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Speaker 1: It is Thursday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
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Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're gonna have this
Speaker 1: one short and sweet. We're gonna hear from coach Flores
Speaker 1: on his Thursday morning media availability, and we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to Dolphins linebacker Andrew Van Ginkle. We talked about a
Speaker 1: lot of things, from favorite movie to his favorite band
Speaker 1: which spoiler alert it's a C d C. We talked
Speaker 1: about steak, Thanksgiving food, and the crazy offseason regiment he's
Speaker 1: had to put on several times in his life to
Speaker 1: add weight and to add strength. Talking about his work ethic,
Speaker 1: where he came from in small town Rock Valley, Iowa,
Speaker 1: to the National Football League and making big plays and
Speaker 1: being the center stage on Good Morning Football twice each
Speaker 1: of the last two weeks. All of that and more
Speaker 1: with Andrew Van Ginkle on this Thursday, November twenty six
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's go ahead and jump
Speaker 1: in first with Andrew Van Ginko. But first I gotta
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Speaker 1: ahead and jump right into my interview with Dolphins linebacker
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginkle. And joining me now on the Drivetime
Speaker 1: Podcast is Dolphins linebacker second year out of Wisconsin, Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle. Andrew, how you doing? Man? Good? Good? Thanks
Speaker 1: for man to me. Yeah, of course we appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on right now. And I like to kind of
Speaker 1: start these podcast interviews off with a little rapid fire
Speaker 1: session here to kind of loosen it up and get
Speaker 1: to get to know you a little bit. Here are
Speaker 1: you ready for that? Yep? Okay, here we go. So
Speaker 1: what is your favorite movie? Andrew? I'd have to go
Speaker 1: Step Brothers, Step Bro. That's a great, great selection, I
Speaker 1: think I think the Will Ferrell catalog is just tremendous.
Speaker 1: Is he Is he your favorite actor? Oh? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: definitely up there for sure. That's a good answer. Off,
Speaker 1: We're off to a great start. How about your favorite food?
Speaker 1: I have to go with steak. You know, it kind
Speaker 1: of grew up on it, so you can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with the nice, juicy steak. And how about your favorite musician,
Speaker 1: band or song? Yeah? I have to go with a
Speaker 1: C d C. Yeah, you know, I can't go wrong
Speaker 1: with that. What song of theirs? Probably thunder Shut? That's
Speaker 1: the classic, right, I mean, you can't go wrong with
Speaker 1: the classics. That's why they they are. Uh, here's a
Speaker 1: here's a here's one that'll make you laugh for sure.
Speaker 1: What's your preferred conditioner, Andrew? I don't know, honestly, I
Speaker 1: have used many, so um right now, I'll probably go
Speaker 1: with dove. There you go. Are you a Turkey or
Speaker 1: Ham guy on Thanksgiving? Ham? Really? Really? That's an upset? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta go with damn interesting. I think Coach Flores
Speaker 1: was saying on Wednesday that on Wednesday morning that he's
Speaker 1: a Turkey and Ham guy, So hey, why not both?
Speaker 1: That's my philosophy. Yeah, why not both? You know Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: coming up? What is what is the best part of Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: You know, in the Van gegl family, I've just being
Speaker 1: able to spend time with my family and play cards
Speaker 1: for sure. You know I enjoyed playing cards and my
Speaker 1: family does too, so you might have opened up a
Speaker 1: can of worms there. I love me some cards. What's
Speaker 1: the go to game? We play a lot in Shanghai,
Speaker 1: which you know it's kind of like a rummy game.
Speaker 1: Um or you know, like Rookey is a famous one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's go ahead and shake off the
Speaker 1: cowboobs here a little bit loose. We'll get going. I
Speaker 1: do want to go back to your youth, your earlier days.
Speaker 1: You grew up in a town called Rock Valley, I
Speaker 1: in Iowa. What was Rock Valley like? Oh man, small town,
Speaker 1: one street light, you know, everybody's biking everywhere, and um,
Speaker 1: just a small town that you know, everybody knows everybody
Speaker 1: and every little thing that you do was it was?
Speaker 1: It a bit of a culture shock when you came
Speaker 1: to South Florida. You go from you go from one
Speaker 1: traffic light to an area where nobody uses our turn. Second,
Speaker 1: how's that working for you for real, and you sit
Speaker 1: in traffic for twenty minutes just to get a mile. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The one that frustrates me the most is when you
Speaker 1: get a stoplight and you have to wait like three
Speaker 1: turns just to get through it. Yeah. Yeah, that bothers
Speaker 1: me too. Or when you're trying to turn the left
Speaker 1: in the arrows read but no one's there's no oncoming traffic. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: what what's the point? The old apples like we can
Speaker 1: put a man on the movie, we can't figure out traffics.
Speaker 1: What are we what are we doing here? And you
Speaker 1: think they has to figured out? You think, so man,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's in the future for us. Um So, So,
Speaker 1: back in Rock Valley, I read that you were a
Speaker 1: high school quarterback. What would what would Andrew Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: the outside linebacker or kind of does it all defender?
Speaker 1: What would your scouting report be on Andrew Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: the high school cor back? Scrambling quarterback? Very very inconsistent
Speaker 1: with this throws. So, so you wind up out of
Speaker 1: out of Rock Valley go to the University of South Dakota.
Speaker 1: What was the transition like for you going from you know, playing,
Speaker 1: I said you were a quarterback in defensive back. You
Speaker 1: can correct if I'm wrong on that, But going from
Speaker 1: that to playing down the trenches in that linebacker position,
Speaker 1: how was that transition for you? It was a little
Speaker 1: bit of an adjustment period, you know, um, because I
Speaker 1: played a little bit of linebacker in high school, so
Speaker 1: but I never really experienced it fully. So it was
Speaker 1: definitely a shocking something that took a little while to
Speaker 1: get used to. And then from there you wind up
Speaker 1: at iron Iowa Western. Easy for me to say, what
Speaker 1: what brought you from South Dakota to Irawa Geez? I
Speaker 1: can't say it to Iowa Western? Just playing at a
Speaker 1: higher level. You know, I've always dreamed at playing at
Speaker 1: like an Iowa or a Big ten school, So I'm
Speaker 1: just knowing that that was a chance for me to
Speaker 1: showcase my skills and um, you know, kind of go
Speaker 1: prove myself. You wind up from Iowa Western to Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and you know, I gotta ask you this, Andrew, because
Speaker 1: one of my groomsmen in my wedding is a Minnesota
Speaker 1: Gopher and he I didn't know this, but he despises
Speaker 1: both the Packers and the Badgers. Is that a pretty
Speaker 1: common Midwest rivalry, Like, do you guys not like the
Speaker 1: other one the same way my buddy doesn't. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. You know that tradition has been going on
Speaker 1: for I think a d thirteen years or so, so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of a one of those things
Speaker 1: where you just you, I want to beat them year
Speaker 1: in and year out, and um, yeah, it's something that
Speaker 1: you know, Wisconsin and Minnesota's take pride and for sure, No,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I know the Big Ten has a
Speaker 1: lot of those trophy games. Is there a trophy in
Speaker 1: that game? Yeah? Yeah, they played for the Ax. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. That's a great one. Yeah. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: beat that one for sure. Did you get a chance
Speaker 1: to swing the ax when you were taking some doubts
Speaker 1: from No, that was actually you know, that was the
Speaker 1: first time we lost to them in about thirteen or
Speaker 1: fourteen years or something. So it was my senior year
Speaker 1: and usually at Wisconsin they only let the seniors chop
Speaker 1: the acts. So, um, that one, that one's stung pretty bad.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to open up old wounds Andrew my bad man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: way to go. Well, hey, it's working out today now
Speaker 1: with the NFL and you know, all those stops along
Speaker 1: the way to the touchdown in the Big Ten Championship game.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing that play live and asking myself, who
Speaker 1: is this guy? What a play? But I'm wondering. What
Speaker 1: I'm wondering is at what point along that road, that
Speaker 1: kind of circuitous path, did you realize that you had
Speaker 1: NFL potential? You know, going into that year, I didn't
Speaker 1: really know it. But then at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: I had a few sacks and made a couple of
Speaker 1: plays at the end of the year. So that's when
Speaker 1: I really started to you know, invest my time and
Speaker 1: eating habits into you know, making the NFL and you know,
Speaker 1: going out and having a great senior year, and um,
Speaker 1: do ball out and play the best I could, you know,
Speaker 1: to give myself a chance. You provide me with a
Speaker 1: great segway there, because you wind up in Miami as
Speaker 1: a pro and you start the your Brookie season on
Speaker 1: injury reserve and come back and you're productive. But you
Speaker 1: obviously weren't satisfied with that. I've heard you, coach Boyer,
Speaker 1: coach Clark Flow, everybody talks about your desire to get
Speaker 1: stronger in the off season and how that was a
Speaker 1: big goal for you. I'm curious what does that regiment
Speaker 1: look like? And did you also have to bulk up
Speaker 1: in college right away? Because I'm always blown away by
Speaker 1: guys that go from you know, what is it to
Speaker 1: to ten as a high school senior and then by
Speaker 1: the time there are a sophomore in college like to sixty,
Speaker 1: Like what is your How does Andrew Van Ginkle put
Speaker 1: on the weight and get stronger? Right? And it's some
Speaker 1: I've always struggled with. You know, coming out of high school,
Speaker 1: I was about two pounds. So my red shot year
Speaker 1: South Dakota, I ended up putting on pounds right away
Speaker 1: my red shirt year. So um, it's something that I've
Speaker 1: always had to do. And you know, obviously last year,
Speaker 1: just realize how big and strong these tackles and tight
Speaker 1: ends are. You know, I gotta I gotta do something
Speaker 1: to give myself a better chance to be more dominant
Speaker 1: and make play. So, um, I know this time I
Speaker 1: had to do putting on strength and adding more um
Speaker 1: pounds to me. So you know, I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time this offseason putting on you know, a solid
Speaker 1: five to seven pounds of muscle. That's impressive. I went
Speaker 1: back when I was in high school. I was trying
Speaker 1: to do something similar, you know, add more weight, and
Speaker 1: I would go with the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Speaker 1: and the protein drink every night. Does that Does that
Speaker 1: bring a bell to you at all? Peanut butter and jelly,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. Um. You know, I had some
Speaker 1: really good friends at South Dakota too, and I was
Speaker 1: living with um a couple of my buddies, and you know,
Speaker 1: I would wake up in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: and eat a p VJ or you know, eat ice
Speaker 1: cream and peanut butters, whatever I could do to put
Speaker 1: on some weight. So you know, I tried it all.
Speaker 1: So I think I've heard that before. Is it where
Speaker 1: you like set an alarm and you wake yourself up
Speaker 1: to go eat because it's like better metabolism. Is that
Speaker 1: kind of in the right ballpark? Yeah? Yeah, because you're
Speaker 1: burning it off throughout the night, so you know you
Speaker 1: can get more in you. Um, obviously the better. So well,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm trained for that now because I've got a
Speaker 1: six month old daughter. Now I'm I'm learning about waking
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night about three or
Speaker 1: four times a night. So maybe I'll maybe I'll get
Speaker 1: that pbn J and and the protein drink drink going
Speaker 1: at three o'clock, start start looking like an outside linebacker
Speaker 1: in the NFL, like Andrew van Ginkla. But so you
Speaker 1: know the reason I wanted to kind of go over
Speaker 1: your history here, Andrew, and I kind of asked about
Speaker 1: it a little bit earlier, but to kind of go
Speaker 1: back to that, um, you know, an unconventional path. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing I love in the NFL is there
Speaker 1: are so many guys like that. Like one of my
Speaker 1: favorite all time players is Cam Wake, you know, defensive
Speaker 1: end for the Dolphins that has a billion sacks and
Speaker 1: he had to go to the CFL and undrafted and
Speaker 1: all that stuff where it was a tough route and
Speaker 1: he looks back on his his time in those days
Speaker 1: when he really, you know, he learned about himself and
Speaker 1: he learned how to get into that shape. I'm curious
Speaker 1: with the unconventional path, like, is there something about that
Speaker 1: that helps shape you and kind of make you who
Speaker 1: you are today and the player you are today and
Speaker 1: maybe give you more appreciation for now that you are
Speaker 1: here in the NFL making plays on a weekly basis, right,
Speaker 1: you know it puts a chip on your shoulder knowing that, um,
Speaker 1: not everything is gonna be easy and you gotta start
Speaker 1: from the ground up. So um, it definitely helps you
Speaker 1: stay motivated and hungry. So um, you know that what
Speaker 1: being at the bottom, it's you know, it's tough down there,
Speaker 1: so you always want to push yourself to work to
Speaker 1: get to the top. Absolutely. And you know that's a
Speaker 1: good a good segue into the next question here because
Speaker 1: you've got now, what is five potential game changing plays
Speaker 1: in the last six games for the Dolphins, And I
Speaker 1: asked coach Boyer earlier in the week if there were
Speaker 1: specific traits that allows a player to show up for
Speaker 1: these big moments, because coach Flores talks about those splash
Speaker 1: players are great, but we like to evaluate the other
Speaker 1: you know, nin nineties snaps is what he always talks
Speaker 1: about on a thousand snap season. But the big plays
Speaker 1: do matter, like in a big way obviously, And so
Speaker 1: my question to you is is there some some specific
Speaker 1: traits that contribute to the splash play and and make
Speaker 1: your ability to make those plays improve? You know, I
Speaker 1: think it's just about putting yourself in the right position
Speaker 1: and doing everything the coach asked you to do. You know,
Speaker 1: I try to be a hundred percent of my assignments
Speaker 1: and just be right, be in the right spot, you know,
Speaker 1: always around the ball or you know, just doing my
Speaker 1: job set in the edge and then finding my way
Speaker 1: towards the ball. And you know, if you do that,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, good things are gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And good things have been happening for you. And you
Speaker 1: know where else good things happen is at the edge
Speaker 1: position there at Wisconsin. Now, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: this because we've had debates for DBU. Penn Stay always
Speaker 1: lays the claim to lineback or you, which you might
Speaker 1: have something to say about that. But I'm wondering, is
Speaker 1: Wisconsin officially edge you? Because you've got the Watt brothers,
Speaker 1: You've got yourself, you've got Vince Fegl, you've got Zach Bond.
Speaker 1: Is Wisconsin where you gotta go to become an edge
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Man, it's got to be up there,
Speaker 1: you know, just seeing what they do with their athletes
Speaker 1: and the kids that they bring in, you know, they
Speaker 1: they surely shape them to be the best players that
Speaker 1: they can be. So, you know, if it was up
Speaker 1: to me, I let's say, yeah, I'm obviously biased on
Speaker 1: that one. That's fine. That's why I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 1: I might suggest that maybe it's all those three pound
Speaker 1: corn fed offensive linemen you have to go against some
Speaker 1: practice every day, right, Yeah. Yeah, you know, competition too
Speaker 1: is gonna always bring the best out of you. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with big offensive line. No, not
Speaker 1: at all. You talk about the good competition there. I
Speaker 1: was looking over again some research on your background, and
Speaker 1: I saw that you had offers to obviously Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: Pitt Minnesota, among others. What was the deciding factor for
Speaker 1: you going to Wisconsin? Was there ever a choice to
Speaker 1: go anywhere in your mind besides Wisconsin. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I held my recruitment process open, and you know, ultimately
Speaker 1: the deciding factor is being able to play in the
Speaker 1: outside linebacker your position that they have there, and you know,
Speaker 1: just seeing the production of the guys before me, like
Speaker 1: you said, why and Vince Bagel and Shobert and all
Speaker 1: these guys, so, um, it's definitely something that I saw
Speaker 1: in my game, and you know, I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a part of You mentioned Vince Beagle there and You've
Speaker 1: also got Michael Dieter on the Dolphins now as well.
Speaker 1: But no, I haven't heard it this year, but I
Speaker 1: didn't hear a couple of times last year at the
Speaker 1: stadium they would play jump around, I think, just in
Speaker 1: random spurts of the stadium. Did you guys kind of
Speaker 1: like lock eyes when that comes on and be like,
Speaker 1: all right, guys, this is this is Badger time. No,
Speaker 1: we never did, but um, you know, it's a special
Speaker 1: place in our hearts. So whenever we hear that song, it, um,
Speaker 1: it means a lot to us, and you know we
Speaker 1: take pride in that for sure. I've got Andrew Van Ginkle,
Speaker 1: Dolphins linebacker, around the Drive Time podcast. Couple more questions
Speaker 1: for you, Andrew. I'll let you get out of here,
Speaker 1: and you know, to the outside and maybe the media
Speaker 1: as well, you might be kind of known as a
Speaker 1: quiet guy. So I asked coach Danny Crossman this week,
Speaker 1: you know, is there more to this guy that we
Speaker 1: aren't seeing? He said, there might be a little more
Speaker 1: juice with Andrew than he lets on. Is there like
Speaker 1: a topic or a specific setting that kind of let
Speaker 1: you and pardon the pun here, pardon the bad reference
Speaker 1: that kind of lets you let your hair down, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Yeah, I like being in smaller groups. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not a very big public speaker or
Speaker 1: getting up in front of people and being the raw
Speaker 1: road type of guy. But um, you know, if it's
Speaker 1: just me and a couple of guys, are you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's small setting I can be I'm more
Speaker 1: open and um, definitely bring out more of myself. So
Speaker 1: you mentioned a c d C earlier, and I gotta
Speaker 1: know and tell me if you're sick of talking about
Speaker 1: it and we can just shut up about it. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be doing my job, Andrew if I didn't
Speaker 1: ask you about the hair. You mentioned a c d C.
Speaker 1: Is that the inspiration behind the main? Is there something else?
Speaker 1: Like where does the golden locks come from? Honestly, just
Speaker 1: when I got to South Dakota and never really went
Speaker 1: to a barber, so just kind of kind of just
Speaker 1: went with the floe and just grew it out, you know,
Speaker 1: didn't stem from Anything's just more about not getting the
Speaker 1: haircut more than anything. But shoot, there might be a
Speaker 1: bunch more people following your footsteps with you know, the
Speaker 1: restrictions of COVID nineteen right now, people staying in aside
Speaker 1: not getting their haircut. I have some more Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Ginkles out there, right, exactly, nothing wrong with that. Hey day,
Speaker 1: The more the merrier, right. So I gotta ask you
Speaker 1: this because I saw it on It's been a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks in a row now it was it was
Speaker 1: today on Wednesday? Did you happen to see the Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football segment or or segments? And they have this
Speaker 1: game called which Guy Wednesday? And they asked who would
Speaker 1: you rather? Who would you rather? Take? Which guy? On Wednesday?
Speaker 1: The entire crew took you over John Claude van Dam
Speaker 1: and Peter Schreger of of NFL Network referenced that when
Speaker 1: he wore your jersey on the show, I'm curious if
Speaker 1: you saw that, and how did you feel about taking
Speaker 1: down Van Dam on Good Morning Football? Or maybe this
Speaker 1: is the first time you've heard of that. It's the
Speaker 1: first time I heard of that. So but man, that no,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. And you know, I had a couple of
Speaker 1: guys send me the clips of him pulling out my
Speaker 1: jersey last week, and you know, it's it's a special feeling,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, it's not something that you always
Speaker 1: think of and when it happens to you, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of surreal. So, um yeah, I'm just kind of
Speaker 1: living in the moment and enjoying it. So that's a
Speaker 1: that's a profect way to end it right there. Andrew
Speaker 1: Van ginkle Dolphins linebacker, special team or pass rusher, coverage man,
Speaker 1: run defender. He really does it all. Andrew, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for your time today, man, and have a
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving all right, thank you very much, and there
Speaker 1: he goes Andrew Van Ginkel. I want to play some
Speaker 1: audio from earlier in the week. We had some coaches
Speaker 1: talking about Andrew Van ginkl on the their media availabilities
Speaker 1: on Tuesday as well as coach floor. It's just talking
Speaker 1: about what this guy brings the table. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here first with his position coach or one
Speaker 1: of his possession coaches and Dolphins linebacker coach Anthony Campanelli. Um.
Speaker 1: He's he's just such an extremely detailed guy, you know,
Speaker 1: always looking for extra tips and like I said earlier
Speaker 1: in the season, he's constantly doing extra work. Um. And
Speaker 1: every little bit of information you give that guy, um,
Speaker 1: you know, he puts it to good youths. You can
Speaker 1: see him trying to work it on the field. Um,
Speaker 1: and he's he's all over pretty much all the coaches know,
Speaker 1: whether it's myself, Coach Hobbs, Coach Crossman, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Coach Clark, Rabby Letter and John Boyer, everybody, UM, And
Speaker 1: I think everyone really appreciates that on the team and
Speaker 1: on his staff. And he's just a He's a really
Speaker 1: diligent worker and really a great person too. It's really
Speaker 1: cool to hear coaches talk about that a couple of
Speaker 1: years after the fact, because I remember when he was
Speaker 1: coming out of college and I wrote my story for
Speaker 1: Lockdown Dolphins dot Com at the time talking about how
Speaker 1: a dept he was and recognizing route combinations and finding
Speaker 1: his spot in zone drops are in man coverage and
Speaker 1: getting himself in the right position to make a play.
Speaker 1: And you see that play out in his NFL tape,
Speaker 1: whether it's against the past or against the run or
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. Perfect compliment there from coach Campanelli.
Speaker 1: You heard him talk about Coach Clark, Let's go ahead,
Speaker 1: and hear from coach Austin Clark, who actually knew Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle back in those college days. At South Dakota. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you. I do have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a preconceived nose. And I actually remember Gink when he
Speaker 1: was coming out of a juco when I was at
Speaker 1: Southern Cow, and uh, you know, I joked in he was,
Speaker 1: you know, a highly recruited j C guy, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we we get a good laugh out of that.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, he's definitely exceeded all expectations. Um, I
Speaker 1: having not really known him, getting to know him personally,
Speaker 1: and how he approaches every aspect of the game, and
Speaker 1: and really just you know, how he operates, how he's wired, tough, smart,
Speaker 1: physical guy. Um that that is a team first. You know,
Speaker 1: he's becoming a technician I think on the field, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I I think he's seeing the fruits of
Speaker 1: his labor, and I think he's only going to continue
Speaker 1: to get better. Everything he's done physically, I think in uh,
Speaker 1: in terms of just you took last season to this season.
Speaker 1: I know that was something he said. You know that
Speaker 1: he from them from the minute I met him when
Speaker 1: I got here, he says, hey, I want to become
Speaker 1: more physical. He had all these goals in place from
Speaker 1: last year. Did he wanted to accomplish. And I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of what he's done through uh, you know,
Speaker 1: his journey, his unique journey through uh different colleges, and
Speaker 1: you know obviously he was right at Wisconsin. UM. I
Speaker 1: think that's exactly what you're seeing. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: he's doing a hell of a job. And you know,
Speaker 1: loves a guy. And you heard me reference earlier in
Speaker 1: the podcast with Andrew about Crossman speaking to his more
Speaker 1: juice than he lets on and talking about the work
Speaker 1: that Andrew Van Ginkle does. He also coach Campanelli referred
Speaker 1: to him pretty much pestering every coach he can get
Speaker 1: in front of to ask questions and find tips and
Speaker 1: apply that on the football field. One place he's making
Speaker 1: plays with the force fumble against the Cardinals on kickoff team,
Speaker 1: a blocked punt against the Rams against the Chargers. Rather
Speaker 1: on the special teams unit as well. Here's Coach Crossman,
Speaker 1: special teams coach for the Miami Dolphins on Andrew Van Ginkle.
Speaker 1: He's got a little bit more juice than he leads on. Ah,
Speaker 1: but you know, since we've had Andrews, he's done everything
Speaker 1: we've asked, you know, went through some stuff last year
Speaker 1: and as the season progressed, the more we put on
Speaker 1: his plate, he was able to handle it. And I
Speaker 1: think you see where that's picked up this year, both
Speaker 1: in the kicking game and defensively. Uh. You know, we're
Speaker 1: asking a lot of him and he's he's producing at
Speaker 1: a high level. And how about his defensive coordinator and
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer, who I asked earlier this week about the
Speaker 1: big playability of Andrew Van Geinkle and how he's put
Speaker 1: himself in position to make those plays. Here's Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins linebacker Andrew Van Giggle. Well. I think
Speaker 1: with with Andrew in particular, I think one thing that
Speaker 1: that shows up with him is his work ethic. I
Speaker 1: think his effort on the field to finish plays. Um One,
Speaker 1: he's putting himself in good position and two he's finishing plays.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a carry over from the time
Speaker 1: he puts in in the classroom, the time he puts
Speaker 1: in a practice and how hard he practices. And I
Speaker 1: think he's seen some results with that. So there you
Speaker 1: have a straight from the Dolphins coach's mouth. Andrew Van Geinkle.
Speaker 1: What a fun player he's been to watch so far.
Speaker 1: Early here in his Miami Dolphins career two years in
Speaker 1: almost two full years in here gets closer and closer
Speaker 1: to the end. Let's go ahead and spend this thing
Speaker 1: forward to Thursday morning, the availability for head coach Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: and he starts by addressing to a tongue of by
Speaker 1: lower showing up on the Wednesday injury report. Here's coach, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got, he got banged up a little bit. Look,
Speaker 1: he's a tough kid. He's gonna do everything he can.
Speaker 1: From a treatment standpoint. You know, we'll see. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is something that we're too too worried about.
Speaker 1: I think we're just going to continue to treat it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got, he got dicked up in practice. So but
Speaker 1: he's he's he's get treatment and it's better today. So
Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes from one rookie at quarterback
Speaker 1: to another along the offensive line. Coach was asked specifically
Speaker 1: about Robert Hunt and how much playing time on Sundays
Speaker 1: has helped accelerate his development at the offensive line position,
Speaker 1: but coach took an opportunity to say that's really the
Speaker 1: case for all the rookies and this team, all the
Speaker 1: players on this team. Snaps and experience can always help.
Speaker 1: I think anytime you get experience in game, mhm, you develop.
Speaker 1: You know, that's everyone, that's players, as coaches, it's officials,
Speaker 1: it's Jane Crew, that's everybody. So uh, I think playing,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the best way to to really improve.
Speaker 1: H get experience and feel the speed and the uh
Speaker 1: aggressiveness of defensive lineman in his case, see secondary pressures,
Speaker 1: different different pressures, and he maybe sees from us, you know,
Speaker 1: corner's coming, say if he's coming, I think it. I
Speaker 1: think he's definitely improved, as well as a lot of
Speaker 1: our young players offensively, defensively in the kicking game. Playing,
Speaker 1: playing helps for sure. Let's keep it rolling here for
Speaker 1: a question for coach about another coach on his staff
Speaker 1: and linebackers coach Anthony Campanelli. He was asked about the
Speaker 1: energy coach brings we all hear every every other Tuesday
Speaker 1: on the h The Review podcast where he talks about
Speaker 1: food and family and football and all the good stuff
Speaker 1: that goes on his life. Here's coach talking about Anthony Campanelli,
Speaker 1: but also his entire coaching staff. Yeah, Camps a good
Speaker 1: young coach. We got a lot of good young coaches
Speaker 1: on this team. Yeah, he brings a lot of juice
Speaker 1: and enthusiasm. I think, uh, you know, anytime you can,
Speaker 1: you know, bring energy to the team. I mean that's
Speaker 1: always a good thing. Look, it's a tough it's a
Speaker 1: tough sport. It's demanding. We ask a lot of the players,
Speaker 1: so you know what you know, we tried to tell
Speaker 1: the coaches and if there's any way you can make
Speaker 1: it fun, then feel free. UM Camp does a good
Speaker 1: job and you know, happy to have him on on
Speaker 1: the staff as well as everyone on the staff. I
Speaker 1: think we all these guys work hard and supported to him.
Speaker 1: They do their best to try to put the players
Speaker 1: in in in positions to uh have success. I think
Speaker 1: we're no different in the players. Look, this is his
Speaker 1: first year in the National Football League, so you know,
Speaker 1: to to Omar's question previous question, you know, every game
Speaker 1: is um experience for him and other guys who have
Speaker 1: a coach in in this In this league, a lot
Speaker 1: of our guys have college experience. Uh. Again, honestly, hearing
Speaker 1: some of those things that they did, you know, whether
Speaker 1: it's that Michigan with the Camp or cow with g
Speaker 1: A or West Virginia or Robbie Brown just hearing some
Speaker 1: of the things, uh they did, you know when they
Speaker 1: were in college. I'm opening to all those suggestions. So
Speaker 1: it's been good. Let's go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: on this Thanksgiving edition of Drive Time from a great
Speaker 1: long answer from coach about leadership and the importance of
Speaker 1: leadership in your organization. He was asked specifically about what
Speaker 1: can what type of difference can a solid leader at
Speaker 1: the top of the organization do you can hair to
Speaker 1: a team that maybe isn't as successful as far as
Speaker 1: that leadership on that particular program, The importance of leadership
Speaker 1: and coach has of course, it's not just about one person,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's it's ever about one person,
Speaker 1: not in football Lea's I think it's about a collection
Speaker 1: of of people M ownership, head coach, g M, assistant coaches, players, equipment.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a team game on the field. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think it's a team game from organizational standpoint as well.
Speaker 1: So I think we need leadership from everybody. Um, I
Speaker 1: can't you know begin to tell you know, what goes
Speaker 1: on in the equipment room, what goes on from a
Speaker 1: field crew standpoint. But I do know that if you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have leadership from a grounds crew standpoint, we
Speaker 1: can't go out down practice because we won't have them,
Speaker 1: you know, we won't have lines and numbers and things
Speaker 1: of that nature. So I think you need leadership across
Speaker 1: the board, you know, I think m hm, you know,
Speaker 1: Steve Ross and Tom Garfinkel and Chris I think we myself,
Speaker 1: we tried to m as much as we can encourage
Speaker 1: leadership and let guys do their jobs across the board.
Speaker 1: Because I'm not gonna sit here and tell Joe Chamano
Speaker 1: how we should set up, you know, locker rooms on
Speaker 1: the road got me, and I wouldn't know the first
Speaker 1: thing about that. I could probably come up with some ideas,
Speaker 1: but they're probably wrong because I don't I've never done it. Um,
Speaker 1: So you know, to you to answer your question, I
Speaker 1: don't ever think it's about one person, you know, I
Speaker 1: think once you start going down the one persons the
Speaker 1: end all be all m You just can't. No one
Speaker 1: person can do everything in the football organization. There's just
Speaker 1: too many things going on, you know, from personality, equipment
Speaker 1: to training to nutrition to you know, medical. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's but what what we can do is encourage leadership
Speaker 1: and let everyone be um that's called the head coach
Speaker 1: in their area. UM. So you know, Josh Gizzard is
Speaker 1: the head coaching receivers and Kyle Johnson is the head
Speaker 1: coach of the training room and medical department and some
Speaker 1: one and so forth, and we try to encourage that
Speaker 1: leadership and let those guys lead in their in their
Speaker 1: respective realms and trust that that that um that they're
Speaker 1: they're going to do a good job. I think our
Speaker 1: job from you in the job, from an ownership standpoint,
Speaker 1: is to have a vision how we want things done
Speaker 1: and express that vision and trust that guys will will
Speaker 1: try to put that put that vision in action. Long winded,
Speaker 1: long winded answer to I'm not sure that really gets
Speaker 1: gets to what you're looking for, but and so there
Speaker 1: you go. You heard coach kind of laugh there about
Speaker 1: the grounds crew at the practice facility and Davy man,
Speaker 1: those guys work hard. They're they're out there all the
Speaker 1: time getting stuff put together, putting the lines down, getting
Speaker 1: the seat on the grass. And I kind of always
Speaker 1: walked by with a knot of respect to those guys
Speaker 1: and how hard they work. To get that practice feel
Speaker 1: ready for the Dolphins every single day throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the week. Al Right, guys, that's gonna be my
Speaker 1: time on this Thanksgiving edition of the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to wish all of you out there are
Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving, both from myself and the Miami Dolphins organization.
Speaker 1: Enjoy your football today, enjoy your food, Enjoy your family.
Speaker 1: Uh a little joke or I guess, funny element of
Speaker 1: the Ravens and Steelers game getting postpone till Sunday. Literally
Speaker 1: five this before that breaking news occurred, I told my
Speaker 1: wife I cannot wait to watch that game on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it so much. And then boom
Speaker 1: on the scroll, breaking news Steelers and Ravens postponed. So hey,
Speaker 1: enjoyed the best way you can. We've got two games,
Speaker 1: two football games on this Thursday, ahead of a great
Speaker 1: weekend of action. And of course we missed the preview
Speaker 1: podcast here on the Wednesday edition of Drive Time. Check
Speaker 1: that out. We have flashback tomorrow. Plenty of content up
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