WEBVTT - Andrew Van Ginkel: From His One Traffic Light Town to NFL Play Maker 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:15.160 Touchdown, miamis Water run. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.520 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:23.040 official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.640 and every day. How's it going, Everybody Happy thanks Giving? 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.319 It is Thursday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.159 I'm here to bring you your daily dose of Miami 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.800 Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're gonna have this 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.400 one short and sweet. We're gonna hear from coach Flores 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.760 on his Thursday morning media availability, and we're gonna talk 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.159 to Dolphins linebacker Andrew Van Ginkle. We talked about a 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.600 lot of things, from favorite movie to his favorite band 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.600 which spoiler alert it's a C d C. We talked 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.440 about steak, Thanksgiving food, and the crazy offseason regiment he's 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.400 had to put on several times in his life to 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.360 add weight and to add strength. Talking about his work ethic, 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.560 where he came from in small town Rock Valley, Iowa, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.480 to the National Football League and making big plays and 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.000 being the center stage on Good Morning Football twice each 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.360 of the last two weeks. All of that and more 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.600 with Andrew Van Ginkle on this Thursday, November twenty six 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:23.440 edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Let's go ahead and jump 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.840 in first with Andrew Van Ginko. But first I gotta 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.840 tell you guys about Auto Nation. The new year starts 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.840 now at Auto Nation. Let's skip the rest of twenty 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.160 and get to big new year's savings on your favorite 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.520 Auto Nation Chevy's for Its, Toyota's Hondas and more shops 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.039 safely at the AutoNation store near you or AutoNation dot 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.280 com where Dolphins fans can save. Right now, let's go 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.360 ahead and jump right into my interview with Dolphins linebacker 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.520 Andrew Van Ginkle. And joining me now on the Drivetime 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.720 Podcast is Dolphins linebacker second year out of Wisconsin, Andrew 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.720 Van Ginkle. Andrew, how you doing? Man? Good? Good? Thanks 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.760 for man to me. Yeah, of course we appreciate you 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.680 coming on right now. And I like to kind of 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.440 start these podcast interviews off with a little rapid fire 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.839 session here to kind of loosen it up and get 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.320 to get to know you a little bit. Here are 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.720 you ready for that? Yep? Okay, here we go. So 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.400 what is your favorite movie? Andrew? I'd have to go 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.519 Step Brothers, Step Bro. That's a great, great selection, I 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.639 think I think the Will Ferrell catalog is just tremendous. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.440 Is he Is he your favorite actor? Oh? Yeah, he's 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.000 definitely up there for sure. That's a good answer. Off, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.440 We're off to a great start. How about your favorite food? 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.359 I have to go with steak. You know, it kind 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.200 of grew up on it, so you can't go wrong 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:40.640 with the nice, juicy steak. And how about your favorite musician, 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.120 band or song? Yeah? I have to go with a 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.880 C d C. Yeah, you know, I can't go wrong 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:53.359 with that. What song of theirs? Probably thunder Shut? That's 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.080 the classic, right, I mean, you can't go wrong with 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.720 the classics. That's why they they are. Uh, here's a 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.320 here's a here's one that'll make you laugh for sure. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.600 What's your preferred conditioner, Andrew? I don't know, honestly, I 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.760 have used many, so um right now, I'll probably go 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.160 with dove. There you go. Are you a Turkey or 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:14.760 Ham guy on Thanksgiving? Ham? Really? Really? That's an upset? Yeah, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.519 I gotta go with damn interesting. I think Coach Flores 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.679 was saying on Wednesday that on Wednesday morning that he's 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.840 a Turkey and Ham guy, So hey, why not both? 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.480 That's my philosophy. Yeah, why not both? You know Thanksgiving 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.600 coming up? What is what is the best part of Thanksgiving? 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:29.840 You know, in the Van gegl family, I've just being 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.280 able to spend time with my family and play cards 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.800 for sure. You know I enjoyed playing cards and my 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.800 family does too, so you might have opened up a 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.400 can of worms there. I love me some cards. What's 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.600 the go to game? We play a lot in Shanghai, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.000 which you know it's kind of like a rummy game. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.880 Um or you know, like Rookey is a famous one. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.920 All right, let's let's go ahead and shake off the 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.800 cowboobs here a little bit loose. We'll get going. I 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.040 do want to go back to your youth, your earlier days. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.480 You grew up in a town called Rock Valley, I 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.400 in Iowa. What was Rock Valley like? Oh man, small town, 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:04.600 one street light, you know, everybody's biking everywhere, and um, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.920 just a small town that you know, everybody knows everybody 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.280 and every little thing that you do was it was? 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.720 It a bit of a culture shock when you came 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.720 to South Florida. You go from you go from one 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.280 traffic light to an area where nobody uses our turn. Second, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.560 how's that working for you for real, and you sit 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:24.000 in traffic for twenty minutes just to get a mile. Yeah. 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.279 The one that frustrates me the most is when you 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.080 get a stoplight and you have to wait like three 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.560 turns just to get through it. Yeah. Yeah, that bothers 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.320 me too. Or when you're trying to turn the left 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.880 in the arrows read but no one's there's no oncoming traffic. Yes, yes, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.040 what what's the point? The old apples like we can 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.880 put a man on the movie, we can't figure out traffics. 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.760 What are we what are we doing here? And you 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.000 think they has to figured out? You think, so man, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.000 maybe maybe that's in the future for us. Um So, So, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.160 back in Rock Valley, I read that you were a 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.080 high school quarterback. What would what would Andrew Van Ginkle 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.800 the outside linebacker or kind of does it all defender? 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.239 What would your scouting report be on Andrew Van Ginkle 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:07.240 the high school cor back? Scrambling quarterback? Very very inconsistent 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.520 with this throws. So, so you wind up out of 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.080 out of Rock Valley go to the University of South Dakota. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.200 What was the transition like for you going from you know, playing, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:17.920 I said you were a quarterback in defensive back. You 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.839 can correct if I'm wrong on that, But going from 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.760 that to playing down the trenches in that linebacker position, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.480 how was that transition for you? It was a little 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.359 bit of an adjustment period, you know, um, because I 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.240 played a little bit of linebacker in high school, so 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.520 but I never really experienced it fully. So it was 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.160 definitely a shocking something that took a little while to 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.680 get used to. And then from there you wind up 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.440 at iron Iowa Western. Easy for me to say, what 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.880 what brought you from South Dakota to Irawa Geez? I 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:53.360 can't say it to Iowa Western? Just playing at a 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.000 higher level. You know, I've always dreamed at playing at 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.240 like an Iowa or a Big ten school, So I'm 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.280 just knowing that that was a chance for me to 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.440 showcase my skills and um, you know, kind of go 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.280 prove myself. You wind up from Iowa Western to Wisconsin, 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.640 and you know, I gotta ask you this, Andrew, because 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.720 one of my groomsmen in my wedding is a Minnesota 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.919 Gopher and he I didn't know this, but he despises 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.520 both the Packers and the Badgers. Is that a pretty 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.640 common Midwest rivalry, Like, do you guys not like the 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.880 other one the same way my buddy doesn't. Oh yeah, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.560 for sure. You know that tradition has been going on 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:31.320 for I think a d thirteen years or so, so, um, 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.480 you know, it's kind of a one of those things 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.080 where you just you, I want to beat them year 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.560 in and year out, and um, yeah, it's something that 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.760 you know, Wisconsin and Minnesota's take pride and for sure, No, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:46.880 I don't know, I know the Big Ten has a 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:48.760 lot of those trophy games. Is there a trophy in 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.920 that game? Yeah? Yeah, they played for the Ax. Yeah, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.560 that's right. That's a great one. Yeah. Yeah, you can't 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.360 beat that one for sure. Did you get a chance 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.480 to swing the ax when you were taking some doubts 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:05.159 from No, that was actually you know, that was the 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.680 first time we lost to them in about thirteen or 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.200 fourteen years or something. So it was my senior year 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.160 and usually at Wisconsin they only let the seniors chop 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.440 the acts. So, um, that one, that one's stung pretty bad. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.320 I'm sorry to open up old wounds Andrew my bad man. Yeah, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.720 way to go. Well, hey, it's working out today now 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.120 with the NFL and you know, all those stops along 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.320 the way to the touchdown in the Big Ten Championship game. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.680 I remember seeing that play live and asking myself, who 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.120 is this guy? What a play? But I'm wondering. What 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.960 I'm wondering is at what point along that road, that 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.680 kind of circuitous path, did you realize that you had 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.880 NFL potential? You know, going into that year, I didn't 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.920 really know it. But then at the end of the year, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.840 I had a few sacks and made a couple of 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.080 plays at the end of the year. So that's when 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.560 I really started to you know, invest my time and 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.760 eating habits into you know, making the NFL and you know, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.880 going out and having a great senior year, and um, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.960 do ball out and play the best I could, you know, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.400 to give myself a chance. You provide me with a 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.080 great segway there, because you wind up in Miami as 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.600 a pro and you start the your Brookie season on 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.040 injury reserve and come back and you're productive. But you 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.400 obviously weren't satisfied with that. I've heard you, coach Boyer, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.920 coach Clark Flow, everybody talks about your desire to get 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.040 stronger in the off season and how that was a 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.600 big goal for you. I'm curious what does that regiment 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.000 look like? And did you also have to bulk up 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.120 in college right away? Because I'm always blown away by 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.400 guys that go from you know, what is it to 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.000 to ten as a high school senior and then by 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.000 the time there are a sophomore in college like to sixty, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.400 Like what is your How does Andrew Van Ginkle put 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.640 on the weight and get stronger? Right? And it's some 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.560 I've always struggled with. You know, coming out of high school, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.440 I was about two pounds. So my red shot year 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.640 South Dakota, I ended up putting on pounds right away 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.240 my red shirt year. So um, it's something that I've 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.680 always had to do. And you know, obviously last year, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.040 just realize how big and strong these tackles and tight 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.480 ends are. You know, I gotta I gotta do something 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.200 to give myself a better chance to be more dominant 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.080 and make play. So, um, I know this time I 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.280 had to do putting on strength and adding more um 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.600 pounds to me. So you know, I spent a lot 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.800 of time this offseason putting on you know, a solid 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.600 five to seven pounds of muscle. That's impressive. I went 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.079 back when I was in high school. I was trying 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.920 to do something similar, you know, add more weight, and 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.960 I would go with the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.760 and the protein drink every night. Does that Does that 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.400 bring a bell to you at all? Peanut butter and jelly, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.280 Oh yeah, for sure. Um. You know, I had some 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.840 really good friends at South Dakota too, and I was 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.360 living with um a couple of my buddies, and you know, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:42.760 I would wake up in the middle of the night 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.000 and eat a p VJ or you know, eat ice 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.560 cream and peanut butters, whatever I could do to put 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.839 on some weight. So you know, I tried it all. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.120 So I think I've heard that before. Is it where 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.160 you like set an alarm and you wake yourself up 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.839 to go eat because it's like better metabolism. Is that 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.800 kind of in the right ballpark? Yeah? Yeah, because you're 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.400 burning it off throughout the night, so you know you 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:09.080 can get more in you. Um, obviously the better. So well, 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.800 maybe I'm trained for that now because I've got a 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.880 six month old daughter. Now I'm I'm learning about waking 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:14.120 up in the middle of the night about three or 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.280 four times a night. So maybe I'll maybe I'll get 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.880 that pbn J and and the protein drink drink going 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.720 at three o'clock, start start looking like an outside linebacker 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.200 in the NFL, like Andrew van Ginkla. But so you 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.480 know the reason I wanted to kind of go over 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.160 your history here, Andrew, and I kind of asked about 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:30.520 it a little bit earlier, but to kind of go 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.520 back to that, um, you know, an unconventional path. And 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.360 that's the thing I love in the NFL is there 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.000 are so many guys like that. Like one of my 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.760 favorite all time players is Cam Wake, you know, defensive 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.920 end for the Dolphins that has a billion sacks and 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.760 he had to go to the CFL and undrafted and 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.480 all that stuff where it was a tough route and 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.600 he looks back on his his time in those days 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.640 when he really, you know, he learned about himself and 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.800 he learned how to get into that shape. I'm curious 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.240 with the unconventional path, like, is there something about that 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.199 that helps shape you and kind of make you who 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.080 you are today and the player you are today and 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.280 maybe give you more appreciation for now that you are 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.840 here in the NFL making plays on a weekly basis, right, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.480 you know it puts a chip on your shoulder knowing that, um, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.360 not everything is gonna be easy and you gotta start 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.520 from the ground up. So um, it definitely helps you 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.360 stay motivated and hungry. So um, you know that what 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.360 being at the bottom, it's you know, it's tough down there, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.719 so you always want to push yourself to work to 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.240 get to the top. Absolutely. And you know that's a 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.520 good a good segue into the next question here because 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.760 you've got now, what is five potential game changing plays 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.760 in the last six games for the Dolphins, And I 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.160 asked coach Boyer earlier in the week if there were 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.120 specific traits that allows a player to show up for 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.200 these big moments, because coach Flores talks about those splash 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.920 players are great, but we like to evaluate the other 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.040 you know, nin nineties snaps is what he always talks 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.679 about on a thousand snap season. But the big plays 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.800 do matter, like in a big way obviously, And so 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.640 my question to you is is there some some specific 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.520 traits that contribute to the splash play and and make 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.320 your ability to make those plays improve? You know, I 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.920 think it's just about putting yourself in the right position 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.000 and doing everything the coach asked you to do. You know, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.360 I try to be a hundred percent of my assignments 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.360 and just be right, be in the right spot, you know, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.120 always around the ball or you know, just doing my 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.480 job set in the edge and then finding my way 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.560 towards the ball. And you know, if you do that, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.439 at the end of the day, good things are gonna happen. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.520 And good things have been happening for you. And you 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.520 know where else good things happen is at the edge 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.200 position there at Wisconsin. Now, I wanted to ask you 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.640 this because we've had debates for DBU. Penn Stay always 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.079 lays the claim to lineback or you, which you might 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.240 have something to say about that. But I'm wondering, is 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.360 Wisconsin officially edge you? Because you've got the Watt brothers, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.199 You've got yourself, you've got Vince Fegl, you've got Zach Bond. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.360 Is Wisconsin where you gotta go to become an edge 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.440 in the NFL? Man, it's got to be up there, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.040 you know, just seeing what they do with their athletes 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.679 and the kids that they bring in, you know, they 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.280 they surely shape them to be the best players that 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.320 they can be. So, you know, if it was up 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.520 to me, I let's say, yeah, I'm obviously biased on 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.600 that one. That's fine. That's why I wanted to ask you. 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:09.079 I might suggest that maybe it's all those three pound 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.040 corn fed offensive linemen you have to go against some 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:16.560 practice every day, right, Yeah. Yeah, you know, competition too 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.520 is gonna always bring the best out of you. So yeah, 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.120 you can't go wrong with big offensive line. No, not 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.200 at all. You talk about the good competition there. I 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.560 was looking over again some research on your background, and 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.719 I saw that you had offers to obviously Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.240 Pitt Minnesota, among others. What was the deciding factor for 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.160 you going to Wisconsin? Was there ever a choice to 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.800 go anywhere in your mind besides Wisconsin. Yeah, you know, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:43.280 I held my recruitment process open, and you know, ultimately 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.320 the deciding factor is being able to play in the 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.440 outside linebacker your position that they have there, and you know, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.000 just seeing the production of the guys before me, like 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.760 you said, why and Vince Bagel and Shobert and all 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.880 these guys, so, um, it's definitely something that I saw 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.080 in my game, and you know, I wanted to be 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.400 a part of You mentioned Vince Beagle there and You've 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:05.720 also got Michael Dieter on the Dolphins now as well. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.240 But no, I haven't heard it this year, but I 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:09.680 didn't hear a couple of times last year at the 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.480 stadium they would play jump around, I think, just in 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.040 random spurts of the stadium. Did you guys kind of 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.439 like lock eyes when that comes on and be like, 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:21.160 all right, guys, this is this is Badger time. No, 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:25.160 we never did, but um, you know, it's a special 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.800 place in our hearts. So whenever we hear that song, it, um, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.680 it means a lot to us, and you know we 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.480 take pride in that for sure. I've got Andrew Van Ginkle, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.280 Dolphins linebacker, around the Drive Time podcast. Couple more questions 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:37.640 for you, Andrew. I'll let you get out of here, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.400 and you know, to the outside and maybe the media 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:41.960 as well, you might be kind of known as a 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.160 quiet guy. So I asked coach Danny Crossman this week, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.920 you know, is there more to this guy that we 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.680 aren't seeing? He said, there might be a little more 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.120 juice with Andrew than he lets on. Is there like 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.000 a topic or a specific setting that kind of let 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.880 you and pardon the pun here, pardon the bad reference 0:14:58.000 --> 0:14:59.760 that kind of lets you let your hair down, so 0:14:59.920 --> 0:15:03.640 to speak. Yeah, I like being in smaller groups. Um, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.840 you know, I'm not a very big public speaker or 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.480 getting up in front of people and being the raw 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.600 road type of guy. But um, you know, if it's 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.920 just me and a couple of guys, are you know, uh, 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.440 you know, it's small setting I can be I'm more 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.240 open and um, definitely bring out more of myself. So 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.520 you mentioned a c d C earlier, and I gotta 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.360 know and tell me if you're sick of talking about 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.040 it and we can just shut up about it. But 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.120 I wouldn't be doing my job, Andrew if I didn't 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.400 ask you about the hair. You mentioned a c d C. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.440 Is that the inspiration behind the main? Is there something else? 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:39.320 Like where does the golden locks come from? Honestly, just 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.760 when I got to South Dakota and never really went 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.040 to a barber, so just kind of kind of just 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:46.960 went with the floe and just grew it out, you know, 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.920 didn't stem from Anything's just more about not getting the 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.720 haircut more than anything. But shoot, there might be a 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.160 bunch more people following your footsteps with you know, the 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.760 restrictions of COVID nineteen right now, people staying in aside 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.840 not getting their haircut. I have some more Andrew Van 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.840 Ginkles out there, right, exactly, nothing wrong with that. Hey day, 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:07.880 The more the merrier, right. So I gotta ask you 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.320 this because I saw it on It's been a couple 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:11.840 of weeks in a row now it was it was 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.000 today on Wednesday? Did you happen to see the Good 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.200 Morning Football segment or or segments? And they have this 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.840 game called which Guy Wednesday? And they asked who would 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.200 you rather? Who would you rather? Take? Which guy? On Wednesday? 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.160 The entire crew took you over John Claude van Dam 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.560 and Peter Schreger of of NFL Network referenced that when 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.320 he wore your jersey on the show, I'm curious if 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.600 you saw that, and how did you feel about taking 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:36.840 down Van Dam on Good Morning Football? Or maybe this 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:38.600 is the first time you've heard of that. It's the 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.800 first time I heard of that. So but man, that no, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.400 that's awesome. And you know, I had a couple of 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.200 guys send me the clips of him pulling out my 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.960 jersey last week, and you know, it's it's a special feeling, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.320 you know, you know, it's not something that you always 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.240 think of and when it happens to you, it's it's 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.880 kind of surreal. So, um yeah, I'm just kind of 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.240 living in the moment and enjoying it. So that's a 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:04.920 that's a profect way to end it right there. Andrew 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.800 Van ginkle Dolphins linebacker, special team or pass rusher, coverage man, 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.280 run defender. He really does it all. Andrew, thank you 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.679 so much for your time today, man, and have a 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.680 happy Thanksgiving all right, thank you very much, and there 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.919 he goes Andrew Van Ginkel. I want to play some 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.040 audio from earlier in the week. We had some coaches 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.680 talking about Andrew Van ginkl on the their media availabilities 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.640 on Tuesday as well as coach floor. It's just talking 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.119 about what this guy brings the table. Let's go ahead 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.919 and start here first with his position coach or one 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:35.960 of his possession coaches and Dolphins linebacker coach Anthony Campanelli. Um. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.000 He's he's just such an extremely detailed guy, you know, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.560 always looking for extra tips and like I said earlier 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.520 in the season, he's constantly doing extra work. Um. And 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.959 every little bit of information you give that guy, um, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.480 you know, he puts it to good youths. You can 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.760 see him trying to work it on the field. Um, 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.840 and he's he's all over pretty much all the coaches know, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:01.919 whether it's myself, Coach Hobbs, Coach Crossman, uh, you know, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.680 Coach Clark, Rabby Letter and John Boyer, everybody, UM, And 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.119 I think everyone really appreciates that on the team and 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.640 on his staff. And he's just a He's a really 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.360 diligent worker and really a great person too. It's really 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:19.240 cool to hear coaches talk about that a couple of 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.080 years after the fact, because I remember when he was 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.280 coming out of college and I wrote my story for 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.200 Lockdown Dolphins dot Com at the time talking about how 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.919 a dept he was and recognizing route combinations and finding 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.480 his spot in zone drops are in man coverage and 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.359 getting himself in the right position to make a play. 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.560 And you see that play out in his NFL tape, 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.760 whether it's against the past or against the run or 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:42.240 as a pass rusher. Perfect compliment there from coach Campanelli. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.359 You heard him talk about Coach Clark, Let's go ahead, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.160 and hear from coach Austin Clark, who actually knew Van 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.000 Ginkle back in those college days. At South Dakota. I 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:51.919 can't tell you. I do have a little bit of 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.320 a preconceived nose. And I actually remember Gink when he 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.960 was coming out of a juco when I was at 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.240 Southern Cow, and uh, you know, I joked in he was, 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.199 you know, a highly recruited j C guy, and uh, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:04.960 you know, we we get a good laugh out of that. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.960