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Speaker 1: further of what is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network covering
Speaker 1: your team, your Miami Dolphins. How the heck is it going? Everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a quarterback. Is the Mike White episode.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down Miami's new backup quarterback. The signal
Speaker 1: caller from South Florida returns back to his hometown. We'll
Speaker 1: also tell you about Miami's resignings and tell you what's
Speaker 1: important about this backfield coming back for a second year together.
Speaker 1: All of that and a heck of a lot more
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcast. Caroline kicks us off with
Speaker 1: a fresh set of downs here and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk about some resignings here to the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins roster. We'd mentioned it on the Jalen Ramsey episode,
Speaker 1: but now we've got some official signings here we can
Speaker 1: talk about a little more in depth. And you guys
Speaker 1: know about these three players that we're brought back into
Speaker 1: the fold. Three guys, I'm a big fan of their game.
Speaker 1: We started to linebacker position with Duke Riley, who came
Speaker 1: over a couple of years ago and factored in mostly
Speaker 1: as a special teams type of player, but continues to
Speaker 1: earn more and more work in Miami's sub packages, but
Speaker 1: also based defense in a variety of roles. In that
Speaker 1: mic role, Sam Will he can play all three positions
Speaker 1: at linebacker, has speed for days, has excellent cover skills.
Speaker 1: He had one of the best pass breakups if any
Speaker 1: linebacker I saw on the Dolphins last year, maybe in
Speaker 1: the League where he ran the pipe in a Tampa
Speaker 1: two look and got his I think the ball him
Speaker 1: in the butt. But he was right there in phase
Speaker 1: on the tight end for was the Patriots. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: butchering this right now, but you guys, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about great speed to turn it, run down the football field,
Speaker 1: to close downhill. Sure tackler really good on special teams
Speaker 1: as well, so he can give you a variety of
Speaker 1: options at that position. And you look at the linebacker
Speaker 1: room with you know, we'll talk about David Long here
Speaker 1: in a future episode. Who who, Buddy, I'm fired up
Speaker 1: about that player. But with David Long's coverage ability and
Speaker 1: three phase you know prospects Jerome Baker in that same
Speaker 1: vein with depth provided by Duke Riley and potentially Channing
Speaker 1: Tindall in the athletic ability he brings to the forefront.
Speaker 1: I think that one move of David Long entering and
Speaker 1: then also retaining Duke and his versatility for the depth,
Speaker 1: and then potentially the second your jumped from Channing tindal
Speaker 1: which you heard Coach McDaniel talk about the you know,
Speaker 1: the expectation both of the player of the team for
Speaker 1: a bigger role for Channing Tindal in the second year,
Speaker 1: which is music to my years. Those four guys, to
Speaker 1: me make up a really really good potential linebacker room.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of how this whole defense and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: the entire roster right now looks to me. And you
Speaker 1: also add some depth at the offensive tackle position with
Speaker 1: Kendall Lamb, who's agreed to resign with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He was an in season acquisition last year, and I
Speaker 1: thought his tape, the loan tape he had before getting
Speaker 1: injured and having to exit for the rest of the
Speaker 1: season against the Patriots, I thought it was really really good.
Speaker 1: He had thirty two reps in that game, fifteen and
Speaker 1: pass pro, no pressures. He was pretty locked down in
Speaker 1: that entire game. He is an intriguing player who's played
Speaker 1: a lot of games for the tennis Hee Titans as well.
Speaker 1: He is one of the official ones. He and Raheem
Speaker 1: Moster are official right now, the other guys reported to
Speaker 1: be signing right now to the Miami Dolphins. But with
Speaker 1: a depth linebacker the offensive line edition here, like at
Speaker 1: the running back position, where both Raheem Moster and Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson were resigned to team back up for a one
Speaker 1: two punch once again here in the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1: It doesn't prevent Miami from making more moves of the position,
Speaker 1: but with those three guys and Savan Akhmed, there's really
Speaker 1: only one more spot left for a running back at
Speaker 1: least on the ninety or the fifty three man roster.
Speaker 1: You can always add more to the ninety man roster
Speaker 1: and see if someone sticks. In training camp. We were
Speaker 1: big fans as the Quandree White last year. Somebody of that,
Speaker 1: of that ilk that can potentially, you know, crack the roster.
Speaker 1: But you have to feel pretty good if you go
Speaker 1: into the season as is with Raheem Mostert and Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 1: because most I think he was the ideal fit for
Speaker 1: this offense, for this system, for this head coach, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see both these guys have another year
Speaker 1: under their belts of running behind this offensive line. We
Speaker 1: talked to Chase Edmonds last training camp about kind of
Speaker 1: getting the field for how guys play gaps, how they
Speaker 1: play certain leverage angles, and how he has to read
Speaker 1: off of that. It's only going to help the offense
Speaker 1: having a you know, a year of experience with the
Speaker 1: same people. You know, Mosterton Wilson knows the scheme, but
Speaker 1: the offensive didn't. So now having that marriage in a
Speaker 1: second year together, I think it is only going to
Speaker 1: benefit them. And I've been telling you guys, I've been
Speaker 1: going back and rewatching the Dolphins games from last season
Speaker 1: and Raheem Mostert's feet, Man, he's got the sweet feet.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of David Long in the
Speaker 1: way that he's always got his feet under his entire
Speaker 1: composition of his body, feet under knees, knees under shoulder,
Speaker 1: shoulders under or hips under shoulders and all that good
Speaker 1: stuff that puts you a line to allow you to
Speaker 1: accelerate off of those quick cuts. Raheem stretches things out
Speaker 1: and he when he on those wide runs and finds
Speaker 1: gaps and just hits them at full speed and it
Speaker 1: gives you lots of explosive runs. We saw all the
Speaker 1: damage he did after contact, and most of those big
Speaker 1: runs he had was slipping a tackle the second level.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about this for six years now doing podcasts.
Speaker 1: To me, in the modern NFL, running backs have to
Speaker 1: be able to hit the explosive plays when they're blocked
Speaker 1: for him and then also create their own explosive plays,
Speaker 1: and I think Raheem Moster does that nearly eleven hundred
Speaker 1: yards from scrimmage last year, despite having some knicks and
Speaker 1: bruises here and there, and the first year in the system,
Speaker 1: I think Miami probably could stand to run the football
Speaker 1: a little more. And the average was good, it was
Speaker 1: the best average we've had in a while, but there
Speaker 1: was too many negative runs that kind of ultimately take
Speaker 1: you away from the idea of running the football, and
Speaker 1: I think having these guys back, having another year in
Speaker 1: the system could potentially erase some of those negative runs
Speaker 1: where you get beat right away and you have a
Speaker 1: two yard loss or even no gain. You know, second
Speaker 1: and ten is a position no play caller wants to
Speaker 1: be in. So I think that it all looks like
Speaker 1: it could be even better, even though it's the same
Speaker 1: cast of running backs coming back, so most are big
Speaker 1: fan of his game, the speed. Then you get the
Speaker 1: change up with Jeff Wilson, who is an absolute hammer
Speaker 1: and just runs mean and physical and aggressive, and he
Speaker 1: has that relationship with head coach Mike McDaniel, who obviously
Speaker 1: was the one that went out and scouted him way
Speaker 1: back in the day when he was first trying to
Speaker 1: get his foot into the NFL door, and so there's
Speaker 1: a relationship there. There's an understanding of how kind of
Speaker 1: he operates, the type of person he is, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of one of the things I look at holistically
Speaker 1: here with this group of not just newcomers, but guys
Speaker 1: that we brought back they were already part of the
Speaker 1: locker room. Is the certain type of guy, right, the
Speaker 1: certain type of player the Dolphins go after. It's a
Speaker 1: high character, lovable guy to be around, good in the
Speaker 1: locker room. You know about Raheem working out with two
Speaker 1: in the off season. They are very very close. So
Speaker 1: is Duke Riley, and I'm sure Jeff Wilson's joining him
Speaker 1: now too as well. So I think we have three
Speaker 1: good players we brought back here. Pretty much your entire
Speaker 1: backfield is back. Besides, we'll see what happens with Miles Gaskin.
Speaker 1: The value from the reported contracts on those is very
Speaker 1: very good. I think that's a place where you can,
Speaker 1: especially with these two guys and what you have on
Speaker 1: them and they're fit in the system, you can kind
Speaker 1: of skimp a little bit in terms of the pay
Speaker 1: at that position, to give yourself more money to go
Speaker 1: get a David Long, to go pursue a Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: to go get your backup quarterback. And Mike White so
Speaker 1: very happy with how that's gone so far. Those guys
Speaker 1: coming back are all a big piece of this puzzle
Speaker 1: and I'm pumped up, man. And in addition here to
Speaker 1: the Mike White episode of the Drivetime podcast, a couple
Speaker 1: of signings came across the wire. Reportedly, I should say
Speaker 1: on Wednesday afternoon, the addition of tight end Eric Sobert,
Speaker 1: which is I'm really excited to dive into his tape.
Speaker 1: I think there's a potential there for a guy that
Speaker 1: can be both a playmaker in the passing game as
Speaker 1: well as some inline blocking that he excelled with in Denver.
Speaker 1: And then also Deshaun Elliott, the safety formerly of the
Speaker 1: Lions for last season and also of the Ravens the
Speaker 1: previous three years prior to that, and he was a
Speaker 1: guy that I kind of pinpointed on the Lions tape
Speaker 1: as a difference maker in that Detroit secondary and he
Speaker 1: wound up not being able to go in that game,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's a big loss for the Lions,
Speaker 1: so excited about his potential. I think he gives you
Speaker 1: a lot in terms of the sub package. You know,
Speaker 1: six defensive backs in the field. When you go that
Speaker 1: many guys, kind of your third safety, your big nickel,
Speaker 1: if you will. Deshaun Elliott has some skills and then
Speaker 1: a handful of other moves. The Dolphins also claimed wide
Speaker 1: receiver Freddie Swain off Waivers. He was here last year
Speaker 1: for a brief period of time, and we have some
Speaker 1: re signings to announce as well. Miami bringing back running
Speaker 1: back Miles Gaskins. So that earlier comment about the four
Speaker 1: running backs there you go, but still doesn't preclude Miami from,
Speaker 1: you know, continuing to their pursuit in that area. Adding
Speaker 1: death is always a quality idea, and that's what Miami
Speaker 1: did back in the secondary here as well. We talked
Speaker 1: about Sean Elliott giving you depth in that safety room. Well,
Speaker 1: now Nick Needham is also back and we've seen him
Speaker 1: play inside outside special teams, a valuable piece of this
Speaker 1: defense over the last several years, and he will be
Speaker 1: back coming off that Achilles injury. Great great depth him
Speaker 1: and Trill Williams coming back. You have to really like
Speaker 1: the idea that Miami could withstand, you know, the potential
Speaker 1: attrician they faced at that position last year. You hope
Speaker 1: you get luckier than that, but it's nice to prepare
Speaker 1: for it as well. And you kind of see some
Speaker 1: of that developing here in other areas as well. Offensive line,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins will resign Geron Christian, the player that will
Speaker 1: signed late in the year and played in that playoff game.
Speaker 1: We forget about the attrition upfront on the offensive line
Speaker 1: to Miami adding depth there with Lamb and Christian, and
Speaker 1: also Dan Feeney of the New York Jets reported to
Speaker 1: be signing with the Miami Dolphins as well, and Braxton
Speaker 1: Barrio so a couple of former New York Jets reportedly
Speaker 1: joining their AFC East rival US, the Miami Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: one of the staples of this podcast is transparency. Right.
Speaker 1: I am very much a work ahead type of person.
Speaker 1: It makes me anxious to think about leaving work on
Speaker 1: the table when I'm not doing anything or really doing
Speaker 1: anything else. So a lot of these podcasts have been
Speaker 1: you know, I spend plenty of time working on them
Speaker 1: before you guys hear them. Thus, these drop ins with
Speaker 1: the new information, So the edits I apologize for that.
Speaker 1: But Dan foene and Braxton Barrios just the next ones
Speaker 1: to join here in terms of the reports out there
Speaker 1: about new Miami Dolphins, so the receiver's room and the
Speaker 1: return department where Miami didn't get much production last year.
Speaker 1: Now with Braxton Barrios, that is a bona fide returnment.
Speaker 1: I know Oj McDuffie has fired up about this one.
Speaker 1: And then Dan Foenie was a guy I was super
Speaker 1: high on coming out of the draft a few years back,
Speaker 1: before he was taken in the second round, there was
Speaker 1: a bunch of Forrest Lamp and Dan Feenie content when
Speaker 1: I went back and checked it this out, and they
Speaker 1: both wind up going to the Chargers and it didn't
Speaker 1: really work out for either of those guys there. But
Speaker 1: now Dan Feenie a couple of years with the Jets.
Speaker 1: Obviously again going back to that Mike Lafloor system, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of carry over there, which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: here on this Mike White podcast. So three former New
Speaker 1: York Jets join, get that death on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: plenty of activity, plus the guys we cover, which includes
Speaker 1: also getting Nick need Um back in the entire running
Speaker 1: back room as well as Duke Riley. Plenty of activity
Speaker 1: going on with Miami Dolphins. I think I got them
Speaker 1: all there. I'm pretty sure I covered everything, but if
Speaker 1: I missed one here or there, I will make up
Speaker 1: for on the next episode. Let's go ahead and pick
Speaker 1: it back up here and get to the Mike White
Speaker 1: episode here as we look ahead to new league year
Speaker 1: brings new players, and we are breaking down the dolphins
Speaker 1: newest backup quarterback, the former Jet and South Florida native,
Speaker 1: Mike White is coming home. Originally a fifth round pick
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys by way of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
Speaker 1: Would you believe me if I told you that I
Speaker 1: grinded quite a bit of WKU tape that year, because
Speaker 1: I recall the Senior Bowl was loaded with names that
Speaker 1: went off the board in the top of the draft,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and Josh Allen. But then there was a
Speaker 1: group of very intriguing Day two, day three type of prospects,
Speaker 1: and I recall Mike White and Brandon Silver's. I think
Speaker 1: Silver's was the Richmond kid with the spider on the
Speaker 1: side of the helmet watching him and Mike White in
Speaker 1: the Great WKU Helmets, there was a session where they
Speaker 1: exchanged big throw after big throw, and that was where
Speaker 1: I really kind of had the name Mike White stick
Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, and it made me think,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the tape and get a better
Speaker 1: look at these guys. And I thought you saw a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in poise in Mike White's game, which
Speaker 1: kind of translates to the NFL level. He did wind
Speaker 1: up with the Jets in twenty nineteen, and he played
Speaker 1: himself into obviously now a future in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And that's not always the case for these late round picks, right,
Speaker 1: especially when it doesn't work out with the original team
Speaker 1: that drafted these guys. You kind of have to demonstrate
Speaker 1: either some production when you get your chance, which can
Speaker 1: be few and far between for a fifth round pick,
Speaker 1: or progression on the practice field and impressing coaches behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. It can be difficult. So that's exactly what
Speaker 1: he did, and he had some really good games in
Speaker 1: relief of an injured Zach Wilson back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Then he replaced Wilson in twenty twenty two, and he
Speaker 1: sparked the Jets offense because prior to his first start
Speaker 1: against the Bears, which produced a one forty nine point
Speaker 1: three passer rating, three touchdowns, three hundred and fifteen yards
Speaker 1: and no turnovers, the Jets for averaging just nineteen point
Speaker 1: nine points per game, but when White came in for
Speaker 1: the next three games, that number jumped up to twenty
Speaker 1: three points per game. But then he suffers the rib
Speaker 1: injury against the Buffalo Bills, and he did miss a
Speaker 1: lot of that game, which they only scored twelve points,
Speaker 1: so holding the point average against him seems a little
Speaker 1: bit unfair. But he had to miss the next two
Speaker 1: games seventeen and three point output. So the offense for
Speaker 1: the Jets was just not that good last year. He
Speaker 1: did his part to make it. So he goes back
Speaker 1: in for that Seahawks game and it just wasn't their
Speaker 1: day twenty three to six. He wasn't protected, he didn't
Speaker 1: look comfortable throwing the football, and then of course it
Speaker 1: was Flacco again in the finale for the Dolphins eleven
Speaker 1: to six, riveting Week eighteen victory, but on tape clearly
Speaker 1: a different offense with Mike White in the lineup compared
Speaker 1: to any other quarterback. Last year for the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: he completed fifty nine percent of his passes. That's a
Speaker 1: low number, but you could still see on tape it
Speaker 1: was just different. Eleven hundred and ninety two yards, six
Speaker 1: point eight yards per attempt, three touchdowns, four picks, a
Speaker 1: seventy five point four passer rating. Obviously, you know, if
Speaker 1: these are numbers up in the two ranks, then he's
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks somewhere, So you have to understand context there.
Speaker 1: For his career, sixty two point two percent completion, seven
Speaker 1: yards per pass, eight touchdowns, twelve picks, and a seventy
Speaker 1: five point four rating. Funny how that works out. Now
Speaker 1: he comes to an offense that has some firepower. It's
Speaker 1: a lot better than the Jets offensive firepower was last year.
Speaker 1: And I tend to look more at just the function
Speaker 1: of the games he played for the Jets. He was
Speaker 1: essentially the backup off the bench, right He replaced the starter,
Speaker 1: and then he put them in position to win games
Speaker 1: in a playoff race, you know, no less, and that's
Speaker 1: what you want. The game in Minnesota, he delivers on
Speaker 1: target ball on fourth down that would have put the
Speaker 1: Jets in front in the fourth quarter on the road
Speaker 1: against a team that won twelve games last year. That's
Speaker 1: pretty dang good. Last year, he was really good in
Speaker 1: the intermediate level. On passes ten to nineteen yards, He
Speaker 1: had a one sixteen passer rating twelve point four yards
Speaker 1: per pass on those throws. His average depth of target
Speaker 1: was eight yards per pass, so he wasn't afraid to
Speaker 1: push the football. Tua was tops in the league in
Speaker 1: that category at nine point six for comparison, and he
Speaker 1: got the ball out in two point six one seconds
Speaker 1: on average, and that's where I think the fit really exists.
Speaker 1: Michael Lafleur was his head coach last year. Similar concepts,
Speaker 1: stretch zone, quick passing game use the middle of the
Speaker 1: football field, and Lafleur is pretty close with our Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel and they come from that same coaching tree, so
Speaker 1: there's likely some carry over there in the offensive system.
Speaker 1: I think he executes his ball fakes really well, which
Speaker 1: is very important in this play action heavy offense. I
Speaker 1: think he has a tremendous level of poise and in
Speaker 1: the pocket and is willing to take the big hit
Speaker 1: to maximize the time for his receivers to uncover. They'll
Speaker 1: appreciate that he delivers an accurate ball and throws with
Speaker 1: confidence between the numbers in the intermediate portion of the
Speaker 1: field six foot five, two hundred and eighteen pounds, and
Speaker 1: the hope is he provide some stability beyond QB one
Speaker 1: after a year where the Dolphins got as unlucky as
Speaker 1: they could at that position. But now with Tua White
Speaker 1: and Skyler Thompson, three quarterbacks, who have you know, two
Speaker 1: of those guys in the same system, one with milliarity
Speaker 1: with the system, and just really good depth in the
Speaker 1: quarterback room. Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast
Speaker 1: with my interview with the great Antoine Daily. That's next
Speaker 1: drivetime podcast. Your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation and joining us now, is a longtime friend
Speaker 1: of the podcast. He covers the Jets beat for the
Speaker 1: New York Daily News and as an alum of our
Speaker 1: beat down here in South Florida Antoine's Daily. Antoine, have
Speaker 1: you had a chance to come up for air yet
Speaker 1: during this crazy week? I know the Jets got a
Speaker 1: lot going on right now. Yeah, I mean it's been
Speaker 1: hard with everything, all the rumors surround and everything that's
Speaker 1: going on. But Yeah. It definitely keeps you busy and
Speaker 1: keeps you on your toes, So that's good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: never a dull woman like you mentioned. That's the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and I guess in a nutshell, there is
Speaker 1: twelve months out of the year you're much into it,
Speaker 1: although I suppose July maybe is the one month before
Speaker 1: camp working on it cools off. Yeah, j July. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like when you take vacation. Yeah, once those
Speaker 1: OTA's rap, we get the heck out of there and
Speaker 1: we come back a month and a half later and
Speaker 1: we go all in on the whole season. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing a big shift at the quarterback position
Speaker 1: as that involves a departing quarterback from the Jets landing
Speaker 1: here with the Miami Dolphins. I'm talking, of course, about
Speaker 1: quarterback Mike White, who you covered all year last year,
Speaker 1: and he came off the bench last year and really
Speaker 1: sparked a Jets offense that had been struggling to that point.
Speaker 1: I'm curious, from your perspective, being around the team every day,
Speaker 1: why you think he was able to give the Jets
Speaker 1: offense the jolt that he did. Well, it's just this
Speaker 1: attitude everybody loves Mike White, just the fact that he's
Speaker 1: such a hard worker. He was working like he was
Speaker 1: the starter even when he was not. He remember, like
Speaker 1: he started out as the third string quarterback for the
Speaker 1: Jet last year and then he worked his way up
Speaker 1: to becoming the starter. Basially, Joe Flaccos was the starter,
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson was heard, and then Mike White was his backup.
Speaker 1: And then when Zack Wilson came back into the fold
Speaker 1: that Joe Flacco was to back up for a little better,
Speaker 1: then you know, they elevated Mike White to the backup
Speaker 1: role and then eventually he became the starter of what's
Speaker 1: you know, Zach Wilson you know, didn't play very well
Speaker 1: in the game against the Patriots, but it just this
Speaker 1: work ethic. I think teammates really love that they were
Speaker 1: they saw what he was bringing to the table. And
Speaker 1: then just the leadership as well, like he a lot
Speaker 1: of players just kind of gravitate to him. That's kind
Speaker 1: of why you saw, you know, the players was very
Speaker 1: vocal about him last year. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna make a brig big edition down there in
Speaker 1: Miami because you know, they although they have too it's
Speaker 1: always good. They had to have some better at quarterback
Speaker 1: presses down there too as well that you can kind
Speaker 1: of bouts off of as well. Yeah, without question, I
Speaker 1: think you know, you look across the league every single year,
Speaker 1: something like, you know, sixty plus quarterbacks get snaps in
Speaker 1: the NFL every single year. And that's why I was
Speaker 1: so intrigued by Mike White because there was, you know,
Speaker 1: situations last year where he came in and he put
Speaker 1: the Jets in to win games, and the Dolphins last
Speaker 1: year they were in those same situations but just couldn't
Speaker 1: quite find their way into the winner circle in those
Speaker 1: games where you know, Teddy Bridgewater starts and has to
Speaker 1: eggs early income Skyler Thompson, I think Mike White could
Speaker 1: provide some stabilization with that, that mindset and that mentality
Speaker 1: which I think is so important for a backup quarterback. Antoine,
Speaker 1: And you know, we had Ryan Fitzpatrick down here, who
Speaker 1: is the like if you've created a backup quarterback in
Speaker 1: a lab, it would be Ryan Fitzpatrick's short memory, aggressive,
Speaker 1: wants to attack and can come in and get you
Speaker 1: a victory when he has to off the bench. I'm
Speaker 1: curious you kind of mentioned the confidence, the way he prepared,
Speaker 1: but the way that Mike White is wired. How do
Speaker 1: you think that coincides with effective backup quarterback, which to
Speaker 1: me is so much different than the starting quarterback. Like
Speaker 1: I said, you know, you don't know when you're gonna
Speaker 1: come in, You have to come in cold. Why do
Speaker 1: you think he's able to do that so well? Because
Speaker 1: he's been an underdog is ok career? I mean he's
Speaker 1: fault for every single thing that he has gotten into
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Or even for that too. You remember
Speaker 1: where he started. He started as a fifth route draft pick,
Speaker 1: you know, tat with the Cowboys organization, end up getting
Speaker 1: released there the jet sitting up picking him off waivers,
Speaker 1: and you know he bounced around in the practice squad
Speaker 1: and did the actor filoster for so long and then
Speaker 1: he worked his way up. So he has that mentality
Speaker 1: and a workhorse and somebody that's gonna you know that
Speaker 1: you need in the backup quarterback. He was not handed anything.
Speaker 1: He was not one of those guys that you know
Speaker 1: did not pay it was no in order to starter
Speaker 1: and didn't pan out. He is a guy that continued
Speaker 1: had to climb the ladder to get where he is,
Speaker 1: and that's what you're needed a quarterback. You need some grid,
Speaker 1: you need somebody that's gonna work hard and you know,
Speaker 1: be a veteran, you know, presidence in that locker room.
Speaker 1: And that's why that's where Mike White's gonna bring it
Speaker 1: to same one. That's why I think, you know, he's
Speaker 1: continued to have a successful NFL career. You know, he
Speaker 1: might not have been a starter so far this journey,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, like he's bringing down the
Speaker 1: role as a quality backup and I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: cercer way. Well, it's definitely down there and south. I
Speaker 1: love that. It's like his origin story, right, Like the
Speaker 1: idea of being downed for your entire career and obviously
Speaker 1: being a fifth round draft pick. You don't typically take
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the fifth round with the expectation he's
Speaker 1: going to be like the franchise quarterback, at least not
Speaker 1: right away. Maybe you develop him into that and so
Speaker 1: him kind of taking that route, this is kind of
Speaker 1: a nice soft landing spot for him in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, being a reliable veteran backup quarterback here in
Speaker 1: his hometown. Touch on here in just a second, but
Speaker 1: you know, you mentioned his teammates and the way they
Speaker 1: kind of rallied around him with that spark that he provided.
Speaker 1: We saw the T shirts they hadn't made up in
Speaker 1: support for their new quarterback and Mike White. Can you
Speaker 1: tell us some more about how that happened and kind
Speaker 1: of the reception of the Mike White T shirts last year? Well,
Speaker 1: basically what it bought down too is just just when
Speaker 1: he came in and started, you know, before the Bears
Speaker 1: game and even going to Minnesota, you know, they just
Speaker 1: kind of rallied around them, and then you kind of
Speaker 1: saw that Wilson and you know what he need necessarily,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of controversy, especially considered what happened
Speaker 1: after the Patriots game where he didn't set accountability for
Speaker 1: them losing ten to three and White White Cup and
Speaker 1: he just really people were just rallied around and they
Speaker 1: were so happy that he got that opportunity that you know,
Speaker 1: the team ended up you know, creating Mike White T shirts.
Speaker 1: Uh C. J Uzama was kind of a part of
Speaker 1: that also, Tyler Conklin as well. They were kind of
Speaker 1: they kind of spearheaded the whole thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: as you saw on the pictures. Everybody, just about everybody
Speaker 1: had Mike FFF and White t shirts going on to
Speaker 1: play in Minnesota, and you know, they really believed he
Speaker 1: gave him an opportunity, the best opportunity to win and
Speaker 1: at a chance they ended up getting into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Obviously that didn't happen, but you know, they really believed
Speaker 1: that Mike White and thought he was, you know, the
Speaker 1: right guy for the right person for the job at
Speaker 1: the time. So that's kind of how it all came
Speaker 1: about quick and short. Conklin and Uzama sounds like he's
Speaker 1: a friend of the tight end up there with the Jets.
Speaker 1: We'll see if you can do the same thing down
Speaker 1: here and sell for the Miami Dolphins. And you mentioned
Speaker 1: that playoff run that you know, to me, Antoine, he
Speaker 1: his absence from the lineup probably was a big part
Speaker 1: of why they were not able to kind of break
Speaker 1: through and get over that hump to get into the postseason.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: is his toughness because he missed a few games and
Speaker 1: that game they had up an Orchard Park against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, I think the Dolphins brought on a buy
Speaker 1: a week or had a later game for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: I was on my couch watching that one. You know
Speaker 1: how it goes. If the Jets are playing, you're there
Speaker 1: so you don't get to watch the other games. But
Speaker 1: for this one, I was on the couch watching. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the hit that did cause the injury.
Speaker 1: He was taking shots all game long and just kept
Speaker 1: on coming back. He even came back out of the
Speaker 1: locker room after the hit and would eventually play the
Speaker 1: rest of the game before being sidelined for a few weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to you, what does that say about this
Speaker 1: guy that he toughed it out and fought until they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we can't put you back out there. Man. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the night that Dolphins played the Chargers later, so
Speaker 1: that's what it was. But he just, you know, he
Speaker 1: wanted to be back out there. What is for his
Speaker 1: teammates and fault. He understood the situation. He understood that,
Speaker 1: you know, this is his opportunulity to try to seize
Speaker 1: the starting job and also trying to lock down a
Speaker 1: playoff position for the Jets. So you know, the doctors
Speaker 1: cleared him and they said they didn't have any fractures
Speaker 1: at the time, and you know, he decided to go
Speaker 1: back out there despite the pain that he was in
Speaker 1: and clearly he was in a lot of pain at
Speaker 1: the time, but he just kept taking shot after shot
Speaker 1: at the shot for the bills. But you know it
Speaker 1: didn't matter because he you know, wanted to be out
Speaker 1: there for his teammates. Ultimately, they didn't get the job done,
Speaker 1: but you know, he felt like, you know, he never
Speaker 1: used the rims as an excuse for the loss. He
Speaker 1: thought that he was out there, he didn't make enough plays.
Speaker 1: He was, you know, just as sponsible as a lot
Speaker 1: of his mates for not getting the job done and accountability.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a go say to another reason
Speaker 1: why I think a lot of his teammates really liked them,
Speaker 1: because he never plays playing on anybody else but himself,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think a lot of people saw
Speaker 1: that and you know, just wanted to gravitate towards him
Speaker 1: in regards to that. So, yeah, I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of what says a lot about Mike White and just
Speaker 1: what he braced to the table. Well, you were in
Speaker 1: that locker room after that game, and obviously you probably
Speaker 1: didn't speak to Mike White. Maybe he took. He talked
Speaker 1: after the game out sure how the injury he went
Speaker 1: to the that's when he went to the hospital. OK,
Speaker 1: so we're not able to talk to him, man, but
Speaker 1: you were able to talk to his teammates. I'm curious
Speaker 1: how they responded to his toughness coming back into that game. Warrior.
Speaker 1: That's basically the word that everybody kept us. He's such
Speaker 1: a warrior, gritty player for him to be able to
Speaker 1: do it, because he didn't have to do that. You know,
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco could have played that game, and I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody would have said that, especially with the hit
Speaker 1: Mike mLAN. Don't put on him like that was a
Speaker 1: violent That's one of the most violent hits that I
Speaker 1: saw last year, and nobody would have batted an eye.
Speaker 1: But the fact that he came in I was completely shocked,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of his teammates were too.
Speaker 1: And then you know, they talked about just how he
Speaker 1: was grimacing on the sideline, but he just kept wanting
Speaker 1: to come back into the games. So, yeah, just a toughness, warrior.
Speaker 1: I think that was the word a lot of his
Speaker 1: teammates ended up using at the time. Yeah, we see
Speaker 1: a lot of these these athletes. Man, you can't get
Speaker 1: him off the field, and sometimes you have to protect
Speaker 1: the player from themselves. We've seen him down here as
Speaker 1: well too, so it's it's it always blows my mind
Speaker 1: how tough these guys are. Man, it sounds like Mike
Speaker 1: White is cut from that same cloth. Let's finish upright here.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not sure you ever gotta to discussed
Speaker 1: this with Mike himself, because well, he played for my
Speaker 1: or you know, for the biggest rival of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But we know he's a South Florida guy. I saw
Speaker 1: a photo of him as a little guy in a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins teacher and I just have to imagine how
Speaker 1: that's gotta be the coolest thing for an athlete. You
Speaker 1: think he's pretty fired up to go back to where
Speaker 1: it all began for him. Yeah, i'd heard rom it
Speaker 1: was like that was gonna the Dolphins were potentially targeting
Speaker 1: him like a free agency so I thought that might
Speaker 1: be a fit. I actually, before he got ruled out
Speaker 1: of the game and get his Miami in the finale,
Speaker 1: my article was going to be about that him going
Speaker 1: back home, and obviously I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: down there, so you know, I kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: get like just you know, his thoughts about playing his
Speaker 1: hometown team and how many of his parents and you
Speaker 1: know friends were gonna be in the stands, things like
Speaker 1: that too, So it meant a bit deal to him.
Speaker 1: He felt really bad that he wasn't able to play,
Speaker 1: you know, in that game because you know, I'm having
Speaker 1: those five fract shurt rills, but you know, being able
Speaker 1: to kind of go full circle, you know somewhere when
Speaker 1: he was born and raised, grew up a Dolphins fan.
Speaker 1: He kind of alluded to it feels rightful him, and
Speaker 1: I think it's a great situation for him. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you know, I have not spoken to him.
Speaker 1: I sent them a test, but I haven't really spoken
Speaker 1: to him. But you know, I think, you know, he
Speaker 1: feels excited about the situation, and it can't He's probably
Speaker 1: sure he cannot wait to get down there and you
Speaker 1: know and immerse themselves with the Dolphins organization. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely think he is probably excited as anybody to
Speaker 1: be back back down to South Florida full time and
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins organization. I have a friend who lives
Speaker 1: in upstate in New York, who told me about a
Speaker 1: Northeastern that came in earlier this week and he said
Speaker 1: that they're expected they were expecting eight to twenty inches.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how much snow fell up there,
Speaker 1: but uh, I was telling him, don't you ever talk
Speaker 1: about Florida in a bad way again, because you know
Speaker 1: it's March and you're getting twenty inches of snow, sirs.
Speaker 1: I think I think Mike White probably appreciates that fact too.
Speaker 1: I know, I know the blood thins out quick down here,
Speaker 1: so being a South floridainato, I'm sure he was excited
Speaker 1: to get back to the don't but I know you
Speaker 1: are too, especially for that Dolphins and that's game whenever
Speaker 1: it might be next year. And speaking of that, we'll
Speaker 1: see you when you get down here, man. Antoine Daley
Speaker 1: and New York Daily News at Antoine Staley on Twitter
Speaker 1: and clearly, Antoine, you were an original twitterer, as I
Speaker 1: dub it here, because you nabbed the full name at
Speaker 1: Antoine Staley. That's that's impressive, man. Yeah, I definitely just
Speaker 1: waited playing a simple so yeah, just my dame, Antoine Staley.
Speaker 1: You got a tack on the numbers or the underscorers,
Speaker 1: the stars, all the different characters that people have to
Speaker 1: use these days. Yeah, you nailed it, man, you nailed it.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, Antwine, I appreciate your time, my friend,
Speaker 1: Thank you, and away he goes the great Antoine Staley.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break and we'll
Speaker 1: go around the entire National Football League and get you
Speaker 1: caught up on what has happened so far the first
Speaker 1: week here a free agency. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: As I'm sure most of you have been keeping tabs
Speaker 1: the way I have, we have all kinds of activity
Speaker 1: reportedly and official from across the National Football League. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to give you the exacts on all of these,
Speaker 1: but I want to go down the list of signings
Speaker 1: and retention to talk about the ones that really pop
Speaker 1: out to me. First, at the quarterback position, we had
Speaker 1: the Pat McAfee Aaron Rodgers episode, which, all right, dude,
Speaker 1: I hope we get a chance to play him a
Speaker 1: couple of times this year because it's man, it's just
Speaker 1: like Brett Farve back in two thousand and eight all
Speaker 1: over again, But it sounds like that's where he'll wind up.
Speaker 1: It's not official yet, but we'll find out. He mentioned
Speaker 1: that's where he wants to be and down it's come
Speaker 1: down to compensation as far as the Jets and Packers go.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo to the Raiders sounds like he'll be the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback there. Sam Donald with a chance to start
Speaker 1: in San Francisco while Trey Lance and Kyle Purty kind
Speaker 1: of get back from their injuries is very intriguing. Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield to the Bucks, think he'll be their day one quarterback.
Speaker 1: Good for him. Taylor Heineke maybe signals a sign that
Speaker 1: the Falcons will go forward with he and Desmond Ritter
Speaker 1: in the quarterback room. We mentioned Mike White here to Miami.
Speaker 1: Case Keenum goes from the Bills the Texans, so Buffalo
Speaker 1: back in the backup quarterback market. Andy Dalton the Panthers
Speaker 1: moved up to the first pick in the draft. He
Speaker 1: will likely be that bridge guy as he signed to
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. And then Jared Stidham goes from Las
Speaker 1: Vegas to Denver, leaving Sean or not Sean McVay leaving
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels going to Sean Payton in Denver to back
Speaker 1: up Russell Wilson at running back. Not much activity here.
Speaker 1: Mike Boone to the Texans, Rashad pay to the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I liked that for Philly a lot. He's a good
Speaker 1: fit there. David Montgomery goes to the Lines from the Bears.
Speaker 1: A nice endivision move there, and Travis Homer goes to
Speaker 1: the Bears from the Seahawks. Only two receivers I have here,
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers from the Raider or from the Patriots to
Speaker 1: the Raiders. It's a big loss for the Patriots. He's
Speaker 1: a really good receiver and now they're going to be
Speaker 1: even more than that position until they make some additions.
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard goes to the Jets from the Packers because
Speaker 1: their GM is their quarterback apparently right now. So it's
Speaker 1: what a weird situation. Tight End Chris Manhertz goes from
Speaker 1: the broncho Or to the Broncos from the Jags. A
Speaker 1: good blocking tight end. John who Smith was dealt to
Speaker 1: the Falcons from the Patriots. They former big signing in
Speaker 1: the off season. Goes by the Boards for a seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick and Darren Waller, the great athlete at
Speaker 1: the tight end position, goes from the Raiders to the Giants.
Speaker 1: Good edition from them. That was the pick they got
Speaker 1: for Cadarius Tony, so good for them. Ben Power's big
Speaker 1: deal for the goes. Denver really loaded up their offensive
Speaker 1: line in the tight end position. They probably want to
Speaker 1: run the ball a lot next year. Nate Davis leaves
Speaker 1: the AFC and goes to the Bears. Good signing for them.
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern cuming to Division a really good center for
Speaker 1: the for the Cowboys, comes over to the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: Shack Mason traded again from the Texas or to the
Speaker 1: Texans from the Buccaneers. Nate Herbig leaves the Jets and
Speaker 1: goes to Pittsburgh. He was a guy I talked about
Speaker 1: his potential fit here at the offensive tackle position. All
Speaker 1: kinds of activity. Juwan Taylor goes to the Chiefs from
Speaker 1: the Jags. Mike McGlinchey to the Broncos from the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. Those guys both got paid big time money.
Speaker 1: Riley Reef is going to the Patriots from the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiley makes it two tackles to party the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They did get Taylor back obviously, though he goes to
Speaker 1: the commanders on defense Javon Hargrave. What a great addition
Speaker 1: for the freaking Niners defensive line. They are going to
Speaker 1: read Havoc. He leaves the Eagles to go to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Draymont Jones a great fit there for the Seahawks from
Speaker 1: the Broncos. David an Yamada. The Falcons have had a
Speaker 1: really nice free agency so far. Easy for me to say,
Speaker 1: I like the Browns move here to get Dalvin Tomlinson
Speaker 1: from the Giants for Keem New and he has no
Speaker 1: roaches from the Bucks to the Giants. He's a good
Speaker 1: edition there. Giants having a nice offseason as well. Besides
Speaker 1: the quarterback extension. Didn't like that. Defensive end Marcus Davenport
Speaker 1: goes to the Vikings. Charles Amena, who to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: to Marcus Walker to the Bears. Sampson ebucom goes from
Speaker 1: the Niners to the Colt's a big get for them.
Speaker 1: Lots of linebacker activity. But man, I look at this
Speaker 1: list here and the Dolphins got the best value. To me.
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmonds cashes in with the Chicago Bears, also weakens
Speaker 1: an AFC East arrival for us. We like that. Eric
Speaker 1: Kendricks I love his game. He goes to the Chargers. TJ.
Speaker 1: Edwards goes to the Bears along with Edmunds double dipping there.
Speaker 1: David Long to the Dolphins from the Titans. Bobby o'carakay
Speaker 1: gets a big contract from the Giants. Caden Ellis goes
Speaker 1: from the Saints of the Falcons. A fun rivalry jump there.
Speaker 1: A ziz Al Shire, a player I was big on,
Speaker 1: goes to the Titans from the forty nine Ers at
Speaker 1: the cornerback position. Cam Sutton goes to the Lines from
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Patrick Peterson goes to the Steelers to replace
Speaker 1: Sutton from the Vikings. Jalen Ramsey of course as ours
Speaker 1: now cornerbacks to Fawn Gilmour used the Cowboys and Ghosts
Speaker 1: of the Colts. It's in safety activity. The Bengals lose both.
Speaker 1: They're starring safety's Von Bell and Jesse Bates Bell with
Speaker 1: the Panthers, Bates of the Falcons. Marcus Epps from Raiders
Speaker 1: to the Eagles, and Jimmy Ward gets paid in Houston
Speaker 1: from San Francisco. Some big retentions. Quarterbacks Jamis Winston staying
Speaker 1: put so was East and stick with the Saints and Chargers,
Speaker 1: respectively where he mostart. Jeff Wilson staying here, Justice Hill
Speaker 1: with the Ravens. Chris Lynstram gets a big contract extension
Speaker 1: from the Falcons, probably looking at potential comparison there for
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt in the future at the center position. Ethan
Speaker 1: Posk stays with the Browns. Bradley Boseman stays with the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Kayla McGarry goes back to the Falcons. That was a
Speaker 1: big win for them. I like their off season so far.
Speaker 1: Kelvin Beecham stays in Arizona. To Ron Payne stays put
Speaker 1: in Washington, John Kaminski the Lions, Larry Ogan job for
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Zach Allen gets a big contract from his team,
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and the linebacker market Man been Crazy,
Speaker 1: Quincy Williams, Lavante, David Alex Anzalone all back with their clubs.
Speaker 1: Alex Singleton, Ray Quad, McMillan, Germain Pratt back to the
Speaker 1: Bengals obviously. Duke Riley back here to Miami. Cornerback Jamil
Speaker 1: Dean stays in Tampa Bay, a big get for them.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Jones, who was a great matchup on Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: He stays in New England and was hoping he would
Speaker 1: leave that spot. Danny Johnson to the Commanders again, Keyshawn
Speaker 1: Nixon stays in Green Bay. James Bradberry, they released Darius Slave.
Speaker 1: I brought back James Bradberry, lots of talent off that
Speaker 1: Eagles defense, and then at safety to Sean Gibson, Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson, all stay put. Jabriel Pepper stays with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and Jordan Poyer back to the Buffalo Bills. Man him
Speaker 1: and Michael Hyde coming back. I was hoping they would
Speaker 1: break those two up, but I digress. All Right, there
Speaker 1: you go. Really fun podcast here. We're gonna talk more
Speaker 1: about David Long in the future on a future podcast,
Speaker 1: I should say. But Mike White in the books in
Speaker 1: the building. He has been signed with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Hope you guys enjoyed that podcast. We'll have more to
Speaker 1: come for you guys. I do have paternity to leave
Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of weeks, but that's not
Speaker 1: until the week following next week, so we'll see about
Speaker 1: the gaps in the podcast there. But as always, I'll
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