Speaker 1: That keeps your Bookie Brown fail touchdown Miami us want
Speaker 1: to run? What is up? Dolphans And Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network,
Speaker 1: covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as I do
Speaker 1: every single day, I'm here to bring you your daily
Speaker 1: dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, a
Speaker 1: special edition of Drive Time, we have a special announcement
Speaker 1: coming up. On today's podcast, I'm gonna be joined by
Speaker 1: the guys from the Fish Tank, Seth Levitt, oh J McDuffie.
Speaker 1: I don't want to waste any more time. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and jump right in with Seth and o J
Speaker 1: from the Fish Tank to do this podcast, talk about
Speaker 1: Jets Week and announce our special announcement from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcasts. Don't want to waste anytime. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get to my two guests today, Seth Levitt,
Speaker 1: oh J McDuffie, and I'm very happy to be joined
Speaker 1: by my two favorite guests, frequent occurring guests here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. My guys on the five sixty post
Speaker 1: game show The Fish Tank. They're diving into the Drivetime
Speaker 1: Podcast today, Seth Levitt, Oh, Jim mcduffee, what's going on, guys,
Speaker 1: Jets weak man, that's what's going on to respond there,
Speaker 1: but hey, I'll take it. Can't wait. So the reason
Speaker 1: we're having the crossover edition today, we used to do
Speaker 1: this every single Friday, where the guys would come on,
Speaker 1: but now I I do so much radio and podcasting
Speaker 1: with you, I'm sick of you guys by the end
Speaker 1: of the week, so we don't do that anymore. But um,
Speaker 1: we'll have We have kind of a special announcement that
Speaker 1: I suppose has already been announced a few times by
Speaker 1: myself and I think you guys as well on on
Speaker 1: Twitter and the like. But we're going to Jersey for
Speaker 1: the game. We're going up to to the Meadowlands for
Speaker 1: the MetLife takeover. And before we get started on that,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you guys, because I kind of
Speaker 1: have a very Larry David set of rules when it
Speaker 1: comes to lying juice, what does airplane etiquette mean to you?
Speaker 1: M Plane etiquette? Now, that was a guess a go, right, there. Um,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that you have to
Speaker 1: be when it comes to etiquet or an airplane. Correct.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very uptight about it. So I wanted
Speaker 1: to hear your guys as a your takes. Man. There's
Speaker 1: a there's plenty of things. It sounds like we need
Speaker 1: to hear yours. Yeah, I think that was a bad
Speaker 1: intro into us. I'll just go ahead and tell you.
Speaker 1: Number one, don't recline your seat. There's already not enough
Speaker 1: room behind you to begin with, so don't do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Number two, don't fall asleep in the aisle row when
Speaker 1: you have two people inside of you. If you have
Speaker 1: like a three plus our flight. I've got all kinds
Speaker 1: of them, guys, all kinds of them. Well mine, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got you know, my my biggest pettieve I usually
Speaker 1: have is the is the damn the common elbow rest?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Now, who pressing on the
Speaker 1: elbow rest on you know, on the arm rest? I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know, man. It's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you've got the window, you know, you should probably
Speaker 1: use the window side you're in the middle, you probably
Speaker 1: get you know a little bit more leeway, you know,
Speaker 1: and then on the on the on the outside, you know.
Speaker 1: I feel bad for them anyways, because you know, they
Speaker 1: can't stick a foot out there. They're run over. So
Speaker 1: it's the it's the arm resting that that you have
Speaker 1: to really be considered about, especially for the person in
Speaker 1: the middle. Yeah, I think the middle seat gets both armrests.
Speaker 1: That's always been my approach, Seth, what say you weigh
Speaker 1: in here? Big Doug in the in the reclining seat.
Speaker 1: Although I can't necessarily blame the person. I mean, if
Speaker 1: the seat reclines and you paid for your seat, then
Speaker 1: you kind of have the right to recline, but it
Speaker 1: is no fun for the person behind it. Really, it's
Speaker 1: the airlines that need to be blamed for that. I mean,
Speaker 1: how much damn room can you can How many seats
Speaker 1: can you squeeze into a Blaine? It's ridiculous. But I
Speaker 1: think the thing that gets me is when you get
Speaker 1: to your seat, you know, and you've waited depending on
Speaker 1: where you're sitting juice, and you get over to your
Speaker 1: seat and you pop open the overhead and it's completely
Speaker 1: full with luggage, but there's nobody sitting down over there.
Speaker 1: So it's the people that you know, they just start
Speaker 1: stuffing luggage and every overhead there is, and then you've
Speaker 1: got to go put your luggage, you know, thirty seats
Speaker 1: away from your own. That's something that I can't get
Speaker 1: down with. But ultimately my biggest pet be not a
Speaker 1: pet feed, but my biggest requirement just get me here safely. Man.
Speaker 1: I hate to fly. That was like every week, you know,
Speaker 1: traveling on the road was Man, as soon as those
Speaker 1: wheels up until it's wheels down, my anxiety is on
Speaker 1: ten and I just can't wait till we land. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. So do we need a fish tank
Speaker 1: bus Madden style for you guys? I hate to drive too,
Speaker 1: so I will fly. I will fly, I just hate
Speaker 1: to fly. Those are those are really good ones. I
Speaker 1: think the people that put the luggage in the incorrect
Speaker 1: spot are the same ones who get up in line
Speaker 1: at their boarding group, like three groups in advance and
Speaker 1: just stand there and cause a huge line. And then
Speaker 1: my final one before we get out of this airplane talk.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff, but a long, long loss loss segment
Speaker 1: here is when people get up off the when the
Speaker 1: plane lands, and they get up and stand there and
Speaker 1: try to rush and head of you like it files out.
Speaker 1: Everyone gets there, turn to go out of the saint
Speaker 1: like in the order of where you sat. That's my
Speaker 1: biggest pet. Peeple. Think you're the one that got to
Speaker 1: see in the back of the plane. Man, you know
Speaker 1: that's your that's your own damn fault. There you got.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. There you go. So I talking about
Speaker 1: one air plans, talk about one of the planes in
Speaker 1: the division. We do not like a horrible segue there
Speaker 1: as we talk about Dolphins and Jets. First game of
Speaker 1: the year between these two rivals coming up. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think the rivalries for the Miami Dolphins kind of
Speaker 1: depend on when you were born or when your fandom
Speaker 1: really came to be as far as you like, when
Speaker 1: you really got into the sport, into the team. But
Speaker 1: for me, it kind of is off a little bit
Speaker 1: because I became a little bit more like hardcore of
Speaker 1: a Dolphins fan late nineties early two thousand's. But I
Speaker 1: loathe the New York Jets. I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: here first, Juice, as you've played in that building absolutely, Uh,
Speaker 1: what is your favorite Metal Lands memory? Oh? Man, there's
Speaker 1: so many good times we come out, there were some
Speaker 1: wins men. Obviously the Spike play, you know that that
Speaker 1: that resonates big time with me because, um, you know
Speaker 1: that was a game we're getting our bus walk and
Speaker 1: made to come back and then at the end, you know,
Speaker 1: for us to come up with that play with Danny
Speaker 1: and mark Ingraman was just was just special. Um, you
Speaker 1: know if the Spike play, for sure, I've had a
Speaker 1: couple of other incidents where you know, we weren't playing
Speaker 1: very well. I gotta play with Charles Jordan's. Charles Jordan's
Speaker 1: just makes makes a catch and it makes a nice
Speaker 1: for a run and almost around the five and I
Speaker 1: had this you know, this whole joke, paternal thing, always
Speaker 1: say go to the ball, go to the ball, Go
Speaker 1: to the ball. So I'm on the left side, I
Speaker 1: go to the ball. Next you know, the ball bounces
Speaker 1: basically into my hands. I grabbed it and going and
Speaker 1: score you know off of that fumble. Uh. So there
Speaker 1: are so many times we're going in there and gotten wins.
Speaker 1: I think the best part about the Metal Lands is
Speaker 1: leaving out of there with dubs. Whenever the douve and
Speaker 1: you don't have bus man. Uh, It's been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. The hardest part though, chaves Man usually stay
Speaker 1: right across the street, but still took me forty five
Speaker 1: minutes to get there. You know, we should just off
Speaker 1: the turn Parker, the highway, whatever it is, Big seven
Speaker 1: get to the game. But no, that wasn't happening man.
Speaker 1: So but you know, those are couples that police as
Speaker 1: court care less, care less about getting you there. They're
Speaker 1: all you know, that union, the whole thing. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get there when they wanted you to get there for sure,
Speaker 1: that's frustrating. I mean, we we work across from the
Speaker 1: stadium here and it takes me about a two minute
Speaker 1: ride to get over the stadium here at hard Rock.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, Seth same question to you, man,
Speaker 1: like you and I have different experiences than Juice too. Obviously,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite memory inside the meadow lands? Because I'm
Speaker 1: kind of thinking about this. A lot of my favorite
Speaker 1: Jets Dolphins memories occurred down here. I have one, very
Speaker 1: obvious one, but what do you say? Well, so it's
Speaker 1: interesting to have to follow Juice right because none of
Speaker 1: my memories are gonna be anywhere near as cool as
Speaker 1: his um. But I think just just the I don't
Speaker 1: even want to use the word pageant, but it's it's
Speaker 1: almost a circus going out there. Man, it's you know,
Speaker 1: the energy level, the angst. The last time I don't
Speaker 1: even remember what it was, it had to be the
Speaker 1: two thousand three season, but the last time we played
Speaker 1: against the Jets out there where I worked for the team,
Speaker 1: there was a guy getting tossed from the stadium before
Speaker 1: kickoff because of a fight in the stands. I'm like,
Speaker 1: how is this already happening? We went out there, it
Speaker 1: was warm ups, juice, and the guy was getting tossed.
Speaker 1: So it's just always a little crazy, very creative, the
Speaker 1: things that you know that come out of fans mouths
Speaker 1: as they're heckling focus down there. You know. That's that
Speaker 1: to me as part of what makes the rivalry special.
Speaker 1: So really just just every time we're there, there's something
Speaker 1: unique that's gonna happen. Yeah, I've always wondered about the
Speaker 1: guy that winds up rushing the field baseball football or
Speaker 1: otherwise on like the first inning or after the opening kickoff,
Speaker 1: like at least get your money's worth and go on
Speaker 1: the final like the final play of the game. Or something.
Speaker 1: It's always been my thought, Yeah, he must have dinner
Speaker 1: plans or something. You're not gonna make those plans. Well,
Speaker 1: he thought he was gonna get across the field, try
Speaker 1: to Creed's assassin his way out of the out of
Speaker 1: the bleachers there and get his way out of saying
Speaker 1: before he gets caught. But no, I mean, my favorite memory,
Speaker 1: it's a it's an easy one, and kind of to
Speaker 1: go back to that original point I made to you guys.
Speaker 1: You know, my first real indoctrination into kind of the
Speaker 1: media world, and it wasn't even media. It was just
Speaker 1: a Dolphin's message board. But really, how I learned how
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, articulate my thoughts and learn
Speaker 1: the game of football was on various Miami Dolphins message
Speaker 1: boards when I was in high school and into college
Speaker 1: and beyond that. And there was this weird crossover between
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Jets message boards that even though the rivalry
Speaker 1: wasn't like super hot at that time, they just I
Speaker 1: think it was a carry over from years and years
Speaker 1: of hating each other, and so I just I began
Speaker 1: to develop this real disdain for the fan base as
Speaker 1: a large based off a few people I spoke to,
Speaker 1: which is obviously always a mistake because every fan base
Speaker 1: has good and bad and unruly and everything in between fans.
Speaker 1: And then also the bravado of Rex Ryan really really
Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way those years, because I always said, like,
Speaker 1: at least the Patriots have won something and they talk
Speaker 1: and you know, the Jets, they don't have a championship
Speaker 1: in their in their cupboard. So that always bothered me.
Speaker 1: And that brings me back to the pre Rex Ryan
Speaker 1: era though, the two thousand eight Chad Pennington Wildcat game
Speaker 1: to go in there with the quarterback they said goodbye
Speaker 1: to in favor of Brett Farve, uh, you know, and
Speaker 1: they took a huge lead the division that season. To
Speaker 1: go in there after losing opening Day in week seventeen
Speaker 1: and get a victory in their house with their former
Speaker 1: quarterback to clinch a division title, the last one we've
Speaker 1: had around here. That like, I kind of cheered up
Speaker 1: in that game, if I'm honest with you, guys, that
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite football games of all time.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you can never beat that memory. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you probably cheered up in quite a few
Speaker 1: games about the dollars on your sleeve. This just one instance, right,
Speaker 1: you're read is very right. Trus earlier in the year
Speaker 1: when he thought Jaylen Wattle got hurt on the sideline.
Speaker 1: You know, it's an emotional guy. As an emotional guy.
Speaker 1: If we're talking about the rivalry in general, I mean,
Speaker 1: I was raised to hate the Jets. We fired a babysitter.
Speaker 1: We had these New Yorkers, you know this apartment I
Speaker 1: lived in Hollywood, Florida, and this guy was a huge
Speaker 1: Jets fan, and uh and then he started talking trash
Speaker 1: after you know, the Jets beat the Dolphins, and my
Speaker 1: stepdad and I were all piste off and then they
Speaker 1: come in and and run in his mouth. My step that
Speaker 1: fired him on the spot wasn't for the hour, the
Speaker 1: whole deal. He ran him right out of there. So
Speaker 1: so the rivalry runs deep, it runs deep. That's incredible.
Speaker 1: That's the greatest thing I've ever heard as far as
Speaker 1: the Dolphins Jets story. I mean, that's that's someone's livelihood.
Speaker 1: The line you're not gonna come in here where in
Speaker 1: that that shade of green and trying to support that
Speaker 1: that organization. What about you Jews, because like, obviously don't
Speaker 1: don't do that. You played against them. But what about
Speaker 1: in your post playing career, is there a memory like
Speaker 1: when you were And this can be in Miami two
Speaker 1: because you went to so many games, but there had
Speaker 1: to have been a time after you played against them
Speaker 1: that you were like, Man, I still don't like these guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well I never will. Like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like the Jets, the Path, the Bills. He I still
Speaker 1: don't like the Colus, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it don't matter to me. Man, if you
Speaker 1: played in that division all those years that I was
Speaker 1: there and up to now, yeah, just just pure hatred.
Speaker 1: I've got one of my best friends who's a serious
Speaker 1: Jets fan, you know, and he actually had season tickets
Speaker 1: with me when I stopped playing at the Dolphins games,
Speaker 1: you know, and he'd be all like dolphing out and
Speaker 1: stuffing the Jets coming town. He all this ugly green
Speaker 1: stuff for him, you know, And so it became a problem.
Speaker 1: It's still a problem to this day. You know. He
Speaker 1: asked some tickets for a jetz game. I said, now,
Speaker 1: we don't. I don't have anything. I don't know where
Speaker 1: to finding it. Though there was a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of other outlets, Big Seth, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, to find some tickets? Yeah, so true ahead, No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna saying full transparency. I guess what we
Speaker 1: can ignore is there was one season where my boss
Speaker 1: was wearing those colors and that was a very challenging,
Speaker 1: uh and awkward position to be in for sure. So
Speaker 1: so I have to say I I did go to
Speaker 1: a game that was a non Dolphins game out there,
Speaker 1: uh to cheer on JT and you know, and then
Speaker 1: clearly when Jason was playing for the Jets, they came
Speaker 1: down here, uh and and played in what is now
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium, and I had to wear Jason Taylor
Speaker 1: foundation gear to both kings. You know. That was that
Speaker 1: was the only way to get around all that. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell this, Travis, Man, it took me a
Speaker 1: long time to get over j and those colors. Man.
Speaker 1: Steth would tell you, Man, Man, if it want to
Speaker 1: Big Set, I probably wouldn't. I probably went with the
Speaker 1: zero Jason Taylor found Dason events. It wasn't because of
Speaker 1: that that that game Greeny he was wearing. Man. But
Speaker 1: you know, big Set is my man. So I said,
Speaker 1: all right, Seth, I'm gonna do it for you. I'm
Speaker 1: not doing it for j T. I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: for you. I'm gonna tell you pr on damage control
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, without without question, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: right now, seth. Those back to back a f C
Speaker 1: Championship games they went to, certainly, you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of told you, guys, that was when the height of
Speaker 1: the rivalry was. As far as how emotionally invested I
Speaker 1: was as an emotional guys, We've already gone ahead and
Speaker 1: declaring the podcast here, But those two games, aside from
Speaker 1: Dolphins games, I've never been more invested in in in
Speaker 1: a football game. And to see the Jets, well, the
Speaker 1: Patriots super Bowl against the Giants the first time was
Speaker 1: definitely up there as well. But the Jets not going
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl was so important for me, and
Speaker 1: seeing JT play in that game and play well, man,
Speaker 1: you talk about emotional. I didn't know what to do
Speaker 1: with myself because I love JT and everything that he
Speaker 1: did for the Miami Dolphins organization and you know, now
Speaker 1: getting to know him a little bit, but it just
Speaker 1: it was really weird seeing him in that shade of
Speaker 1: green man. It was an uneasy weekend for me that
Speaker 1: year he was in the ANFC championship game. I can imagine. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take Let's go ahead and move on.
Speaker 1: Let's time. Let's talk about more modern modern Dolphins and
Speaker 1: Jets here. So we're going up to the game this week,
Speaker 1: and I believe we're all flying together, see if we
Speaker 1: can make it a Dolphins party on that on that flight.
Speaker 1: But what are you guys most excited about for this trip?
Speaker 1: I know we probably got a lot planned and I'm
Speaker 1: not quite privy too yet exactly as far as nailing
Speaker 1: down our schedule on our weekend itinerary, but I know
Speaker 1: we're going up through to meet some Dolphins fans try
Speaker 1: to promote these podcasts. So juice, what are you most
Speaker 1: excited about? Man? Man, I've been trying to get to
Speaker 1: the MetLife Takeover for years now, Travis, Man, I've been
Speaker 1: trying to get there for years, man, and finally finally
Speaker 1: finally get an opportunity to go up there and see
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Man. Uh, it's it's such a
Speaker 1: great group of fans. And I'm gonna tell you this, man.
Speaker 1: Everywhere we went on the road and Seth will tell you, man,
Speaker 1: we have some of the best fans, we really do.
Speaker 1: You can hear them. Man, we get upset about fans
Speaker 1: being in our stadium, you know, the road team. But man,
Speaker 1: go to some of these other stadiums and see what happens. Man,
Speaker 1: the MetLife takeover, the doll fans out of there. It's
Speaker 1: it's gonna be special, man. So it's gonna be fun
Speaker 1: to go in there and hang out with these these
Speaker 1: fans that have been doing it for a long time,
Speaker 1: and literally is a takeover. You know, it started like
Speaker 1: maybe one sex in the stadium. Now it's two or
Speaker 1: three sex of the statium. Now they got you know,
Speaker 1: crossover drive time with with this ain't coming. You know,
Speaker 1: it could be better than that, bro? What could be
Speaker 1: better than that? My my favorite thing. What is better
Speaker 1: than that is when the Dolphins win games there, and
Speaker 1: they've done a pretty good job of that lately actually
Speaker 1: in the last several years, is that, let's go a
Speaker 1: Dolphins chance to start pouring down from the three section.
Speaker 1: There is no sweeter sound in all of football than that. Seth.
Speaker 1: What do you think, man, We're heading up there for
Speaker 1: a big game on Sunday. What are you looking forward
Speaker 1: to Yeah, that's that. You know that that Dolphin n
Speaker 1: y C. Crew is phenomenal and Shell Igor and everybody there,
Speaker 1: and and you know, great fan base to be to
Speaker 1: be Dolphins fans and literally take over a bar over
Speaker 1: there and make it your own and build just a
Speaker 1: whole fan base there in enemy territory says a lot
Speaker 1: about the type of fans that they are. I see
Speaker 1: every year what they're doing for the takeover and it's
Speaker 1: really exciting. Um and and yeah, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: going out there for it. They also raise a ton
Speaker 1: of money. They're a nonprofit, very charitable. They've raised money
Speaker 1: for our foundation, and they raised money for a lot
Speaker 1: of different foundations associated with the Miami Dolphins and and
Speaker 1: that will continue, uh this weekend. So I'm very excited
Speaker 1: about that. But I'm also you know, it's funny because
Speaker 1: you guys are the XS and those guys, But I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing this Miamie Dolphins football team get
Speaker 1: back on the field. Man. I mean that's that Thursday
Speaker 1: night game. You know, I was like, I left me
Speaker 1: want more. So I hope that we can pick up
Speaker 1: on the field right where we left off and bring
Speaker 1: some of that energy into the into the meadow lands
Speaker 1: and um, you know now MetLife, um and and hope
Speaker 1: we can continue to see some really good Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: football as well. Now let's let's talk about that right there.
Speaker 1: That's a great point, because I mean, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: there's some juice with the fan bation. It wasn't It
Speaker 1: was a tough start to the season. A couple of
Speaker 1: wins in five days got has everybody a little bit
Speaker 1: fired up right now. Brian Flores announced earlier on Monday
Speaker 1: that to a tongue of by Lowe will be the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for that game, you know, barring any any
Speaker 1: pickups or in practice or anything like that. So I
Speaker 1: think everyone's excited to get him back out there and
Speaker 1: hopefully even healthier because you know, Flores and he both
Speaker 1: talked about the fact that the finger was a little
Speaker 1: bit limited in terms of how he could grip the football.
Speaker 1: But let's go ahead and pick it up right there, juice,
Speaker 1: and we'll get back into to uh, you know, this
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Jets game and the rivalry and everything. But
Speaker 1: just with two a last week and kind of going
Speaker 1: forward down the stretch of the season. Here what you
Speaker 1: see in that game, the impressed June, and what do
Speaker 1: you expect here over the final what is the seven games?
Speaker 1: Now we've already ten games into the season. What do
Speaker 1: you expect here the final seven games? From two a
Speaker 1: toungle by Looa. Yeah, man, that's a great point there.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a thing. Man, nobody gave us any
Speaker 1: weight or any credit for the Houston Texas win. But
Speaker 1: then the Thursday night game against Baltimore ravens Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, he were starting to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about how the defense starting to play,
Speaker 1: and what Toua did coming in off the bench as
Speaker 1: the reliever, you know, was awesome. It started off a
Speaker 1: little rough, and I'm like, oh no, I was a
Speaker 1: little worried the beginning. But he found his legs, he
Speaker 1: found his stride, made some big plays, made some big throws. Man,
Speaker 1: defense did what they did. But I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: where he goes if he can continue on this, on this,
Speaker 1: on this this little road, this little path that he's
Speaker 1: on with the defense like that, man, he could be
Speaker 1: very special. That's the key, though, Man, look at some
Speaker 1: of these other guys that are going out there and
Speaker 1: played well, if they've got a solid defense on one side,
Speaker 1: even on my opportunities, they don't have to do everything
Speaker 1: to help the team win. I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: key for for two of moving forward, and there will
Speaker 1: be some games that he will go out there and win.
Speaker 1: So I think that having that defense on that side,
Speaker 1: of playing that type of football, to being smart with
Speaker 1: the football and taking his opportunities when he gets a chance,
Speaker 1: that's a recipe for success. Even teams are starting to
Speaker 1: come around. So we get those three phases working, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be special. But it starts with that
Speaker 1: in the defense. And two, can he can actually ride
Speaker 1: that wave and be very successful as a quarterback for us? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned other quarterbacks around the league because
Speaker 1: right now I think you're getting a good look at rookies,
Speaker 1: for instance, who are having success. It's it's a balanced
Speaker 1: recipe complimentary football. It's good defense, a good running game,
Speaker 1: and the passing game kind of compliments those two factors
Speaker 1: as well. What's the use Saith You know Jews talks
Speaker 1: about the defense. I mean that's kind of where it
Speaker 1: starts and ends right now. Right this this defense a
Speaker 1: lot three weeks, they've kind of remade who they are
Speaker 1: in a sense in terms of the zero pressure looks.
Speaker 1: We talked about Brandon Jones and Javon Hall and pressuring
Speaker 1: outrageously right now in terms of the number of blitzes
Speaker 1: and a number of times they get home on those
Speaker 1: blitz is an impact to play, what do you think
Speaker 1: man defense going forward? And then uh, maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit of a boost from the offense as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what we talked about the post team, that this
Speaker 1: team butters its bread. You know, this team is built
Speaker 1: to be strong defensively. I think that's where earlier in
Speaker 1: the season there was a lot of head scratching because
Speaker 1: you know, we we weren't seeing what we had hoped
Speaker 1: for expected. But man, oh man, the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks they've played lights out and uh, you know who
Speaker 1: doesn't want another spoonful of Javan Holland right now? I mean,
Speaker 1: that guy's you know, playing the I said it on
Speaker 1: the post game the last two weeks he's played at
Speaker 1: an all pro level. I'm not saying he's an all pro.
Speaker 1: He's got to earn that. He's a young guy, um
Speaker 1: and and there's a lot of exciting potential there. But
Speaker 1: the last two weeks he's played as well as anybody,
Speaker 1: and and I'm looking to see what you know, justice,
Speaker 1: you know it man, Once guys start to get in
Speaker 1: the rhythm and start to believe in themselves and starts
Speaker 1: to see that they can do it, and as you said,
Speaker 1: kind of start to shake that rookie, that that rookie
Speaker 1: tag off a little bit and they start playing like
Speaker 1: vets and he's playing like one. I think we're starting
Speaker 1: to see that from Phillips as well. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: guys who we are accustomed to playing well. Of course,
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard always brings it um and and there's no
Speaker 1: way that they're not going to be up for Jets week,
Speaker 1: you know, So we know that's gonna be the case.
Speaker 1: And I just can't see. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what the defense does. But I think that you brought
Speaker 1: up a really good point as it relates to to uh.
Speaker 1: You know, last week he talked about having to take
Speaker 1: mental reps that he was he did not practice with
Speaker 1: the ones um and I do think that showed a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know that and the fact he's got
Speaker 1: a broken finger in his thrown and fractured, whatever the
Speaker 1: right term is. I don't want to say the wrong thing,
Speaker 1: but you know, in fairness to uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: do think it showed a little bit, but he rallied
Speaker 1: and and he did exactly what you needed, what needed
Speaker 1: to be done. But let's god forget when he came
Speaker 1: back from the broken ribs. Those were two of his
Speaker 1: best games as in Minor Dolphin UM and so I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that he could continue to find that rhythm and
Speaker 1: continue to excel. Yeah, I agree with except I think
Speaker 1: UM two is starting to find him. Man. I think
Speaker 1: we're starting to find some other guys that out there
Speaker 1: making plays, you know, for him to you know, getting
Speaker 1: water more involved with outstanding the other day, even guys
Speaker 1: like Isaiah Ford when they get their opportunities or making
Speaker 1: plays with Sicky not having any catches but still being
Speaker 1: a factor, taking a couple of guys with him all
Speaker 1: the time. You know, that was huge for us. You
Speaker 1: don't want to make a habit out of that though,
Speaker 1: Yeah I don't either. You still got to give those chances,
Speaker 1: those opportunities, man. But you know, I just trust with
Speaker 1: two of what I've seen is that he's gonna go
Speaker 1: to the right place with the rock. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna make the right decision. Man. That's what you want
Speaker 1: from your quarter, from your leader. Can't force a certain places.
Speaker 1: You gotta be smart about it. And I supposed coming
Speaker 1: right now. And look at the other guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you talked about two and javan you know them, they're
Speaker 1: in their thirteen game right now, three preseason and ten
Speaker 1: regular seasons. They're starting to come around. It's starting to
Speaker 1: get it. And the fact that Javon Holland's coming around,
Speaker 1: I think that's the reason we're able to do some
Speaker 1: of the things that we expected to see from our
Speaker 1: defense because the young guys are starting to get in now.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys up front, I already knew what
Speaker 1: they were doing. Now the guys in the back end
Speaker 1: and starting to get it, and that's been huge for
Speaker 1: our successful last couple of games. He's playing so fast
Speaker 1: that that hit that we talked about on the post
Speaker 1: game show where we said he set the tone. You know, Seth,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that kind of the physicality over that game
Speaker 1: being set by Javon Holland. You watch him on that play,
Speaker 1: He's like twenty yards off. The football comes from depth.
Speaker 1: He never decelerates and takes all of the energy into
Speaker 1: the hit. I mean, you guys know how I feel
Speaker 1: about him. I think he's a special, special player. Been
Speaker 1: fun to watch. I want to come back to the
Speaker 1: matchup here in just a second. But we all just
Speaker 1: got a text. I don't know if you guys saw
Speaker 1: it from the man himself, Jason Jenkins. He sent us
Speaker 1: the hype video of Juice with TV on the sideline
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Juice, that's gonna be a weekly thing. Man,
Speaker 1: were at least gonna have something like this at the
Speaker 1: MetLife takeover? How can we not? Man, I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: it was I was so damn nervous, but I was
Speaker 1: so hyped. Man, I was so fired up. Bro, it
Speaker 1: was like all they have Butterfly. I didn't eat all day, man,
Speaker 1: because I knew I was gonna be out there. I
Speaker 1: didn't even tell my kids that I was gonna be
Speaker 1: on the field. I said. I told my my oldest son,
Speaker 1: I said, j J record. He said, like, for what
Speaker 1: what am I recording for? Then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they handed me the mic and man, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: after the game. I got about forty text messages about
Speaker 1: how they got hyped. My friends that were in the
Speaker 1: stands got hyped for it. I said, I was hyped
Speaker 1: to man, and I hope that we continue to do
Speaker 1: Juice to hype Man for every every Dolphin game. You know,
Speaker 1: I can do it for anywhere in the stadium. I
Speaker 1: don't care where it's that. Just give me the Michae
Speaker 1: Liz Roll. I want to see you maybe, uh maybe
Speaker 1: to spend down onto the fields like the like, who
Speaker 1: is the wrestler that used to do that? Was it? Like?
Speaker 1: I forgot his name. I don't know. I'm not a
Speaker 1: big wrestling fan. The guy that would come down for
Speaker 1: the zip line into the stadium, that's you. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna zip line brow brothers. Brothers don't do that. Man,
Speaker 1: brothers don't get down like that. Fair point. Fair point. Well,
Speaker 1: it's I think either you guys or I should to
Speaker 1: text or tweet that out because a great video that is.
Speaker 1: And if you guys do, I'll retweet it for you
Speaker 1: as well. So just I just thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: He sent us that video in the middle of recording
Speaker 1: this podcast. He'll be happy to know we're doing this.
Speaker 1: I haven't told him we're doing this yet, but it'll
Speaker 1: be a good podcast that comes out on Drive Time
Speaker 1: here on Tuesday. But right back to the topic here
Speaker 1: real quick, guys. You know I mentioned the Jet. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have had success in that building. They have road
Speaker 1: wins in so trying to avoid the every other year
Speaker 1: thing here and get this wine. And you know, Brian
Speaker 1: Flores since he got here is three and one against
Speaker 1: the New York judge juice. How have they done that?
Speaker 1: You guys talked about defense a lot in the previous segment.
Speaker 1: There a lot of that's because the defensive success, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot of deeper success. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I haven't just be real here to The Jets have
Speaker 1: been very good, you know, and so whenever you're playing
Speaker 1: his team, you're supposed to beat no matter where it's that.
Speaker 1: You got to go in there and beat him. And
Speaker 1: I think we feel the same way about Born in
Speaker 1: there this week, you know, and getting that opportunity to
Speaker 1: play them up there. Um, but you have to go
Speaker 1: into New York or Jersey and beat these guys, and
Speaker 1: you play him again a few weeks later, you have
Speaker 1: to beat him again. You know, you still have you know,
Speaker 1: the opportunity you know, to to beat New England later,
Speaker 1: so you just you gotta do what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to the Jets, to stinking Jets,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you have to go in
Speaker 1: and put it on them, you really do. And I
Speaker 1: think that, um, you know we're talking about when we
Speaker 1: become like, you know, understand this rivalry. I hope some
Speaker 1: of the older guys and the veteran guys in that
Speaker 1: locker room that have played in this thing for a
Speaker 1: few years can pass that down to young guys like
Speaker 1: Javan Holler has never played in this game yet. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of other guys and they were Jamen Phillips.
Speaker 1: They were playing in this game yet. But they have
Speaker 1: to learn how to hate this team and then go
Speaker 1: out there smartly and translate that into good football. It's
Speaker 1: a good time to birth some new Jet killers. We
Speaker 1: haven't had one in a while. I think maybe Teddy
Speaker 1: gimm was the last one that consistently uh tore up
Speaker 1: the Jets of all people back in the late two
Speaker 1: thousand's there. But you know, Seth, I think it would
Speaker 1: be for oh against the Jets. For Brian Flores, I
Speaker 1: still strongly disagree two years later with that pass interference
Speaker 1: call on Nick need Um in the Meadowlands. It was
Speaker 1: right around this time of year in that twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: season when the Dolphins were kind of figuring it out
Speaker 1: and getting some wins together, and they called a dp
Speaker 1: I on Nick need Um in the short yard ridge
Speaker 1: like it was like third and fifteen. They threw a
Speaker 1: check down and they called a d p I on
Speaker 1: him that I really disagree with. That would have been
Speaker 1: four and against the Jets. So Brian Flores here seth
Speaker 1: looking to push this thing to four and one against
Speaker 1: the Jets in his first five games against them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a look, if coach Flores was here, my guest juices,
Speaker 1: he would say, what they're looking to go one and
Speaker 1: know this week, so you know, and I will. As
Speaker 1: much as people hate that because they feel it's boring
Speaker 1: or what have you, I actually agree with coach in
Speaker 1: the sense that it doesn't matter. Well, first of all, Jets,
Speaker 1: we can throw the records out regardless, right, you know,
Speaker 1: they have not had the year they wanted. Clearly our
Speaker 1: season didn't get started the way we wanted. We hope
Speaker 1: that we're on a roll now. But none of that
Speaker 1: matters going into this week. They need to get a w.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. So I hope that whatever it's
Speaker 1: been that has led coach flores and and his teams
Speaker 1: to victory continues against the Jets. For a lot of reasons. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things I saw that they
Speaker 1: had a tough outing on Sunday against the Bills. The
Speaker 1: Bills have you know, been been tough for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: have been tough for a lot of teams this here,
Speaker 1: but I know that the Jets defense has not has
Speaker 1: underperformed at least related to the way they want to
Speaker 1: want to see that team performed, and they've sent so
Speaker 1: they've sent some historic uh lows. And this is a
Speaker 1: real opportunity for the Miami Dolphins offense to come out
Speaker 1: there and play their best football that you know, and
Speaker 1: so I hope that we do see that, um, And
Speaker 1: I think that the defense can continue playing the way
Speaker 1: they have been and the and the offense can get
Speaker 1: it rolling, then you know, we'll have a great flight home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Jets last four games, they've been allowing a high point, holl,
Speaker 1: I think the most of anybody in the national Football
Speaker 1: like so a good chance to the Dolphins to kind
Speaker 1: of find their rhythm. I think they have been coming
Speaker 1: along slowly here as we kind of go down the
Speaker 1: stretch of the season. The offensive line I think has
Speaker 1: played a little bit better. We're getting some receivers back
Speaker 1: and they're playing better. I mean, Jalen Widdle continues to
Speaker 1: get better every single week and hopefully to get some
Speaker 1: of those guys back here shortly as well. So a
Speaker 1: big chance to get a big win here. And like
Speaker 1: Seth mentioned, their go want to know this week and
Speaker 1: come back home for nice three game homestand ahead of
Speaker 1: a bye week. So really looking forward to that. Uh,
Speaker 1: just personally and for this Dolphins team as well. But
Speaker 1: I wanted to close the podcast up here with a
Speaker 1: tough question for you guys. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw it in the notes beforehand, but maybe you can
Speaker 1: pass two if you want, Seth, that might be the
Speaker 1: route you take. I just I know how you go
Speaker 1: on these things. My man um most hated or let's
Speaker 1: not say hey no no, no no no, it's hated
Speaker 1: a strong word, your least favorite jet of all time
Speaker 1: all started off just so you guys have some time
Speaker 1: to think about it. Because you know, I would say,
Speaker 1: like Wayne Krbett, but I always respected his game, So
Speaker 1: I didn't dislike him. He just was He was so
Speaker 1: damn good that it was hard to, you know, get
Speaker 1: excited about him. But the guy that I actually can't
Speaker 1: say I just did not like the way he did
Speaker 1: things was Rex Ryan, not a player or coach. So
Speaker 1: my pick is Rex Bryan. What say you, guys, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with I'm gonna go with mo Lewis. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you what mo Lewis. Man. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a man one game, and I thought I was
Speaker 1: gonna crack back and get him one time next Seth
Speaker 1: and Travis and uh I didn't. He did not see
Speaker 1: me coming on a crackback block. It was like a
Speaker 1: toss thirty nine crack. I hit him with everything I had,
Speaker 1: man and uh I just slid down his body like
Speaker 1: a cartoon. He did not move one inch. Bro. It
Speaker 1: was like that was a grown man right there. I
Speaker 1: ran into man so and then he's continued to lay
Speaker 1: the wood on us throughout his whole career with the Jets.
Speaker 1: Man he just he was so deal with and so
Speaker 1: I still don't like him. Man if I saw him
Speaker 1: in the street right now, I wouldn't say nothing. When
Speaker 1: he passed five, I'll be talking again. You know what
Speaker 1: you as a pedestrian a street clothes that's right, man.
Speaker 1: So yeah, mo, Lewis Man was just tough to deal
Speaker 1: with for me, man, and for our team to deal with.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's mine. He's probably mine. You know. Brady
Speaker 1: would have got here eventually, but he also ushered in
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady era faster than I had to. So
Speaker 1: that's another problem I got with Lewis. Fair point. That's
Speaker 1: a fair point. So I definitely am going old man
Speaker 1: here on this one. And and my least favorite there.
Speaker 1: It's twofold one guy, and I don't know anything about him,
Speaker 1: and I know that. So Marty Lions, Marty Lyons is
Speaker 1: uh is the individual who essentially ended Dwight Stevenson's career. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, And and Dwight would never hold that against Marty.
Speaker 1: Probably get mad at me for saying that, um, and
Speaker 1: I know they have great respect for each other, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just the fact that truly the greatest center
Speaker 1: of all time had his career cut short against the
Speaker 1: Jets and a hit that that probably didn't need to
Speaker 1: happen is something that, um, it is hard for me
Speaker 1: to get past. But the guy that I hated, and
Speaker 1: I'll use the word hated. I know you said, you know,
Speaker 1: I get like this. But Mark Gaston, Oh man, if
Speaker 1: you you know, if you're an old Dolphins fan and
Speaker 1: you watched the Jets and Gastono with that crazy hair
Speaker 1: and that sack dance, that was just deplorable. And he'd
Speaker 1: get out there and and do his thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was built to be a guy that Dolphins fans
Speaker 1: are supposed to hate. Uh and and again perfect for
Speaker 1: the rivalry. But he was out there like the ultimate
Speaker 1: warrior or something like it was. You know, it was
Speaker 1: like w And you know, if you watched the Dolphins
Speaker 1: Jets games back then, there's no way you could have
Speaker 1: liked Mark Guesting. No, he was part of the New
Speaker 1: York sack exchange, right, that was his Remember that nickname,
Speaker 1: pretty good nick dame. I'll give him that. But I'm
Speaker 1: with you on the on the players and and the like.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. One one bonus I'll give you,
Speaker 1: guys is Jumbo Elliott just because of the heartbreaking So yeah,
Speaker 1: let's toss him. He should have dropped up all he
Speaker 1: almost dropped it. He he basically did what Rob Hunt
Speaker 1: was trying to do on on Thursday Night with the
Speaker 1: incredible catching run the ineligible man downfield. But either way,
Speaker 1: that's the podcast. Guys. I appreciate you guys coming on today.
Speaker 1: Do you guys want to let us know what's happening
Speaker 1: on the fish Tank today? This is a Tuesday podcast.
Speaker 1: What's coming out today on the fish Tank? Well, once
Speaker 1: you're done listening to this, hopefully you'll go over there
Speaker 1: and download our interview with Hunter. Goodwin talked about it
Speaker 1: in the postgame show. Hunter is not a name that
Speaker 1: you know, you pulled a thousand Dolphins fans. They're not
Speaker 1: all gonna put Hunter in their top ten favorite Dolphins
Speaker 1: of all time. But Hunter is going to definitely be
Speaker 1: a top ten storyteller. Uh. He was a great tight
Speaker 1: end here as a as a you know, one of
Speaker 1: the best blocking tight ends in the league during his
Speaker 1: three years and he was with us. Just a big,
Speaker 1: physical guy, very opinionated guy. Juice. Uh talks about life,
Speaker 1: talks about you and Hunter both talked about toughness of
Speaker 1: current players, been raising your kids and all that stuff
Speaker 1: and UH and just some crazy stories about how Hunter
Speaker 1: tried to get rid of your infections with the with
Speaker 1: the hot tub in the training room and all kinds
Speaker 1: of funny stuff. So under good one episode is a
Speaker 1: muscle listen. Well, then you have at the fish Tank
Speaker 1: podcast coming out this week or should be out today
Speaker 1: when this podcast comes out as well, And once again
Speaker 1: we are going to be at the MetLife take over
Speaker 1: this weekend. I believe we get in Saturday afternoon and
Speaker 1: I'm prepared to shake a bunch of hands to take
Speaker 1: a bunch of photos and meet a bunch of dolphins fans.
Speaker 1: Brought that to promote the podcast, So if you see
Speaker 1: us around, come say hi. We'll be tweeting now and
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Speaker 1: tell subscribe for you if you have that backupself. They're
Speaker 1: definitely listening time on the fish Tank sign as well,
Speaker 1: but also check out the fish Tank. I see a
Speaker 1: fan I know I'm running along and Travis hates when
Speaker 1: I when I go off for man here. But every
Speaker 1: time somebody came up to us at boat campers and
Speaker 1: we were somewhere recently and always say on my two
Speaker 1: favorite podcasts, I'm like, I know you like Drive Time.
Speaker 1: I get it. I know you like Travis. You know
Speaker 1: if oh J were here, and then you can say
Speaker 1: one of your other favorite podcasters. But I'll take it.
Speaker 1: I'll take the load. That thing. You gotta bring your
Speaker 1: star man, you gotta you gotta know where the get
Speaker 1: the ball into the superstar. That's how we do this
Speaker 1: thing around here. Seth. That's it alright, guys, Well, thank
Speaker 1: you for your time. We'll we'll see you. Um I
Speaker 1: guess Saturday. We're doing a lunch bunch on Friday. Absolutely
Speaker 1: all right, we'll see it the lunch bunch on Friday,
Speaker 1: Seth o J. Thanks again, guys, appreciate it. Thanks Travis,
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