at
Speaker 1: some of your stats and your games and stuff. Two
Speaker 1: picks in college random both back for touchdowns. That's a
Speaker 1: nose for the goal line, right, yeah, she yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to make plays however I can. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was in the right place and had to make
Speaker 1: a play. He'd love to see that. Taking it back
Speaker 1: for six picking taking the job with the offense away there.
Speaker 1: But you spent six years at cal and coming from
Speaker 1: TEXASO went to Berkeley. How would you describe kind of
Speaker 1: your growth and the way your experienced there in college
Speaker 1: shaped you as a player in a person. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that first year it was it was kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit of a culture shock. Houston and Berkeley are
Speaker 1: kind of a lot different. Um, so yeah, I just
Speaker 1: felt like being in that situation. Um. Berkeley is very diverse,
Speaker 1: a lot of international students so, UM, a lot of
Speaker 1: very intelligent people. So I would just feel like being there,
Speaker 1: I've just grown into a man, honestly, and uh just
Speaker 1: come a long way from the kid that left Houston
Speaker 1: at eighteen. That's the idea of college, right. What went
Speaker 1: into your decision to return for that final season at
Speaker 1: cal Um that COVID year it was kind of a
Speaker 1: weird year. It didn't feel feel right to go out
Speaker 1: that way. We only got four games. Um still felt
Speaker 1: like I had more to prove. Um. I always flit
Speaker 1: that way, but yeah, I had to come back for
Speaker 1: one more. We talked a little bit about going to Wazoo.
Speaker 1: I was a Washington State alum. You play in the
Speaker 1: Cow in the Pack twelve, so I know that you
Speaker 1: guys had a lot of good defenses down there, a
Speaker 1: lot of good coaches on the defense as well. So
Speaker 1: I was curious, how do you feel like your past
Speaker 1: rush arsenal kind of developed over the course of your
Speaker 1: career at Cow. Yeah. So coming out of high school,
Speaker 1: I was in the edge rusher, I was I was
Speaker 1: outside linebacker, kind of more off the ball. Um they
Speaker 1: might send me on a blitz. So Um, when I
Speaker 1: first got to Cal, I kinda had to develop that
Speaker 1: past rush because I really didn't know much at all,
Speaker 1: And Um, I've had my dad had he was a
Speaker 1: d n UM, so he's kind of been helping me out.
Speaker 1: And then, um, yeah, just going through years at Cow
Speaker 1: with the coaches and just learn new moves. Still feel
Speaker 1: like I had a lot to learn passersh. So you
Speaker 1: talk about your dad, a former fifth round traffick of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, a family of athletes should come from.
Speaker 1: Have they given you any kind of advice about being
Speaker 1: a professional athlete and these next steps for you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dad's kind of been telling me um his path and
Speaker 1: what he was going through. And then, uh, but shoot
Speaker 1: I was that was a little while ago, so the
Speaker 1: NFL has kind of changed a little bit. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's always great to hear what he has to say.
Speaker 1: He gives a lot of great advice and he's been there.
Speaker 1: So it's all about getting the quarterback and find the
Speaker 1: football right that that hasn't change. That hasn't changed. So
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned the energy of of coach camp
Speaker 1: in Elli and Tyrone mackenzie and your media availability the
Speaker 1: other day. What was your initial impression of the two
Speaker 1: linebacker coaches here? Um, it was great. I met with them. Um,
Speaker 1: going over to defense on my visit and honestly had
Speaker 1: me really excited. Um, that was my favorite visit. Um.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was able to develop relationship with them,
Speaker 1: and um just loving the coaching staff. Feel like everybody
Speaker 1: here's great people. Um. So yeah, it was fun. And
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer as well. DC a chance to talk with
Speaker 1: him yet, Yeah, talked to him. That's my second time
Speaker 1: talking to him. Just got done talking with him. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's cool. I like it, very good stuff. So I
Speaker 1: was looking at your snap count totals from last season.
Speaker 1: You played sixty plus snaps in eight games SEVN D
Speaker 1: plus snaps in four games. Did you know that? Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know something like that. That's that's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: So I had to ask you, like, what is your
Speaker 1: conditioning regiment to be on the field for that much?
Speaker 1: Because I might need to take some notes here for myself. Um. Shoot, Um,
Speaker 1: when I'm tired, it don't matter how tired, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go so um yeah, it doesn't matter if if
Speaker 1: it's fifty players games, seventy plays a game, if I'm
Speaker 1: just doing special teams here, I'm gonna just go. So. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just that motor in me competitive attitude, UM, I'm
Speaker 1: always gonna just go that pair as well. With a
Speaker 1: very good three cone time that you ran sub seven seconds,
Speaker 1: which shows off your agility. I think, how do you
Speaker 1: think your agility helps you as a pass rusher? Um,
Speaker 1: I've always feel like I've been pretty agile, and I
Speaker 1: was happy to show my athleticism at pro Day. UM.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like all that would come in
Speaker 1: handy and make it impact in his leadue. Agility is
Speaker 1: a big deal. So as physicality. You talked about setting
Speaker 1: strong edge. Is that kind of a mindset game? Like?
Speaker 1: What is this kind of setting a hard edge in
Speaker 1: the run game? What's the key to that? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of its hand placement and
Speaker 1: then just like attitude, being physical, just knowing, Um, it's
Speaker 1: a one on one a lot of times and I
Speaker 1: just want to win that one on one. You talk
Speaker 1: about one on one matchups, you also talked about playing
Speaker 1: baseball as a youth that's a game of all one
Speaker 1: on one matchup. So I'm curious. You know what parts
Speaker 1: of Florida did you come to play in? And you
Speaker 1: must have been on a pretty good team because you
Speaker 1: mentioned traveling from Texas to Florida. That's like, this is
Speaker 1: like one of baseball, the baseball Meca in America. So
Speaker 1: what was that like for coming down here and playing baseball? Yeah, so, um,
Speaker 1: I've been. I went to Florida a few times. Are
Speaker 1: not Orlando, Florida a few times? Um, never been in Miami.
Speaker 1: So my first UM time in Miami was the top
Speaker 1: thirty visit. Um, I loved it. I've always loved Florida,
Speaker 1: So I knew when the Dolphins were calling as ready
Speaker 1: to go because just being out here as a kid,
Speaker 1: I fell in love with the beaches and just playing
Speaker 1: sports competing. So, um, Florida has a special place in
Speaker 1: my heart. Do some pretty good beaches around here. You'll
Speaker 1: be in good hands there. So on the baseball field,
Speaker 1: what position did you play? Um? I played some first base, outfield,
Speaker 1: played um, middlefield, center field a lot a lot of times. UM.
Speaker 1: And then picture, I was a picture sometimes utility guy.
Speaker 1: Sounds like your versatility kind of plays bull sports in
Speaker 1: a little bit. So I was doing some more background
Speaker 1: you here and I read that you're a pretty mild
Speaker 1: mannered guy. Get the same impression from beating you here,
Speaker 1: But when you're on the field. There's a switch lip
Speaker 1: flips right. And I was reading the story about your
Speaker 1: college roommate Josh Draden, and he said, this is a
Speaker 1: quote that I found from him. It's like James Bond
Speaker 1: or John Wick. It's like Superman going into a phone
Speaker 1: booth or a werewolf when there's a full moon. First
Speaker 1: of all, what a quote. But I just wanted to know,
Speaker 1: how do you flip that switch on game day? Um?
Speaker 1: She it's just that it's just in me. Honestly, it's
Speaker 1: not really just flipping the switch is just kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know. It just turns on itself. So yeah,
Speaker 1: every time I'm competing, no matter if we just playing
Speaker 1: some a little board game, I'm a sort of loser,
Speaker 1: so I want to win. Flip the table over it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it just turns on and then shot, that energy
Speaker 1: comes out when I make a play, So yeah, I
Speaker 1: get really excited. Yeah. I couldn't handle losing like Monopoly
Speaker 1: as a kid, even though it's just didn't sit well
Speaker 1: with me. So finally, you know what kind of person
Speaker 1: and player do you think the Dolphins are getting in
Speaker 1: Cameron Good? Um, they're getting a very coachable player. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm accountable, going to be accountable to the team. UM, teammates, UH, fans, everybody. UM,
Speaker 1: And I'm when I'm out there, I'm gonna give them all.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go and yeah, I'm ready to work. In
Speaker 1: the last question here, whether it's football or off the field,
Speaker 1: what's something you're looking forward to most about this opportunity
Speaker 1: here with the Dolphins or in Miami. I should say, UM,
Speaker 1: just another another chance to prove myself. UM. I feel
Speaker 1: like I've been over or underrated a lot of times
Speaker 1: in the past, so I just feel like, UM, just
Speaker 1: keep going and just keep proving myself every day. Very
Speaker 1: good camera good makes a lot man appreciate it. And
Speaker 1: there he goes a good interview there with Dolphins seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick Cameron Good out of the University of
Speaker 1: cal Let's go ahead and take our first break and
Speaker 1: come right back on the other side and kick this
Speaker 1: thing off here with Skyler Thompson, the finals draft pick
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins in two. That's next here, Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: What's Up Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here, the host of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast on the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, and I'm
Speaker 1: joined today by new Dolphins quarterback Skyler Thompson. Skyler, what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: Not then much? First time Miami. I'm excited We're not
Speaker 1: in Kansas anymore. Right, No, it's a little bit different,
Speaker 1: but I'm excited for it. How do you compare the
Speaker 1: two Miami and Kansas? I mean polar opposite, I mean not,
Speaker 1: there's no similarities at all other than it does get
Speaker 1: hot and humid in Kansas a little bit, but it's
Speaker 1: it's not hot and humid right now like it is here.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot different training camps. It's gets a
Speaker 1: little warm for training come down here, so you'll you'll
Speaker 1: enjoy that. But so, you know, welcome to Miami first
Speaker 1: of all. But you get here today as it all
Speaker 1: kind of hits you yet, how you feeling. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: still very surreal. Um. This whole process is just it's
Speaker 1: been going very fast, you know, and it was it
Speaker 1: was a crazy, crazy time. So but it was so fun,
Speaker 1: so surreal um, and it definitely is started to hit me,
Speaker 1: you know, walking through the building knowing like this is
Speaker 1: my home, you know, and I'm so excited to get
Speaker 1: down here and in a couple of weeks. I'm a day.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you will never forget and you're forever. No,
Speaker 1: that's how it goes. But I want to get a
Speaker 1: picture of your draft day set up. You know, were
Speaker 1: you watching on TV? Did you have something else going
Speaker 1: on to kind of keep you distracted? Did you have
Speaker 1: family and friends with you? Take us through your draft
Speaker 1: set up. Yeah, well I had a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of family in town, um with we had the
Speaker 1: draft on, we had a bunch of food available, and
Speaker 1: really we're just hanging out. I mean we were casually
Speaker 1: paying attention to the to the TV, UM kind of
Speaker 1: tracking kind of what was going on, what teams were doing.
Speaker 1: But I was I was walking to I was pacing
Speaker 1: all over the place, me and my dad both. Um.
Speaker 1: I was not sitting still. Um you know, I was
Speaker 1: trying to stay busy, trying to stay occupied where I'm
Speaker 1: not just sitting there to one of my thumbs. And
Speaker 1: you know, just the pressure shouldn't it shouldn't feel like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of pressure, but I mean there is.
Speaker 1: You know, you put all this time and work and
Speaker 1: for for something like this, and you just it's it's
Speaker 1: you have no control over what happens. You know, you
Speaker 1: just um hoping pray that a team will will love
Speaker 1: you enough to take you. And you know, I was
Speaker 1: very very excited whenever Miami called me. I was not
Speaker 1: expecting it. Like that was what was really cool about
Speaker 1: my experience was, um, you know, I thought they were
Speaker 1: just you know, calling to chat with me to see
Speaker 1: who was talking to me, what was going on. And
Speaker 1: the next thing I know, like there's there, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be drafted, you know, and it's gosh, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: That's that's incredible. So we saw the moment of the
Speaker 1: call on social media, and you know, we could see
Speaker 1: the emotions, but I wanted to kind of ask you
Speaker 1: to take us through those emotions that you were feeling
Speaker 1: up what was going on in your head when that
Speaker 1: call happened, after you learn that they were going to
Speaker 1: turn the card, and and then eventually seeing on TV
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson Miami Dolphins, I was unbelievable. I mean that
Speaker 1: that that process there is like what still hasn't hit
Speaker 1: me that like it actually happened. Um, but that's like
Speaker 1: literally I just ever since I was a little kid,
Speaker 1: knew what a football was Like this has been my
Speaker 1: dream and to you know, see it firsthand, you know,
Speaker 1: my name on the on the TV here my name
Speaker 1: called like that was awesome and it was a dream
Speaker 1: come true. It's it's a blessing and I'm very, very
Speaker 1: grateful for it. So you mentioned being a little bit
Speaker 1: surprised by the fact that it was the Dolphins that
Speaker 1: that got the call to you there, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you know this, but this means that you'll be in
Speaker 1: a quarterback room that features a lot of cameos by
Speaker 1: Dan Marino. He's around the building, he sits in the
Speaker 1: meetings a lot with the quarterbacks. When you hear that,
Speaker 1: what goes through your mind? Man, it's that's very it
Speaker 1: is incredible, you know, being able to you know, be
Speaker 1: in the same room and and uh, you know, share
Speaker 1: thoughts and try to be a sponge, you know, to
Speaker 1: one of the greatest of all time to play the position,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's that's that's amazing, just being able
Speaker 1: to be in this in the same presence, being able
Speaker 1: to you know, ask questions, to have have him as
Speaker 1: a resource, someone who's done it and done it really well,
Speaker 1: you know. So, uh, it's uh, that's something I'm really
Speaker 1: really looking forward to whenever I get to meet meet
Speaker 1: Dan and and talk to him and and just pick
Speaker 1: his brain, be a sponge. Like I said, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: the best who we all enjoy that. So from one
Speaker 1: legend Dan Marino, to another legend and Bill Snyder there
Speaker 1: at Kansas State just curious because he was there for
Speaker 1: how long was it a decades? Right? What did you
Speaker 1: learn about football in life from from coach Snyder? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well I learned, you know what discipline and hard work is,
Speaker 1: and that's the way that coach not to run his program.
Speaker 1: And if if you weren't disciplined and you didn't work hard,
Speaker 1: you weren't gonna make it. And um, I learned that
Speaker 1: as soon as I got there. You really truly gotta
Speaker 1: love the game, and you know, to be great out
Speaker 1: you gotta put in the work. You gotta be willing
Speaker 1: to do things that other people are not. You gotta
Speaker 1: sacrifice a lot of your time, um and and dedicate
Speaker 1: a lot of yourself to the game if you want
Speaker 1: to be successful. And you know all of that, I
Speaker 1: was talking in a football form, but it really translates
Speaker 1: over to life too. I mean, anything you wanna be successful,
Speaker 1: lot you want to you know, your goals, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. You gotta be disciplined, you gotta be
Speaker 1: process oriented, and you gotta work hard and and not
Speaker 1: be so focused on the results, but just focused on
Speaker 1: the process of the journey, you know, And that's what
Speaker 1: that's what makes it special. And that's that's probably what
Speaker 1: I've learned about, you know, from Coachnider the most. That's
Speaker 1: one of our cliches are on the podcast, I always
Speaker 1: say process over results. That you're fitting right in already
Speaker 1: here on draft you know, you talked about being in
Speaker 1: locker rooms a lot and your press availability and and
Speaker 1: something Chrisper mentioned was that all the upsets you guys
Speaker 1: had at k State there you beat Oklahoma a couple
Speaker 1: of years back, and and mentioned you a lot in
Speaker 1: those in those big games and take on that leadership
Speaker 1: role there at Kansas State. Curious to know the portants
Speaker 1: of you being a good teammate, Like, what does it
Speaker 1: what does being a good teammate here with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: look like to you? Yeah? Well, first and foremost is putting. Putting,
Speaker 1: you know, my teammates before myself. Always every decision I make,
Speaker 1: I'm putting. You know, it's for the team and it's
Speaker 1: about winning. And you know that's uh, that's the way
Speaker 1: that I roll. You know, I'm gonna do anything and
Speaker 1: everything to help my teammates be successful and help them,
Speaker 1: you know, push them to reach their full potential, being
Speaker 1: able to challenge them, being able to be there for him,
Speaker 1: help them learn. You know, we're all in this together,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, we're all here
Speaker 1: to win. And and that's what I'm here to do.
Speaker 1: And whatever whatever that may look like, whatever my role is,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna kill that role and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do everything i can't help this team win and and
Speaker 1: be be successful. You know, that's that's what we're here for.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm here for. And I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: step into the facility with everybody here. You know, I
Speaker 1: started building relationships, started getting other guys um and it
Speaker 1: started getting this thing rolling. I'm excited. That's something Coach
Speaker 1: mc daniel talked about a lot, serving the teams, serving players,
Speaker 1: and kind of doing what you can to make everybody
Speaker 1: else around you better. And he also talked about your
Speaker 1: passion for the game that really staid out to him
Speaker 1: in his press conference other night. Do you sense that
Speaker 1: same passion from him and meeting coach McDaniel, Yeah, yeah, no, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we just talked on the phone shortly last night. Um,
Speaker 1: I meet with him here in a little bit to
Speaker 1: get to know him a little bit more. But definitely,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm super excited. You can you can feel
Speaker 1: the energy, Um, you know, just talking to coach Smith
Speaker 1: and um, you know Coach Bev and you know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of good energy here, you know, And I
Speaker 1: mean walking through the hallway and and West you know,
Speaker 1: isn't there and like it's it's just cool. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of good energy, a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, smart, smart minded football minds that well you know,
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page. We're all here to win.
Speaker 1: And I think that is that that's that's awesome. And
Speaker 1: you can just feel the the atmosphere and the vibes
Speaker 1: are are very positive, very motivated. You know, people are
Speaker 1: motivated here to go when and that's exciting to be
Speaker 1: a part of. Yeah, it really is. And can can
Speaker 1: you expand a little bit on talking with coach Bev?
Speaker 1: I know you talked about him in the oppress availability,
Speaker 1: but how has it been going back and forth with
Speaker 1: coach Daryl Bevil just being able to get to know
Speaker 1: Coach Bev Obviously his his past of where he's been
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that he's been toored and and coached, and
Speaker 1: he's telling me that, and it's like, man, like, this
Speaker 1: is a special coach that I get to get coached by.
Speaker 1: And UM, just starting to dive into the playbook a
Speaker 1: little bit, kind of teaching me that. And now it's
Speaker 1: just kind of helping me, um, you know, prioritize things,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to categorize things to help me
Speaker 1: remember and understand things. Um. You can tell he's very
Speaker 1: process oriented and very you know, step one, step two,
Speaker 1: step three. You know, it's it's a process. And I
Speaker 1: really learned very well that way. So I'm just excited
Speaker 1: to continue to get to know more and continue to
Speaker 1: work with him. Plenty of work to be done on
Speaker 1: the football field. Now. I took a chance to go
Speaker 1: back to your Instagram and look at just some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that was on there. I saw a really
Speaker 1: cool thing about you speaking at a Case State cancer
Speaker 1: research event. Why is that so important to you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so my mother passed away with breast cancer
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and so did my grandfather. UM,
Speaker 1: he passed away with pancreatic cancer. So I opened up
Speaker 1: a research fund UM at Case State that basically, each year,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna select two students that go to Case State
Speaker 1: that work in that program and and give them a
Speaker 1: scholarship to help pay for their school and or pay
Speaker 1: for whatever they need for to do their research. And
Speaker 1: so UM put that event together for the first time
Speaker 1: this past weekend two weeks ago, something that we're gonna
Speaker 1: try to do every year. UM, just to rally my
Speaker 1: family together, bring past teammates, you know, hopefully get guys
Speaker 1: to Manhattan, kind of get reunited once a year, which
Speaker 1: I think would be really cool. UM, and just being
Speaker 1: able to raise money for a great cause. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it was special to me, you know it obviously
Speaker 1: it hits home just because I've I've experienced it, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's trying to be part of a you know,
Speaker 1: be positive, you know, just be be part of the
Speaker 1: change and continue to try to support and help as
Speaker 1: much as possible. You know, you just never you know,
Speaker 1: people don't realize it's how much like five dollars, you know,
Speaker 1: you just like the littlest donations. Um, it makes a difference.
Speaker 1: So this has been really cool to be part of
Speaker 1: that and see it firsthand. It certainly adds up. We
Speaker 1: have an event here called Dolphins Challenge Cancer where they
Speaker 1: do a bike ride, a marathon run, you can do
Speaker 1: all kinds of things and it raises a bunch of
Speaker 1: money for cancer research every year. To look forward to that.
Speaker 1: But we also had the lu Out with two a
Speaker 1: last month, an event the raise money for a Big
Speaker 1: Brother's Little Brothers, Big Sisters, Little Sisters. Again back to Instagram,
Speaker 1: saw that you're a big Yeah. Can you tell us
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? Well, so I've been paired with his
Speaker 1: name is Macay, have impaired with him for five years. Um.
Speaker 1: I got into the organization whene where I got to
Speaker 1: KSE State and been part of his life for five years.
Speaker 1: Is it's been amazing. UM. I mean I got into
Speaker 1: it to have an impact on Mackay and help Mackay.
Speaker 1: You know, he needed some needed a male presence in
Speaker 1: his life. You know, he's been single parent at home
Speaker 1: and you need somebody to look up to and kind
Speaker 1: of guide him and and and be there for him.
Speaker 1: And that's what I which had to symbolize and be
Speaker 1: for him. But you know, five years later, I look
Speaker 1: back and I like that kid's impact. And you know,
Speaker 1: just as much as I've impacted him, it's happened more.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just like I'm walking away from it,
Speaker 1: just like man like he he came to my draft
Speaker 1: party last night and with his mom and brother, and
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's every every big moment, he's there.
Speaker 1: He came to my Bowl game. Parents drove all over
Speaker 1: the place, you know, his mom to get him to
Speaker 1: watch him play. Like It's just it's crazy. Um, it's
Speaker 1: really like he's part of my family now and and
Speaker 1: always will be. But it's it's a it's a great organization,
Speaker 1: and um, it's so many, so many people out there
Speaker 1: that need kids, especially that need some guid guidance, needed
Speaker 1: to be loved and supported, you know, And that was
Speaker 1: why I got into it. And it was great decision.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I'm sure mckiy is going to have
Speaker 1: an awkwind Orange Skylert Thompson Jersey here pretty soon, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Purple one too in case as well. So talking
Speaker 1: about being here in Miami, what are you most looking
Speaker 1: forward to about your opportunity here with the Dolphins. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I just think it's a great fit. I
Speaker 1: think I fit in the system well and what we're
Speaker 1: trying to do here, and you know, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to just getting here and getting to work.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is my ultimate dream. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to work with Teddy with two and you know, just
Speaker 1: get to know guys, to build relationships and um, you
Speaker 1: know when you know that that that's what I'm excited for.
Speaker 1: I I'm a winner and I'm gonna bring that mentality
Speaker 1: to the locker room every day. Be positive, be consistent,
Speaker 1: support the guys, you know, be a great teammate, be
Speaker 1: a great leader, um, and and just help help this
Speaker 1: this organization keep you know, keep on the right direction
Speaker 1: and when when games, That's that's what I'm here for.
Speaker 1: That's what i want to do and whenever that takes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. So one things we love to
Speaker 1: hear it. Finally, last question for I'll get you out
Speaker 1: of here. You know you kind of talked about it already,
Speaker 1: but if you just summarize what kind of person employer
Speaker 1: is that are the Dolphins getting in Skylar Thompson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're getting a winner, um first and foremost and a gamer.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's always what I've prided myself.
Speaker 1: And you know, whenever team needs to play, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make a play for third, fourth down, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be, I want the ball in my hands, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make a play. I'm gonna whatever that mays,
Speaker 1: like my legs, you know, scrambling on time, whatever the case,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm gonna find a way to convert and help
Speaker 1: the team win. And that's Uh, that's something that I
Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in and and love to do.
Speaker 1: Like I love I love having that pressure. I love
Speaker 1: having those expectations of my teammates expecting me to make
Speaker 1: a play and knowing that they trust me. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot that goes into building trust, with building relationships
Speaker 1: and putting time in the front end on those things
Speaker 1: to build that type of of trust to where then
Speaker 1: you know, the leadership role UM then really excels. And
Speaker 1: I would describe myself as a as a servant leader. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna serve my teammates and make my teammates better, um,
Speaker 1: whatever that may may look like, whatever that may be
Speaker 1: whatever my teammates need, I'm gonna do it and because
Speaker 1: ultimately that's gonna help the team win. And genuinely, you know,
Speaker 1: I have a care and love for my teammates that
Speaker 1: it's not just you know, it's not fake love. You
Speaker 1: know it's real. Um, there's a relationship there to where
Speaker 1: when we're in the heat and amidst the battle, people
Speaker 1: are going to trust me and I'm gonna give them
Speaker 1: everything I got and ultimately, you know, do whatever it
Speaker 1: takes to win. So that's what I would say. It's
Speaker 1: great stuff, great great answer. I can't go any more
Speaker 1: than that. Skylar Thompson, Dolphins quarterback, Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: tak You appreciate, appreciate it. So there you have it,
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson, Cameron Good, Eric Azokama, and Channing tin Dall
Speaker 1: here on the Drivetime Podcast. You can find those video
Speaker 1: interviews with some fun b roll and meet chatting with
Speaker 1: the guys up on the team YouTube channel. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our last break and come back and
Speaker 1: break down the tape of our seventh round draft picks
Speaker 1: Cameron Good and Skyler Thompson. That's next Drivetime Podcast. Your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield brought to you by Auto Nation. So
Speaker 1: you've heard from the guys. Let's go ahead now and
Speaker 1: break down their tape as we are doing this week
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime podcast and with Cameron Good the Edge
Speaker 1: from cal the first thing I noticed was that he's
Speaker 1: not trying to skimp on the run game just to
Speaker 1: focus on his pass rush stats. There's a real play
Speaker 1: the run on the way to the quarterback element of
Speaker 1: his game. He's really good as the unblocked man on
Speaker 1: the end of staying tight to the formation and maintaining
Speaker 1: inside responsibility opposed to just running to the quarterback spot
Speaker 1: in hopes of a play pass and eventually a quarterback
Speaker 1: pressure hit or sack. And he is absolutely relentless in
Speaker 1: his pursuit of runs away from him. You know, if
Speaker 1: it's in the week side they run to the play side,
Speaker 1: he chases those things down. And you can also see
Speaker 1: him really sift his way through the traffic of a
Speaker 1: pulling guard the play side split zone action coming across
Speaker 1: the formation to dig him out. And that's the beauty
Speaker 1: of the type of ends in this defense that usually
Speaker 1: employs right Odd Bob Phillips, Seeler, Wilkins, Butler, these are big,
Speaker 1: powerful players that can hold that edge, and the list
Speaker 1: goes on to Brandon Scarlett is the same way. Andrew
Speaker 1: Van ginkle Man. My favorite part about Andrew Van Ginkl
Speaker 1: is that he has the look of a speed guy,
Speaker 1: but man, he plays that type of bullyball as well.
Speaker 1: It's required of the position, and the Dolphins, to a
Speaker 1: man and now with Cam and Good have a room
Speaker 1: full of guys that can do that. And he plays
Speaker 1: both sides of the formation. Lots of flipping on that
Speaker 1: col defense. We talked about his snap counts eight games.
Speaker 1: Last year's sixty plus snaps requires a lot of different
Speaker 1: positions for him as well. He played in a lot
Speaker 1: of two gap looks where you see him shoot the hands,
Speaker 1: shock his man and then get his eyes on the
Speaker 1: football and then from there you have to disengage either
Speaker 1: left or right, depending on where the launch point for
Speaker 1: the running back is the aiming point for the running back.
Speaker 1: A lot of his pass rush wins early in his career.
Speaker 1: We're getting on the upfield shoulder with a speed rush,
Speaker 1: dropping that inside shoulder into the tackle and just staying
Speaker 1: on balance while he cornered through the contact. But you
Speaker 1: really see the rush arsenal evolve as he goes along
Speaker 1: in his career there at Cal. There's a game against
Speaker 1: Stanford last year. He gets a third down sack uh
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, working against the right tackle, and
Speaker 1: the tackle stops gaining depth and prepares to throw the
Speaker 1: punch a little heavy step from good with an outside
Speaker 1: dip and rip. And what that means is we're gonna
Speaker 1: throw the upfield hand onto that shoulder and rip the
Speaker 1: inside hand through so you can't get contact on it.
Speaker 1: And the tackle then kind of gets off balance like
Speaker 1: a boxer who just took a punch has to regain
Speaker 1: his balance. And then you see the thing you never
Speaker 1: want to see on an offensive lineman. He turns around
Speaker 1: and you can read the name on the back of
Speaker 1: his jersey, trying to chase the pass rusher back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. But we all know by the time that happens,
Speaker 1: it's far too late. Effective heavy hands that can counter
Speaker 1: the offensive lines initial punch. He's an intriguing prospect. I
Speaker 1: was consistently impressed by his work in the running game
Speaker 1: and the way he took on blocks. Good depth in
Speaker 1: that regard, and chance to make a role for himself
Speaker 1: on this football team. Next. The last pick of this
Speaker 1: year's draft of the Miami Dolphins, number two forty seven overall,
Speaker 1: was Skyler Thompson out of Kansas State. Not Kyler out
Speaker 1: of Kansas State. Pretty Much everything he did on tape
Speaker 1: was was create plays last year, and if it wasn't
Speaker 1: a manufactured conversion, it was him getting on the move
Speaker 1: on bootlegs and working off play action naked's all that stuff.
Speaker 1: He had a really good feel for the rush and
Speaker 1: where escape routes were to get off the spot and
Speaker 1: to move those available platforms to afford himself time to
Speaker 1: get into his throwing motion. Just consistently aware of what
Speaker 1: was going on around him and whether it was that
Speaker 1: or just standing in and letting routes developed from a
Speaker 1: clean pocket to deliver the football down the field. He
Speaker 1: was really willing to stay in the face of the
Speaker 1: fire and take a shot to deliver that good football
Speaker 1: down the field. He talked about being a gamer on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Right we just heard him talk about that.
Speaker 1: Go watch his last career game, the Bowl game against
Speaker 1: L s U. The dude was making free rushers miss
Speaker 1: on bootlegs on fourth down, then cutting up on the
Speaker 1: sideline making another guy miss and diving for the sticks.
Speaker 1: And this game really shows the passion that coach McDaniel
Speaker 1: was talking about. Thompson's getting up pumping his fist and
Speaker 1: my goodness, the Kansas State sideline when he would make
Speaker 1: a play. You talk about fire and guys up. I
Speaker 1: mean he's he's getting up pumping the fist and those
Speaker 1: guys are just filling it right along with him. Remember
Speaker 1: two last year dropping the show over against the Jets
Speaker 1: or making that move on the Patriots in the open
Speaker 1: field for a big run, and how that fires up
Speaker 1: the squad. Quarterbacks can really inspire a team with their playmaking.
Speaker 1: And boy, this Kansas State team loved their quarterback last
Speaker 1: year and leading that Wildcats team, I just saw a
Speaker 1: mature quarterback who was willing to hang in there and
Speaker 1: make plays, but also willing to take the check down
Speaker 1: when the routes down the field weren't open. He just
Speaker 1: did a good job of managing games. And you hear
Speaker 1: that term game manager and it's like has this connotation
Speaker 1: of a negative, you know, trade for a quarterback, but
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. I think it's a great thing to
Speaker 1: be able to manage a game and just understand situations
Speaker 1: and don't play bigger than you have to, but manage
Speaker 1: in the game while also searching for opportunities to go big,
Speaker 1: play hunting, to get off script, out of structure, and
Speaker 1: just do whatever it took. It was a fun tape
Speaker 1: to watch. Definitely a nice prospect to work with the
Speaker 1: develop here in the seventh round in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: All right, that's the last time you'll hear from me
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Speaker 1: a long list of guys that it kind of popped
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