Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Drive Time
Speaker 1: Podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody happy? Wednesday? We
Speaker 1: have a busy show for you today. We're gonna cover
Speaker 1: to a tongue of Bloa and Chris Career's media availability
Speaker 1: from this Wednesday busy show. Let's go ahead and jump
Speaker 1: right in from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcasts Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and so we heard from two a tongue of Bloa
Speaker 1: just a few minutes ago. We'll go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to that media availability here in just a minute. But first,
Speaker 1: Chris Greer gave his annual pre draft press conference here
Speaker 1: at the Baptist Health Studios or the Baptist Health Training Complex,
Speaker 1: I should say, coming to you here from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios, and I thought it was a very informative
Speaker 1: and transparent and really valuable press conference. Here with Chris,
Speaker 1: we are talking about a number of things. First off
Speaker 1: the top number one, congratulated the Miami Heat who are
Speaker 1: up two games to nothing in the first round of
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference playoffs. You'll love to hear that. Of course,
Speaker 1: also talked about the Florida Panthers and my buddy Goldie
Speaker 1: Steve Goldstein sitting next to me in that press conference,
Speaker 1: and uh, congratulating the Panthers on there and pending one
Speaker 1: seed in the Eastern Conference. Also with Miami or into Miami,
Speaker 1: I should say the soccer team, Uh, I believe in
Speaker 1: the playoffs right now or advancing into a certain stage
Speaker 1: of a tournament. I'm not up on on soccer right now, guys.
Speaker 1: I apologize for that. But Chris Career making a mention
Speaker 1: of South Florida sports and a good time to be
Speaker 1: in South Florida as a sports fan. Hopefully the Dolphins
Speaker 1: can continue that here into the month of April, into
Speaker 1: the offeason program and of course right in a training
Speaker 1: camp and the regular season and help just continue the
Speaker 1: success here of South Florida sports. And one player that
Speaker 1: can have a big say in at is the player
Speaker 1: who was first asked, or I should say, Chris Greer
Speaker 1: was first asked about and wide receiver Tyreek Hill. And
Speaker 1: I love this question because I think a lot of
Speaker 1: times in this league, in this game, in this in
Speaker 1: the competition that is sports, it's all about taking advantage
Speaker 1: of market opportunities. Right, whatever the market gives you, can
Speaker 1: you take advantage of, whether it's a good market in
Speaker 1: certain aspects, whether it's a low market in this aspect,
Speaker 1: and does the supply and demand reflect the ability to
Speaker 1: go out and make a move that makes your football
Speaker 1: team better. And that's how you have to view these
Speaker 1: things through that lens of not just well, here's player
Speaker 1: A and in place B. It has more to do
Speaker 1: with what's available at position C and possibility D. And
Speaker 1: it just continues to go down the line. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about that, you know, at length on this particular
Speaker 1: podcast on Drivetime, uh and even locked on Dolphins before
Speaker 1: Drivetime with you know, as far as my podcasting career
Speaker 1: goes about how this Dolphins operation really since Chris Greer,
Speaker 1: you know, was elevated to his current role with the club,
Speaker 1: has taken on these really good market value moves, whether
Speaker 1: it's draft pick trades or veteran trades, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. And you look at the back end of
Speaker 1: the first round and for a draft class where Daniel
Speaker 1: Jeremiah has talked about it, I've listened to the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast and heard him on that same podcast,
Speaker 1: or Josh Norris or Evan Silva. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: which expert you take the opinion of. They pretty much
Speaker 1: point back to the receiver position in this class isn't
Speaker 1: really build as what it was in one, but it
Speaker 1: does have a bunch of players that we expect to
Speaker 1: come out and contribute early. It maybe lacks the top
Speaker 1: end marquee name. And you think about that, and you
Speaker 1: think about the Dolphins having that twenty nine pick in
Speaker 1: the draft, Well, if you're picking nine and there are
Speaker 1: five really good receivers that don't match up to what
Speaker 1: Wattle or Chase or Davante Smith was a year ago
Speaker 1: as far as their their you know the projections as prospects,
Speaker 1: and you have an opportunity to go out and get
Speaker 1: a player like Tyreek Hill who supersedes any prospects because
Speaker 1: you know that you can pluck him into your plucking
Speaker 1: from one team and put him into your system and have,
Speaker 1: you know, an all pro playmaker game changer type of player.
Speaker 1: So if you get five receivers from this draft class
Speaker 1: we just talked about to go off the board before
Speaker 1: pick nine, is it more valuable to have receiver number
Speaker 1: six or four or five, whatever it might have been,
Speaker 1: or Tyreek Hill? And so he talked about that. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a great question. But I want to
Speaker 1: play this audio here from Chris. We are talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, Tuesday, yesterday we had the players on the
Speaker 1: field what we talked about with Tyreek Hill and already
Speaker 1: making an impression here on this Dolphin staff in front office. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: like we're trying to figure out what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: on draft day, you know, And one of the guys said,
Speaker 1: he goes, we'll just watch Tyreek highlights, you know, in
Speaker 1: the draft room and make us feel good. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's unfair to compare any of those kids
Speaker 1: to Tyreek skill set, you know, coming out he's such
Speaker 1: a unique talent. And even yesterday on the field, he
Speaker 1: made a play and went down and they popped up,
Speaker 1: you know, like no hands, like flipped up right off
Speaker 1: the ground, and we're just like, look at this guy,
Speaker 1: just so explosive and springy, and and just the way
Speaker 1: he works out of practices, work ethics unbelievable. So um, again,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a talented class of receivers, um. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you can't compare them to Tyreek at
Speaker 1: all and for what he does and what we feel
Speaker 1: he does in this offense and what a great fit
Speaker 1: he is, I mean as advertised right both on the
Speaker 1: field and in the locker room as a leader, the
Speaker 1: type of guy that you want a young receiver like
Speaker 1: jelland Waddle to kind of be around and to just
Speaker 1: absorb all the information, all the knowledge, all the wisdom
Speaker 1: that Tyreek Hill can in part. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: going to be invaluable for this football team. Next, another
Speaker 1: great question here. I think this was Daniel O yo
Speaker 1: Fusi from the Miami Harold talking about how the process
Speaker 1: changes in a year where you don't have as many
Speaker 1: draft picks and uh, do you send out as many
Speaker 1: people on the road to go to your scouting and
Speaker 1: check with people? And Chris Greer says, nothing has changed
Speaker 1: because you never know when your opportunities might arise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we haven't changed our process because I think you end
Speaker 1: up short changing, you know, UM the organization if you
Speaker 1: do that, because at the end of the day, UM,
Speaker 1: you never know when opportunities arise, you know, UM to
Speaker 1: do something, whether you know make a move or not,
Speaker 1: or if a player of falls you think there's a
Speaker 1: chance to go get them. UM. So you have to
Speaker 1: work through your process and be ready to answer all questions.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you never know.
Speaker 1: This could be a trade a year or two on
Speaker 1: a player. And if you haven't done your work and
Speaker 1: you you know, just because you don't pick till one
Speaker 1: o two, UM getting up hurting you when you don't
Speaker 1: have all the information. UM, if those opportunities arise. So
Speaker 1: for us, we had guys were out all pro days.
Speaker 1: We guys, coaches are out, coaches are doing private workouts.
Speaker 1: They still have some private workouts going on here for
Speaker 1: the next week or so. So UM for us, it's
Speaker 1: been full steam ahead. The personnel staff has done a
Speaker 1: tremendous job and the coaching staff, Mike and the coaching
Speaker 1: staff of these guys enjoy getting out, getting to meet
Speaker 1: players bringing them in. So UM the private workout stuff
Speaker 1: has been it's been exciting and I think the coaches
Speaker 1: really enjoy getting to know these players too as well.
Speaker 1: That's a theme we've touched down on the Shraft Preview podcast,
Speaker 1: isn't I think. I think I'll even talking about with
Speaker 1: Keith Sanchez today about the idea of you might not
Speaker 1: have these picks in these spots, but you still want
Speaker 1: to do your homework on players because, like Chris said,
Speaker 1: you might trade for them down the line. In four years,
Speaker 1: they could become free agents that you're interested in. So
Speaker 1: it's always good to know these players, but also to
Speaker 1: know the league too because you might wind up playing
Speaker 1: these guys. If he goes to the Jets, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see him twice a year. You want to have an
Speaker 1: idea of who that player is. Let's say you play
Speaker 1: him opening Day. You want to have that college scouting
Speaker 1: report on that player because you don't have NFL tape
Speaker 1: to go off of to watch that guy aside from
Speaker 1: preseason stuff. So I thought that was very interesting. He
Speaker 1: also was asked about the idea of competition at the
Speaker 1: center position. You might recall back at the owners meetings,
Speaker 1: Chris Greer spoke about adding competition to that spot with
Speaker 1: Michael Dieter, who they believe very well in here could
Speaker 1: be a very good strowing center in this league for
Speaker 1: this team and uh Chris was asked specifically about the
Speaker 1: petition at that spot, and he said, you know the
Speaker 1: good part about this draft, and you know, this is
Speaker 1: a big pool this year because of all the players
Speaker 1: that were kind of left over from the COVID and
Speaker 1: not getting to play that additional year of college football.
Speaker 1: They go back to college football and don't go to
Speaker 1: the draft last year, so you have a massive pool
Speaker 1: of U d f as to choose from. And he
Speaker 1: mentioned those U d f A specifically and also mentioned
Speaker 1: the work that the scouts and the regional scouts and
Speaker 1: all the people on staff that have to go into
Speaker 1: the process of finding these kind of gems guys that
Speaker 1: he said fall through the cracks at times. I thought
Speaker 1: that was very interesting, and this Dolphin scouting staff was
Speaker 1: such a good job on those players U d f
Speaker 1: a's late round draft picks. Every single year, it seems
Speaker 1: finding one of those hidden gems that winds up being
Speaker 1: on your roster for a long time into that second contract.
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins will work hard to find some more
Speaker 1: of those guys in this year's crup up. Next, Chris
Speaker 1: was asked about the idea of pushing capital into future
Speaker 1: draft classes and what it says about this year's class. Again,
Speaker 1: thought his answer was great here and the Tyreekill opportunity
Speaker 1: was more about Tyreek Hill than it was an indictment
Speaker 1: on this year's draft class. It's always difficult because you know,
Speaker 1: everything is a projection, so you know, people always say that.
Speaker 1: Then you look back at some drafts and you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: look at you know, look at those you know twelve
Speaker 1: with those first round picks. Are you know guys are
Speaker 1: maybe you know, Pro bowlers every year and Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame guys in the future. So every draft has their
Speaker 1: strengths and weaknesses by position. So I think, you know,
Speaker 1: for us, trading those picks really had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with how the draft looked. It was the opportunity to
Speaker 1: acquire you know, Tyreek Hill, you know, just a special
Speaker 1: talent for what we're looking for. So uh, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, every draft will be judge three
Speaker 1: years from now, you know how it looks um you know,
Speaker 1: and every year we go through is where some people
Speaker 1: think it's not strong or or weak, And I think
Speaker 1: it you really got to give these kids three years
Speaker 1: to really develop and see where where it's everything stands.
Speaker 1: I know social media and media in general does not
Speaker 1: reflect how NFL teams think, and so this is probably obvious,
Speaker 1: but it is refreshing to hear someone like risk Weer
Speaker 1: talk about three years employers developing and giving themselves time
Speaker 1: for those players to reach their full potential and their
Speaker 1: peak before the evaluation process is finished. Speaking of the
Speaker 1: offensive line of players of the like. Speaking of the
Speaker 1: offensive line, Chris ger said that was a position that
Speaker 1: he believes as a strength in this Shears class. When
Speaker 1: he was asked about which positions are the strengths in
Speaker 1: this Shears class, I would say the offensive line group.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a pretty good offensive line group. I
Speaker 1: think there's um some talent all the way through from
Speaker 1: the tackles, the guards, centers, um all the way in
Speaker 1: through the mid rounds. I think you can find some
Speaker 1: good quality players, um, you know, like everything everyone's always
Speaker 1: looking for, you know, the pass rushers, and I think
Speaker 1: there are some high level rushers in this draft. And
Speaker 1: then you know, at the end of the day there
Speaker 1: will be some projection guys that have some upside to
Speaker 1: work with. So I would say the big offensive line
Speaker 1: to me, I think is the one real strong position
Speaker 1: in this draft offensive line and edge rushers or pass rushers,
Speaker 1: I suppose. And if you guys want to hear about
Speaker 1: those edge rushers, we're gonna have that on this podcast
Speaker 1: before you here coming up with Keith Sanchez. You wanna
Speaker 1: go back and check out the offensive line preview. Joe
Speaker 1: Marino gave us a great rundown on this year's class
Speaker 1: in that middle portion of the of the draft, as
Speaker 1: well as late guys you can scoop up and possibly
Speaker 1: get some value there. On Day number three, Chris was
Speaker 1: also asked about the importance of keeping the two first
Speaker 1: round picks in that Tyreek Hill trade, and he talked
Speaker 1: about that a little bit in that answer, But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and push that back a little bit
Speaker 1: because he does discuss later on in this press conference
Speaker 1: the ideal, the ideology of building through the draft, how
Speaker 1: that still is what he believes in at his core.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go ahead and bring it back around
Speaker 1: to that here in just a minute, because I think
Speaker 1: he answered that really well in a future question. But here,
Speaker 1: Chris was asked about putting putting two a tongue of
Speaker 1: Iloa in position to succeed and giving him the pieces
Speaker 1: to succeed. I thought Chris Greer's answer about that and
Speaker 1: this offseason not just with the players and the personnel,
Speaker 1: but the coaching staff was a really good answer. Here's Chris. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of that too, is
Speaker 1: has to do with coach McDaniel on his coaching staff,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the offense that you know Mike
Speaker 1: does and what he's building here and what his philosophy
Speaker 1: has been. Um. I think, yes, we've added some pieces
Speaker 1: on offense as well, but a lot of it fits
Speaker 1: what Mike's looking for to uh and that and I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it does fit with TUA does well.
Speaker 1: And I think we're all very excited. And I know
Speaker 1: Mike has been raving about twa here over him and
Speaker 1: coach bevill uh their time working with them and spending
Speaker 1: time with him in the meeting rooms and watched them
Speaker 1: on on the field here yesterday. UM, so yeah, we're
Speaker 1: very excited for him, and then looking forward to the season,
Speaker 1: how he keeps progressing, raving about quarterback to a tongue
Speaker 1: of byloa are Mike McDaniel and Darryl Bevil. You love
Speaker 1: to hear that. Chris was also asked about the possibility
Speaker 1: of being aggressive and going back up into the first
Speaker 1: round of this year's draft, and he said, we'll never
Speaker 1: say never talking about the possibility of that if a
Speaker 1: player they believe in has immense talent falls for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a kin to the learned me
Speaker 1: tons will move several years back. But talking about how
Speaker 1: that's a possibility simply because they always are going to
Speaker 1: be aggressive and take advantage of opportunities as they come about.
Speaker 1: But for now picking in the third round. Chris was
Speaker 1: also asked about the trade for Davanta Parker going to
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, trading in division. Here's Chris on
Speaker 1: that trade comprehensively. I think more you've seen over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, more teams doing interdivisional trades, you know,
Speaker 1: which before when I first started and here, you would
Speaker 1: never do that, you know. I think the last time
Speaker 1: you know, we did it was with our current receiver coach,
Speaker 1: you know, which didn't turn out well for us then.
Speaker 1: But I think when you have an opportunity to do
Speaker 1: right by the player and the organization, both sides feel
Speaker 1: good about it. Like I said, this was never anything
Speaker 1: where we planned the trade Davante. You know, once we
Speaker 1: made the trade for Tyreek, we received multiple phone calls
Speaker 1: and and I think most teams assume that you know,
Speaker 1: we had signed Cedric Wilson traded for Tyreek that you know,
Speaker 1: and had obviously with Wattle here that um Davante was
Speaker 1: the guy that would be available. So multiple teams called
Speaker 1: the pages were the most aggressive. Um and at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, worked with the agent, talked to Devanta.
Speaker 1: Want to do right by him too as well. And
Speaker 1: and um, but um, getting that third round pick was
Speaker 1: very important for us and and we are fine for
Speaker 1: this year or next year. So very interesting stuff. They're
Speaker 1: talking about Davanta Parker in the market for him, and
Speaker 1: multiple teams kind of making the assumption that he might
Speaker 1: be available after the Hill trade and the Wilson signing
Speaker 1: and kind of holding out for that top value. And
Speaker 1: I like the idea of not being worried about where
Speaker 1: you're trading the player and getting the most valuable draft
Speaker 1: pick you can for him. A third round pick this year,
Speaker 1: next year, it makes no difference, right, It's it's still
Speaker 1: a third round draft pick. As you heard Chris Career say,
Speaker 1: right there, but I like that, don't don't be scared
Speaker 1: of of the neighbor to the north there. You've got
Speaker 1: a couple of wins in a row against that team. Like,
Speaker 1: let's be aggressive and build our team the way you
Speaker 1: want to and let the chips fall where they may otherwise.
Speaker 1: So good stuff. They're getting good value back there for
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker in his production the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: coming back with a third round draft pick right now.
Speaker 1: Chris was then asked about the process of this draft
Speaker 1: season and the off season, made a little joke about
Speaker 1: his son kind of keeping him up to date on
Speaker 1: the social media happenings about how his popularity before the
Speaker 1: tehront Armstead and Tyreek Hill moves and after and the
Speaker 1: peaking of that, and kind of having some fun with
Speaker 1: that there as well. Next, Chris was asked about the
Speaker 1: approach to only having these late round draft picks, third, fourth,
Speaker 1: and two sevenths and how you approach it. Isn't picking
Speaker 1: by need? Is it going after specific players? What's your
Speaker 1: approach only having these few draft picks. Here's Chris Career, now,
Speaker 1: I think when you have those few picks as we do.
Speaker 1: I think you gotta be right on them, and so
Speaker 1: I think you gotta be very delivered and measured of
Speaker 1: what the roster and what that guy's roll on the
Speaker 1: roster is going to be and how he fits. So um,
Speaker 1: obviously there'll be in a cage where if that special
Speaker 1: guy is there to take that risk on something, you will.
Speaker 1: But I think when you know you're picking third, fourth
Speaker 1: round and then two and the seventh, it's you gotta
Speaker 1: to make sure what you're getting and who it is
Speaker 1: and how he's going to fit on the team. Really
Speaker 1: good stuff. So let's go ahead and finish up with
Speaker 1: this last question, which kind of goes back to what
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier about building through the draft in the
Speaker 1: philosophy of Chris Career and taking advantage of certain situations.
Speaker 1: Here he is talking about why the Dolphins felt they
Speaker 1: could be aggressive, but also talking about how it wasn't
Speaker 1: just Tyreek Hill. They were looking to be aggressive to
Speaker 1: go after veterans that were available in the National footballing
Speaker 1: this year or potentially available with those picks. Here's Chris
Speaker 1: Career on the philosophy and being aggressive with those picks
Speaker 1: this year because of the team and the way it
Speaker 1: stacks up. I still believe in building through the draft.
Speaker 1: I think the draft is an important part of building
Speaker 1: your team and having young assets to work through. But um,
Speaker 1: we've shown it will always be aggressive, you know, if
Speaker 1: it comes to acquiring a good player or at least
Speaker 1: attempting to and we've done that. So UM, I would
Speaker 1: say that, you know, um, for us, the ability to
Speaker 1: get good players and where we were, as young as
Speaker 1: we are on this roster right now, and knowing that
Speaker 1: we had the two first round picks three enabled us
Speaker 1: to you know, be aggressive and make a move like that.
Speaker 1: And and we had we had talked to a number
Speaker 1: of teams about a number of players, so it was
Speaker 1: we're being very aggressive, you know, cross the league trying
Speaker 1: to find players. And Tyreek was not one that ever
Speaker 1: thought what happened, And um, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: credit to Brett Beach and Koach Reid working with them
Speaker 1: was was great and I'm sure, um they were frustrated
Speaker 1: with us at times and we are frustrated with them,
Speaker 1: but it ended up working out well. So there you
Speaker 1: have Dolphins general manager Chris Career. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break here on the Drivetime Podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield will come back and hear from quarterback
Speaker 1: to a tongue by Loa on the other side. Back
Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday, April edition of the Drivetime Podcast
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation, and we heard from
Speaker 1: another prominent player in the Miami Dolphins organization here and
Speaker 1: to a tongue of by Loah, who first was asked
Speaker 1: about many things, but first asked about what's it like
Speaker 1: throwing to wide receiver Tyreek Hill. It's fun. Um, you
Speaker 1: catch glimpses of his speed um and you know you
Speaker 1: you obviously have played against them, seen seen him play
Speaker 1: in other games, seen as highlights as well. I mean
Speaker 1: he's explosive. You know, he can turn a a negative
Speaker 1: two yard swing route into you know that twenty yard
Speaker 1: touchdown um or a twin yard game. So it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's exciting now to a said twenty yard player, but
Speaker 1: to uh, you can also take those plays and make
Speaker 1: them eight ninety yard plays by the same same token
Speaker 1: there as well, So definitely exciting. We heard from Chris,
Speaker 1: We hear from tah all the buzz around the building
Speaker 1: about Tyreek Hill kind of being as advertised and so next, too,
Speaker 1: was asked about this offseason and the way they've kind
Speaker 1: of built this team to have some more firepower on
Speaker 1: offense and does he feel a sense of renewed commitment
Speaker 1: because of that. I love to his answer here talking
Speaker 1: about the energy again going back to how things are
Speaker 1: here under coach Mike McDaniel, Well, I I think it's
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just feel like there's much the
Speaker 1: things that have happened, you know, a lot of changes, um,
Speaker 1: and a lot of good changes, I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: the with the people that we've picked up, the guys
Speaker 1: that we've required as well. You know, just the locker
Speaker 1: room feels different, um, and we're all excited. You know,
Speaker 1: this is the first time I've seen you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of you know guys show up to Phase one
Speaker 1: of O T A S and a lot of veterans
Speaker 1: are showing up to it. You know. I think that
Speaker 1: speaks a lot to uh, you know, Mike and the
Speaker 1: relationship that he has with a lot of the guys
Speaker 1: on the team, UM, and amount of respect that he
Speaker 1: he has from uh, the players in the locker room.
Speaker 1: You know. My takeaway from that comment goes back to
Speaker 1: and this would be like a scan in the social
Speaker 1: segment we do in season here on Drive Time about
Speaker 1: you know, can Mike McDaniel leader room? Can he command
Speaker 1: a room full of alpha mentalities? I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: that question more times than I think is even worthy
Speaker 1: or valid or whatever. But the answers we've gotten over
Speaker 1: that course of time has been an emphatic yes. And
Speaker 1: you hear that from the way his counterparts, his coworkers,
Speaker 1: his players talk about the way he speaks to people,
Speaker 1: and you'll hear more about Coach McDaniel wanted to hang
Speaker 1: out with the guys here in just a second, but
Speaker 1: I mean talking about the command in the relationship that
Speaker 1: he has with these guys and a testament to Mike
Speaker 1: I mean question answered right there next to a talked
Speaker 1: about what he likes about this particular offensive system so
Speaker 1: far just two days in well, we've only had two
Speaker 1: days of really you know, kind of getting into the offense.
Speaker 1: So it's there's not much installed within the run run
Speaker 1: action play passes that we have, UM, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's very similar to what I've I've ran at Alabama, UM,
Speaker 1: which in a sense makes it a little easier. UM.
Speaker 1: As far as verbiage, and whatnot. But that's still that's
Speaker 1: still a challenge. UM is kind of learning the verbage,
Speaker 1: learning where everyone's going, UM, you know, hearing you know,
Speaker 1: Mike or hearing Frank or whoever it is, you know,
Speaker 1: in in the headset, you know, trying to give the
Speaker 1: call and then recalling it to the offense. That's that's
Speaker 1: still something that got to continue to get better at.
Speaker 1: How about how to and Mike McDaniel's relationship has progressed
Speaker 1: since coach McDaniel was hired. Here here's QB one. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen the videos of him at
Speaker 1: the LUA. I think that speaks a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: That's that's kind of how the relationship has been. UM,
Speaker 1: you know, very supportive. UM, you know, wants to hang out,
Speaker 1: you know, I I go up there to his office
Speaker 1: tell him, you know, I got a couple of the
Speaker 1: guys coming over to hang out, and he feels bad,
Speaker 1: you know that he didn't get an invite to come
Speaker 1: over and hang out. So you know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: been a really cool relationship. It's been different, but it's
Speaker 1: been super cool. Follow up, What does that support mean
Speaker 1: to you from your head? Coach? I think support for
Speaker 1: any of us as players means a lot. We understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, the NFL, it's it's a tough you know, industry.
Speaker 1: It's stuff to play because you're playing against the best
Speaker 1: every Sunday. But to you're able to have support of
Speaker 1: the head coach, the head guy. Um, I mean that
Speaker 1: that That should tell you a lot. And the next
Speaker 1: two was asked about how much work he's done on
Speaker 1: making himself more of a leader for this football team.
Speaker 1: Here's to a talking about leadership and what leadership looks
Speaker 1: like underhead coach Mike McDaniel. Yeah. I think the cool
Speaker 1: thing about being um, you know on this team under
Speaker 1: Mike is Mike doesn't force you to be what you're
Speaker 1: not or what you don't want to be. If you
Speaker 1: know that this is how you lead, that's all he
Speaker 1: wants you to do is lead the way you lead.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want anyone to, you know, put that guy
Speaker 1: to the side, you know, tell him how bad his
Speaker 1: route was and whatnot, and you know, come back to
Speaker 1: the huddle. It's more like, hey, you know, go talk
Speaker 1: to the guy, you know, tell him what your thoughts are.
Speaker 1: He'll tell you what your thoughts are. You guys meeting
Speaker 1: the meet in the middle, and you know that's that's
Speaker 1: what that is. And so for me, I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: a guy to go, you know, screaming at the defense
Speaker 1: if if they they bust the coverage and we're trying
Speaker 1: to you know, get some work. You know, I'm just
Speaker 1: one that after all of that, when our set is done,
Speaker 1: I'll go over and you know, kind of talk to
Speaker 1: them like, hey, we really need you guys to help
Speaker 1: us on this because you know, if you guys don't
Speaker 1: give us the looks, then you know we're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to execute that right in the game.
Speaker 1: So you know, for for me, my my leadership role
Speaker 1: on this team hasn't hasn't changed. Just be myself And well,
Speaker 1: mor can you ask there's one thing I've learned in
Speaker 1: thirty four and a half years on this planet, It's
Speaker 1: that only what you're going to get the best version
Speaker 1: of yourself is to be yourself. So you love hearing
Speaker 1: that about the genuine nature of how players want to
Speaker 1: be around here, and how they want to lead, and
Speaker 1: how they want to approach this entire game and this
Speaker 1: entire sport, in this entire profession. Speaking of you know
Speaker 1: knowing yourself too. Was asked about velocity, and one of
Speaker 1: my least favorite things to talk about is a quarterback
Speaker 1: velocity and breaking down. O t A throws on air
Speaker 1: for velocity. But if we're gonna do it here he
Speaker 1: is talking about really the idea of throwing the ball
Speaker 1: to a spot let these guys run under the football,
Speaker 1: something we talked about a lot last camp as a
Speaker 1: big strength of too. LUs. I don't feel any of
Speaker 1: that at all. I think, Uh, the most important thing
Speaker 1: is timing with these guys. You know, these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna get there. You just laid up to a spot
Speaker 1: for them and have them go get it. So that's
Speaker 1: what we've been working on throughout this voluntary Veterans mini camp,
Speaker 1: and I think we've done a good job. We had
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun today. Don't you love
Speaker 1: hearing that had a lot of fun today? Football is
Speaker 1: supposed to be fun. Right, Let's go ahead and move
Speaker 1: on here to the next part here talking about uh
Speaker 1: playing with six different O c s and a six
Speaker 1: year span going from college of the pros and how
Speaker 1: that has impacted or yeah, impacted is the right word.
Speaker 1: Impacted the way he's been able to get to this
Speaker 1: stage of his career and the challenges of learning a
Speaker 1: new offense seemingly every season. Yeah. Um, you just get
Speaker 1: used to studying. Um, and you just get comfortable studying.
Speaker 1: That's that's all it is. Get comfortable with the burbage,
Speaker 1: get comfortable with where everyone needs to go. Um. For me,
Speaker 1: I like to draw it up when I can say it,
Speaker 1: So I'll say it. I'll draw it up where everyone goes,
Speaker 1: and then uh, you know, I'll have my brother and
Speaker 1: my dad someone tests me and quiz me on it.
Speaker 1: And then from there then I'll go outside, you know,
Speaker 1: in the backyard, and then I'll move my dad or
Speaker 1: my brother or whoever's out there, my mom sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll move them, telling them, Hey, you're at the Z now,
Speaker 1: or you're the ex or you're the y, you know,
Speaker 1: just so I can picture it better. And so when
Speaker 1: we do come out here, it's a lot easier when
Speaker 1: guys do ask, Hey, where do I go and what
Speaker 1: do I run? You know, and so, And the follow
Speaker 1: up there is to a does your family do your
Speaker 1: parents enjoy doing that with you in the backyard. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what they enjoy it. They really enjoy it. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess my parents they really enjoy my brother. It's
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where like, hey, like, how
Speaker 1: many more do we have? Um, you know, but my
Speaker 1: parents now they do everything that they can to help
Speaker 1: me succeed, so they don't mind at all. That reminds
Speaker 1: me of a podcast that to US trainer Nick Hicks
Speaker 1: was on last year talking about how are you walk
Speaker 1: into his house? It's like hirod glyphic Hirod glyphics all
Speaker 1: over the wall from all the offensive plays and football
Speaker 1: study he has and how much time he puts into
Speaker 1: the mental side of the game. So you love to
Speaker 1: hear that. How about the addition of Tron Armstead and
Speaker 1: what that means for two A protecting that left side
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks pocket? Yeah, I think I think with
Speaker 1: Tehran Armstead being here, um, you know, his his leadership,
Speaker 1: you know, his him being a veteran in the league,
Speaker 1: him knowing so much and playing under a quarterback like
Speaker 1: Drew Brees prior and then him being able to help me, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and how to help lead the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: how to pull guys to the side and do certain things. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just his leadership. He he hasn't been out
Speaker 1: to practice yet, um, but yeah, just him being around
Speaker 1: the building, he's he's a really nice person to also
Speaker 1: touched a little bit about playing with Darryl Bevil and
Speaker 1: the big time names that he is coach, and just
Speaker 1: talked about the general mood and atmosphere in that quarterback
Speaker 1: room and all the valuable resources they have in that
Speaker 1: room with Darryl Bevil, with Teddy Bridgewater, and of course
Speaker 1: mentioned Dan Reno as well too. Was later asked about
Speaker 1: the relationship with Teddy Bridgewater and that he's looking forward
Speaker 1: to that relationship with him, but then he expects it
Speaker 1: to be the same as it was with other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: like Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jacoby Brissette, so moving on here too.
Speaker 1: Was also asked about plans away from the football field
Speaker 1: this summer. He said golf, said he his best game
Speaker 1: he shot was an eighty one all self taught on YouTube.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. I'm the same way. Don't don't go to
Speaker 1: lessons or anything too. Was also asked about expectations for
Speaker 1: himself this year, and he said, to win games and
Speaker 1: help this team win game. That's that's the expectation, and
Speaker 1: then we will go back to the audio here with
Speaker 1: two of talking about Cedric Wilson and what he sees
Speaker 1: in his game, and to have made this mentioned that
Speaker 1: he thought, upon watching Cedric from his tape at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are just watching him on TV, that he was
Speaker 1: a smaller player. And he is something we talked about
Speaker 1: a lot here, right, six ft two, can can threaten
Speaker 1: down field vertically at that size. Also shifty player. Here's
Speaker 1: two we're talking about another one of his new weapons
Speaker 1: here on the Dolphins offense. I thought he was a
Speaker 1: lot smaller Um for some reason, maybe maybe the number
Speaker 1: one made him look extremely slim when he was with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But I thought he was a very shifty guy,
Speaker 1: a very small, shifty guy. But he's actually really really big.
Speaker 1: It's tall, he's lanky, and he can move which surprises,
Speaker 1: which surprises me. Um. Normally tall guys you know can't
Speaker 1: can't move as quick, and you know aren't as shifty.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's cool, cool to see him out there,
Speaker 1: UM running routes. You know he's done a good job
Speaker 1: thus far within our voluntary veteran minicamp. So excited. Two
Speaker 1: more here and we'll go ahead and get out of here.
Speaker 1: On this Wednesday edition of the Drive Time podcast, and
Speaker 1: he was asked too it was about sitting down with
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel and watching the throws from last season. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna go ahead and let to Woul give me
Speaker 1: the answer here because it's really good. I sat down
Speaker 1: with the head coach and we we went over about
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty clips um of of throws. You know,
Speaker 1: throws that you need to be better, throws that were good. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, all all sorts of throws. And the reason
Speaker 1: as to why he showed me that is, uh, it
Speaker 1: transitions to you know the way you know he kind
Speaker 1: of schemes up the offense. Um, And really the biggest
Speaker 1: thing for us is yack. He's yack, So we want
Speaker 1: to yak the heck out of out of teams. Well,
Speaker 1: we've certainly heard that plenty. And with two is accuracy
Speaker 1: and explosive. This now on the outside, you have to
Speaker 1: think that's in the cards for this Dolphins football team.
Speaker 1: Last question here about his input on the playbook working
Speaker 1: with head coach Mike McDaniel to find the best offensive
Speaker 1: system for your Miami Dolphins. Yeah, for me, that that
Speaker 1: process has just been me studying the formations and studying
Speaker 1: what they have as far as installed with past plays. Um,
Speaker 1: it's really early on as to trying to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: fine tune things right now within the playbook. Uh. But
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure when training camp hits, then that's
Speaker 1: when you know, everyone will start to have their you know,
Speaker 1: input within the play calls, the formations, how things should
Speaker 1: be called, why we don't want to call it this,
Speaker 1: why we should call it that, things like that, all
Speaker 1: the all the fun things. Uh. So there you go.
Speaker 1: The GM and QB one talking to the media on
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, the second day of phase one here of
Speaker 1: Voluntary Veteran Minicamp in late April's take our last break
Speaker 1: here on the Drivetime Podcast and come back with some
Speaker 1: news from the roster and to put a bowl on
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Speaker 1: up a busy day from the Baptist Health Training Complex
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, hearing from both Chris Career and to
Speaker 1: a tongue of Bloa. On Tuesday, we got some late
Speaker 1: news about a roster edition as Benito Jones, the U D.
Speaker 1: F a from Old miss a couple of years back,
Speaker 1: is back with the Miami Dolphins. He signed a contract
Speaker 1: here with Miami, giving us very very good depth on
Speaker 1: the interior d line of course, with Christian Wilkins, Zack Seedler,
Speaker 1: Adam Butler, Ray Kwon Davis, John Jenkins back, and now
Speaker 1: Benito Jones is back as well, giving Miami some experience, depth,
Speaker 1: veteran presence in that defensive tackle room, interior defensive line room,
Speaker 1: good stuff on this Dolphins defense. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get out of here. That's gonna be my
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Speaker 1: gonna come back and preview the entire D line with
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