Speaker 1: Practice Rolphs, Fatrick throwing high, Parker Tuxtower. What a win
Speaker 1: for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins official podcast network covering your Miami Dolphins. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always, I am
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, some roster news with tendered exclusive
Speaker 1: free agents, an option declined on a veteran lineman, and
Speaker 1: some options in free agency and the draft, Pro Day
Speaker 1: updates from Clemson and Oregon, the top one free agents
Speaker 1: number twenty one through forty, and Brian Flores Humble and Hungry.
Speaker 1: All of that and more on this Friday, March thirte
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins and up first
Speaker 1: on today's show Thursday, the Miami Dolphins announced exclusive rights
Speaker 1: free agent tenders on three players that finished the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen season very strong. And first, we start with wide
Speaker 1: receiver Isaiah Ford, who had a career high twenty three
Speaker 1: catches for two hundred forty four yards and the majority
Speaker 1: of that production came in December, the final four games
Speaker 1: of the year. For Ford. He caught six, three, five,
Speaker 1: and seven passes for a total of twenty one catches
Speaker 1: in those four games, and also picked up two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty five of his two hundred forty four receiving
Speaker 1: yards in those games. He was also praised by head
Speaker 1: coach Brian Flores for his leadership and practice habits at
Speaker 1: the end of last season. Zack Seiler, a defensive lineman
Speaker 1: who was rewarded to the Dolphins off waivers in Week
Speaker 1: fifteen from the Baltimore Ravens, had a massive close out
Speaker 1: to the year with plenty of quarterback pressures and hits.
Speaker 1: In that Cincinnati game alone, Seiler had three pressures, one sack,
Speaker 1: and two hurries, seven total tackles, five run stops which
Speaker 1: again are tackles within two yards of the lion of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and two pass breakups. He was utterly dominant on that day,
Speaker 1: and he does it with length and strength and just
Speaker 1: overpowering guys like he did in the Patriots game in
Speaker 1: the season finale, taking offensive lineman and just walking him
Speaker 1: right back into the lap of the quarterback, who of
Speaker 1: course was Tom Brady on that day. And speaking of
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, the third player on our exclusive rights free
Speaker 1: agent tender list. Here is Trent Harris, the outside linebacker
Speaker 1: slash edge player who goes six ft two to five,
Speaker 1: and he got Tom Brady down for a sack in
Speaker 1: that season finale. Harris last year played in eleven games,
Speaker 1: he started three of them, had to force fumble, one
Speaker 1: and a half sacks and twenty two tackles. And you
Speaker 1: go back to that sack against Brady. It's a really
Speaker 1: good dip and rip move which showcases Harris's ability to
Speaker 1: kind of bend that arc and get underneath the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and work back to the quarterback. He has enough
Speaker 1: athleticism to do that, enough strength to hold the edge
Speaker 1: against the run. An exciting arrow up player here for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. On the other side of the ledger.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins declined to pick up the option for veterans
Speaker 1: center Dan Kilgore's contracts, and he will now hit free
Speaker 1: agency when the new league year opens on Wednesday. There
Speaker 1: are some options out there to find a potential replacement
Speaker 1: at the center position. First in free agency, the top
Speaker 1: center on nfl dot COM's Top one hundred free agents
Speaker 1: list is Ted Carriss, formerly of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: This is a smart, tough, durable player. He filled in
Speaker 1: for David Andrews very well last year in New England,
Speaker 1: and you definitely want a smart communicator at that center position.
Speaker 1: And an interesting story about Ted Carriss, he was told
Speaker 1: to not answer every question on the Wonderlick way back
Speaker 1: coming out of the draft, and he only answered thirty
Speaker 1: nine questions and he got thirty nine of them right.
Speaker 1: So pretty smart guy up front. As far as the
Speaker 1: top centers in the draft class, according to the Draft
Speaker 1: network dot Com, Caesar Ruise of Michigan is a pure
Speaker 1: power player and absolute brawler, throw them out of the
Speaker 1: club type of guy who can just whip guys around.
Speaker 1: But he also has the athleticism that makes him scheme
Speaker 1: diverse across gap in man schemes or zone schemes, a
Speaker 1: good looking player there. Out of Michigan, he's number thirty
Speaker 1: eight overall on the Draft Networks big Board. Lloyd Cushionberry
Speaker 1: out of l s U He's number thirty nine overall
Speaker 1: and the second center on that board, so obviously they
Speaker 1: had a hard time separate and those two guys. He
Speaker 1: takes terrific angles in the running game, has a great
Speaker 1: low center of gravity that gives him a very powerful
Speaker 1: and strong anchor to hold up against past protection plays.
Speaker 1: With an exceptional pad level as well. Was a big
Speaker 1: part of the L s U offensive system there in
Speaker 1: the National Championship season. Number three on t d n's
Speaker 1: centers list, Matt Hennessy out of Temple an excellent technician
Speaker 1: and supreme football i Q. He has the mental makeup
Speaker 1: you want at the center position. He's number sixty four
Speaker 1: overall on the Draft Networks Big Board. On the topic
Speaker 1: of the draft. We had some more pro days on Thursday,
Speaker 1: including Clemson and Oregon, and we start there in Clemson
Speaker 1: with Isaiah Simmons. The linebackers slash safety, slash cornerback, slash
Speaker 1: slot slash, edge rusher, slash flies the team plane. This
Speaker 1: guy does everything. He did the bench press at his
Speaker 1: pro day because he didn't do it in Indianapolis, and
Speaker 1: that was the only test that he did, and he
Speaker 1: got twenty reps of two five pounds. But that actually
Speaker 1: knocked his relative athletics score. If we recall the podcast
Speaker 1: from last week with Kent Platt going over the r
Speaker 1: A S scorecards and knocked him from a perfect ten
Speaker 1: down to a nine seven. I know, crazy, right. He's
Speaker 1: the most versatile player in this class probably ever for
Speaker 1: my money, at least for as long as I've been
Speaker 1: scouting players for roughly ten years now or so. Tee Higgins,
Speaker 1: the receiver there, is thought to be a first round
Speaker 1: pick by some. He's number forty seven on the Draft
Speaker 1: Networks big board. But he was a highlight reel catching
Speaker 1: football's there at Clemson, plucking balls off of defender's helmets.
Speaker 1: A big play threat down the field, excellent at the catchpoint,
Speaker 1: really good and contested catches. He ran at his pro
Speaker 1: day after opting not to run at the combine, and
Speaker 1: he checked in with a four or five four forty
Speaker 1: and at one verte inches on the broad and he
Speaker 1: goes six ft four to sixteen. A big, big body
Speaker 1: receiver there at Clemson going in to the NFL. Oregon
Speaker 1: was on the field for their pro day, and that workout,
Speaker 1: of course, was spearheaded by the Draft Networks number three
Speaker 1: overall quarterback and the number thirteen overall player, Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1: You guys know the racket by now on Herbert, big quarterback,
Speaker 1: really big arm. He excels in the play action game,
Speaker 1: turning his back to the defense and coming back and
Speaker 1: whipping that football with velocity. He also has the athletic
Speaker 1: ability to make plays with his legs and did I
Speaker 1: mention that arm. There's a video of him on the
Speaker 1: NFL Networks televised event of the Organ Pro Day showing
Speaker 1: Herbert standing flat footed on his own goal line, his
Speaker 1: toes facing the opposite goal line on the other end
Speaker 1: of the field, and he torques his body with no
Speaker 1: stride or no motion, throwing the football and flat footed,
Speaker 1: he chucks the thing sixty three yards. Powerful, powerful arm
Speaker 1: on the Organ product. And since Herbert did all of
Speaker 1: this testing at the Combine, he didn't go through any
Speaker 1: of it at the Pro day and Organ. He just
Speaker 1: threw on the field drills. And I love the draft
Speaker 1: as much as anybody. But first we have to get
Speaker 1: through free agency, and we jump back into Part four
Speaker 1: of our free agency preview. We'll get back to this
Speaker 1: on Tuesday with players one through twenty because we have
Speaker 1: Channing Crowder coming up on Monday's podcast and you won't
Speaker 1: want to miss that. But we start here today with
Speaker 1: part four with player number forty, and we'll get all
Speaker 1: the way down to twenty one and then again top
Speaker 1: twenty on Tuesday's podcast. But here number forty from the
Speaker 1: Patriots edge slash linebacker Kyle van noy Long. He can
Speaker 1: do everything in the game in terms of dropping into coverage,
Speaker 1: playing against the run, and getting after the quarterback. Has
Speaker 1: been the Patriots best pass rusher now in terms of
Speaker 1: pressures for a few years running. He had sixty pressures
Speaker 1: last year, eight sacks, nine quarterback hits, and forty three
Speaker 1: hurries and he did that on four hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four rushes, so a great pass rush percentage in terms
Speaker 1: of getting home. Number thirty nine on Pro Football Focuses
Speaker 1: Top one hundred free agents list is running back Melvin Gordon.
Speaker 1: We saw Austin Ekeler get a contract from the Chargers
Speaker 1: most recently, and Gordon now might test the market. And
Speaker 1: this is a scheme diverse back who can go outside,
Speaker 1: he can go inside, he can contribute in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Had a monster, monster career in college at Wisconsin, which
Speaker 1: of course got him drafted in the first round. Had
Speaker 1: a breakout season back in and he has a knack
Speaker 1: for finding short yards. Converge is both down around the
Speaker 1: goal line and in third or fourth down, and short
Speaker 1: when the offense has to stay on the field. Number
Speaker 1: thirty eight receiver Breshad Perriman found resurrection this past year
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay. He's a big body receiver with elite speed.
Speaker 1: That combination, of course, made him a first round draft
Speaker 1: pick once upon a time. He dropped just one pass
Speaker 1: on sixty five targets last year for the Buccaneers and
Speaker 1: a quarterback rating of ninety four point seven when throwing
Speaker 1: his direction. Paraman should have an interesting market this coming
Speaker 1: off season. Number thirty seven tight end Austin Hooper of
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, who recently announced that they would not
Speaker 1: have a contract offer for him in place before the
Speaker 1: free agency window opened up on Wednesday. He's a very
Speaker 1: solid receiving option, as last season was his best as
Speaker 1: a pro, catching six touchdowns, move the chains forty one
Speaker 1: times on seventy five catches, also piled up seven hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty seven yards at an average of ten point
Speaker 1: five per clip. He also gives you some flexibility in
Speaker 1: terms of complimentary football and playing the receiving game and
Speaker 1: helping out in the running game. He can condense down
Speaker 1: inside and help you as an inline blocker as well.
Speaker 1: Number thirty six on pffs Top one hundred free agents.
Speaker 1: As safety Jimmy Ward of the forty nineteen was his
Speaker 1: best season. He ranked eighth among safeties with an eighty
Speaker 1: four point two overall grade there on Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: He plays some slot play, some outside play, some deep safety.
Speaker 1: Ward was once a first round draft pick, and you
Speaker 1: really saw that playmaking ability to show up on tape
Speaker 1: this year for the Super Bowl runner up San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty Niners. Number thirty five on this list. The Titans
Speaker 1: running back Derrick Henry. He was the rushing champ this year.
Speaker 1: Absolutely bold teams over late in the season and in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, has a physical brand of football Downhill can
Speaker 1: really build the offense around that kind of guy, and
Speaker 1: he just ran over teams and really helped the Titans
Speaker 1: get all the way to the a f C Championship
Speaker 1: Game as he really really got rolling in Week ten.
Speaker 1: His rushing tolls from week ten on one, one oh three,
Speaker 1: eighty six, and two eleven. Then in the playoffs one
Speaker 1: eight two against the Patriots, one against the Ravens, and
Speaker 1: then in the Kansas City loss had sixty nine yards
Speaker 1: as the Titans had passed the ball more in that game,
Speaker 1: but he ended the regular season with fifteen hundred and
Speaker 1: forty yards and sixteen rushing touchdowns. In the playoffs in
Speaker 1: the three games, four hundred forty six yards and two
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns there as well. Number thirty four on the list,
Speaker 1: defensive interior lineman Leonard Williams, former sixth overall draft pick
Speaker 1: of the Jets, was recently traded back to the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. He had fifty five total pressures this last
Speaker 1: year and a Pro Football Focus grade of eighty one
Speaker 1: point four. As you really saw the talent that made
Speaker 1: him the number six pick in the draft. He is long,
Speaker 1: he is strong, has great athleticism, can cross face and
Speaker 1: work in the stunt and twist game. Just does everything
Speaker 1: in the middle of a defensive line for you, and
Speaker 1: does it with elite athletic traits on that d line.
Speaker 1: Staying on the defensive line, Pittsburgh Javon Hargrave comes in
Speaker 1: at number thirty three right here, and his PF grade
Speaker 1: has improved every single year of his career, and he's
Speaker 1: a two fact type of player on the interior line.
Speaker 1: He can stuff up the run game. He's really virtually
Speaker 1: immovable as a big body in the middle of that defense.
Speaker 1: He can play a multiple food of fronts, whether it's
Speaker 1: odd even two man fronts, three man fronts, four man fronts.
Speaker 1: Did it all for the Pittsburgh Steelers last year. Played
Speaker 1: two hundred more snaps this year than any other year
Speaker 1: of his career and had forty nine total pressures and
Speaker 1: was a top ten figure among interior defenders in terms
Speaker 1: of Pro Football focus is grading on the interior defensive
Speaker 1: line for the third strade. Player number thirty two, DJ
Speaker 1: Reader of the Houston Texans. You want to talk about
Speaker 1: a true nose tackle three hundred and thirty pounds. You
Speaker 1: PLoP that guy in the middle of your defense and
Speaker 1: it's impossible to run between the a gaps because he
Speaker 1: eats up blocks for breakfast every single day. He also
Speaker 1: had a career best PF grade of eighty five point five,
Speaker 1: picked up thirty six pressures on the quarterback, so not
Speaker 1: just a run defender, and in the running game, made
Speaker 1: thirty five run stops playing over six hundred snaps for
Speaker 1: the Texans defense last year. Number thirty one a safety
Speaker 1: Tray Boston who's bounced around a little bit but been
Speaker 1: a very productive player in his career eleven interceptions, six
Speaker 1: team pass breakups over the last three years. You see
Speaker 1: the playmaking ability and the ball skills. He tracks it
Speaker 1: very very well on that back end and definitely fits
Speaker 1: the role of a single high free safety. Number thirty
Speaker 1: on Profitball Focus his Top one hundred free agents list.
Speaker 1: Tight End Eric Ebron had a big, big year back
Speaker 1: in eighteen, his first with the Colts. He was once
Speaker 1: the eleventh pick in the draft of the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: But you go back to eighteen seventy four grabs, eight
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven yards and fourteen touchdown, just massive,
Speaker 1: massive production from a tight end position. He's still in
Speaker 1: his prime at twenty seven years old, and he's really
Speaker 1: an elite seambuster up the middle at the tight end position.
Speaker 1: Number twenty nine on the list. Safety ha Ha Clinton Dix.
Speaker 1: He began his career with the Packers, moved to Washington,
Speaker 1: and most recently last year was with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Former first round draft pick might have had his best
Speaker 1: year of his career last year with the Bears. Played
Speaker 1: one thousand and sixty six snaps and had good grades
Speaker 1: in both run defense and coverage as well as overall
Speaker 1: in coverage. He allowed just a passer rating of sixty
Speaker 1: nine point two on balls thrown in his direction. He
Speaker 1: made fifteen run stops and had sixty five total tackles
Speaker 1: on the season. Number twenty eight on this list, defensive
Speaker 1: interior slash edge plays everywhere on the defensive line from
Speaker 1: the forty Niners Eric Armstead, And if you watch the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl this year, you saw how much of a
Speaker 1: monster this guy was, and he was that way throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the entire season. He has extreme length
Speaker 1: at six ft seven two pounds, but his wingspan spans
Speaker 1: from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Gulf
Speaker 1: Coast across the entire state of Florida. First round draft pickback,
Speaker 1: and he picked up seventy three pressures last season, thirteen sacks,
Speaker 1: ten hits, and fifty hurries on the quarterback also pitched
Speaker 1: in with forty two run stops, almost doubling his previous
Speaker 1: high of twenty three. So arrow up on Eric Armstead,
Speaker 1: the number twenty eight player on this Pro Football Focus list.
Speaker 1: Number twenty seven. We stay in the Bay Area with
Speaker 1: wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who gave that forty Niners passing
Speaker 1: offense a bit of a boost mid season when he
Speaker 1: got traded from the Denver Broncos. He's one of the
Speaker 1: best slot receivers in the game. He gives you elite
Speaker 1: speed from that slot position, fantastic route running. He could
Speaker 1: even go out wide and play a perimeter spat anywhere
Speaker 1: on your offense. Veteran that understands route running, understands leverage,
Speaker 1: understands coverage. Just a true pro. Emmanuel Sanders number twenty
Speaker 1: six on this list is edge rusher from the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: Yannique and Gockway. And you want to talk about pass
Speaker 1: brush production, few guys do it better than in Gookway
Speaker 1: has in Jacksonville since he arrived back in sixteen. He
Speaker 1: had fourty seven pressures that year, eighty two seventeen, sixty
Speaker 1: four pressures, eighteen and fifty one pressures last year. He's
Speaker 1: never gone below seven hundred reps as a pro, and
Speaker 1: that's due in large part to the fact that he
Speaker 1: plays both facets of the game, both the run and
Speaker 1: the pass, and he always does well to get the
Speaker 1: football out. Fourteen career force fumbles in just four years
Speaker 1: for Inockway, number twenty six on this list. Check that
Speaker 1: number twenty five on this list edge Shaquille Barrett of
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, staying at the same position, had
Speaker 1: a breakout season last year. Was undrafted free agent of
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. He goes six ft two to fifty
Speaker 1: and he had major production for the Buccaneers last year
Speaker 1: with eighty two pressures. Twenty of those were sacks, eighteen hits,
Speaker 1: and forty four quarterback hurries. And what gets lost in
Speaker 1: his major production last year was that he was a
Speaker 1: good player throughout the course of his career with Denver
Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen, getting green grades on his overall defensive
Speaker 1: grade each year so far as a professional. Number twenty
Speaker 1: four on the list is guard Joe Tuney of the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and this guy is a consummate professional
Speaker 1: that almost never misses a snap. He played eleven hundred
Speaker 1: forty snaps last year and allowed just one sack, earning
Speaker 1: an elite pass blocking grade of eighty seven point four,
Speaker 1: barely topping his twenty eighteen pass blocking grade of eighty
Speaker 1: five point three. Here's his season stat totals in terms
Speaker 1: of snap counts. We talked about thirteen o four last
Speaker 1: year thirteen seventy one eighteen, thirteen fifty four and twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen and thirteen fifty four again his rookie year in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Doesn't miss games, doesn't miss snaps there for
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense. Number twenty three on this list is
Speaker 1: Devin mccordy, staying in New England, the safety. He made
Speaker 1: five interceptions last year that was second among all safeties,
Speaker 1: and he plays every position on that New England defense,
Speaker 1: combining defensive line and box snaps. He played over four
Speaker 1: hundred in that regard snaps in the slot and four
Speaker 1: sixties six as your single high deep safety off the football,
Speaker 1: and we talk about green and blue grades here on
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, you have to go back to eleven
Speaker 1: for the last time mccordy did not have a green
Speaker 1: or a blue grade. He also has three individual seasons
Speaker 1: with grades better than ninety on Pro Football Focus. One
Speaker 1: of the best safeties in the recent history of the game.
Speaker 1: Number twenty two on this list on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and that's where will finish atwenty one as well is
Speaker 1: guard Brandon Schurf from Washington first round draft pick, might
Speaker 1: hit the market, might get tagged. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Suf like Joe Toney, allowed just one sack all season,
Speaker 1: and he's a consistent run blocker and pass blocker. He
Speaker 1: really moves guys off the football as a true road
Speaker 1: grader at that right guard position, a true power player
Speaker 1: that just has elite traits in both aspects of the game.
Speaker 1: And we finish up here with number twenty one on
Speaker 1: Pro football Focus is top one hundred free agents available
Speaker 1: with at Conklin, the right tackle from the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: He finished twelve among tackles last year on his Pro
Speaker 1: football Focus grade UH seventy eight point three, he was
Speaker 1: fifth and run blocking, so a true road grader off
Speaker 1: the edge out there as well. He can really get
Speaker 1: into space, he can really displace guys off the football,
Speaker 1: and he's good at getting on the upfield shoulder and
Speaker 1: angling guys out of the particular gap. According to Pro
Speaker 1: football Focus, he was number six on zone runs and
Speaker 1: number fourteen on man gap runs. So scheme diverse really
Speaker 1: blows guys off the football. That's twenty one through forty.
Speaker 1: We've now covered eighty of the players on this list.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday's podcast will have one through number twenty four.
Speaker 1: You guys, because on Monday we have Channing Crowder. But
Speaker 1: to finish up this edition of the Drivetime Podcast, part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the story up on Miami Dolphins dot com as
Speaker 1: well as the video that you can find on any
Speaker 1: Dolphins channel, whether it's our YouTube channel, Miami Dolphins dot com, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,
Speaker 1: wherever you look, go check out Humble and Hungry the
Speaker 1: Brian Flores story. And I wrote an article up on
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins dot com that tracks Flores and this incredible
Speaker 1: journey he's taken from Brooklyn, New York, and the neighborhood
Speaker 1: of Brownsville, and that environment those people that were around
Speaker 1: Brian Flora's there in Brownsville really helps shake the shape
Speaker 1: the character and the man that we know today is
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, and he says
Speaker 1: himself quote, You've got to be tough to grow up here,
Speaker 1: referring to Brownsville, New York. And so Floras loaded up
Speaker 1: with some of the Dolphins social media team and Dolphins
Speaker 1: personnel to go back to Brownsville and to film a
Speaker 1: short documentary film. It's about sixteen and a half minute.
Speaker 1: You guys can find it again anywhere the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: post on social media, on the official site, or on YouTube.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the environment that Flora's talks about
Speaker 1: that really helped shape him into who he is about
Speaker 1: the people that were around him, including his mother, his wife,
Speaker 1: and his high school football coach who really thinks of
Speaker 1: Brian Flora's as a son. And I really don't want
Speaker 1: to spoil too much of it with the quotes from
Speaker 1: the article and especially from the video, which is just
Speaker 1: so well done, a fantastic five star video that was
Speaker 1: shot on a rainy day there in Brooklyn. But Flores
Speaker 1: talked about his mother, how she was extremely tough and stern,
Speaker 1: but he always knew that they that she loved him
Speaker 1: and his brother. There was never a doubt about that
Speaker 1: in his mind. And that's kind of where Flora shaped
Speaker 1: his personality, his temperament, what makes him a good football
Speaker 1: coach here with the Miami Dolphins to get tough, smart,
Speaker 1: discipline players, because that's what he knows and that's who
Speaker 1: he is and he wants to be the genuine article,
Speaker 1: which in this video you quickly learned where he came
Speaker 1: from and how he got developed into the man that
Speaker 1: he is. But Brian's wife, Jenny talked about the best
Speaker 1: coach he ever had, who was Brian's mother. She said, quote,
Speaker 1: I think he learned to be a coach from her.
Speaker 1: Brian knew that his mom wanted what was best for him,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what he's taken with him into
Speaker 1: his role here in Miami and being a head coach
Speaker 1: with his players. And that quote really resonates because you
Speaker 1: go back to his honoring at the y m C
Speaker 1: A back up in the Boston area, when Devin mccordy,
Speaker 1: Matt Slater as well as Rob Nikovich presented the award
Speaker 1: to Brian Flores for the integration initiative that he was
Speaker 1: part of there in the New England area and Flora's
Speaker 1: or Slater rather talks about Flora's an impact on guys
Speaker 1: and how although he's very, very demanding, all that demand
Speaker 1: comes from a place of love because he truly does
Speaker 1: want what's best for his players, and he knows what's
Speaker 1: best and he knows how to get those guys to
Speaker 1: get the very best out of themselves and what they
Speaker 1: can become. And so Flora's final message on this video
Speaker 1: I thought was the best part of the entire thing
Speaker 1: when they asked him, what do you want people to
Speaker 1: take away from your story? And he kind of hesitated
Speaker 1: for a little bit because he's not the type of
Speaker 1: guy to really heap the praise on himself. He's always
Speaker 1: going to deflect like a true leader does. But this
Speaker 1: message should resonate with anybody out there, football or otherwise,
Speaker 1: because it's so true in life that you can be
Speaker 1: what you want to be if you're willing to work
Speaker 1: for it, and Flora's is a walking image of that
Speaker 1: exact idea quote. It doesn't really matter where you're from
Speaker 1: or what your situation is. If you do what you're
Speaker 1: passionate about and you have support, it goes so far.
Speaker 1: I don't think people really understand how impactful they are.
Speaker 1: Keep working, keep striving, keep trying to be the best
Speaker 1: version of yourself, and then pay it forward. It's only
Speaker 1: a success story if we help other people have success.
Speaker 1: End quote. How can you not love that from the
Speaker 1: head coach of your football team? Just a great football
Speaker 1: coach and an even better man. So go check out
Speaker 1: the documentary film on Miami Dolphins dot com or socials
Speaker 1: wherever you get them. Humble and Hungry, the Brian Flora Story.
Speaker 1: I promise you're gonna want to run through about sixty
Speaker 1: walls after you watch this film. Okay, that's a good
Speaker 1: stopping point for today's episode, and I think we should
Speaker 1: go ahead and just throw one quick note in here
Speaker 1: about the coronavirus. Just want to say everybody out there,
Speaker 1: please stay safe, Please take the proper precautions to keep
Speaker 1: yourself safe and those around you as we can all
Speaker 1: do our part to stay safe during this scary time
Speaker 1: and this pandemic that has really dominated the headlines for
Speaker 1: the last couple of days and a couple of weeks. Now,
Speaker 1: all right, let's go ahead and close up this edition
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Speaker 1: The Brian Flores Story. Monday, Channing Crowder gonna chat with
Speaker 1: me one on one, a long interview with the Dolphins
Speaker 1: from our linebacker. Don't miss that until next time fins up,
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