WEBVTT - Drive Time - Jay Fiedler Flashback 2000 at New England 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:07.240 Practice are al fits Patrick touchdown. What a win for 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:12.600 this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.560 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:21.520 Dolphins Official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.239 every day. How's it going everybody? It is Friday. I 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.080 am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.440 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.080 on today's show, this is the last time you're gonna 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.440 hear from me before we have a mark in the 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.160 win lost column. Because game day is on Sunday. We'll 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.960 have you covered post game, but today we're gonna get 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.960 you the last injury report for Sunday's game, the Keys 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.199 to Victory, and we'll hear from Jay Fiedler as we 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.959 flash it back to two thousand when the Dolphins went 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.080 into New England and took home the a f C 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.560 East Crown. All of that and more on this Friday, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:02.240 September the eleven edition of the Drive Time Podcast, However, 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.600 and as we do every Wednesday Thursday Friday, we're gonna 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.080 start with the injury report on the Drivetime Podcast, and 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.080 it is good news on the Dolphins injury front. Seven 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.560 players listed as full participants in practice on Friday, with 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.080 Clayton Fedgerland the safety listed as limited. He will be 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.840 doubtful for the game, but Mike a Sicki, Xaviing Howard, 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.640 Byron Jones, DeVante Parker, to A Tonga Byloa, Kyle van Noy, 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.520 and Preston Williams all full participants on Friday and are 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.200 expected to play on Sunday For the Patriots. Two players 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.040 listed as out who did not practice on Friday, wide 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.280 receiver Gunner Oshowsky and offensive lineman Yannikuld just four players 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.800 questionable and wide receiver Nakill Harry, tight end Dalton King, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:50.280 linebacker Cash Malawia, defensive lineman Chase Winovic, and two players 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.000 who were listed on Thursday are no longer on the report, 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.920 and receiver Julian Edelman and cornerback Stefon Gilmour will both play. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.600 So that's your injury report heading into Sunday up in Foxborough. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.360 And if you haven't checked it out yet, John Conjemmy's 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.600 three keys are back on Miami Dolphins dot Com. He 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.120 also will have three takeaways on Sunday night. Not gonna 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.560 read the details of the story, you can check it 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.680 out for yourself. But here John talks about being better 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.400 fundamentally for the Patriots game, key aspect of winning that 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.240 game when the turnover margin is key number two, and 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.600 limit unscripted plays from Cam Newton. He talks about any 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.840 time you face a dual threat quarterback like Cam Newton, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.160 you must expect the unexpected. So go check out John 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.680 Conemmis three keys. Go check out my Dolphins and Patriots preview, 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.799 taking a look at all the personnel usage, the snap 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.840 counts from last year, the players they had to replace, 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.760 the key matchups. Tons of good content for you guys 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.760 for this game. Ahead of this game on Sunday up 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.320 on Miami Dolphins dot com. Okay, let's go ahead and 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.920 spend things backwards towards the flashback two thousand season. It 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.799 was the first year the Dolphins were without Dan Marino 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:01.120 as the opening day quarterback since n re his rookie season. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.920 We're gonna talk about the season finale that year up 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.240 in New England a Christmas Eve games sept or December, 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:12.320 rather up in Foxborough, Dolphins win at four on a 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.520 late Olindo mar A field goal. The Dolphins began that 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.280 season red hot out of the Gates beating the Seahawks. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.799 They dropped week two to the Vikings, then whip rip 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.880 off four more wins in a row. After that, lose 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.280 to the Jets on the Monday Night miracle, which we'll 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.560 talk to J about that. I think the one three 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.120 games after that, lost one again to the stinking Jets, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.800 then one two games, lost two more and then one 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.400 in New England to go to eleven and five to 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.200 capture the a f C East. And in that particular game, 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.240 it was a crazy one. We're gonna talk to J 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.720 about the details of how that game ended for you 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.440 longtime Dolphins fans out there. You know, they had to 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.320 win the division twice because they were brought back onto 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.760 the field for the final play of that game. A 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.800 good fourth quarter comeback of Dolphins scored ten points in 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.720 that fourth quarter to close a deficit with a one 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.120 yard Lamar Smith touched on run with four minutes to 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.119 go to tie the game, and then a field goal 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.800 with nine seconds left from forty nine yards from Olindo Mare, 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.320 who avenged a twenty eight yard miss earlier in that half. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.600 And the big difference in the game was the fact 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.280 that Dolphins protected the football didn't turn it over. The 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.040 Patriots turned it over three times in that game. They 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.960 did outgain Miami three hundred forty eight three hundred ten yards, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.720 but the Dolphins out possessed the Patriots thirty five to 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.920 twenty five minutes. On the time of possession third downs, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.440 Dolphins were eight of seventeen, Patriots were four of ten, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.359 so pretty even there. As far as the individual stats, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.960 Lamar Smith just could not get it going on this day. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.760 Twenty carries, twenty six yards, scored two touchdowns. We're gonna 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.359 talk to j about that and kind of how the 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.600 Dolphins had to adapt their approach to offense on that day. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.320 As he threw the ball forty five times, completed thirty 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.120 of them for two hundred and sixty four yards one touchdown, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.680 was sacked a pair of times. And it seems like 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.880 every time you go back to these old school games 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.240 and you look at the box scores, there's Jason Taylor 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.040 with an interception, there's Zack tom Mus with an interception, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.400 and a fumble recovery from Brock Marion on a hell 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.839 of a play from Derek Rodgers who punched the ball 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.320 out of Jermaine Wiggins hands going into the end zone 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.080 really kind of turned the tide of that game. Let's 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.600 go ahead now and get to my guest, Jay Fiedler, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.200 who talks about the Dolphins a f C East clinching 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:21.359 win in New England week seventeen December of two thousand 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.880 and writing Shotgun here on the Drive Time podcast. Is 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.919 Dolphins quarterback from two thousand to two thousand four. He 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.599 won a pair of division titles here in Miami, including 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.479 that epic come from behind when over the Colts in 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.920 the two thousand wild card playoffs. He is Jay Fiedler. Jay, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.680 thank you so much for jumping on with us. Man. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.600 Absolutely good to be here with you. Travis. Well, Jay, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.440 we're gonna talk about the season finale in two thousand, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.320 but first I want to go back to the start 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.520 of the season that year, because we've got Opening Day 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.440 right around the corner here in Miami and that shutout 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.080 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, my hometown Seahawks, and I 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.520 just want to get your thoughts on what it was 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.960 like for you with the opening day nerves or jitter. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.120 Did you have any of that going into that first year, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:04.640 especially your first year of starting here. I was the 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:09.640 quarterback in Miami. Uh. Well, you know, you have your excitement. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.600 I wouldn't call it nerves. Uh. You know, it was 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.719 a long road for me to get to a position 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.279 where I was a full time starting quarterback in the league. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.799 And uh, you know, I granded it out. I worked 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.400 myself up. Uh, you know, from being out of the 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:27.000 league for a couple of years, coming back in Minnesota 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.120 for a year, uh, getting my first start in first 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:35.800 real action uh ninety nine with the with the Jacksonville Jaguars, UM. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.880 And then uh you know, coming into uh to the 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.000 Dolphins and having a chance to to compete for a 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.599 starting job, and you know, going out and being the 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.320 leader uh in the clubhouse basically for for you know, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.400 most of the preseason and going into training camp and uh, 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.120 you know, and then I had a hip injury and 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.480 I don't know what was gonna happen. I had surgery 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.040 on my hope me out for for three weeks right 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.159 in the middle of the preseason. They will come back 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.039 that last preseason game and then uh, and then the 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.880 season started and uh I was out there and it 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.200 was you know, it was exciting. It was you know, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.000 a long journey to get there. You know, but my 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.280 makeup has always been, you know, to be very even keel, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.080 to be very uh you know, focused on on a 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.320 task at hand. And uh uh you know, I felt 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.440 like I was very prepared going into that first game. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.880 So so the nerves you know, really weren't uh you know, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.760 uh weren't there for me. It was more excitement about 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.160 getting out and starting the season. Now, I feel like 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.280 that's got to be just a difference between athletes and 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.640 non athlete because even as a fan, sometimes Jay like, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.360 I'm sitting there an hour before kickoff, like, man, I am, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.960 my stomach is turning over right now, and I'm not 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.920 even going out there to play. And like back in 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:51.800 my day is like a baseball player, friends, I would 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:53.080 get to the to the plate and be like, man, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.160 this is too much for me to handle. So I 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.960 think that maybe there's no doubt. You know, the pregame genners, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.800 you know, they happen for everyone, and you know, the 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.680 there's routines that everyone goes through in the locker room, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.560 and some are more nervous than others, and some have 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.960 to you know, use the facilities a little bit more. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.600 And uh, you know, but I think, you know, the 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.520 guys that go out and know that they're prepared. You know, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.680 once the once the ball is snapped and the game 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.480 starts up, you know, everything else is lost, and uh 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.760 you just go out there and perform and do your duty. Yeah, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.400 that's a good point. I was thinking about the any 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.440 given Sunday, the Willie Beamon, you know, in the locker 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.480 room you mentioned kind of using the facilities a little extra. 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.079 Was there anybody on team that in your time in 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.160 the NFL that kind of had that routine of going 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.760 to the bathroom and getting some stuff out. Uh, not 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.240 that I know of. You know, I wasn't hanging out 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.480 in the bathroom, you know, looking for for people, but 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.400 uh yeah, there were definitely people that went in and out, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.960 you know, more than a few times. So you guys 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.760 get that season opening, when you get the first win 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.360 under your belt, probably really helps calm the nerves. From there, 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.320 the season progresses on and it's one of kind of streaks, 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.160 you know, a bunch of wins and then a lost 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.560 sandwiched in there, and they were stopped twice by I'm 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.079 going to use PC language here, the freaking Jets j 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.679 And you know, as a fan, games can kind of 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.240 linger for days and sometimes even all the way up 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.040 until the next Sunday. But I know that you guys, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.240 as players, have the twenty four hour rule, right, you 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.480 get over a game twenty four hours later. I have 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.600 to imagine that Monday night monstrosity as we'll call it, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.920 had to push past one day of thinking about that game, right, Well, 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.920 that was that wasn't an easy one to get over, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.959 you know. Obviously you know that that that game went 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.440 into about two three in the morning by the time 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.040 that we were done with it and out of the 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.760 stadium and uh, you know on the plane right at home, 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.800 which was an awful plane ride. You know, not only 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.160 you in the middle of the night, you know, going 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:54.120 into the next morning exhausted, uh from it, but you know, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.920 you just lost a heartbreaking game and uh um you know, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.640 but like you said, you know, we were all pre fessionals. Uh, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.240 it was a tough one to get past. But you know, 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.920 we took the next day off. Um. You know, obviously 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.720 certain people went in and got uh uh you know, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.040 some treatment and workouts and and just recovery day. But 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.840 you know, by the time we got back to work 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.320 on Wednesday, it was on to the next game, and uh, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.560 and you know, we knew we were still in good 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.240 position right there. You know, it wasn't like, uh, you know, 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.720 we lost and we were knocked out of contention for anything. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.840 Um you know, was it was a tough loss against 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.960 the big rival and and uh you know something that 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.640 you know, like we said, was it was a real heartbreaker. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.400 But uh, you know, we knew we were still you know, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.079 I think we were five and two at the time 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.680 after that game, so you know, we we were in 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:51.440 great position going forward to continue and having a good season. Yeah, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.559 I'm sure a bunch of Dolphins fans children went to 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.520 bed that night thinking six and one, that wake up 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.720 five and two a rough go there. We we had 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.719 the uh the Jason Taylor Poker Foundation tournament the other 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.760 day and he was talking about that game a little bit. 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.080 He said, yeah, try being miked up for that game, 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.760 because he got caught a few times, you know, giving 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.240 the Jets fans a little bit of a ribbing on 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.920 the side. He got caught with with me on on tape. Also, uh, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.360 you know, coming over and I didn't even realize he 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:20.760 was miked up or anything, but uh, you know it 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.320 was funny. Uh you know going into that game, you 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.240 know that I think it was a six or seven 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:30.360 game losing streak to the Jets. Uh. And then also, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.360 you know, the Jets had had a few comeback victories 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.520 earlier in the in the year, uh that year, so 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.840 you know, uh, you know, we got out to the 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.840 big lead and we were, you know, feeling great on 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.560 the sideline, and you know, all the talk all week 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.760 was you know, how the Jets had our number and 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.720 uh and you know they had some big, you know, 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.560 comeback victory. So I want, I can't. I went up 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.040 to him and we were just talking and and we 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.160 were just uh, you know, bannering back and forth, and 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.400 I say, let's and you know, when I gonna let 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.160 them come back on us, you know today like they 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.280 have you know, the past few games. And and that 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.840 got caught on tape and I know, uh, you know 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.360 that that gets replayed every single time. But you know, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.719 for me, it was more you know, talking about, hey, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.480 let's go out and do it. We're not gonna let 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.000 them come back. And you know, uh, that one backfired 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.720 a little bit. Yeah, you had that that bomb to 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.720 I think it was Dietrich Ward right after the Jets 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.800 kind of had that touchdown to initially come back, and 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:28.640 that was when I was like, Okay, this game is 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.600 right back where we wanted. It's in the books, but 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.440 didn't go that way. And yeah, I threw that too soon. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.520 I should have waited a few plays. We gave them 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.160 too much time to come back, and uh, get the 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.240 jumbo elliot and the ends out of the end there. Hey, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.760 somebody had to say his name. I'll let you do 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.760 with their jumbo freaking Elliott man. But you guys did 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.880 rebound j You won the division in week seventeen. Obviously 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.480 a couple of months later with the win over the Patriots, 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.600 and the really interesting aspect of that game comes late 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.679 on the final play. Let's go ahead and go back 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.680 to the top, though, and circle back to that moment 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.079 and conclude with that. I want to first talk about 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.000 maybe the game plan or maybe it was just the 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.360 way the game evolved for you guys, because going into 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.679 that game that season, you guys threw the ball fo 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.480 one times you ran at four six, a balance that 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.160 today is unheard of in the NFL. And I want 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.360 to go somewhere with this point just in a second. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.640 But first I'm curious J because how do you, as 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.520 a quarterback approach then compared to now? How is your 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.599 approach different when maybe you didn't know how many opportunities 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.760 you might have in a game where it's more about 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.360 running the football and controlling the clock compared to today 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.000 where guys are throwing the ball four times every single game. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:39.199 Does that change the approach for the quarterback? You think? Yeah? 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.000 Can you know? I think, uh, you know, the game 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.400 is certainly evolved a lot, and uh, you know, uh, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.079 the passing game is kind of you know as a 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.040 is extension of the running again. You know, all the 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.240 quick passes, this quick screens, the dumps underneath. It's basically 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.960 like you know, the safe running plays now, but they're 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.880 doing it in the air and spreading, spreading teams out 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.160 and you know, there's so much athleticism out there on 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:07.800 the field, you know, to to to give guys a 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.360 chance to just get into open space. And that's you know, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.199 that's the way the games played now, you know, as 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.959 compared to uh, you know, back twenty years ago. And 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.600 and you know certainly if you go back to to 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.640 this to the seventies Dolphins, uh, you know, the power 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.800 running game and and and you know, being able to 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.960 to exert your will up front with the with the 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.080 strong offensive line and a run game and control of 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.440 the clock. Uh you know that was part of uh, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.320 you know, really managing managing a football game. But uh, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.960 you know, I think when when the rules started to change, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:47.880 uh you know, uh, restricting defensive backs from from really 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:54.720 impeding and and getting uh you know, on the receivers. Uh, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:59.200 you know, increasing the the amount of past interference calls 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.480 that are out there are uh you know, the passing 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.640 game became a heck of a lot more effective. And 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.360 now you see it, you know, being utilized that way. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.640 Uh you know, and that and that's why you see, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.080 you know, number one, that the tight ends is so 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.440 much more in play nowadays, and they than they were 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.760 in the past. Uh because pass interference. Uh you know, 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.160 you can't you can't hit a defenseless receiver anymore. You know. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.080 Back in that day, you know, if you throw a 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.320 tight end across the middle and uh you know he 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.360 jumps up for the ball, he's getting his head knocked 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.600 off and you know, probably gonna be out of the 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.480 game for a little bit of while a little while. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.640 You know, now you can't target anyone that way. And uh, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.320 you know, if you're a six ft six pound uh 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.480 guy running down the middle of the field, there aren't 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.600 too much any defensive packs that's gonna hit you in 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.920 the stomach or the ribs and and and knock out. Uh. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.680 So you know the risk reward of of throwing the 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.640 ball now, Uh, you know, it's a lot far you know, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.200 a lot more on the reward side than it was, 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.920 you know, twenty years ago. Yeah, I'm sure you'd love 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.600 to have your completion percentage boosted by the extension of 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.240 the running game, right those little quick hitters and swings 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.400 and exactly the screens, the bubbles, the quick dumps, the 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.720 shovel passes, you know, you you name it. You know 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:17.480 I love it. I love it when the guys take 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.920 the take the handoff and just toss it forward to 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.760 you know, to a wildcat guy coming across. And now 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.120 you get, you know, sixty yards worth of of a 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.000 reception and uh, you know one for one of the 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.960 sixty yards, I tossed it to two inches to the 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.000 guy in front of me, just handed it off four 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.600 instead of behind you. It's just pretty pretty nice little 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.360 stab booster there. But do ask about the balance because 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.560 you threw the ball forty five times of the foe 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.600 in that particular game compared to twenty carries for Lamar 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.440 and he only had twenty six yards in that game, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.520 albeit two rushing touchdowns. Was that a case of and 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.600 we're talking about a coach who still there in New England? 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:55.320 Was that a case of Bill Belichick maybe saying, your guys, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:56.600 not you're not gonna run the ball on us, You're 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.480 gonna be u with Jay Fiedler. And how did the 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.040 lack of success on the ground and impact your approach 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.720 to the game. Well, so you know, certainly, uh, you 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.800 know that was really a game playing uh decision, and 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.520 it also you know, it was a matter of the 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.720 course of the game too. You know, we got behind early, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.920 I think a couple of touchdowns, so you know, we 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.120 were a little bit more reliant on using the passing 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.879 game to uh, you know, to to to make a 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.920 comeback and and uh, you know, get back in the game, 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.840 and and uh, you know, in addition to that, obviously, 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.520 you know, Bill Belichick is a guy that's you know, 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.720 gonna try and take away what you what you do best, 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.040 and what we did best, you know, for the majority 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.879 of that season was you know, control the game with 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.439 the runs. So you know, they were stacking the line early, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.119 you don't allowed us to to to make some plays 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.119 in in the passing game. We had some you know, 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.760 some good one on one matchups on the outside that 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.199 we were able to take advantage of. And uh, um, 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.199 you know, I think we passed the ball over forty 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:59.520 times uh that game. Uh. And uh you know really 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.120 you know allowed us to to to move the ball 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.280 and be effective. You know the fact that they stacked 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.760 the line up and left us with some you know, 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.320 some opportunities on the outside. You mentioned the kind of 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.199 getting behind earlier in that game. I think the thing 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.840 that probably sparked to come back initially was Derek Rodgers 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.320 having one of the best strips I've ever seen. We 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.120 talked about, you know, we see the guys practice out 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.119 on the field every day here working on stripping from behind, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.439 but it never really happens in a game situation. But 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.720 he did get the ball out of Jermaine Wiggins hands 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.639 as he was getting close to the end zone and 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:30.760 extended the lead to four team points there at the 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.600 end of the third quarter. Now I'm curious, Jay momentum 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.600 is a hot sports debate, a hot topic like doesn't 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.520 exist in your opinion? Does momentum exist and how did 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.000 it impact the game on that play? Oh? It absolutely exists. Uh. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.639 You know, momentum is a huge factor, especially in the 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.040 game of football, you know, where you get some ebbs 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.040 and flows and and uh. Uh you know, hot team 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:58.000 can can stay hot, uh until you know, a spark 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.399 goes the other way. And you know, certainly uh you know, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.680 I mean watching Jeremy Wiggins catch the ball and run 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.760 ahead of everyone on the defense. You know, it was 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.840 something like, oh my god, here we were. You know, 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.840 we're in the third quarter, We're about to go down 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.760 two touchdowns, and and all of a sudden, Derek Rodgers 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.400 comes flying from behind and and you see the ball 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.040 go out and everyone's you know, hollering and yelling and 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.679 uh and we jump on it. Uh. You know, it 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.760 gave us a huge spark, you know, coming back uh 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.280 into that game to be you know, only down seven 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.600 points at that point. Uh, and have a chance, you know, 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.240 to to to make it come back run. So after 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:35.760 that play and all I have to go off of 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.320 here Jays the YouTube highlight from NFL Prime Time, which 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.359 it's great. By the way, there's like a little blip 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.800 in the beginning that kind of the audio goes off, 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:44.920