Speaker 1: Alright, the audible podcast is on the air. Kimbo, Camper, John, Come, Jemmy,
Speaker 1: and where's my man? Where's Joe Jo's I think he's
Speaker 1: playing tennis. If I'm guessing he's playing tennis somewhere. You
Speaker 1: know what he always does this, Well, you know, I've
Speaker 1: got a meeting. You know, he does a radio show
Speaker 1: in the morning. I understand that. That's how he gets
Speaker 1: up at four o'clock in the morning and does a
Speaker 1: six to ten, So I understand if he wants to
Speaker 1: take a breeze. But he doesn't have to bullshit us.
Speaker 1: He can just say, hey, look guys, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta tennis match. You always you know, oh, no, I
Speaker 1: gotta I got a meeting with a spot, a sponsor,
Speaker 1: which means he's got Iram Winderman waiting at Central Park.
Speaker 1: Yeah's you've got the court from ten to eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and about in about forty five minutes or so, he'll
Speaker 1: roll in. You're all sweaty and everything. Why what do
Speaker 1: you mean ten o'clock? That's exactly it. So anyway, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna go along with with
Speaker 1: just John and I until Joe shows up. If he does.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't, I'm gonna do this, John, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: instant I'm I'm gonna institute a find a fine policy
Speaker 1: for for the audible, different fines for different guys. If
Speaker 1: you don't show up the first time, it's just still
Speaker 1: a bucking the bucking the pot. But but every it
Speaker 1: goes up five times incrementally, So buck the first time, five,
Speaker 1: the second time, ten, the next and then Yeah, because
Speaker 1: because Joe and Joe can afford it. With this meeting
Speaker 1: he's having today, I'm sure if it goes well, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to afford it. He'll he'll he'll pick
Speaker 1: up the twenty bucks that he bets Iro Winderman. That'll
Speaker 1: be a bonus for him. Hey, let's let's get into
Speaker 1: what's going on. Uh, I think we're gonna get We're
Speaker 1: gonna looks like we may get a chance to get
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain on on the programs. Will be interesting to
Speaker 1: talk to Bobby about the move outside and kind of
Speaker 1: how the competition went during training camp, and that to me,
Speaker 1: John is one of the one of the real kind
Speaker 1: of interesting stories about the the And it's it's funny
Speaker 1: how I remember us coming into training camp and we're
Speaker 1: going through the off season. You go, man, look at
Speaker 1: the depth that they've got it at the cornerback position.
Speaker 1: You're you're you're set over there with that he's playing well.
Speaker 1: And you look over here in Corday's coming off of
Speaker 1: you know, he was on an upswing end of the season.
Speaker 1: You get Tony Lippett coming back. You know, you got
Speaker 1: all these other guys to toy mctire and these guys,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a good competition there, and they
Speaker 1: all fell by the wayside. Bobby McCain comes in, they
Speaker 1: bump him out, and I think it has as much
Speaker 1: to do with the fact that Bobby can play the
Speaker 1: outside all and add to the fact that it also
Speaker 1: allows them to get Mink on the field, and I
Speaker 1: think that's I think those in those are those are
Speaker 1: tied at the hip, Bobby McCain outside, because I think
Speaker 1: if if you don't have Minka, I think Bobby's still
Speaker 1: inside and they're working those other guys trying to get
Speaker 1: them to be ready to play at the corner right now,
Speaker 1: I think they would have taken the best of the
Speaker 1: bunch had you not drafted Minca Fitzpatrick and him be
Speaker 1: so good so early in his career. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can just see it. We saw it at o t
Speaker 1: as the angles that he takes, the body type, that
Speaker 1: the smarts he plays with in the secondary, and you're right.
Speaker 1: We we thought the winner of that position would come
Speaker 1: from the bucket of three, that we're gonna compete. And
Speaker 1: when they move Bobby outside, you know, we're all kind
Speaker 1: of looking at each other, Well, maybe this is one
Speaker 1: day experiment, maybe this is a two day experiment. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is something that he's trying to light a fire
Speaker 1: under those guys to make them better. But when Bobby
Speaker 1: went out there and he got his feet underneath him
Speaker 1: and he started playing the cornerback position, you kind of
Speaker 1: felt that, you know what, he is the best guy
Speaker 1: for that position. And it allows to your point to
Speaker 1: get mink on the field sixties of the time. Now
Speaker 1: you've got your best eleven. So I think the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins were kind of hesitant. I think they maybe wanted
Speaker 1: one of those other guys to come up because Bobby's
Speaker 1: so good on the inside. But the way it played out,
Speaker 1: probably get your best eleven on the field. Look and
Speaker 1: and and I'm not gonna kid myself into believing that
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be growing pains. Oh no, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna be it. Not because perfect marriage. Right away, Bobby's
Speaker 1: gonna have some growing pains because he's done it. He's
Speaker 1: done it for a limited amount of reps during the
Speaker 1: preseason at at at a preseason pace. Now you come
Speaker 1: in game plans, they're gonna take it. They're gonna try to,
Speaker 1: they're gonna test him, they're gonna see what he's going
Speaker 1: they're gonna go after that. And the same with Maka.
Speaker 1: So both of those guys. You know that that's the
Speaker 1: thing about about this about this football team, and and
Speaker 1: and the reincarnation of or the incarnation of what this
Speaker 1: team is right now under Adam Gaze. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a young team, specially defensively. You've got two guys in
Speaker 1: the secondary that's still feeling their way around out there.
Speaker 1: You've got two rookie linebackers still feeling their way around there.
Speaker 1: And it's and those are two positions that look, I
Speaker 1: think if you're a Dolphin fan, you know, bite your
Speaker 1: lip a little bit and kind of hold onto your
Speaker 1: seat because it's gonna be a little rocky ride. But
Speaker 1: these guys, knowing these guys, having been around them long
Speaker 1: enough now you know that they're gonna get better each
Speaker 1: and every snap to them, to me, for those those
Speaker 1: those four guys, for Bobby, for Minca, for for Jerome
Speaker 1: and for Rey Kwon, it's about reps. The more is,
Speaker 1: the more reps gigs, better they're gonna get, you know,
Speaker 1: because you understand as a linebacker, you're flowing, you know,
Speaker 1: and and you want to run and run and run
Speaker 1: and and but but you know, if you've got if
Speaker 1: you if you're responsibility's cut back, you gotta lag a
Speaker 1: little bit. You gotta lag lag, lag lag in case
Speaker 1: that guy's coming back. And and sometimes you see him,
Speaker 1: they just so they want to get out in front
Speaker 1: of it. And but you're seeing you've been seeing that
Speaker 1: kind of you know, they've been kind of beginning. As
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker said, when you're here, you gotta be more patient.
Speaker 1: He's getting there, getting more patient and understanding that as
Speaker 1: they go. But it's still still preseason versus regular season
Speaker 1: one pace versus a different pace, game planning versus non
Speaker 1: game planning, and targeting guys that are the young, vulnerable
Speaker 1: guys out there That's the biggest point bo is targeting
Speaker 1: guys because now you're going to game plan against certain individuals.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got we've got a rookie at at
Speaker 1: nickel corner, We've got a rookie at outside linebacker, We've
Speaker 1: got an inexperienced middle linebacker. How can we get a
Speaker 1: guy like Delaney Walker, for instance, the tight end for
Speaker 1: the Titans. How can we get him matched up? Because
Speaker 1: the Dolphins historically, uh or not historically the state of
Speaker 1: the last five years have been poorous in covering the
Speaker 1: tight end. So how do we get that matchup? Who
Speaker 1: do we want him on? Well, let's go attack the rookie.
Speaker 1: Let's go attack the nickel. Let's let's see how good
Speaker 1: Bobby is on the outside, and we put uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a size guy like Corey Davis, or let's put Rashan
Speaker 1: Matthews outside. Let's let's mix it up and see what
Speaker 1: our best matchups are. That's what the Titans are going
Speaker 1: through right now, and the Dolphins to combat that have
Speaker 1: to have confidence and as you said, have patients a
Speaker 1: little bit because this is the first time these guys
Speaker 1: are gonna see this action. And you know, the good
Speaker 1: thing is your your home. You get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: play one o'clock. Hopefully it's a little steaming out there.
Speaker 1: Wasn't my little rain before the game, and the steam
Speaker 1: kind of come up there and and and work those
Speaker 1: guys a little bit. But I'm anxious to see because John,
Speaker 1: I think we saw I wouldn't even say the tip
Speaker 1: of the iceberg during the during the preseason. I know
Speaker 1: they're gonna use Gaseki a lot differently than we saw
Speaker 1: in the priest season. I would expect to see that
Speaker 1: out of a lot of different situations. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised to see two running backs in the backfield, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe gor and Kenyan Drake back then maybe Kendall Ballog,
Speaker 1: maybe Kellen Bloge and Drake, because I think he likes
Speaker 1: two backs. I think we'll see two tight ends, we'll
Speaker 1: see three tight ends, a lot of those types of
Speaker 1: things that we didn't see. It's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what what the scheme, why, what what they look
Speaker 1: like offensively and defensively with to me, John, what Adam
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze and Tannenbaum and Chris Greer have put together
Speaker 1: is to me a very fast and athletic football team.
Speaker 1: And that's the way Adam Gays wants him to play
Speaker 1: boll That's the flip side. You know Tennessee is doing that,
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins and Adam Gates are doing that as well.
Speaker 1: They want to figure out, Hey, how do we isolate
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake on a linebacker when we go empty? Is
Speaker 1: that the advantage we want? How do we get Mike
Speaker 1: Kisiki if they don't press and they play off Hey,
Speaker 1: what's our options outside? And how do we get Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill clicking early? How do we get this offense taking
Speaker 1: a seven nothing lead at tend nothing leads? So the
Speaker 1: Dolphins aren't playing from behind in Game one at hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. So there's a lot of things that are
Speaker 1: going on. Your point to the defense, Yes, uh, we've
Speaker 1: got some youth and inexperience. But I like the way
Speaker 1: they fly around the football. I like their aggressiveness. I
Speaker 1: like the way their their attitude is about I'm good
Speaker 1: enough to be starting in the National Football League. I
Speaker 1: don't care that I'm just a rookie out of Ohio State.
Speaker 1: I don't care that I'm a rookie just out of
Speaker 1: Alabama coming off a national championship. I can play at
Speaker 1: this level and I'm gonna prove it to you. And
Speaker 1: it's it's by the way they work and what they
Speaker 1: do on the field, not by talking about it, which
Speaker 1: I love about all three of those guys. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know what, it's it's it's it's it's funny when
Speaker 1: you talk to them that they they talk like rookies,
Speaker 1: but they're but they're not overwhelmed. But they're not overwhelmed
Speaker 1: by because they've been they've been at the highest level.
Speaker 1: They played at that highest level. We were talking to
Speaker 1: I was talking to Jerome Baker before the last game,
Speaker 1: and he was saying, no, this is nothing new, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, we we we played against really
Speaker 1: good players, we play against all Americas, we play against
Speaker 1: you know, weekend and ecality. So it's it's not a
Speaker 1: not a big deal to now. He's not saying that
Speaker 1: it's easy, he's not saying that he doesn't have things
Speaker 1: to learn. But you know, it's it's he's not shying
Speaker 1: away from the spot. But for me, for me, coming
Speaker 1: from San Jose State, where he played in front of
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand people, to walk into a stadium was eighty
Speaker 1: thousand people the first time. You're like a lot of people. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not in Kansas anymore, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: One of those kind of things whereas you know they're
Speaker 1: used to it. They come into a game. Jesus, what
Speaker 1: you only got eighty thousand I'm used to playing in
Speaker 1: a hunt in front of what's going on here. I
Speaker 1: had this baby wants me in high school. This was
Speaker 1: my spring practice, the spring game, exactly right, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. So so they're at that level you know
Speaker 1: that the game is not too big for him. But
Speaker 1: but the thing I like about them is they're still
Speaker 1: hungry to learn and to learn in a hurry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love their attitude. I like that. You know, you
Speaker 1: talked about Chris Greer and Mike Tannebaum and Adam Gays
Speaker 1: getting and selecting the draft choices over the last three years.
Speaker 1: All these guys are team captains, All these guys are leaders.
Speaker 1: All these guys leading off the field as well as
Speaker 1: on the field. And they've been productive coming into the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins organization. And I like the chemistry of the
Speaker 1: youth because this youth is where this team is going
Speaker 1: to be built from there's a lot of experience on
Speaker 1: the defensive end position, defensive line, offensive line. But when
Speaker 1: you go to the skill guys that linebackers, the corners,
Speaker 1: the tight ends, you know, the running backs. These guys,
Speaker 1: that's the youth of the team, and those guys have
Speaker 1: to carry their share as well. A lot of people
Speaker 1: in this town, uh and around that they have been
Speaker 1: pointing their finger at the at Mike tannem baumb over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. You know what's he doing?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't like what he does.
Speaker 1: He trades this and that. But you look back John
Speaker 1: over these last few drafts, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you point the finger in Mike tannem Bam or
Speaker 1: Chris Greer after this draft and say they didn't get
Speaker 1: it right. You've got four rookies are gonna be starting
Speaker 1: on this on this football team. Four draft choice they're
Speaker 1: gonna be starting. You've got three guys that are two
Speaker 1: year players that are either Gon Startinger playing a lot
Speaker 1: in Jesse Davis and Gotcha and Taylor. And then and
Speaker 1: then you go back and then you go one more
Speaker 1: track the three guys that you got out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: so you and I've said this, you know, John, I
Speaker 1: I go back to I go back to my rookie
Speaker 1: year when I came in, the Dolphins were the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were kind of at the They were at the the
Speaker 1: twilight of that seventeen and oh team. You know, the
Speaker 1: Bona Conies and Jake Scott and and vern Den Hurder
Speaker 1: and Bill Stanfield and all those guys, you know, Jim Langer,
Speaker 1: those guys were at the end of their careers and
Speaker 1: the team, which this team was starting to show they're
Speaker 1: starting to fray at the edges, you know. And then
Speaker 1: had a couple of years where nothing happened, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, one year they draft myself and Larry Gordon.
Speaker 1: Duriel Harris was in that draft. The next year they
Speaker 1: get a j do a Bob bomb howerd uh, And
Speaker 1: then we get Don McNeil, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you get to put two or three drafts together and
Speaker 1: you go on a run for about ten twelve years
Speaker 1: where year you're winning, you're challenging for Super Bowls, you're
Speaker 1: when all those things. And I kind of see that
Speaker 1: pattern with this football team because we've got more guys
Speaker 1: that have their homegrown more guys that have come through
Speaker 1: the draft, more guys that are salary cap friendly to
Speaker 1: move forward and can grow with this football team. To me,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm looking at it optimistically, even if
Speaker 1: maybe this team is not, you know, the ten or
Speaker 1: eleven win team that people certainly are clamoring for. But
Speaker 1: I think that I think the direction that this team
Speaker 1: is heading is they're building a team that can be
Speaker 1: h eleven win team year after year after year if
Speaker 1: we just let it grow the organically the way they've
Speaker 1: been doing over the last couple of years. I like
Speaker 1: those points you make, because you have to surround yourself
Speaker 1: not only at the top organizational organizationally, but on the field.
Speaker 1: You have to have synergy. The way you think, the
Speaker 1: way you're you're going out and recruiting guys, the way
Speaker 1: you're targeting guys in the draft, the way you want
Speaker 1: to select very cautiously in free agency, see that you
Speaker 1: get the right type of guy for the right price.
Speaker 1: And then it all comes back to how well can
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill play the position of quarterback to take advantage
Speaker 1: over all this stuff around him? How well can he
Speaker 1: manage the offense, how well can he get explosive plays
Speaker 1: with Kenny Stills. How how many explosive plays can Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake Carey from the running back to mask some of
Speaker 1: the inefficiencies at other positions. How good is that offensive
Speaker 1: line gonna hold up and be able to create a
Speaker 1: running attack so Ryan can get to play action, so
Speaker 1: he can use his athleticism on the edge, throw footballs
Speaker 1: on the run and then make big place from the pocket.
Speaker 1: It's all gonna come back to the quarterback in somehow,
Speaker 1: some way. He's got to find a way to continue
Speaker 1: to elevate where he was a year and a half ago,
Speaker 1: take the reins from there and keep moving upward. John,
Speaker 1: I know, I know this is I know within that
Speaker 1: within the football offices up there, this is not the
Speaker 1: kind of message they they want to kind of work on.
Speaker 1: But but I'm gonna ask you this question because I
Speaker 1: believe it's to be true. It this team is gonna go.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about youth. You talked about the
Speaker 1: young guys they draft. We talked about the drafts over
Speaker 1: the last few years, and this and that and bringing
Speaker 1: in the guys like Danny Emmon, Dolan, Robert Quinn and
Speaker 1: sitting and kill Gore and all those guys kind of
Speaker 1: short things up. But to me, this season is gonna
Speaker 1: come down to how well Ryan Townehill plays. I think
Speaker 1: to me, all those other things that look, they're all
Speaker 1: pieces of the puzzle, but you can't complete that puzzle
Speaker 1: until you push number seventeen, that piece of his number
Speaker 1: seventeen in there and it fits. That's the biggest key
Speaker 1: for me. Bo I always come back to to going
Speaker 1: and looking around in the league and saying, why is
Speaker 1: that team good? Yeah, well they've got you know, Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell, and they've got this guy, and they've got
Speaker 1: that guy. And about Ben Roethlisberger, Yeah, how about him?
Speaker 1: He's pretty good. You know how? How's the Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers so good? They've got this guy and the well
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is really good. You know how? How did
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys do really well a couple two years
Speaker 1: ago when you thought they were gonna be dead in
Speaker 1: the water. Well, the quarterback played at at an elevated level.
Speaker 1: That's what has to happen, no matter how good you
Speaker 1: are at the skill positions up front, when you win
Speaker 1: the battle to the line of scrimmage, if your quarterback
Speaker 1: plays average or below, you're gonna lose average above. You
Speaker 1: got a chance to let me ask you this, John,
Speaker 1: when you if you were to if you're to set
Speaker 1: the scenario of Ryan Tannehill this year, and you want
Speaker 1: to look back at the end of the year, whether
Speaker 1: they made the playoffs, missed the playoffs by a little bit,
Speaker 1: we're eight and Nate, whatever, whatever happens at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. What would you want to see at
Speaker 1: the end of the season to say, hey, Ryan, Ryan
Speaker 1: had a really good year this year. Well, I think
Speaker 1: all the things, all the characteristics you looked at in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen, if they hold true in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen, we're gonna have We're gonna have success
Speaker 1: offensively because you're gonna limit the amount of hits you
Speaker 1: have on a quarterback because Ryan's not gonna hold the football.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get it out on time, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be more on target. You've seen the improvement on the
Speaker 1: deep ball over the over the last two or three
Speaker 1: years when he's played. I mean it's gone from zero
Speaker 1: to one hundred in a hurry. And you've seen his
Speaker 1: awareness in the pocket become better. He knows what now
Speaker 1: when a tuck the football, get his eight to ten
Speaker 1: yards and get down. You know he's not gonna take
Speaker 1: that extra hit because there's no need for him to
Speaker 1: take that hit. Plus, you've got an offensive line now
Speaker 1: that you feel really good about. So I really like
Speaker 1: that second quarter at home against Baltimore when you know
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were able to overcome some mistakes early in
Speaker 1: the game with the wet ball and kind of you know,
Speaker 1: nasty conditions outside of hard rock, and they made a
Speaker 1: couple of drives and they got the ball in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Those are the types of things without a
Speaker 1: Devonte Parker that I liked. So you you get him
Speaker 1: back healthy. Now you've got a size guy on the outside,
Speaker 1: you've got speed uh in the slot receivers, and you've
Speaker 1: got Danny Amondola that knows how to work the middle
Speaker 1: of the field along with a tight end that has
Speaker 1: a great catch radius. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: and I have mentioned Kenyan Drake, So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things in Ryan Tannehill's favor, But I do think
Speaker 1: the three keys for him, it's gotta be pocket awareness,
Speaker 1: getting the ball out on time, and not taking those
Speaker 1: unnecessary hits. Yeah, when you talk about running backs. I
Speaker 1: just I'm kind of salivating to see Klin bellage a
Speaker 1: little bit a little more after watching after watching what
Speaker 1: he did in the first game, then he had gotten
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol and then came out and played well
Speaker 1: the other night. And I know it was against some
Speaker 1: guys that probably aren't on the roster anymore, but but
Speaker 1: he certainly shows you that he's got the skill. And
Speaker 1: to add that backfield bunch with Frank Gore and Sonora's
Speaker 1: Perry Uh and kenyan Um that that gives you a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting option tunities options back there. And I
Speaker 1: you know, I love the fact that at times Adams
Speaker 1: like a two back situation where you you can put
Speaker 1: Gore and Drake back there, both can run, both can catch,
Speaker 1: and they give you multiple options. And as a linebacker,
Speaker 1: and you've got two backs there that can both run
Speaker 1: routes and you kind of sit there and you're almost going, hey,
Speaker 1: please run the ball. You know what I mean. Well,
Speaker 1: I loved I loved it when you know, I like
Speaker 1: that scenario when you have two guys in the backfield,
Speaker 1: and then I like when you had zero in the
Speaker 1: backfield when you split Kenyan Drake outside against Baltimore and
Speaker 1: you see a linebacker that's backing up, but you know
Speaker 1: at the snap of the foot ball and you've got
Speaker 1: a single high safety that has to worry about Kenny
Speaker 1: Stills on one side pressed up with a corner, and
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake beating a linebacker just straight down the field.
Speaker 1: As a quarterback, I like my odds because somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: win or somebody's gonna get a chance to come down
Speaker 1: with an explosive play in that scenario, So you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of options. I like the situation too,
Speaker 1: where you can come out in the base situation with
Speaker 1: two backs and all of a sudden, you send one
Speaker 1: of them wide and you put one of the slot,
Speaker 1: and now you're basically into a four wide situation when
Speaker 1: when the defense you know, may have their base defense
Speaker 1: still and then you take advantage of those matchups with
Speaker 1: those linebackers that have to have to spread out and
Speaker 1: cover the cover the backs out there. So it's a
Speaker 1: it's a good scenar to me. It's the same thing
Speaker 1: as as three tights. You put the two tights three tights,
Speaker 1: it gives you multi and I think that's the thing
Speaker 1: about this Adam Gays offense and him going out and
Speaker 1: plucking the pieces that he wanted for his offense. I
Speaker 1: remember talking to him early early training cameras said, coach,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you feel about your good
Speaker 1: He says, this is the group of players I want,
Speaker 1: and this is the group of coaches I want. I
Speaker 1: finally got the guys that I want on both aspects
Speaker 1: coaching wise, player wise. And I think he feels like
Speaker 1: now that that playbook that's that's kind of floating around
Speaker 1: in his head all the time. I think he feels
Speaker 1: like he can expand that a lot more now than
Speaker 1: he was able to over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: We just think of last year. I mean, he tried
Speaker 1: to swing for the fences in terms of bringing Jay
Speaker 1: Cutler in and getting uh uh Thomas at tight end. Okay,
Speaker 1: same body type is Kasecki. But he couldn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: He couldn't do it anymore. I mean he was he
Speaker 1: was really good when he was good, but he just
Speaker 1: couldn't do it anymore. And and Jay was at the
Speaker 1: end too, you know. I mean, you can still throw it,
Speaker 1: but in terms of getting it out on time and
Speaker 1: on target and really feeling like he cared. Now you
Speaker 1: fast forward and you go to Ryan Tannehill with Mike Kasecki.
Speaker 1: Those guys can do it. Well. We'll look at look
Speaker 1: at how dramatically that right end position is change. You
Speaker 1: went from a kind of a slow loping Julius Thomas
Speaker 1: that I'm not sure how interested he was in and
Speaker 1: being here and being successful um to to a Durham
Speaker 1: smythe and and a Gasecki and a Marque's great who
Speaker 1: I still like Mars taking a j Derby who came
Speaker 1: on late in the season and and playing well. So
Speaker 1: I I think the makeup of that position is leaps
Speaker 1: and bounds ahead of what we've seen, probably John and
Speaker 1: I would say even better than when Charles Clay was here.
Speaker 1: It was probably the last tight end we had that Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely, And you feel better as a quarterback because
Speaker 1: you're just not throwing it and you have to be
Speaker 1: perfect all the time. You know you can get it close,
Speaker 1: you can you can take a chance and know that
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario, it's incomplete. My guy is gonna
Speaker 1: out battle that guy. Whereas last year I wasn't so
Speaker 1: sure when the ball went up we had our odds
Speaker 1: were in our favor. We were going to have success
Speaker 1: if they threw a ball. It was really the other
Speaker 1: way other way. Hey, let's uh, let's kind of turn
Speaker 1: our attention to UH to opening day. UH. Finally the
Speaker 1: Dolphins get a home opener. UH. This this Sunday Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans coming in Tennessee and a nice football team, good
Speaker 1: defense that the Dolphins have to deal with. Mike Rabel
Speaker 1: comes in the first time head coach. Uh. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good opportunity for the Dolphins. I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hot out there. All those things play for him.
Speaker 1: But you know I I've talked about this a little
Speaker 1: bit during the preseason, John, this team needs to find
Speaker 1: a way to get away from the slow starts, both
Speaker 1: game by game and season long. You know this team
Speaker 1: is over the last couple of years, it seems like
Speaker 1: every game you're playing from behind. Every single game, the
Speaker 1: scenario has been get the ball, two penalties, punt, they score,
Speaker 1: next thing. You know, you next time the same thing
Speaker 1: starting out to to score game and you're playing catch
Speaker 1: up and you're out of your game plan. They need
Speaker 1: to be the ones that get in front that they
Speaker 1: need to be the ones that forced the other teams
Speaker 1: to play catch up. And you look at the start
Speaker 1: of the season where you got Tennessee coming in you
Speaker 1: you go to the Jets and the Jets got a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback that that you know, that early in his
Speaker 1: career where you know you can I don't know how,
Speaker 1: I don't know how good he's gonna be, but if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get him, let me get him early in
Speaker 1: the season. And then you got the Raiders coming to town,
Speaker 1: and the Raiders look like disarray there. You know, they
Speaker 1: go and get Chucky over there, and you know, everyone's
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars and you you can pay a hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars for your coach, but you can't afford to
Speaker 1: keep your best your best player on the roster um.
Speaker 1: So so you got and then you go to New England.
Speaker 1: So this team really has an opportunity if they play
Speaker 1: well and if they if they play the way we
Speaker 1: expect them to play, to really get off to a
Speaker 1: season starts. So you're not you know, our one and three,
Speaker 1: one and four and climbing uphill. I think just for
Speaker 1: the for the mental health of this football team, they've
Speaker 1: got to get off fast in both ways, John, I
Speaker 1: do too. I agree with you Bo. You have to
Speaker 1: be able to score points early in a football game
Speaker 1: to feel like you're in control, to be able to
Speaker 1: take some charge and be able to dictate to other teams.
Speaker 1: And that means obviously fast starting. That doesn't always mean
Speaker 1: the offense has to do the scoring. You know that
Speaker 1: this defense is tenacious. This defense can get after quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So my scenario going up against you know, different tackles
Speaker 1: throughout the league. Can Robert Quinn and can can waken
Speaker 1: that rotation at defensive end, get a strip and a
Speaker 1: in a scoop and a score. Can they change the
Speaker 1: field position for the offense early in a game if
Speaker 1: they're out there for quarterback and and can this defense?
Speaker 1: And I think that this defense in Week one is
Speaker 1: going to face a very stiff challenge because every dynamic
Speaker 1: that the Miami Dolphins are looking to improve on defensively,
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans have on defense. They have a mobile
Speaker 1: quarterback that can extend plays and move the pocket. They
Speaker 1: have a big tight end that can control the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. And they have a big running back
Speaker 1: in Derrick Henry that can that can win at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage with a guy like Dion Lewis can
Speaker 1: do a lot of stuff, you know, catching the ball
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. So every dynamic that you know
Speaker 1: our defense was working on in the preseason and in
Speaker 1: training camp. This team has those characteristics that will challenge
Speaker 1: us in Week one. If we're up to the challenge,
Speaker 1: I think our offense is gonna be able to take control.
Speaker 1: But those are some of the things I'll be looking for.
Speaker 1: Did you see the article this morning by Marcus Mariota
Speaker 1: saying the first thing I'm doing is going after Bobby McCain.
Speaker 1: I didn't see saying I got a new cornerback out there.
Speaker 1: He said, I don't think the guy can play. I'm
Speaker 1: going right out of I didn't. I didn't see that that.
Speaker 1: I just made it up. Hey Bobby, what's up those
Speaker 1: other bullshit interviews? What you gonna do? We got rid
Speaker 1: of Joe too for We don't want you to I
Speaker 1: want to if you want to get you have you.
Speaker 1: Let let you get a word in. Hey Bobby, it's
Speaker 1: been a it's been a long training camp. A lot
Speaker 1: of things have happened, but but here we are this Sunday. Uh,
Speaker 1: this team finally gets a home opener. I don't remember
Speaker 1: the last time that that. We had one last year,
Speaker 1: but you end up being in because of the storm,
Speaker 1: so you get a home opener. Um, there's gotta be
Speaker 1: a lot of excitement in that locker room about getting
Speaker 1: the seat's always opening day is always great at home
Speaker 1: even better, and this team has gotta be very very
Speaker 1: excited about that. Yeah, for sure, for sure, definitely big
Speaker 1: for the for the crowd with our home fans, having
Speaker 1: a home opener. Um, Like you said, we didn't have
Speaker 1: them last year. I don't believe I've had one since
Speaker 1: in my career. Um, So it's exciting. We're happy to
Speaker 1: be at home and happy just to kick it off
Speaker 1: the right way. Bobby, you you've had a chance to
Speaker 1: start looking at this Tennessee football team. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys probably started working on him in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks going into this to some degree. Um, you
Speaker 1: look at this team, what what what concerns you about them?
Speaker 1: Right off the top? You know they got a good
Speaker 1: ball players, uh leading with them Yota, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy that can run, he can throw,
Speaker 1: um do with their quarterbacks. So you just gotta have it.
Speaker 1: We gotta have a good rush plan and have eyes
Speaker 1: on him and uh, make sure we're good in coverage
Speaker 1: that way when he does try to find those running lanes,
Speaker 1: you know we can close them up. And they got
Speaker 1: a good back, they got good watt outs, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh and shar Matthews, Corey Davis, those guys just
Speaker 1: doing a little quick run through Henry. You know, they
Speaker 1: got Dion Lewis came from the camera from Patriots. They
Speaker 1: got some good guys over there that are that are
Speaker 1: good ball players, have been the league a minute. So
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta work cut out for us. But
Speaker 1: we're we're we're excited to get to get going and
Speaker 1: get preparent. Hey, Bobby, what was the biggest challenge for
Speaker 1: you moving outside the corner? You know when you're you're
Speaker 1: in dB and you feel like, I can do everything.
Speaker 1: I can play outside, I can play inside. Just asked me,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do it. But for your own benefit
Speaker 1: of going from zero to a hundred right away? Was
Speaker 1: it I discipline? Was it your footwork? Was it your technique?
Speaker 1: What what was the biggest change for your challenge for
Speaker 1: you that you had to get used to. Definitely eyes,
Speaker 1: having good eyes is a good is a big deal,
Speaker 1: especially outside with everything you get the cracker place and uh,
Speaker 1: you know reading run passed with receivers you never know,
Speaker 1: so it could be a double move just having good
Speaker 1: eyes come out of breaks, transitioning things like that, that
Speaker 1: sort that you've been doing your whole life, you know.
Speaker 1: But you know, inside you're a little closer to the ball,
Speaker 1: You're you're a little close to the run fits. Outside
Speaker 1: you're more you know, pass first. So just preparation with that, Um,
Speaker 1: having a I'm gonna prepare the same, you know, I
Speaker 1: prepare the same each and every week. I never sleep
Speaker 1: on opponent. So, um, just that that would be the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for me. And then communication wise too, that's
Speaker 1: probably the next thing because inside you're probably communicating with linebackers,
Speaker 1: you're communicating outside when you're on the edge, you're only
Speaker 1: going one way or or back to the safety is
Speaker 1: exactly exactly you're inside. You know, you got you're you're
Speaker 1: kind of a facilitator almost and especially with the back
Speaker 1: end guys getting us in the right call the correct
Speaker 1: calls and uh, talking with the lbs with the run fits.
Speaker 1: So you know at corner. You gotta talk to that.
Speaker 1: You gotta know your job, and you gotta know the
Speaker 1: guys next to you. And ain't nobody on your eye
Speaker 1: that bob you. You have plenty of reps during during practice,
Speaker 1: during training camp, limited reps during the game because you
Speaker 1: guys starts didn't really play all that much during the
Speaker 1: during the preseason. They don't. So you still got some
Speaker 1: getting comfortable to do as this season comes in. As
Speaker 1: you start the season game wise, do you expect to see, uh, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: maybe test you out a little bit and see what
Speaker 1: you got out there. And certainly with Minko is gonna
Speaker 1: I think anybody that's in a in a new position
Speaker 1: or a young guy, you would think that team is
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and test the waters a little bit
Speaker 1: and see what you got in the tank. Ye, But
Speaker 1: I'm prepared, Like I said, I'm prepared. I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I feel good outside and you know,
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I can help this team
Speaker 1: win and that's that's what we're doing. Well, what about
Speaker 1: the makeup of this football team? Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to know culture changes and this and that that.
Speaker 1: That's window dressing. But when when you look at this
Speaker 1: football team, you've been around it for a while, do
Speaker 1: you like the makeup of these guys? And I think
Speaker 1: and one of I think one of the goals with this,
Speaker 1: with this coaching staff during the off season and the
Speaker 1: personnel was to go from somewhat of a of a
Speaker 1: of a me team to a WE team. And I
Speaker 1: think they've accomplish that pretty well with the cast of
Speaker 1: characters that you've got sitting in that locker room over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of dogs in there that that
Speaker 1: that are about the team, and it's it's about a family.
Speaker 1: It's about us at the end of the day. It's
Speaker 1: not just about I or or me. It's it's about
Speaker 1: us as a whole. As a unit. We're trying to
Speaker 1: win for the Miami Dolphins. We're not just trying to
Speaker 1: win for the Miami offense the Miami defense might be
Speaker 1: special teams. We're trying to win a game as the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. And we had a lot of guys on
Speaker 1: that in our locker room, a lot of new guys
Speaker 1: that are that have came in and and have built
Speaker 1: a good foundation to and have joined the foundation of
Speaker 1: what we started. You know, whether whether you listen to
Speaker 1: radio or not, or read the newspapers or not, or
Speaker 1: read what's on the on the internet or not, I
Speaker 1: think you're aware of what the national picture of what
Speaker 1: this football team is. Uh does that put a chip
Speaker 1: on everyone's shoulder in there and say, hey, look, these
Speaker 1: guys don't believe us, or is it say hey, look
Speaker 1: that's fine, Say whatever you want. We know the kind
Speaker 1: of football team we are. We'll show you. We'll start
Speaker 1: showing you on Sunday. I think I was just keep doubting,
Speaker 1: keep doubting, and we'll keep showing you who we are.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, we started with
Speaker 1: Tennessee Week one, and we'll go from there. Uh. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, we can't focus on the outside. We
Speaker 1: can't focus on on what the newspaper with ESPN saying,
Speaker 1: oh they're gonna go so and so, so and so
Speaker 1: we'll be Lastingly, I'm not too focused on that. I'm
Speaker 1: just focused on our job and what we have to
Speaker 1: do to go want to know this week? Yeah, Bobby
Speaker 1: we Bow and I were talking earlier before you came in,
Speaker 1: just the excitement of a new season, the excitement of
Speaker 1: being zero and zero and trying to get your first victory.
Speaker 1: What is that feeling like in the locker room right
Speaker 1: now as you guys build each day knowing that, hey,
Speaker 1: Sunday's our first test. Sunday's our first opportunity to to
Speaker 1: prove ourselves to ourselves. You know, like you said, I
Speaker 1: don't really care what's going on outside of our building,
Speaker 1: but this is our first opportunity. Do you feel that
Speaker 1: excitement with this team that they can't wait for Sunday?
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta get your work done this week
Speaker 1: to prepare, but you can't wait for your first test. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't wait. We can't wait for this season open. Man,
Speaker 1: There's there's nothing like opening Sunday. We so like we're
Speaker 1: really excited. And when we're excited just to show the
Speaker 1: world who we are, you know, what we're capable of
Speaker 1: and and and like I said, we're excited to get going. Man,
Speaker 1: just get that first W under the books and hopefully
Speaker 1: go out and have a good performance. Come on with
Speaker 1: the W opening day? Is it's nothing like especially, it
Speaker 1: really is. And uh, I don't care how many years
Speaker 1: you've been in the league. You know you your roll
Speaker 1: out there on on opening Day, and whether you're at
Speaker 1: home in the road, it's a it's a it's it's
Speaker 1: a very very special thing. And I always look forward
Speaker 1: to it still, uh as and and I'm sure as
Speaker 1: a player, it's just uh, you know, I could always
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait to get done with training camp, and
Speaker 1: then I just couldn't wait to get to opening day game.
Speaker 1: You know, you wish your body could feel like that
Speaker 1: year around? Are the old guys? Do you probably after
Speaker 1: three games? Les? Hey, how about Matt Burke coming in
Speaker 1: his second year calling the defensive signals? What's that dynamic
Speaker 1: with you guys on the field? Do you like? Do
Speaker 1: you like what he brings to the table. He seems
Speaker 1: like he's an intense guy. He seems like he's there
Speaker 1: for you. He's gonna correct you when you need it.
Speaker 1: But he's he's kind of one of those guys that
Speaker 1: you want to play for. At least that's the way
Speaker 1: it feels like when I when I watch you guys work.
Speaker 1: He definitely got we want to play for. Definitely got that.
Speaker 1: He's smart guy, darting with the guy so he knows
Speaker 1: he knows his football. And uh, and that's and that's
Speaker 1: why we appreciate me though. He gets us in the
Speaker 1: right calls, he gets this, He does a great job overnight,
Speaker 1: um all throughout the week, just set up a good
Speaker 1: game plan for us, having a good plan for Tennessee
Speaker 1: and Mariota and the receivers and guys. So you know,
Speaker 1: we uh, he's definitely got we'd like to play for
Speaker 1: and um, you know we're gonna go out and have
Speaker 1: a strong performance more. Yeah, speaking scheme wise, and this thing, Uh,
Speaker 1: we talked to X earlier and it looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be following the best receiver around for for some
Speaker 1: games and you're gonna be moving. How is that gonna
Speaker 1: How is that gonna work out? Are you're gonna stay
Speaker 1: insides or or you're gonna be switching for receivers or
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a game to game situation. It's just
Speaker 1: game the game. As of right now, we're just you know,
Speaker 1: we're just going to game the game and uh and
Speaker 1: we'll go from there. You know, we can't really I
Speaker 1: can't really speak on you know, our our our strategy,
Speaker 1: a game plan for other receivers. But you know, right
Speaker 1: now we're just focused on on the Titans man and
Speaker 1: that and that's that. That's all I can say. And
Speaker 1: I know you're back in that that that backside of that,
Speaker 1: that defense. But I'm sure you can hear Chris Consure
Speaker 1: up in front, the defensive line coach or the h
Speaker 1: the coach up there kind of getting these guys far.
Speaker 1: Do you do you listen to him? And do you
Speaker 1: hear him chattering all the time? Definitely a lot man.
Speaker 1: Definitely you hear his voice all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: anytime the guys off the ball, or anytime the line
Speaker 1: is getting off the one on the ball, getting off
Speaker 1: on the rock, you know, you hear him. You hear
Speaker 1: that raspy voice in the background. So you know, he
Speaker 1: brings a lot of energy and he's like he's really
Speaker 1: good coach. He brings the energy to the d line
Speaker 1: and that's what we need. You know, those guys running
Speaker 1: to the football like like wild men. So that's that
Speaker 1: we appreciate that in the back end. You know, I
Speaker 1: got the rendso back here kind of tell me to
Speaker 1: wrap it up, Bobby. You know, guys are painted a
Speaker 1: butt back here, coming said, we're up. Going back in
Speaker 1: the other room, You're like, what was the guy in Uh,
Speaker 1: what was the guy in uh the bathroom? Bathroom? What
Speaker 1: was his name? I forget his name? Bad luck? He
Speaker 1: was bad bad luck. Yeah, put him in there much
Speaker 1: put him in the bathroom. Put what ends in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that. Hey, Bobby, Bobby, appreciate you coming.
Speaker 1: How are you? And how are you? And uh? And
Speaker 1: Danny get along you and amado. You guys you can
Speaker 1: ask every time, every time someone talks, you get asked
Speaker 1: about that, right, And I felt I felt obligated to
Speaker 1: so with no no ask my boy. Man, that's my brother.
Speaker 1: He's going in. We're going to war week one, you know. So,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we're getting over well. Man. He's a really
Speaker 1: good player. He's a guy. He's a good leader for
Speaker 1: the team, good leader for that receiving room. And we're
Speaker 1: happy to have him before you go. You know there
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of talk about you know, losing
Speaker 1: you know, Sue and guys moving, you know, Pouncy and
Speaker 1: the guys that that that left this football team. Um,
Speaker 1: but you're bring in guys, you'ring. You bring in um
Speaker 1: the Danny Amundolas and the Sittings and Kilgore's and mcquinns
Speaker 1: and and and what I see there is to me
Speaker 1: for this football team. You you've got to have a
Speaker 1: bunch of overachievers in this football team. I think they
Speaker 1: brought in guys like that that were overachievers, and I
Speaker 1: think everyone kind of is gonna buy into that. Do
Speaker 1: you think that's that's what this football team or the
Speaker 1: personalities football team that you'd like to see? Ye got
Speaker 1: guys that better boat in and uh, you know the
Speaker 1: with with the with the with the with the guys
Speaker 1: we brought in in the locker room, the guys that
Speaker 1: we had currently even you know, there's there's like I said,
Speaker 1: it's a good foundation laid and we're just gonna keep
Speaker 1: building on that. But step back by brick, step by
Speaker 1: step and try to and build chemistry with this team
Speaker 1: that way we can. And and Jay way February, we're
Speaker 1: still playing Bobby. Uh. You know, it's great to have
Speaker 1: you and looking forward to a big season, looking forward
Speaker 1: to Tennessee Titans on on Sunday. It should be a
Speaker 1: great day at the stadium and hopefully it's little muggy
Speaker 1: and hot steaming out there for those guys. And uh
Speaker 1: and put him on that side over there there doesn't
Speaker 1: even get any shade. Put him in there, put him
Speaker 1: in the in the in the heater over there. Appreciate
Speaker 1: stopped by Bob. They're good luck this season and stay health. Appreciate,
Speaker 1: appreciate it all right, good stuff there. So well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see. Uh, it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see scheme wise, how they do. I think that
Speaker 1: as we talked about with with Bobby, I really think
Speaker 1: that this team, I think X is gonna be the guy,
Speaker 1: uh that that you know, if they if they look
Speaker 1: and there's a guy that they really want to cover,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna follow. If it's just you know, hey,
Speaker 1: let's just stay on side because there's nobody there that
Speaker 1: you know, we really wanna h dedicate him too. But
Speaker 1: I think that's going to kind of be uh what
Speaker 1: the what the look of this defense is going to
Speaker 1: be like, at least from a from a coverage team,
Speaker 1: I think this team should be thankful you get a
Speaker 1: guy like Bobby that's so flexible that can move from
Speaker 1: the nickel corner out to the cornerback position, and have
Speaker 1: a guy that's talented enough to go the inside like
Speaker 1: Minka and start game one, you know, you know, week one, middle,
Speaker 1: middle of the you know, preseason, that kind of change happens,
Speaker 1: and the team doesn't look any different. Actually, a team
Speaker 1: looks better because you have your best players on the field.
Speaker 1: So thankfully you get a guy like Bobby You're right,
Speaker 1: that can move around, play either side, do whatever he's
Speaker 1: asked to do on the outside, and then have Minka
Speaker 1: come in and play snaps at nicol um had Uh.
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze uh, you know, it's it's it's an interesting
Speaker 1: year to me for Adam Gaze. He comes in his
Speaker 1: first year, turns a team around ten and six, go
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, and then last year the you know,
Speaker 1: you can kind of come back to earth. But but look,
Speaker 1: I know he wouldn't talk about it, but you know
Speaker 1: that was a tough lot of distractions you talk about
Speaker 1: just from from day one, it was just you know, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you know, Kawan gets hurt, then you get the hurricane,
Speaker 1: and then you're out in California and then you gotta
Speaker 1: I mean to travel. I think for the first four
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, I remember saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: a year and a half I kept saying, you what,
Speaker 1: I haven't played it I haven't played it down in
Speaker 1: the game, and I'm exhausted. You know, I can imagine
Speaker 1: what these guys are like because it travel was just
Speaker 1: it was brutal. Travel is long ter. I had to
Speaker 1: go to London, New York, you know, the California um
Speaker 1: and so it's understandable. So he goes through that and
Speaker 1: now here he is kind of clean that slate and
Speaker 1: he's here. How pivotal is how pivotal is this year?
Speaker 1: You think for for coach Adam Gaze, I think it's
Speaker 1: very important. I think that what Adam has done is
Speaker 1: has really changed not only his roster, but he's changed
Speaker 1: the coaching staff over a little bit. And he feels
Speaker 1: confident that he has it right where he wants it.
Speaker 1: He thinks he has the players with the ability and
Speaker 1: the mindset uh that he's been looking for. I think
Speaker 1: that you get your quarterback back, which makes him feel
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot more confident because he gets
Speaker 1: to the things in the offense that accentuate what Ryan
Speaker 1: does really well and the players around him, and I
Speaker 1: think he probably brings in a couple more playmakers on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. You know, you look at a guy
Speaker 1: like Robert Quinn how he can affect the game with
Speaker 1: just one play. And you look at the versatility of
Speaker 1: a guy like William Hayes that can play outside, he
Speaker 1: can play inside, and the rotation of the pass rushers
Speaker 1: and the defensive tackles up front are going to if
Speaker 1: they play well, are going to mask some of the
Speaker 1: some of the inexperience you have playing behind you. So
Speaker 1: I think that's where he feels the strength of his
Speaker 1: defense is if they're good up front, bo, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be sure help the guys mature to the point where
Speaker 1: now we're rolling. Once they get going and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to win with defense. I will say the
Speaker 1: one thing that this defense needs to do in terms
Speaker 1: of improvement is stopping the run. You know, I think
Speaker 1: third down and tight ends come from stopping the run.
Speaker 1: You have to be able to do that. You can
Speaker 1: stop the run, your your your third down defense is
Speaker 1: gonna get better. Yes, you know, if you're playing if
Speaker 1: you're playing second and nine, third and seven, those kind
Speaker 1: of things you're gonna be You're gonna be better. It's
Speaker 1: it's the it's the third and ones. Uh, it's the
Speaker 1: second and two's it's it's those kind of things that
Speaker 1: really put you put you on your heels, uh and
Speaker 1: and get that going. So and on the other side, Bow,
Speaker 1: I think the one concern you have can you stop
Speaker 1: can you stop the mistakes before the ball is snapped
Speaker 1: and stay in first and tennis that the first and fifteen?
Speaker 1: And can you be are you able to score points?
Speaker 1: Can you average not seventeen points a game? Can you
Speaker 1: do that in the twenties and in six range? Because
Speaker 1: if you start fast like you talked about, and you
Speaker 1: take lee in some of these games instead of always
Speaker 1: coming from behind, you can dictate a little bit more.
Speaker 1: You can have more control of the football game. So
Speaker 1: that that's the complementary football that that I'm envisioning for
Speaker 1: this team. To me, when I look at this team, John,
Speaker 1: they're there there. I think the I think the answers
Speaker 1: for success are the same on both sides of the football. Hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta run the football. On the flip side, you
Speaker 1: gotta stop the run. You know, you've got to get
Speaker 1: your tight end involved. The tight end play has got
Speaker 1: to be vastly improved from what we've seen over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years on the offense and on the
Speaker 1: other side, vastly gotta you gotta improve vastly on covering
Speaker 1: the tight end. You know. Offensively, you've got to be
Speaker 1: successful on third down. Defensively, you've got to be successful
Speaker 1: on third down. So the two, the two the issue.
Speaker 1: They mirror each other in what they're what their problems
Speaker 1: have been, and hopefully they've got them resolved. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at you look at Jerome Baker. That's the
Speaker 1: guy they brought in to to maybe be that guy
Speaker 1: that and you know, talking to him, he says, I
Speaker 1: love to cover, I can cover anybody. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: guy they brought in to cover those titles. Has only
Speaker 1: two fifteen pounds. They didn't come in there to go,
Speaker 1: you know, go be a batting ram against a fullback
Speaker 1: or pulling guard or something. At your first round draft
Speaker 1: choice in there as well, you know, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to move around and do a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. I think. As the season and and then
Speaker 1: you got you know, the running game, you got a
Speaker 1: whole new offensive line. Did you feel good about You've
Speaker 1: got a really nice group of backs back there. And
Speaker 1: on the flip side, as much as you as much
Speaker 1: as you think, oh you're losing Dominican Sue. I really
Speaker 1: like that rotation of young defensive from a team spense
Speaker 1: to take got you to Phillips, all the William Hayes
Speaker 1: getting healthy and coming back in there, like those guys
Speaker 1: who love the defense, and so I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of good things look for as also continue to
Speaker 1: continue to make some moves on the bottom end of
Speaker 1: that roster um. You know, you know what, that's one
Speaker 1: of the things. But they've been able to do. You know,
Speaker 1: they've been You go through your cuts, you continue to
Speaker 1: make moves and and you try to improve this for roster.
Speaker 1: You're trying to upgrade this roster, and I like some
Speaker 1: of the moves they've made. If I'm forty team, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm Retten right, I'm going an apartment. When you unpack that,
Speaker 1: all you do is un zip your suitcase. You don't
Speaker 1: put anything away nothing, You don't put anything in the drawer.
Speaker 1: You just keep that on the floor and just in
Speaker 1: case you need to pick it up and move very quickly.
Speaker 1: The going back to preseason, one of the one of
Speaker 1: the disappointing things to me was that first game in
Speaker 1: the first defense when they were in there and I
Speaker 1: understand the first preseason game is a veteran player. You
Speaker 1: kind of let me just get through these plays and
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna play six plays. Let me get out
Speaker 1: of here. But I expected a lot more. We kind
Speaker 1: of saw it shore up um at least to the
Speaker 1: question of which defense are are we expecting to see? Uh?
Speaker 1: Come come Saturday. It comes Sunday, and it kind of
Speaker 1: goes along with what we were just talking about what
Speaker 1: they've got to do. Stop the run, pressure the quarterback dbs,
Speaker 1: stay tight, give your guys, give give those guys up
Speaker 1: front maybe another half of steps as you can, and
Speaker 1: then play the takeaway game. They've they've got to they've
Speaker 1: got to be better at takeaways, much much better than
Speaker 1: They've got to get into the plus category and the
Speaker 1: giveaway takeaway, and then they've got to do it in
Speaker 1: a hurry. Well, I liked what I saw out of
Speaker 1: the defense, because when you started the preseason, I think
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay, the first two passes one for thirty
Speaker 1: two yards and go right down the field and you score.
Speaker 1: Now you keep going, you progress. You go to Carolina,
Speaker 1: you get two sacks right away from Robert Quinn. You
Speaker 1: get some pressure on Cam Newton. Although you give up
Speaker 1: a big seventy one yard run on the second play
Speaker 1: of the game because you don't fit it right, the
Speaker 1: defense finds a way to come back and they improve.
Speaker 1: And then you go to Baltimore and there's a lot
Speaker 1: more penetration up front. You get a lot more playing time,
Speaker 1: so guys are getting accustomed to, you know, the run
Speaker 1: fits and and the coverage, the calls, and you get
Speaker 1: a little bit more experience playing together. So I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna see the ladder more more than how they
Speaker 1: started the preseason. I think you're gonna get a dynamic
Speaker 1: pass rush out of the front four. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get some push in the middle, but you gonna
Speaker 1: get some guys screaming off the edge, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of guys doing it. Um. I hope
Speaker 1: that the linebacking cork can solidify itself. You've got Kiko
Speaker 1: with the experience, You've got two young guys out there,
Speaker 1: and then you've got X who's really coming along on
Speaker 1: the edge. You get Bobby outside, You've got a handful
Speaker 1: of safeties that can play, you know, in a three
Speaker 1: man rotation, and you move make an inside at the Nickels.
Speaker 1: So but by the way, I like what you see.
Speaker 1: And by the way, one guy we haven't talked about
Speaker 1: and and really over the last few weeks and and
Speaker 1: probably has been as impressive as anybody, uh, coming out
Speaker 1: of training campus t J McDonald camp. T J. You
Speaker 1: know last year, you know, you got the eight game
Speaker 1: suspension early on during the suspension, they extend his contract. People, Jesus,
Speaker 1: guy's not even playing. You extend his contract. Then he
Speaker 1: comes and really didn't play at the level that everyone expected,
Speaker 1: didn't make the impact that everyone expecting to go. Jes
Speaker 1: A wasted money. Again. I'm gonna tell you what, this
Speaker 1: guy has been a terror during training camp and in
Speaker 1: the games. He has just been all all over the place.
Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to seeing him and Rashad
Speaker 1: working back there along with you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a three safety She's gonna be a three safety backfield
Speaker 1: for a vast majority of the games with with Mika
Speaker 1: back there. Um and and I just like the make
Speaker 1: up those guys, because you know, you know, we're shod
Speaker 1: and t J. They'll come up and hit you. Mike
Speaker 1: has shown that he's not afraid to come up and
Speaker 1: hit you. But I think Micky gives you that a
Speaker 1: little more athletic a little more athletic ability in that
Speaker 1: in that safety position that she has him a latitude, yeah,
Speaker 1: a little range to get to more places. We saw
Speaker 1: it early in the early in the senior going over
Speaker 1: the top, you know that too deep where you know,
Speaker 1: how many times have you seen her too deep defense?
Speaker 1: And in abrot Well, Jesus, safety just couldn't get over there.
Speaker 1: And I'm while I was standing on the side and
Speaker 1: watching players, you know, I'm not sure he's gonna get there,
Speaker 1: and what puts on a burst and there and uh
Speaker 1: usually don't see that. You don't see that on a
Speaker 1: veteran player as much less a rookie guys out there.
Speaker 1: So I think that's safety position. To me, I'm real,
Speaker 1: real happy with that. I like what you have because
Speaker 1: you've got different body types, you've got different skill sets.
Speaker 1: You know, we're shod with the experience. He's been a
Speaker 1: pro bowler. He still has that quick twitch that can cover.
Speaker 1: But he has the tenacity to play along the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage t J the same way. You feel like
Speaker 1: he's interchangeable. May not have the speed of Amenca or
Speaker 1: that that quick twitch of a rashad, but he makes
Speaker 1: up for when he hits you and he knocks you
Speaker 1: to the ground. And then you have Minca that seems
Speaker 1: like he does really everything. Well, you know, we seem
Speaker 1: like we're gushing over his skill set, but that's because
Speaker 1: I've seen it. Well, I like what, you know what
Speaker 1: the thing about think about Minka since he's been here,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've been around the coaches a lot,
Speaker 1: and we've done production meetings and you ask this and
Speaker 1: this and that, and you know what, Minca never comes up.
Speaker 1: He's an issue. He's like I've kind of I'm gonna
Speaker 1: point out where I think Amika has been like a
Speaker 1: he's a veteran because guys always knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Guy always And you know what, there there was a
Speaker 1: play we were in there We're in Carolina early in
Speaker 1: the game. You know, they run to the little, the
Speaker 1: litttle quarter route and bit the cheese and the bats
Speaker 1: coming out of the backfield and you see him just
Speaker 1: for just a little hesitation, catches himself, gets a ball,
Speaker 1: goes right over him. But you could see him. You
Speaker 1: could be registered the thought process. See this it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen to me again. He was frustrated the time.
Speaker 1: But and that, But you know that's what you see
Speaker 1: out of that guy. Is he just you know, he
Speaker 1: he's just he's a savvy veteran in a rookies body.
Speaker 1: I love it. That's exactly the way I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: He's a seasoned guy and you expect more out of
Speaker 1: him just because he's proven it time, every play that
Speaker 1: goes by, and every time he gets challenge, he's up
Speaker 1: to the challenge. So you stop thinking about I have
Speaker 1: a question mark there. You know you have a solid player.
Speaker 1: You know you've got a guy that's gonna be with
Speaker 1: this franchise for a long time, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: able to take over the reins at some point, probably
Speaker 1: at that safety position and move away from the nickel
Speaker 1: corner because you'll get somebody else to do that. It's
Speaker 1: funny as I went to watch some of the games
Speaker 1: over the weekend, and uh, you got all the football
Speaker 1: people in there and this and that, and the guy
Speaker 1: comes up and says, hey, he goes wahing, dos goes man.
Speaker 1: I think I'll just go Minca Fitzpatrick. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him do anything, And I'm going, what, I go, Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have a whole lot of interception.
Speaker 1: But but I'll tell you what the guy's done. Everything,
Speaker 1: he's done everything that that that I would like to see.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you you don't know what you like
Speaker 1: to see. How I'm sorry you don't see it. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry you missed out on it. But and maybe maybe
Speaker 1: that's a testament to to Manka is that he's played
Speaker 1: so well. You know, sometimes you play so well that
Speaker 1: you just you know. I remember I played in my
Speaker 1: my junior year at San Jose State. I played with
Speaker 1: a guy, a cornerback. His name is Louis Wright. Louis
Speaker 1: Right was about six three, about to tan two, could
Speaker 1: run and and so I played with him. I came in.
Speaker 1: I was a junior college transfer, So I come in
Speaker 1: my junior year. So we go through the year and
Speaker 1: then here comes a draft. He's a like the seventh
Speaker 1: player picked in the draft. And I go, Louis Right,
Speaker 1: I go, I don't you remember him making a play?
Speaker 1: And we ever noticed no one ever, no one ever
Speaker 1: threw a ball his way. That's why he didn't make
Speaker 1: any plays, because they didn't even then, even whe wherever
Speaker 1: Louis Ross, they didn't even bother. He didn't bother. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make a living off Gerald Small over the other
Speaker 1: side and not Louis. Right. But and I think micka
Speaker 1: Is Mick has been that kind of a guy. He
Speaker 1: just you know, he plays so well. Sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: notice how well he's playing. I like what he brings
Speaker 1: his skill set because bo you're ready. He does everything
Speaker 1: well and he's not boisterous. He's not a guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna beat his chest after a play. He gets excited,
Speaker 1: and which he should, but and that gets contagious to
Speaker 1: the other players. But it's it's like, uh, it's like
Speaker 1: he flatlines. He does his job. There's no there's no
Speaker 1: ups or down. That's the expectation, and that's a good
Speaker 1: thing for this team. And then look, he's you know,
Speaker 1: you know, he's one of those guys that make he
Speaker 1: may he'll make a mistake, but he'll make it once
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna make any again. Uh. And he's
Speaker 1: not gonna get beat physically very much out there because
Speaker 1: he's he's such a good athlete. Uh. And I just say,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm, I'm very, very excited about that secondary, especially
Speaker 1: when you get into the to the middle of it. Now,
Speaker 1: you know X, you know X played well last year.
Speaker 1: He's got it and he's gotta lift his game. His
Speaker 1: game can't be stagnant from what it was last year.
Speaker 1: He's got to get better. And then certainly there's that
Speaker 1: concern with with Bobby McCain. I love Bobby out there.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that he's out there, but as we talked
Speaker 1: about really at the beginning of the show, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get tested and they're gonna find out what Bobby and
Speaker 1: they want to find out what what he's like. Okay,
Speaker 1: you wanna you want to put a guy, an inside,
Speaker 1: guy outside. We're gonna find out if he can play
Speaker 1: out there, and it'll be it'll be a huge test
Speaker 1: Week one against the Tennessee Titans. You know, you have
Speaker 1: Matthews on the outside, you have Davis Corey Davis is
Speaker 1: the other receiver. You've got a big tight end and
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker that's strong, that can run down the middle
Speaker 1: of the football field. And you've got Marcus Mariota that
Speaker 1: can tuck the football and extend plays on a third down.
Speaker 1: So you have to be able to react to a
Speaker 1: lot of different scenarios. You know, they've got a downhill runner,
Speaker 1: they've got an outside guy. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: dynamics that the Tennessee Titans are gonna bring the hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. It's gonna be a big challenge for the
Speaker 1: Dolphin defense, A good test in Week one. One of
Speaker 1: the other things if you want to if you're looking
Speaker 1: for storylines in the game, Mike Rabel, you head coach
Speaker 1: of of the Tennessee Titans. I've got a lot of
Speaker 1: respect from Mike Rabel as a as a player, and
Speaker 1: then he's gone through the you know, he's worked his
Speaker 1: way through the coach through coaching ranks and and done
Speaker 1: what he's had to have done the work, and he's
Speaker 1: certainly the pedigree that he comes from having played with
Speaker 1: and coached under Bill Belichick and that staff. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole time he's been there. You know he's prepared.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that is going to be successful.
Speaker 1: Whether it's gonna be sooner or later, time will tell.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be interesting to see what he brings
Speaker 1: to the table and how much of the redundancy you
Speaker 1: see from what new England does up there that he's
Speaker 1: brought down to Tennessee, and he's got players to work with.
Speaker 1: He's got a really good defense. You look up front,
Speaker 1: Drill Casey, one of those guys that knows tackle that
Speaker 1: can get penetration on the quarterback and still in the team.
Speaker 1: A rap goes that outside. You got Woodyard is another linebacker.
Speaker 1: And I'm really impressed with the secondary because you get
Speaker 1: Logan Ryan at one corner who has that New England
Speaker 1: experience in the schemes down Malcolm Butler who he's accustomed
Speaker 1: with of coaching and being around. And you've got Kenny Vacaro,
Speaker 1: who the Dolphins actually brought in and looking at safety.
Speaker 1: You know, you get him for a reduced price, so
Speaker 1: you you've got talent on that defensive side. So you
Speaker 1: get available in there that has that experience of being
Speaker 1: around Belichick playing the Dolphins, knowing that the body types
Speaker 1: of who he's going up against. I think it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a great matchup in Week one. That that
Speaker 1: being said, though, it's it's nice to see a first
Speaker 1: year coach coming in on opening day because look at
Speaker 1: as as prepared as he is, um you know, I
Speaker 1: I can't. I couldn't imagine being, you know, a head
Speaker 1: coach in the National Football League the first time. And
Speaker 1: I've look, I've you know, I've had Adam. You know,
Speaker 1: I've I've been through a number of handful of coaches
Speaker 1: here and all of them their first time is at
Speaker 1: head coaches and uh and and everyone I've asked, hbody said, hey,
Speaker 1: how was your experience? And now yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: kind of blown ou Yeah, yeah, I'm and I'm thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm sure there was at some point
Speaker 1: you almost soiled yourself before the game. You're not human
Speaker 1: if it's not you're not human if it's a for
Speaker 1: your first time coacher player, and you're not grumbling a
Speaker 1: little bit. And that's why he surrounded himself with a
Speaker 1: guy like Dean P's, the defensive coordinat who has huge
Speaker 1: experience with the Ravens, and and you know Adam, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked to Adam a little bit and
Speaker 1: he he has great respect for those guys on the
Speaker 1: other side because he's coached with him, he's coached against
Speaker 1: him in different capacities. So you know, this is a solid,
Speaker 1: solid group that's coming in on Sunday. Yeah, it's to me,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a good test, but I
Speaker 1: think it's a test that Dolphin should pass. Um. But
Speaker 1: but like you said, it's it's they're not They're not. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a cake walk. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to come out and they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: play good football, sound football. And John, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been beating this drum for a long time. They
Speaker 1: can't come into this game and beat their selves. I'm
Speaker 1: watching I'm watching college football, you know, first week of
Speaker 1: college football, and and every team that got the snot
Speaker 1: kicked out of them got the snot kicked out of
Speaker 1: them because they beat themselves the majority of the time
Speaker 1: with penalties. Stupid penalty the Miami Florida State. You watch
Speaker 1: these teams and and they're moving the ball and then
Speaker 1: they shoot themselves in the foot. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, now they got a third and fifteen
Speaker 1: second and twenty those types of things that are unmanageable
Speaker 1: at this level. And that's what the that's what the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have done. And Adams talked about it all preseason.
Speaker 1: They've got guys running laughs, they've done everything they can
Speaker 1: to try to get the pre snap Look, what's the
Speaker 1: balls in play? Guys are gonna things are gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You know, guys gonna grab a guy and and try
Speaker 1: to protect his quarterback. You know, there's gonna be pushing shove,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be bumping out in the corners and
Speaker 1: the you know, with the receivers and everything. But but
Speaker 1: you can't beat yourself with pre snap penalties, and and
Speaker 1: and and and the Dolphins and whether they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a great football team or social football team, they're they're
Speaker 1: they're they're not going to reach their peak until they
Speaker 1: stopped beating themselves. We we did many a post game
Speaker 1: last year, and I don't know how many times we've
Speaker 1: talked about you can't you can't win games when you
Speaker 1: have ten penalties. You can't win games. We have nine
Speaker 1: penalties for nineties some yards. That has to be eliminated
Speaker 1: from the Miami Dolphins DNA, and I think they've gone
Speaker 1: a long way in terms of addressing it, in terms
Speaker 1: of making it a big issue. Protecting your football that's
Speaker 1: another thing. Protecting it on offense and taking it away
Speaker 1: on defense. If you can improve on your discipline mentally
Speaker 1: before the ball snap, and once it's snapped, if you
Speaker 1: can get your hands on the football and protect it,
Speaker 1: those two trades go a long way and helping you
Speaker 1: win games. Give me a lot of these pregame issues
Speaker 1: to me, because look, the Dolphins aren't the only team.
Speaker 1: They're not the only team that are that are they're
Speaker 1: shooting themselves in the foot. Like I said, we've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of college football. We'll see a lot in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, UM, especially one, especially week one, UM.
Speaker 1: And to me, you know, to me, this is where
Speaker 1: this is where not having a what I would call
Speaker 1: a traditional training camp where you're hitting on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: Because now these guys get into a game. They haven't
Speaker 1: they haven't gone live in practice, but I'm talking live
Speaker 1: in practice very much, if at all. And then they
Speaker 1: get in this situation and you understanding, understand completely, you're
Speaker 1: that defensive lineman you want to get off in that
Speaker 1: but you want to get off that you know, and
Speaker 1: and and you haven't been that situation so much in practice.
Speaker 1: And offensively, you know, you're that offensive lineman. Guy wants
Speaker 1: to go on a three snap, you know, on a
Speaker 1: on a on a three count, you better hold your
Speaker 1: water there. And if you haven't done it, and this
Speaker 1: guy's you got this defensive end, it's an all pro breathing,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of breathing like a like a
Speaker 1: like a bull coming out of the shoe. You want
Speaker 1: to get your ass back there. And and and if
Speaker 1: you haven't done it, you get that you can answer.
Speaker 1: And it's so I you know, to me, it's it's
Speaker 1: a discipline thing. It certainly is a player's responsibility. But
Speaker 1: again to me, and I just I just I just
Speaker 1: don't like the direction this league is heading in from
Speaker 1: that standpoint. Port tackling, penalties, all those kind of things.
Speaker 1: But and I think the penalty issue with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: and other things in part part and parcel has to
Speaker 1: do with that. Well, you know, no, that's okay because
Speaker 1: you know what happens. They do it in in high
Speaker 1: school and now they do it in college and it's
Speaker 1: it's filtered. It's way to the pros. And I don't
Speaker 1: know which way started it, but every every level of
Speaker 1: foot and every level of football, and that's what you get.
Speaker 1: That's one of the bad results you get from it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this podcast is permeating the airwaves too. I saw some
Speaker 1: guy there and he goes, you know, I was listening
Speaker 1: to Apple Music, So I was listening for somebody else,
Speaker 1: and you guys came on, he said, So I listened
Speaker 1: to you for two minutes and then I turned it off.
Speaker 1: Is nice of it? And I said, what did you
Speaker 1: turn it off to go to Dolphins dot com. He goes, no, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to hear anymore. I said, well, if
Speaker 1: you do feel like you, just gout the Dolphins mobile
Speaker 1: app because you can hear it wherever you have to
Speaker 1: put it on your phone and or go to tune
Speaker 1: in radio. Hey, game this Sunday, UH one o'clock. UH
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. Should be should be packed, should be loud,
Speaker 1: should be exciting. I'm excited. I'm exciting not only for
Speaker 1: uh this game. I'm started for the start of the
Speaker 1: season and this journey that this football team is is
Speaker 1: gonna take. I'm I'm I'm excited to see and and
Speaker 1: you know, there's a little unknown and there's a little
Speaker 1: expectation and there and then there's that that that in
Speaker 1: between there that uh, I'm really looking forward to this.
Speaker 1: You know what, there's so many question marks in terms
Speaker 1: of how this team is gonna perform because you you
Speaker 1: think about it, you've seen him every day at camp,
Speaker 1: you've seen the preseason games, and then you you kind
Speaker 1: of read about the national perception. It makes you a
Speaker 1: little piste off and makes you want to determine to
Speaker 1: go out and prove people wrong. I just hope that
Speaker 1: this team is focus on what they need to do
Speaker 1: to win Week one, then hit delete and get ready
Speaker 1: to do it again. I'm gonna go out on a
Speaker 1: limb Dolphins, Dolphins next week when we're on this show
Speaker 1: doing what we're talking about. You're talking about a one
Speaker 1: or no football team right now, getting ready to go
Speaker 1: to New York and a little bit. That's right. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for this team to go out and kind
Speaker 1: of show what the work they've put in and see
Speaker 1: if they can do it on Sunday. Hey, John, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. For Joe. Joe, where's Joe? I thought he'd
Speaker 1: come in, but you know, um, I were winner and
Speaker 1: must have taken him to it. Must have a tie,
Speaker 1: must be working at a tiebreaker, right, Noble or nothing?
Speaker 1: Right now? Is that double one? One more set? We'll
Speaker 1: just go to three. Al Right, that's gonna do over
Speaker 1: the show. We'll catch you next week.