WEBVTT - Drive Time: Jaelan Phillips and Braxton Berrios Preview DCC Weekend 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.920 What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.800 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's episode, 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.119 a reprieve from the positional Capsules, We're gonna take a 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.960 look at the Bobby Slowick hiring and what that means 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:24.560 for the Dolphins offensive staff. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:25.959 Plus, I caught up. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.160 With two members of the Board of Advisors for the 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.960 DC see the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, Braxton Barrios and Jaln Phillips. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.279 They will both join me on the show. Also from 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.080 last night's episode of Dolphins HQ. Plus, I want to 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.200 end the show with a monologue I wrote regarding local 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.959 coverage of your favorite football team from the Baptist Health 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.240 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.880 Draft Time Podcast, Ye Daffy. We're gonna kick this off 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.360 with the news that kind of was the big news 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.320 of the week for your Miami Dolphins and the hiring 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.800 of Bobby Slowick as the pass game coordinator here on 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.160 Mike McDaniel's offensive staff. And he spent the last two 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.679 years as the offensive coordinator for the Houston Texans. Prior 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.080 to that, he was the passing game coordinator for the 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.000 forty nine Ers, a promotion he earned after being a 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.920 defensive quality control coach to offensive assistant, to pass game 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.400 specialist up to that pass game coordinator there for the 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:23.440 forty nine ers. So he was there from twenty seventeen 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.320 to twenty twenty two, spent five years there with Mike 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.679 McDaniel on staff, and was a defensive assistant with the 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:33.520 Washington football team from eleven to thirteen, coinciding with Mike 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.680 McDaniel's time there, along with Kyle shanahan in Washington. The 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.199 first thing that jumps out to me is the cross 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.920 training on the other side of the football. Look, these 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.520 guys aren't oblivious to the other side of the football right. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.680 In fact, most coaches will take it as a slight 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.920 if you call them offensive or defensive minded. I remember 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.520 Brian Flores when he would be told by a member 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.440 of the press that you were a defensive minded coach. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.560 He would take quite exception with that. They are football coaches. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.200 Now that said, approaching it from the perspective of here's 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.760 how we present it, here's how you've attacked it. Now, 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.760 here's how we adjust, and you're going to have to 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.919 come up with the adjustment to that. I think there's 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.000 a lot of value in that with having those eyes 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.360 and those perspective in those defensive meetings over you know, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.680 the course of a few years. I think the value 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.720 of this higher in general is pretty significant because it 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.960 adds another voice, another perspective, another collection of experiences to 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.400 those game plan meetings over you know, a handful of years. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.840 The intricacies of how things get installed. You know, you 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.080 watch the opposition, you see where they're strong, where you 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.160 should avoid, but you mostly watch to find out where 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.600 they're weak, where they can be exploited, and you try 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.760 to attack that you know, vulnerability in that defense relentlessly 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.040 until they adjust, and then you have your plan to 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.240 adjust to the adjustment. It's all about evolving and being 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:52.200 one step ahead. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:52.640 You know. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.760 You get your input in those weekly meetings for the 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.359 early down stuff on like a Tuesday. Then you get 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.600 into your red zone, your third down, your two minute 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.680 package on Thursday and Friday. It's a whole process with 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.400 multiple guys working day and night every night to get 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.720 that game plan, that three hour mission statement for Sunday, 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.840 ready for primetime, ready to rock and roll. And in 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.440 both the case of Mike McDaniel and Bobby Slowick, you know, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.880 the Texans offense last year really petered out in a 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.560 bad way for most of the year, but especially down 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.959 the stretch. They were a five to one football team 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.680 who kind of fell off after that and just could 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.960 not find their offensive identity beyond you know, those first 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.480 five wins they got and kind of limped their way 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.320 into the postseason and a bad division. And if you 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.360 look at you know what beat riders or film watchers 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.680 or generally evaluators, they tend to put it on what 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.520 the offensive construction was, and there was just a little, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.400 just too small amount of imagination to adjust and adapt 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.520 for things for how the defenses would adjust them and 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.360 turn to what was a high powered offense in twenty 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:55.880 twenty three. 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:57.400 Does that sound familiar? 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.400 I mean, I think it's been better here in terms 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.600 of not being totally stagnant down the stretch like Houston was. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.560 But we've run into similar issues the last few years, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.440 especially in twenty two in twenty three when it kind 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.280 of felt like things got sort of figured out down 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.520 the stretch of those two seasons. So now we have 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.200 another mind that knows the system for over a decade, 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.200 a guy that has called plays within this system has 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.960 coached a quarterback with very similar skills to Tua and C. J. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:30.680 Stroud in terms of the process, the anticipation, the accuracy. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.320 Has coached on the defensive side against this system in 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.840 practice every day. I think that extra arm of collaboration 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:42.960 allows you to hopefully stave off stagnation down the stretch 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:43.720 of the season. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:45.159 So that's the hope that I have there. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.200 And man, you look across this entire Dolphin staff, there's 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.800 rock stars all up and down it. I mean, Frank Smith, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.599 Anthony Weaver, and Bobby Slowick have all within the last 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.240 thirteen months of the calendar interviewed for head coaching jobs 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:00.719 the NFL. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.840 That I mean, you know this. You followed this team 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.040 for as long as I have. That doesn't happen. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.560 We have never had assistant coaches really be the apple 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.400 of other teams eyes. Darryl Bevell is about as respected 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.279 as you can be in terms of an assistant coach, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.240 and he's been an offensive coordinator for Juggernaut offenses, has 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.120 coached Hall of Fame quarterbacks like he's a dude. Eric 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.400 Studisville has been an interim head coach. He's kind of 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.279 the og on the staff here. Him and John Embry, 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.880 someone that John U. Smith has raved about. We all 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.320 know what Butcher Berry brings. Austin Clark's defensive line plays 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.720 awesome every single year since he got here and has 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:41.280 survived multiple coaching changes in that process. Bobby's brother, Ryan Slowock, 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.800 was such a rock start outside linebackers coach that when 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.680 they got Ryan Crow in the building, who took DC 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.840 interviews this year, which shows you his competence, they wanted 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.760 to keep Slowik on staff, so they found a new 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.200 position for him because I think that highly of him. 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.599 Joe Berry years as a DC in Green Bay and 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.760 even more productive years the linebackers coach across the NFL. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.520 Matthew Arugo a rising star in the coaching ranks. I 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.720 don't think it's far fetch to say one of the 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.680 best things that Mike McDaniel has done in Miami is 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.799 build a really good coaching staff full of name brand 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.600 guys that want to work with him. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.080 There's a lot of value in that. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.960 When you're an attractive destination, you become that for players 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.120 as well. And the conversation about you know, not being 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.479 a pick me franchise, where we get these guys in 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.480 here and kind of let them, you know, rule the roost. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.479 That's a separate conversation, but in terms of attracting the 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.760 big name, there's a lot of value in that. And 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.599 coach has always been one that's say, master of delegation, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.560 empowering his coaches to do what they were hired to do. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.000 And you have to be able to do that. You 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.880 have to be able to be freed up to handle 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.040 the day to day stuff, the day to day operations, 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.839 the administrative stuff that's just never going to fall on 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.160 an assistant coach, but it becomes your daily reality as 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.040 the head coach. And we've heard, you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.279 has talked about this. Eric Rowe did a podcast recently 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.159 talking about this where with Brian Flores they felt he 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.640 kind of lost the thread and the trust of his 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.400 coaching staff and became way too involved with his input, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.600 not just on the defense, where his specialty lies, but 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.760 on the other side of the ball offensively and basically 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.160 reduces the value of your coaches and pulls you away 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.600 from admin stuff, which is how you get a culture 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.000 where guys are afraid to approach anybody and speak their mind. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.680 So there was, you know, issues with that approach I 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.880 think McDaniel's ability to delegate out to a much more 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.840 qualified coaching staff has a lot of value as well. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.480 So with all of that in mind, getting another and 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.680 this maybe is too strong of a term, but kind 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.680 of a powerhouse mind. You know, there's not probably ten 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.840 people on the planet who know the Shanahan system better 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.400 in terms of experiences and calling it from a play 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.640 caller standpoint than Bobby Slowick within this system. Back with 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.320 a guy that turned his knowledge of this system into 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.560 a head coaching job in Mike McDaniel. Again, I go 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.160 back to this term. I think there is immense value 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.920 to that. Now with slowx' timex's offenses, I want to 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.360 look at how it compared to what we did from 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.440 a personnel and design standpoint, and the personnel breakdowns here 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.640 for the Dolphins in twenty twenty four, we ran eleven personnel, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:14.520 the most in vogue personnel grouping in the NFL, three receivers, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.200 one back, one tight end just thirty eight percent of 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.480 the time, and we had two backs into the game 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.160 where you bring alec Ingold in for a third receiver, 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.320 so it's two backs, one tight end, two receivers. We 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.840 ran that thirty percent of the time the twelve personnel grouping, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.800 which is two tight ends, two receivers, one back twenty 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.120 one percent of the time. So we have one of 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.600 the more unique disparities in terms of how we deploy 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.640 our offense. There's you know, some twenty two personnel, some 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.360 thirteen personnel, and I look at how the Texans did 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.920 things last year, sixty two percent eleven personnel, so more 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:48.600 than or almost double what we ran thirty two percent 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.120 twelve personnel, which is right in line with what we did. 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.360 And then they ran some thirteen personnel. They didn't roster 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.720 a full back, so it was a very small amount 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.559 of two back sets for them and a heavy emphasis 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.000 on eleven personnel compared to us spreading more of those 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.720 snaps to running backs and fullbacks. And you look at 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.480 the construction of the roster. I mean, it makes perfect 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.559 sense because they had Stefan Diggs, Nico Collins, Tank Dell, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 and John Metchi. I too would want to get those 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.040 guys on the field as much as possible. They did, however, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.000 get rookie tight end Caged Dover up to speed so 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.120 much so that he played four hundred STAPs on the 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.640 season and got rolling down the stretch, and he was 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.080 actually a pretty big absence in their offense in the 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.440 game against US because he had an append deck to 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.760 me the night before the game. I mean, one third 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.720 of their snaps were in twelve personnel, and that coincides 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.040 with you guessed it, Stefan Diggs getting hurt in October 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:42.200 and that personnel disparity really changing drastically, then totally changing 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.280 towards more tight end usage when Tank Dell got hurt 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.640 in week sixteen, And if you go back to twenty 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.520 twenty three in Miami was forty five percent eleven personnel 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.440 down to just eight percent twelve personnel forty two percent 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.560 twenty one, And it's a similar trend for the Texans 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.360 as well. They were a sixty percent eleven personnel team. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.600 They were down to eleven percent from their twelve personnel groupings. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.120 And both of those stats are like a three hundred 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.360 percent increase for either time from their use of two 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.599 tight end packages. They went from two back personnel in 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:14.200 twenty twenty three with a little bit of a fullback 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.520 end there to almost none and all on twenty twenty four. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.679 We also went from thirteen personnel not being a package. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.720 We ran to three percent last year. Not a crazy jump, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.559 but you know, from nothing to something at all is noteworthy. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.320 So what does all of this mean. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.800 The good news for us is, you know our Week 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.959 one opponent, whoever that might be, they're not going to 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.839 get to know. Nobody's going to get to know until 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.800 September eighth, whenever that opening game will be. But I 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.960 think it means you just added another collection of experiences 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.880 within the scheme, someone who has seen different evolutions of 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.160 how it functions, how the league has sort of adjusted 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.880 from a defensive perspective to the most in vogue offensive 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.920 attack that at first was like we don't know how 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.000 to stop this thing, to now there kind of is 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.720 a blueprint to stop it. And now the best coaches 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.560 from that wing that you know this system are going 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.040 to have to come up with the next wrinkle, the 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.960 next adjustment to put defenses back on their back foot. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:08.560 And to me, a lot of that is just a 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.360 power running game, which the Packers have shown you, the 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.480 Rams have shown you. The Nyers and Dolphins gonna have 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.400 to catch up to that mentality here soon. I think 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.440 I just think there's a lot of value of someone 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.760 you've known for decades, someone you've worked with for a 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.720 long time, because that trust develops and is so integl 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.080 in this position and someone to say, hey, you know, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.839 I don't think that's the best way to do it. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.319 What if we did it this way? Because even having. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.400 Those conversations, those pushbacks, those hey man, like we can 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.240 do better than that. It allows you to see, like 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.840 the crystal ball into the future. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:40.079 Right. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.440 The more eyes you have, the more anticipatory you can be. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.960 Like if this were chess, you try and anticipate what 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.960 the opponent will do next. Another set of eyes with 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.280 those similar experiences with this system will say, hey, if 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.880 they show quarters and then they invert it and use 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.320 this rush game up front, like what if we do this? 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.319 Like they're prepared for more angles of attack of butotential 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.439 problems and give you more potential solutions to those problems. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:04.080 So I love it. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.840 This coaching staff, I think is a strength of this 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.480 football team. And to put a bow on it, you know, 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.400 think about the different backgrounds on the offensive staff and 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.199 where they came from in their coaching careers to get 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.400 to this position. McDaniel was a run game cordator in 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.360 San Francisco for years. SLOWK was a pass game cordator. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.120 His background steeped in that Frank Smith has an offensive 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.920 line background and Darryl Bevell has one of the best 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.760 quarterback track record backgrounds in the entire history of the 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.600 National Footballleague. So you're getting this collaborative effort from guys 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.320 that have risen to the top of the profession through 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.120 their achievements and all having different perspectives in terms of 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.240 their area of specialized expertise. That's by Bobby Slowik take 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.040 Let's go ahead and take our first break rate there. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.520 Come back on the other side. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.960 I caught up with Braxton Barrios and Jalen Phillips as 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.960 they are members of the Board of Advisors for the 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.960 Dolphins Cancer Challenge coming up on February twenty second. We'll 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.600 talk to those guys next Draft Time podcast. Your host 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:07.000 Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation. What's Up, Dolphins, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.480 Welcome back to another edition of Dolphins HQ. I've got 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.760 a couple of special guests to be here today, the 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.040 Board of Advisors for the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, Jalen Phillips. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:15.400 Brax and Burials. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.199 I'll go ahead and start with you, JP Man, It's 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.560 been a while since I seen you and talk to you. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.439 Just how's things going, how's the rehab process going? 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.319 Just how you've been man, Yeah, good to see the Travis. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.480 It's been great so far. Just taking it week by week, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.560 day by day. Feeling great though, back running on the field, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.000 just getting my strengthen. And you know, luckily I have 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.320 my guy braxing here with me to give me some 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.719 moral support, you know, a little competition with each other. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.480 So uh yeah, it's been great. 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.160 Yeah, yeah, absolutely no, it's it's nice having having a 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.480 counterpart here. We're like two weeks apart in the whole process, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:46.520 so it's nice because. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:47.160 We uh we do. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.160 We're competitive human beings and we push each other. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:51.000 So yeah, it's been fun. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.720 So you guys have both been in the South Wordera 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.520 community for longer than your pro careers. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.400 You both played your football, your college ball with you. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.240 My question is is how important is the South Florida 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.160 community when you consider the fact that you have so 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:02.480 much time. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:03.640 I'll go ahead and start with you, Brax and you 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:04.680 can kick us off on that one. 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:05.599 Yeah. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.360 Yeah, coming here and well my dad's from Miami, so 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.600 I grew up kind of coming here a decent amount, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.920 and then obviously being here since twenty fourteen is when 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.960 I enrolled at Miami January twenty fourteen. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.840 It's you know, it's a long time. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.360 I mean, this is I tell everybody I'm from North Carolina, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.320 but this is my home now. You know, I have 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.080 roots here, I have a home base here, and so 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.480 you know, during this last I guess over ten years now, 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.480 you know, really made so many bonds and connections and 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.960 hopefully impact in the South Florida community. And it's really 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.440 important for me to try to get back in any way, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.640 shape or form that I can, and obviously d c 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.240 C is the perfect way to do that. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.400 Yeah, how about you JP, because you've been on the 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.000 chair for three years now and you again we're here 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.200 with the University of Miami as well. So did you 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.160 were you aware of DCC back in your college days 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.920 and if so, how have you seen it kind of 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:54.840 grow and evolve from that time? 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.760 Yeah? So I didn't find out about DCC, and so 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.800 I joined the Dolphins and Matt Collins was the was 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.560 the board member back then, and he and I we 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.200 trained a lot in mac is you know, a psychopath 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.240 on comes of training, so he was like come through 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:09.680 the one hundred mile bike ride of me, and so 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.120 I was like, all right, it sounds good, sounds like 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.400 a challenge. So after doing the ride, being around DCC, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.200 seeing the incredible community support that's around it, the thousands 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.320 of riders, all the people coming and just supporting, you know, 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:22.720 it was kind of a no brainer for me to 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.840 get involved with DCC in any way that I could, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.760 and they asked me to be a board member, and 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.520 it was honestly a really easy decision because cancer research 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.040 to me is very important because I've personally had several 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.880 family members and friends affected by cancer and frankly, everybody 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.120 that you know probably does know somebody. So I think 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.200 it's a really important thing. And what DCC does is 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.040 incredible and the biggest fundraising initiative in the NFL. We've 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.560 done a lot of fundraising and reached a lot of 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.640 people through through our efforts. So yeah, it's been amazing 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.560 so far, and looking to continue doing this. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.480 How has the experience kind of reshaped in your the 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.280 way you see it over the course of the three 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.640 years of being on the board, I think that. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:01.200 Is just growing. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.080 Honestly, Like the first year I did it, it was a 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:04.920 big event. Obviously a lot of hype around it. But 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.880 these last two years, you can tell that whether it's 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.080 the board, or whether it's other Dolphins staff or DCC stafford, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.160 just community figures are really coming together to push DCC 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.720 because I think people are starting to realize how really 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.200 incredible it is and how amazing an initiative it is. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.160 So obviously impacts Jalen. Impacts impacts everybody, right, this absolutely does. 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.680 This is your first year being asked and they come 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.240 to you and they ask you, right, So I'm curious 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.120 what that moment's like and how easy. 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:30.080 But yes it was for you. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.080 Oh it's a very easy Yes, No, it's a it's 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:36.360 a really cool honor. Obviously I started getting involved last year, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.920 so my first year here with the Dolphins, went to 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:40.760 a few of the events, a few of the meetings, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.040 and you know, just again learning learning about what they do, 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.040 who they help, how they go about it, you know, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:51.080 who benefits. And again seeing the tight knit community and 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.840 people from obviously all walks of life a being affected 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.320 by it, but be you know, gathering around and supporting 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.320 each other and supporting the initiative. And so I think 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.280 that has been incredible and then when they came to 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.320 me this spring and asked, it was like I said, 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.440 a very easy yes, and you know, really just try 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.600 to dive in and learn all all the details and 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.760 the intricacies of it. And you know, it's really a 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.200 cool honor being on the board and you know, helping 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.840 some raise some money. But I think we're going for 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.120 what fifteen million this year, that's the goal this year. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.800 Yeah, so's it's really cool. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.640 They've hit that goal several years in a row, where 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.399 like it's pretty they do a good job of getting 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:25.119 to what they. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.520 Do, an incredible job. Absolutely. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.239 Do you guys have a chance to collaborate a lot 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.440 together in terms of like being out in the community 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.600 or just in general for the entire DCC. Do you 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.680 collaborate together as a more individual How does that work 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.280 in terms of your guys involvement together. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.639 There's been a few things that we've done together in 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.880 terms of like going to the stadium, doing certain meet 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.560 and greets with the heavy hitters and like different big 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.240 donors and stuff. You know, DCC a lot of the 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.680 initiatives is really the bike ride is the biggest one, right, 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:53.320 so I have you know, my already giving back event 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.800 that's also a fundraiser for that. Braxton was there supporting 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.080 through that, And there's a couple of little small things 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.400 that we do, but the majority of it is really 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.040 just like community outreach and awareness, and so we're both 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.000 present and doing different things at the stadium to bring awareness. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:08.440 But I think in general both of us are super 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.680 active in the community in our own ways and really 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.639 in our own focuses. Obviously, I just launched my foundation, 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.800 so I'm really focusing on giving back to the arts 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:17.720 and the youth. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:19.600 Uh And you know, I don't know, I don't want to. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.199