Speaker 1: Practice Patrick part touchdown. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and every day.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: it's Bill's Week. We're gonna hear from Coach Flora's and
Speaker 1: his Wednesday presser, as well as the head coach in
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Sean McDermott. We'll talk to Solomon Kinley, Dolphins
Speaker 1: rookie right guard in our Wednesday feature. Here from some
Speaker 1: more Dolphins players on their Wednesday media availabilities, and get
Speaker 1: you the first injury report of week number two. All
Speaker 1: of that and more on this Wednesday, September six edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast. Dophins and day is Wednesday, which
Speaker 1: is a fish hump Day, turned the page day in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And with that we get to our first
Speaker 1: injury report of the week for the Dolphins. Both linebacker
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noyen receiver Preston Williams were full participants in
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday. E Land and Roberts was the loan
Speaker 1: d NP did not practice. Clayton Federlem, Jachim Grant, Xavien Howard,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, and DeVante Parker all limited in Wednesday's practice.
Speaker 1: For the Buffalo Bills, four players did not practice on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: wide receiver John Brown and linebackers Tremaine Edmonds, Matt Milano,
Speaker 1: and del Shaun Phillips. They also had two participants that
Speaker 1: were limited on Wednesday's practice another linebacker and Tyrell Dodson
Speaker 1: and quarterback Jake from the rookie and one player was
Speaker 1: a full participant, defensive tackle Vernon Butler. So those are
Speaker 1: your Wednesday injury report updates. Let's go ahead now and
Speaker 1: get into coach Brian Floress press conference. And first he
Speaker 1: was asked about the first game of the career of
Speaker 1: two A Tonga Biloa and what he saw from the
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback taking the game in on the sideline and
Speaker 1: processing the mental reps. Yeah, we talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: just the game and um, you know from the sideline
Speaker 1: what he saw, and I think he tried to play
Speaker 1: every play in his own mind, so that experience was good,
Speaker 1: and look at a different atmosphere. It was a different,
Speaker 1: different atmosphere for everyone. Um, no different for him. So
Speaker 1: it's his first you know game live, look at it
Speaker 1: at a game from the sideline, and I thought he
Speaker 1: thought he did well from that standpoint. Up next, coach
Speaker 1: was asked a question about corrections being made to the
Speaker 1: running game on the offensive side of the football from
Speaker 1: that week one performance up in New England. Coach basically says,
Speaker 1: it's Wednesday, it's time to turn the page. Time to
Speaker 1: look ahead to the Buffalo Bills. You know, we you know,
Speaker 1: we've kind of made all the corrections from the game.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure you're talking about Sunday. Um, we
Speaker 1: made the corrections from those games. Were kind of moved
Speaker 1: on to Buffalo. Um, that's where are our focuses. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there were a lot of issues in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to get them all corrected. And
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna go out and practice today and
Speaker 1: uh and trying to try to make those corrections, you know,
Speaker 1: on practice field. And you know we've moved on and
Speaker 1: you know our focus is on is on the Bills,
Speaker 1: and this is you know there's a lot to focus
Speaker 1: on there. I mean they're a good team. Coach is
Speaker 1: not kidding that Buffalo Bill's team is deep at pretty
Speaker 1: much every spot on the football field. We'll see a
Speaker 1: tough challenge on Sunday, Week two at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: We'll preview the game on tomorrow's podcast Up Next. Coach
Speaker 1: was asked about the availability of Lynn Bowden Jr. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins trader for the receiver back before the season began.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach on Bowden Jr. I mean he's been here
Speaker 1: two weeks, three weeks somewhere there, so he's worked extremely hard.
Speaker 1: He's been meeting one on one with with Grizz trying
Speaker 1: to get caught up. But let's say, when you're a
Speaker 1: rookie or young, I mean you need reps. So we're
Speaker 1: trying to get them. This made reps and practice as possible.
Speaker 1: But you know, as far as getting caught up, um,
Speaker 1: you know there's gonna be I think, at best for
Speaker 1: a young guy in that situation, a couple of packages,
Speaker 1: a couple of things that you know he could feel
Speaker 1: comfortable doing, and um, maybe you get him out there,
Speaker 1: but um, I'm not sure we're there yet. So we'll
Speaker 1: see up next. A few questions here for coach regarding
Speaker 1: the Dolphins cornerbacks Jamal Perry, Nick need him playing slot,
Speaker 1: playing perimeter, and he also had a question about Ken Webster,
Speaker 1: who was no longer on the Dolphins practice squad. Well,
Speaker 1: Ken better, he had an opportunity to go to another
Speaker 1: team and he did that. We had a good conversation
Speaker 1: UM on that and he felt like it was best
Speaker 1: for him and I support that decision. Nick need him
Speaker 1: versus Jamal Perry Well, Nick's practiced well, Jamal's practice well.
Speaker 1: Nick spent a little bit more time when the perimeter
Speaker 1: over the course of training camp, Jamal was more inside. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, we have a lot of confidence in
Speaker 1: both guys. Obviously they We'll both go out there and practice,
Speaker 1: compete this week and we'll see how it goes. And
Speaker 1: we saw plenty of offensive players get good workloads on
Speaker 1: Sunday's game, including Miles Gaskin and Matt Brita at the
Speaker 1: running back position. Up next, coach was asked about the
Speaker 1: usage of the running backs, the usage of explosive players
Speaker 1: in the offense, and coach talked about how this team,
Speaker 1: this offense, this entire operation is going to be game
Speaker 1: plan based when it comes to who plays more reps
Speaker 1: and who plays fewer reps. On Sunday's game play specific
Speaker 1: and you know, the dads, we feel like our you know,
Speaker 1: give us the best chance to have a productive play
Speaker 1: or productive series or our best in the situation, those
Speaker 1: are the guys who we're gonna stick in the game.
Speaker 1: And that's offensively, defensively in the kicking game. It's it's
Speaker 1: really you know, it's specific to the play, specifically to
Speaker 1: the situation. And on Sunday we saw a cornerback Xavian Howard,
Speaker 1: for the first time since Week eight last season. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins Pro Bowl cornerback played twenty seven snaps against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Floors on the performance of his big time cornerback.
Speaker 1: I think he came out, he came out well. It's
Speaker 1: good to get in there and get some get some
Speaker 1: snaps um in a while since he played. He played,
Speaker 1: so he came out well. But he did some good things.
Speaker 1: And will continue to move him along and get him
Speaker 1: more reps this week and see and see how it goes.
Speaker 1: We'll get more into the weeds on this On tomorrow
Speaker 1: was podcast as we preview the Buffalo Bill's roster and
Speaker 1: this matchup in Miami Sunday at one o'clock Eastern. But
Speaker 1: here's coach Flor's talking about the Bill's offense and the
Speaker 1: challenges they present with a good group of receivers and
Speaker 1: a good offense in general. Obviously it was backstight ends
Speaker 1: online UM digs John Brown Beasley. UM, I mean is
Speaker 1: this is probably as good a group as you know
Speaker 1: there is UM round league. So this has been a
Speaker 1: great challenge for for us, you know, as a defense.
Speaker 1: Um to go along with you know, the quarterback and
Speaker 1: his ability to scramble, his ability to fireball down the field. Um,
Speaker 1: he he's been more accurate. Uh, you know, they posed
Speaker 1: a lot of issues. So, UM, we've gotta do a
Speaker 1: great job of communication. We gotta do a great job
Speaker 1: with our fundamentals technique. You gotta do a great job
Speaker 1: across the board to um to try to limit this offense.
Speaker 1: But they're good. And one former Buffalo Bill on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offenses, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. Coach was asked about what
Speaker 1: makes him confident that Fitzpatrick bounces back and has a
Speaker 1: strong showing in week number two. I mean he's a
Speaker 1: competitive player. UM. I mean that's what makes me confident. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a competitor, he's he's had success in this league. Um,
Speaker 1: he's bounced back before. And like you said, you know
Speaker 1: hopefully this is this is just you know, played a
Speaker 1: tough game. I mean, I think everyone feels like they
Speaker 1: could have played better. You know, he was like, could
Speaker 1: it could have been better last week? So, um, we
Speaker 1: just go back to the drawing board. UM, go back
Speaker 1: to work, do a good job in the meetings and
Speaker 1: the walk throughs, in the practice, and try to try
Speaker 1: to be better this week. And you know it's fits,
Speaker 1: that's everyone else on the team as well. So UM,
Speaker 1: myself included, I have confidence that he'll he'll he'll he'll
Speaker 1: play well. In the entire team will well. We'll do
Speaker 1: everything they can to play well this week. From the
Speaker 1: offense of the defense, a sixteen year veteran to a
Speaker 1: first year player in rookie Brandon Jones, here's coach Flores
Speaker 1: on the performance of his safety, one of three safeties
Speaker 1: who played more than thirty five snaps in that defense
Speaker 1: in the big nickel package. Three safeties in the field.
Speaker 1: Here is coach on Brandon Jones. You know, I thought
Speaker 1: he I thought he you know, for time out, I
Speaker 1: thought he played well. You know though, he tackled well,
Speaker 1: he showed good speed. You know a lot of things
Speaker 1: we saw on training camp and these kids fast, he's aggressive,
Speaker 1: he tackles well. It wasn't perfect by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. That there's some place that I know he
Speaker 1: wishes he had back that we talked about on the sideline.
Speaker 1: I would say they were in some of the critical
Speaker 1: moments of the game. So hopefully we he he learned
Speaker 1: from them. I mean it's like every play for these
Speaker 1: young guys, it's a learning experience, and he comes out
Speaker 1: and plays a little bit better. Uh this this this
Speaker 1: next week, and we saw Jerome Baker's big strip in
Speaker 1: that game kind of change the tide of that game
Speaker 1: for a moment. There was a play earlier in the
Speaker 1: game where Camu grug Hill tried punching the ball out
Speaker 1: at the las of scrimmage. Coach was asked about the
Speaker 1: coaching point with regards to trying to tackle the guy
Speaker 1: trying to get the football out and how much that
Speaker 1: risk force reward weighs on the decision. I think that's
Speaker 1: something that's talked about UM extensively. Really on every team
Speaker 1: you want to tackle well, you want to get him
Speaker 1: on the ground. There are opportunities UM if as an
Speaker 1: opportunity knock the ball off. UM. When to take those
Speaker 1: opportunities UM? And you know that's you know, you know,
Speaker 1: for anyone who's played, it's you know, do I try
Speaker 1: to knock it out and we make the tackle if
Speaker 1: I knock it out, we don't knock it out and
Speaker 1: miss the tackle. And I'm gonna get yelled at if
Speaker 1: I if I uh knock it out, and I'm you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's favorite player, you know what I mean. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the conundrum every players in UM. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, we gotta beat the tackling team.
Speaker 1: We gotta try to limit yards. We want to try
Speaker 1: to force turnovers UM. And you know, the good some good,
Speaker 1: some players more than others, have a knack for when
Speaker 1: that opportunity presents itself and they take advantage of it
Speaker 1: when they when they when they when it does present itself.
Speaker 1: So we've gotta UM and we practice it every day
Speaker 1: and we try to show them into instances where that
Speaker 1: those opportunities we tend to present themselves and when they
Speaker 1: try to take advantage, and you know, hopefully we we
Speaker 1: we get some opportunities to do that and we can
Speaker 1: knock the ball off a couple of guys. And we
Speaker 1: wrap it up with a question about Jachem Grant and
Speaker 1: whether or not he needs specific packages to get himself
Speaker 1: involved in the game plan. Coach says, Nope, He's a receiver,
Speaker 1: just like the other receivers in the room. They're all
Speaker 1: the same position. Yeah, I mean, he's a receiver. You know, receivers,
Speaker 1: they got to really get good releases. They got to
Speaker 1: do a good job with a route technique. They got
Speaker 1: do a good job on the top at the top
Speaker 1: of the route. They've got to recognize coverages. He was
Speaker 1: a man. It's his own. Um. So, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no package or receivers and receivers as a receiver, some
Speaker 1: guys are you know, Kim's an explosive guys. So you
Speaker 1: want to you know, I want to try to get
Speaker 1: him on some things where he's on the move and
Speaker 1: can can make people miss. So. Um, but yeah, we
Speaker 1: see him as a receiver. Um, that's his that's his
Speaker 1: position as a receiver. As a returner. No, no package.
Speaker 1: I mean just we just run the place. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's a post, he's running post. If it's a slant,
Speaker 1: he's running slamp. It's an outriders running out route, and
Speaker 1: you know, if he's open, we try to get it
Speaker 1: to him. So there you go. Coach Flores is Wednesday
Speaker 1: morning media availability. We'll hear again from him on Thursday
Speaker 1: and Friday, and also on Wednesdays we get the conference
Speaker 1: call with the opposing coach every single week. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get some answers here from coach Sean McDermott
Speaker 1: up in Buffalo, and coach first starts by talking about
Speaker 1: preparing for Brian Fitzpatrick, the Dolphins quarterback, and the rest
Speaker 1: of this Miami offense. Well, he's super super talented, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, tremendous ability and he is I mean, he's
Speaker 1: as good as there is out there. Um, And we
Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for Ryan, so um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just you gotta prepared for a good Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football team. On the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: in particular Ryan, uh does a great job. And then
Speaker 1: they've got and they've added pieces up front, They've added
Speaker 1: pieces to the to the weaponry if you will, that
Speaker 1: he has at his disposal tight end does a really
Speaker 1: good job, you know, long and everything. So that was
Speaker 1: a really close game last week, and and we expect
Speaker 1: a very good challenge from a good and well coached
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. We heard earlier doing Brian Flores media develop
Speaker 1: ability from Joe Schab of The Palm Beach Post about
Speaker 1: the emphasis on trying to force fumbles. The Bills had
Speaker 1: a couple of fumbles in their game on Sunday two
Speaker 1: from quarterback Josh Allen here Sean McDermott on the importance
Speaker 1: of fundamentals and ball security on the offense. Well, it's
Speaker 1: a fundamental right. And whether it's a running back carrying
Speaker 1: the ball or anyone in this case, Josh carrying the ball,
Speaker 1: we've got to be better with our fundamentals, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: ball security in this case, blocking, tackling, throwing, catching. Um.
Speaker 1: So we've got a lot of work to do in
Speaker 1: that regard. And uh and Josh, Josh takes ownership of it.
Speaker 1: He's aware of it, as you know, you've seen his quote,
Speaker 1: so you know, I appreciate his his workman like effort
Speaker 1: around that. Next McDermott was asked about the similarities and
Speaker 1: game plan from week one, see what the Patriots did
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins compared to what they might do. He
Speaker 1: talks about how each week is its own game plan,
Speaker 1: each week is its own separate entity, and he finishes
Speaker 1: here with this comment about the Dolphins defense. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll just see how we match up against a very
Speaker 1: good defense. You know, they've added and put a lot
Speaker 1: of money into this defense and this football team. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so it'll be a big challenge for us, honestly.
Speaker 1: Job Up next, we got McDermott's take on running the football,
Speaker 1: his team's performance in that area in week one, and
Speaker 1: how they can look to improve going forward the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. Well, I think it's a mindset, right,
Speaker 1: and and that's where it all starts. From playing well.
Speaker 1: The line of scrimmage is important, as you know, We've
Speaker 1: talked about that many times over and that's where that's
Speaker 1: where it starts. I gotta play well in front on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, and then when the holes
Speaker 1: are there, the backs have to hit him. So it's
Speaker 1: it's never just one person or one position, it's it's
Speaker 1: all of us, starting with me and not got to
Speaker 1: do a better job. Flipping back to the Dolphins here
Speaker 1: and the other side of the football. You heard earlier
Speaker 1: than McDermott talked about the Dolphins commitment to the cornerback position,
Speaker 1: financially with Byron Jones spending a first round draft pick
Speaker 1: on Noah Igbnogamy. Here is Sean McDermott on the Dolphins
Speaker 1: cornerbacks and the challenges they present. Well, he did a
Speaker 1: pretty good job of shutting down to England last week
Speaker 1: just in terms of with their coverage and their personnel
Speaker 1: and their schemes. Um, you know, so they're they're a
Speaker 1: tough opponent. I mean it was a close game to
Speaker 1: the very end there and um, so we see that
Speaker 1: on film that that's uh, that will be no surprise
Speaker 1: to us on Sunday in terms of their ability and
Speaker 1: the amount of investment they made on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball. In particular to your question, so, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to come up with a good week
Speaker 1: of practice and a good game plan and execute at
Speaker 1: a high level. Um and when we go down there.
Speaker 1: The reporter asked a follow up question, which we are
Speaker 1: going to cover extensively on tomorrow's preview podcast about the
Speaker 1: Bills receivers against the Dolphins cornerbacks and a strength on strength,
Speaker 1: a good on good, a best on best battle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's the level of competition that
Speaker 1: they that they present to us in terms of their
Speaker 1: skill level. And again they went out and got the
Speaker 1: corners that they did for a reason, right, and then
Speaker 1: got shocked down there. And she actually really good football
Speaker 1: player who we love and have a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for and appreciation for. Um. So, again, they're a very
Speaker 1: good opponent, well coached and Brian does a great job,
Speaker 1: and their coordinators as well, so Danny Crossman, and also
Speaker 1: you know, so with lout of respect for those guys,
Speaker 1: with the coaching staff players, um it's gonna be a tough,
Speaker 1: tough challenge for us. Another element touched on here in
Speaker 1: this press conference that I have in tomorrow's preview piece
Speaker 1: as well as podcast, talking about the Bills usage of
Speaker 1: four wide receivers, which they ran more in Week one
Speaker 1: than they did in twenty nineteen combined through sixteen games.
Speaker 1: Here's McDermott on four wide sets. I would just say
Speaker 1: that we're trying to do what it takes to win Um,
Speaker 1: you know, philosophically, we believe in a certain philosophy overall
Speaker 1: game game plan, the game plan, you know, it will vary,
Speaker 1: just be based on how we feel like is what
Speaker 1: we feel like is right for us that week, based
Speaker 1: on who we have available to us, and uh, and
Speaker 1: the different teams and the things. So without getting to
Speaker 1: two into the weeds on Marcel, I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, Uh, you know, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: our asked to put our players in a position to
Speaker 1: be successful whatever that entails. And a week week basis.
Speaker 1: And a couple more here for Sean McDermott, Buffalo Bill's
Speaker 1: head coach, including this one about the Dolphins backfield, in
Speaker 1: which coach was asked about preparing for backs like Jordan Howard,
Speaker 1: Matt Brita, and Miles Gaskin. Yeah, they're they're a good,
Speaker 1: good core of running backs. Each of each of them
Speaker 1: have their own abilities and um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: coach Gailey does a really good job of rotating those
Speaker 1: guys and um, and so you know that's that's a
Speaker 1: good running, running running group right there. That brings a
Speaker 1: lot to the table and it'll be a challenge for
Speaker 1: us on defense, just to just to try and create
Speaker 1: a point of attack because they're so powerful, so fast,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a good offensive line. And we
Speaker 1: will finish up with one question here from Barry Jackson
Speaker 1: of the Miami Herald asking coach McDermott about the Dolphins
Speaker 1: rookies he saw in their debuts on Sunday in New England. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say all of them, honestly. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: there's quite a few players on that rod uster that
Speaker 1: um I thought did a good job in the game,
Speaker 1: and um played at a high level and look like
Speaker 1: they've been in the league for a long time, honestly.
Speaker 1: So that just adds to their roster and their team
Speaker 1: and who they have and again another reason why we've
Speaker 1: got to have a good week of practice this week
Speaker 1: as we prepare up here. And so there you go,
Speaker 1: the first day of preparations on the practice field at
Speaker 1: least with the Dolphins and Bills back at it on
Speaker 1: Wednesday for the week two games Sunday at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: It is Wednesday. That means we're doing coach media player
Speaker 1: media at the end, and we'll go ahead and sandwich
Speaker 1: this in the middle here with our Wednesday feature we've
Speaker 1: got Dolphins rookie offensive lineman Solomon Kinley. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and welcome in Big Solomon and joining me now on
Speaker 1: the Drive Time podcast is Dolphins offensive lineman Solomon Kinley. Solomon,
Speaker 1: How you doing, man, I'm good? What about you? Not
Speaker 1: too bad? I can't complain looking forward to another game?
Speaker 1: And on that topic, how was it making your NFL
Speaker 1: debut on Sunday? Oh man, it was great. It was
Speaker 1: I'm blessed for the opportunity. Man. One of the bets
Speaker 1: did in the dream come true up and dreaming about
Speaker 1: playing the NFL since I was a tatler, so you know,
Speaker 1: me getting my first my first shot in the NFL
Speaker 1: being started, it was like, oh man, I finally put
Speaker 1: enough work, but not trying to work harder, absolutely getting
Speaker 1: ready to work hard for Week two against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: And every time we talked to a cult or a
Speaker 1: player about you, Solomon, they always seem to mention the size,
Speaker 1: but also the athletic ability you have to go with
Speaker 1: that size. I'm curious when it comes to trash talk
Speaker 1: in the trenches, have you ever gotten like a great
Speaker 1: big guy joke or like something like that that made
Speaker 1: you laugh. I won't say I have got any in
Speaker 1: the treaties or anything, but like my teammates for any
Speaker 1: team I played for, it's always because you know, growing up,
Speaker 1: I'm a good basket I was. I was a basketball player.
Speaker 1: I said. It was a matter of fact. I am
Speaker 1: a good basketball player. Let me rephrase that, and uh this,
Speaker 1: I was a life growing growing up, so everybody would
Speaker 1: be saying, you can't play basketball. Now you can't swim,
Speaker 1: So you know, I have to show everybody up and
Speaker 1: that and just be funny all the time. And then
Speaker 1: from now home like they see me swim maybe like okay,
Speaker 1: yeah he really is the big spitch for yeah, he
Speaker 1: really can't play basketball. Like see, we'll go play five
Speaker 1: on five and probably one of the first one get
Speaker 1: picked up. You know, So that's very funny. I want
Speaker 1: to come back to the big Fish and the and
Speaker 1: the lifeguard experience with you real quick here, Solomon. But
Speaker 1: first I want to ask you. We had the Miami
Speaker 1: Heat last night takedown game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: Are you all out on the Heat bandwagon? Um No,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing I'm gonna I like I like the Heat
Speaker 1: growing up. I look at the heat and everything. But
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna keep you real with you.
Speaker 1: I love Lebron. I've been walking with Lebron since I
Speaker 1: was yea yea high, So I'm a Lebron saying, wellever
Speaker 1: Lebron goes, come one with Lebron. I'll tell you, man,
Speaker 1: my own experience, Like every time Lebron's in the game,
Speaker 1: it's just on ten meters higher to me. Don't you agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Yeah, he's the best man. Let's
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and go from the hardwood back to
Speaker 1: the swimming pool or or wherever the heck you getting
Speaker 1: the water around here. I know South Florida has got
Speaker 1: a bunch of spots you can swim, not in lakes
Speaker 1: or ponzo because as I heard, there's some different creatures
Speaker 1: out there. You did talk about solid that it might
Speaker 1: have been you might have been Robert Hunt. I think
Speaker 1: it was on Twitter back when you guys first got here,
Speaker 1: talking about how there's all kinds of wildlife down here.
Speaker 1: But you're from Florida, so you kind of know right
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville, Florida and growing up my whole dad's side
Speaker 1: of My family is from a Miami, Florida. So from
Speaker 1: like the age of four to like the age of fourteen,
Speaker 1: I was down here every summer. So I'm pretty much
Speaker 1: fifty fifty fifty Miami fifty from Jacksonville. Have you ever
Speaker 1: had a run in with a gator or are youthing
Speaker 1: crazy in the water like that? Oh? Man, I can
Speaker 1: tell you crazy story. I mean one time I'm down
Speaker 1: here for the summer at my Auntie's house, uh where
Speaker 1: every time I come down here, I stayed with her,
Speaker 1: and um, she tells me to go to the backyard
Speaker 1: and grab a mango. And this when I was very young,
Speaker 1: Like she had a mango tree, this one, like she
Speaker 1: had like two three mango trees back there. So you know,
Speaker 1: mangoes was like the number one fruit for the breakfast
Speaker 1: every day. Because I had to do is go to
Speaker 1: the backyard to pick it off the tree. So my
Speaker 1: very first time you talking to go pick a mango
Speaker 1: off the tree. So I go to the backyard. I
Speaker 1: go to pickle mango off a tree. So I turned
Speaker 1: my I was facing the tree at first, and I
Speaker 1: picked one of them. And like I said, I'm young,
Speaker 1: so I don't know how to coopposed to look all.
Speaker 1: Any time I see him, I just see him like unkilled.
Speaker 1: They look great. I just eat them. So this time
Speaker 1: my first time seeing them. So it was a very
Speaker 1: black one. And you know the black ones that are
Speaker 1: them are the rotten ones. They're not good ones. So
Speaker 1: I was facing the tree, I picked the uh. I
Speaker 1: picked the mango off the tree and I turned around.
Speaker 1: I yelled my auntie name, I said, Aunty Sean and
Speaker 1: come outside, and she came outside. I said, let's see this.
Speaker 1: Is this a great mango? She's like, yeah, boy, no,
Speaker 1: it's black. So I promised you. As soon as I
Speaker 1: turned around to the tree, one of the biggis iguanas
Speaker 1: was in my face. When I stay almost like die
Speaker 1: and had a heart attack. I say, I'm never picking
Speaker 1: up a mango off a mango tree again. It's one
Speaker 1: of those situations like where I think elephant are afraid
Speaker 1: of mice? Was it kind of like weird? Do you like? Man?
Speaker 1: That thing is my side? Sph man. I saw one
Speaker 1: of my first day down here. I saw one in
Speaker 1: the park and I couldn't believe it was the size
Speaker 1: of my leg. Man, those things are crazy. Yeah. Now
Speaker 1: I'm used to him now because I said him, all
Speaker 1: the time, I'll be having the minimum backyard. My dogs
Speaker 1: keep chasing him. Now, okay, but I'm a little more
Speaker 1: afraid of what's in the water, and maybe you're not, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, you can flat out swim. Can you
Speaker 1: just talk to us a little bit about how you
Speaker 1: became a lifeguard, Like what made you decide to take
Speaker 1: that career path quote unquote as a as a child?
Speaker 1: See growing up, Um, I really couldn't to the football
Speaker 1: at the young age because you know, that's the back thing.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the unlip, the weight lead. So my
Speaker 1: thing was I want to do something. My mom was
Speaker 1: always active because she always had to work. So when
Speaker 1: she's gone, you gotta find something to do at the
Speaker 1: house because you're not just gonna sit around. That's how
Speaker 1: we that's how we That's how we was raised. So
Speaker 1: every time I used to go to the pool, it
Speaker 1: was a local pool. Every summer I used to go
Speaker 1: to it, and like I always was a great swimmer.
Speaker 1: I forgot the man name that taught me how to swim.
Speaker 1: It was like he was he was like a genie.
Speaker 1: He taught me how to swim for like a month
Speaker 1: or two, all my brother how to swim and we
Speaker 1: never see them again. I promised, like we've never seen
Speaker 1: them again. I don't know this man that to this day,
Speaker 1: and I like I can find them. I thank him
Speaker 1: and everything. But um, like I said, growing up, during
Speaker 1: the summer, we never could uh we never. I couldn't
Speaker 1: play football with my brothers. Then we playing football. So
Speaker 1: after football season, you know everybody's flats, we gottaet in
Speaker 1: the pool. So we learned how to swim. And then
Speaker 1: growing up my cousins that was on that was learning
Speaker 1: how to swim. They also started be in a lifeguard.
Speaker 1: So okay, I'm like, okay, you can get paid for
Speaker 1: doing something just working out a pool and in the pool,
Speaker 1: not doing nothing. And I love the water because I'm
Speaker 1: from the Fromater. So I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this for our own So during that time,
Speaker 1: I was on the swim team. Uh was on the
Speaker 1: swim team. And as I got the age to be
Speaker 1: able to pay for my own school, close my own
Speaker 1: school shoes to take so my mom could take to
Speaker 1: take a snack off. My mom back for my sisters
Speaker 1: and brothers and everything. So that's what I started doing. Now,
Speaker 1: was the mystery man, the one that gave you the
Speaker 1: nickname the big Fish? No, he didn't know, I'm know
Speaker 1: and now he didn't give me that name. Who was it?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I know somebody they are, you know
Speaker 1: pretty much they all. I don't know who actually gave
Speaker 1: me the name, but a lot of people always just
Speaker 1: say that because I would beside I am and me
Speaker 1: going in the pool. Now, there was a story I
Speaker 1: recall with I think it was Kirby Smart had had
Speaker 1: like a get together at his cabin or something, and
Speaker 1: all the Georgia football players were out there and someone
Speaker 1: got themselves into some trouble in the water and you
Speaker 1: wouldn't save them. Can you tell us that story? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love at Cooch smart Lakehouse and um was on
Speaker 1: the boat with him. I forgot what the thing was.
Speaker 1: But it's like one of those stage you can be
Speaker 1: on the back of it and like you just sell
Speaker 1: on the back of it as you like, you know,
Speaker 1: actually boat is moving. And that's my running back. That
Speaker 1: uh Bryan Herring that played for the uh the not
Speaker 1: damn very We played for the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: played for the Cleveland browns and um, he didn't know
Speaker 1: how to swim, and he had life Jaffer, I want
Speaker 1: to come on Brian, but I promised you. It was
Speaker 1: like he had to test the water in the shadow
Speaker 1: in on the lakehouse and he was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: see I can't go on to work. I got life
Speaker 1: back at on. So you know, he wanted to have fun.
Speaker 1: What else I we was having fun. He was having fun.
Speaker 1: He got on the back of it with somebody and
Speaker 1: eventually he fell off the tool. And once he fell
Speaker 1: off the tool, you know, the big old boat, they
Speaker 1: don't have any break. So coach Smart gotta go way
Speaker 1: turned around and the whole circle. At first when he's turning,
Speaker 1: you know, the jets from the boat is the water
Speaker 1: is going into Brian state, so that he immediately snapped
Speaker 1: into pennic attack. So as he's panicking because the water
Speaker 1: is going to his state, he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like he's going up, going down, up and down, and
Speaker 1: I jump jumped in, I grabbed him and uh, sit
Speaker 1: right there to the boat turned around. It was so
Speaker 1: funny afterwards though, one of those things that's terrifying them
Speaker 1: on but a great story afterwards. A that's a great
Speaker 1: story there, Solomon. On the topic of college football, I'm
Speaker 1: always curious to get this. Take. What's the craziest college
Speaker 1: atmosphere you ever played in? Uh, let me see see
Speaker 1: my my crazy I have a few crazy ones. My
Speaker 1: first one. My first one was when my very first
Speaker 1: time playing the Colors football game. He said he is
Speaker 1: Notre Dame in the historical city, historical stadium and all
Speaker 1: type of stuff. And the week before I didn't play
Speaker 1: because I think I had got injured, hurt my foot
Speaker 1: or something like that, and uh, I didn't start. If
Speaker 1: my coach want to see how doing warm up and
Speaker 1: see how I react, I said him a bit there,
Speaker 1: you know, just chilling for a while. And then eventually
Speaker 1: I messed around. Uh he called my name, he said, hey, Solomon,
Speaker 1: you're in the game. He called my name by three times,
Speaker 1: and then she called my name, turning around looking looking
Speaker 1: for another Solomon because I'm so nervous to get in
Speaker 1: the game. And uh, eventually, once I get in the game,
Speaker 1: the rest was history. And like the bright lights and like,
Speaker 1: I think that was one of the I think the
Speaker 1: stadium was packed out. It was so crazy. It's so
Speaker 1: much noise and uh, I received the Tearer of God,
Speaker 1: went and caught with the one hand pass and play
Speaker 1: with those in stories and running backs on him sale
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, and that's my very first college and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this is one of the best, uh, however,
Speaker 1: this experience I've ever had in college football or football period. Yeah,
Speaker 1: playing in the SEC, especially in the SEC West, You're
Speaker 1: gonna get a bunch of really packed houses and crazy
Speaker 1: football fans down there. So that's definitely a good time,
Speaker 1: I'm sure for you guys now that you're a professional,
Speaker 1: I'm curious. Obviously you guys developed camaraderie across the entire
Speaker 1: offensive line, but has there been one guy so far
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins here that you guys have kind of
Speaker 1: bonded and become like really close friends. I got a few,
Speaker 1: um uh you know n SEC guys, Rick Kwan Davids's
Speaker 1: deepens in line, um, Robert Hunt that's my boy, Alton
Speaker 1: Jackson's my boy, um. And Jordan Howard the running back.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm really cool with Jordan. Then you know
Speaker 1: four he's from Jacksonville, Florida. I played again to him,
Speaker 1: play with him a basketball, just that type of that
Speaker 1: type of stuff and uh, those guys like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: one of the guys to get the team going, the
Speaker 1: energy type of guys. So you know, I really around miss.
Speaker 1: I love everybody and love all my teammates, and you know,
Speaker 1: I just collaborate on with everybody. So that might answer
Speaker 1: my next question. If you guys in a normal year,
Speaker 1: when we can go back out in public and do things,
Speaker 1: would you be picking the restaurant if you guys all
Speaker 1: want to dinner, that's like everybody would be surprised. I really,
Speaker 1: I really wouldn't because I don't. I'm a big guy
Speaker 1: in the fool. Did I eat? I eat a lot
Speaker 1: of it, obviously, but I don't eat a lot of
Speaker 1: food though, like a variety, like different kind of fool.
Speaker 1: I don't eat a lot of it. So I have
Speaker 1: to tell somebody, have to tell me where to go,
Speaker 1: all right. So i'monna appreciate your time today, man, That's
Speaker 1: all I've got for you. Best luck this week against
Speaker 1: the Bills, and good job on the debut on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. So it was fun to watch a
Speaker 1: play out there. Thank you. And there he goes. Solomon Kinley,
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie offensive lineman made his NFL debut on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk to another player who did
Speaker 1: not make his debut. He made his first start of
Speaker 1: a sixteenth season in the National Football League, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: who met with the media on Wednesday and was first asked,
Speaker 1: how nice is it to get back on the practice
Speaker 1: field after a performance that maybe you didn't love so
Speaker 1: much the previous week? Ah? Yeah, I mean the best,
Speaker 1: the best medicine for performance like that is getting back
Speaker 1: on the practice field and getting back out there. So
Speaker 1: today it was a great day for us. Just new opponent,
Speaker 1: new week, starting fresh, just getting into the preparation. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you don't want to have weeks like
Speaker 1: I had last week, and you know that can't happen
Speaker 1: if we're gonna win football games. So just put everything
Speaker 1: I have into this week and move on. And for
Speaker 1: me and the roller coaster I've been on, I have
Speaker 1: a I have an easy way of putting things like
Speaker 1: that behind me and moving on. This next question led
Speaker 1: to a great answer by Fits talking about the differences
Speaker 1: between man and zone coverage, the knowing when you can
Speaker 1: approach different routes, different players, different coverages, here's fits talking
Speaker 1: about the difference in the coverage and how he approaches
Speaker 1: attacking defenses. I mean, every every week is different in
Speaker 1: New England, such a big man team. Um, so a
Speaker 1: lot of times it's you know who's gonna win the
Speaker 1: one on one matchup? Really and so in a in
Speaker 1: a zone when you play against his zone defense, sometimes
Speaker 1: the progression comes in a little bit more in that
Speaker 1: regard if you're reading top down or left or right
Speaker 1: or and so. Um. You know, some of it was
Speaker 1: just me not making the either the right throw or
Speaker 1: picking the right matchup. Um, but just just stuff that
Speaker 1: I need to get better at. And you know, for me, um,
Speaker 1: knowing that there's things that I need to do to improve,
Speaker 1: I think I can get those done and I think
Speaker 1: will be in a better spot this week. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean the great thing with Chan and you know, the
Speaker 1: way that this system works is it's really trying to
Speaker 1: figure out each week the best way to attack a defense.
Speaker 1: And um, you know he's very very multiple and what
Speaker 1: he can do, so um, sometimes it will evolve week
Speaker 1: to week. Sometimes it will look the same. But um,
Speaker 1: I think we felt very comfortable going into the game
Speaker 1: with the plan that we had. I think guys did
Speaker 1: a good job of understanding what we're trying to get
Speaker 1: done and we just got to do a better job
Speaker 1: of going out there and executing it. But so far,
Speaker 1: so good this week, great day of practice today. Just
Speaker 1: it wasn't perfect, but in terms of the intensity and
Speaker 1: the way that we practice and starting to understand and
Speaker 1: digest a little bit how we're going to attack the Bills.
Speaker 1: But each each week is definitely different, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: one of chance strengths is being able to change it
Speaker 1: up team to team and make it easy on our
Speaker 1: guys mentally. If it's kind of wanted to go off
Speaker 1: of a couple of questions you answered already. You talked
Speaker 1: about the challenges of going between a man's zone defense
Speaker 1: and also how you want to the best approach you know,
Speaker 1: each week's opponent, This Buffalo Bills defense has a couple
Speaker 1: of guys that really just get ball production and Micah Hyde,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer and Tradeous White. How is your approach going
Speaker 1: up against those guys and maybe more of a zone
Speaker 1: based defense. This defense is just very multiple and what
Speaker 1: they do they can do a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I mean you look at some of
Speaker 1: that stuff. Micah I definitely a ball hockey. Put it
Speaker 1: anywhere close to him, he's gonna catch it to day
Speaker 1: this wide obviously having a little bit of experience playing
Speaker 1: against him, Um, you know, he does a great job
Speaker 1: and was rewarded for That's he's a tough guy, tough matchup. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, there are certain
Speaker 1: things when we're going we've got to play to our
Speaker 1: strengths too, and you know we've got to rely on
Speaker 1: our guys to go out there and make plays and
Speaker 1: put him in good positions. So, um, you know, each
Speaker 1: week is a different challenge. They definitely have a very good, fast,
Speaker 1: experienced defense and what they're you know, everybody understanding what
Speaker 1: they're trying to get done, and so it's it's funny
Speaker 1: every week. This is a lot different looking defense than
Speaker 1: uh New England's was, but in terms of productivity, these
Speaker 1: these guys are really tough to play against as well.
Speaker 1: So it'll be a good challenge for We're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and go over to the other side of the
Speaker 1: football here the Dolphins defense, and first here from Shack Lawson.
Speaker 1: We'll get Kyle Van Noyd next, but Shack Lawson starts
Speaker 1: off here first talking about the run defense and how
Speaker 1: it's got to get better. I was hard on myself
Speaker 1: and know um as a leader, as a as a
Speaker 1: defensive line. Period. It starts up front and all the
Speaker 1: guys in the D line we took for responsibility of
Speaker 1: of that for not stopping the run. So I just
Speaker 1: hold ourselves accountable and we just gotta continue to do
Speaker 1: better and stop it. Stop it this week because that's
Speaker 1: what that's what the NFL WANs trying to do, is
Speaker 1: started to run and things like that. Hey Shack my
Speaker 1: questions about the challenges of the zone read and what
Speaker 1: that presents such act the quarterback kind of read you
Speaker 1: on that play. How different is your approach to find
Speaker 1: the run against the zone read opposed to a team
Speaker 1: that maybe has more of a traditional drop back pass
Speaker 1: around traditional running game. US basically depend on a defensive run.
Speaker 1: At that time, people got different responsibility on the zonn read.
Speaker 1: So it really depends on the call. But you know,
Speaker 1: the zone read, it's been around for minutes. It's a
Speaker 1: college play. Uh, they're bringing it back in the league.
Speaker 1: You know, successful of mobile quarterbacks do the zone read?
Speaker 1: Not from you? You just gotta defended in the right way,
Speaker 1: and we gotta get leven hats to the ball. Up next, here,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear Shaq talk about the Bill's offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: his familiarity with them, and how that might help him
Speaker 1: prepare this week for a team he knows so well.
Speaker 1: Oh not like you said, Man, I know am out
Speaker 1: of these guys. I've seen them play and I was
Speaker 1: with them every day, um and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, everybody got a weakness to their
Speaker 1: games and stuff. So I'm just just help them those
Speaker 1: guys on stuff that we need to get, help us
Speaker 1: to see the stuff. Yeah, I can remember those guys
Speaker 1: is doing and how how those guys block, you know,
Speaker 1: and things like that. But man, at the end of
Speaker 1: the days, it's gonna be a great match up because
Speaker 1: it's a great de line versus the great online And
Speaker 1: we go ahead and finish up here with Shaq talking
Speaker 1: about how difficult it is to rush the past or
Speaker 1: with the team you're going up against has so much
Speaker 1: success on the ground, and how it might affect you
Speaker 1: mentally as you prepare for every snap, not knowing if
Speaker 1: the run or the past is coming. Yeah, it do it.
Speaker 1: Do because I mean, you're not getting in that world
Speaker 1: that drop back zone drop back, make them to pass.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was kind of frustrating, but that's how
Speaker 1: the leaves started. Man each offensive coordinate and the NFL
Speaker 1: was always going to do it. Start a game all
Speaker 1: by running and but basically trying you gotta make their
Speaker 1: one to miss them man get him in the air.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a big part of stopping to run.
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta take pride in it. It's
Speaker 1: basically somebody running up your gap. So at the last
Speaker 1: week performance and I took pride in it, and I
Speaker 1: put that on me, put that on me. I didn't
Speaker 1: do my part and things like that. But this week
Speaker 1: I'd definitely do better. And let's go ahead and make
Speaker 1: it short and sweet here with Kyle van Noy with
Speaker 1: one question from yours truly. Hey, Kyle's good to see you, man.
Speaker 1: Uh My question is about the challenges that presented by
Speaker 1: the zone read on the offensive side as you're trying
Speaker 1: to kind of read your keys. How much can that
Speaker 1: little delay is the quarterback rides that mesh point out
Speaker 1: impact your ability to make those reads of those keys.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Travis Um. Obviously everyone thinks they're
Speaker 1: a football coach nowadays and thinks they know what your
Speaker 1: assignment is. But um, I was playing my assignment, taking
Speaker 1: my responsibility away in the game. Obviously it switches depending
Speaker 1: on what play they're running, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: was trying to do my best. And I think the
Speaker 1: more and more we go over it in practice and
Speaker 1: the guys get on the same page, the more and
Speaker 1: more we'll get better at it. Cam Newton had a
Speaker 1: little success, um, and I feel like we took it away,
Speaker 1: But then there were other runs that he started to
Speaker 1: create a little bit more. So hopefully we can limit
Speaker 1: those this week again into josh Alan because we know
Speaker 1: that they're gonna probably do it because it was successful
Speaker 1: against us, So we got to do a better job
Speaker 1: as a group. I gotta do a better job and
Speaker 1: hopefully we can get this uh QB run taken care of. All. Right,
Speaker 1: there you go. Kyle van noy Schat Laws and Ryan
Speaker 1: for Actric, Solomon Kinley, Sean McDermott, Brian Flores plenty of
Speaker 1: content on this Wednesday hump Day edition of the Drivetime
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