Drive Time - Dolphins Jets Week 6 Preview

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or drive pink dot com. And so we are just four days out from kickoff as the New York Jets come to town. Always loved Jets weak. If you guys haven't heard the Fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice and Bart Scott, it's it's a perfect primer for Jets Week and talking about the rivalry and how it kind of originated in the seventies and eighties and then became really and I talked about this on the podcast with

Ronnie Brown We're Gonna Have Tomorrow. How for me, the riv howay really became intensified in that mid two thousand's, the early aughts era with Rex Ryan and I think it was because they were so outspoken and brash in the whole we're not gonna come here and kiss Belichick's rings thing, and just the fact that there was a lot of trash talk back and forth between the two sides. I remember the game with Reggie Bush when they said they were gonna put some hot sauce on Reggie Bush.

There was just always some talk back and forth between the Dolphins and Jets in that time, and it really read things up for me. I think maybe Jets fans didn't like us as much and so that really intensified things as well. So Dolphins and Jets for me always is always the game of the year on the calendar, just because you know, I think the best part about sports, and aside from watching your team win, is rooting against your rival. And that's true I think in most sports,

especially in football college or the NFL. And the old T shirt said it best, right, My favorite teams are the Miami Dolphins and whoever is playing the New York Jets that week. And for me, that's always been the case. And I remember back in the two thousand and eight season when we have Ronnie Brown on, We're gonna talk about a game from two thousand nine, but the Wildcat Division championship season that week seventeen game was on December, and I'll never forget it because I usually got pumped

up for Christmas. Even though I was in my you know, late means early twenties at the time, I didn't care about Christmas that week. All I cared about was the Dolphins Jets game on Sunday and Chad Pennington going in there and taking the division title from the team that cut him to bring in Brett Farve. I was so glued and plugged into that storyline. Couldn't wait for that game all day long. The Philip Merlin picks six the other direction right after a touchdown pass to get on

the board first and take that lead into halftime. And then the Ted Gain catch in the back of the end zone, the Anthony Fasano catching the corner of the end zone, and then the Andre Goodman interception to put that game on ice man. That was a fun, fun Sunday to cap off a very fun year. That's my favorite Jets game of all time. Let me know what yours is on Twitter at Wingfield NFL and tell me your favorite Dolphins and Jets memory. I'm sure a lot

of folks go back to the fake Spike game. That's gonna be up there for a a chunk of Dolphins fans, I would imagine. But let's go ahead now and talk about this week's game, Week six, and start here with Dolphins and Jets injuries from Thursday four. The Miami Dolphins one player was not out there on Thursday Devon god

Show with the biceps injury did not practice. We had three players who were limited defensive and Shack Lawson, tight end Durham Smith, and linebacker Kyle van Noy all out there on a limited basis, and five players were on the report but full participants on Thursday's practice, safety Cavon Frasier, cornerbacks Xavien Howard and Byron Jones, guard Solomon Kinley, and

wide receiver Davante Parker. For the visiting New York Jets on Thursday, they had three players who did not practice, McKay Beckton the offensive tackle, Sam Donald the quarterback, and Frank Gore the running back. Had that Thursday day off not injury related for Frank Gore. They also had several players that were listed as limited and full participants on practice.

Bless Austin the cornerback, John Franklin Myers on the defensive line, Alex Lewis on the offensive line, Brashad Perriman wide receiver, and defensive tackle Quentin Williams all were limited participants on Thursday's practice, and in four players were full participants. Offensive tackle Chuma Adoga was a full participant on Thursday, as was fellow tackle George Fant, linebacker Jordan Jenkins, and cornerback Byron Pool both were full participants on the Jets practice

on Thursday. And let's go ahead and start. Coach flores Is Thursday morning media availability off with some kicker talk. Look, I started a kicking game, and that's where I got my breaking coaching. So I don't understand how important those those those uh guys, that those positions are, whether it's kicker, punter, long snap, or returners, ball security or those things of

that nature. Uh. To have a guy who's dependable, guy who who uh you know he's gonna do everything he can't possible to make sure, um that he puts himself in the best position to um, you know, make a great kick, Make make the kick that we need, make the punt that we need, UM, give us a snap that we need and really want that at all positions. UM. But you know, no one really thinks about those specialists until you know we're down to the wire we need to kick. So UM, you know, Jason has done a

great job. UM Again, I think it's important and he continues it's important to him that he continues to improve and get better and continue with his consistency. That's been you know, good, good thus far, and we need to just keep going in this direction. So Y has some very uh pleas of where he is and the job he's done really on on obviously field goals, but also kickoffs.

He has done a good job from that standpoint, and just his every day he's his his just his attitude and his work ethic on a day to day basis, He's um, he's really done a good job really since I've been here. I think there's a really great nugget. And their coach talks about the fact that he got his start in the kicking game. That's how he really

broke in to the coaching ranks. And you go back to last April, you heard him talk about getting good kicks, good punts, and good snaps in their Dolphin spent a sixth round draft pick on Blake Ferguson. Have we heard Blake's name yet? We haven't, And that's because that's what you want, right, That's a good thing. He hasn't had a bad snap yet. The ball has been perfect every time. And that impacts the kicking game too. It impacts the way the field goal kick er sees the hold and

the way the holder gets the football down. And so Jason Sanders this season, you know, with the new battery he has there with a long snapper and Matt Hawk as the holder, hasn't missed a kick yet. So putting an emphasis on the small details has been a very big, big, you know, sticking point here with coach Flores since he got here. And the kicking games a big sticking point as well. And look at what they've got now, fourteen consecutive field goals. You can't ask for more than that

out of your special teams unit. From talk of a third year kicker to a rookie long snapper, to another rookie but in a different position in the trenches on the defensive line on the interior, ray Kwon Davis. Coach Floores was asked about the potential of ray Kuan Davis and what they've seen so far out of the rookie through his first five NFL games. He's got a lot

of talent. He's big, he's strong, he's athletic. But he's young, you know, he's a young players still learn how to play in this league against um a lot of good players. Still trying to find his way and find his uh his nichees role within within the scheme I think as a staff which on which to you know, put him into positions when the best positions to do what he does well. So you know, he's tough and he cares

with the injury to catch out. You know, he should get some a few more opportunities along with some other guys and uh hopefully takes advantage of those opportunities. But yeah, there's there's talent here. We just gotta get him to play with more consistency, which is you know, the case for all young players. And we have seen that talent

shine through before at Alabama. He's had some big seasons, some big games, some big time moments, even in the National Championship once there ray Kuan Davos getting his hands in a football for an interception, got a sack a few plays earlier in that game. So he is no stranger to big moments in big spots. And you heard coach talk about the possible elevation and playing time there. We've seen ray Kuan Davis play a few snaps now so far to the first five games of this Dolphins season.

And despite the fact that there's not much tape on him. We've seen him get doubled a few times, and that's kind of the attention. A body like that commands that big, long frame and also thick and powerful. He has the long wingspan, so he can certainly engage and disengage off of a single block and make guys fall off those blocks.

So I think the more you see rake Kwon Davis kind of get going here in his pro career and you see this coaching staff really kind of take a hold and get his development at that next stage, I think we could see big things that are from Rekwon Davis.

And and like coach Flora said, he's gonna get some opportunities now with Davon God shows biceps injury and let's go ahead and finish up here, and you're gonna hear a quote on tomorrow's Drive Time Flashback podcast from Ronnie Brown about how he connected with coach Tony Sperrano over boxing and he was a big boxing fan, believes in the toughness of boxing and how that maybe translated to a football field or was a parallel to a football field.

We finish up here with coach from a question from Cam Wolf of ESPN, who asked Coach about a a Brooklyn native Hondurian descent boxer, Tito Fimo Lopez, who will fight on Saturday night. He asked Coach if he's a fan of that boxer. Yeah, brook guy from Honors. Yeah, I know exactly. Is Uh good fighter. Look, I'm not really big in the boxing, but um, you know, you know side from Mike Tyson being right from the neighborhood I grew up in. Um, I was always a big fan of Is. But yeah, um, I know I know

a little bit. But you know, a Brooklyn guy from Honduras, I'm rooming for him no matter. You know what's going on. At the start of the question, Coach had a huge smile. At the end of the question, the smile got ten times bigger. So I thought it was cool to put

it in there. If you guys want to see the video up on Miami Dolphins dot com or the YouTube page along with all the other press media availabilities here, you can check those out and see Coach get excited about a fellow Brooklyn, fellow Honduras native Uh in the boxing match on Saturday night. So good stuff there from Coach. Let's go ahead and spend this thing forward to the game on Sunday the New York Jets come to town. It's another late kickoff as the game will start at

four oh five Eastern at hard Rock Stadium. Eighty five degree temperatures, scent humidity, fifty chance of precipitation, which is kind of a daily occurrence here in South Florida and fifteen mile prior wins, the two and three Dolphins verse the O and five New York Jets on Sunday, October and in the victories over Jacksonville and San Francisco this year, the Dolphins raced out to fourteen zero leads in a flash in both of those games, as the offense scored

on the first two possessions of both of those games and the first three possessions in the Jacksonville game as well. They did it with violence in the passing game and the running game. We saw Miles Gas can really get going in that Jacksonville opening couple of series. We saw the passing game take off with these the opening play of the game last week, forty seven yards down the sideline from Fitzpatrick to Preston Williams. But we also saw the defense bow up and make three collective stops on

those drives to create that collective zero lead. In those two games, they had a three and out at a fourth down stop and a four down series. Jacksonville picked up a first down and then got a three and out after that on one of those series. So Miami's defense really playing that complementary style of football to get this team off to a fast start. Coach Flores talked about playing fast, saying, we always talked about playing fast, starting fast. It's something we harp on on a weekly basis.

End quote there from Coach Flores, and from that point forward, the defense really just teed off. In the two games combined, Miami wrapped up eight sacks, four takeaways and allowed just

thirty points. They have climbed all the way up to number ten in the NFL and points allowed as a result, And in those two games combined, Pro Football Focus credited Miami with quarterback pressures from thirteen different players, So it's a full team effort getting pressure on the quarterback and that when, of course, last week generated some good vibes and really helped to validate a good week of work on the practice field, in the film room, and in

the classroom, and it also helps create confidence, something quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick believes is invaluable to this young team. He said this earlier this week. We've got a lot of young guys on both sides of the ball, So having that feeling of offidence early and knowing that we're going to play well, I think it really helps out, especially with some of the youth and in experience we have

on this team. End quote. And the Dolphins were scheduled to travel to Denver this week for a game with the Broncos, but of course, is a year of change, and Flora's address the change in schedule on Sunday just a few hours before the game, with all those sweeping changes to Miami schedule, talking about it being a different year.

Everyone has to adjust and be flexible. Been talking all year about how we're going to have to do that, and the coaches were breaking down film on Sunday morning, according to Flores, and he said he was sure the Jets are doing the same thing with the Dolphins, but he just ends with this quote, We've got to adapt and that's what we'll do. End quote. And that's what the Dolphins are right now two and three, heading into

Week six against the New York Jets. Welcoming in those Jets and head coach Adam Gaze, who announced that quarterbacks Sam Donald would not play in the game on Sunday. He's already been ruled out. That means it's Joe Flacco, the second consecutive misstart here for Donald on an offensive

is battling several injuries. McKay Beckton has not practiced this week, Alex Lewis has not practiced, and den Zel Mims, the rookie receiver, was cleared to return to practice this week after missing the first five games of his NFL career, so we could see Mims make his NFL debut on Sunday. The receiver with the most snaps played this year for the Jets is Chris Hogan. You might recall him from

Hard Knocks in seven eleven himself. He's the only receiver on the Jets offense with more than fifty percent of the offensive workload, so it kind of tells you how they've been healthwise at that position. Jamison Crowder is right below that attent. He's been their most productive receiver for the last couple of seasons now, and Alex Lewis on the offensive line we talked about him has not practiced

this week. If he's out, that leaves the Jets offensive line with only one player who has played of the offensive snaps. That's free agent acquisition Greg Van Roten and former Dolphins linebacker Neville. Hewitt is second on the Jets with snaps played at nine point one percent. Safety Marcus May leads them at nine point seven percent, and Bradley McDougal is the only other defender with better than of the defensive snaps played he's played so far this season.

So plenty of reshuffling and remaking and guys coming off the bench and playing for that Jets team so far this season. The matchup highlights in this game went over this carefully, tried to figure out where I wanted to go with it. My first one is to just run it back. This is a two pronged approach here for this matchup highlight. First, the Dolphins pass catchers got vertical repeatedly last week against the forty nine, and we could

see something similar this week. Last year in the home game versus the Jets, Fitzpatrick completed three passes on throws that were twenty plus yards down the field for seventy two yards and a touchdown pass According to Pro Football Focus. Last week, he was five of six for one two scores, throwing the ball deep down the field twenty plus yards. This season, Fitzpatrick has an average intended air yards of eight point oh compared to an average completed air yards

of six point seven. So intended air yards is your average depth of target, whereas the six point seven completed air yards is the average depth of target on completed passes. So the Dolphins passing game, what that kind of tells you is they get plenty of yards through the air, but not much yac afterwards. And that's not to say

that these guys can't run for the catch. It just talks about the isolation and fifty ball game that is really among the best in the NFL because you have guys like DeVante Parker six ft three and a thirty six and a half inch vertical, Preston Williams six ft five, Mike Gasicki six ft six. These guys can go up and rebound the football off the opposition's helmet with the

best in the entire league. And last year, in the first game, now the second game, we didn't have Preston Williams, and Davanta Parker was injured midway through the second game, so Willingly had Mike Gasicki for most of that game. But in the first contest to win at home against the Jets, those three players can bind for fifteen receptions,

two d and twenty four yards and three touchdowns. Now, defensively on the running back portion, the Dolphins constantly put pressure on both quarterbacks last week, and Jimmy Garoppolo and CJ be third. Particularly on the interior. Of Miami's nine team pressures last week, only five of those came off

players rushing off the edge. That, of course, according to Pro Football Focus, interior pressure tends to be more volatible against elusive quarterbacks like Russell Wilson, Josh Allen, Cam Newton, Patrick Mahomes, all these guys that can flee the pocket to the left or the right. Well, Joe Flacco piled up forty career passing yards as a traditional pocket passer with the howitzer for a right arm, good decision making,

good anticipation. So the key to those guys, like it has been for so many players before, you always hear the Tom Brady trope right, get pressure up the middle on Tom Brady. You want to put pressure on the interior on these traditional pocket passers, make them uncomfortable and force me to make decisions with trash down around their feet. Miami did a good job of that last week in the San Francisco game. Hopefully they can do the same

this week against Flacco and the Jets. And perhaps the biggest loss for the Jets so far this season has been McKay Beckton, who looked like an absolute superstar at left tackle, but he has recently been injured and not been available for that Jets offensive line. So attack relentlessly make Flacco uncomfortable more fits Magic is the next one up here on the match up highlights. What can you say about this guy? He has the fifth total fifth

highest total QBR in the NFL. On balance, he has the highest single game passer rating this year with nearly a perfect one fifty four point five. You might recall one fifty eight point three is perfect, not to mention the highest total QBR for a single game last week at nine point one and the fourth highest mark this year at nineties seven point two. Back in his Week three performance against Jacksonville, the sixteen year veteran is flat

out dealing right now. Carefully choosing his spots against Pierre to sire might be a wise decision. His stats have been boomer bust this season. He is tied for third or tied for the league lead rather with three interceptions on the season, but pf has opposing receivers with six team receptions on twenty targets for two thirty five yards and four touchdowns on to see her so picks and touchdowns and yards. He's been busy both ways so far

this year, on defense and with Fitzpatrick. We heard him talk about this on the Wednesday podcast about how, over the course of a sixteen year career, a lot of experience and film study and just kind of accumulating this catalog of plays in the back of his mind that he really likes has helped, as well as developing more chemistry and comfortability with this young Dolphins receiver corps. So

he's seeing things, he's letting a fly. I highly highly recommend checking out Brian Baldinger's breakdown of the Dolphins offensive line and quarterback play last week. Getting it done, throwing the football down the field with anticipation, standing in under the gun, and making big time throws for Ryan Fitzpatrick and to see here is second among all Jets cornerbacks with seventy seven point eight percent of the defensive snaps.

Brian Poole has the most at eighty point one percent, but two hundred and three of those two eight five snaps come inside at the slot, so out wide it's pr to sere and then bless. Austin has been up next with sixty one point four percent of their snaps played, but he has been limited this week with a calf injury. The third matchup to watch is to keep Quentin quiet. Quentin Williams. In the run up to the twenty nineteen NFL draft, his name was up there with Kyler Murray

and Nick Bosa as potential number one overall picks. He went third overall and the Jets became the benefit a

series of that. He ranks top ten of both espns newly developed analytics for measuring pass rush and run stop win rates among defensive tackles, Williams ranks ninth and pass rush win rate that's hard to say at fifteen percent and fifth and run stop win rate attent and for comparison's sake and since this is a Miami Dolphins podcast, Christian Wilkins is third among defensive tackles and run stop

win rate at seven percent. But on the Dolphins interior offensive line dealing with Quentin Williams, they have remade those three guys up front, with Eric Flowers, Ted Carris and Solomon Kinley to free agent signings and a draft pick in the fourth round. Opposing interior pass rushers have six team pressures and one sack on those guys. Per Pro Football Focus, that's a pressure rate on two on a

six brother and twenty one pass blocking snaps. That's a pressure rate of two point five percent on those interior guys. Last year that number was at five percent. So the Dolphins remade those three positions up front and have literally cut that number in half. Through five games. The Jets scheme offensively. They've run three hundred and third team plays, with two hundred and twenty five of those snaps coming out of eleven personnel, one back, one tight end, three receivers.

We know about that, right, We've seen that here before. Seventy one point nine percent clip is the fifth highest rate in the National Football League. The only other offensive package they have with more than fifteen snaps are twelve and thirteen personnel. Those are your two and three tight end sets, So you're gonna see one tight end, two tight end, and three tight ends most of the time. Not very often you're gonna get multiple backs or four

wide sets with this Jets offense. Greg Williams is one of the game's most aggressive defensive coordinators and play callers. His defense often puts ten guys up on the line, plays press, really challenges you to win physically off the line, and they always have that single high safety deep off the football too, so they're kind of last minded offense and then ten guys up on the ball. They have the twelve most frequent blitzing team this year in the

NFL at thirty point seven percent. That courtesy of Pro Football Reference, and they are primarily a nickel team with two hundred and fifty six of their three hundred and twenty seven snaps, that's vand eight point three percent of the time they're gonna be in that nickel defense. And so what that means is you go eleven personnel with let's say Parker Williams and Isaiah Ford with Mike Gassicki

as the tight end. You're more more than likely going to get a linebacker on Mike Gasicki if they stay in that nickel package and they go three corners out on Ford Parker and Williams, or if Grants in the game, whatever it might be, either gonna get a safety or a linebacker there on Mike Gasicki. And last year against linebackers in the Jets game, the first one, he caught three passes for sixty seven yards up against those Jet linebackers. Some final notes and thoughts here on this game, and

you can read the preview up on Miami Dolphins dot com. Again, Sam Donald has been declared out, which means it is Joe Flacco making his second start as a member of the New York Jets last week. He completed eighteen of thirty three passes for one touchdown and no interceptions. It was his first start for the former Super Bowl m v P since last season when he was member of the Denver Broncos and the Dolphins defense. We talked about this coming off the biggest sack production output since in

the Week sixteen game against Jacksonville. Linebacker Andrew van Ginkl and defensive end Emmanuel both had strip sacks, and the team picked up eight quarterback hits in that game. The win verse San Francisco was also Miami's lowest passing yards allowed since that Jacksonville game, with one twenty eight net passing yards against this Dolphins defense. The Jets lead the

all time series fifty fifty two to one. Let's go ahead and try to cut that thing down to fifty three on Sunday, and we're gonna have all the recap and all the postgame reaction for you guys here on the Drivetime podcast with me, yours truly, Travis Wingfield, available on Sunday evening, and let's go ahead and finish up

this podcast with our Thursday media availability. We're gonna start here first with Dolphins defensive lineman Zach Seler, who plays multiple positions you'll hear in his answer here nose guard three, technique five, and whatever he might be. He was asked about the difference and the way he prepares for each of those positions, whether it's inside, outside, or other wise. Obviously, it's things happen faster when you get down low and

the close sheets the center. Um, but for me, it's just every wherever I'm at preparing wise and three tech nose guards, zero shade outside is just making sure I look at the player across from me. As in the offensive line, I'm just going against and learning their keys, So not just focusing on one guy, but focus on five of them. So I'm ready for whatever happens and whatever the game may call for. And up next, I asked Zack about the team first mentality and how excited

guys get to play with each other. You're gonna hear Ted Carriss talk about this here in just one minute. But I watched the San Francisco game on the broadcast copy again last night, and you just see guys losing their minds for each other. The fourth down stop Kyle van Noyd goes crazy. So where does that come from for this Dolphins football team. I guess it's kind of

comes from the top down. I mean, the coaches preach family, and they preach be excited for anybody because you know, someone makes me go a play, I might give you an opportunity later on in the game for you to make a big plays. So for us, it's just it's an excitement. It's we're going through this together, or the team where family just keep crying and keep celebrating those big plays. And next you probably saw it all over Twitter.

On Thursday, we found out mid question he dropped a bomb on us that he in fact lives in a fifth wheel and an RV. And I didn't get a chance to ask him if he is like Matt fully down by the river, but Zach didn't tell us A few notes and details here about his fifth wheel life, living in an r V campground, and if he's ever hosted Dolphins players at the old campground. I've had players overhang out for sure. Um. Yes, it's campgrounds are a

little fit harvy parks. Um, nice, nice spot and find a little spot set up there for a few months. I mean Florida was great because you know, everyone comes down here in the winter to live, so there's plenty of spots, especially right now. How about if his neighbors know they live next to an NFL player? I love it. No,

I usually kind of keep that little lower. You know, some some people will learning whatever and it usually theyone's great and me if you think about the guys that are in our campground, usually they're vacation, so everyone's happy. Everyone always waves. It's it's not a typical like people living their daily lives. Us are vacation. Um. It is kind of we're gett a new neighbor three or four times a week. Those are always really fun. I think the Austin Jackson ice cream thing a few months back

was great. That one hard to top that when we'll see if we do beat that at some point this season. Up next, we had Dolphins center Ted Carriss, who first was asked about his teammate Zach Seiler and what he saw from him last year as an opponent preparing for Seiler upfront. I remember last year preparing um for the last game of the season. You know, they had this guy who kind of came in mid year. He was playing really well and plays with really high effort and

and he's continued that this season. He's been very productive. And he's a great, great teammate and a great guy. And and I'm I'm really excited for him, you know, I'm I'm rooting for him to continue the way he's been playing. And a lot of credit has been given to Steve Marshall from Chan Gailey and other coaches. We also have another assistant coach in the offensive line room

named Lemiuelle Jean Pierre. He used to play for the Seattle Seahawks in a playing days, And I asked Ted Carress about the balance of having someone like coach Marshall with forty plus years of coaching experience, but also having lem as he's called around the building here in the room, with playing experience, and how those two can balance each

other as coaches. Yeah, I mean collectively, you know, we have coaches in the room with with a lot of NFL experience, and you know, I think it's serving us very well, especially you know, having a young old line. Um. You know, I think it's a you know, a testament to how hard you know, these these young guys are working and and e Flow and Jesse and I and

and and all the vets to um. And I think we have a really good room and really excited, but we gotta keep you know, preparing like we have been and going and uh, you know, putting out our best performances when it counts the most. And then kind of back on that topic of the question we had for Zach Seeler about how guys really kind of rally around each other, around each other and what makes them so Why is it so desirable to be so excited for your teammates to make plays and where that comes from.

Here's Ted Carress talking about the locker room, the people they have in that building, and the mindset in the Dolphins locker room. Well, I think it comes down to

the guys we have in the locker room. And we have guys that work hard and want to do things right and care about each other and hold each other accountable, and um, you know, genuinely enjoy playing the game of football, and um, you know, it's been a it's a pleasure to come to work every day with guys in this locker room, many many close friends, and and you know, we get competitive, and you know, we we want to do our best for each other and so um, you know,

hopefully you know you've seen a little bit that on the field, uh, these past couple of weeks. But we've gotta keep keep showing that and emphasizing you know that part of the game. And one theme we've had this week is teammates talking about what Ryan Fitzpatrick means to this Dolphins football team. Let's go ahead and hear Dolphins and our Ted Carriss on that topic. It's extraordinary. He's he's an extraordinary man. I am very fortunate to be

able to you know, suit up with him. Um, and you know, I do love it when he can turn a third and eight scramble into a first down. That is a pretty uh that's a luxury as an no alignment. So UM, it's been a lot of fun playing And I've learned so much from him already, and I continue to learn, you know, every single day. And you know, as we grow and continue to you know, create continuity

and and uh comfortability with each other. And from the sixteen year vet to the two and now three rookies that Ted Carress has played along the offensive line with and Austin Jackson, Solomon Kinley, and Robert Hunt most recently here in San Francisco, what has he seen from the rookies on that offensive line as well? Hear about Kinley, Hunt and Jackson here from Ted Carriss. Great men that want to do the right things, that are eager to learn and and um, I guess ego lists and trying

to you know, get better. Obviously a very very talented group, all highly drafted, UM, and guys that came in and just want to listen and work and do the right thing and help the team win in any way they can. And on the topic of those rookies, we had Solomon Kinley up next, and this is gonna be a theme this week. I have a feeling, but want to know, have you been to Zack Steeler's r V. Did you know people lived in r v's Solomon Kindley didn't know that. Yeah,

I had no clue. I would. I would love to go visit and see how he's living and see how it did, because I've always seen them growing up. But I never really knew nobody the stands like staying inside and I thought he just traveled and everything. So I never knew that. And for the next question here, I think Dolphins fans are gonna love to hear this, and

so would Brian Flores and the Dolphins coaching staff. You might recall we had Brandon Jones and a podcast Dolphins rookie safety out of Texas a while back, and I asked him about the quizzes the coach flow gives throughout the day on the practice field in the film room, a little little short quizzes to make sure you're paying attention, that you have the answers to the test you can play fast on Sundays. Well, here's Solomon Ckinley talking about how he and Robert Hunt prepare and the fact that

they give each other tests on their free time at home. Um, throughout the whole week. We always we always talk to each other, even if he wasn't playing, as then if anybody goes down, he got to step up and get in. So we always talked to each other about this assignment. How do you say the look, how to be this aligned? Rotate and you know, pretty much like throughout the week we look at film and we do every little small

we do small stuff with each other at home. Like we got tests that we do throughout the week and look at them throughout the whole week so we can get comfortable and the game could be slowed by the time we get that Sunday. Solomon, some of my favorite offensive line breakdown people on social media and whatnot like to talk about the way you punish jumpers and the way you finish your blocks and drive guys to the ground.

I'm curious where you developed that mindset and that mentality and how you've been able to take that over now from your college career into the pros um pretty much me growing up, my history, how I came up, and how I live. It just puts me in a position that I am hi am today. I always want to finish. I always want to drive, like so that's just what I take. I take it from real life until on the football field, because it like it is, it's real life.

So I just I never want to be one of the persons that coach can pick he's slacking, he's missing this block, or he's not doing this because he did it give enough effort. That's that's that. Like, that's my biggest critic of ever, that's my biggest creat ever. I never want to do that. So I make sure anything I do. I finished the hunt for Sick, and I think that's a great spot to finish the podcast right there.

At one you heard from Solomon Kinley, Zack Steeler, and Ted Carress as well as coach Flora's and had the game preview. On tomorrow's podcast, we are going to go back to two thousand nine for Finns flashback and take a look at the game against the New York Jets on Monday Night Football in the Orange Jerseys A big, big prime time win for your Miami Dolphins will do that with Ronnie Brown. As for today's time, that is

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