WEBVTT - Fins Flashback | Dolphins Jets Rivalry with Dick Anderson 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:15.680 Field touchdown, Miami most Water run. What is up, Dolphans 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.000 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:24.640 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.320 each and every day. How's it going everybody? It is Friday. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.600 Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I am your host, 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.320 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.800 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.400 with a trip to the Metal Lands on the Horizon, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.640 We're gonna go way back and get to the origin 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.920 of the Dolphins Jets rivalry with Dick Anderson. Plus, Dick 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.519 will help us pay tribute to his longtime friend and 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.160 safety running mate in the late great Super Bowl seven 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.280 m v P in Jake Scott. All of that more 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:02.040 on this Friday, November edition of the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.840 Time is brought to you by Auto Nation. 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A 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.160 pair of players are questionable and quarterback to a tongue 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.560 Byloa and wide receiver Jachim Grant and Brian Flores also 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.000 said the Dolphins might be able to get Miles gascon 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.840 back off the injured reserve. They will find out, evaluate 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.480 and make a decision over the weekend. For the Jets, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.120 quarterback Sam Donald's going to start the game on Sunday. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.720 He missed the previous three with an injury. And before 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.040 we get to Dick Anderson, here real quick a reminder 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.320 to let you know to check out the preview content 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.320 up on Miami Dolphins dot com as well as Wednesday's 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.600 Drive Time podcast redove deep into the numbers, the scheme, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.800 everything you want to know about the New York Jets 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.320 before this game on Sunday with them and you're Miami Dolphins. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.080 Don't forget to check out John Conjemmi's Three Keys to 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.600 the Game up on Miami Dolphins dot com, as well 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.440 as the Written Element, our weekly feature. Plenty of content 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.400 for you guys on Miami Dolphins dot com and joining 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.600 me now on the Drive Time Podcast is a Dolphins legend, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.040 three time Pro bowler, two time All Pro, two time 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.680 World Champion, member of the nineteen seventies All Decade Team 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.880 in the nineteen seventy three Rookie of the Year, Dick Anderson. Dick, 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.800 welcome in, sir, Thank you very much, very happy to 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.520 have you today. We we always love to start these 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.520 podcasts off with the alumni by asking, and you had 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.480 told me earlier you were going back to your office. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.960 What are you up to these days? Well, I've had 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:02.680 a insurances my first year of playing for the Dolphins, 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.639 and so the players used to give me a hard 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.960 time because I'd be going to my office. And about 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.400 at the end of my career, they didn't give me 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.680 a hard time anymore. They wished they had done the same. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.919 So they actually told that same story on the NFL 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.360 Network America's Game series the NFL Film series about you 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.079 going out to the trunk of your car during practice 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.360 or during meetings or in between breaks, I should say 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.480 where you would go out there and take phone calls. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.360 That that's an accurate depiction. Uh, yeah, that is accurate. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.560 I actually had a car phone in those days. It 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.400 had a cord on it and in a box in 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.800 the back of the of the the trunk that was 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.600 about three ft long and a foot high. And and 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.480 uh so I could sit there and dial numbers. Yeah. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.800 One of the one of the players was walking across 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:51.960 the parking lot when he was a rookie and I'm 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.000 in my pads, sitting in the front seat of my 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.960 car and with talking on a telephone. He took that. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.000 He still reminds me of that. I have so many 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.920 questions here, Dick, because first I'm curious. Uh you had 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.280 to have used like, hey, this is Dick answer for 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.840 the dolphin, like I'm sure you use that in your 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.280 sales pitch, right, you had to live well, you know, 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.760 from my standpoint, if they knew who I was, you know, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.000 I could get to the decision maker quicker. And that 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.320 really and I was in those days. I was selling 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.599 um credit insurance to banks and and automobile dealers throughout 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.960 the state of Florida, And so you know, by the 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.480 second or third year, I was making a whole lot 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.440 more money doing that. I was playing football, But the 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.640 football got me in the door. You can't have one 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:38.359 without the other, right, It's kind of the the the 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.080 unit yang right there. Did did Sula ever get on 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.279 your case for for doing that? Or was he supportive? Like? 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.279 How did that relationship work? As far as having that 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:51.000 second job? Um, I tried not to publicize it at all. Um. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.080 You know, we had Monday's off, and I'd always work 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.000 on Mondays, and you know, when practice got over, I'd 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.280 go back to my office usually just you know, clean 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.839 up things and um. But you know, it was seemingly 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.560 able to to do that, you know, and not to 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.839 make a big deal of it. What was the car 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.400 phone a rarity? Like? Did your teammates have the same 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.479 set up with they bothered you to come use your phone? Like? 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.560 How did that work? No, they really didn't bother me 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.000 to come use the phone. There was one in the 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.159 Actually the reason I was in my car was I 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.080 used to be on the pay phone in the locker 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:27.560 room and Sheila kicked me off of that. There you go, Sheila, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:29.320 she was not gonna have any of that for sure. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.360 That's a that's a great story, right there, A good 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.400 reason we love to have these flashback or the alumni 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.479 here on the Flashback Friday edition of the Draft Time podcast. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:38.000 Let's go ahead and get to the reason we have 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.440 Yawn here for a couple of reasons. Actually, One, it's 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.000 Jets week. We always loved talking about possibly beating the 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.480 New York Jets. But also we lost another legend here 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.800 last week. Dick and Jake Scott, the m v P 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.359 of Super Bowl seven, your teammate safety running mate, you 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.680 know as it were, from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy five. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.640 I'll just kind of give you the floor here first, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.200 Dick and just let you tell us who Jake Scott 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:03.640 was as a foot ballplayer, but also as a man. Well, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.480 Jake Scott was an absolutely great safety. I think he 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:11.600 was All Pro five times and in the big games 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:16.520 he had big plays. Um and so um. You know, 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.560 part of our success was really the fact that Bill 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.760 Arnsberger was our defensive coach and we never questioned a 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.000 defense that he had. UM. And I tell the story 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.800 that Joe Namath every time I see him cusses at me. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.480 He says, you blankly blank, guys, were never where you're 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.919 supposed to be, and bake and I would take a 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.360 false step and then twirl and go back to a 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.200 different place on the field. And you know he had 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.960 the register that in the game that he never left 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.200 me to forget it. But uh, I don't let him 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.000 forget it either. So you guys would kind of like 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.160 bait the quarterback. Then, right, how did that work? As 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.920 far as the way you communicate. You have to have 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.480 a great relationship together to be able to pull that off, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.479 wouldn't you. Well, we were very fortunate to have a 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.760 lot of bright players, and Nick Monacani said, well, we 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.640 made eight mental airs the whole season, And so the 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.320 whole key to a defense is that we had we 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.000 lined up the same no matter whether it was a 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.520 blitz or his own or a man coverage, and so 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.800 the quarterback had to read us on the snap. Um, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:25.560 and if every player was going where they needed to be, Um, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.280 you know, it's a lot easier to cover people. And 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.520 so um, you know, we we played as a team 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.280 that way. Jake and I played that way, UM, And 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.120 that's one of the main reasons for the success we had. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.480 I mean, in seventy two we had a hundred and 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.000 sixty five point scored against us. In seventy three we 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.040 had a hundred and fifty points scored against it. So 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.120 the other team doesn't score, you can't lose. That's how 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.680 it goes, a fun recipe for success and obviously back 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.880 to back world championships there. But I do want to 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.360 get back into the rivalry here between the Dolphins and 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:59.840 the Jets, because on Sunday, Miami travels to New York 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.120 looking to get to seven and four for the current team, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.800 and during your time with you and Jake's got back there, 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.040 the Dolphins were ten and two against those Jets in 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.600 those seasons, and we continue that run of dominance in 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.960 the seventies over the Jets after you guys had left 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.680 as well. Can you help educate fans here? What was 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.840 it about that matchup with the Dolphins and Jets in 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.640 the seventies that made Miami so dominant? Well, I think 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.600 number one, it was the coaches, uh COACHLA and what 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.360 he demanded of you um and then on defense, Bill 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.719 Arnsberger was brilliant and so you know from our standpoint, 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.560 and then we had a lot of bright players. So 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.640 when you don't make mistakes and and you can all 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.079 and you don't have injuries, and we had we lost 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.800 very very few players to injuries in those in those 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.200 five years. And so you know, part of it was 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.360 the fact that we played as a team. We um 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.760 didn't have injuries. Everybody did the job that they needed 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.840 to do. And you know, the coaching was was superb 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.800 and so you know, it sounds kind of simple, but 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:07.160 it it is. Was how we reacted and how we played. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:12.200 And then Jake Scott was a brilliant player and and 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.800 Jake would make great plays on in the big games. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:21.160 I mean, um, remember remember we're playing the championship game 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:27.320 against John Unitus and I had intercepted a past and 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.840 Jake made the first block, knocked the guy sideways and 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.680 and then I had six perfect blocks during during that 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:37.280 run and scored. But those are the kind of games 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:41.080 that you know, Jake and I would would play well. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.800 And and I mean with his two interceptions in one 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.199 Super Bowl and you know two and you know long 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.360 runs and another one. Um, you know, we were we 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.720 were prepared and we had a great team to play 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.880 with us. You know, I find it really commendable how 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.439 how willing you are to pass the buck for credit there, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.280 because you know, in modern football, that's that's kind of 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.640 the coaches speaking, the players speak, right, they're going to 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:06.720 give cred their teammates and say the right things. But 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.360 here we are, you know, some forty fifty years later, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.960 and you're still giving those guys all the credit. Dick. Well, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.559 you know, it's a team, and you know, when you 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.000 don't make mistakes, you're gonna play better. And so the 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.760 other the other thing that's interests me in the game, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.680 we'd make a tackle, you know, and we'd make tackle 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:30.400 by ourselves. And today, you know, when a guys getting tackled, 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.720 he's got six people banging on him, and that's you know, 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.080 there's a couple of differences in the game today. One is, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.280 you know, when they have five and stix receivers going out, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.240 you know, it's it's tougher, much tougher playing his own defense. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.000 And we had basically three receivers going out. So you 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.480 know the game has changed from that standpoint. Um, you know, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.000 the players have certainly gotten bigger. I think our biggest 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.520 player would wage to seventy today. You know, yesterday watching 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:01.040 TV guys with three forty five and know it's it's 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.160 a little bit different game today. Yeah, I think that's 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.280 certainly every And by the fact that you were going 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.319 to the office after practice, I think that would be 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.440 maybe a little bit frowned upon these days. But like 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.560 you said, different eras and it it creates for a 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.240 fun conversation, especially for you know, a younger fan like 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.320 myself who doesn't have that, you know, intimate connection. It's 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.240 always fun to hear your stories about the way the 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.480 game was different. So throughout the other the other side 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.800 it was different. I asked this question to a lot 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.480 of people. I said, I was the third round raft 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.440 choice in nineteen sixty eight. What was my first salary? 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.240 What was it? I want to I want you to guess, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.679 but I'm definitely about to reverse age myself here. I'm 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:45.520 gonna guess, uh, eight thousand. Well, you're about six times 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.079 more than the fifteen that I made. Really rookie of 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.000 the Rookie of the Year, and the next year I 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.480 made seventeen five, So defensive rookie the year making seventeen five, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.520 So you had you had to have a second job. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.840 Then that was really why we were working. You know, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.400 everybody had a summer job, and we didn't have any 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.400 summer practices, so you know, we we'd come when the 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.720 training camp started and we played the season, and we 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.600 a lot of players didn't stay in Miami. They go 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.439 back to home, and so it was a different world 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.720 back then. So you obviously play for the love of 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:19.959 the game. But was there at least tell me there 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.200 was some added perks, Like did you guys get free 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.320 comps at restaurants? Are Like? Did you get that fan fare? 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.440 Were rock stars in South Florida? At least tell me 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.640 there was something else there was help Once we started 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:34.640 winning then certainly, you know, there were there were things 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.720 that people if the people knew you, they'd treat you 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.719 better than if they didn't know yet. So yeah, there 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.040 were there were a lot of advantages, um, not only 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.120 in business, but um, you know, just in living in 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.800 a community when we were when we were particularly winning 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.080 games and winning Super Bowls. I can't believe how far 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:54.640 off I was, Dick. I'm a little bit embarrassed to 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.559 be honest with you at this moment. But yeah, that's 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.200 why we've got exactly that's why I've got you on 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.240 the podcast here, and I've been asking you throughout the 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.199 course of the interview to help us younger fans kind 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.080 of educate us. And I'm curious because you know, I'll 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.560 tell you about the way the rivalry is today. I mean, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.240 for me, when it was Rex Ryan for the Jets 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.839 going up against the Dolphins, those games were always so 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.280 contested and contentious and and so physical and fun to 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.160 watch because we did not like those guys. I'm curious 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.920 from your end back in the seventies and you can 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.520 maybe help us younger fans understand where it all started. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.880 What was it about the Jets and Dolphins rivalry that 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.520 made it so so contentious and maybe maybe what it 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.560 is today. Well, I don't think it was so contentious 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.320 back then, but um, you know we played him in 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.080 those games. You know years you had fewer games in 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.679 our conference. Um, you know, we had two conferences rather 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.120 than three, you know, on both sides, and so we 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.040 played the Jets twice a year every year, and we 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:58.400 played New England Buffalo um and the Jets um two times. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.640 So um, you know, you get in front of him 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:07.160 more more than normal. And with the all the notoriety 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.600 that Joe Namath you know got and he was a 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.080 heck of a player. We ratcheted up as much as 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.679 we could when we when we played the Jets, and 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.920 you know, there were no big fights and there was 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.520 no you know other than we we would win the game. Yeah, 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.960 it's just you know, it's it's a different time frame 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:28.320 right now there there's certainly a lot more um, you know, 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.320 fights and shoving and that sort of thing going on 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:37.160 when I'm watching games today. Um. Then, you know then 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.640 when we played you mentioned Joe dan with a couple 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.280 of times there. How many times did you play against 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.640 him in your career? Do you like a ballpark estimate, 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.840 I want to say, fifteen or sixteen times. So do 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.160 you feel like you kind of had a good beat 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.080 on what he was and what his game was and 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.040 that Jets offense then because you saw him so much 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.920 well and it it actually changed, Um, you know when 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:02.600 when Jake went on and went to Washington and um, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.080 you know we had players leave when Zaki kick and 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.720 Warfield left. You know, the glory years were you know, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.880 seventy one to seventy five and after that with you know, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.280 new players coming in and a new coach coming in. Um, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.120 you know, things changed and we're not the same as 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.200 as those years that we were so successful. Do you 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.840 although we didn't keep it beating the Jets. Yeah, that 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.240 never changed. That never changed. We'll take that every year. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.160 That's like I said, I love I love winning. Beating 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.240 the Jets is the favorite, my favorite day of the year, 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.080 whenever it happened. So all for that, do you have 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:43.000 a favorite Jets game memory? You know, I can't say, 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.800 um that I do. Um, you know, when you play 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.720 fifteen or sixteen games against the same team, Um, you know, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.400 it's it's forty forty fifty years later. You know, they're 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.680 not things that I vividly remember. You know, I remember 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:03.200 playing against Joe, which was was fun. But um, you know, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:07.200 other than that, you know, it's just getting your job 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.200 done and and um, you know, doing what we're supposed 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.200 to do. And I'm sure you have plenty of these, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:13.600 but I also have to ask you, do you have 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:15.960 a favorite Jake Scott memory something that comes to mind 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.400 immediately as something that really stands out, or maybe just 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.200 something that describes who he was, Like, do you have 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.320 a memory about Jake Scott that really helps helps the 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.320 fans understand who he was or maybe you guys relationship, well, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.840 I mean our relationship was very very close in those 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.760 days because of what our job was. I mean, um, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.560 we would kind of we could call he could call 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.880 a defense, and I could move the cornerback and the 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.960 strong linebacker in two different places, UM, and still have 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.920 the same defense. And Jake did that on the week side. 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.640 But we made sure that neither one of us made 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.000 a mistake in work where we were supposed to be. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.080 To start with um, and then on the punt returns 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.640 is an ex ample. UM, Jake was a deep We 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.800 we didn't go to across. We did one one short 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.520 one back. I was a short guy and he was 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.600 the one that was supposed to catch the ball. And 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.600 my my goal was, no one is ever going to 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.360 touch him. The first guy down is not going to 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.480 touch Jake, so he can catch the ball and and 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.560 and return it. And you know, that's kind of relationship 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:29.919 we had of get help, get help and give help. UM. So, 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.320 but Jake was very very bright. I mean he was 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.520 tougher than anybody that you can imagine. Um. You know, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.000 after we finished playing, he would he would kind of 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.720 laugh and said, well, Dick, you you tackled with your shoulders. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.080 I tackled with my head and so he you know, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.080 bang bang into the guy. But we also made the tackle. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.879 One more question here for you, Dick, and you were, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.560 of course eventually inducted into the Dolphins honor role. I 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.720 wanted to ask. I'd like to ask the alumni this 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.440 what that moment is like for both you and your 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.600 fellow Dolphins alumni, because I'm sure it's pretty special when 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.600 one of your friends and teammates, like a Jake Scott 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.359 for instance, gets inducted. But it's got to be another 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.159 animal when it's you out there being a duck in 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.639 front of all those Dolphins stands right well, it is 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.200 And I mean I you know, a lot of players 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.879 played here and then left and went back home or 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.560 went and moved some place eltse and um, I moved here, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:25.640 you know when they drafted being in the nineteen sixty 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.720 eight and I'm still here, um, you know, and so 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.639 uh you know, when you're part of the community and 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.720 you get an award like that to put your name 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.520 up inside the stadium, it's it's pretty special, you know, 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.359 and you know anything better would be uh there in 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.200 in the Hall of fame. But that's you know, that's 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.840 a different story, but it was. You know, it's a 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.159 great time, um, and I can just say it was 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.720 all because of the coaches and the and the teammates. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.240 What a perfect end too, right there. And you know, 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:57.840 it's one of my one of my favorite parts about 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:59.920 being hired by the Dolphins and working here is get 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.439 to talk to legends like yourself, Dick, and and you know, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.000 I grew up watching the highlight reels and all the 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.879 old school footage of NFL films and the Dolphins were 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.480 such a prominent fixture in those seventies and and later 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.080 of course in the ages with Dame Marino two. But 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.639 just it's cool to be able to hear hear your 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.000 guys voice and hear your experience and now to be 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:18.880 a part of it as well in the South Florida community. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.520 Like you mentioned, it's it's very special. So we appreciate 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.680 your time. He played one one career games, you registered 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.280 thirty four interceptions, and in the nineteen seventy two undefeated season, 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:32.600 you scored a twenty on Pro Football References Approximate value 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.760 metric that's a metric that has an average player at seven, 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.800 so you were almost three times an average player in 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:42.600 that season, the Dolphins undefeated season. Just some perspective for 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.760 you there, Dick. I really appreciate your time today, sir, 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.040 Thank you so much, my pleasure. And so there he 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.040 goes Dolphins legend Dick Anderson, and we turned now to 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.399 I don't know I should we call him another Dolphins 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.000 legend himself. He is here on the Dolphins podcast network. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.960 I think that I see the smile on the face 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.800 there might say you like that high praise. But we're 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.919 joined by one member of the fish tank today. He 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.800 is Seth Levitt. Seth, how you doing, man? I'm doing great, Travis. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.120 Post Thanksgiving still is a little hard getting up after 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.760 I had stopped myself last night, but got to spend 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.760 some great time with the family. I hope that you 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.560 did as well, and that everybody who's listening did and 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.479 enjoyed their Thanksgiving as well. Uh. The Dolphins history is 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.920 so rich and so spectacular. Call of me a legend 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.800 is a disservice to all the all the incredible and 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.080 legendary folks that have made this franchise so special. But 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.600 but I appreciate it's very nice to say, well, the 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.720 podcast network has five of us, so I mean, you've 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:40.280 you got one or five chance, I guess to get 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.639 legendary staff. But then again, you got Bocamper out there too, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.080 you got Kim both care for no J mcdonlby and 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.080 then me. So yeah, and that's uh, that's me and 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.360