Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's episode,
Speaker 1: a reprieve from the positional Capsules, We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: look at the Bobby Slowick hiring and what that means
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins offensive staff.
Speaker 2: Plus, I caught up.
Speaker 1: With two members of the Board of Advisors for the
Speaker 1: DC see the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, Braxton Barrios and Jaln Phillips.
Speaker 1: They will both join me on the show. Also from
Speaker 1: last night's episode of Dolphins HQ. Plus, I want to
Speaker 1: end the show with a monologue I wrote regarding local
Speaker 1: coverage of your favorite football team from the Baptist Health
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Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast, Ye Daffy. We're gonna kick this off
Speaker 1: with the news that kind of was the big news
Speaker 1: of the week for your Miami Dolphins and the hiring
Speaker 1: of Bobby Slowick as the pass game coordinator here on
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's offensive staff. And he spent the last two
Speaker 1: years as the offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans. Prior
Speaker 1: to that, he was the passing game coordinator for the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers, a promotion he earned after being a
Speaker 1: defensive quality control coach to offensive assistant, to pass game
Speaker 1: specialist up to that pass game coordinator there for the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. So he was there from twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty two, spent five years there with Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel on staff, and was a defensive assistant with the
Speaker 1: Washington football team from eleven to thirteen, coinciding with Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel's time there, along with Kyle shanahan in Washington. The
Speaker 1: first thing that jumps out to me is the cross
Speaker 1: training on the other side of the football. Look, these
Speaker 1: guys aren't oblivious to the other side of the football right.
Speaker 1: In fact, most coaches will take it as a slight
Speaker 1: if you call them offensive or defensive minded. I remember
Speaker 1: Brian Flores when he would be told by a member
Speaker 1: of the press that you were a defensive minded coach.
Speaker 1: He would take quite exception with that. They are football coaches.
Speaker 1: Now that said, approaching it from the perspective of here's
Speaker 1: how we present it, here's how you've attacked it. Now,
Speaker 1: here's how we adjust, and you're going to have to
Speaker 1: come up with the adjustment to that. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of value in that with having those eyes
Speaker 1: and those perspective in those defensive meetings over you know,
Speaker 1: the course of a few years. I think the value
Speaker 1: of this higher in general is pretty significant because it
Speaker 1: adds another voice, another perspective, another collection of experiences to
Speaker 1: those game plan meetings over you know, a handful of years.
Speaker 1: The intricacies of how things get installed. You know, you
Speaker 1: watch the opposition, you see where they're strong, where you
Speaker 1: should avoid, but you mostly watch to find out where
Speaker 1: they're weak, where they can be exploited, and you try
Speaker 1: to attack that you know, vulnerability in that defense relentlessly
Speaker 1: until they adjust, and then you have your plan to
Speaker 1: adjust to the adjustment. It's all about evolving and being
Speaker 1: one step ahead.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: You get your input in those weekly meetings for the
Speaker 1: early down stuff on like a Tuesday. Then you get
Speaker 1: into your red zone, your third down, your two minute
Speaker 1: package on Thursday and Friday. It's a whole process with
Speaker 1: multiple guys working day and night every night to get
Speaker 1: that game plan, that three hour mission statement for Sunday,
Speaker 1: ready for primetime, ready to rock and roll. And in
Speaker 1: both the case of Mike McDaniel and Bobby Slowick, you know,
Speaker 1: the Texans offense last year really petered out in a
Speaker 1: bad way for most of the year, but especially down
Speaker 1: the stretch. They were a five to one football team
Speaker 1: who kind of fell off after that and just could
Speaker 1: not find their offensive identity beyond you know, those first
Speaker 1: five wins they got and kind of limped their way
Speaker 1: into the postseason and a bad division. And if you
Speaker 1: look at you know what beat riders or film watchers
Speaker 1: or generally evaluators, they tend to put it on what
Speaker 1: the offensive construction was, and there was just a little,
Speaker 1: just too small amount of imagination to adjust and adapt
Speaker 1: for things for how the defenses would adjust them and
Speaker 1: turn to what was a high powered offense in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three.
Speaker 2: Does that sound familiar?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's been better here in terms
Speaker 1: of not being totally stagnant down the stretch like Houston was.
Speaker 1: But we've run into similar issues the last few years,
Speaker 1: especially in twenty two in twenty three when it kind
Speaker 1: of felt like things got sort of figured out down
Speaker 1: the stretch of those two seasons. So now we have
Speaker 1: another mind that knows the system for over a decade,
Speaker 1: a guy that has called plays within this system has
Speaker 1: coached a quarterback with very similar skills to Tua and C. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud in terms of the process, the anticipation, the accuracy.
Speaker 1: Has coached on the defensive side against this system in
Speaker 1: practice every day. I think that extra arm of collaboration
Speaker 1: allows you to hopefully stave off stagnation down the stretch
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: So that's the hope that I have there.
Speaker 1: And man, you look across this entire Dolphin staff, there's
Speaker 1: rock stars all up and down it. I mean, Frank Smith,
Speaker 1: Anthony Weaver, and Bobby Slowick have all within the last
Speaker 1: thirteen months of the calendar interviewed for head coaching jobs
Speaker 1: the NFL.
Speaker 2: That I mean, you know this. You followed this team
Speaker 2: for as long as I have. That doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: We have never had assistant coaches really be the apple
Speaker 1: of other teams eyes. Darryl Bevell is about as respected
Speaker 1: as you can be in terms of an assistant coach,
Speaker 1: and he's been an offensive coordinator for Juggernaut offenses, has
Speaker 1: coached Hall of Fame quarterbacks like he's a dude. Eric
Speaker 1: Studisville has been an interim head coach. He's kind of
Speaker 1: the og on the staff here. Him and John Embry,
Speaker 1: someone that John U. Smith has raved about. We all
Speaker 1: know what Butcher Berry brings. Austin Clark's defensive line plays
Speaker 1: awesome every single year since he got here and has
Speaker 1: survived multiple coaching changes in that process. Bobby's brother, Ryan Slowock,
Speaker 1: was such a rock start outside linebackers coach that when
Speaker 1: they got Ryan Crow in the building, who took DC
Speaker 1: interviews this year, which shows you his competence, they wanted
Speaker 1: to keep Slowik on staff, so they found a new
Speaker 1: position for him because I think that highly of him.
Speaker 1: Joe Berry years as a DC in Green Bay and
Speaker 1: even more productive years the linebackers coach across the NFL.
Speaker 1: Matthew Arugo a rising star in the coaching ranks. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's far fetch to say one of the
Speaker 1: best things that Mike McDaniel has done in Miami is
Speaker 1: build a really good coaching staff full of name brand
Speaker 1: guys that want to work with him.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of value in that.
Speaker 1: When you're an attractive destination, you become that for players
Speaker 1: as well. And the conversation about you know, not being
Speaker 1: a pick me franchise, where we get these guys in
Speaker 1: here and kind of let them, you know, rule the roost.
Speaker 1: That's a separate conversation, but in terms of attracting the
Speaker 1: big name, there's a lot of value in that. And
Speaker 1: coach has always been one that's say, master of delegation,
Speaker 1: empowering his coaches to do what they were hired to do.
Speaker 1: And you have to be able to do that. You
Speaker 1: have to be able to be freed up to handle
Speaker 1: the day to day stuff, the day to day operations,
Speaker 1: the administrative stuff that's just never going to fall on
Speaker 1: an assistant coach, but it becomes your daily reality as
Speaker 1: the head coach. And we've heard, you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: has talked about this. Eric Rowe did a podcast recently
Speaker 1: talking about this where with Brian Flores they felt he
Speaker 1: kind of lost the thread and the trust of his
Speaker 1: coaching staff and became way too involved with his input,
Speaker 1: not just on the defense, where his specialty lies, but
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball offensively and basically
Speaker 1: reduces the value of your coaches and pulls you away
Speaker 1: from admin stuff, which is how you get a culture
Speaker 1: where guys are afraid to approach anybody and speak their mind.
Speaker 1: So there was, you know, issues with that approach I
Speaker 1: think McDaniel's ability to delegate out to a much more
Speaker 1: qualified coaching staff has a lot of value as well.
Speaker 1: So with all of that in mind, getting another and
Speaker 1: this maybe is too strong of a term, but kind
Speaker 1: of a powerhouse mind. You know, there's not probably ten
Speaker 1: people on the planet who know the Shanahan system better
Speaker 1: in terms of experiences and calling it from a play
Speaker 1: caller standpoint than Bobby Slowick within this system. Back with
Speaker 1: a guy that turned his knowledge of this system into
Speaker 1: a head coaching job in Mike McDaniel. Again, I go
Speaker 1: back to this term. I think there is immense value
Speaker 1: to that. Now with slowx' timex's offenses, I want to
Speaker 1: look at how it compared to what we did from
Speaker 1: a personnel and design standpoint, and the personnel breakdowns here
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins in twenty twenty four, we ran eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: the most in vogue personnel grouping in the NFL, three receivers,
Speaker 1: one back, one tight end just thirty eight percent of
Speaker 1: the time, and we had two backs into the game
Speaker 1: where you bring alec Ingold in for a third receiver,
Speaker 1: so it's two backs, one tight end, two receivers. We
Speaker 1: ran that thirty percent of the time the twelve personnel grouping,
Speaker 1: which is two tight ends, two receivers, one back twenty
Speaker 1: one percent of the time. So we have one of
Speaker 1: the more unique disparities in terms of how we deploy
Speaker 1: our offense. There's you know, some twenty two personnel, some
Speaker 1: thirteen personnel, and I look at how the Texans did
Speaker 1: things last year, sixty two percent eleven personnel, so more
Speaker 1: than or almost double what we ran thirty two percent
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, which is right in line with what we did.
Speaker 1: And then they ran some thirteen personnel. They didn't roster
Speaker 1: a full back, so it was a very small amount
Speaker 1: of two back sets for them and a heavy emphasis
Speaker 1: on eleven personnel compared to us spreading more of those
Speaker 1: snaps to running backs and fullbacks. And you look at
Speaker 1: the construction of the roster. I mean, it makes perfect
Speaker 1: sense because they had Stefan Diggs, Nico Collins, Tank Dell,
Speaker 1: and John Metchi. I too would want to get those
Speaker 1: guys on the field as much as possible. They did, however,
Speaker 1: get rookie tight end Caged Dover up to speed so
Speaker 1: much so that he played four hundred STAPs on the
Speaker 1: season and got rolling down the stretch, and he was
Speaker 1: actually a pretty big absence in their offense in the
Speaker 1: game against US because he had an append deck to
Speaker 1: me the night before the game. I mean, one third
Speaker 1: of their snaps were in twelve personnel, and that coincides
Speaker 1: with you guessed it, Stefan Diggs getting hurt in October
Speaker 1: and that personnel disparity really changing drastically, then totally changing
Speaker 1: towards more tight end usage when Tank Dell got hurt
Speaker 1: in week sixteen, And if you go back to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three in Miami was forty five percent eleven personnel
Speaker 1: down to just eight percent twelve personnel forty two percent
Speaker 1: twenty one, And it's a similar trend for the Texans
Speaker 1: as well. They were a sixty percent eleven personnel team.
Speaker 1: They were down to eleven percent from their twelve personnel groupings.
Speaker 1: And both of those stats are like a three hundred
Speaker 1: percent increase for either time from their use of two
Speaker 1: tight end packages. They went from two back personnel in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three with a little bit of a fullback
Speaker 1: end there to almost none and all on twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: We also went from thirteen personnel not being a package.
Speaker 1: We ran to three percent last year. Not a crazy jump,
Speaker 1: but you know, from nothing to something at all is noteworthy.
Speaker 2: So what does all of this mean.
Speaker 1: The good news for us is, you know our Week
Speaker 1: one opponent, whoever that might be, they're not going to
Speaker 1: get to know. Nobody's going to get to know until
Speaker 1: September eighth, whenever that opening game will be. But I
Speaker 1: think it means you just added another collection of experiences
Speaker 1: within the scheme, someone who has seen different evolutions of
Speaker 1: how it functions, how the league has sort of adjusted
Speaker 1: from a defensive perspective to the most in vogue offensive
Speaker 1: attack that at first was like we don't know how
Speaker 1: to stop this thing, to now there kind of is
Speaker 1: a blueprint to stop it. And now the best coaches
Speaker 1: from that wing that you know this system are going
Speaker 1: to have to come up with the next wrinkle, the
Speaker 1: next adjustment to put defenses back on their back foot.
Speaker 1: And to me, a lot of that is just a
Speaker 1: power running game, which the Packers have shown you, the
Speaker 1: Rams have shown you. The Nyers and Dolphins gonna have
Speaker 1: to catch up to that mentality here soon. I think
Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot of value of someone
Speaker 1: you've known for decades, someone you've worked with for a
Speaker 1: long time, because that trust develops and is so integl
Speaker 1: in this position and someone to say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best way to do it.
Speaker 2: What if we did it this way? Because even having.
Speaker 1: Those conversations, those pushbacks, those hey man, like we can
Speaker 1: do better than that. It allows you to see, like
Speaker 1: the crystal ball into the future.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The more eyes you have, the more anticipatory you can be.
Speaker 1: Like if this were chess, you try and anticipate what
Speaker 1: the opponent will do next. Another set of eyes with
Speaker 1: those similar experiences with this system will say, hey, if
Speaker 1: they show quarters and then they invert it and use
Speaker 1: this rush game up front, like what if we do this?
Speaker 1: Like they're prepared for more angles of attack of butotential
Speaker 1: problems and give you more potential solutions to those problems.
Speaker 2: So I love it.
Speaker 1: This coaching staff, I think is a strength of this
Speaker 1: football team. And to put a bow on it, you know,
Speaker 1: think about the different backgrounds on the offensive staff and
Speaker 1: where they came from in their coaching careers to get
Speaker 1: to this position. McDaniel was a run game cordator in
Speaker 1: San Francisco for years. SLOWK was a pass game cordator.
Speaker 1: His background steeped in that Frank Smith has an offensive
Speaker 1: line background and Darryl Bevell has one of the best
Speaker 1: quarterback track record backgrounds in the entire history of the
Speaker 1: National Footballleague. So you're getting this collaborative effort from guys
Speaker 1: that have risen to the top of the profession through
Speaker 1: their achievements and all having different perspectives in terms of
Speaker 1: their area of specialized expertise. That's by Bobby Slowik take
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break rate there.
Speaker 2: Come back on the other side.
Speaker 1: I caught up with Braxton Barrios and Jalen Phillips as
Speaker 1: they are members of the Board of Advisors for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins Cancer Challenge coming up on February twenty second. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to those guys next Draft Time podcast. Your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation. What's Up, Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of Dolphins HQ. I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of special guests to be here today, the
Speaker 1: Board of Advisors for the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 2: Brax and Burials.
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and start with you, JP Man, It's
Speaker 1: been a while since I seen you and talk to you.
Speaker 1: Just how's things going, how's the rehab process going?
Speaker 3: Just how you've been man, Yeah, good to see the Travis.
Speaker 4: It's been great so far. Just taking it week by week,
Speaker 4: day by day. Feeling great though, back running on the field,
Speaker 4: just getting my strengthen. And you know, luckily I have
Speaker 4: my guy braxing here with me to give me some
Speaker 4: moral support, you know, a little competition with each other.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely no, it's it's nice having having a
Speaker 5: counterpart here. We're like two weeks apart in the whole process,
Speaker 5: so it's nice because.
Speaker 3: We uh we do.
Speaker 5: We're competitive human beings and we push each other.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 1: So you guys have both been in the South Wordera
Speaker 1: community for longer than your pro careers.
Speaker 2: You both played your football, your college ball with you.
Speaker 1: My question is is how important is the South Florida
Speaker 1: community when you consider the fact that you have so
Speaker 1: much time.
Speaker 2: I'll go ahead and start with you, Brax and you
Speaker 2: can kick us off on that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, coming here and well my dad's from Miami, so
Speaker 5: I grew up kind of coming here a decent amount,
Speaker 5: and then obviously being here since twenty fourteen is when
Speaker 5: I enrolled at Miami January twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: It's you know, it's a long time.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is I tell everybody I'm from North Carolina,
Speaker 5: but this is my home now. You know, I have
Speaker 5: roots here, I have a home base here, and so
Speaker 5: you know, during this last I guess over ten years now,
Speaker 5: you know, really made so many bonds and connections and
Speaker 5: hopefully impact in the South Florida community. And it's really
Speaker 5: important for me to try to get back in any way,
Speaker 5: shape or form that I can, and obviously d c
Speaker 5: C is the perfect way to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about you JP, because you've been on the
Speaker 1: chair for three years now and you again we're here
Speaker 1: with the University of Miami as well. So did you
Speaker 1: were you aware of DCC back in your college days
Speaker 1: and if so, how have you seen it kind of
Speaker 1: grow and evolve from that time?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So I didn't find out about DCC, and so
Speaker 4: I joined the Dolphins and Matt Collins was the was
Speaker 4: the board member back then, and he and I we
Speaker 4: trained a lot in mac is you know, a psychopath
Speaker 4: on comes of training, so he was like come through
Speaker 4: the one hundred mile bike ride of me, and so
Speaker 4: I was like, all right, it sounds good, sounds like
Speaker 4: a challenge. So after doing the ride, being around DCC,
Speaker 4: seeing the incredible community support that's around it, the thousands
Speaker 4: of riders, all the people coming and just supporting, you know,
Speaker 4: it was kind of a no brainer for me to
Speaker 4: get involved with DCC in any way that I could,
Speaker 4: and they asked me to be a board member, and
Speaker 4: it was honestly a really easy decision because cancer research
Speaker 4: to me is very important because I've personally had several
Speaker 4: family members and friends affected by cancer and frankly, everybody
Speaker 4: that you know probably does know somebody. So I think
Speaker 4: it's a really important thing. And what DCC does is
Speaker 4: incredible and the biggest fundraising initiative in the NFL. We've
Speaker 4: done a lot of fundraising and reached a lot of
Speaker 4: people through through our efforts. So yeah, it's been amazing
Speaker 4: so far, and looking to continue doing this.
Speaker 1: How has the experience kind of reshaped in your the
Speaker 1: way you see it over the course of the three
Speaker 1: years of being on the board, I think that.
Speaker 3: Is just growing.
Speaker 4: Honestly, Like the first year I did it, it was a
Speaker 4: big event. Obviously a lot of hype around it. But
Speaker 4: these last two years, you can tell that whether it's
Speaker 4: the board, or whether it's other Dolphins staff or DCC stafford,
Speaker 4: just community figures are really coming together to push DCC
Speaker 4: because I think people are starting to realize how really
Speaker 4: incredible it is and how amazing an initiative it is.
Speaker 1: So obviously impacts Jalen. Impacts impacts everybody, right, this absolutely does.
Speaker 1: This is your first year being asked and they come
Speaker 1: to you and they ask you, right, So I'm curious
Speaker 1: what that moment's like and how easy.
Speaker 2: But yes it was for you.
Speaker 5: Oh it's a very easy Yes, No, it's a it's
Speaker 5: a really cool honor. Obviously I started getting involved last year,
Speaker 5: so my first year here with the Dolphins, went to
Speaker 5: a few of the events, a few of the meetings,
Speaker 5: and you know, just again learning learning about what they do,
Speaker 5: who they help, how they go about it, you know,
Speaker 5: who benefits. And again seeing the tight knit community and
Speaker 5: people from obviously all walks of life a being affected
Speaker 5: by it, but be you know, gathering around and supporting
Speaker 5: each other and supporting the initiative. And so I think
Speaker 5: that has been incredible and then when they came to
Speaker 5: me this spring and asked, it was like I said,
Speaker 5: a very easy yes, and you know, really just try
Speaker 5: to dive in and learn all all the details and
Speaker 5: the intricacies of it. And you know, it's really a
Speaker 5: cool honor being on the board and you know, helping
Speaker 5: some raise some money. But I think we're going for
Speaker 5: what fifteen million this year, that's the goal this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so's it's really cool.
Speaker 1: They've hit that goal several years in a row, where
Speaker 1: like it's pretty they do a good job of getting
Speaker 1: to what they.
Speaker 3: Do, an incredible job. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have a chance to collaborate a lot
Speaker 1: together in terms of like being out in the community
Speaker 1: or just in general for the entire DCC. Do you
Speaker 1: collaborate together as a more individual How does that work
Speaker 1: in terms of your guys involvement together.
Speaker 4: There's been a few things that we've done together in
Speaker 4: terms of like going to the stadium, doing certain meet
Speaker 4: and greets with the heavy hitters and like different big
Speaker 4: donors and stuff. You know, DCC a lot of the
Speaker 4: initiatives is really the bike ride is the biggest one, right,
Speaker 4: so I have you know, my already giving back event
Speaker 4: that's also a fundraiser for that. Braxton was there supporting
Speaker 4: through that, And there's a couple of little small things
Speaker 4: that we do, but the majority of it is really
Speaker 4: just like community outreach and awareness, and so we're both
Speaker 4: present and doing different things at the stadium to bring awareness.
Speaker 4: But I think in general both of us are super
Speaker 4: active in the community in our own ways and really
Speaker 4: in our own focuses. Obviously, I just launched my foundation,
Speaker 4: so I'm really focusing on giving back to the arts
Speaker 4: and the youth.
Speaker 3: Uh And you know, I don't know, I don't want to.
Speaker 4: Speak for you in your scholarship, right, Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: That's the you thanks shot out.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I think we both are super heavily involved
Speaker 4: in the community in our own different facets, but we
Speaker 4: try to come together as much as we can.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say that burdens the wrong word, but when you do
Speaker 1: have this platform, like it's different when Jalen Phillips or
Speaker 1: Braxonberrys walks into a room for you know, praising awareness
Speaker 1: than it is for if I walk into room and
Speaker 1: I don't have any you know, public fa you have
Speaker 1: this This almost again burns the wrong word, but it's
Speaker 1: incumbent upon you to use that platform for good.
Speaker 2: And so you guys have done a great job of
Speaker 2: doing that.
Speaker 1: Like when you when you come when it comes to
Speaker 1: like raising awareness for an event like that, what does
Speaker 1: it look like for you? You talked about like your involvement,
Speaker 1: What does it look like for you in terms of
Speaker 1: being out public facing and being you know, a big
Speaker 1: face of this huge event we have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I guess it's a couple of different things.
Speaker 5: Obviously going to any and all events that we can,
Speaker 5: whether you know, JP put them on himself, like the
Speaker 5: art of getting back both years I went to whether
Speaker 5: it's the ones at the stadiums, whether it's the one
Speaker 5: at we have coming up next week. I mean, a
Speaker 5: it's just going to all events and speaking about it.
Speaker 5: But I think more so than that, it's using that platform.
Speaker 5: And it is a burden, but like it's not a
Speaker 5: negative connotation of a burden, right, Like we have this
Speaker 5: platform and we should use it for good, you know,
Speaker 5: for for me, you know, when we got the the
Speaker 5: the Taylor Swift tickets, me and my girlfriend, we raised
Speaker 5: over one hundred grand and twenty four hours for the
Speaker 5: Hurricane Heleen victims and sent that out And so it's
Speaker 5: it's a it's a good burden, and it's a burden
Speaker 5: if you use it the right way, it goes a
Speaker 5: long way, obviously, And like I said, outside of the
Speaker 5: events that we have with the dc C, it's about
Speaker 5: using that platform that you know, he has posted on
Speaker 5: his social media a couple of times I have as well,
Speaker 5: choosing that and then also, like you know, when you're
Speaker 5: out in the community, you know, this conversation comes up
Speaker 5: a lot, what do you do outside of football or
Speaker 5: what things are you involved with? And it's being you know,
Speaker 5: a voice of the DCC from there to where you
Speaker 5: can spread awareness. Because I spent four years at the
Speaker 5: University of Miami and you know, I didn't know what
Speaker 5: the DCC was until I got here. So it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's all these like different markets that we know are untapped,
Speaker 5: and how can we go ahead and tap those and
Speaker 5: use it in the right way and get more donors
Speaker 5: and get more people participants in the event.
Speaker 1: And that's the boot on the ground situation, right, you
Speaker 1: have to be out in the community making that stuff.
Speaker 1: Happen because, like you mentioned the social impact. We know,
Speaker 1: we know you guys are both pretty popular on social media.
Speaker 1: How have you used that to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: to facilitate awareness for this for the dcc JP, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, using social media just as a platform to spread
Speaker 4: awareness in general. I mean there's not a lot of outlets.
Speaker 4: Obviously media outlets can help us out, but other than that,
Speaker 4: I mean, social media is really the lifeline for our
Speaker 4: society unfortunately, but that's what it is, and so being
Speaker 4: able to utilize that and capitalize off that to push
Speaker 4: out positive things such as this as opposed to just
Speaker 4: you know, normal Internet whatever, gossip and stuff. So that's
Speaker 4: kind of how I try to use my Instagram. Obviously,
Speaker 4: use my platform to show my interest and obviously the
Speaker 4: football side of it, but also to push the community
Speaker 4: efforts because we have you know, one hundred thousand plus
Speaker 4: people following us, and even if a handful of people
Speaker 4: or one hundred people are able to see something and
Speaker 4: take action on that or be affected that in a way,
Speaker 4: I think it's worth it. So I think I definitely
Speaker 4: try to use that to my advantage to you know,
Speaker 4: push us forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah's definitely a beacon of light and what can otherwise
Speaker 1: be a pretty pretty dark play sometimes if you go
Speaker 1: on the wrong social media. But you mentioned the Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift tickets. Do you talk about risk? Can you talk
Speaker 1: more about that and just kind of how you've used
Speaker 1: social media to you know, influence people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's that's a perfect example.
Speaker 5: You know, we got these tickets through the Dolphins, through
Speaker 5: the team because it was that hard rock and you know,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm from North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Obviously western North Carolina.
Speaker 5: A lot of it got wiped out, and so we
Speaker 5: sat there and I was like, what if we, you know,
Speaker 5: made a fundraiser or a giveaway however you want to
Speaker 5: put it that benefits those hurricane victims. And also, you
Speaker 5: know that's called the hottest ticket in town, right the
Speaker 5: hardest ticket is the most expensive to get, I guess
Speaker 5: outside of the super Bowl. And so that you know,
Speaker 5: it came together pretty quickly and we said, all right, perfect,
Speaker 5: let's do it. And like I said, I think it
Speaker 5: was just over twenty four hours we raised over one
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars and then you know, we shut it off,
Speaker 5: gave the tickets away, and uh, you know, the lucky
Speaker 5: Woman actually got to got to go to the to
Speaker 5: the concert.
Speaker 3: So I it's just I mean, I think.
Speaker 5: Examples of that and what we do, Like I said
Speaker 5: again on social media for the dc C, it's like
Speaker 5: using these platforms for good and losing using your own
Speaker 5: platform for good. You know, it goes a long way,
Speaker 5: and it is a burden, but it's a good burden.
Speaker 3: Be half.
Speaker 2: That was the wrong word I used.
Speaker 5: Then you know it's a responsible responsibility obligation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they go there, we go on the right path.
Speaker 1: Now, so this whole thing runs through Sylvester Comprehensive Cancerer.
Speaker 3: I'm curious.
Speaker 1: I'll start with you JP, your relationship with them, and
Speaker 1: just how that has evolved over the time you've spent
Speaker 1: here doing this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I've done a lot of work with Sylvester actually, namely
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago from my Cosmo cleats. So
Speaker 4: two of my cousins are affected with the taxis, a
Speaker 4: autoimmune disorder, and they have a special wing and a
Speaker 4: doctor there who specializes in that, and so I was
Speaker 4: able to do a feature with him to bring awareness
Speaker 4: to that. I mean, obviously partnering with DCC with Alex
Speaker 4: Place Alex place is incredible. What they do at Sylvester.
Speaker 4: People who don't know it's basically a treatment center for
Speaker 4: children that it takes the stale hospital environment so that
Speaker 4: when they're coming in to get their treatment for cancer patients,
Speaker 4: it's fun. They get to play with their friends, they
Speaker 4: get to play video games and toys and different things
Speaker 4: like that. So that's really incredible. Done a lot of
Speaker 4: work with them, toy drives, things like that, and then
Speaker 4: coming up, I'm going to do work with their music
Speaker 4: rehabilitation programmers.
Speaker 3: Music therapy program is really what it is.
Speaker 4: So that's just bringing in basically a mobile studio and
Speaker 4: different artists and people to come in and perform and
Speaker 4: play music for these cancer patients and different patients in Sylvester,
Speaker 4: which is extremely therapeutic and there's a crazy amount of
Speaker 4: research behind the frequencies and how music can heal the body.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm very deeply involved with Sylvester and so
Speaker 4: I love what they do and I love that DCC
Speaker 4: partners with them for this because they're incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: The experience last year with the little guy I forget
Speaker 1: his name, but the one that you brought with you
Speaker 1: to Yeah, that was so cool. A kid get a
Speaker 1: good chance to be a kids like the most important
Speaker 1: thing in the entire world, especially when it comes to
Speaker 1: this stuff.
Speaker 2: So that's that's really special. I apologize for.
Speaker 1: Repeating the question, but same question to you about Sylvester
Speaker 1: in your relationship there.
Speaker 3: You know, obviously it's it's it's growing.
Speaker 5: You know, we would do a lot of visits in college, right,
Speaker 5: like we do a lot of children's hospitals, a lot
Speaker 5: of hospital visits in college to again, like you guys said, like,
Speaker 5: let kids be kids. I don't think many people can
Speaker 5: imagine what it's like for them to spend you know,
Speaker 5: their early years or months.
Speaker 3: At a time in a hospital like that.
Speaker 5: So so that's obviously grown. And as I've gotten to know
Speaker 5: the rest of the board of the DCC, all those
Speaker 5: relationships have grown. And I think it's important to note
Speaker 5: that every single dime that we raise right goes directly
Speaker 5: to Sylvester, so benefits directly all those people, all those
Speaker 5: kids in cancer research. And so it's been really cool
Speaker 5: getting to know them and getting to understand their initiatives
Speaker 5: and again tagging along to everything that I can that
Speaker 5: I'm able to be at because it goes a long way.
Speaker 1: So I JP mentioned it earlier about the impact you know,
Speaker 1: cancer has had on him and his family, but he knows.
Speaker 1: Can we hear your story as well, about the impact
Speaker 1: canswers had.
Speaker 2: On you and your family?
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I've had I've had a lot, sadly, I
Speaker 5: my my uncle died from a brain tumor two and
Speaker 5: a half years ago. I've had multiple people with breast
Speaker 5: cancer mom and aunt. My cousin died at two and
Speaker 5: a half pulmonary bank stenosis. So you know, and the
Speaker 5: list can go on and on and on. And you know, again,
Speaker 5: everybody is touched one way or another by it. And
Speaker 5: you know, unfortunately some of those people have passed away
Speaker 5: and others have have fought through it.
Speaker 3: And you know, I think it's a it's a horrible
Speaker 3: reality that we all face.
Speaker 5: And you know, everybody says you don't have any problems
Speaker 5: in this world, or you have nine nine problems in
Speaker 5: this world, and so you have a health problem, then
Speaker 5: you have one problem.
Speaker 3: And I think it's very true.
Speaker 5: And you know, as much as we can get ahead
Speaker 5: of that, I think is the goal here, because you know,
Speaker 5: being being proactive instead of reactive is obviously the best
Speaker 5: thing to do as far as you know, cancer research
Speaker 5: and everything else goes, you know, find a cure before
Speaker 5: cure is needed. And I think this goes a really,
Speaker 5: really long way, and that's why I think we're both
Speaker 5: so passionate about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm very sorry for your losses off the top there,
Speaker 1: but you guys are doing so much to combat you know,
Speaker 1: all the stuff you just talked about.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and end with this.
Speaker 1: How can the folks get involved with your individual portions
Speaker 1: and help, you know, support this cause?
Speaker 3: Go with you JP?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we both have links on our Instagram pages
Speaker 4: and that we'll be putting out obviously leading up to
Speaker 4: the race, but you can sign up, you can donate
Speaker 4: and come out to support. It's going to be an
Speaker 4: amazing time. February twenty seconds. That's next Saturday, I believe.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'll be riding the thirteen mile this year.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately because of the knee, I can't do the hundred,
Speaker 4: but I'll be back eventually doing the hundred and thirteen
Speaker 4: still something, So we're right, itt.
Speaker 2: Something pretty much close the show. But do you have
Speaker 2: anything else you want to.
Speaker 3: Know that's beat it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: It doesn't matter who you give to or how you give,
Speaker 5: as long as you give. And again, if you want
Speaker 5: to be a participant, please there's a five K. You know,
Speaker 5: any support is obviously welcome. Then appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good stuff.
Speaker 1: And if you have kids, if offstocles you think we're
Speaker 1: going to prevent you from getting out there, put them
Speaker 1: in a stroller, get in the five K, get involved
Speaker 1: however you can.
Speaker 2: It's a big, big deal here.
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, Braxon Burials both Board of Advisors members.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys of time today.
Speaker 1: It was great having you here on Dolphins HQ and
Speaker 1: the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Thanks guys, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Away those guys go fun chat.
Speaker 1: Always good to catch up with both Jealen and Braxton
Speaker 1: as they are obviously both really good dudes. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our last break right there, come
Speaker 1: back on the other side. I'm going to close the
Speaker 1: show with it's a bit of a monologue. A you
Speaker 1: produce the show portion of the podcast here. That's next
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by AutoNation. All right, so I have really tinkered with
Speaker 1: the idea for this segment the former scanning the social
Speaker 1: now we're calling it you produce the show where I
Speaker 1: basically allow Twitter or well it's x or you know,
Speaker 1: blue Sky or Facebook or Instagram, whatever the social media
Speaker 1: platform might be, to dictate what we talk about on
Speaker 1: the show. And I want to first get this disclaimer
Speaker 1: in off the top, because I'm going off of a
Speaker 1: tweet from Barry Jackson, who to me is by far
Speaker 1: the best reporter South Florida has. I think that his hustle,
Speaker 1: his grind, his mentality, the way he asked questions, the
Speaker 1: way he formulates them, the information he gives absence of
Speaker 1: real opinion, you know, conjecture. I think that everything Barry
Speaker 1: does is done the right way. But he had this
Speaker 1: tweet about all the needs the Dolphins have and how
Speaker 1: oh it's you know, it's like this insurmountable offseason ahead
Speaker 1: of them, and I just don't see it that way.
Speaker 1: And I think that a big reason why there's this
Speaker 1: disconnect with that opinion compared to what I believe to
Speaker 1: be reality is that I think when you are ingrained
Speaker 1: in local football discourse and don't have the national perspective
Speaker 1: or a wider perspective, I think it becomes a non
Speaker 1: sequitur because most people that you know this refers to
Speaker 1: are only watching Dolphins games, and then like most of
Speaker 1: the primetime games, which can be a bad indicator of
Speaker 1: how you know, sixteen games throughout the course of a
Speaker 1: week are played and what it looks like in the
Speaker 1: NFL because you're watching the Dolphins, and then what three
Speaker 1: primetime games on top of that, like, you're missing twelve
Speaker 1: of the games across the league. So the control that
Speaker 1: things are often measured against for the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins are past Dolphins teams, and that produces to
Speaker 1: me a poorly replicated version of a take, one that's
Speaker 1: not based on current league trends, but rather the history
Speaker 1: of a singular organization from a pool of thirty two teams.
Speaker 1: I think that's a flawed approach to doing things. And
Speaker 1: I keep seeing the take that Miami has these insurmountable
Speaker 1: needs they're not going to be able to cover. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: what does it look like across the rest of the league.
Speaker 1: There are fourteen teams right now that have less players
Speaker 1: on their roster than the Miami Dolphins do. Because that's
Speaker 1: how the NFL works right now, void years on contracts.
Speaker 1: We're not a thing. You know, I don't know how
Speaker 1: long ago, but five six years ago, and I saw
Speaker 1: the great, you know, the great Chris Coffin had a
Speaker 1: tweet about Howie Roseman and his trend of pushing debt
Speaker 1: down the line to increase their budget, like, there's ways
Speaker 1: to manipulate the cap and the cash flow. And when
Speaker 1: you say they have all these needs, my question is
Speaker 1: relative to what, Because to me, the needs come on
Speaker 1: the interior offensive line, off ball linebacker, tight end, and safety,
Speaker 1: which is literally the four cheapest positions in the NFL,
Speaker 1: sands the running back position. So let's remove emotion and
Speaker 1: just look at the raw data. And what the raw
Speaker 1: data tells me is the median cost for a starting
Speaker 1: guard is four point nine million dollars, or for a
Speaker 1: tight end eight point six million, a safety six point six.
Speaker 1: Your off ball linebacker two is three and a half million.
Speaker 1: If I need a quarterback, the median salary for the
Speaker 1: free agent market is thirty four million dollars. A receiver's
Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars. Number two receivers seven million dollars,
Speaker 1: attackles sixteen and a half million dollars. An edge is
Speaker 1: fifteen point seven million dollars, and those are probably a
Speaker 1: little bit off when you factor in, for instance, all
Speaker 1: the receivers that around rookie deals right now that bring
Speaker 1: that median down because you and I well know, if
Speaker 1: you're going to go sign a wide receiver two, and
Speaker 1: let's call that Chris Godwin, I guess if you are
Speaker 1: a team that has already a receiver one, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get him for seven million bucks. It's going to
Speaker 1: be more like fifteen million bucks. So when I go
Speaker 1: into the off season with the same number of roster
Speaker 1: holes or different variations of roster holes as pretty much
Speaker 1: every other team besides the top five or six clubs
Speaker 1: in the NFL, would I rather have a need of
Speaker 1: four players that constitutes you know, twelve plus six is
Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars or a receiver in a cornerback
Speaker 1: where I now need thirty one million dollars to round
Speaker 1: out those two needs. So two needs can be substantially
Speaker 1: more than four needs, especially when you factor in those
Speaker 1: premium spots are what everyone is trying to find the
Speaker 1: next cheap contract on through the draft. They're trying to
Speaker 1: find the next you know, budget hit and free agency.
Speaker 1: Like that's why listing out eight positions of empty spots
Speaker 1: that you have right now and doom and glooming the
Speaker 1: salary cap as a result of that is just misguided
Speaker 1: because relatively speaking, these are positions that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: cracks at the top players in the draft in the
Speaker 1: first or the third round because of how they traditionally
Speaker 1: have slipped. And we'll see if Miami Bucks they're trying
Speaker 1: to going premium, you know, all the way through the
Speaker 1: first couple of rounds over the last five six years
Speaker 1: before that, it wasn't like that, but it's it's worth,
Speaker 1: you know, considering the recent trends of this Dolphins club,
Speaker 1: and you could get your pickings there. You can get
Speaker 1: your pickings in free agency because it's going to be
Speaker 1: cheaper to go after those positions, especially if you're on
Speaker 1: wave two of those positions. Because if you're in Wave
Speaker 1: two of guard and you're not in the market for
Speaker 1: a Will Freeze, who's probably the best one out there
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, trying to cost control and
Speaker 1: fit your system, that's like twelve million bucks for him,
Speaker 1: but for Will Hernandez it might be like three million
Speaker 1: dollars per year. So if you're in the second wave
Speaker 1: of that market for those positions and you draft those
Speaker 1: positions like, you're almost at an advantage because of the
Speaker 1: field you're playing against and the needs they have for
Speaker 1: other positions. So when you talk about you know, all
Speaker 1: the needs and how this roster shakes up to historical
Speaker 1: data for the Miami Dolphins, that's not the right relativity
Speaker 1: comparing it to other positions, to other teams across the league.
Speaker 1: That's the relative that I'm looking at here, And I
Speaker 1: get it. When the playoff success has been nil for
Speaker 1: a quarter century, doom and gloom will sell and that's
Speaker 1: where the fan base his head is at. I totally
Speaker 1: get it. We are frustrated. I am too, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But you're always like one off season away,
Speaker 1: say for like five teams right like the Saints are
Speaker 1: going to be bad next year, the Raiders, the Titans,
Speaker 1: the Patriots. These are teams that have severe talent deficiencies
Speaker 1: across their roster and at major positions that are more
Speaker 1: than one off season away.
Speaker 2: That's not what Miami. That's not the boat Miami is
Speaker 2: in right now.
Speaker 1: Is that to say they're going to be successful automatically no,
Speaker 1: and the next order of operations is, well, it's the
Speaker 1: same guy that has been here for the drought, that's
Speaker 1: task with doing all this fair to an extent, you
Speaker 1: can certainly pinpoint two thousand and one through twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: as stuff that you can't say was on him, and
Speaker 1: I would actually bring it up to twenty twenty when
Speaker 1: he really kicked into full control. But we've also had
Speaker 1: the best teams we've had since that two thousand and
Speaker 1: two team. We've had a lot of bad luck, but
Speaker 1: the rosters have been good, and I think it's time
Speaker 1: that we you know, they veered off course a little bit,
Speaker 1: got a little bit too aggressive in the approach of
Speaker 1: veteran acquisitions. It's gonna be back to the draft, back
Speaker 1: to development. Let's just see how that goes. Let's see
Speaker 1: how they judiciously spend their couch cushion money. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have to find at the consignment shop. You can find
Speaker 1: gems at different levels of free agency, and then the draft,
Speaker 1: and then just enjoy the football season and see what
Speaker 1: happens next. Doesn't that sound like a lot better than
Speaker 1: four tweets a day about Tua Tongua Biloa and Chris
Speaker 1: career and how much you want to replace those guys.
Speaker 1: That's how I see it. So there you go. I
Speaker 1: wanted to get that point out there. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and close the podcast out right here. We'll be back
Speaker 1: on Monday, I think is the plan with either the
Speaker 1: edges or the corners. I'm not sure exactly where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go just yet, so stay tuned for that. In
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