Speaker 1: All right, y'all go back on the air, Kimbo, Camper,
Speaker 1: Joe Rose, John con Jemmy with you and uh, hey,
Speaker 1: we're talking a little schedule today in a program. Schedule
Speaker 1: is coming out here pretty soon to see what it is.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny. It's the NFL spends a
Speaker 1: lot of time working on schedules, making sure they get
Speaker 1: all the right games and all the right places everyone
Speaker 1: where they're supposed to be. And uh and it's kind
Speaker 1: of a secret thing, but it seems like half the schedule,
Speaker 1: I've seen rumors of we're gonna play this team on
Speaker 1: that day. I don't know where this I don't know
Speaker 1: where all this uh leakage comes from as far as
Speaker 1: as the NFL schedules concerned. Have we all learned though,
Speaker 1: And I know we still do it as fans. We
Speaker 1: we like to go, Okay, we can win this one.
Speaker 1: Oh that's gonna be a tough every year. But we've learned.
Speaker 1: I don't pay attention. You don't know who's gonna be
Speaker 1: outside of a couple of teams. You know who's gonna
Speaker 1: be good, who's not. You know who's gonna be banged
Speaker 1: up with the injury bug and who's not. Well, that's
Speaker 1: the thing that gets me. Everyone talks about, jeez, how
Speaker 1: tough is the schedule? I said, well, you know what.
Speaker 1: To me, the the NFL schedule, more than any schedule
Speaker 1: in sports, is fluid because you know, you're you're going
Speaker 1: along and here's this team there won four straight games
Speaker 1: and man, they look great, and you got to play
Speaker 1: them next week, and all of a sudden, their quarterback
Speaker 1: goes down, or they're running back goes down, or someone
Speaker 1: goes down. All of a sudden when you play them,
Speaker 1: they're not that same team that they were, and so
Speaker 1: they change all the time. You no, I agree with
Speaker 1: you guys about that. What I've been looking at during
Speaker 1: schedules now is hey, where are we home or away?
Speaker 1: How many weeks are we away? Where's our bye week at?
Speaker 1: You know, we're compared to the other teams in the
Speaker 1: a f C East, so we can compare apples to apples,
Speaker 1: and I'd be interested to see how the teams are
Speaker 1: finishing the year now, because it seems like Joe and
Speaker 1: Camp for a number of years now. A f C East,
Speaker 1: You've got four four games, you know it left in
Speaker 1: your schedule. Three of the four, four and through the gauntlet.
Speaker 1: Last year was four division games and Bills and Patriots
Speaker 1: in the last six games. And I think the league
Speaker 1: and I look you talk about looking at when when
Speaker 1: I look at the schedule, first thing I look at
Speaker 1: is when do we play the Patriots? When we play
Speaker 1: the Bills, when we play the Jets? I do that.
Speaker 1: That's the first. By the way, just being an old
Speaker 1: A f C skuy, I always looked at the three
Speaker 1: teams in the A f C s and when you're
Speaker 1: playing them on the road. So here's the way I
Speaker 1: look up. And here's where where I go. I go
Speaker 1: division games? Where the where were we were the Jets
Speaker 1: and the Patriots and the Bills. That's one too cold
Speaker 1: weather warm weather? Three? What kind of food can we
Speaker 1: eat at all these places that were going to well
Speaker 1: priorities and and and three? Mate maye every now and
Speaker 1: jump and may jump above to one. Yeah, food wise
Speaker 1: on game day, media food, the freeloading food, the Patriots. Man,
Speaker 1: that's and by the way, everything else is really good.
Speaker 1: I mean, God bless Mr Kraft. I mean they're going
Speaker 1: there ain't no budget up there. That's that stuff. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I always make sure I make a trip up to
Speaker 1: the press boxing New just just to get some of that.
Speaker 1: I'm childer. I love when I go from my college
Speaker 1: football games. If we get an Old Miss game or
Speaker 1: a South Carolina getting barbecue and and you don't even
Speaker 1: have to leave the booth. They got the trays in
Speaker 1: the back. You get spoiled. You. I'll be right back. No,
Speaker 1: you TV guys, the national TV guys get that well, No, no, Joe, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. Don't paint the picture. It's all rosy for me.
Speaker 1: That's one place. The other places I'm going downstairs, watch
Speaker 1: those guys the CBS when the big guys come in
Speaker 1: during like Rock so they're needing the same food. Worry,
Speaker 1: I know, I hear you. Are you well even? And
Speaker 1: then probably Harvey Green or someone's taken out for taking
Speaker 1: out for a big dinner kissing BECAUSEY wants to kick
Speaker 1: their ask because it's the only way he can get
Speaker 1: a free meal because by taking them out. So it's
Speaker 1: not so much about them, it's more about more about Harvey. Hey,
Speaker 1: So we got a lot of stuff to get in.
Speaker 1: We talked about the schedule. Uh, We're gonna talk with
Speaker 1: the NFL Senior director of Broadcasting, Michael North. He's involved
Speaker 1: in from start to finish getting this schedule together. Obviously,
Speaker 1: talk about what's going on, the team will get to
Speaker 1: some of the questions that people are getting in UH
Speaker 1: and our podcast Apple Music. Joe, you can listen to
Speaker 1: it there any other place you can get it at
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com maybe Miami Dolphins mobile app that I
Speaker 1: know you haven't loaded yet. Tune in radio that you
Speaker 1: have no idea, that's even though you're in the radio business.
Speaker 1: Episodes one day, what do they do every Thursday? Joe dropped,
Speaker 1: They dropped. That's what they do every Thursday. They drop.
Speaker 1: It all happens. You're becoming. You're in a short in
Speaker 1: a short period of time since we've done a podcast,
Speaker 1: although neither of the three of us really understand what
Speaker 1: a podcast is. Now you've been getting very techno savvy
Speaker 1: in these last streaming video right now you're in the
Speaker 1: streaming video. Awesome. Yeah, I feel like, when are you
Speaker 1: gonna go? When are you gonna get to get to
Speaker 1: the point from a technical standpoint that answering your phone?
Speaker 1: You feel like Joe's back in cal right now. This
Speaker 1: is one of his classes and start didn't start real
Speaker 1: well some but it's starting to get better. You're gett bit.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to play against Fresidro State.
Speaker 1: You're okay, Oh you got Southern count You'll be all right.
Speaker 1: Don't go ahead, you get ready to go. Hey, I
Speaker 1: want to remind the fans. You can go ahead and
Speaker 1: send your questions in through Facebook, send him in through Twitter.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the questions and get everything going. Uh.
Speaker 1: Talk about a couple of other things going on. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins go out and they sign it tight in
Speaker 1: Gavin Escobar. He was a forty seven overall picking two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen by the Cowboys, playing sixty four games, seven
Speaker 1: stars during his career. Um, he's not the answer. No,
Speaker 1: he's just another another guy to come in and compete. Uh.
Speaker 1: And good bodies out there. And that's a position that
Speaker 1: we've talked about how much of a position they need.
Speaker 1: That is. To me, it's kind of one of those Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, bringing ten of them and and just
Speaker 1: put them through the sifter and whicheveryone's fall out and
Speaker 1: whichever two or three fall out, and then and then
Speaker 1: put them in the mix. They gotta get a homegrown
Speaker 1: they got to get one with no mileage on it
Speaker 1: that is raw that you can coach up. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and by the way, don't don't go down the line
Speaker 1: on it. Make it a top three round priority. So
Speaker 1: let me ask the conversations I've had with people regarding
Speaker 1: tight ends. But he doesn't block. But he doesn't block,
Speaker 1: none of them. I don't care at this point, I
Speaker 1: don't care. Bring Anthony Fasano back, let him block and
Speaker 1: get someone out there that runs around. And how many
Speaker 1: players and guys how many plays those guys in there
Speaker 1: to block? Are not very many? Isn't many? Right now?
Speaker 1: When you're in the red zone. Now, I've watched Adam
Speaker 1: Gates for two years now, when you're in the red zone,
Speaker 1: he wants to flex his tight end out, get him
Speaker 1: one on one, get three receivers of the other side
Speaker 1: he didn't need to block, get open right now. As
Speaker 1: we as where we sit right now right today, this
Speaker 1: team with with whoever they brought in, whoever they've signed,
Speaker 1: where they brought back, we don't have a starting tight
Speaker 1: end zero where we're standing right now. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's just the way it is. So something has
Speaker 1: to be done between now and then my assumption is
Speaker 1: it's it's I can't see this team coming out of
Speaker 1: the draft, which which quite frankly is next week. It's
Speaker 1: hard to believe it's already on the next week. Um,
Speaker 1: I can't see him coming out of the draft without
Speaker 1: a tight end. Well, they're gonna have a choice to
Speaker 1: make second round, third round, fourth round. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: guys that have been productive college tight ends that are
Speaker 1: flexed out all the time, that are catching forty fifty
Speaker 1: sixty passes a year, and that are very athletics. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a choice now where they select that guy.
Speaker 1: The choices are gonna start to dwindle once you get
Speaker 1: past the third and fourth round. You know, there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot of low hanging fruit that you say, well,
Speaker 1: that's our guy. You know that can start in a
Speaker 1: national football You know, I'm with you, two round one
Speaker 1: or two one or two. To me, you either got
Speaker 1: to walk away with quarterback, line acker, tight end. And
Speaker 1: I think those quarterbacks gonna be gone. So I think
Speaker 1: I think if I was gonna look at my crystal ball,
Speaker 1: I would say, uh, linebacker at eleven and and a
Speaker 1: tight end and just go out and you know what,
Speaker 1: I know, it's it's it's not the position to need
Speaker 1: theory out there. But if you're in that second round,
Speaker 1: you're sitting there and there's a tight end there that
Speaker 1: do you think, well, you know, jeez, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he should be drafted about three or four more picks,
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe maybe we jumped the gun, and we
Speaker 1: jumped the gun. Take the goddamn guy, get him in here.
Speaker 1: Let's get a tight end on a roster that can
Speaker 1: catch the ball and be a difference maker. I'm all
Speaker 1: for it because this offense is in need of playmakers.
Speaker 1: Joe and I were talking before the show about you know,
Speaker 1: who's gonna replace all those catches in the slot. Well,
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily have to be a slot. It can be
Speaker 1: dispersed in other areas. You know, we want, you want
Speaker 1: to Vaunte to rise up and be the guy he's
Speaker 1: gonna get some of those catches. But I do agree
Speaker 1: the formations that Adam Gaize's Adam Gates uses not only
Speaker 1: in the red zone but in the middle field. The
Speaker 1: quick passes. He's looking for mismatches, He's looking for an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get the ball out quickly. The guys that
Speaker 1: can make a move, make somebody miss and get a
Speaker 1: first down or or explosive play. And that includes the
Speaker 1: tight end position. So one of the things is always
Speaker 1: I played tight end in junior college, but it was
Speaker 1: we were a running team, and so I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't catch very many balls. But but the one thing
Speaker 1: about a tight end, Joe, you played the position your
Speaker 1: whole life. I mean that that always I thought was
Speaker 1: always one of the tough parts. Is a lot of
Speaker 1: times as the tight end, as soon as the ball
Speaker 1: is coming to you're you're getting hit. You you gotta hit,
Speaker 1: you gotta catch and and protect. You know, wide receivers
Speaker 1: may sometimes you get a little more open, but very
Speaker 1: rarely you see a tight ends and it's not it's
Speaker 1: catching the ball and not being not not being attacked
Speaker 1: as soon as the ball hits. You know, we've lost
Speaker 1: the last two years. How many plays can you guys
Speaker 1: remember us fronting down the scene, down to hash marks,
Speaker 1: down the numbers, just running between safety. It's not great
Speaker 1: where a guy just put it on you catch it,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get hit, just catch it. It's a yard play.
Speaker 1: I don't remember me. We haven't run that route and
Speaker 1: Charles playing was the last guy here that I remember.
Speaker 1: Tanneyhill a good time doing it, very productive, and that
Speaker 1: became that became a wide in the field out a
Speaker 1: heck of a lot remind me passing offense. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't only down the middle. Joe's down the rail too.
Speaker 1: On the little wheel routes. Charles, you know, top throws
Speaker 1: and your back shoulder bang, you'd catch it and fall down,
Speaker 1: but hey, you know you got you got big place,
Speaker 1: you know. I remember one of one of the tough
Speaker 1: things for me always to cover was that tight end.
Speaker 1: It ran a little that that little take off. Just
Speaker 1: take it out to the sideline and turn it up,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's a that's a tough cover for
Speaker 1: a linebacker. And if you can get that guy that
Speaker 1: can can do that and run down the seam and
Speaker 1: really adds a lot to your offense. It gives you
Speaker 1: a lot of options out in the field. And you
Speaker 1: flip that around, you flip that scenario around. We're talking
Speaker 1: about positions in the draft. That guy at eleven, if
Speaker 1: it happens to be a linebacker, and two guys that
Speaker 1: you know everybody's talking about, could be there and Edmonds
Speaker 1: and Smith from Georgian and Virginia Tech, respectively. There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of room for opposing tight ends catching against
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and we're hoping if the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: there and the quarterbacks are gone and that's not you
Speaker 1: know in our conversation that one of those two guys
Speaker 1: are able to come in and help close that gap
Speaker 1: between the Dolphins defending an opposing and that kind of
Speaker 1: rolls into the to the other news that that came
Speaker 1: out over last week. Kenny vecarl Uh safety was drafted
Speaker 1: by the Saints and the fifteen pick Uh pick in
Speaker 1: two came in for a visit. So so there's a
Speaker 1: safety there. And again, I think that belies what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, John, is that this team is dead set
Speaker 1: this year somehow during the off season of figuring out
Speaker 1: how to how to stop tight ends and the carro
Speaker 1: is a guy that comes in and is a cover guy.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a he's a he's a guy can
Speaker 1: come up. But it also to me, it puts t. J.
Speaker 1: McDonald in a position where are you gonna make him
Speaker 1: that hybrid guy. You're gonna put him that guy that's
Speaker 1: a safety slash linebacker to either be a physical guide
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage with tight ends and get help
Speaker 1: over the top, or or what are you gonna do
Speaker 1: if you go out either draft or they didn't sign
Speaker 1: kennycarl but if you if you do sign something like that, Um,
Speaker 1: it shows the importance of I think to understand how
Speaker 1: important to wear in both sides of the tight end
Speaker 1: game offense. Yeah, you know, providing offense by the way
Speaker 1: t J. McDonald and it's not a shot. He's still
Speaker 1: a mystery to me on what you can do. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: look I gotta give him. I gotta give him a
Speaker 1: training camp and then given right on the field. Ye
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care what you say. You know
Speaker 1: they didn't work well together to say, well, how can
Speaker 1: you work well when you come in after eight weeks
Speaker 1: and just jump in a jump on board. I think
Speaker 1: his first game was up in Carolina, right, and it
Speaker 1: was they're flinging the ball all over the field out
Speaker 1: there on it. It's so difficult for a player, and
Speaker 1: I don't care what your talent level is to have
Speaker 1: this build up of offseason conditioning and workouts, go through
Speaker 1: train in camp, go through the preseason and now you're done.
Speaker 1: He had nothing to carry over to Week nine or
Speaker 1: week and you know, it's a big It's like it's
Speaker 1: culture shock, really coming back and expecting that level of
Speaker 1: play to be where it was where everybody liked him
Speaker 1: and signed him during the preseason. Hard to judge him
Speaker 1: by by that, based on based on doing that, and
Speaker 1: and look it and it opens the door for everyone
Speaker 1: to which everyone is doing kind of scratching their head, going,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, why the Dolphins extend this guy's contract
Speaker 1: when he's gonna miss eight games. I think they saw
Speaker 1: a lot out of him in training camp that they
Speaker 1: felt good about. But somewhere there's a disconnect between what
Speaker 1: they liked and training camp and what we saw when
Speaker 1: he came back against the game of Carolina. Now played
Speaker 1: a little better along the way, But they've got they've
Speaker 1: got to, you know, coach games loving for alpha dogs.
Speaker 1: They had to alpha dogs. And look, the one thing
Speaker 1: I like about is both can step to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Both can be that guy. But but but
Speaker 1: they both got to be something different too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Joe Joe hit it. There's a big question mark
Speaker 1: on this football team, but at that position, just knowing
Speaker 1: how good is t J McDonald, How does he fit
Speaker 1: Matt Burke wants to do with him? And how do
Speaker 1: they how do they play together? How do they play
Speaker 1: off of each other? Who's really good at what? When
Speaker 1: they're both on the field at the same time, you
Speaker 1: gotta compliment each other once tackling, but but both of
Speaker 1: them gotta make plays. We just need more playmakers. That's
Speaker 1: the playmakers. And that's that's what's all about. Bands on
Speaker 1: the football on defense or getting that book fall up,
Speaker 1: ball up in the air. That's right, get popping a
Speaker 1: guy getting the ball up in the air. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: the way you get the job done. Um, how come
Speaker 1: to one? Yells Oscar anymore? When they intercepted past, I
Speaker 1: thought that wasn't that a whole football? Wasn't that a
Speaker 1: whole football? The oh my god. Every place I've ever
Speaker 1: played Oscar was in the was in the vernacular, right,
Speaker 1: pops in your right? I don't hear it anymore? You
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's going by the way up a
Speaker 1: human with the full Let me get you going, now.
Speaker 1: What was the last usually saw a linebacker line up
Speaker 1: on a tight end and keep him on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Don't give me some, don't give me. I
Speaker 1: just want to get him going. They'll just out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Go get him a beer, and we'll watch the tight
Speaker 1: and run down the field, and he's got three or
Speaker 1: four catch, you know, and I know it's coming. I'm
Speaker 1: wearing thong underwear right now, and they just pulled up.
Speaker 1: They just pulled my butt right now, just stuck half
Speaker 1: way up my butt. I don't know. If you better
Speaker 1: go get me a beer. You won't be doing this
Speaker 1: because now you got him going again with a look good. Hey.
Speaker 1: Uh so, so that's kind of the news. So what's
Speaker 1: going on? Let me give this preseason schedules out week one,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay at home, week to Carolina on the road,
Speaker 1: then the Ravens on the road and Braves at home
Speaker 1: and then the Atlanta back here. Uh schedules to schedule
Speaker 1: in preseason. What it is A question I've got is
Speaker 1: waiting to see if if, if, I if somewhere along
Speaker 1: the line the Dolphins decided they want to do one
Speaker 1: of those uh, you know, practice deals with him. I
Speaker 1: think Baltimore would be the perfect team. But I think
Speaker 1: Baltimore has got something hooked up somebody got hooked up
Speaker 1: with Seattle. They're they're gonna do something with another partner. Hey, bo,
Speaker 1: how's the preseason road schedule? Look for food? Carolina? Not
Speaker 1: bad for food up there? Uh, Atlanta? That was alright,
Speaker 1: I'm just checking. I want quite frankly, when we go
Speaker 1: on the road, as long as someone else is buying
Speaker 1: the food, always pretty good. Line is always good on
Speaker 1: the road, alright. So, speaking of schedule, NFL schedule is
Speaker 1: due out. Who knows, it could be out tonight, it
Speaker 1: could be out tomorrow, but it's coming out pretty soon.
Speaker 1: And we had a chance to uh, to talk to
Speaker 1: the guys that that that make the schedule out here UM,
Speaker 1: NFL Senior Director of Broadcasting, Michael North, what do you say,
Speaker 1: we say, we hear what to say about the You
Speaker 1: can imagine that. Imagine the job of East team teams,
Speaker 1: of these guys to try to put the schedule together
Speaker 1: for thirty two teams and satisfy the teams, satisfy the owners,
Speaker 1: satisfy the fans, and most importantly satisfy the networks that
Speaker 1: are paying billions of dollars to put these games on
Speaker 1: their end. How about the other events you got called
Speaker 1: on with concerts, the stadiumable, and then you've got then
Speaker 1: then you've got weather things that we saw last year
Speaker 1: with a hurricane that changed things. So a lot of
Speaker 1: things go into it. But uh, the guy to the
Speaker 1: Michael North's the guy to to find out from. So
Speaker 1: we'll hear what he had to say. Well, with the
Speaker 1: NFL schedule, UH fast approaching, we're gonna find out what
Speaker 1: it looks like for the Miami Dolphins and every other
Speaker 1: team in the National Football League joining us now the
Speaker 1: senior NFL Senior director of Broadcasting, Michael North, and Michael,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. I know you've been Uh, i'd
Speaker 1: imagine you guys been pretty busy here over the last
Speaker 1: I don't know when when do you start this process
Speaker 1: of putting together a schedule for for an entire NFL season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the process actually starts the day after the regular season ends.
Speaker 1: That's the final piece to the puzzle. In terms of
Speaker 1: the two are and fifty six matchups, we know, based
Speaker 1: on rotation both inside and outside the conference, we know
Speaker 1: fourteen of the sixteen games really going out for the
Speaker 1: next ten, twelve, twenty four years. Even so, it's just
Speaker 1: those last two games that we need to know the
Speaker 1: final standings from the two thousand seventeen season, and then honestly,
Speaker 1: we get right to work that very next day. Every
Speaker 1: club gets a form that says, now we know your opponents,
Speaker 1: Please tell us what we need to know when we
Speaker 1: start constructing this schedule, both in terms of stadium availability,
Speaker 1: travel requests, are you part of the International series this year?
Speaker 1: And anything that you know we need to know in
Speaker 1: terms of special celebrations in the market or or other
Speaker 1: events going on in the market that would impact the
Speaker 1: club's ability to host a game on any specific day.
Speaker 1: So it really starts the day after the regular season ends,
Speaker 1: So you contact every team and find out what they
Speaker 1: may have in store. Um, as you said, celebrations this
Speaker 1: that or or or conflicts of stadium type things or
Speaker 1: those are all the things you go over with each
Speaker 1: and every team before you start putting pen to paper
Speaker 1: on this. Yep, that's exactly right. Every club gets a
Speaker 1: form that says, uh, tell us what we need to know,
Speaker 1: mostly things like, uh, stadium availability. UM, you know, we
Speaker 1: obviously don't want to schedule a game at home for
Speaker 1: a team when they're building. Is is simply unavailable? Um,
Speaker 1: we keep an eye on some of the other sports,
Speaker 1: whether it's a Major League Baseball obviously know that Dolphins
Speaker 1: don't share a park anymore with the Marlins, but they
Speaker 1: used to, so that was a consideration. And then there's
Speaker 1: obviously PG eight Tour golf events, there's NASCAR races, there's
Speaker 1: MLS soccer games, everything going on either in the stadium
Speaker 1: or or or in the stadium footprint, and also in
Speaker 1: the market. So every club gets to weigh in with
Speaker 1: here's what we need you to know when you guys
Speaker 1: are building our schedule, and then everybody waves in with
Speaker 1: some preferences in terms of, you know, we know we
Speaker 1: have to play this team this year if it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a warm weather site. You know, no, nobody's
Speaker 1: volunteering to come and play in Florida in September when
Speaker 1: it's hot. Nobody's volunteering to go play in Green Bay
Speaker 1: or Cleveland or Pittsburgh in December when it's freezing. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to open at home. Everybody wants to close at home.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to mid season by uh, you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: with with everybody wanting those things, you know you're never
Speaker 1: gonna be able to satisfy everybody. So the club's sort
Speaker 1: of send us a list, here's our priorities, and we
Speaker 1: do our best to hit the target for everybody, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: speaking of different things weatherwise, we ran into a situation
Speaker 1: last year, uh you know where we got hit with
Speaker 1: a hurricane down here, canceled our first game, which was
Speaker 1: supposed to be a home game, got moved later on.
Speaker 1: Fortunately Tampa had by the same week. Uh, and we
Speaker 1: got sent out of town. Do you look is that
Speaker 1: thing that that? Do you look at those types of
Speaker 1: things weather occurrences? Uh, you know, chances of it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know I've been through a number of hurricanes down
Speaker 1: here in South Florida and they always I know, they
Speaker 1: always happened either towards the end of the preseason or
Speaker 1: right at the beginning of the season. Is that anything
Speaker 1: that enters in the conversation, at least as far as
Speaker 1: down here in South Florida. Look, if our if our
Speaker 1: if our forecast was was that accurate, we would know
Speaker 1: not to put the Dolphins home the weekend of the
Speaker 1: hurricane was gonna hit. But if we could, if we
Speaker 1: could wave a magic wand you know, maybe the first
Speaker 1: five six weeks of the season, the home games in
Speaker 1: Miami our division opponent, and that way, if you do
Speaker 1: find yourself in a weather situation, one of your options
Speaker 1: might be swapped the sites of the division series instead
Speaker 1: of hosting New England in Week two as scheduled or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. If there's bad weather coming, you go
Speaker 1: up to New England in Week two and they'll come
Speaker 1: to you down in week thirteen or fourteen, whenever the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were scheduled to go to New England. Originally it
Speaker 1: didn't work out last year with Tampa. We were very
Speaker 1: fortunate that the Dolphins and the Bucks happened to share
Speaker 1: a bye week last year, so we were able to
Speaker 1: take that game out of Week one and and replace
Speaker 1: it with the byes. I know there's been issues with
Speaker 1: a Titans game, maybe even a Stealers game down in
Speaker 1: South Florida. It's it's random. It's dumb luck. If we
Speaker 1: happen to land on a week where the weather gets
Speaker 1: bad and we have a division opponent scheduled, the swap
Speaker 1: becomes an option. But really, it's it's it's it's completely random,
Speaker 1: and we just gotta cross our fingers and hope if
Speaker 1: we find ourselves in a situation like that, there is
Speaker 1: a viable solution. But is there a consideration to say, hey,
Speaker 1: early in the season, let's let's let's try to get
Speaker 1: a home game and then get them on the road
Speaker 1: a little bit, because that seems to be when when
Speaker 1: they occur. Yeah, I mean, look, you know this from
Speaker 1: your playing days. You know, sometimes the football side of
Speaker 1: the house and the marketing side of the house don't
Speaker 1: always see eye to eye. You know, if if the
Speaker 1: head coach of the Dolphin, you know, might want September
Speaker 1: home games at one o'clock as many as he can
Speaker 1: and and and get the you know, the road team
Speaker 1: in the heat, whereas you know, the director of ticketing
Speaker 1: or the VP of marketing may wanna consider you know,
Speaker 1: fans surveys and and and they don't like those early
Speaker 1: season games in the heat. And I know that's part
Speaker 1: of why Mr Ross went through the stadium renovations that
Speaker 1: he did. And uh, the answer is yes, it factors
Speaker 1: into every decision we make. But like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, all thirty two teams have to make the
Speaker 1: same sort of decision, you know, football side versus marketing side.
Speaker 1: Submit those requests and then the league office has to
Speaker 1: take all that into account, and really, you know, reread
Speaker 1: that same needle. You could make the perfect quote unquote
Speaker 1: team schedule for all thirty two teams, everybody you know,
Speaker 1: home away alternating weeks. Nobody catches a three game road trip,
Speaker 1: nobody plays a road game after a road Monday. You
Speaker 1: can get rid of all the buys in week four
Speaker 1: and five. You know, you could make really friendly team schedules.
Speaker 1: That's probably not going to be your best television schedule,
Speaker 1: and you know those are valuable partners as well. Flip side,
Speaker 1: you can make a fantastic television schedule all your biggest teams,
Speaker 1: all your biggest brands, and all your national windows. That's
Speaker 1: probably gonna lead to a lot of team pain in
Speaker 1: terms of competitive issues. So, rather than going to either
Speaker 1: of those two extremes, were sort of looking for the
Speaker 1: balance right in the middle. What's the right mix of
Speaker 1: you know, fan friendliness, competitive issues, friendly television schedules. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a it's a tough, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like there's a lot of variables in there, both
Speaker 1: from a team standpoint, from the network standpoint, all the
Speaker 1: different things. How many people are involved in this and yeah,
Speaker 1: there's got to be some kind of computer programming algorithms
Speaker 1: that you use in this or this is all done manually.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you fit all the different
Speaker 1: dynamics into coming out with a proper schedule. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that. The truth it really was, isn't that
Speaker 1: long ago that this was still being done by hand. Uh,
Speaker 1: certainly in your playing days that the schedule was created
Speaker 1: by hand, one game at a time. They used to
Speaker 1: come out and I think, yeah, exactly exactly that we
Speaker 1: were lucky to get one done. We were building it
Speaker 1: by hand. Um and there were things in those schedules
Speaker 1: that we certainly you know, wouldn't be proud of today.
Speaker 1: Um As the you know, technology has improved, both from
Speaker 1: the software side and the hardware side. We partnered with
Speaker 1: a company out of Western Canada called Optimal Planning Solutions,
Speaker 1: and we've been with them about a dozen years now.
Speaker 1: Um As, you know, computers have gotten faster and less expensive.
Speaker 1: I remember it wasn't that long ago we had six
Speaker 1: or eight computers in the room and I thought that
Speaker 1: was you know, space shuttle technology. We were never going
Speaker 1: to need more than that. Now, you know, with the
Speaker 1: cloud computing and the way you can spin up and
Speaker 1: spin down instances. We we've got hundreds, hundreds of computers
Speaker 1: running twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
Speaker 1: and they're all thinking about the same thing. Where is
Speaker 1: that right balance between competitive fairness for the clubs, you know,
Speaker 1: fan friendliness in terms of you know, the ticket buying public,
Speaker 1: and also television ratings. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, it is a television sport, and we are
Speaker 1: trying to you know, not so much generate the highest
Speaker 1: television ratings, necessarily so that our partners can sell more advertising.
Speaker 1: It's really more about getting those best games into television
Speaker 1: windows where as many fans as possible can see them.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got the Thursday Night Football package, now,
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, the key doubleheader games
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoons at four Eastern time. You know, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing our jobs, we wouldn't be doing right by
Speaker 1: the fans if those windows didn't have some of our
Speaker 1: best games in them. Any fan can look at the
Speaker 1: list the two and fifty six regular season matchups and identify,
Speaker 1: you know, the six fifteen games that are must see TV.
Speaker 1: We've got to make sure that those games end up
Speaker 1: in windows where most of our fans can eason. We
Speaker 1: wouldn't do in our jobs if the best games were
Speaker 1: one o'clock on Sunday with six other games at the
Speaker 1: same time, and only then available to the country in
Speaker 1: a regional window on CBS or Fox. We're looking for,
Speaker 1: you know, the biggest windows for our best games, and
Speaker 1: that is definitely one of the driving factors. I know
Speaker 1: you've got opportunities late in the season, flexing games and
Speaker 1: and this and that, but you know you got sit
Speaker 1: I'll give you a good example, like like you know,
Speaker 1: trying to set up games where you get those those matchups,
Speaker 1: those big matchups to see the you know, the premier
Speaker 1: teams playing the premier teams are great nights are great
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoons or whatever. And then you've got a situation
Speaker 1: like in green Bay where all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the green Bay Packers, one of the
Speaker 1: favorite teams going in it will certainly to be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, possibly played for a Super Bowl, and their
Speaker 1: quarterback Aaron Rodgers, goes down. And now those great games
Speaker 1: where green Bay was gonna be a participating in a
Speaker 1: in a great game, all of a sudden they kind
Speaker 1: of become a second tier team. That's gotta be a
Speaker 1: little a little frustrating, but it's the nature of the beast.
Speaker 1: So I guess you just you just live with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean though those kinds of things. Frankly, as one
Speaker 1: of the schedule makers, those those are gutting because you
Speaker 1: really do have to pick a handful of games right
Speaker 1: off the top and just commit to the fact that
Speaker 1: these games are gonna be on national television. They are
Speaker 1: MUFSIE TV. We've got to do everything we can to
Speaker 1: get them in those big windows. And you look at
Speaker 1: a game last year like Packers at Steelers, you know,
Speaker 1: with the Inner Conference opponent like that. The Packers visit
Speaker 1: the Steelers once every eight years. And so here we
Speaker 1: had this incredible moment, this incredible opportunity to playoff teams
Speaker 1: Rogers and Roethlisberger, and what an opportunity to put this
Speaker 1: game on Sunday Night Football on NBC, you know, in November,
Speaker 1: right when the playoff races are heating up. And that
Speaker 1: was you know, that was a lynch pin, a tent
Speaker 1: pole of our schedule last year. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. You know, Rogers gets hurt, and you know
Speaker 1: Hunley played well in that game. They gave the Steelers
Speaker 1: everything they could handle, came right down to the end.
Speaker 1: But it's just not the same feel at the beginning.
Speaker 1: The you know, the initial tuneing wasn't there. It wasn't
Speaker 1: quite as big as you had hoped, as we had hoped. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, as you do get later in this season though,
Speaker 1: like you said, there is flexible scheduling. If you've got
Speaker 1: a game schedule for Sunday night football and it just
Speaker 1: doesn't turn out the way you had hoped back in
Speaker 1: March or April, you do have an opportunity to move
Speaker 1: that game back into Sunday afternoon, but you have to
Speaker 1: find a Sunday afternoon game then that can move into
Speaker 1: Sunday night that would actually be better. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure we really had one last year, so we did
Speaker 1: end up staying with Packers. Steelers for Sunday Night turned
Speaker 1: out to be a great game, but certainly the ratings
Speaker 1: were a little disappointing and and certainly we we missed
Speaker 1: number twelve and Green no doubt who is who pushes
Speaker 1: more for what they want? Uh In scheduling the the
Speaker 1: NFL team's NFL owners or the networks themselves. They both
Speaker 1: pushed as hard as they can if that's the proper
Speaker 1: way to say it. Um, you know, it's a very
Speaker 1: fine line in to try to tow my boss Howard
Speaker 1: Katz and and certainly his boss Brian roll Lapp and
Speaker 1: and you know obviously right up to the Commissioner Roger Goodell. Uh,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to see that schedule where we you know,
Speaker 1: quote unquote cave in to our television partners and all
Speaker 1: of our teams feel like they were disadvantaged or had
Speaker 1: an unfair schedule. Nobody would be proud of that. Um.
Speaker 1: On the flip side, you know, like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: every team wants the same thing. And we're never gonna
Speaker 1: be able to open all thirty two teams at home,
Speaker 1: and we're never gonna be able to give all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams a week eight by somebody's gonna have to
Speaker 1: play in Florida in September, somebody's gonna have to go
Speaker 1: to lambeau Field in December. So what it really comes
Speaker 1: down to is is sort of managing expectations, understanding priorities,
Speaker 1: and and really just being honest with everybody. You're never
Speaker 1: gonna be able to get everything you asked for, team
Speaker 1: or network. So what really is important to you? If
Speaker 1: we can't do this, could we do that instead? Is
Speaker 1: this uh suitable plan B? Is this an acceptable alternative
Speaker 1: if we can't deliver exactly what you asked for? Um?
Speaker 1: You know frankly that the guys who have been in
Speaker 1: the league the longest, whether it's coaches, a general managers,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be honest with you, most of those guys,
Speaker 1: they really don't complain that much. Again, you probably remember
Speaker 1: this from you're playing Dames. I don't think any coach
Speaker 1: wants to complain too much about any one game, whether
Speaker 1: it's because of travel or time zone or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: because I don't think they want to give their players,
Speaker 1: you know, any excuse, any reason to think, hey, we
Speaker 1: were not going to have a shot in this game.
Speaker 1: So more often than not, our teams, you know, to
Speaker 1: a man, they say the same thing you. You tell
Speaker 1: us when to show up and we'll be there. They
Speaker 1: know they're at home and eight wrote opponents. We're just
Speaker 1: putting them in order. For the most part, the teams
Speaker 1: are are really really good about Hey, you you line
Speaker 1: them up and we'll play them when you tell us,
Speaker 1: how do the how the network sweeps where they're trying
Speaker 1: to uh get their books up so that that they
Speaker 1: can charge the advertising dollars they want, How does that
Speaker 1: come get involved in UM because certainly they want to
Speaker 1: have in their minds, and that's why I would assume
Speaker 1: that's where they want to have their premier games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's actually shifted a little bit over the
Speaker 1: last I would say six or eight years. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this about twenty. In the beginning, ye right weeks eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten eleven, that was a priority for everybody. We tried
Speaker 1: to shove our best Sunday night games in there are
Speaker 1: best Sunday afternoon doubleheader games in there. Sweep sweeks were
Speaker 1: a big deal to our network partners. Over the last
Speaker 1: I would tell you five or ten years, I think
Speaker 1: that's softened a little bit. I think they're more focused
Speaker 1: on depth and quality and season long averages as opposed
Speaker 1: to just, oh, we were excellent in November, but at
Speaker 1: the expense of September or December. You know, I think
Speaker 1: our network partners now look at it more as Hey,
Speaker 1: there are very few places any long around the television
Speaker 1: dial where you're gonna be able to deliver ten, twelve, fifteen,
Speaker 1: eighteen million eyeballs to any one show and live sports
Speaker 1: is still something that at least so far, seems to
Speaker 1: be you know, DDR proof and can't really be time shifted.
Speaker 1: So the fact that we can still put fifteen million
Speaker 1: people in front of a television whether it's on Thursday
Speaker 1: nights or Monday nights or Sunday afternoons, Um, I think
Speaker 1: it's more important to our partners that we do that
Speaker 1: consistently across the entire season as opposed to really trying
Speaker 1: to maximize, you know, one four week stretch is um,
Speaker 1: you know, last last year and I think this seems
Speaker 1: to be kind of a trend maybe or maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, maybe it just seems that way to me.
Speaker 1: But you know, last year, last towards the end of
Speaker 1: the season, we had uh really close back to back
Speaker 1: games against division opponents. Then we played Buffalo one time
Speaker 1: and then a game in between the Buffalo again, same
Speaker 1: thing with New England late in the season. Is that
Speaker 1: something that that has become uh, something that that you
Speaker 1: guys want to try to do get more of those
Speaker 1: key divisional games late in the season when when, as
Speaker 1: you said, earlier in November, when uh, you know, when
Speaker 1: the playoff picture is really starting to come into focus
Speaker 1: and it makes those games much much bigger games than
Speaker 1: had they been somewhere earlier in the schedule. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: About six or eight years ago, we started playing all
Speaker 1: division games in week seventeen and whenever we can, we
Speaker 1: certainly look for those schedules. There are you know, dozens
Speaker 1: hundreds thousands of legal, playable, finished NFL schedules in any
Speaker 1: given scheduling season, and we're going through every one of them,
Speaker 1: sort of eyeballing the pros and cons and what makes
Speaker 1: this one better than that one? And one of the
Speaker 1: factors is always number of division games late in the season.
Speaker 1: It tends to keep the playoff races a little bit tighter.
Speaker 1: You're less likely to have clinched your division if you
Speaker 1: still have more division games to go. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's sort of a uh, fan friendliness sort of thing.
Speaker 1: As the weather starts to turn in some of our
Speaker 1: cold weather outdoor stadiums, having a division opponent coming in
Speaker 1: there keeps it special, keeps it interesting. Um. And then yes,
Speaker 1: the the offshoot of that, the unintended consequence of that,
Speaker 1: if you will, is sometimes you do see a division series,
Speaker 1: you know, weeks fifteen and seventeen, thirteen and sixteen, they
Speaker 1: do get a little close at the end. But is
Speaker 1: that better or worse than having, you know, all the
Speaker 1: division games finished by week nine on any one team schedule.
Speaker 1: So again, trying to thread the needle and find that balance.
Speaker 1: It certainly makes things interesting, uh, towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year. I think the other thing you look at
Speaker 1: and I've had this, I've had this conversation with fans
Speaker 1: a lot over the years where they, you know, how
Speaker 1: come Mr Ross doesn't try to get more four o'clock
Speaker 1: games with this and that? And you know, my, my, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always believed and I mean, I assume
Speaker 1: I'm right. I mean I think, right is it to me?
Speaker 1: You know, four o'clock games? To me, those are national games.
Speaker 1: You earn four o'clock games. You know, you're not one
Speaker 1: in fifteen and they're you're not throwing people in those
Speaker 1: four o'clock games late in the season. Um, So certainly
Speaker 1: record or expectation of quality of teams, uh, I would
Speaker 1: assume comes into play for those four o'clock games. The
Speaker 1: highest rated windows, the most watched games tend to be
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon and four, And some of that makes sense
Speaker 1: just logistically, we know, you know, living in the East Coast,
Speaker 1: it does get you know, up against eleven eleven thirty
Speaker 1: at night sometimes and it's hard to keep people tuned
Speaker 1: in all the way through those primetime games sometimes. But
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon to four that's been our highest rated window.
Speaker 1: That's where you see those really big games pop, those
Speaker 1: really big numbers. You'll remember New England Pittsburgh from last
Speaker 1: year week fifteen thirty million people, you know, watching a
Speaker 1: football game Sunday afternoon at four thirty. It becomes a
Speaker 1: bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. Of course, as we
Speaker 1: see the window grow and as we see the ratings
Speaker 1: opportunity and the numbers of viewers increase for Sunday afternoon four,
Speaker 1: we do start thinking more about, Okay, we have to
Speaker 1: put our better games into those windows, knowing that's where
Speaker 1: we can find our fans, and our fans want to
Speaker 1: find our games. So you're you're right, the four Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon window is where we put you know, our our
Speaker 1: our a level content, if you will, Our our best
Speaker 1: games go into that spot. A little different here in
Speaker 1: the East Coast, obviously, because we have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: choose between a one o'clock and a four o'clock start.
Speaker 1: You know, out west, there's no such thing as an
Speaker 1: early window. There's no such thing as one o'clock Eastern time.
Speaker 1: That's ten am out there, So all the Western teams
Speaker 1: when they play at home have to play in that
Speaker 1: late window. Therefore, if you want to have some sort
Speaker 1: of quality, some sort of quantity for the fans that
Speaker 1: do like to tune in at one o'clock on a Sunday,
Speaker 1: that's generally where you find your East Coast games. Thursday
Speaker 1: night games have become a norm in the league. They're
Speaker 1: they're not going anywhere, um, but there's more and more
Speaker 1: chatter about Thursday night games, players, injuries, all that, And
Speaker 1: I would assume that that that was a fairly good
Speaker 1: topic of conversation. Um. Probably probably out of your hands,
Speaker 1: but certainly that involved the work you were doing, no
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You know, those decisions were obviously
Speaker 1: made well above my pay grade. But um, yeah, Thursday
Speaker 1: night football is a staple certainly now Fox has signed
Speaker 1: on for another five years. Um, you know, I know
Speaker 1: you played Thursday games, you know when you played. We
Speaker 1: we tend to think and we've heard from players and
Speaker 1: from coaches that yeah, the short week is obviously tough
Speaker 1: Sunday to Thursday, but nice to have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a break, almost like a mini by ten days
Speaker 1: after your Thursday before your next game. So we try
Speaker 1: to look that mini by maybe space it out as
Speaker 1: far as possible from the team's actual by kind of
Speaker 1: manage where the travel is the week before the Thursday.
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's obviously, you know, tough on the body,
Speaker 1: but um, I think Thursday night football is is certainly
Speaker 1: here to stay. And and the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: Fox is willing to step up and make the commitment
Speaker 1: that they did, uh, certainly indicates that you know, it
Speaker 1: is it is certainly part of the fabric of the
Speaker 1: league right now. Well, look, I always look forward to
Speaker 1: Thursday night game for that one reason. So looking to
Speaker 1: get that because we didn't have by you know when
Speaker 1: I played even at bye weeks, so that was really
Speaker 1: your that week where you go, man, we get we
Speaker 1: get you know, ten days off for our next game.
Speaker 1: That was a pretty good prize at the at whatever
Speaker 1: point because you use our Thursday games were later in
Speaker 1: the season. I know, you played a couple of Thanksgivings,
Speaker 1: I remember, and then as the Thursday package, you know,
Speaker 1: slowly grew, right, it started with just the back half
Speaker 1: of the season, and now it's a full season's worth.
Speaker 1: You could argue that it's a little more fair now
Speaker 1: instead of you know, only a handful of teams having
Speaker 1: the ones short week. Now it's it's pretty much everybody.
Speaker 1: We did get rid of the Thursday game in Week
Speaker 1: sixteen last couple of years, so that you don't get
Speaker 1: that one guy, you know, a ten day jump, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, or a three day jump, I should say
Speaker 1: on on his Week seventeen division opponent, where hopefully there's
Speaker 1: a playoff spot on the line. But you know, but
Speaker 1: for the Week sixteen, you know, there's a Thursday night
Speaker 1: game every week of the year, and and almost everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna play one. Try to be judicious about you know,
Speaker 1: where teams are the week before and and and where
Speaker 1: they're going the week after, and uh, you know whose
Speaker 1: turn is it in terms of home and away Thursdays.
Speaker 1: Certainly a home Thursday's easier than a road Thursday. If
Speaker 1: you've been a couple of years in a row as
Speaker 1: a road Thursday team, it's it's probably time at some
Speaker 1: point to get you a home game or two. So
Speaker 1: try to keep an eye on that. And then, like
Speaker 1: I said, it goes into every team's form when they
Speaker 1: feel like they are owed something, whether it's a home
Speaker 1: opener or a home Thursday or a mid season by,
Speaker 1: they're not shy about letting us know. Hey before before
Speaker 1: I let you go on and appreciate your time. Well,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the craziest request for something that some
Speaker 1: team or the network or somebody has wanted schedule wise?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a good one, you know. Putting aside
Speaker 1: some of the competitive stuff, I think what you find
Speaker 1: sometimes is, I don't want to call it gaming the system,
Speaker 1: but but let's just say that every everybody's an expert.
Speaker 1: So you often get teams when they fill out that
Speaker 1: form in January and they say, okay, here's our stadium
Speaker 1: blocks and uh, here's our requests. You get a handful
Speaker 1: of teams that will fill out their entire schedule. They'll
Speaker 1: send you a seventeen week schedule. We want to open
Speaker 1: with these guys go on the road here, then we're
Speaker 1: gonna come home on a Monday night. Then we're gonna
Speaker 1: play two home games in a road game. Then we're
Speaker 1: gonna have our buying wee gate and they literally set
Speaker 1: out their entire schedule for us. I'm pretty sure we've
Speaker 1: never actually able to accommodate that request. I can they
Speaker 1: can see that happen. Hey, uh, Michael, again, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you spending some time with us. Uh Uh, this
Speaker 1: stuff is gonna come out. Maybe we can get together
Speaker 1: with you afterwards and and kind of look at the
Speaker 1: Dolphin schedule and pick your brain on on on how
Speaker 1: you got to where you you got to with that
Speaker 1: and um. But but again, I appreciate you having, appreciate
Speaker 1: you having on the show, and uh, and you guys
Speaker 1: do a great job no matter what nobody I think
Speaker 1: this is one of those things where, um, everybody's every
Speaker 1: everybody's happy with the schedule, and nobody's happy with the
Speaker 1: schedule probably at the same time. Right we we know
Speaker 1: that you're never gonna have thirty two happy teams and
Speaker 1: six happy network partners or five partners six packages. You
Speaker 1: know you're never gonna be able to make everybody happy,
Speaker 1: so hopefully everybody's you know, only a little bit disappointed.
Speaker 1: And hopefully equally, if there's somebody out there who's really
Speaker 1: really angry, that's probably not our best schedule. With there's
Speaker 1: somebody out there who's really really happy, that's probably not
Speaker 1: our best schedule either. So it's really an exercise and
Speaker 1: pain management and uh, hopefully just disappointing everybody, equally. Said,
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of stuff going on and a
Speaker 1: lot of people are to solve. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how these guys, Uh, that's full time job. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I really don't know how they do it. Um and
Speaker 1: make everybody. Everybody happy because everybody's smiling. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: noticed one thing. If you noticed the teams they think
Speaker 1: are gonna be bad, you get a lot of one
Speaker 1: o'clock games, sure, no, no question about it. Well they
Speaker 1: look at you, go, well you got a Thursday night er.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, as you heard. We talked about that a
Speaker 1: little bit, and you know it's And I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of people over the years of tell me, hey,
Speaker 1: how come the dollars get don't get more four o'clock games?
Speaker 1: I said, well, they're in foro you gotta earn four
Speaker 1: o'clock games. You start winning games, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: like take a look at the Steelers, take a look
Speaker 1: at the Patriots, take a look at the Cowboys, take
Speaker 1: a look at those teams have been consistently and you're
Speaker 1: gonna see three prime time games. You're gonna see maybe
Speaker 1: one or two one o'clock games, and us the time
Speaker 1: you can playing four o'clocks. And then later you go
Speaker 1: you get those cold weather games and you get those
Speaker 1: cities like Philadelphia, and you know what you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: You get teams that are in the mix that haven't
Speaker 1: been there for a while. And it's a lot of funny.
Speaker 1: Even when we went out, you go out on on
Speaker 1: the West Coast and you get that taste of uh
Speaker 1: the year we played the Chargers and the Rams back
Speaker 1: to back, and that was kind of you felt like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're in this thing now. You know, it was fun.
Speaker 1: That was fun. Ended up being a lot better than
Speaker 1: I thought. Yeah, you know, I always love I used
Speaker 1: to love my favorite games played down here in South
Speaker 1: Florida and obviously played the Orange Bowl. Uh. I love
Speaker 1: the four o'clock home games because to me, it was
Speaker 1: like two different games. You'd go out there, you play
Speaker 1: at four o'clock, it was sunny and everything. Maybe then
Speaker 1: you go in the locker room at halftime and you
Speaker 1: come out and his black. It's pitch dark now and
Speaker 1: that lights wrong, so you kind of had a day
Speaker 1: game and and and I just love the atmosphere of
Speaker 1: that change, that time of the that time of the
Speaker 1: evening playing and going into the second half of the
Speaker 1: sun going down. It's always pretty cool. Did any part
Speaker 1: like one, you know, when you had a team coming
Speaker 1: in from cool weather though you didn't like it was
Speaker 1: two degrees. Don't remember playing. I remember playing against the
Speaker 1: Bears early in my career, Walter Payton and then that
Speaker 1: whole crowd and we played him in a one o'clock
Speaker 1: game in the Orange Bowl and it was it was
Speaker 1: hottest sin and obviously we're wearing all whites and they
Speaker 1: got the black on and they had to Two offensive
Speaker 1: linemen are on my side of line. Uh rev story
Speaker 1: and Noah Jackson will never if you get both of
Speaker 1: them were three hundred plus, but they were in old
Speaker 1: school three hundred plus fat asses, the guts hanging over
Speaker 1: the bell, you know. And I just remember every time
Speaker 1: I every time I'd rush, you know, I'd walk back
Speaker 1: by one of them, I go, Jesus hot out here
Speaker 1: for me. How are you guys standing this? They get
Speaker 1: yours out. I just kept trying to needle him a
Speaker 1: little bit. And then one of the one of the
Speaker 1: last place in the first half. You know they did
Speaker 1: that when they break the huddle and they kind of
Speaker 1: turned around. They broke the huddle. Both of them jump
Speaker 1: turned around and bent over and puked. Right, I look
Speaker 1: at better to go. This one's done. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: like that? More of them? Get some of those against
Speaker 1: some of those good uh. Later on, let's take some
Speaker 1: questions with some of these people from our Facebook. Reggie Lewis,
Speaker 1: you guys meaning fans do realize that great quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: hard to acquire, right. That's why with thirty two teams,
Speaker 1: you can count on one hand how many great quarterbacks
Speaker 1: there are in the lead. People people say, get rid
Speaker 1: of of Ryan Tanneville, But who are you gonna put
Speaker 1: in place? I I agree with that. And look, if
Speaker 1: you're not, you're not shining the light on on a
Speaker 1: secret out here. Look around the National Football League, and
Speaker 1: you you know this is kind of an aberration this
Speaker 1: year when you got to the final four of the
Speaker 1: of the NFL season and you had one one one
Speaker 1: legitimate franchise quarterbacks, you know, and everyone else was just
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, backup, quarterback, backup the whole thing, right, So,
Speaker 1: but but I mean it wasn't but but that was
Speaker 1: certainly the exception to the rule because usually look at it,
Speaker 1: and you know, you look at the those guys that
Speaker 1: are in the in the final you know, in the
Speaker 1: last you know, two weeks of the season including you
Speaker 1: get down to eight and four and six in all
Speaker 1: the good quarterbacks. And it's amazing too because that quarterback
Speaker 1: and Nick fails. He what was his first year in
Speaker 1: Philly through twenty six interceptions and maybe two touchdowns and
Speaker 1: two interceptions or something like that, and then he falls
Speaker 1: off the radar. He goes to a couple of teams,
Speaker 1: comes back and now he's the toast of Philly again.
Speaker 1: Came back with with the right guy that believed in him,
Speaker 1: that they had him in Casey almost quit. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll look at Alex Smith. Everywhere he goes. They want
Speaker 1: to get rid of him and want to get rid
Speaker 1: of him. We're watching that guy. Last year, we go
Speaker 1: to Kansas City and and I'm looking at my guys
Speaker 1: in and go. They want to get rid of this guy.
Speaker 1: They can't wait to get their first round, which we
Speaker 1: all knew. And you watch him though it all over
Speaker 1: the field. He's making he played anybody last year in
Speaker 1: stretches that we're that we're in the National Football Mark
Speaker 1: Angelo on Facebook. I hope Ryan got the extra time
Speaker 1: to figure it all out. That bothers me did Ryan
Speaker 1: to figure it out? Ryan, Ryan, as much as anybody
Speaker 1: I've been around, knows this offense, understands this offense I
Speaker 1: figured out to me it it makes you, It makes
Speaker 1: you feel like maybe and maybe it looks Mark, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Maybe the way it seems to me like
Speaker 1: you look at him as a guy that's stumbling to
Speaker 1: to figure out what he's doing. I don't don't think
Speaker 1: that's the case with Ryan. So I thought last year
Speaker 1: was gonna be his year. I'm happy with the offseason
Speaker 1: moves today. The great draft could make it all come together.
Speaker 1: I'm all with that. But the thing about Ryan figuring
Speaker 1: it out, Listen, he's doing everything. He is a flat
Speaker 1: out Jim rap. He's here all the time, John, you're
Speaker 1: here all the time. The guys always here. Um and
Speaker 1: he he works hard, both the physical part and mental part.
Speaker 1: And he's really picked up on this. You gotta be
Speaker 1: with your guys, with his receivers in the timing and
Speaker 1: the work. He understands. The deep passes don't just happen
Speaker 1: that you connect on him. You gotta work at it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how it's gonna work. I
Speaker 1: get a ball, I get a lot of people, Tanny Hill,
Speaker 1: as long as you got Tanny got no shot. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: I like what both of you guys said at one
Speaker 1: at one point. I don't know if it has been
Speaker 1: during the audible or we're just talking having conversation, But
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill to me and obviously to you guys, when
Speaker 1: he self scouts himself, he goes back and works on
Speaker 1: where he's deficient. He goes back and works on the
Speaker 1: things that coaches, head coaches, quarterback coaches, coordinators have told him, Hey,
Speaker 1: we need to improve in this area. But what has
Speaker 1: he done. He's improved in those areas, whether it's off
Speaker 1: the field, whether it's on the field, and leadership, whether
Speaker 1: it's a deep ball, whether it's pocket awareness, whether it's sliding,
Speaker 1: getting down in the zone, read and whether it's extending plays.
Speaker 1: Whether he never had to work on throwing on the run.
Speaker 1: He always did that well, he's always had pretty good
Speaker 1: But you remember was that he couldn't throw the deep ball,
Speaker 1: and he conquered that, came and had that great year
Speaker 1: with Kenny Stills and those guys years ago and just
Speaker 1: you know, deep balls, and so you don't know one's
Speaker 1: talking about that anymore, but that was that was what
Speaker 1: That's why he wasn't good him, Mike Wallace whatever, I
Speaker 1: mean you Mike didn't work at whatever did you didn't connect.
Speaker 1: But Kenny he worked at it. With this next group
Speaker 1: said damn it, we're gonna work. You guys gonna run
Speaker 1: hard for me, run routes hard. So we get timing
Speaker 1: down on this thing. And he really did work on
Speaker 1: his relationship with leaderships, being aware of being accountable, being vocal,
Speaker 1: all those things he got he's gotten better at. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, I don't want to I don't
Speaker 1: want to compare him too. But it was similar to
Speaker 1: Lebron James. When Lebron came out, he was the greatest
Speaker 1: player in the world. When he came out, right, but
Speaker 1: oh you know, yeah, yeah, you know what. He but
Speaker 1: but he's got no post game. He got no pot
Speaker 1: Remember that he got no when they lost to Dallas.
Speaker 1: Well you know if Lebron had a post game. Well
Speaker 1: the next here he came out and he had a
Speaker 1: post game, right, he worked on it. But playing the
Speaker 1: post everybody and they go, well, you know what, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what, he he can't hit the three,
Speaker 1: he can't hit along, you can't get along. He works
Speaker 1: on that. So so I think Ryan different. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's Lebron James, but I think it's a similar
Speaker 1: type of path where whatever his shortcomings were, every year,
Speaker 1: he's worked that offseason to make that better and I
Speaker 1: think we've seen it on the field. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see Tanny. I think he's gonna be on a mission.
Speaker 1: He had a chance to to. Had to kill him
Speaker 1: watching football last year to come back here and be
Speaker 1: ready to go. Johan, you you saw him every week
Speaker 1: on the road. I mean he was out there every week.
Speaker 1: He was out there in the field, and after the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks out there throwing on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks pretty good. Yeah, a little bit. You're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I just like the fact that he was around,
Speaker 1: he was talking, he was still part of the team,
Speaker 1: and just you know, because someone's gonna some guys you
Speaker 1: know it. Well, look and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that you look, if you're the starting quarterback in
Speaker 1: the team, they're gonna welcome you on the road. Some
Speaker 1: guys you stay at home. We'll we'll, we'll catch it
Speaker 1: when we get Yeah, I think because they know me
Speaker 1: and would be making sure no one else, making sure
Speaker 1: no one else is out there. We want to be
Speaker 1: the last ones in just to make sure this last
Speaker 1: thing on Ryan Ryan Tanhill knows this a big year
Speaker 1: for him. He's looking at this is this is the
Speaker 1: last supper. This is a big Yeah. I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I think he's been because you know, he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's been out of side, out of mind really for
Speaker 1: for for eighteen months now. Um, and so he needs
Speaker 1: to come back and re establish himself. And he's got
Speaker 1: a frool that you can run with the football. You know,
Speaker 1: he's not afraid to do that because I think that's
Speaker 1: a big part of what made him really good two
Speaker 1: years ago. Um. And then he's got to continue. He's
Speaker 1: gotta make these guys better around. He's gotta spread the
Speaker 1: ball around and and take advantage of all these these
Speaker 1: these weapons he's gotten. Hopefully, running game, Uh, you know
Speaker 1: it is something that can help him help pass. The
Speaker 1: running game is gonna be good, man, I'm right, And
Speaker 1: it all starts there. When we're talking about good. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be on offense. I know you got to have
Speaker 1: a quarterback, but that offensive line has to be better,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Hey, Uh, and getting better. Part
Speaker 1: of getting better is uh, is the draft coming up next?
Speaker 1: I can't hard to believe the draft is right here
Speaker 1: on us. Next Thursday, Miami Dolphins are holding the two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen NFL Draft Party presented by Publish at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium in Miami. Gardens and fence. Gonna be down
Speaker 1: the field, guys, We're gonna be down in the field. Uh.
Speaker 1: We got any wardrobe? I know? Young, but well no,
Speaker 1: I worned on the phone that night, all be wearing
Speaker 1: full I'll be wearing full briefs. Yeah, yeah, because I
Speaker 1: don't because when I wear that thong sometimes when I'm sitting,
Speaker 1: I tend to sweat and I don't do that. I
Speaker 1: don't need that image. We don't need image either, but
Speaker 1: that don't I really don't. I don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: But a lot of good stuff going on if you
Speaker 1: want to come out, as I said, presented by public,
Speaker 1: it's it's free to for the public to come in. Uh,
Speaker 1: live insider analysis. Owner, who's gonna give you that? Current
Speaker 1: former player, autographs the interactive game, photo opportunities, concessions, uh,
Speaker 1: concession areas. It's just a fun night, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's fun, you know, And I think we're a good
Speaker 1: position because we're might be you're not be sitting there
Speaker 1: late through the draft because you're down at twenty six
Speaker 1: and it starts lingering. Man, you know, who was that
Speaker 1: guy that just got drafted into two picks before us?
Speaker 1: You know, you know occasionally no, no, no, believe me,
Speaker 1: I'd prefer every maybe we can show no doubt about
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen early and uh and
Speaker 1: and look, I don't care, I don't care what unless
Speaker 1: you draft the guard. Everyone's I got drafted the first round.
Speaker 1: Who Meanwhile, the place is empty and like there's someone said,
Speaker 1: you guys don't know anything. Oh what? Uh anyway, So
Speaker 1: there's uh preregistration for free tickets is available at the
Speaker 1: dolphins dot com slash Draft party. Um, the audible is
Speaker 1: gonna be there. Uh, We're gonna have there's a Dolphin
Speaker 1: Football Experience, interactive for kids, Autographs, performances by the cheerleaders. UH, merchandise, garage,
Speaker 1: sale of old Dolphins ship that you can get right
Speaker 1: the old What do you mean I might get there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be able to get some good I would
Speaker 1: say you could buy use jockstraps, but I don't think
Speaker 1: daven are you know he fooled him out of his
Speaker 1: realized that we pulled them out of their performance undergear.
Speaker 1: Uh towards of hard Rock Stadium in the new luxury spaces,
Speaker 1: concessions available for purchase, so a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: All guests are encourage the R s v P. You
Speaker 1: can be ableble to win prizes throughout the event. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good time next next Thursday at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. Always fun for the draft and always
Speaker 1: exciting to sit and see. Uh, you know who's gonna
Speaker 1: be the newest member of the Miami Dolphins. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of some lumps that I'd like to see
Speaker 1: out there. The families like to see like se Marino
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, you think we get Jane Walks out
Speaker 1: there where we're at in this like your mob city.
Speaker 1: He'd like to see Ryan Tannehill. I like to see
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill right anywhere. It was it last year or
Speaker 1: two years ago when they when they they all count
Speaker 1: address in New Universe. They the new uniforms. What they
Speaker 1: took one Colorado uniforms. They had to do a whole different.
Speaker 1: Are we doing that this year? We get a little hunie.
Speaker 1: It could be. That was a cool picture I was
Speaker 1: in and with Tannehill Greece the three first round. That
Speaker 1: was cool and all had the uniform of their act.
Speaker 1: It was really nice. Yeah, I thought that was a
Speaker 1: pretty good thing there. Uh, to a chapman from a Facebook,
Speaker 1: pass rush is about to be crazy. We got good
Speaker 1: corners on our and our safeties are our beasts against
Speaker 1: the run. We'd just have to show up the linebacker room. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Pastor has got to be good.
Speaker 1: Pastor's gotta better than than it was last year. We've
Speaker 1: done what we've done with the better they've got with
Speaker 1: the moves they've made. Um, Yeah, they've got ana be
Speaker 1: a big stop to run and let's have some fun.
Speaker 1: It's not across your fingers when we're talking about the past.
Speaker 1: Has to be got offense going after people and harists,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean it's it's you got a lot
Speaker 1: of third guys, first down and get after it. No doubt.
Speaker 1: Tommy Clogg's Facebook put yours. I think Tommy's made I
Speaker 1: I quite frankly, I I don't know, but I think
Speaker 1: Tommy Cloggs is a made up guy. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that the logan or somebody made that up. I know
Speaker 1: a family of clogs. It's the clock name. I thought
Speaker 1: it was like the shoes, like those rubber shoes. Very
Speaker 1: common name is that I've never heard of before. And
Speaker 1: Tommy Cloggs it's made up. Why should we find out
Speaker 1: what he says? He's a made up guy. I don't
Speaker 1: think he is. I that logan or I thought it was.
Speaker 1: I thought it was one of the guys in the back.
Speaker 1: I think Leon made that. Do you think No, Leon
Speaker 1: is not creative enough. They come up with Tommy Cloggs.
Speaker 1: We're just glad you have Leon back. I thought I
Speaker 1: thought he was on vacation for a year or two.
Speaker 1: He took off. You know, he's like a piece of
Speaker 1: gum on the bottom my shoe, you know, go away.
Speaker 1: He just won't go away. Once you think it's gone.
Speaker 1: I think it's gone, and then a sudden you step
Speaker 1: on something and it just stretches. Jesus Christ, that goddamn
Speaker 1: gum can't shake. The kid didn't say dog what What
Speaker 1: did Tommy Cloggs say? I think Tommy Clogs is a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. I think he does. Put your
Speaker 1: GM hats on for for second, guys, if you were
Speaker 1: picking eleven, would you go with a purse or positional
Speaker 1: need or best player available? Well, that's kind of been
Speaker 1: the that's that's the question that always comes out on
Speaker 1: every day and rations coming up. That is there. They
Speaker 1: always do that media that media availability before the draft
Speaker 1: right where you go in there for about an hour
Speaker 1: a week from Yeah, it's tomorrow. I'm not gonna be here,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna miss I'm gonna miss it, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna miss anything. You're not. It'll be thirty minutes
Speaker 1: of nothing, of absolutely nothing. You know that question is
Speaker 1: gonna be asked when you know how do you go,
Speaker 1: do you know, how do you decide to pick you
Speaker 1: the best available? Or you can't have enough good players?
Speaker 1: Take the best players? Playing bullshit? You to go to
Speaker 1: our board and whatever our boards boards. Well, by the way,
Speaker 1: our higher guy just happened to be a linement the
Speaker 1: best player available. Yeah, no doubt about that. Uh Dean
Speaker 1: Dean Katherine facebook Kiko was out of position a lot
Speaker 1: last year. Milan coming back. I'd love to get Tremaine
Speaker 1: Edmonds or ray Kwan Smith Kuan Kuan I called ray
Speaker 1: Kwan Smith in the first round, or Layton vander Vanderess
Speaker 1: to kid from Boys state linebacker in the second. I'm look,
Speaker 1: if quarterback's not there, I'm saying, you gotta take one
Speaker 1: of those two guys, right, you gotta take y Kwan,
Speaker 1: you gotta take h Tremaine Edmonds. You gotta take one
Speaker 1: of those guys. I agree with some people, and if
Speaker 1: you follow these, a lot of people think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be real close. They could both be those top two
Speaker 1: guys could be sitting right there either. Look, if that
Speaker 1: quarterback bundle goes if that bundle of four quarterback goes there,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be two linebackers sitting there for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: at eleven. I'm almost positive with that. So you know,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with either one of those guys.
Speaker 1: If they're there, then it then it comes back to
Speaker 1: Tommy Clogs. Yeah, what what is your what is your
Speaker 1: favorite guy? And what does he do well for you?
Speaker 1: And both of them are pretty well positionedide of Virginia
Speaker 1: tech well and and look, I think and he's a
Speaker 1: speed guy. I think he comes for Yeah, he comes
Speaker 1: in with so you're so we go go back to
Speaker 1: that covering tight ends, try to neutralize tight ends somehow
Speaker 1: some way. Um and and that's I think where he
Speaker 1: fits in. This kid Vanderesh though, the kid from interesting
Speaker 1: looking kid there. He really impressed as he went through
Speaker 1: the you know, the combine and the pro days and
Speaker 1: all that stuff because watching him play. I had it
Speaker 1: the first game last year. It was Troy at Boise State.
Speaker 1: Watched him play, good and stinctful player, a guy that
Speaker 1: moved kind of like a a wide out when he
Speaker 1: ran in space. You know, he was he was kind
Speaker 1: of a lucid type of guy, could stick his nose
Speaker 1: in there and run. You know. He reminds me of
Speaker 1: some of those old defensive ends that U M used
Speaker 1: to have. Remember Rusty Maderas had a run there of
Speaker 1: about four or five guys, they were the same guy.
Speaker 1: There were six three, six, four, six, two thirty five
Speaker 1: to forty could run, could pass, could cover. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of where the kid Vanderesh really When I se
Speaker 1: him and watch him play, it kind of takes me
Speaker 1: back to those guy does and he doesn't look imposing,
Speaker 1: but he gets the job. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh this guy,
Speaker 1: this facebook raffie, uh dar darien Um. He wrote a
Speaker 1: book and here he is. Here's chapter one. I'm not
Speaker 1: the biggest Tan Hill fan, but I think he has
Speaker 1: the tools to be a solid quarterback. His biggest asset.
Speaker 1: His biggest asset is his toughness. He has a tough
Speaker 1: son of a bitch garant. He takes big time, he
Speaker 1: hits and gets right up. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people are concerned about his knee. I have seen tons
Speaker 1: of people have the same or similar procedures and come
Speaker 1: back just fine. Not to mention the quarterbacks, and not
Speaker 1: to mention the quarterbacks in the NFL who have done
Speaker 1: it as well. If your line can be not be swiss.
Speaker 1: Cheese this season and give a guy more than one
Speaker 1: second to throw. I think they've done given him a
Speaker 1: little more once. I really think Raff he's tough man, right,
Speaker 1: all right, you don't give anybody any good. What do
Speaker 1: you say about the defense? Nothing, He's just he's focused
Speaker 1: on the back. That's it. An O line speaking of
Speaker 1: him and two knees. Um just left a press conference
Speaker 1: with our our friend Frank Gore coming back to the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and he was talking a little bit and
Speaker 1: talking about his career, and you know, he's on the
Speaker 1: virgin becoming maybe the fourth leading rusher in NFL history,
Speaker 1: and and it was all I could do to keep
Speaker 1: myself from asking him, Frank, how good do you think?
Speaker 1: Does he ever think about how good you would have
Speaker 1: been had you not had two A C. L injuries
Speaker 1: when you're universal, I mean a freshman, when you know
Speaker 1: when he was a freshman, of course, and you think
Speaker 1: Willis mcgahey, who was mcgahey. He ran for seventy yards
Speaker 1: every game late in the third and fourth because they
Speaker 1: were so far up in front, and he was I
Speaker 1: think I think Frank was average at the time before
Speaker 1: he I think he was as a freshman year, he
Speaker 1: was averaging like twelve yards to carry. He's the best
Speaker 1: since I've been down here. And I remember I got
Speaker 1: drafted by I called my buddy. I said, look, this
Speaker 1: guy's had two really horrendous knee injury but you're gonna
Speaker 1: love this kid man. And and he's certainly paid big dividends.
Speaker 1: R Reeve did both those a c L Now they're
Speaker 1: all back together, right, and both when he was at
Speaker 1: the U. But what a career. What careers and old
Speaker 1: schools and you know what, he to me is a
Speaker 1: perfect guy um for Kenyan Drake. But just because just
Speaker 1: like he said, he said, look, I'm not a big talker,
Speaker 1: but watch me practice, watch how I go about my business.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna provide leadership football team. Everybody's been
Speaker 1: talking about what a great fit Frank Gore is gonna
Speaker 1: be for Kenyan and how that's gonna work. What a
Speaker 1: great fit this is for Frank Gore to come home
Speaker 1: and not have them he doesn't have to be there.
Speaker 1: And I think the pressures, I mean, whatever he gives
Speaker 1: gives the Miami Dolphins is gravy. But it's a great
Speaker 1: fit for him too, because I think The flexibility of
Speaker 1: being in that position allows him to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for it, right, I'm gonna just lay
Speaker 1: it all out and and I think you can learn
Speaker 1: a lot from that. But I think it's also satisfying
Speaker 1: for Frank. I think he'll be in the rotation a
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I think get it. And Frank catches
Speaker 1: the ball, well, he can do that. Big numbers there too,
Speaker 1: looking And you know, that's the one thing Adam Gays
Speaker 1: tried to do last year with Damian Williams up in
Speaker 1: New England. Damian Williams and Kenyan. Put them both in
Speaker 1: the backfield and both can carry the ball, both can
Speaker 1: run routes for you both you know, certainly, certainly Damian
Speaker 1: blocks block better than Kenya. But but Kenyan stick his
Speaker 1: head in there. You do the same thing with Frank, right,
Speaker 1: But Frank and Kenyan back there give you two backs
Speaker 1: back there that can do multiple things and it allows
Speaker 1: you really to do a lot with your offense. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see how they work at
Speaker 1: El Chopo Jr. Back in through Facebook all thirty two
Speaker 1: with all thirty two teams doing offseason training right now,
Speaker 1: what separates the good from the bad. Uh A hair talent? Yeah, hair, Look,
Speaker 1: I would say that. Look, I would say the town
Speaker 1: that I really believe, still believe that the talent between
Speaker 1: top and body in this league is very very the
Speaker 1: difference tree topped bottom very narrow from A from A
Speaker 1: from a talent standpoint, and now you start factoring the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: that's one of the big things in it. But I think, I, look,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see very many teams or very
Speaker 1: many players this day and age in the NFL that
Speaker 1: that aren't in just phenomenal shape. You got no, you
Speaker 1: got no. Nobody's coming into camp or there there there.
Speaker 1: That's that's all. And look, a lot of these guys,
Speaker 1: like Frank was talking about all the different running backs
Speaker 1: he's working out with on a regular So so now
Speaker 1: they work out with their teams, they work out with
Speaker 1: different teams. Facebook, Leon, Yes that Leon, Leon sending Leon
Speaker 1: got nothing better to do than send stupid questions in
Speaker 1: it is a stupid question. You guys pay attention to
Speaker 1: any mock drafts. If so, who do you think does
Speaker 1: the best out there? Well, I think I'm a big
Speaker 1: old Mark Kelly uh Mono. Draft you're a bad You're
Speaker 1: you're a bad. Man asked the question. He asked the question.
Speaker 1: I gave him my answer, right, you know what, you're
Speaker 1: a milk hyper junior junior. Man, Hey, you remind me,
Speaker 1: remind you, Joe remember mind you where you can see
Speaker 1: the podcat you can see it? Come on, man, right
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Speaker 1: not like websites now are becoming past they're they're kind
Speaker 1: kind of cliche. Now you gotta go to all this
Speaker 1: other sting. Can I get to another one that's become
Speaker 1: very popular? Which one is that? That's the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: mobile app and tune in radio. It will become popular
Speaker 1: when you get the app. Jones and just dropping man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got all that right here. I bet you a
Speaker 1: Hunter Bucks. I'm gonna take my word if you're listening
Speaker 1: to this fiasco on right now on any one of those,
Speaker 1: in any one of those situations, right, we're done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. We're over by