Speaker 1: Low down, Miami U. What is up, Dolph Fans, and
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's
Speaker 1: it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield writing
Speaker 1: solo on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast And on
Speaker 1: today's show, we've got several categories to cover. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go back into the schedule and talk about some quirks
Speaker 1: of this year's schedule for the Miami Dolphins. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get to rookie Minicamp, play some audio from the media
Speaker 1: press conferences over the weekend, and we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: your questions on the Twitter mailbag. All of that and
Speaker 1: a whole bunch more on this edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcasts. And we covered the schedule very in depth
Speaker 1: and broke down every single matchup on this year's schedule
Speaker 1: last week on the Wednesday Night slash Thursday Morning podcast.
Speaker 1: You can go back and check that out right now
Speaker 1: on Spotify, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast from.
Speaker 1: But that show, if you couldn't tell, was pre recorded
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins schedule and the placing of the games
Speaker 1: and the breakdowns all ready for you guys right at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock when the schedule came out, so I didn't
Speaker 1: have a chance to go look at buys beforehand, or
Speaker 1: long weeks or short weeks, or potential trap scenarios. So
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and do that here on
Speaker 1: this podcast real quick to start things off, and then
Speaker 1: we'll get into rookie mini camp and then your questions
Speaker 1: on the mailbag early on. There's not much by way
Speaker 1: of potential look ahead games. I like to look at
Speaker 1: possible national television games before the are the opponents, before
Speaker 1: they play Miami, and after Miami for potential look ahead
Speaker 1: scenarios or let down hangover type games, but that's usually
Speaker 1: more of a in season type of situation. There are
Speaker 1: some things you can look at in the off season
Speaker 1: and have a bit of an idea, like, for instance,
Speaker 1: the first one I think that really stands out here
Speaker 1: is that the Buccaneers game that in week number five.
Speaker 1: They are at the Patriots the week before on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football and then have a short week after the
Speaker 1: game at home against Miami with the Eagles on Thursday
Speaker 1: Night Football. So you come from pretty much the Marquee
Speaker 1: game on their schedule they know Brady back to Foxborough
Speaker 1: ahead of time. A week later Miami, and then four
Speaker 1: days later a short week, And if you guys recall
Speaker 1: on the podcast on Thursday, I talked about how the
Speaker 1: game before a short week typically doesn't go well for
Speaker 1: the team that has the four day rest because for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, that's just how the numbers work out. So
Speaker 1: that's the first one that releasted out to me on
Speaker 1: the schedule. The Jaguars have a bye after they play Miami,
Speaker 1: of course, because of the London game. The Falcons have
Speaker 1: a bye before they play Miami, and so do the
Speaker 1: Bills in that Halloween game. And beyond that, there's really
Speaker 1: not much to look at. There's a few instances where
Speaker 1: the team that is playing against Miami in that particular
Speaker 1: year the week the previous week is coming off a
Speaker 1: divisional game, which I guess can have some of that
Speaker 1: hangover potential. But of course that works both ways. With
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in their post Buffalo New England or Jet
Speaker 1: games the following week, the Colts in Week four play
Speaker 1: the Titans. Prior to that, in week number three, the
Speaker 1: Jags have the Titans as well before the London trip
Speaker 1: when they come to play Miami, and then you also
Speaker 1: have the Giants facing the Eagles before the game in Miami,
Speaker 1: and the Saints have a Dolphins game sandwich between the
Speaker 1: Bucks and Panthers two divisional games, so not really that much.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. We covered most of the quirks in the
Speaker 1: Thursday podcast last week. I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: mentioned here that I like the way the schedule starts
Speaker 1: off early with games against the Colts and Raiders because
Speaker 1: both those teams have significant turnover, so do the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Now that said, last year, in the Week one game,
Speaker 1: the Patriots unveiled that run centric offense with wrinkles off.
Speaker 1: The wrinkles off, the wrinkles and you kind of have
Speaker 1: to just adjust on the fly a post a week
Speaker 1: fift team when you had tape of their offense a
Speaker 1: little bit easier when you have an idea of what
Speaker 1: that team is gonna roll, especially with that coaching staff.
Speaker 1: So some mixed reviews here and there in the first
Speaker 1: part of the schedule, I think I just absolutely love
Speaker 1: that chunk in the middle there in terms of home
Speaker 1: games and that stretch of not leaving Miami but one
Speaker 1: time to go to New York to play the jets
Speaker 1: between Halloween and Christmas. That is a very fortuitous middle
Speaker 1: part of the schedule. And then, of course I think
Speaker 1: this Brian Flores team always gets better as the season
Speaker 1: goes along, so a chance to make a nice run
Speaker 1: in December after that stretch of games in November, largely
Speaker 1: at home. We'll see how this team performs if they
Speaker 1: can get off to a faster start. I think that's
Speaker 1: important this year. If you get to the Bucks game
Speaker 1: at two and two or three and one, man, we
Speaker 1: could be cooking with gas at that point. But again,
Speaker 1: every game is its own independent events, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: see and we'll have to wait to get to that.
Speaker 1: But we don't have to wait to get to is
Speaker 1: Rookie Minicamp which occurred over the weekend, and I took
Speaker 1: down a few notes. We also had media availability for
Speaker 1: some of the players that were out there on the
Speaker 1: practice field, namely the draft picks and undrafted free agents
Speaker 1: in this year's class, and just based on the videos
Speaker 1: shared on social as well as the b role that
Speaker 1: I tweeted out on Friday after practice, they got up
Speaker 1: close look at some of the players, namely the draft
Speaker 1: picks for your Miami Dolphins. I think the first thing
Speaker 1: that we all saw that stood out in the Friday
Speaker 1: practice video was Jalen Waddle. And you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about this this technique here a lot on this
Speaker 1: podcast or with another player to hunter along the rookie
Speaker 1: tight End about stemming, and what stemming is is when
Speaker 1: the defensive back is in off coverage, the receiver wants
Speaker 1: to attack directly at the defensive back so that he
Speaker 1: has the least amount of time possible to make a
Speaker 1: decision which way to flip his hips and which way
Speaker 1: that route is gonna break off the top of the stem.
Speaker 1: And Waddle had a rap against the coach, of course
Speaker 1: of all people. But he was in off coverage but
Speaker 1: to the sideline, which is usually the sign for a
Speaker 1: zone turn in some type of zone coverage. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this on the podcast on Friday, about
Speaker 1: how speed can impact the offense. You saw it on
Speaker 1: this one rep. He runs even against the coach because
Speaker 1: he runs a little curl route coming back to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and man, he gets up to the top of
Speaker 1: the stem very quickly and then it's ankle breaking from there,
Speaker 1: pivoting in that grass and grass kicking up under his feet.
Speaker 1: But my goodness, he snapped that thing off and shows
Speaker 1: you the suddenness, shows you the class leading GPS metrics
Speaker 1: for Jalen Waddle, and my goodness, he looks healthy. He
Speaker 1: looks ready to go. I can't wait to watch that
Speaker 1: guy play football games for your Miami Dolphins. Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: punching the bag from the knee position. We're gonna play
Speaker 1: his audio on that just one second. But getting out
Speaker 1: of that on your knees position and upward thrusting into
Speaker 1: the bag. Man, he explodes through that thing. Strong lower half,
Speaker 1: strong upper half. He is physically physically gifted. I also
Speaker 1: liked watching a little video clip of him playing both
Speaker 1: going forwards and backwards and coverage as well, so they'll
Speaker 1: have a variety of roles on this defense. I do
Speaker 1: believe I talked about stemming and hunter long running routes
Speaker 1: in this camp. There was a great video where he
Speaker 1: did exactly what I talked about on his BC film
Speaker 1: where he stems the cornerback, gets into his hip pocket,
Speaker 1: forces that late decision, and then throws an arm over
Speaker 1: move which helps him gain leverage and get up field
Speaker 1: and then stack the defensive back. From that point, he's
Speaker 1: a very crafty, nuance route runner already at this early age.
Speaker 1: Then we get a look at Javon Holland on the
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast or Saturday video clip, I should say, where
Speaker 1: he's down in doing the hand fighting drills up against
Speaker 1: the bag and really putting in the effort to really
Speaker 1: showcase his ability as a possible run fitter. A guy
Speaker 1: that comes down in the box and makes some noise
Speaker 1: down there and hand fights with tight ends and gets
Speaker 1: into the mix and plays those sea gaps off either
Speaker 1: the strong side or weak side. I think that's a
Speaker 1: big important deal for defensive backs in this defense. And
Speaker 1: I think he showed you the willingness just in those
Speaker 1: videos alone, again taking kind of a reach here to
Speaker 1: talk about this and break it down, but it's football
Speaker 1: and we're excited to talk about it. I also just
Speaker 1: watked there was a close up of him showing him
Speaker 1: kind of pick through his progressions in the defense. In
Speaker 1: terms of how he reads things active eyes. He's very
Speaker 1: studious and keeps his eyes, you know, moving around the
Speaker 1: formation trying to find out what's going on as he
Speaker 1: processes information. And I think you saw that in his
Speaker 1: college tape with the smarts and the instincts that he
Speaker 1: played with. So just a few notes there on the
Speaker 1: videos we saw. Let's go ahead and play some media
Speaker 1: from rookie Camp weekend here as the guys met with
Speaker 1: the media for the second time now and some of
Speaker 1: these undrafted free agents for the very first time, and
Speaker 1: before we get to the individual comments, and we'll roll
Speaker 1: through these things pretty quickly because there's a lot of it,
Speaker 1: and you guys can find all of these videos in
Speaker 1: their entirety up on the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel. There
Speaker 1: was obviously a theme here with the rookies team first mindset.
Speaker 1: They're here to absorb as much knowledge as they can
Speaker 1: as they kind of go through fundamentals and technique and
Speaker 1: how to practice, how to walk through how to be
Speaker 1: a Miami Dolphin under Brian Flora's vision, and of course,
Speaker 1: how do they help the team win a lot of
Speaker 1: questions about which position are you gonna play, what weight
Speaker 1: should you be at, what do you like in terms
Speaker 1: of this technique or this style, and the answers were
Speaker 1: always about helping the team win football games. Now, there
Speaker 1: were some good hidden gens in there, and those are
Speaker 1: the ones we're gonna get to. I had a chance
Speaker 1: to ask a lot of these guys about on field
Speaker 1: drills and how they apply to actual game day situations.
Speaker 1: I thought I got some great answers there, and the
Speaker 1: final takeaway is that these guys they're definitely very, very coachable.
Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and start here with Jalen Waddle, Dolphins,
Speaker 1: first pick in this year's draft, and first before we
Speaker 1: do that, we do have official contracts signings. Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: the first in the top ten to sign his rookie contract.
Speaker 1: We also had Larnel Coleman and Jared Oakes agreed to
Speaker 1: terms with the Miami Dolphins over the weekend, and four
Speaker 1: undrafted players Jerome Johnson, Carl Tucker as well as Robert
Speaker 1: Jones and Jaitlyn ask you the dB out of Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get nowt to Waddles presser, and
Speaker 1: the first question I wanted to cover was one that
Speaker 1: I asked him about what he learned under Steve star
Speaker 1: Keys and in terms of his final year at Alabama
Speaker 1: as he kind of extended his route tree and became
Speaker 1: responsible for more in that Bama offense those first four
Speaker 1: games as he was producing at an unreal clip, and
Speaker 1: he said he thought that a showcase a lot of
Speaker 1: ability that maybe wasn't question coming into his last season
Speaker 1: there at Alabama. He thought he showcased his route running
Speaker 1: ability as well as showcasing his talent. He also talked
Speaker 1: about first impressions of his teammates and how every but
Speaker 1: he had the same team first mentality and team first goal,
Speaker 1: and how he likes that everybody in the organization is
Speaker 1: real personal. I said, you can go up and talk
Speaker 1: to coaches and they're willing to coach you. All the
Speaker 1: things you look for in a good organization, a good club,
Speaker 1: it's pretty much here, he said. He was asked about
Speaker 1: quarterback to a Tongue Baloa, his former teammate at Alabama
Speaker 1: and now current teammate again in Miami as this year's
Speaker 1: first round pick out of Alabama to Miami. Was asked
Speaker 1: about last year's first round pick and the leadership of
Speaker 1: to a Tongue Baloha and natural born leader's confident. Um know,
Speaker 1: if us all do a very smart everything you look
Speaker 1: for in the leader, um, I feel like to you know,
Speaker 1: showcase and presents. So that was the question about the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He was also asked about his mindset growing up and
Speaker 1: how it produced this ultimately very humble kid who has
Speaker 1: produced big time at the biggest stages of college football.
Speaker 1: But you won't hear him chirping, you won't hear him talking.
Speaker 1: You don't see a diva in this receiver. Here is
Speaker 1: Jalen talking about how he developed that mindset and that attitude.
Speaker 1: Just know where I came from. Um, you know my mom,
Speaker 1: my parents, teammates and everyone to help me get to
Speaker 1: this point. Um, really just keep keep me humbled in
Speaker 1: everything that I had to, you know, do to get
Speaker 1: to this point. No tim to you know, be you know,
Speaker 1: complacent or no time to be complacent, is right? The
Speaker 1: right mindset as he comes into the NFL is the
Speaker 1: sixth pick in the draft, but he's not anywhere close
Speaker 1: to being done yet. Let's pick this up with tight
Speaker 1: end Hunter Long, who answered the same question I asked
Speaker 1: him on draft not about playing in two different offenses,
Speaker 1: a run heavy offense and a past heavy offense in
Speaker 1: Boston College with coaching changes against the same thing, talking
Speaker 1: about how he got the best of both worlds, working
Speaker 1: both in the run game in the passing game. But
Speaker 1: then we jumped ahead to a question I asked him
Speaker 1: about one are you still wearing hoodies in South Florida?
Speaker 1: But also what did you learn this weekend in your
Speaker 1: first rookie mini camp getting to know the guys and
Speaker 1: the jump from college academia when it comes to football
Speaker 1: to what you have to learn in the classroom at
Speaker 1: the National Football League level. To answer your first question,
Speaker 1: I did not learn honestly traveling down here. It was
Speaker 1: like forty degrees when I left Boston, and I didn't learn.
Speaker 1: I started threating instantly. Uh. And then to answer your
Speaker 1: second question, I'm just trying to put in putting as
Speaker 1: much time as I can to the playbook and taking
Speaker 1: as much information as I can and uh, kind of
Speaker 1: catch up to the older guys as best as possible.
Speaker 1: So just as much time as possible I I can
Speaker 1: put into the playbook, I'm gonna do. And like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: that was kind of the theme of the day for
Speaker 1: the rookies, talking about putting their nose down, keeping their
Speaker 1: head in the playbook, and just keep into the grindstone.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and jump out to an undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent in fullback Carl Tucker out of Alabama. He played
Speaker 1: some tight end, some h backs, from fullback, also played receiver,
Speaker 1: he told us initially in college he was a fun interview,
Speaker 1: and he was first asked about the move from North
Speaker 1: Carolina to Alabama where he came to you and c
Speaker 1: as a receiver, and then Obama took him from the
Speaker 1: tight end position that he moved to from receiver and
Speaker 1: made him more of a fullback h back tight end,
Speaker 1: but talked about his versatility and the role he played
Speaker 1: there in Tuscaloosa. They told me exactly what I was
Speaker 1: gonna do. UM, I had plans on you know, being
Speaker 1: there extra blocker, being the extra fullback. UM, And I
Speaker 1: just I took that chance because I knew that would
Speaker 1: better my opportunity and that would um bring growth to
Speaker 1: my versatility. So that's the reason I wanted to play.
Speaker 1: That was because that last sentence that where he talked
Speaker 1: about the opportunity of growing his versatility, which of course
Speaker 1: gave him a better chance at the National Football League.
Speaker 1: So I came back and asked him a couple of
Speaker 1: questions later about kind of the mindset of going from
Speaker 1: receiver to playing inside and being a blocker. Because you
Speaker 1: see this guy on tape at Alabama. He's throwing people
Speaker 1: to the ground. He's playing physical, violent, aggressive football. So
Speaker 1: I asked him about that and all the takedown See
Speaker 1: hadd and tape. Here's Carl Tucker talking about the mindset
Speaker 1: of moving inside as a former receiver who now plays
Speaker 1: tight end slash fullback, slash h back. It absolutely grew
Speaker 1: on me. Starting off at Chapel Hill came in as
Speaker 1: a received her. Uh well, I was. I played receiver
Speaker 1: in high school and I came in playing tight end.
Speaker 1: Um at that point, I've never played tight end in
Speaker 1: my life. Um So. I was coached by one of
Speaker 1: the hardest coaches probably at the time, was coach ceth
Speaker 1: Let Traill. Um. He was a fullback at Oklahoma, and
Speaker 1: uh he was a hard nose, uh heavy, heavy, hidden guy.
Speaker 1: So he would definitely get on your ass if if
Speaker 1: you weren't, you know, doing what you're supposed to do,
Speaker 1: if you weren't physical enough, he definitely called you out
Speaker 1: in front of everybody. And I remember just the day
Speaker 1: that changed. It was when he just got on me
Speaker 1: the whole meeting. Um So, I just told myself I'd
Speaker 1: never be soft ever again. And you heard me laugh
Speaker 1: there at the end of the conversation there with with
Speaker 1: Carl Tucker. He was a great interview. Like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and jump ahead now to Laurnel Coleman,
Speaker 1: Dolphin seventh round draft pick, who was asked about the
Speaker 1: expectation Brian Floras relayed to the rookies this weekend as
Speaker 1: they get their first taste of professional football. He told
Speaker 1: us that, like this is a real earning weekend. You know,
Speaker 1: make sure you know you're really in your playbook in
Speaker 1: especially getting used to the weather down here and everything,
Speaker 1: you know, is making sure that you know we come
Speaker 1: out of this weekend healthy and that we come out
Speaker 1: better in terms of you know, just are no one
Speaker 1: the playbook and everything. So really it was. So those
Speaker 1: are the Friday interviews we had with Larnel Coleman, Jillan Waddle,
Speaker 1: Hunter Long, and Carl Tucker. I did not play any
Speaker 1: sound from Jared Oakes or from Jitaln ask you on
Speaker 1: this podcast, but if you guys want to check that
Speaker 1: out on YouTube and go find those. We'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish up today with Jalen Phillips as well as
Speaker 1: Javon Holland and Liam Eichenberg, who along with Robert Jones
Speaker 1: and Jerome Johnson met with the media on Saturday. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start here with Jalen Phillips and the
Speaker 1: question I had for Jalen regarding that great video social
Speaker 1: media put up of him work in the bag, exploding
Speaker 1: from the knees and kind of getting that hip drive
Speaker 1: in the mid section and the arms and the shoulders,
Speaker 1: all of it working in one on those pads. I
Speaker 1: asked him to go ahead and tell us about the
Speaker 1: translation of that drill into game day. Here's Phillips's answer
Speaker 1: on my question. That's that's the six point drill, and
Speaker 1: that's just kind of like the perennial d line, you know,
Speaker 1: like that's explosion out of your hips, uh, and really
Speaker 1: focusing on quick hands and just like Hans where you're
Speaker 1: looking and just like I said, just getting explosive and
Speaker 1: that's kind of just the base of every movement when
Speaker 1: you're a d linement. So and then I came back
Speaker 1: a few questions later and asked you, then the difference
Speaker 1: between playing with your hand in the dirt and a
Speaker 1: three point stands firstus a two point stance, Because you
Speaker 1: watch his tape at Miami does a little bit of
Speaker 1: both of those. Here's Jalen talking about the differences and
Speaker 1: a three point stance and a two point stance off
Speaker 1: the edge. UM, It's that's really like, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: when you're standing up, it's more advantageous being able to
Speaker 1: see everything like contact, a snapshot of what's going on.
Speaker 1: And then when you're in the three point obviously you're
Speaker 1: having more leverage because you're coming low to high. UM.
Speaker 1: But yeah, having played both, definitely comfortable doing whatever I
Speaker 1: need to do. UM. But that's yeah, that's just kind
Speaker 1: of the basics of you know, football one on one
Speaker 1: and if you can't tell a theme and my questions
Speaker 1: for these guys, I was really trying to utilize the
Speaker 1: advantage we have of watching them go through drills and
Speaker 1: kind of educate us on football, because I want to
Speaker 1: learn from these guys what these drills me and how
Speaker 1: they translate to game day situations. So I asked ja
Speaker 1: Von Hall in the exact same thing, because defensive backs
Speaker 1: and especially safeties and this defense have to get up
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage and they have to get
Speaker 1: physical and they have to get engaged with bigger offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and so Javon Holland. I asked him about the
Speaker 1: hand fighting drill because there was a clip on social
Speaker 1: of him doing that. Here he is talking about doing that,
Speaker 1: but just being a well rounded defensive back who's going
Speaker 1: to do what the coaches ask of him, no questions asked.
Speaker 1: I think it's important to be as well rounded as possible, uh,
Speaker 1: and absorbed as much knowledge as possible, like I've previously
Speaker 1: said in the previous questions, of course, but just trying
Speaker 1: to get um, you know, as wide as perspective as
Speaker 1: possible as a player, you know, new to a team, uh,
Speaker 1: finally trying to find my role. So I'm really trying
Speaker 1: to absorb everything like I said previously, and um really
Speaker 1: just helped the team in anywhere. And so we come
Speaker 1: back with a similar question here with for Liam Eichenberg,
Speaker 1: who had mentioned in his post draft pressor that he
Speaker 1: worked with coach Lemille Jean Pierre, new Dolphins offensive line
Speaker 1: coach back at the Senior Bowl and some of the
Speaker 1: workout stuff they're up at New Ord Dames Pro Day,
Speaker 1: and I asked him about the difference between working out
Speaker 1: with coach then versus working out with him now that
Speaker 1: he has the aquand Orange. John and first I had
Speaker 1: to ask him because he showed up at a press
Speaker 1: conference with a fresh new buzz cut, and he said
Speaker 1: that's something he does every year in football, kind of
Speaker 1: a fresh restart. And then he was asked later in
Speaker 1: a follow up question about it. He points his head
Speaker 1: down and goes, I also do it because if he
Speaker 1: can't notice, I'm going bald, which was a fun moment
Speaker 1: of the press are good and lighthearted. And then we
Speaker 1: got back to the football and that question about coach
Speaker 1: Lamil John Pierre. I mean, it's he's he's a very
Speaker 1: consistent coach. So I mean everything he preaches a protey
Speaker 1: he preaches. Now it's not like he showed up at
Speaker 1: protey and did something different. Um, you know, it's about
Speaker 1: getting your hands inside, you know, setting to your position,
Speaker 1: being in a good position, and you know, kind of
Speaker 1: using his technique to you know, win every single run.
Speaker 1: And I want to go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with undrafted rookie along the offensive line out of Middle
Speaker 1: Tennessee State, Robert Jones, because he was asked about the
Speaker 1: decision to sign with Miami as a U d f
Speaker 1: A after the draft, kind of getting over the initial
Speaker 1: disappointment of not being drafted and why he chose Miami.
Speaker 1: I thought his answer was very interesting about the Dolphins
Speaker 1: coaching staff and their investment in making these players better. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't disappointed at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to know, opportunity to get to this
Speaker 1: level and just play football. You know, it was blessed opportunity,
Speaker 1: you know, come here and compete. And you know, I
Speaker 1: told the Dolphins just because you know, I just feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, the coaching staff, because I did work with
Speaker 1: him a single I just feel like that coaching staff,
Speaker 1: you know, wants the best out of every player, even
Speaker 1: even if they was going to different teams or not.
Speaker 1: So I thought they had my best interests at hard.
Speaker 1: So he talked a little bit about that and about
Speaker 1: the mode of practice and working with the Dolphins at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and how much he kind of was
Speaker 1: attracted to the culture and the fit and the philosophy
Speaker 1: here in Miami. So good stuff. All of these pressers
Speaker 1: again available up on our YouTube channel, Miami Dolphins YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: O to the videos link and you'll find all of these.
Speaker 1: For some of the questions we didn't cover here and
Speaker 1: some of the players pressers we didn't cover as well.
Speaker 1: A couple of undrafted guys we didn't get to their
Speaker 1: media availabilities, but you can find those up on YouTube.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and pivot now to the
Speaker 1: Twitter mail bag. You guys know the drill by now
Speaker 1: I put the call out on Twitter four Your questions,
Speaker 1: you give me answers. We talk about anything and everything,
Speaker 1: from football, to pop culture, to life to being a father,
Speaker 1: whatever it is you want to know, I've got answers.
Speaker 1: We've got forty six questions here in the mailbag. Gonna
Speaker 1: do my best to get to as many of them
Speaker 1: as we can, and I'm gonna go ahead and take
Speaker 1: a sacrifice bunt on the first question here from Joe Barrett,
Speaker 1: who's at Joe Barrett fourteen on Twitter. Appreciate the question, Joe.
Speaker 1: He asks, who do I think will be the opening
Speaker 1: day offensive line? From left to right? The starters up front.
Speaker 1: We're gonna cover that on the podcast on Wednesday with
Speaker 1: Rashad Butler. We talk all things offensive line with a
Speaker 1: former eight year NFL VET at the position. So go
Speaker 1: ahead and tune in Wednesday. Joe, I don't want to
Speaker 1: spoil it and give it away just yet. Next question
Speaker 1: here from at ram fin eight three one on Twitter.
Speaker 1: It's officially week one. What do you think the game
Speaker 1: plan is going to be for the Patriots with their
Speaker 1: new weapons? The key, to me is going to be
Speaker 1: handling the wrinkles of the Patriots run game, especially with
Speaker 1: the quarterback stuff, with the quarterback power, quarterback lead, quarterback draw,
Speaker 1: whatever it was last year, Cam Newton to me was
Speaker 1: the biggest problem. And then the runs they had off
Speaker 1: of that with Sony Michelle or James wid Er, Damian Harris,
Speaker 1: whoever it might have been. They gave themselves short down
Speaker 1: in distance. They shortened the game and eight into our
Speaker 1: possessions on the offensive side of the ball. And then
Speaker 1: if you go back to the game in week fifteen,
Speaker 1: you notice that the Patriots are in more third and
Speaker 1: long situations and the Dolphins then are able to get
Speaker 1: to their pressure packages. Heat up Cam Newton and you
Speaker 1: saw some inaccurate throws or some mistiming or some miscalculations
Speaker 1: in terms of the footwork where the route was supposed
Speaker 1: to be, the site adjustments, all that fun stuff. So
Speaker 1: to me, the game plan is to kind of load
Speaker 1: up early and trust your man, demand coverage on the
Speaker 1: back end. Trust that you can win with xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: on Kendrick Boorne or Byron Jones on Nelson Aguilar, whoever
Speaker 1: it might be. Get your one on one matchups, load
Speaker 1: up the box, stop that run game, keep him in
Speaker 1: third long, and get those pressure packages going. Once you
Speaker 1: do that, if you can take away the Patriots early
Speaker 1: down run success, I like your chances at that point.
Speaker 1: Next question here from Justin Oldfield at j d o
Speaker 1: F s you on Twitter with the recent news that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were next in line for carry On Johnson,
Speaker 1: if phillied enough with the claiman who do you expect
Speaker 1: or want the Dolphins to fill out there or to
Speaker 1: target to fill out the running back room, As he mentions,
Speaker 1: he doesn't believe the Dolphins will go into the season
Speaker 1: with what they currently have in house. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: and you know, going back to the Peter King article
Speaker 1: twenty eight trades and twenty eight months, we've also seen
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team be very very active around cut down day. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously twenty nineteen that was kind of a given base
Speaker 1: upon the construction of the roster. Last year, they were
Speaker 1: still very active as well picking up guys bringing in
Speaker 1: pieces that contributed. Now you go back to think about
Speaker 1: Vince Bagel, who was picked up at that time of
Speaker 1: the year, and he came in and made a big
Speaker 1: contribution in twenty nineteen. I could definitely see Miami scouring
Speaker 1: the averwire. That's just what they do. I can see
Speaker 1: them scouring the trade market and finding out what of
Speaker 1: those maybe future mid round extra draft picks they might
Speaker 1: have to give up if they are so inclined to
Speaker 1: find a tellback they think fits in that way. But
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't rule out the possibility of it being Gaskin,
Speaker 1: Akmed and Malcolm Brown with Jared Oakes and the rest
Speaker 1: of the guys having a chance to compete for time
Speaker 1: as well because of what we talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout Twitter, and I'll have it on this podcast later
Speaker 1: this week as well, I believe on Friday's episode talking
Speaker 1: about the speed breakdown of the offense and how that
Speaker 1: creates space because in the NFL today, you are more
Speaker 1: worried about forty yard completions that go for touchdowns over
Speaker 1: the top of your head than you are four yard
Speaker 1: runs that you know they are. They can wear you
Speaker 1: down but they're not gonna beat you in the moments,
Speaker 1: So teams are going to be more willing to defend
Speaker 1: the deep part of the field. Brian Flores and Chris
Speaker 1: Careery have talked about that plenty. And because of the
Speaker 1: Adam speed on offense and the construction of the offense
Speaker 1: in terms of the spacing and stretching out both vertically
Speaker 1: and horizontally, that could conceivably keep two safeties out of
Speaker 1: the box too high safety looks. And then from there,
Speaker 1: the running game is all about numbers. Man, if you
Speaker 1: get the running numbers advantage and your count, you switch
Speaker 1: to that run, you block them up, head up, and
Speaker 1: you get your yards they're gonna give you. Otherwise, you know,
Speaker 1: you check it back and you go to a past
Speaker 1: because that's more open and more free to make things happen.
Speaker 1: So I think the expectation that the Dolphins are better
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, they're better at the perimeter positions,
Speaker 1: and they should get better quarterback player this year, you think,
Speaker 1: and year number two of two a tongue of Byaloa.
Speaker 1: I think all of those things cumulatively make for a
Speaker 1: better running game. I think Brian Floores and Chris Career
Speaker 1: think similarly. But I also don't count them out from
Speaker 1: going out and looking and scouring to see what's out there,
Speaker 1: because they are going to do everything they can to
Speaker 1: improve this roster every single day. How about this one
Speaker 1: from Patrick Perkins at five one eight Perkins Travis, would
Speaker 1: you rather be the smartest Morty or the dumbest Rick?
Speaker 1: For you that are not familiar, Rick and Morty is
Speaker 1: a great animated show, a comedy and and really just
Speaker 1: genius type of show on cartoon Network Adult Swim. I
Speaker 1: would go with the dumbest Rick because the dumbest Rick
Speaker 1: was the one that was hanging out with Jerry and
Speaker 1: that one episode. And I mean he was dumb, but
Speaker 1: he was a good guy to hang out with. He
Speaker 1: was nice. He made Jerry phil special, which nobody else
Speaker 1: in the show does. So at least the dumbest Rick,
Speaker 1: although he's not very bright, is very compassionate and a
Speaker 1: good guy, whereas the smartest Morty was evil Morty who
Speaker 1: wanted to take over the citadel of Ricks. So give
Speaker 1: me the compassionate, kind likable person more so than the
Speaker 1: evil Morty. Next question here from at riqueo one on Twitter.
Speaker 1: What is the official word on how the O C
Speaker 1: job will work with the co offensive coordinators and Studentsville
Speaker 1: and god See, and what do you think are some
Speaker 1: alternatives on how it will work including play calling responsibilities.
Speaker 1: Thank you well, thank you for the question. As far
Speaker 1: as the split responsibilities, like the number one thing here
Speaker 1: I'd answer is that both god See and Studentsville have
Speaker 1: been in the National Football League for like two decades,
Speaker 1: so I don't think you have to worry about ego
Speaker 1: or position or you know, status and that type of thing.
Speaker 1: I think this was all conceived with the idea that
Speaker 1: collaboration was always going to be the philosophy and the approach.
Speaker 1: And also just remember this, like every team, at least
Speaker 1: most teams and especially in college that split their co
Speaker 1: their coordinators and to most teams in the NFL have
Speaker 1: run game coordinators and pass game coordinators, and that's what
Speaker 1: those guys as jobs were last year. So they still
Speaker 1: coach their same rooms. God See the tight ends room.
Speaker 1: He also was the passing game coordinator, and then students
Speaker 1: Fille has the running backs room and is the running
Speaker 1: games coordinator. So really essentially those guys file reports to
Speaker 1: Chan Gaily last year and they collaboratively come up with
Speaker 1: the offense this year, you just cut out that middleman
Speaker 1: and now those two guys will collaborate together with Brian
Speaker 1: Flores and the entire offensive staff. So I think that
Speaker 1: titles and the concern about you know, who might have
Speaker 1: play call and responsibilities, Like they're gonna hash this stuff out,
Speaker 1: They're gonna collaborate, They're gonna come with their best plan.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be we get to Sunday and just
Speaker 1: wing it and say, all right, here we go, who
Speaker 1: has the best play caller? I didn't agree with coach
Speaker 1: students Phille, so I'm gonna call this instead like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be everybody on the same page. I mean, just again,
Speaker 1: like Coach Flores and this operation, do you think they
Speaker 1: would really put something in place that was like so
Speaker 1: detrimentally obviously going to fail, Like just consider the fact
Speaker 1: that that's kind of what they've done all on collaboration,
Speaker 1: the same thing going forward. Here's a question from Eduardo
Speaker 1: Rivera at e Underscore Rivera Peffen, Oh, PFN, Sorry, what
Speaker 1: do you think are chances the chances that DVP or
Speaker 1: Preston Williams are let go or traded due to all
Speaker 1: the bodies at the receiver position well, definitely the deepest
Speaker 1: position on the roster right now after the offseason. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, what I like about the composition of the
Speaker 1: receiver room is that you are like too deep in
Speaker 1: every skill set you have, right so like the explosive,
Speaker 1: twitchy four three speed vertical guy Will Fuller and Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: Obviously you want both those guys ideally together, but if
Speaker 1: one goes down, you still have the other one to
Speaker 1: fulfill that role. Davante Parker and Preston Williams both kind
Speaker 1: of similar in terms of their stature and their ability
Speaker 1: to make contest and catches to go back shoulder, but
Speaker 1: also have some vertical fifty fifty ball skills as well,
Speaker 1: So too deep in that regard. Lynn Bowed and Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson kind of that twitchy not the long speed but
Speaker 1: more in phone booth type of make you miss big, big,
Speaker 1: thick lower half in terms of the way they're built
Speaker 1: and how they break tackles. Too deep in that way,
Speaker 1: so I think you have so many options. I'm so
Speaker 1: intrigued to see what happens at the position because I
Speaker 1: don't know. Like Davante Parker, he's his contract right now
Speaker 1: is so team friendly that you're just not going to
Speaker 1: sign a in my opinion, a top level number two
Speaker 1: receiver like DVP can be in and it has been,
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get a receiver of that caliber on
Speaker 1: that contract. So to me, he's way more valuable in
Speaker 1: Miami than like a third or fourth round draft pick.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams, obviously cheap on the undrafted rookie contract, hasn't
Speaker 1: been able to finish the season his first two seasons.
Speaker 1: So maybe if you can offer, you consider it. But
Speaker 1: I think I look at the receiver position as ultimately
Speaker 1: so deep that you're not going to run into what
Speaker 1: you had last year, where you're down to guys that
Speaker 1: are primarily special teamers having to step in and give
Speaker 1: you thirty or forty snaps a game. I like being
Speaker 1: too deep and all my skill sets at all my positions,
Speaker 1: and I kind of feel like Miami's roster across the
Speaker 1: board is kind of like that. Next question here from
Speaker 1: Jay Soto at Dolphin Underscore for Life, what do you
Speaker 1: missed most about the West Coast? Um? I liked watching
Speaker 1: the Mariners at seven pm at night. I also, here's
Speaker 1: a good one for you. So I think I was
Speaker 1: kind of in denial for a long time about the
Speaker 1: heat humidity of South Florida, and I was trying to
Speaker 1: convince my wife, it's not that bad. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1: It sucks like the June, July, August months. Even right
Speaker 1: now it's May. It's hot, man, Like I want to
Speaker 1: go get a coffee today from Starbucks, and like you
Speaker 1: sweat in your car like when you're starting it and stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't love that. I missed the cooler weather, although
Speaker 1: it does get hot back where I'm from in the
Speaker 1: summer time because I live in the desert in eastern Washington,
Speaker 1: But I do miss that. I missed the timing of
Speaker 1: like sporting events and stuff like that as well. I
Speaker 1: also just missed the people that I'm used to, like
Speaker 1: my friends that I grew up with my whole life.
Speaker 1: The area I lived in was so kind of clicky
Speaker 1: and and small that you basically had your one group
Speaker 1: of friends. You didn't venture outside of that, so I
Speaker 1: built lifelong relationships. I missed those. I missed my brother
Speaker 1: and his kids, my my nephew and my niece as well.
Speaker 1: So just some of the things that you know you
Speaker 1: can't bring with you. I missed those things the most
Speaker 1: and definitely go into marriage games too. I really want
Speaker 1: to getut to safe Go Field here t Mobile Park
Speaker 1: sometime this summer. Next question here, Actually let's go two
Speaker 1: questions because this one comes in from at M D
Speaker 1: by Water. He asked, I buy you a pint in London. One.
Speaker 1: I really hope that we get to be a part
Speaker 1: of the travel crew this year and I get to
Speaker 1: come out and meet Dolphins fans like I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see every Dolphins fan in every city across the globes. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I'll buy the second round. Tyler Woodward at the
Speaker 1: underscore Best Underscore, Tyler, if you could pick one Dolphins
Speaker 1: home game in one road game to go to this year,
Speaker 1: which games would you pick? And why? Well? All seventeen, Tyler,
Speaker 1: That's what I want to go to. But the one
Speaker 1: home game I would have to say, I think that
Speaker 1: Buffalo Week too game because I just want to see
Speaker 1: how Miami has reshaped this roster to go ahead and
Speaker 1: attack the division. The reigning division champion here in the
Speaker 1: a f C East, we know Josh Allen. The offense
Speaker 1: they produce is just it's difficult to stop I want
Speaker 1: to see how close Miami has closed that gap in
Speaker 1: terms of week to live this year in weeks sevent
Speaker 1: team last year. So give me a Buffalo at home
Speaker 1: with Baltimore close. Second. I want to see t NF
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football National TV against a tough, tough Baltimore team.
Speaker 1: The road game i'd want to see is either going
Speaker 1: to be Nashville with the Titans or New Orleans with
Speaker 1: the Saints, because I think both those games are going
Speaker 1: to have playoff implications on both sides of the Ledger.
Speaker 1: And of course the Big Easy is a cool town.
Speaker 1: I've heard Nashville you can't talk that either. I've never
Speaker 1: been to either of those cities, so I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: checking those out and seeing the super Dome, seeing that
Speaker 1: good Saints team, and seeing Ryan Tannehill on the road
Speaker 1: against these Miami Dolphins. Next question here from Seawan at
Speaker 1: jay z U c f O three on Twitter. Who
Speaker 1: do you think returns punts and kicks this season? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with Jalen Waddle because I think he's just
Speaker 1: the best on the roster at it. Obviously, Jachem Grant
Speaker 1: was a second team All Pro last year. I believe
Speaker 1: in that position, but I think that waddles a lura.
Speaker 1: Part of that is that he is a four down
Speaker 1: player and just instant electricity, instant offense and very sure
Speaker 1: hands back there as a return man. Matt Randolph at
Speaker 1: O l Rando forty two on Twitter wants to know
Speaker 1: what's the deal with Leadbetter at defensive end. I remember
Speaker 1: he had a pretty good camp two years ago, then
Speaker 1: got hurt early thought he retired. Any story or update
Speaker 1: on him, he is still on the roster. He had
Speaker 1: a medical I believe was I are that first year,
Speaker 1: and then something similar happened last year if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: But he is currently on the roster. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: He started that opening game against Baltimore. I know it
Speaker 1: wasn't a good one, but I thought he had some
Speaker 1: good tape where he was controlling the edge and playing
Speaker 1: the run and getting after the quarterback. I think he
Speaker 1: even kind of sack in that game. Coming off of
Speaker 1: a very good camp like you had mentioned, So I
Speaker 1: think he fits the prototype for that position here in Miami.
Speaker 1: Just gotta find out if he's healthy, he could get
Speaker 1: back on the field and see what he can do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's still here. Next question here from Chris
Speaker 1: Lrondo at Extortion on Twitter, longtime fan of the podcast. Chris,
Speaker 1: what's up man? Thank you so much for your support.
Speaker 1: You may not know this, but any word about training
Speaker 1: camp allowing fans, I'll probably try to visit my mom
Speaker 1: down there, so wondering if I can double dip either way,
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind linking up for a bang energy drink or
Speaker 1: a beer. I am on coffee now too, so I'm
Speaker 1: kind of doing the whole gamut with the caffeine. But
Speaker 1: I do believe that is the plan, at least initially,
Speaker 1: and I'm you know, the great news across the league
Speaker 1: of the day was that they're no longer requiring players
Speaker 1: that I've had vaccines or coaches that have had vaccines
Speaker 1: to wear masks in the facility. So hopefully that's a
Speaker 1: good sign going forward. Just continue to be vigilant and
Speaker 1: kick this virus. As asked, let's get on the other
Speaker 1: side of that thing so we can all come together
Speaker 1: and watch the Dolphins practice in August. I missed it
Speaker 1: so bad last year. I hope Chris that's the case
Speaker 1: this year, but not pcent sure on that. Just yet
Speaker 1: another question, kind of familiar to that one. David Ingleston
Speaker 1: at David Underscore Ingleston. Do you have any update as
Speaker 1: to when the new facility will be fully operational. I
Speaker 1: think it's supposed to be by training camp at the latest,
Speaker 1: so I believe that's the plan so far. But that's
Speaker 1: as much update as I have for you right now, David.
Speaker 1: Next question here from Jack Dixon at j c C
Speaker 1: Dixon thirty three on Twitter. What will this team's identity be?
Speaker 1: Are we recreating the Alabama offense? Can you give comparables
Speaker 1: to offense and defense? Well, defensively, it's difficult to to
Speaker 1: really compare anybody. Obviously, you go back to the ah
Speaker 1: Rios when Coach Flow was there and the defenses they
Speaker 1: put together. But they do also, you know, have a
Speaker 1: lot of variations based upon their personnel, and that's what
Speaker 1: the identity is. Like. I know, you don't want to
Speaker 1: hear this kind of tired cliche of they're gonna adapt
Speaker 1: to their strengths and they're gonna play to their team
Speaker 1: strengths and they're gonna attack the opposing teams weaknesses and
Speaker 1: adapt every single week. But it's it's genuinely true here, man.
Speaker 1: That's why so many of these guys have different positions.
Speaker 1: That's why I never call anybody a cornerback or a safety,
Speaker 1: or a tackle or a guard, or a defensive tackle
Speaker 1: or a defensive ent. You're just D L, D B
Speaker 1: and O L because you're gonna play in multiple spots.
Speaker 1: You're gonna cross train, You're gonna be versatile so that
Speaker 1: we can be flexible and how we attack opposing offenses
Speaker 1: and defenses. With regards to the offense, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna pull from multiple concepts. They're gonna definitely try to
Speaker 1: get some of the R P O game going, Definitely
Speaker 1: get some of the vertical passing game going. Maybe four vertes.
Speaker 1: I think it was either Lane Kiffin or Steve shar
Speaker 1: Kyson who said that to a tongue of blow is
Speaker 1: one of the best four verts quarterbacks that he's ever seen.
Speaker 1: So that definitely bodes well. Definitely want to establish that
Speaker 1: running game mentality. We'll see if the fullback Carl Tucker
Speaker 1: makes the roster, if a fullbacks on the roster in general,
Speaker 1: because we know the coach Flores believes that defending a
Speaker 1: fullback is a difficult aspect of the running game, and
Speaker 1: we know he wants to run the ball, so tough, smart,
Speaker 1: physical team first, adaptable each and every week. That's kind
Speaker 1: of the mindset this team wants to be. And I
Speaker 1: think when it comes to playing sturdy defense that creates
Speaker 1: turnovers and plays more of a bend but don't break,
Speaker 1: but a capitalize on mistakes, and then offensively be an
Speaker 1: explosive offense that's balanced both in the run game and
Speaker 1: the passing game, with far more opportunities and ability to
Speaker 1: get vertical this season. Next question from Shorty at Fins
Speaker 1: or Die. Do you put ketchup on your cheese steaks? No?
Speaker 1: I do not, which is I guess kind of an
Speaker 1: outlier for me because I am a ketchup fiend. Now
Speaker 1: I don't put it on steak. I'm not crazy. I
Speaker 1: don't even add to like mac and cheese, but when
Speaker 1: it comes to burgers or French fries or hot dogs,
Speaker 1: even give me all the catchup, man. I have a
Speaker 1: motto in life that French fries are just shovels for ketchup,
Speaker 1: but keep it away from the cheese steake, No way, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Next one here from Aquaman, seventy one at Greg Queen,
Speaker 1: and then a bunch of numbers, How do I break
Speaker 1: into writing for the Dolphins with any media outlet. Number
Speaker 1: one tip I would tell you is to write every
Speaker 1: single day, whether it's getting published, whether you're the only
Speaker 1: one that sees it right, every day because the only
Speaker 1: way you improve your craft is to do it, and
Speaker 1: to do it with a purpose in terms of I'm
Speaker 1: going to improve and get better at this. Like when
Speaker 1: I started writing out man, I was terrible. I was
Speaker 1: a horrible writer. And even now, like going back to
Speaker 1: things I wrote two years ago, I look at that
Speaker 1: like I did that. So just do it every day
Speaker 1: to improve and publish it on your own blog site
Speaker 1: or whatever it might be. And the better you get,
Speaker 1: the more recognition you'll get, and then you'll have a
Speaker 1: chance to maybe make a move to a outlet and
Speaker 1: then continue to climb the ranks that way, just work
Speaker 1: your ass off, man, that's the best way you can
Speaker 1: do it. This next one here from at two a
Speaker 1: tow waddle three or five. That's a great handle. What
Speaker 1: player do you think is going to have his breakout season? Well,
Speaker 1: I think the obvious answer there is too much by loa,
Speaker 1: So I'll go ahead and go away from that and
Speaker 1: I'm going to predict. I'm gonna say Will Fuller. I
Speaker 1: guess he had his breakout last year, which was interrupted
Speaker 1: by the suspension that he endured. But when I watch
Speaker 1: him on ape, I think this guy has every bit
Speaker 1: the making of a true number one receiver in terms
Speaker 1: of he can get open on third down, in the
Speaker 1: red zone, double coverage, has the full rout tree, can
Speaker 1: get vertical. I think this guy is about to just
Speaker 1: explode in this system, in this offense, with this quarterback,
Speaker 1: with his mindset, with his work habits. You go on
Speaker 1: Instagram watch all his workout stuff, like he's put in
Speaker 1: the work to make sure his body is right physically.
Speaker 1: Did it last year, if you can do it this year,
Speaker 1: I expect him to have a monster season with big yards,
Speaker 1: big touchdowns, and big receptions. He's a good, good football
Speaker 1: player who I think is being overlooked a little bit.
Speaker 1: Next question here from at ground Works with a Z
Speaker 1: on Twitter, what's your way too early prediction for the
Speaker 1: forty Niners record. Well, there's a couple of things that
Speaker 1: work for us, you know, rooting against the Niners because
Speaker 1: we have their next first round draft picks in each
Speaker 1: of the two next two seasons. The couple of things
Speaker 1: is that Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch had that one
Speaker 1: great run that one season, and that was their only
Speaker 1: winning record. I mean, they've had injury problems that have
Speaker 1: just plagued that team for years. They play in a
Speaker 1: very difficult division, the best in the NFL in my opinion,
Speaker 1: in the NFC West. So there's six games right there
Speaker 1: at the Rams, Cardinals, and Seahawks that really they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to fight in claw to win. There's like no
Speaker 1: cupcakes in that division. The NFC I think is pretty
Speaker 1: deep as well, So you know, I would probably say
Speaker 1: nine or ten wins right now, just because of the
Speaker 1: tough division, the tough schedule. Hopefully that keeps him out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs and keeps Miami in the top twenty
Speaker 1: with that draft pick. But I think there's just so
Speaker 1: much talent there. They're so well coached, and if they
Speaker 1: get Tray Lance up to speed quickly, I mean they
Speaker 1: could go as far as the Super Bowl. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say right now, ten and seven is my way
Speaker 1: to earlier Niner's prediction. Next question here from Luke at
Speaker 1: Luke Underscore Cheney four. What's your favorite struggle meal. Well,
Speaker 1: the one thing I treat myself with at the end
Speaker 1: of days, and I'm kind of the type of person that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, you put in all the work and you
Speaker 1: work out, you go through everything that gets you up
Speaker 1: from eight am all the way until six or seven
Speaker 1: pm when you're finally done for the night. Is my
Speaker 1: Dairy Queen Blizzards the chocolate brownie extreme. I could eat
Speaker 1: one of those every single day and be okay, I
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. I'm a sucker for it. As far
Speaker 1: as like actual meal meal, give me Chick fil A
Speaker 1: door dash, come to the door, drop it on my doorstep,
Speaker 1: and let me just put down the deluxe sandwich with
Speaker 1: no tomatoes, no pickles, Give me the waffle fries and
Speaker 1: give me the three piece meal with some diet coke
Speaker 1: to go with that. Plenty of catchup for the fries,
Speaker 1: plenty of barbecue sauce for the uh the tenders, and
Speaker 1: the Chick fil A sauce for the sandwich. Next question
Speaker 1: here from at Finn's Man coverage, what's your favorite Quentin
Speaker 1: Tarantino movie. Give me Django Unchained. I absolutely love that movie.
Speaker 1: From Christopher Waltz to Jamie Fox, who was, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: like the most talented man on the face of the earth,
Speaker 1: and of course Leonardo DiCaprio, some of the great jips
Speaker 1: and memes that have come out of that Missy L. Candy,
Speaker 1: I love that film. What a great movie. But Tarantino
Speaker 1: is just the best, and John makes so many good movies.
Speaker 1: In Glorious Bastards a close runner up to Django Unchained.
Speaker 1: All right, I think that's a good spot to go
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Speaker 1: breaking down all things Dolphins offensive line, and then Henry
Speaker 1: Hodgson from NFL. He's gonna join us on Friday talking
Speaker 1: about the London trip, best places to stay in London,
Speaker 1: the tailgate, the pregame, all that fun stuff, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk some Dolphins football too. From a die hard,
Speaker 1: diehard Dolphins fan. Plenty of great content coming your way
Speaker 1: this offseason, this summer, covering this team leading right up
Speaker 1: into training camp, into the preseason and into the season.
Speaker 1: As from my time, that is going to be my
Speaker 1: time until next time. Fins Up.