WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 6 | Mike North 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.720 All right, y'all go back on the air, Kimbo, Camper, 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.039 Joe Rose, John con Jemmy with you and uh, hey, 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.320 we're talking a little schedule today in a program. Schedule 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.000 is coming out here pretty soon to see what it is. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.640 And you know, it's funny. It's the NFL spends a 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:19.880 lot of time working on schedules, making sure they get 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.320 all the right games and all the right places everyone 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.280 where they're supposed to be. And uh and it's kind 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.280 of a secret thing, but it seems like half the schedule, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.479 I've seen rumors of we're gonna play this team on 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:31.080 that day. I don't know where this I don't know 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.199 where all this uh leakage comes from as far as 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.960 as the NFL schedules concerned. Have we all learned though, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.920 And I know we still do it as fans. We 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:40.479 we like to go, Okay, we can win this one. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.440 Oh that's gonna be a tough every year. But we've learned. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.239 I don't pay attention. You don't know who's gonna be 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.920 outside of a couple of teams. You know who's gonna 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.720 be good, who's not. You know who's gonna be banged 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.159 up with the injury bug and who's not. Well, that's 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.920 the thing that gets me. Everyone talks about, jeez, how 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:56.960 tough is the schedule? I said, well, you know what. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.600 To me, the the NFL schedule, more than any schedule 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.000 in sports, is fluid because you know, you're you're going 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.360 along and here's this team there won four straight games 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.000 and man, they look great, and you got to play 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.720 them next week, and all of a sudden, their quarterback 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.200 goes down, or they're running back goes down, or someone 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:13.840 goes down. All of a sudden when you play them, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.200 they're not that same team that they were, and so 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:17.800 they change all the time. You no, I agree with 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.319 you guys about that. What I've been looking at during 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.000 schedules now is hey, where are we home or away? 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.400 How many weeks are we away? Where's our bye week at? 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.399 You know, we're compared to the other teams in the 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.360 a f C East, so we can compare apples to apples, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.280 and I'd be interested to see how the teams are 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.840 finishing the year now, because it seems like Joe and 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.280 Camp for a number of years now. A f C East, 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.960 You've got four four games, you know it left in 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.680 your schedule. Three of the four, four and through the gauntlet. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.960 Last year was four division games and Bills and Patriots 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.240 in the last six games. And I think the league 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.720 and I look you talk about looking at when when 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.720 I look at the schedule, first thing I look at 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.920 is when do we play the Patriots? When we play 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.200 the Bills, when we play the Jets? I do that. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.080 That's the first. By the way, just being an old 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.520 A f C skuy, I always looked at the three 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.600 teams in the A f C s and when you're 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.640 playing them on the road. So here's the way I 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:15.400 look up. And here's where where I go. I go 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.080 division games? Where the where were we were the Jets 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:23.680 and the Patriots and the Bills. That's one too cold 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.720 weather warm weather? Three? What kind of food can we 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.079 eat at all these places that were going to well 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.760 priorities and and and three? Mate maye every now and 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:40.800 jump and may jump above to one. Yeah, food wise 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:45.240 on game day, media food, the freeloading food, the Patriots. Man, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.720 that's and by the way, everything else is really good. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.040 I mean, God bless Mr Kraft. I mean they're going 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.680 there ain't no budget up there. That's that stuff. No, no, no, 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.680 I always make sure I make a trip up to 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.800 the press boxing New just just to get some of that. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.359 I'm childer. I love when I go from my college 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.640 football games. If we get an Old Miss game or 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.280 a South Carolina getting barbecue and and you don't even 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.079 have to leave the booth. They got the trays in 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.959 the back. You get spoiled. You. I'll be right back. No, 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:17.119 you TV guys, the national TV guys get that well, No, no, Joe, don't. 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.360 I don't. Don't paint the picture. It's all rosy for me. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:24.640 That's one place. The other places I'm going downstairs, watch 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.359 those guys the CBS when the big guys come in 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.240 during like Rock so they're needing the same food. Worry, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.600 I know, I hear you. Are you well even? And 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.040 then probably Harvey Green or someone's taken out for taking 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:41.520 out for a big dinner kissing BECAUSEY wants to kick 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:42.880 their ask because it's the only way he can get 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.280 a free meal because by taking them out. So it's 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.120 not so much about them, it's more about more about Harvey. Hey, 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.280 So we got a lot of stuff to get in. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.960 We talked about the schedule. Uh, We're gonna talk with 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.600 the NFL Senior director of Broadcasting, Michael North. He's involved 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.880 in from start to finish getting this schedule together. Obviously, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.320 talk about what's going on, the team will get to 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.960 some of the questions that people are getting in UH 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.000 and our podcast Apple Music. Joe, you can listen to 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.480 it there any other place you can get it at 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.440 Dolphins dot com maybe Miami Dolphins mobile app that I 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.680 know you haven't loaded yet. Tune in radio that you 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.880 have no idea, that's even though you're in the radio business. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.799 Episodes one day, what do they do every Thursday? Joe dropped, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.279 They dropped. That's what they do every Thursday. They drop. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.960 It all happens. You're becoming. You're in a short in 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.200 a short period of time since we've done a podcast, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.599 although neither of the three of us really understand what 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.680 a podcast is. Now you've been getting very techno savvy 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.520 in these last streaming video right now you're in the 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:43.359 streaming video. Awesome. Yeah, I feel like, when are you 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:44.760 gonna go? When are you gonna get to get to 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:51.839 the point from a technical standpoint that answering your phone? 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.080 You feel like Joe's back in cal right now. This 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.200 is one of his classes and start didn't start real 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:08.800 well some but it's starting to get better. You're gett bit. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.840 You're not gonna be able to play against Fresidro State. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.960 You're okay, Oh you got Southern count You'll be all right. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.840 Don't go ahead, you get ready to go. Hey, I 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.320 want to remind the fans. You can go ahead and 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.000 send your questions in through Facebook, send him in through Twitter. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.040 We'll get to the questions and get everything going. Uh. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.280 Talk about a couple of other things going on. Uh. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.000 The Dolphins go out and they sign it tight in 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.080 Gavin Escobar. He was a forty seven overall picking two 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.119 thousand thirteen by the Cowboys, playing sixty four games, seven 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.800 stars during his career. Um, he's not the answer. No, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.280 he's just another another guy to come in and compete. Uh. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.840 And good bodies out there. And that's a position that 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.040 we've talked about how much of a position they need. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.800 That is. To me, it's kind of one of those Hey, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.880 you know what, bringing ten of them and and just 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.280 put them through the sifter and whicheveryone's fall out and 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.160 whichever two or three fall out, and then and then 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.080 put them in the mix. They gotta get a homegrown 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.840 they got to get one with no mileage on it 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.920 that is raw that you can coach up. Oh yeah, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.560 and by the way, don't don't go down the line 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.160 on it. Make it a top three round priority. So 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.040 let me ask the conversations I've had with people regarding 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.159 tight ends. But he doesn't block. But he doesn't block, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.080 none of them. I don't care at this point, I 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.560 don't care. Bring Anthony Fasano back, let him block and 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.599 get someone out there that runs around. And how many 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.920 players and guys how many plays those guys in there 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.880 to block? Are not very many? Isn't many? Right now? 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.000 When you're in the red zone. Now, I've watched Adam 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.719 Gates for two years now, when you're in the red zone, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.720 he wants to flex his tight end out, get him 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.640 one on one, get three receivers of the other side 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.600 he didn't need to block, get open right now. As 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.120 we as where we sit right now right today, this 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.760 team with with whoever they brought in, whoever they've signed, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.400 where they brought back, we don't have a starting tight 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:08.240 end zero where we're standing right now. I mean, it's 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.040 just it's just the way it is. So something has 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.280 to be done between now and then my assumption is 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.240 it's it's I can't see this team coming out of 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.640 the draft, which which quite frankly is next week. It's 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:20.760 hard to believe it's already on the next week. Um, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.640 I can't see him coming out of the draft without 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.040 a tight end. Well, they're gonna have a choice to 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.720 make second round, third round, fourth round. There's gonna be 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.160 guys that have been productive college tight ends that are 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.520 flexed out all the time, that are catching forty fifty 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.520 sixty passes a year, and that are very athletics. So 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.520 they're gonna have a choice now where they select that guy. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.080 The choices are gonna start to dwindle once you get 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.680 past the third and fourth round. You know, there's not 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:47.760 a whole lot of low hanging fruit that you say, well, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.800 that's our guy. You know that can start in a 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.200 national football You know, I'm with you, two round one 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.600 or two one or two. To me, you either got 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.320 to walk away with quarterback, line acker, tight end. And 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.720 I think those quarterbacks gonna be gone. So I think 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.560 I think if I was gonna look at my crystal ball, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.800 I would say, uh, linebacker at eleven and and a 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.280 tight end and just go out and you know what, 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.280 I know, it's it's it's not the position to need 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.080 theory out there. But if you're in that second round, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.080 you're sitting there and there's a tight end there that 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.840 do you think, well, you know, jeez, you know, maybe 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.640 maybe he should be drafted about three or four more picks, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.600 and maybe maybe maybe we jumped the gun, and we 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.360 jumped the gun. Take the goddamn guy, get him in here. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.280 Let's get a tight end on a roster that can 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.840 catch the ball and be a difference maker. I'm all 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.600 for it because this offense is in need of playmakers. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.760 Joe and I were talking before the show about you know, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.360 who's gonna replace all those catches in the slot. Well, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.839 doesn't necessarily have to be a slot. It can be 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.439 dispersed in other areas. You know, we want, you want 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.600 to Vaunte to rise up and be the guy he's 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.480 gonna get some of those catches. But I do agree 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.760 the formations that Adam Gaize's Adam Gates uses not only 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.640 in the red zone but in the middle field. The 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.000 quick passes. He's looking for mismatches, He's looking for an 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.080 opportunity to get the ball out quickly. The guys that 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.240 can make a move, make somebody miss and get a 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.440 first down or or explosive play. And that includes the 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.920 tight end position. So one of the things is always 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.360 I played tight end in junior college, but it was 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:19.800 we were a running team, and so I didn't I 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.320 didn't catch very many balls. But but the one thing 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.080 about a tight end, Joe, you played the position your 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.160 whole life. I mean that that always I thought was 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.640 always one of the tough parts. Is a lot of 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.079 times as the tight end, as soon as the ball 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.719 is coming to you're you're getting hit. You you gotta hit, 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.240 you gotta catch and and protect. You know, wide receivers 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.760 may sometimes you get a little more open, but very 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.679 rarely you see a tight ends and it's not it's 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.400 catching the ball and not being not not being attacked 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.120 as soon as the ball hits. You know, we've lost 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.280 the last two years. How many plays can you guys 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.000 remember us fronting down the scene, down to hash marks, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.800 down the numbers, just running between safety. It's not great 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.880 where a guy just put it on you catch it, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.120 you're gonna get hit, just catch it. It's a yard play. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.240 I don't remember me. We haven't run that route and 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.920 Charles playing was the last guy here that I remember. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:18.720 Tanneyhill a good time doing it, very productive, and that 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.079 became that became a wide in the field out a 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.480 heck of a lot remind me passing offense. And it 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.480 wasn't only down the middle. Joe's down the rail too. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.200 On the little wheel routes. Charles, you know, top throws 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.640 and your back shoulder bang, you'd catch it and fall down, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.640 but hey, you know you got you got big place, 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.240 you know. I remember one of one of the tough 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.080 things for me always to cover was that tight end. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.320 It ran a little that that little take off. Just 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.960 take it out to the sideline and turn it up, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.160 you know, And that's a that's a tough cover for 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.560 a linebacker. And if you can get that guy that 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.640 can can do that and run down the seam and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:48.719 really adds a lot to your offense. It gives you 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.440 a lot of options out in the field. And you 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.360 flip that around, you flip that scenario around. We're talking 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.360 about positions in the draft. That guy at eleven, if 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.640 it happens to be a linebacker, and two guys that 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.000 you know everybody's talking about, could be there and Edmonds 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.200 and Smith from Georgian and Virginia Tech, respectively. There's been 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.480 a lot of room for opposing tight ends catching against 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.080 the Miami Dolphins, and we're hoping if the Dolphins are 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.280 there and the quarterbacks are gone and that's not you 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.200 know in our conversation that one of those two guys 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.000 are able to come in and help close that gap 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.320 between the Dolphins defending an opposing and that kind of 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.679 rolls into the to the other news that that came 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.319 out over last week. Kenny vecarl Uh safety was drafted 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.240 by the Saints and the fifteen pick Uh pick in 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.400 two came in for a visit. So so there's a 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.959 safety there. And again, I think that belies what you're 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.800 talking about, John, is that this team is dead set 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.760 this year somehow during the off season of figuring out 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.400 how to how to stop tight ends and the carro 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.800 is a guy that comes in and is a cover guy. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.560 He's a he's a he's a he's a guy can 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.560 come up. But it also to me, it puts t. J. 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.040 McDonald in a position where are you gonna make him 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.000 that hybrid guy. You're gonna put him that guy that's 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.880 a safety slash linebacker to either be a physical guide 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.440 the line of scrimmage with tight ends and get help 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.880 over the top, or or what are you gonna do 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.080 if you go out either draft or they didn't sign 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:15.040 kennycarl but if you if you do sign something like that, Um, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.360 it shows the importance of I think to understand how 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.880 important to wear in both sides of the tight end 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.719 game offense. Yeah, you know, providing offense by the way 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.080 t J. McDonald and it's not a shot. He's still 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.200 a mystery to me on what you can do. Yeah, well, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:33.839 look I gotta give him. I gotta give him a 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.560 training camp and then given right on the field. Ye 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:38.840 I don't I don't care what you say. You know 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.720 they didn't work well together to say, well, how can 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.800 you work well when you come in after eight weeks 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.840 and just jump in a jump on board. I think 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.840 his first game was up in Carolina, right, and it 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.880 was they're flinging the ball all over the field out 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.079 there on it. It's so difficult for a player, and 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.319 I don't care what your talent level is to have 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.760 this build up of offseason conditioning and workouts, go through 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.720 train in camp, go through the preseason and now you're done. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.480 He had nothing to carry over to Week nine or 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:13.360 week and you know, it's a big It's like it's 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.360 culture shock, really coming back and expecting that level of 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.640 play to be where it was where everybody liked him 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.480 and signed him during the preseason. Hard to judge him 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.320 by by that, based on based on doing that, and 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.679 and look it and it opens the door for everyone 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.439 to which everyone is doing kind of scratching their head, going, 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.240 wait a minute, why the Dolphins extend this guy's contract 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.560 when he's gonna miss eight games. I think they saw 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.120 a lot out of him in training camp that they 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.840 felt good about. But somewhere there's a disconnect between what 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.320 they liked and training camp and what we saw when 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.840 he came back against the game of Carolina. Now played 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.080 a little better along the way, But they've got they've 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.480 got to, you know, coach games loving for alpha dogs. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.160 They had to alpha dogs. And look, the one thing 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:55.960 I like about is both can step to the line 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.040 of scrimmage. Both can be that guy. But but but 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.360 they both got to be something different too. Yeah, I 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.000 think Joe Joe hit it. There's a big question mark 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.880 on this football team, but at that position, just knowing 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.040 how good is t J McDonald, How does he fit 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.880 Matt Burke wants to do with him? And how do 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.840 they how do they play together? How do they play 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.040 off of each other? Who's really good at what? When 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.040 they're both on the field at the same time, you 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.400 gotta compliment each other once tackling, but but both of 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.400 them gotta make plays. We just need more playmakers. That's 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.640 the playmakers. And that's that's what's all about. Bands on 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.080 the football on defense or getting that book fall up, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.000 ball up in the air. That's right, get popping a 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.600 guy getting the ball up in the air. Uh, that's 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.440 the way you get the job done. Um, how come 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.600 to one? Yells Oscar anymore? When they intercepted past, I 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.880 thought that wasn't that a whole football? Wasn't that a 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:49.360 whole football? The oh my god. Every place I've ever 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.880 played Oscar was in the was in the vernacular, right, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.200 pops in your right? I don't hear it anymore? You 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.680 know it's it's it's going by the way up a 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.640 human with the full Let me get you going, now. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.280 What was the last usually saw a linebacker line up 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:05.560 on a tight end and keep him on the line 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:09.560 of scrimmage. Don't give me some, don't give me. I 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.720 just want to get him going. They'll just out of nowhere. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.080 Go get him a beer, and we'll watch the tight 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:17.680 and run down the field, and he's got three or 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.040 four catch, you know, and I know it's coming. I'm 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.160 wearing thong underwear right now, and they just pulled up. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.960 They just pulled my butt right now, just stuck half 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.440 way up my butt. I don't know. If you better 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.360 go get me a beer. You won't be doing this 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:42.560 because now you got him going again with a look good. Hey. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.760 Uh so, so that's kind of the news. So what's 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.960 going on? Let me give this preseason schedules out week one, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.320 Tampa Bay at home, week to Carolina on the road, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.640 then the Ravens on the road and Braves at home 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.440 and then the Atlanta back here. Uh schedules to schedule 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.200 in preseason. What it is A question I've got is 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.840 waiting to see if if, if, I if somewhere along 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:05.920 the line the Dolphins decided they want to do one 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:08.440 of those uh, you know, practice deals with him. I 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.400 think Baltimore would be the perfect team. But I think 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.400 Baltimore has got something hooked up somebody got hooked up 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.440 with Seattle. They're they're gonna do something with another partner. Hey, bo, 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:22.480 how's the preseason road schedule? Look for food? Carolina? Not 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:29.360 bad for food up there? Uh, Atlanta? That was alright, 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.840 I'm just checking. I want quite frankly, when we go 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.320 on the road, as long as someone else is buying 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.720 the food, always pretty good. Line is always good on 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.680 the road, alright. So, speaking of schedule, NFL schedule is 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.040 due out. Who knows, it could be out tonight, it 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.880 could be out tomorrow, but it's coming out pretty soon. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.440 And we had a chance to uh, to talk to 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.840 the guys that that that make the schedule out here UM, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.320 NFL Senior Director of Broadcasting, Michael North, what do you say, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.800 we say, we hear what to say about the You 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.360 can imagine that. Imagine the job of East team teams, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.080 of these guys to try to put the schedule together 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:08.000 for thirty two teams and satisfy the teams, satisfy the owners, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.680 satisfy the fans, and most importantly satisfy the networks that 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.040 are paying billions of dollars to put these games on 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.000 their end. How about the other events you got called 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:22.880 on with concerts, the stadiumable, and then you've got then 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.320 then you've got weather things that we saw last year 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.240 with a hurricane that changed things. So a lot of 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.880 things go into it. But uh, the guy to the 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.080 Michael North's the guy to to find out from. So 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.720 we'll hear what he had to say. Well, with the 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.919 NFL schedule, UH fast approaching, we're gonna find out what 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.719 it looks like for the Miami Dolphins and every other 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.199 team in the National Football League joining us now the 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.000 senior NFL Senior director of Broadcasting, Michael North, and Michael, 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.040 thanks for joining us. I know you've been Uh, i'd 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.240 imagine you guys been pretty busy here over the last 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.440 I don't know when when do you start this process 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:59.080 of putting together a schedule for for an entire NFL season. Yeah, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.720 the process actually starts the day after the regular season ends. 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.639 That's the final piece to the puzzle. In terms of 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.399 the two are and fifty six matchups, we know, based 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.080 on rotation both inside and outside the conference, we know 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.199 fourteen of the sixteen games really going out for the 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.280 next ten, twelve, twenty four years. Even so, it's just 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.280 those last two games that we need to know the 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:26.000 final standings from the two thousand seventeen season, and then honestly, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.000 we get right to work that very next day. Every 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.600 club gets a form that says, now we know your opponents, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.560 Please tell us what we need to know when we 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.520 start constructing this schedule, both in terms of stadium availability, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.200 travel requests, are you part of the International series this year? 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:44.639 And anything that you know we need to know in 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.760 terms of special celebrations in the market or or other 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.439 events going on in the market that would impact the 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.160 club's ability to host a game on any specific day. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.160 So it really starts the day after the regular season ends, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:00.280 So you contact every team and find out what they 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.359 may have in store. Um, as you said, celebrations this 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.159 that or or or conflicts of stadium type things or 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.960 those are all the things you go over with each 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.639 and every team before you start putting pen to paper 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.320 on this. Yep, that's exactly right. Every club gets a 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.919 form that says, uh, tell us what we need to know, 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:24.480 mostly things like, uh, stadium availability. UM, you know, we 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.040 obviously don't want to schedule a game at home for 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.800 a team when they're building. Is is simply unavailable? Um, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.119 we keep an eye on some of the other sports, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.960 whether it's a Major League Baseball obviously know that Dolphins 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.520 don't share a park anymore with the Marlins, but they 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.680 used to, so that was a consideration. And then there's 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.640