WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 27 | Bobby McCain 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.640 Alright, the audible podcast is on the air. Kimbo, Camper, John, Come, Jemmy, 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:11.920 and where's my man? Where's Joe Jo's I think he's 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.720 playing tennis. If I'm guessing he's playing tennis somewhere. You 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:17.920 know what he always does this, Well, you know, I've 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.000 got a meeting. You know, he does a radio show 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:21.880 in the morning. I understand that. That's how he gets 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.000 up at four o'clock in the morning and does a 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.119 six to ten, So I understand if he wants to 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.320 take a breeze. But he doesn't have to bullshit us. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:29.880 He can just say, hey, look guys, I gotta I 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:32.400 gotta tennis match. You always you know, oh, no, I 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.040 gotta I got a meeting with a spot, a sponsor, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.760 which means he's got Iram Winderman waiting at Central Park. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.360 Yeah's you've got the court from ten to eleven. Yeah, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.080 and about in about forty five minutes or so, he'll 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.960 roll in. You're all sweaty and everything. Why what do 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.479 you mean ten o'clock? That's exactly it. So anyway, we're 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.080 gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna go along with with 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.680 just John and I until Joe shows up. If he does. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.280 If he doesn't, I'm gonna do this, John, I'm gonna 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.200 instant I'm I'm gonna institute a find a fine policy 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:07.319 for for the audible, different fines for different guys. If 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.520 you don't show up the first time, it's just still 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.880 a bucking the bucking the pot. But but every it 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.240 goes up five times incrementally, So buck the first time, five, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.039 the second time, ten, the next and then Yeah, because 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.679 because Joe and Joe can afford it. With this meeting 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:24.399 he's having today, I'm sure if it goes well, he's 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.240 gonna be able to afford it. He'll he'll he'll pick 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.319 up the twenty bucks that he bets Iro Winderman. That'll 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.880 be a bonus for him. Hey, let's let's get into 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.400 what's going on. Uh, I think we're gonna get We're 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:35.920 gonna looks like we may get a chance to get 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.480 Bobby McCain on on the programs. Will be interesting to 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.760 talk to Bobby about the move outside and kind of 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.560 how the competition went during training camp, and that to me, 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.360 John is one of the one of the real kind 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.720 of interesting stories about the the And it's it's funny 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.080 how I remember us coming into training camp and we're 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:55.720 going through the off season. You go, man, look at 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.080 the depth that they've got it at the cornerback position. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.280 You're you're you're set over there with that he's playing well. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.760 And you look over here in Corday's coming off of 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.160 you know, he was on an upswing end of the season. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.720 You get Tony Lippett coming back. You know, you got 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.280 all these other guys to toy mctire and these guys, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.000 it's it's gonna be a good competition there, and they 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.080 all fell by the wayside. Bobby McCain comes in, they 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.079 bump him out, and I think it has as much 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.200 to do with the fact that Bobby can play the 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.520 outside all and add to the fact that it also 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.960 allows them to get Mink on the field, and I 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.639 think that's I think those in those are those are 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.160 tied at the hip, Bobby McCain outside, because I think 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.799 if if you don't have Minka, I think Bobby's still 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.359 inside and they're working those other guys trying to get 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.560 them to be ready to play at the corner right now, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.360 I think they would have taken the best of the 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.880 bunch had you not drafted Minca Fitzpatrick and him be 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.480 so good so early in his career. I mean, you 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.440 can just see it. We saw it at o t 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:56.160 as the angles that he takes, the body type, that 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.800 the smarts he plays with in the secondary, and you're right. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.079 We we thought the winner of that position would come 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.359 from the bucket of three, that we're gonna compete. And 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.120 when they move Bobby outside, you know, we're all kind 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:10.800 of looking at each other, Well, maybe this is one 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.480 day experiment, maybe this is a two day experiment. Maybe 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.679 this is something that he's trying to light a fire 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.359 under those guys to make them better. But when Bobby 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.640 went out there and he got his feet underneath him 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.440 and he started playing the cornerback position, you kind of 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.640 felt that, you know what, he is the best guy 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.560 for that position. And it allows to your point to 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.919 get mink on the field sixties of the time. Now 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.280 you've got your best eleven. So I think the Miami 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.360 Dolphins were kind of hesitant. I think they maybe wanted 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.680 one of those other guys to come up because Bobby's 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.560 so good on the inside. But the way it played out, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.720 probably get your best eleven on the field. Look and 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.280 and and I'm not gonna kid myself into believing that 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.400 there's not gonna be growing pains. Oh no, it's not 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.360 gonna be it. Not because perfect marriage. Right away, Bobby's 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.520 gonna have some growing pains because he's done it. He's 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.000 done it for a limited amount of reps during the 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.120 preseason at at at a preseason pace. Now you come 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.840 in game plans, they're gonna take it. They're gonna try to, 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.000 they're gonna test him, they're gonna see what he's going 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.160 they're gonna go after that. And the same with Maka. 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.520 So both of those guys. You know that that's the 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.080 thing about about this about this football team, and and 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.080 and the reincarnation of or the incarnation of what this 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.040 team is right now under Adam Gaze. You know, it's 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.320 a young team, specially defensively. You've got two guys in 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:26.320 the secondary that's still feeling their way around out there. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.640 You've got two rookie linebackers still feeling their way around there. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.280 And it's and those are two positions that look, I 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.840 think if you're a Dolphin fan, you know, bite your 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.720 lip a little bit and kind of hold onto your 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.120 seat because it's gonna be a little rocky ride. But 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.480 these guys, knowing these guys, having been around them long 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.880 enough now you know that they're gonna get better each 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.680 and every snap to them, to me, for those those 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:53.440 those four guys, for Bobby, for Minca, for for Jerome 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.680 and for Rey Kwon, it's about reps. The more is, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.160 the more reps gigs, better they're gonna get, you know, 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.440 because you understand as a linebacker, you're flowing, you know, 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.400 and and you want to run and run and run 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.160 and and but but you know, if you've got if 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.800 you if you're responsibility's cut back, you gotta lag a 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.839 little bit. You gotta lag lag, lag lag in case 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.440 that guy's coming back. And and sometimes you see him, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.360 they just so they want to get out in front 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.680 of it. And but you're seeing you've been seeing that 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.440 kind of you know, they've been kind of beginning. As 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.760 Jerome Baker said, when you're here, you gotta be more patient. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.720 He's getting there, getting more patient and understanding that as 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.600 they go. But it's still still preseason versus regular season 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.120 one pace versus a different pace, game planning versus non 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.560 game planning, and targeting guys that are the young, vulnerable 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.240 guys out there That's the biggest point bo is targeting 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.279 guys because now you're going to game plan against certain individuals. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.160 You know, we've got we've got a rookie at at 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.480 nickel corner, We've got a rookie at outside linebacker, We've 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.320 got an inexperienced middle linebacker. How can we get a 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.040 guy like Delaney Walker, for instance, the tight end for 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.320 the Titans. How can we get him matched up? Because 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.440 the Dolphins historically, uh or not historically the state of 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.200 the last five years have been poorous in covering the 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.720 tight end. So how do we get that matchup? Who 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.120 do we want him on? Well, let's go attack the rookie. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.000 Let's go attack the nickel. Let's let's see how good 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.480 Bobby is on the outside, and we put uh, you know, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.080 a size guy like Corey Davis, or let's put Rashan 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.400 Matthews outside. Let's let's mix it up and see what 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.240 our best matchups are. That's what the Titans are going 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.279 through right now, and the Dolphins to combat that have 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.080 to have confidence and as you said, have patients a 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.120 little bit because this is the first time these guys 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.240 are gonna see this action. And you know, the good 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.440 thing is your your home. You get an opportunity to 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.320 play one o'clock. Hopefully it's a little steaming out there. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.479 Wasn't my little rain before the game, and the steam 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.360 kind of come up there and and and work those 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.359 guys a little bit. But I'm anxious to see because John, 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.640 I think we saw I wouldn't even say the tip 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.279 of the iceberg during the during the preseason. I know 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.520 they're gonna use Gaseki a lot differently than we saw 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.919 in the priest season. I would expect to see that 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.919 out of a lot of different situations. I wouldn't be 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.520 surprised to see two running backs in the backfield, maybe 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.040 maybe gor and Kenyan Drake back then maybe Kendall Ballog, 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.560 maybe Kellen Bloge and Drake, because I think he likes 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.760 two backs. I think we'll see two tight ends, we'll 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.440 see three tight ends, a lot of those types of 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.440 things that we didn't see. It's gonna be interesting to 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.600 see what what the scheme, why, what what they look 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.000 like offensively and defensively with to me, John, what Adam 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.760 Adam Gaze and Tannenbaum and Chris Greer have put together 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:32.800 is to me a very fast and athletic football team. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.640 And that's the way Adam Gays wants him to play 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.960 boll That's the flip side. You know Tennessee is doing that, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.160 but the Dolphins and Adam Gates are doing that as well. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.680 They want to figure out, Hey, how do we isolate 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.520 Kenyan Drake on a linebacker when we go empty? Is 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.480 that the advantage we want? How do we get Mike 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.560 Kisiki if they don't press and they play off Hey, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.480 what's our options outside? And how do we get Ryan 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.240 Tannehill clicking early? How do we get this offense taking 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.360 a seven nothing lead at tend nothing leads? So the 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.120 Dolphins aren't playing from behind in Game one at hard 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.320 Rock Stadium. So there's a lot of things that are 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.600 going on. Your point to the defense, Yes, uh, we've 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.080 got some youth and inexperience. But I like the way 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.320 they fly around the football. I like their aggressiveness. I 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.560 like the way their their attitude is about I'm good 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.080 enough to be starting in the National Football League. I 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.440 don't care that I'm just a rookie out of Ohio State. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.520 I don't care that I'm a rookie just out of 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.920 Alabama coming off a national championship. I can play at 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.120 this level and I'm gonna prove it to you. And 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.960 it's it's by the way they work and what they 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.200 do on the field, not by talking about it, which 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.280 I love about all three of those guys. Yeah, and 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.240 you know what, it's it's it's it's it's funny when 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.840 you talk to them that they they talk like rookies, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.480 but they're but they're not overwhelmed. But they're not overwhelmed 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.240 by because they've been they've been at the highest level. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.199 They played at that highest level. We were talking to 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.320 I was talking to Jerome Baker before the last game, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.400 and he was saying, no, this is nothing new, you know, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.719 it's it's you know, we we we played against really 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.000 good players, we play against all Americas, we play against 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.280 you know, weekend and ecality. So it's it's not a 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.200 not a big deal to now. He's not saying that 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.920 it's easy, he's not saying that he doesn't have things 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.680 to learn. But you know, it's it's he's not shying 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.160 away from the spot. But for me, for me, coming 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.560 from San Jose State, where he played in front of 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.679 eighteen thousand people, to walk into a stadium was eighty 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.880 thousand people the first time. You're like a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.200 I'm not in Kansas anymore, you know what I mean. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.640 One of those kind of things whereas you know they're 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.600 used to it. They come into a game. Jesus, what 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.199 you only got eighty thousand I'm used to playing in 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.080 a hunt in front of what's going on here. I 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.319 had this baby wants me in high school. This was 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.640 my spring practice, the spring game, exactly right, no doubt 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.120 about it. So so they're at that level you know 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.000 that the game is not too big for him. But 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.040 but the thing I like about them is they're still 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.200 hungry to learn and to learn in a hurry. Yeah. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.440 I love their attitude. I like that. You know, you 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.120 talked about Chris Greer and Mike Tannebaum and Adam Gays 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.559 getting and selecting the draft choices over the last three years. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.720 All these guys are team captains, All these guys are leaders. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.920 All these guys leading off the field as well as 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.160 on the field. And they've been productive coming into the 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.600 Miami Dolphins organization. And I like the chemistry of the 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.080 youth because this youth is where this team is going 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.320 to be built from there's a lot of experience on 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:20.360 the defensive end position, defensive line, offensive line. But when 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.360 you go to the skill guys that linebackers, the corners, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.840 the tight ends, you know, the running backs. These guys, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.400 that's the youth of the team, and those guys have 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.439 to carry their share as well. A lot of people 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.040 in this town, uh and around that they have been 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.559 pointing their finger at the at Mike tannem baumb over 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.000 the last couple of years. You know what's he doing? 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.880 You know, I don't I don't like what he does. 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.959 He trades this and that. But you look back John 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.079 over these last few drafts, you know, I don't know 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.679 how you point the finger in Mike tannem Bam or 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.120 Chris Greer after this draft and say they didn't get 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.400 it right. You've got four rookies are gonna be starting 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.680 on this on this football team. Four draft choice they're 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.640 gonna be starting. You've got three guys that are two 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.200 year players that are either Gon Startinger playing a lot 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:06.319 in Jesse Davis and Gotcha and Taylor. And then and 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.040 then you go back and then you go one more 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.360 track the three guys that you got out there. I mean, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.280 so you and I've said this, you know, John, I 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.520 I go back to I go back to my rookie 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.439 year when I came in, the Dolphins were the Dolphins 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.240 were kind of at the They were at the the 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.719 twilight of that seventeen and oh team. You know, the 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.600 Bona Conies and Jake Scott and and vern Den Hurder 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.880 and Bill Stanfield and all those guys, you know, Jim Langer, 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.800 those guys were at the end of their careers and 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.480 the team, which this team was starting to show they're 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.559 starting to fray at the edges, you know. And then 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.679 had a couple of years where nothing happened, and all 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.040 of a sudden, one year they draft myself and Larry Gordon. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.840 Duriel Harris was in that draft. The next year they 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.600 get a j do a Bob bomb howerd uh, And 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.800 then we get Don McNeil, and all of a sudden, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.200 you get to put two or three drafts together and 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.600 you go on a run for about ten twelve years 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.920 where year you're winning, you're challenging for Super Bowls, you're 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.280 when all those things. And I kind of see that 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.760 pattern with this football team because we've got more guys 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.280 that have their homegrown more guys that have come through 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.640 the draft, more guys that are salary cap friendly to 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.880 move forward and can grow with this football team. To me, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.560 I'm looking at I'm looking at it optimistically, even if 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.040 maybe this team is not, you know, the ten or 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.640 eleven win team that people certainly are clamoring for. But 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.360 I think that I think the direction that this team 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.920 is heading is they're building a team that can be 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:36.280 h eleven win team year after year after year if 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.000 we just let it grow the organically the way they've 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.640 been doing over the last couple of years. I like 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.400 those points you make, because you have to surround yourself 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:49.280 not only at the top organizational organizationally, but on the field. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.680 You have to have synergy. The way you think, the 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.280 way you're you're going out and recruiting guys, the way 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.480 you're targeting guys in the draft, the way you want 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.400 to select very cautiously in free agency, see that you 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.480 get the right type of guy for the right price. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.920 And then it all comes back to how well can 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.920 Ryan Tannehill play the position of quarterback to take advantage 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.719 over all this stuff around him? How well can he 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.079 manage the offense, how well can he get explosive plays 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.560 with Kenny Stills. How how many explosive plays can Kenyan 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.600 Drake Carey from the running back to mask some of 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.880 the inefficiencies at other positions. How good is that offensive 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.760 line gonna hold up and be able to create a 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.280 running attack so Ryan can get to play action, so 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.280 he can use his athleticism on the edge, throw footballs 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.520 on the run and then make big place from the pocket. 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.960 It's all gonna come back to the quarterback in somehow, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.640 some way. He's got to find a way to continue 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.880 to elevate where he was a year and a half ago, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.280 take the reins from there and keep moving upward. John, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.640 I know, I know this is I know within that 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.960 within the football offices up there, this is not the 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.480 kind of message they they want to kind of work on. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.360 But but I'm gonna ask you this question because I 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.679 believe it's to be true. It this team is gonna go. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.120 You know, we've talked about youth. You talked about the 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.199 young guys they draft. We talked about the drafts over 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.760 the last few years, and this and that and bringing 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.520 in the guys like Danny Emmon, Dolan, Robert Quinn and 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.160 sitting and kill Gore and all those guys kind of 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.800 short things up. But to me, this season is gonna 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.040 come down to how well Ryan Townehill plays. I think 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.640 to me, all those other things that look, they're all 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.760 pieces of the puzzle, but you can't complete that puzzle 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.080 until you push number seventeen, that piece of his number 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.120 seventeen in there and it fits. That's the biggest key 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.360 for me. Bo I always come back to to going 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.440 and looking around in the league and saying, why is 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.680 that team good? Yeah, well they've got you know, Levy 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.480 on Bell, and they've got this guy, and they've got 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.000 that guy. And about Ben Roethlisberger, Yeah, how about him? 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.000 He's pretty good. You know how? How's the Green Bay 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:49.880 Packers so good? They've got this guy and the well 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.280 Aaron Rodgers is really good. You know how? How did 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.840 the Dallas Cowboys do really well a couple two years 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.920 ago when you thought they were gonna be dead in 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.760 the water. Well, the quarterback played at at an elevated level. 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.200 That's what has to happen, no matter how good you 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.800 are at the skill positions up front, when you win 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.160 the battle to the line of scrimmage, if your quarterback 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.880 plays average or below, you're gonna lose average above. You 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.600 got a chance to let me ask you this, John, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.640 when you if you were to if you're to set 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.080 the scenario of Ryan Tannehill this year, and you want 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.000 to look back at the end of the year, whether 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.120 they made the playoffs, missed the playoffs by a little bit, 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.280 we're eight and Nate, whatever, whatever happens at the end 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.280 of the season. What would you want to see at 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.320 the end of the season to say, hey, Ryan, Ryan 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.600 had a really good year this year. Well, I think 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.960 all the things, all the characteristics you looked at in 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:41.680 two thousand and sixteen, if they hold true in two 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.000 thousand and eighteen, we're gonna have We're gonna have success 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.000 offensively because you're gonna limit the amount of hits you 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.000 have on a quarterback because Ryan's not gonna hold the football. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.880 He's gonna get it out on time, and he's gonna 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.320 be more on target. You've seen the improvement on the 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.120 deep ball over the over the last two or three 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.280 years when he's played. I mean it's gone from zero 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.720 to one hundred in a hurry. And you've seen his 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.720 awareness in the pocket become better. He knows what now 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.520 when a tuck the football, get his eight to ten 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.000 yards and get down. You know he's not gonna take 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.240 that extra hit because there's no need for him to 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.560 take that hit. Plus, you've got an offensive line now 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.440 that you feel really good about. So I really like 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.640 that second quarter at home against Baltimore when you know 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:22.520 the Dolphins were able to overcome some mistakes early in 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.760 the game with the wet ball and kind of you know, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.480 nasty conditions outside of hard rock, and they made a 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.000 couple of drives and they got the ball in the 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.400 end zone. Those are the types of things without a 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.400 Devonte Parker that I liked. So you you get him 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.320 back healthy. Now you've got a size guy on the outside, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.880 you've got speed uh in the slot receivers, and you've 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.240 got Danny Amondola that knows how to work the middle 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.120 of the field along with a tight end that has 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.920 a great catch radius. So there's a lot of things 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.880 and I have mentioned Kenyan Drake, So there's a lot 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.640 of things in Ryan Tannehill's favor, But I do think 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.840 the three keys for him, it's gotta be pocket awareness, 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.520 getting the ball out on time, and not taking those 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.160 unnecessary hits. Yeah, when you talk about running backs. I 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.720 just I'm kind of salivating to see Klin bellage a 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.560 little bit a little more after watching after watching what 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.080 he did in the first game, then he had gotten 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.760 the concussion protocol and then came out and played well 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:14.399 the other night. And I know it was against some 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.919 guys that probably aren't on the roster anymore, but but 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.240 he certainly shows you that he's got the skill. And 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.280 to add that backfield bunch with Frank Gore and Sonora's 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.760 Perry Uh and kenyan Um that that gives you a 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.080 lot of interesting option tunities options back there. And I 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.600 you know, I love the fact that at times Adams 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.080 like a two back situation where you you can put 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.639 Gore and Drake back there, both can run, both can catch, 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.320 and they give you multiple options. And as a linebacker, 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.280 and you've got two backs there that can both run 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.600 routes and you kind of sit there and you're almost going, hey, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.160 please run the ball. You know what I mean. Well, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.080 I loved I loved it when you know, I like 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.480 that scenario when you have two guys in the backfield, 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:54.040 and then I like when you had zero in the 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.000 backfield when you split Kenyan Drake outside against Baltimore and 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.080 you see a linebacker that's backing up, but you know 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:00.960 at the snap of the foot ball and you've got 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:03.399 a single high safety that has to worry about Kenny 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.679 Stills on one side pressed up with a corner, and 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.800 Kenyan Drake beating a linebacker just straight down the field. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.440 As a quarterback, I like my odds because somebody's gonna 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.720 win or somebody's gonna get a chance to come down 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.919 with an explosive play in that scenario, So you know, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.400 there's a lot of options. I like the situation too, 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.600 where you can come out in the base situation with 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.080 two backs and all of a sudden, you send one 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:27.600 of them wide and you put one of the slot, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.120