Speaker 1: Alright, audibles on the air, Jie. One of these days, Joe,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the three of us in here all
Speaker 1: at one time. John Conjemmy, John, you know a football season,
Speaker 1: John's Uh, he's like a Swiss army enough, my man's
Speaker 1: He's everywhere, He's doing everything. He's got multifaceted jobs. So
Speaker 1: so we're out with Joe without John con Jemmy today.
Speaker 1: He is going a zillion different places, including football, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt he has a big week for college football.
Speaker 1: Kimbo Camper, Joe Rose with you. I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 1: the game on uh. Last last was a Friday night,
Speaker 1: Saturday night. I can't keep tracking. Yeah, I look, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm I'm a day off. I'm you know
Speaker 1: that that I don't know for whatever reason, I'm like
Speaker 1: a day behind now, so I can't keep track of it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. But Joe, I gotta get something
Speaker 1: off my mind, man, I gotta get I I've had
Speaker 1: a crappy, crappy morning and seem you know what those
Speaker 1: days where you know those things where every time you
Speaker 1: do something everything's wrong. So I get up and you know,
Speaker 1: dog shit on my carpet, you know, so I gotta
Speaker 1: clean that first thing first. I'm goddamn yeah, you know
Speaker 1: that's a bad start. Then I get in my car,
Speaker 1: come driving over here, and I'm thinking, you know, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta call Jeff and ask him something. Where's
Speaker 1: my phone? Where's my phone? Looking all around my car,
Speaker 1: no phone, no phone, turn around, drive home. I can't
Speaker 1: find my phone. You know you got that. I got
Speaker 1: my iPad. I gotta find my phone. Find my phone
Speaker 1: and says, yeah, everything is offline. Can't find it. Now
Speaker 1: I go to my house phone. I got one house
Speaker 1: phone on the on the hard line. Pick it up.
Speaker 1: Battery's dead. So I can't do that. I can't find
Speaker 1: I'm walking all over the house. Can't fine. Finally find
Speaker 1: my phone. Get it. It It was slid but heat, but
Speaker 1: tip my recliner when I Then I fall asleep and
Speaker 1: every night, you know, this got my my body, like
Speaker 1: the shape of my body is is right in, slide
Speaker 1: it right down. So I found it and get in
Speaker 1: a car. Go Thank God. Anyway, So I'm a little aggravated,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little aggravated from the game too. I'm
Speaker 1: a little aggravated from the game the other night on
Speaker 1: fun Saturday night, Friday night, Thursday night, Sunday night, whatever,
Speaker 1: damn night they played dead game. I'm freaking aggravated. Were
Speaker 1: you more frustrated with the first quarter of the Dolphins
Speaker 1: or the second half? Watch? I wasn't so aggravated about
Speaker 1: the second half. Look disappointed. You'd like to see him
Speaker 1: pick up and play. But you know, Lamar Jackson's out
Speaker 1: there and he's running around doing doing his thing. And
Speaker 1: tough guy to play your you know, you know those
Speaker 1: those guys, Those guys are tough, you know, especially when
Speaker 1: you got that guy because I remember playing against the
Speaker 1: running quarterbacks, those kind of guys and when I was
Speaker 1: a linebacker, and there's there's no more uncomfortable place to
Speaker 1: be on a football field. If you're a linebacker. Then
Speaker 1: when you're dropped into a zone, no man, a man
Speaker 1: you dropped into his zone, you kind of settle and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here comes a quarterback and he's
Speaker 1: encroaching on the line of scrimmage and a guy like
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Do I come up? And he thinks over
Speaker 1: the top of me, Do I stay back? And he
Speaker 1: comes that this is in right. There is a that's
Speaker 1: a tough, tough decision to make and he and he
Speaker 1: stresses it. He stresses those defensive players every time by
Speaker 1: threatening that line of scrimmage. I can tell you one
Speaker 1: thing that the Baltimore Ravens will run. I know this
Speaker 1: isn't read option is gonna be a big party. Three
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson because they both ran it against the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure the Dolphins haven't put a lot of
Speaker 1: time conversation. There's a gloat conversation during the pregame show
Speaker 1: with Bob Greasy and that more about Lamar Jackson. Uh,
Speaker 1: if Joe Flacco is a starting quarterback, which he's gonna
Speaker 1: certainly gonna be going into the season, do you find
Speaker 1: a way to put Lamar Jackson in the backfield and
Speaker 1: use him as an athlete and do different things. That's
Speaker 1: just extra time to get ready for that read option
Speaker 1: and him throwing on the run. And obviously he's not
Speaker 1: injury yet. He will be though he keeps running that much.
Speaker 1: But he's young and he's ready to run. And of
Speaker 1: course he just put on a great show against the Dollars.
Speaker 1: But Joe, you've watched you've watched this guy here here's
Speaker 1: here's kind of my argument for that, Joe. You've watched
Speaker 1: this guy since high school. He's played the same way
Speaker 1: since high school to where he's at right now. Why
Speaker 1: change him now? And I understand the injury factor, what
Speaker 1: that's fine, so so so, so you're gonna take half
Speaker 1: of half of Half of him is throwing the football,
Speaker 1: half of his strowing is running the football. Right, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna take that running football away from Now, you've
Speaker 1: got a guy that you're you're, you're you're hamstringing him
Speaker 1: and his ability to play. My theory, these my theory
Speaker 1: these days on these quarterbacks, and it goes all the
Speaker 1: way back. You could probably go all the way back
Speaker 1: to Randall. Cunning him right, is maybe one of the
Speaker 1: first because the other guys who were running, you know,
Speaker 1: Fran Target and they were behind the behind there, behind
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage runners there. You know, these guys
Speaker 1: started now with with with Randall and those guys, and
Speaker 1: then you had, you know, all these guys that have
Speaker 1: come along, and you get him in the league and
Speaker 1: you go, yeah, that's great. You know, running was what
Speaker 1: made you such a big threat. But we're gonna take
Speaker 1: that away from you and and and then their successfully.
Speaker 1: My thing is, let the guy play the way he
Speaker 1: plays I'm doing, and if you get him for five years,
Speaker 1: you get him for five years. Michael, Yeah, Vince, Vince Young,
Speaker 1: r G three, all those guys. You can just go
Speaker 1: on and on with those guys. No, no, I I agree.
Speaker 1: And if they're smart. Russell Wilson's run, but he is
Speaker 1: down sliding, not taking hits. Yeah, Joe. The other thing
Speaker 1: that that that kind of was was annoying to me.
Speaker 1: You know, the penalty that this week it wasn't so
Speaker 1: much penalties, and there were penalties. I mean, they had
Speaker 1: their first drive going and they had a penalty down
Speaker 1: by the by the red zone and took them back
Speaker 1: and they settled for a field goal. But all the
Speaker 1: talk about pre snap issues, all these kind of things,
Speaker 1: and and the first two series you get quarterback drops
Speaker 1: the ball. Understand it was a little wet, but no
Speaker 1: excuse drops the ball. Now you're at second and twelve,
Speaker 1: forget about that. Although you did convert. Then the next
Speaker 1: series can't get a center quarterback change to go boom.
Speaker 1: There you are second and ten again. And Joe, we
Speaker 1: we thought talked about it last week one of the
Speaker 1: keys going into this game. Get ahead, play from ahead,
Speaker 1: don't play catch up all the time. And you do
Speaker 1: get ahead. But you know, you know I'm talking about touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Fourteen nothing is opposed to six nothing because six not
Speaker 1: one touchdown. Boom, you're now you're back about now you're
Speaker 1: playing catchup again, No boat, You're right on the money.
Speaker 1: Just a matter of fact that they had two people
Speaker 1: make comments today already outside and said, how can a
Speaker 1: professional team early in the game can't handle a center
Speaker 1: quarterback snap either out a shotgun or under center? And
Speaker 1: I said, I can't answer that. And Ryan's good athletes,
Speaker 1: really good hands, He's a good athletes, anybody on the team.
Speaker 1: But it was just a really poor first quarter before
Speaker 1: they picked it up in the second quarter to give
Speaker 1: you a better face. And look, it was rainy, but
Speaker 1: but but you know coach Kays, he doesn't stick those
Speaker 1: guys in that in that bubble when it starts to rain.
Speaker 1: So they've practiced in the rain, they've been out there,
Speaker 1: they're used to it. You're in Florida. Ryan Tannheils played
Speaker 1: played football in South Florida now for what seven years?
Speaker 1: You know, he's seven years he's practicing the rain, playing
Speaker 1: the rain. There's no excuse for dropping a football on
Speaker 1: the first play of the game. Now, when you're trying
Speaker 1: to get things going on, that's been the emphasis. And
Speaker 1: not just that. I mean it's your fan base getting
Speaker 1: the juice stuff, getting everybody but leaving for that opener,
Speaker 1: which is coming up September nine against Tennessee. Uh, I
Speaker 1: was glad to see the second quarter and get some
Speaker 1: people going Kenya. Drake is the real deal, man. I
Speaker 1: am excited if we can keep him bow as a
Speaker 1: out wide. He's a mismatch. I saw, I saw the
Speaker 1: linebacker go out with him and uh, and I just said,
Speaker 1: put a great little move off the ball and he's
Speaker 1: opened by five yards and uh and a Mendola. It's
Speaker 1: good to see him. Kenny got involved. So some of
Speaker 1: that stuff was real good. Kasicky got him out. Why
Speaker 1: a quick post pattern, caught it in his hands, looked smooth. Uh.
Speaker 1: So there were some good things that happened. And then no, no,
Speaker 1: there were some good things that happened there. No looking defensively,
Speaker 1: you know, they gave up some yards in that first
Speaker 1: first series, they missed the field goal, and after that
Speaker 1: they played really good. See a lot of pressure Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn's making. I mean this, this guy is gonna be
Speaker 1: a beast out there. And wait, you know way too
Speaker 1: Cam gets going on the other side with those two,
Speaker 1: he got some pressure on their Uh. I think you
Speaker 1: saw some good things out of the defensive tackles. I
Speaker 1: thought Vincent Taylor played well. I think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to have Vincent Taylor on the show. I
Speaker 1: thought he made some big plays. Jordan Phillips made some
Speaker 1: good plays. Um, Kendall Lankford came in and although he
Speaker 1: played with the the you know, the second and third
Speaker 1: against the second and third team guys, made a lot
Speaker 1: of plays in there. And he's a guy who he's
Speaker 1: made an impact. He's made an impact in the two
Speaker 1: games that he's played in, so certainly you look at
Speaker 1: that defensive tackle rotation. Um oh, I really thought McDonald
Speaker 1: fitzpatrick were really good in the game. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick has just continues to get better and better every
Speaker 1: game and Joe, we're gonna see that for a while.
Speaker 1: This guy's not gonna slow down. Every every snap he gets,
Speaker 1: he gets better. You know, the experience for him is
Speaker 1: really he magnifies that experience. He's gonna be a takeaway machine,
Speaker 1: don't you like? He's just getting make place. I guess
Speaker 1: the question for him because both the disappointment for me
Speaker 1: on this football team right now. I haven't asked you yet,
Speaker 1: And I'm surprised it's not linebacker, find another corner? Yeah yeah?
Speaker 1: And which which which Joe, Quite frankly, three or four
Speaker 1: weeks ago, we were thinking, Hey, that that they're loaded
Speaker 1: on that defense, someone's gonna come out of there and
Speaker 1: take that job and be really good. It just hasn't.
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened. And now now you are in search
Speaker 1: mode kind of for that that cornerback spot all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, wouldn't be surprised if if that's right up there.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about quarterbacks in a second. But tankers Lee,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happened to him. He's taking a
Speaker 1: full step back and uh and lip who is not
Speaker 1: he's not? Yeah, no doubt um so And and but
Speaker 1: getting getting back to the other safety T J. McDonald
Speaker 1: for everybody looking, and I had this conversation. I had
Speaker 1: this conversation a lot. I'm sure you've had this conversation
Speaker 1: a lot. Jeez. You know last year, the guy misses
Speaker 1: the first eight games on suspension, you extend his contract,
Speaker 1: He comes in place, doesn't play very well, and you're going, oh, man,
Speaker 1: did we waste money again. I'll tell you what. He
Speaker 1: put on a show. He put on a a show Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, run Pat he was. He was all
Speaker 1: over the place a linebacker safety. He really did. He
Speaker 1: played like a big, strong safety. It's good to see
Speaker 1: him making him playing, you know what, him playing that way,
Speaker 1: Rashad playing the same aggressive style and then having Minka
Speaker 1: in there in the with the Nichols, and I think
Speaker 1: that really gives you a because those two guys are bad,
Speaker 1: but those guys are big and making the mind sticking
Speaker 1: his head in there and in Lanta hit on somebody either.
Speaker 1: Now I was wrong because I didn't know if they
Speaker 1: could play three safeties as much. And now I'm thinking
Speaker 1: I'm buying into the Adam Gates the best eleven guys
Speaker 1: are gonna play, because if that's the case, our three
Speaker 1: safeties are better playing than we are with extra with
Speaker 1: another corner in there. Yeah, especially especially if you're kicking
Speaker 1: Bobby out there. You're kicking Bobby out there. I take
Speaker 1: Minky in there any any day of the week. But
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure you don't looking I I think
Speaker 1: Joe at this point, because you know, the Veterans are
Speaker 1: gonna play this week. They go up to Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: Atlanta is not gonna play anybody. Dolphins are gonna play anybody.
Speaker 1: This is this, this week's game is Joe to me,
Speaker 1: is about I'm gonna say three roster spots, maybe maybe four.
Speaker 1: I think most of the roster sponsor you've got a
Speaker 1: few of those fifty to fifty three are kind of battling.
Speaker 1: Thats got to play in this game. Oh no doubt,
Speaker 1: no no, no, no doubt, no doubt. I'm not just
Speaker 1: I'm they're They're probably on the team. You got to
Speaker 1: keep guys, but they got to pick it up. I
Speaker 1: think Lippett, who played, he's got to play. He's got
Speaker 1: to show some person and something close to the guy
Speaker 1: we saw two years ago before the Achilles in that
Speaker 1: and and Joe lets you you touched on it earlier.
Speaker 1: Um the backup quarterback spot. Uh, you know those guys
Speaker 1: were given they've been given equal pretty much equal opportunity.
Speaker 1: Both throw interceptions, Uh both have you know Brocket times.
Speaker 1: You know he's kind of a little immobile back there. Uh,
Speaker 1: tough guy to you know, not not a tough guy
Speaker 1: to sack, not a tough guy to put pressure on.
Speaker 1: And David, you know, gets throws the interception quite Frankie
Speaker 1: guy could have probably gone up and challenge that ball
Speaker 1: a little better as a receiver. But you know, you
Speaker 1: you you're gonna you're gonna throw the ball before the
Speaker 1: guys open. Those are the things that are gonna happen
Speaker 1: to you. And I'm not against a quarterback that you
Speaker 1: know that, you know that the throws the ball before
Speaker 1: his guys open. But if you're gonna do that, you
Speaker 1: gotta If you're gonna throw that ball, you gotta make
Speaker 1: sure that it's either long or you guy can catch it.
Speaker 1: I'm not overly impressed with either guy right now, but
Speaker 1: I will say this, they gotta have a little help both.
Speaker 1: They're running many games up front, and our guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: these are NFL games, These aren't some complex schemes. And
Speaker 1: our guys two guys blocking one guy and leaving another
Speaker 1: guy coming up different gaps. That's got to get cleaned up.
Speaker 1: But those guys say Listen, nobody's gonna want to hear
Speaker 1: about it. I've said since Ouswidler got here, fair knot bo.
Speaker 1: He comes in on double secret probation with everybody, maybe
Speaker 1: not Adam Gaze, but everybody else goes, what does Adam
Speaker 1: Gaze cee in Osweiler when the other three teams he's
Speaker 1: been on recently couldn't well, you couldn't wait to get
Speaker 1: rid of him? How about it? You got a team
Speaker 1: the trades for him just so they can get rid
Speaker 1: of him. Yeah, you know what I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a that's a pretty odd thing. But anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: look it is no but but Joe, those are the
Speaker 1: things right now. Look, you're getting to the final fifty
Speaker 1: three guys on this roster, and and look, I gotta
Speaker 1: believe that there's I gotta believe that there's two or
Speaker 1: three guys that are gonna be on this roster that
Speaker 1: aren't here right now. One of them may be a quarterback,
Speaker 1: depending on depending on depending on what happens, depending on
Speaker 1: what happens, especially up in the in Gang Green up
Speaker 1: there you got Teddy Bridgewater, who kind of you know,
Speaker 1: what's gonna go on there? Or other guys out there,
Speaker 1: and so I think they'll be looking at the quarterback position. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be looking at the cornerback position, no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. And I wouldn't be surprised if if,
Speaker 1: if there's a linebacker out there that doesn't doesn't end
Speaker 1: up on this roster at some point, I feel I
Speaker 1: feel like we're one guy short with experience. Chase Allen's
Speaker 1: on the roster, playing great, probably gonna get some starts
Speaker 1: before this is said and done. I like him in there,
Speaker 1: but I just wonder if there's not another guy that's
Speaker 1: got experience that that they'd like to have come in here. Hey, both.
Speaker 1: The other thing is, besides picking some guys up, I
Speaker 1: think you potentially could trade I'm not saying when you're
Speaker 1: big PI, but yes, six or seven, maybe a five
Speaker 1: if like him that they don't take a look at that. No, look,
Speaker 1: this team and Tannon Baum and Chris Greer, you know,
Speaker 1: and and I think most GMS and and uh uh,
Speaker 1: you know, personnel guys with this look, we we will
Speaker 1: trade a five now or four now. But but our
Speaker 1: job after we trade that is find a five or
Speaker 1: six we can pick up somewhere else before the draft right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you got time. You got time to to
Speaker 1: find you know, you're talking of first, second, third, it's
Speaker 1: a different thing. You get four or five, six, you
Speaker 1: can find those guys before the next draft. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be There're gonna be some people on.
Speaker 1: I think like three guys in this rosters aren't aren't
Speaker 1: here right now. Um. Yeah. One of the interesting things,
Speaker 1: one of the really interesting battles to watch this is
Speaker 1: the kicking battle. You know, these guys are kind of
Speaker 1: they're kind of neck and neck going into the there,
Speaker 1: Joe coming down the strets coming down the stretch, neck
Speaker 1: and neck. The draft guy always to me the rookie
Speaker 1: free agent. But bo man, I'm with you. This thing
Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. It's really fun to watch see
Speaker 1: how Joseph does with Sanders, both these guys, Joe. Another
Speaker 1: thing I had a chance this week to uh Adam
Speaker 1: Gays brought in Mike Martz. Uh Mike mart spent the
Speaker 1: week here and I was talking to coach Gays a
Speaker 1: little bit ago about him, and he said, this guy
Speaker 1: was was so invaluable the things that he brought to
Speaker 1: this team, and said I and I saw it on
Speaker 1: game day. So I'm standing so I'm doing the the
Speaker 1: sidelines during the game, and and Mike standing, you know,
Speaker 1: ten feet from me. And so I'm standing there watching
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I look over. Here comes
Speaker 1: Danny Amendola talking to him. Here comes Ryan talking to him,
Speaker 1: Here comes and And it was a parade, a constant
Speaker 1: parade of guys coming over and talked. Frank Gore spent
Speaker 1: time talking to him. Coaches came over and spent time
Speaker 1: talking this guy. This guy that week was like a
Speaker 1: fountain of information on this football team. And Coach Gay's
Speaker 1: eyes talking he said, he said, Man, I tell you
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy now Mike Martz coach. When I
Speaker 1: was a senior at Sanjose State, he was on the
Speaker 1: staff at Sanjose State. He came in to help wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I didn't I knew he was on our staff, but
Speaker 1: didn't know, you know, because I wasn't. I'm a defensive
Speaker 1: alignment I'm not dealing with the wide receiver coach, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh so I hadn't seen him since I left
Speaker 1: San Jose State. I hadn't seen him. And you know,
Speaker 1: all the all the you know, Joe, You've got a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that you played with, the cal and
Speaker 1: coaches that are that are coaches or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: you go somewhere, you see him and you cross, you
Speaker 1: cross their path because it's a it's a network in
Speaker 1: this league. I haven't seen Mark Mike mart since I
Speaker 1: left San Jose State. That's forty someone years ago. I've
Speaker 1: seen what he did. I've watched his career, follow his career,
Speaker 1: what he did, this and that. So I'm out in
Speaker 1: the practice field on whatever day it was last week,
Speaker 1: and I go out there and I'm talking to Danny
Speaker 1: and that, and you know, we're talking and I go,
Speaker 1: is that coach Marks Mark? Uh? It was like coach
Speaker 1: Marks over there? And they go yeah, and I go okay.
Speaker 1: So when they kind of moved into the next next drill,
Speaker 1: I kind of see where he's going. So I kind
Speaker 1: of get in his path. All of a sudden, he
Speaker 1: looks over and sees me, and he gets a big
Speaker 1: smile on his face, comes over and hugs me. Hey bo,
Speaker 1: how you doing ever? Yeah, and I'm going to I can't.
Speaker 1: I was I was gonna introduce myself to him, say,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was playing for Sadose's say
Speaker 1: when you we're there. It was, it was, And I
Speaker 1: had such a good conversation with him on the practice field.
Speaker 1: I had a good conversation with him prior to the game,
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench with him and talking to him.
Speaker 1: And then during the game we talked a little bit.
Speaker 1: And and evidently you know from the fallout of him
Speaker 1: being here, is this guy get delivered a lot of information,
Speaker 1: a lot of little technique stuff, a lot of coaching points,
Speaker 1: a lot of those types of things to the players
Speaker 1: as well as the coaches. It's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how that how that carries forward. You know that's
Speaker 1: lost is always open to veteran for He's a sponge.
Speaker 1: He brings in everything. He's talked about. Things he's picked
Speaker 1: up from the eighties passing game that he liked, that
Speaker 1: he's brought in. He's always looking for stuff. He's a
Speaker 1: very secure guy. Unlike other former coaches, head coaches we've
Speaker 1: had here didn't want former players here and here, Hey
Speaker 1: why don't you try this or that? Adam is always open.
Speaker 1: Not that he does everything, but he is always open
Speaker 1: to But I'll tell you what, though, it takes a
Speaker 1: guy to me. It takes a guy that's confident in himself,
Speaker 1: confident enough in himself to be so open to other
Speaker 1: people's information, you know, and he look, he not only
Speaker 1: does he not only does he take it in, he
Speaker 1: seeks it out. He wants to talk to everybody about
Speaker 1: what they do, what they did, what made him successful,
Speaker 1: what did this? He may not use everything, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna pick and choose some things out there. And there
Speaker 1: are coaches that that you know, we've had coaches here
Speaker 1: that I don't think they even believe in themselves. They
Speaker 1: had to have somebody else kind of tell him what
Speaker 1: to say and what to do. Whereas it no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I know I don't want if
Speaker 1: that guy say no, no, no, Adam, just completely. If
Speaker 1: you've got something that can help us win a football game,
Speaker 1: put it in my ear and all and all determine
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do with that. But we have had
Speaker 1: guys not to get into a very insecure because those
Speaker 1: guys didn't play it that and not only no, we
Speaker 1: we've had more in a couple anyway. You know, some
Speaker 1: of those guys are out of football now. You know,
Speaker 1: some of those coaches and you know, and but but
Speaker 1: they still they have that the roots of the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: So I usually probably go on you know, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com, you know where they go on the Dolphins
Speaker 1: mobile app or you know. I saw one of the guys,
Speaker 1: one of the assistant coaches the other day. He says,
Speaker 1: you know, I have been listening to you guys on
Speaker 1: the Apple Music on that podcast. He said, yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like ship. But he says, but I listened anyway,
Speaker 1: tune in radio, all those things. So you're doing well, man,
Speaker 1: you're doing I'm trying to just you know, just trying
Speaker 1: to get the information out. Hey, Joe Um Danny Amendola.
Speaker 1: I gotta see him nice, you know what, I throz
Speaker 1: and throze in the ball and I go, I go,
Speaker 1: I go ask me a nice We're gonna set us up.
Speaker 1: We'll get into get about the ten yard line. Sounded
Speaker 1: a gun if he didn't put a nice little move
Speaker 1: on there take his way to the end zone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cut back on that and cut against a couple of
Speaker 1: guys and then showed a little burst there to get
Speaker 1: in the end zone. He gonna be fine. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. I don't want to look ahead and I
Speaker 1: want to tease anybody on the red zone, but we
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything in the red but but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. I know Mike a SICKI did flex out
Speaker 1: and he got boxed off, which he's gonna learn. You
Speaker 1: can't just run to the side where an old vet gros.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna jump against me. And he blocked them
Speaker 1: out by the way. Should have been a penalty. But
Speaker 1: uh boy, when he figures some things out and some
Speaker 1: of these other guys, it's gonna be fine. Let's let's
Speaker 1: you know what they're there's they're They're not a whole
Speaker 1: lot you can do in the red zone that people
Speaker 1: haven't seen. You're you're not gonna surprise. You may surprise
Speaker 1: you know, the fans sitting in in section three, but
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna surprise a defensive quarter in the
Speaker 1: National Football League with stuff you're doing. Everyone's doing it.
Speaker 1: It's about winning in the red zone, is about winning
Speaker 1: individual matchups in those types of things. So I really
Speaker 1: believe that the Dolphins during this preseason, including the Secy,
Speaker 1: including anybody else that you might want to throw out there,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're showing very much when they get
Speaker 1: to the red zone. I think they're just they're just, hey,
Speaker 1: here's vanilla, here's bread and butter. That's all you're getting.
Speaker 1: Because when I think once the season starts, I think
Speaker 1: you're in a Siega Secy when he comes that red
Speaker 1: zone and he's gonna be He's gonna be either one
Speaker 1: or one A when it comes to targets when they
Speaker 1: get in that red zone. Well, I saw him out
Speaker 1: and just ran a quick post pattern, catches it in
Speaker 1: his hands with confidence, and all I could think, and
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like I got a little crush
Speaker 1: on him, because all he do is talk about this guy, Well,
Speaker 1: he's got a chance to catch at football. He really
Speaker 1: did well. He's been all over the board, you know,
Speaker 1: going well, let's take our time. It takes time, but
Speaker 1: it's good to see some of these rookies making plays
Speaker 1: and then doing it in practice. So I I haven't
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a tight end around here in a
Speaker 1: long time that run routes, runs routes the way he
Speaker 1: runs routes. He ran around I think it was it
Speaker 1: was either in the first preseason, I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was in the scrimmage. He ran ran
Speaker 1: a little flag pattern, little quarter pattern deep and and
Speaker 1: he made a move on the defense back just left
Speaker 1: him standing there and got overthrown. And and maybe he
Speaker 1: made them maybe you know that he may have made
Speaker 1: the move too early, may need to be a little
Speaker 1: more patient, you know. But still, I mean his route running,
Speaker 1: his ability to get separation and his ability to go up. Boy,
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to imagine him not being a
Speaker 1: huge asset to this football team on the field. Just yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it, exactly exactly so not nice to see that.
Speaker 1: Nice to see a Mondola Ryan Tannehill leven for sixteen
Speaker 1: fifteen yards, had the touchdown, and you know, thank god,
Speaker 1: you you get the touchdown in there, because you know,
Speaker 1: another week of sitting there and going, jeez, you know
Speaker 1: we got shut out in the in the red zone again,
Speaker 1: but you get the touchdown. Um, he's not gonna play
Speaker 1: this week, Ryan. Are we feeling Are we feeling pretty
Speaker 1: good about Ryan going into the regular season? Russ is
Speaker 1: knocked off feeling the pace of the game. Well, that's
Speaker 1: that's everybody was frustrated with two snaps. But yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go Ryan. Ryan's clearly the best quarterback we have. He's
Speaker 1: got a little edged to him. I am really being
Speaker 1: careful and unlike a lot of fans, I get frustrated
Speaker 1: watching some of the junk that goes on, and then
Speaker 1: you go, all right, I don't give him a chance
Speaker 1: to put his game plan in. See what he's gonna do,
Speaker 1: what the game plan is for this whole group of guys,
Speaker 1: no matter what package has out there, and then you
Speaker 1: get going. So that's where I am. So these guys
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta get out to a quick start. Man,
Speaker 1: They've they've got to get out. I mean. And I'm
Speaker 1: already kind of looking ahead to Tennessee on September nine
Speaker 1: because of what the preseason, preseason game number four is
Speaker 1: all about. Uh so so so to me, I'm assuming
Speaker 1: as a coaching staff their game planning more for Tennessee
Speaker 1: right now than they are for for this game. And
Speaker 1: these guys are working to give them two weeks to
Speaker 1: to get ready for that for that games. Look, they
Speaker 1: still gotta do stuff with the guys that are gonna
Speaker 1: playing the game on on on this Thursday. But I
Speaker 1: guarantee of their work is is more so in those
Speaker 1: in those those those offices, and there's about what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do with Tennessee. They've got to they've got to
Speaker 1: be able to come out hot. And look, Joe, you
Speaker 1: talked about fans, and you talk about the fan base.
Speaker 1: You know, they gave that game. They've got to come
Speaker 1: out and they've got to set a tempo for the season,
Speaker 1: and they've got to set a tone for what kind
Speaker 1: of football team they're gonna be. And they've gotta they've
Speaker 1: got to win this fan base over. Because this fan base,
Speaker 1: I give him a lot of credit because they've been
Speaker 1: very patient. But but I think patients is patients is
Speaker 1: starting to wear thin on a lot of these people.
Speaker 1: I hear it all the time when I go and
Speaker 1: you know, if you can get a get off to
Speaker 1: a quick start in the season and say, hey, this
Speaker 1: is the offense we've been looking for, Hey this is
Speaker 1: the defense we've been looking at. Good, Joe, we may
Speaker 1: not have a lot of stars in this football team,
Speaker 1: but but believe me, I believe there's a lot of
Speaker 1: really good football players on this team. The counter to
Speaker 1: that is it's a very very young team. Four rookies
Speaker 1: are gonna start, five rookies are gonna play a lot.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have second year players and Gotcha and Taylor
Speaker 1: and guys like Jesse, young guys like that play. Then
Speaker 1: you're gonna have some three year players that You've got
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys under three years that are
Speaker 1: gonna be starting on this football team come September night,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have Davante Parker back here pretty soon.
Speaker 1: He needs to come in with his head straight. We
Speaker 1: need that big six three target. Yeah, we got we
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys. Don't get me wrong, but
Speaker 1: I just think we get something out of him bough
Speaker 1: and get him go and get him off to a
Speaker 1: good where Where's your where? Where's your where's your heart?
Speaker 1: Right now? On Davante not good? I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: look I'm I'm I hate to say, I really hate
Speaker 1: to say it. I'm not expecting a whole lot out
Speaker 1: of him. I you know, this is the first time.
Speaker 1: It's funny you said that, because I'm talking about this
Speaker 1: first time. I'm worried, very I'm I'm I'm agag. He
Speaker 1: jumped up and made a great catch in practice, and
Speaker 1: I saw a guy and I hear a guy that's
Speaker 1: affected by all the negative talk in the media, and
Speaker 1: it's really disappointing because I want him to just dominate
Speaker 1: over that, like you win no matter what, could you win,
Speaker 1: and you've got a chance to win even more by
Speaker 1: playing well this year with a new contract. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. You know, it's it's I'm just not.
Speaker 1: I'm just not counting on him, you know, it's to me,
Speaker 1: to me, Davanta Parker, in my back of my mind,
Speaker 1: he's a bonus. If he comes out and plays, then
Speaker 1: then fine, But I'm not. I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and wait every week to see to see, Hey, is
Speaker 1: this the Is this the week that DeVante Parker is
Speaker 1: going to become the DeVante Parker everyone expects him to be.
Speaker 1: I would say this though, Ryan Tannehill needs to spend
Speaker 1: with DeVante and pump him up. You know, some guys
Speaker 1: both need to be pumped up more than other dudes.
Speaker 1: You know, other guys you don't have to worry. They
Speaker 1: walk around with confidence. And then you've got some guys
Speaker 1: their body language is not quite there. You know, when
Speaker 1: they're good, they can be on top of the world,
Speaker 1: but when they're down, it can laugh. Davante is one
Speaker 1: of those guys. I'll worry about. And I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: some of this on Adam Gateson and Ryan Tannehill to
Speaker 1: spend time and remind them, pat him on the back,
Speaker 1: giving him, give him not tough love. But but Joe, Joe,
Speaker 1: They've they've given him tough love. You know, he's spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time with the Jarvis when he was here,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think Jarvis was trying to kind
Speaker 1: of get him into that toughness moment. Everybody is. Look,
Speaker 1: everybody's given him the time he needs. Now now it's
Speaker 1: got it's on him now. You know, at this point
Speaker 1: in his career, like you said, got all the skills
Speaker 1: in the world, got all the ability in the world,
Speaker 1: and he's got a contract coming up. If that's not
Speaker 1: enough to motivate him to be the best player he
Speaker 1: can be, then then then what do you get? You know,
Speaker 1: you can't you can't put a bunch on burner and
Speaker 1: stick a fire under his ass every day. We got
Speaker 1: you know, we got a lot of fan base. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's off my radar screen right now. You know, know
Speaker 1: they got to get ready. They can't wait. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for him. Yeah, I'm more concerned right now about
Speaker 1: jacquin And and getting him out of concussion protocol in
Speaker 1: time for the opener. What what a preseason? He's man,
Speaker 1: but he made as much of a jump the preseason.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about the return guy. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Look him and Albert Wilson, both those two guys have
Speaker 1: the best. They've had great preseasons, both catching balls. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the three smaller guys, yeahn't feel good about this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: any concern that there's gonna be a small, small receiving
Speaker 1: corps if if, if we don't get Davante, uh oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be small. But well, I don't care care
Speaker 1: for a guy I mean five seven, five nine, five
Speaker 1: ten to get it where they can catch it. They're off,
Speaker 1: tough son of a gun. All three of those guys
Speaker 1: are top. Let's let's get to some uh some of
Speaker 1: the fan questions here from Twitter at g cardon this fifteen.
Speaker 1: Time to move t J McDonald linebacker? The team needs
Speaker 1: hell there and he would be a beast. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen, but but I do think that
Speaker 1: I do think that you may see t J and
Speaker 1: and Rashad up in the box at times and I
Speaker 1: certainly wouldn't be against Joe using t J at times
Speaker 1: to almost to be a guy at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage to reroute to reroute, receiver three route tight ends
Speaker 1: to reroute and do a little bit of that. If
Speaker 1: he's got a little something, some help over the top.
Speaker 1: I will tell you I forgot Rashad has been so
Speaker 1: good at in the box. Having a guy that size.
Speaker 1: It is like an outside linebacker watching him come in
Speaker 1: there and put the hit on guys. You know, a guy.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a lot. We haven't had a I
Speaker 1: don't think we've had a safety that big since Louis Oliver.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, I'm with you. Jennifer Johnson comes in
Speaker 1: on Facebook. I love Kenyan Drake. Great things ahead for
Speaker 1: this kid if he can stay healthy. I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. I like a lot of things about Kenyan Um.
Speaker 1: I like his mindset. UM like the way he works.
Speaker 1: I love his ability to to break the big run.
Speaker 1: I like that he can catch the football blocking a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Um, But Kenyan still gotta becoming pro.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's still some things that he's got to
Speaker 1: do a little better. UM, But I think his upside
Speaker 1: is there, and I think we're gonna see big things
Speaker 1: out of Kenyan Drake this year. I think he's best
Speaker 1: playing the team. Well, I would argue that I think
Speaker 1: what he brings as a runner, Well, we've had three
Speaker 1: big plays. Another guy from Alabama. We're talking about this
Speaker 1: pretty good. No no, no, I understand that. But but
Speaker 1: a guy that's done it in games and continues to
Speaker 1: do in preseason. He's got three plays now over twenty
Speaker 1: nine yards two weeks last year he is one of
Speaker 1: the top guys were breaking big plays. Both even stuff
Speaker 1: him two or three times and he cuts back and
Speaker 1: runs forty yards and all of a sudden he's averaging
Speaker 1: six yards to carry. Yeah, and you look at that
Speaker 1: running ball with Kenyan Drake, Frank Gore. Uh, Snoras Perry
Speaker 1: is playing? Was a Snorris Perry right, Yes, is playing well? Uh?
Speaker 1: And then and then calin balage. You know when when
Speaker 1: he gets back, I mean, I've been impressed with I've
Speaker 1: been really impressed with him. I'm really gonna give you
Speaker 1: a nice It's really gonna give you some nice. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If he gets well, Look, he was suited up for
Speaker 1: the game. He was suited up for pregame warm ups
Speaker 1: last week tells me he should be ready for the
Speaker 1: game this week and and this type of game is
Speaker 1: perfect for him. Give him a lot of carries, give
Speaker 1: him some give a chance to break a sweat out
Speaker 1: there and do some things. How much how much does
Speaker 1: McMillan and Baker played this week? And look, if it's me,
Speaker 1: I play him a half, I play him a half.
Speaker 1: They need reps. These guys need reps, reps, reps. You
Speaker 1: don't want to get injured. But yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who I wouldn't play a lot this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get and may start some games. Give me the
Speaker 1: other guys, get done those guys. Give me those other
Speaker 1: linebackers out there and you know that, and let them,
Speaker 1: let them get that work. Yeah, the rest of this
Speaker 1: draft class go get I got the young guys, the
Speaker 1: the young guys. Look, yeah, you know, like you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna kind of hold your breath out there with u
Speaker 1: um uh with the two linebackers and the young guys
Speaker 1: out there playing. But but they've got to their norther
Speaker 1: way to get reps. And Joe, it's I'm not I
Speaker 1: got no concerns about their ability to play the game.
Speaker 1: I got no concerns with these guys are flying all
Speaker 1: over the field, but they've got to slow down a
Speaker 1: little bit, Joe. And when I slay slow down. You
Speaker 1: can't just you can't just be line to the to
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, You've got to be in position. Look,
Speaker 1: if your job is cut back, you can't be out
Speaker 1: ahead of the running back. You You've got to understand, Hey,
Speaker 1: look I can get there, but it's more advantage. This
Speaker 1: is where I need to be, you know. And that
Speaker 1: only comes with reps. You you can't you can't sit
Speaker 1: in the side. Oh we can watch it on tape. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: You've got to be get out there and feel it,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean when we're playing linebacker. One of
Speaker 1: the toughest things to do is you get that guy
Speaker 1: that you're you're the you're the you're you're you're in
Speaker 1: the you're in you're in the hammock. You're not the
Speaker 1: outside guy forcing up. You're the guy that's trying to
Speaker 1: get him to to you know, if they come back
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, no, do I do I
Speaker 1: give up and go to the front side, or do
Speaker 1: I gotta say? You know, that that's a tough decision
Speaker 1: to make because once you get that, you know, once
Speaker 1: you become that turtle in your head pokes out on
Speaker 1: this side, that guy all of a sudden he's going
Speaker 1: backside on you, and you've got to see that over
Speaker 1: and over and over to get that field. Three weeks
Speaker 1: now we're cut back. Runs have hurt this dolphin d
Speaker 1: y no doubt, Twitter at fan Finn Fan thirty six.
Speaker 1: I feel like Vincent Tann has been playing well this
Speaker 1: preseason and has earned a chance to get him the
Speaker 1: starting rotation. I don't know if he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the starting rotation. I would kind of at, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're all gonna get snaps. I would say, right now, Joe,
Speaker 1: if this is if if this is opening Day, Opening
Speaker 1: Day was this Sunday and we're going in, I still
Speaker 1: think it would be got you on a Keem Spence
Speaker 1: are gonna be the two starters in that, and then
Speaker 1: the next guy in is going to be Jordan Phillips
Speaker 1: and then Vincent Taylor and then can if they keep
Speaker 1: all those that group of guys. Vincent Taylor for people
Speaker 1: that forgot last year, he didn't suit up a certain games.
Speaker 1: He was a healthy scratch. And uh, I think you
Speaker 1: make enough for you making enough for During this training camp,
Speaker 1: he made a lot of plays behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you his gear. Once he gets
Speaker 1: off blocks chasing guys, well he's been he gets after him.
Speaker 1: There's a guy. Oh my god, that's really improved. But here,
Speaker 1: but here, you know, we talked about youth in this
Speaker 1: football team. Look at this guy, look at look at Taylor,
Speaker 1: gotcha Phillips. Three guys. Phillips is going to his fourth year.
Speaker 1: These guys are other guys are both going to their
Speaker 1: second year. You know that that's a that's a nice base. Joe.
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody last night and they're talking
Speaker 1: about this team, and I said, look at it. It's
Speaker 1: a young team. You know it's it's a young team.
Speaker 1: But in the nineteen seventy seven, which was technically my
Speaker 1: rook year, we started four the seventy two team. That's
Speaker 1: seventy two team that went to three Super Bowls, went undefeated,
Speaker 1: won two Super Bowls. Hall of famers on that team.
Speaker 1: You know, they they were on the down slide. You know,
Speaker 1: guys were getting hurt and you know this and that
Speaker 1: when I came in, so in seventies, some of those
Speaker 1: guys left, but you know, we started four rookies at
Speaker 1: year on defense, A J Do, A Bob Bomb Howard, myself,
Speaker 1: and Norris Thomas, and we just missed the playoffs that
Speaker 1: year and then went on a run going forward after
Speaker 1: that where we played in three a f C Championship games,
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls, multiple playoff games when the a f
Speaker 1: C East almost every year and had a run like that.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I'm bringing that up is because
Speaker 1: I look at this draft. You got four guys in
Speaker 1: this draft. They are legitimate starters on this football teams.
Speaker 1: You stacked out on the guys you got last year
Speaker 1: and the guys a year before. And I really think
Speaker 1: this team has a nucleus of a team that maybe
Speaker 1: not this year, but can can get on that kind
Speaker 1: of a run. You know, if these guys progress, and
Speaker 1: they've got to get better every year, but they certainly
Speaker 1: have a nice base of young players that you can
Speaker 1: look forward and saying, hey, this team is gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty good for a while here, and it may take
Speaker 1: a while to get there. Just thinking when you said
Speaker 1: that you left one little thing out with all those
Speaker 1: teams you got turned around plait a lot of ones
Speaker 1: and twos that were damn good for well, ye yep,
Speaker 1: I mean a j doing Bob bomb Howard Hey, Tony Nathan,
Speaker 1: I mean not Tony Nathan. Don McNeil and Mac and
Speaker 1: Dwight went all Alabama one year. Well, and that's why
Speaker 1: I like, we're going to Alabama. I like that. I
Speaker 1: like that. I like that Alabama. You know. I tell
Speaker 1: people like hey, right off the bat, Don mcneiel was
Speaker 1: better player than Dwight, Yeah, no doubt. Obviously, Dwight becomes
Speaker 1: one of the greatest centers of all times. But Don
Speaker 1: McNeill didn't embarrass himself. He lined up day one and
Speaker 1: one of the more stupid lines I've ever heard in
Speaker 1: my life from the radio from your boy Big Oh.
Speaker 1: I'm driving along one and he says, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the worst picks of Dolphins made, Don McNeil and
Speaker 1: cornerback and I almost pulled off the side of the road,
Speaker 1: which you know, we drafted Don McNeill. He was a
Speaker 1: starter the first day at practice and and was a
Speaker 1: great player from day one until the day he left.
Speaker 1: I went back to Berkeley and Steve Barkowski was playing
Speaker 1: with the Falcons, and we used to play the Falcon
Speaker 1: all the time. He said, I gotta tell you, man
Speaker 1: that Don McNeill is as good a corner as a
Speaker 1: rookie as as I've ever seen. Like that guy came in,
Speaker 1: you wanna play bumping run hee And he didn't talk
Speaker 1: a lot. Always a good dude, right, but my man
Speaker 1: could play. Yeah, and he and and look he's always
Speaker 1: gotten the heat for for the ghenre. And I tell guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, you know the guys playing with a
Speaker 1: broken arm. You know you had at one point he
Speaker 1: was playing with two broken wrists. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: you know anyway, yeah, yeah, ye, No. Jeremiah Flint Facebook,
Speaker 1: I'm still worried about our run defense. We've given up
Speaker 1: some pretty big runs over the last few games and
Speaker 1: hope we can figure it out before the regular season starts. Joe,
Speaker 1: last drive that that that that the drive for the
Speaker 1: drive that I think it was the end of the
Speaker 1: end of the first half. Um where no I'm talking
Speaker 1: about no, no, talking about when the last drive script
Speaker 1: they went down the field, it looked like they were
Speaker 1: gonna score and it looked like they're gonna punching them
Speaker 1: to a touchdown. They had one, two, three, four, five
Speaker 1: first downs and they and they were forced to kick
Speaker 1: a field goal. And that gets back to what I've
Speaker 1: always believed in defense, as long as you don't give
Speaker 1: up a big play. They gave up no big plays.
Speaker 1: I'm there. I think they converted a first down on
Speaker 1: a on a third and long, but it wasn't like
Speaker 1: a They didn't throw a forty yard you know, forty
Speaker 1: yard completion um. But they made him methodically work down
Speaker 1: the field, move the change, move the change, move the change.
Speaker 1: And you know what, they made a mistake when they
Speaker 1: got into the red zone. Boom, they you know, drop
Speaker 1: him for a loss. Next you know, they got to
Speaker 1: settle for the field goal instead of the touchdown. That
Speaker 1: to me is the key to the success of this defense.
Speaker 1: If you don't give them big plays, don't give him
Speaker 1: that big chunk play, that fifth that that three play
Speaker 1: touchdown drive, that two play touchdown drive. You make them
Speaker 1: drive down the field twelve fifteen plays. This defense is
Speaker 1: good enough to do what they did then force him
Speaker 1: into a field goal and not and not score the
Speaker 1: touchdown or come up with the turnover, or force or
Speaker 1: get the sack, those types of things. If they can
Speaker 1: take away to the big play. On defense, I feel
Speaker 1: really good about the guys that we have on that
Speaker 1: side of the football. People forget this defense only had
Speaker 1: fifteen takeaways, the worst than football. Meanwhile, the team we
Speaker 1: played just got done. Thirty four takeaways led the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and takeaways defensively interceptions, force fumbles and and
Speaker 1: all the different ways we got to improve that number.
Speaker 1: I'm not so worried about yards. I'm with you, you know,
Speaker 1: I could care less, but you gotta get stops in
Speaker 1: the red zone, and you've got to get takeaways, make
Speaker 1: people kick field goals. And I think the old thing,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind me saying, is Bill Arnsburg always
Speaker 1: felt like I don't believe anybody can go fifteen or
Speaker 1: you might just kick. And look, we were a very
Speaker 1: conservative defense, you know we we were. We rushed three
Speaker 1: guys a lot of times and we're three man front
Speaker 1: that back then, and you know, sometimes you just held up.
Speaker 1: Your job was just a hold a spot. I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna try to make it. I'm just gonna hold
Speaker 1: a spot so he can't come this way. And someone else.
Speaker 1: It was team defense, trusting everybody else, and that was
Speaker 1: it make them, make them, make them take fifteen play
Speaker 1: because if they they're gonna take fifteen plays to get
Speaker 1: into the end zone, we're gonna make a play before
Speaker 1: them and we're gonna turn the ball over. So i's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Let them make the mistake, and then if
Speaker 1: this team can do that, then then then I like it.
Speaker 1: Cole Jensen from Facebook. I don't understand why people keep
Speaker 1: saying Tannil isn't playing well all, or that they're concerned
Speaker 1: over the dink and dunk play so far. I think
Speaker 1: by those short passes it will eventually open up the
Speaker 1: deep ball, like the one to to Drake Well. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say this, I think that's been by design during
Speaker 1: training camp. I don't think this offense is being built
Speaker 1: to be a dink and dunk offense. Kenny Stills, Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: Jachim Grant. Those guys aren't dinking dunk players. These guys
Speaker 1: are down field players, and I think that I think that, look,
Speaker 1: we we gotta understand this preseason. You're not to open
Speaker 1: up your playbook. You're not showing everything that you got.
Speaker 1: I think this team I think you'll see a different
Speaker 1: team when it comes to aggressively moving the ball downfield
Speaker 1: my opinion, than what we're seeing right now. Ryan Tannehill,
Speaker 1: if he's got time and he's dunk dropping it off
Speaker 1: underneath the backs and stuff or out on the flats,
Speaker 1: I would be disappointed. You've got some guys that can
Speaker 1: go down the field and get it. You know what
Speaker 1: we haven't done, and we got to get back to.
Speaker 1: We gotta attack the hash marks and the numbers side
Speaker 1: with tight ends. We just have not done, not at all.
Speaker 1: We need to do that. I'm watching all these preseason games,
Speaker 1: Well there's just everybody's attacking the middle of the field
Speaker 1: of this thing. It gives you another weapon. Ryan's got
Speaker 1: to get comfortable making those throws, no doubt, and we
Speaker 1: talked about that before. I mean he you know, early
Speaker 1: on his career, he was having a tough tip, tough
Speaker 1: time getting the touch on the ball going over the
Speaker 1: middle down the scene. I think he's got better at that.
Speaker 1: And look, he's got better receivers better, you got better,
Speaker 1: better guys running down the middle middle of the field.
Speaker 1: Now better than that. He's having a long time. Um
Speaker 1: uh Twitter at l M a D four five four.
Speaker 1: What was a feeling always like around the locker room
Speaker 1: when when cutting day was approaching? You know that there
Speaker 1: were there were there were a few days a year, well,
Speaker 1: there were a number of days a year in the
Speaker 1: locker room when you could hear a pin drop and
Speaker 1: we had shag carpeting in our locker room. And that
Speaker 1: was every day when you had to before you had
Speaker 1: to go in and watch game films. Right especially after that,
Speaker 1: basically after bad games or even games that you won
Speaker 1: that you didn't play well enough, um and cut down day,
Speaker 1: cut down day, you walk in that locker room and
Speaker 1: all you saw was guys sitting there, especially young guys,
Speaker 1: guys sitting there with their head between their their head
Speaker 1: between their knees, just waiting to get tapped on the shoulder. Man,
Speaker 1: there's no secrets. Secrets in the seventies and and today,
Speaker 1: all those guys know who's on the bubble. They should
Speaker 1: know by who's gonna be playing in this game and
Speaker 1: who's not. By the way, if you're playing this, you
Speaker 1: don't get in the game packing bags. Like if there's
Speaker 1: five or six guys, don't get in or get in
Speaker 1: Rookie guys that are here, they don't play what's you
Speaker 1: know that's not good? But no, but yeah, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to take any shots anybody because a lot
Speaker 1: of coach most coaches are no longer with us, but
Speaker 1: called tass seem to really we relished in it. Man
Speaker 1: that that always. I mean, I've become kind of myself.
Speaker 1: But it kind of bothered me that he enjoyed or
Speaker 1: messing with guys walking back and forth. I'll give you
Speaker 1: the ultimate. And and and we had we had a
Speaker 1: guy that came in and it will look back in
Speaker 1: the day. You know, we'd go to training camp with
Speaker 1: a hunter and thirty guys, so many there was no
Speaker 1: limit on the amount of guys that you could go.
Speaker 1: So he and we were at camp, and we were
Speaker 1: at camp for a long time, so you had to
Speaker 1: have bodies there. You had to have bodies to work against.
Speaker 1: And and that was part of the part of the deal.
Speaker 1: So we had and so we had a kid coming
Speaker 1: a cornerback, come in and uh pulls his hamstring on
Speaker 1: testing day when he's running his forty right, pulls his hand.
Speaker 1: Guy wasn't gonna make the tea he was he was
Speaker 1: back in the time. He was what you we called fodder.
Speaker 1: He was one of those guys who was just there
Speaker 1: for cannon fodder, just to just to work against. He
Speaker 1: was just a body we had no chance of making
Speaker 1: the team, but he had to sign contracts, and they
Speaker 1: signed rookie contracts. So this guy pulls a hamstring nothing
Speaker 1: earth coach Shulam more than then a guy that wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna make the team there was hurt and then had
Speaker 1: to pay him in the regular season. They milked it
Speaker 1: and and and the smart guys knew, Hey, i ain't
Speaker 1: gonna make this team, so I'm gonna milk this thing
Speaker 1: as long as I can. I'm gonna get if I
Speaker 1: can get to game checks in man and then get
Speaker 1: me in, then I'm happy it can be and then
Speaker 1: get out never play again. Never. So this guy's got
Speaker 1: this hamstring and and and every you CE coach will
Speaker 1: look at you know that, you could see him very now.
Speaker 1: He looked guy just gonna do that. You know, he
Speaker 1: didn't like giving you even got He don't like guys
Speaker 1: getting earn in free money. Right, So this guy there.
Speaker 1: So so we're sitting it, we're coming in and guy's
Speaker 1: been on he's been I've been practicing for a while,
Speaker 1: and Carl comes in. The guy said, about three locker
Speaker 1: rooms that lockers down for me. I gotta look at
Speaker 1: car comes into his aces. Uh one of our dbs
Speaker 1: went down, got hurt in the game or something, right,
Speaker 1: So he goes, h hey, uh, hey, you so and
Speaker 1: so are you You think you can get out there
Speaker 1: and practice. Goes well, jeez, coach, I'm not sure. You know,
Speaker 1: it's still a little tight and this, and he doesn't, goes, well, jeez,
Speaker 1: you know, we had so and so went down there.
Speaker 1: There's an opportunity, there's a job out there, and jez,
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss a good answerd you know, who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe getting you know. So the guy buckles goes
Speaker 1: out of hell with you. I'm taking my shot now.
Speaker 1: Guy goes out, goes out into practice field, runs around
Speaker 1: a little bit. Come his ass had barely even hit
Speaker 1: that chair. After practice, Hey, coach, Sheila wants to see him,
Speaker 1: bring your plate book and the guy kid goes kids, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, my hamstring. Somebody goes,
Speaker 1: we got you on tape out there running around running around.
Speaker 1: Boom walks in and walks into the office. Right out
Speaker 1: the door, never to be seen again. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: We had a guy running gas one day. He pulled
Speaker 1: a hamstring and running gas. One of the very first guys,
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, we had a hundred and
Speaker 1: something guys, and he did the same thing. But I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, every time that guy earned his money
Speaker 1: finally left. There was one guy. There was one guy
Speaker 1: and he's a younger. He's a defensive line where a
Speaker 1: line there, same thing, same kind of guy. And he
Speaker 1: was a funny guy. And uh, and he coming goes
Speaker 1: hates me, boy every time I see him, and so
Speaker 1: he would make so he says, he says, you know what,
Speaker 1: every time Coachula seeing mare we had or our dining
Speaker 1: our dining room was across it was probably about probably
Speaker 1: about quarter of a mile, I don't know how far,
Speaker 1: with five yards whatever you had to walk to get
Speaker 1: to the dining room. And you had to walk across
Speaker 1: park a lot and stuff, and everyone's going in the
Speaker 1: same path. And he says, uh, he says, he says,
Speaker 1: you know, he says, every time I see Coach Sula,
Speaker 1: he looks at me and gives me look. He says,
Speaker 1: he says, I was, I was walking to the dining
Speaker 1: room today. Coach is coming back and he says, he
Speaker 1: says me, he said, look, when you see me walking,
Speaker 1: you go in the other direction until I get past you.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to I don't even want to
Speaker 1: look at you. And so so so so the guy.
Speaker 1: So the guy was. He was there for another two
Speaker 1: weeks or whatever, kind of getting so every time he'd
Speaker 1: come walking along. Hey, guess right, guys had lunch with
Speaker 1: Shoes last night. At the dinner with Shoes last night.
Speaker 1: He invited me over the family and just busting it
Speaker 1: was hilarious, dude something. That stuff had some characters back then.
Speaker 1: They had that truck driver tryout. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah's
Speaker 1: called He's called the Gong Show. And bodybuilders and and
Speaker 1: they're all out there pulling hands. They had guys come up,
Speaker 1: guys coming off a construction site with with the work
Speaker 1: boots on running a fort yard dash down in the
Speaker 1: under practice field. Yeah. I greatest greatest thing I ever
Speaker 1: saw like that. The Dolphins were scrimmage in one year,
Speaker 1: inter squad scrimmage up at Lockhart Stadium, and I was
Speaker 1: there working for Channel four, you know, doing doing the
Speaker 1: whole stuff, And there's a guy in the stands and
Speaker 1: he's completely dressed in a uniform, helmet, shoulder pads, thigh pads, uniform, cleets,
Speaker 1: the whole thing, standing up in the standing up in
Speaker 1: the in the stands. Give me a chance, Give me
Speaker 1: a chance. He wanted him to. He wanted to call
Speaker 1: and wanted to call him out of the stands and
Speaker 1: going and playing your squad scrimmage. And so I'm in
Speaker 1: this and I go, Louis, shoot, shoot, get some video
Speaker 1: of this guy. You know he's up there. Come on,
Speaker 1: I can do better than that. Let me play, you know.
Speaker 1: So so midway through we kind of there's a little
Speaker 1: little so I go, let's go walk over to us.
Speaker 1: We walk over and talk to the guy, and I
Speaker 1: got him on camera and I said, I go, hey,
Speaker 1: well what's up man? You go? He goes, I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to get a job. It won't give me a chance.
Speaker 1: And I go, well, why do you think of the
Speaker 1: serving job? Just man, man, I had four thousand yards
Speaker 1: my senior year and I still can't get a job,
Speaker 1: which was one of the great lines I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: I just started out, and then you see all kinds
Speaker 1: of no no, no doubt, some tryouts, no doubt. All right,
Speaker 1: so they have good stuff there from all the uh,
Speaker 1: all the people that did follow us and Joe. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we're supposed to get somebody in here. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been pretty good every week about getting getting players
Speaker 1: in and the team has been really good about getting
Speaker 1: We're getting players in here. Where the problem is, I
Speaker 1: gotta get my ass out of here. Bro, I got
Speaker 1: somewhere to go. If I If I get out of
Speaker 1: here and you can, you can, you really gonna go?
Speaker 1: Right now? I'm gonna leave you. Yeah, I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: you with you know, I'm gonna leave you with your
Speaker 1: passed down around your ankles. I'm gonna leave you to
Speaker 1: your you know, you know I go. I got it.
Speaker 1: Are you pissed You're the only one that's always here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Instead the hell with you guys. You've been gone. John's
Speaker 1: been gone. Now when I'm getting out of here, you
Speaker 1: handle the heavy lifting. I'm out of here, right, I'll
Speaker 1: see you on Thursday. Hey, joining us from the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive tackle Vincent Taylor. Vince, Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 1: Man's great to have you and and you know we
Speaker 1: see around the hotel and at the game warming up.
Speaker 1: It's great to spend some time with you. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we got a bunch of stuff to talk about. And
Speaker 1: before I get to any of your defensive tackle play
Speaker 1: this preseason, what's up with the ability to block kicks
Speaker 1: doing back in college? You know, I think that's what
Speaker 1: it all started. And then last last year I had two.
Speaker 1: I got my hand on two, one being justin Tucking
Speaker 1: and for me to block him yesterday was pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that's got to feel pretty good.
Speaker 1: That huge point actually, and even though it was a
Speaker 1: preseason game, to be able to get that stop for
Speaker 1: the defense no points. You know you said this preseason
Speaker 1: for me to all that count, you know, because I
Speaker 1: feel like if you're doing the preseason is gonna roll
Speaker 1: over to the regular seas. Uh. If there's one guy,
Speaker 1: it's been clearly better since last year. And the way
Speaker 1: you've played, whether you're playing with the ones, twos, two ways,
Speaker 1: two bees, whatever it is. Uh, your motors running like
Speaker 1: I've never seen before. Just talk about your motivation and
Speaker 1: where you've played this preseason. I think I've been doing
Speaker 1: pretty good. But there's a lot of things for me
Speaker 1: to work on and keep getting better. You know, my
Speaker 1: mind set is to always make a play when I'm
Speaker 1: on to feel I think I feel better this year
Speaker 1: than last year, just knowing that last year I called
Speaker 1: myself thinking more. I was afraid to make a mistake.
Speaker 1: But now when I make a mistake, I just go
Speaker 1: go to the next player. You know, I remember last
Speaker 1: year making a mistake. You know, if I had one
Speaker 1: bad play in the game, my whole game was because
Speaker 1: that's all I was thinking about. I know, when I
Speaker 1: got in the film film last year, I know coach
Speaker 1: was gonna be on me. But now I just learned
Speaker 1: that it is all part of the games, part of
Speaker 1: the game making mistakes. So now I don't I don't
Speaker 1: feel myself thinking as much as I did last year.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what your motor and I always like
Speaker 1: to ask guys from college to the pro what's changed
Speaker 1: about you? Because one thing I've noticed about all you guys, man,
Speaker 1: you guys are running to the football. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: like that. You know, he's a big believer in that,
Speaker 1: you know, with the defensive lines, in the tempo and
Speaker 1: like he said, man, we give him three hard plays.
Speaker 1: We got you're gonna send somebody in there for us
Speaker 1: to get him. And with that, I think everybody, not
Speaker 1: just myself, but everybody on the line. You know, if
Speaker 1: you've got somebody coming in the pick up where you
Speaker 1: left off, you don't have no choice but to give
Speaker 1: it all. Yeah, are you okay with the rotation? We
Speaker 1: get so caught up in the media. I'm trying not to.
Speaker 1: But who starts in, who plays, and everybody's playing right now?
Speaker 1: Is that the most important thing or how do you
Speaker 1: look at it? Like you just mentioned, that's the most
Speaker 1: important that you know, nobody remember I started. You know,
Speaker 1: most people like coach christ mention the day. You know,
Speaker 1: if we're stronger as a unit, you know, that's what
Speaker 1: people don't notice, like the weakest link. So we all
Speaker 1: got to just be strong. And like I mentioned, it
Speaker 1: don't matter who start, we all getting in their road
Speaker 1: taking picking up with the next guy left off. What
Speaker 1: have you worked on the most since you since you
Speaker 1: got here, especially this offseason. I probably see my footwork,
Speaker 1: you know, last year coming in my footwork was pretty
Speaker 1: bad and looking at it right now, you know it's
Speaker 1: way better than it was last year. So my foot work, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's better this year than it was last year. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to ask you. You and got you are
Speaker 1: always together, got chawer, got ya what are you call
Speaker 1: call the Hey? The great thing about him, no matter
Speaker 1: what you called me, never corrects anybody, you know, So
Speaker 1: we mean, I know his name is got Chold, but
Speaker 1: for me, I'm just so used to saying guy chill
Speaker 1: that just you know, I called got you out all
Speaker 1: last year and then the guys here calm got you
Speaker 1: and I said, well, whatever it is. A man always
Speaker 1: answers to everybody, So yeah, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: But YouTube tighter and what's forget? You guys always together always,
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, we're gonna be together right after this
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, you know, go to Hopeful. You
Speaker 1: know he that he agreed with mass and now he won,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna be together again. So you guys room
Speaker 1: together on the road, separate at home or are you
Speaker 1: guys got your own places? Her? You know when we
Speaker 1: have to stay in the hotel, me and him his
Speaker 1: roommates on and off the road. Yeah, we're pretty familiar
Speaker 1: with each other. It's uh, it's been a great relationship.
Speaker 1: Ive seen you guys at high school football games. By
Speaker 1: the way, what do you think of the high school
Speaker 1: football down here? Since you've been part of our Friday
Speaker 1: Night high school football big You know, I was in
Speaker 1: the barbershop last week before, I was on the shop
Speaker 1: Friday and a guy I was in there from St.
Speaker 1: Thomas getting a cuttackle. ESPN went at the school, So
Speaker 1: that just go to show you how big football it
Speaker 1: is out here. I think they just had a game
Speaker 1: Saturday night with esp in there, so that was big
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah. All right, let's get into some stuff
Speaker 1: from this preseason. Some people concern you guys have been
Speaker 1: giving up a lot of yards. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: just the ones, are not just the twos or the
Speaker 1: two a's or two bees as a group. Can that
Speaker 1: stuff all be fixed or should should there be a
Speaker 1: little concern here in South Florida. No, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: it could be fixing. That's why it's called preseason. You know,
Speaker 1: give us chances, uh the show what we need to
Speaker 1: work on. That's why we watch films and like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: this preseason, but you know when the season start, when
Speaker 1: we play Tennessee, you know we gotta have our big
Speaker 1: boy pants on because you know, they're a team would
Speaker 1: like to run the ball out here. But I think
Speaker 1: if everybody on board, I think coach Chris and Burke,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a ready to play. Yeah. Uh. People
Speaker 1: always ask me, is it because the tackle? You know,
Speaker 1: tackles anytime they're running, tackles get blamed for everything, right,
Speaker 1: so so they're defensive tackles. I try to tell p listen, man, linebackers,
Speaker 1: gotta it's a group, it's a family. It's it's a
Speaker 1: family of seven when on the run. Sometimes even safety
Speaker 1: is coming up. You feel that way too. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know you gotta work together, you know, uh not, we
Speaker 1: a't gonna just put it on each other. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody do their job and then run get stop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's just a matter is it technique for you
Speaker 1: guys taking a lot of double teams? I see the
Speaker 1: double teams? What what is it? Mostly not taking a side?
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, it's all working together. You know, we
Speaker 1: get double that freedom lineback up to make a play.
Speaker 1: If they come off the double in the detagle make
Speaker 1: the play. So it is all working. We've seen cutback runs.
Speaker 1: I know that can be fixed once the season starts. Guys,
Speaker 1: pinching down and stuff. But we have seen a lot
Speaker 1: of cutback runs have some success. What is that? Mostly
Speaker 1: like the day you know, on some of them it
Speaker 1: was one thing a black that we didn't see in practice,
Speaker 1: so they kind of hear that's what that and was
Speaker 1: able to bounce the ball back. But like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's all about fish. You know, everybody have a gap
Speaker 1: that they're responsible for it. And if you're in that
Speaker 1: gap to ballship running, you seem you look bigger. Are
Speaker 1: you a little bit bigger than you were when you
Speaker 1: got here? Yeah? I think my body fat is pretty
Speaker 1: much down. You know, I came in here, my body
Speaker 1: fat was pretty good, but now when we checked back
Speaker 1: in it was down. So I'm finna good. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can say, um, life ain't bad over here. This best
Speaker 1: of food has been as a guy that's been here
Speaker 1: for the good food and bad food. And I go
Speaker 1: back in the eighties when when the food was really that,
Speaker 1: it was called dorm food. You've been in that dorm
Speaker 1: thing where you guys are now though this pretty good
Speaker 1: chefs in that like mentioned, when he can't talk to us,
Speaker 1: you know, he got a chance to eat in You
Speaker 1: ever find you know, foods good. Now. See it used
Speaker 1: to be sex for me. Now it's mostly food as
Speaker 1: as I got older. I know. Wow, I never thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that, but you know it's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know the food is good if you can leave
Speaker 1: and the guys go, hey, you want to go grab
Speaker 1: a bite to eat, and instead you guys are going, hey,
Speaker 1: let's grab it by here before we go, right, that's
Speaker 1: what we get breakfast here, so I wouldn't pass it. Hey, listen, Vince,
Speaker 1: have been great, man. I really appreciate you spending some
Speaker 1: time with us. Vincent Taylor, defensive tackle of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: You're gonna play a lot in this fourth preseason game
Speaker 1: coming up. Sure, yet, I'm pretty sure the coaches that
Speaker 1: have something that you know what I respect, I respect
Speaker 1: no matter who you play with. You were you're going hard.
Speaker 1: I think people, you know, like, instead of going, oh man,
Speaker 1: man it, you're going let's roll it all right man?
Speaker 1: There you go. You never know, Bevince, thank you man,
Speaker 1: good stuff. They're nice to have him. Hey, all part
Speaker 1: of the audible. Man. It's always fun and uh, we
Speaker 1: got a lot more stuff. One more preseason game coming up.
Speaker 1: That'll do it. Have a great day. Everybody