Drive Time - Jay Fiedler Flashback 2000 at New England

win lost column. Because game day is on Sunday. We'll have you covered post game, but today we're gonna get you the last injury report for Sunday's game, the Keys to Victory, and we'll hear from Jay Fiedler as we flash it back to two thousand when the Dolphins went into New England and took home the a f C

East Crown. All of that and more on this Friday, September the eleven edition of the Drive Time Podcast, However, and as we do every Wednesday Thursday Friday, we're gonna start with the injury report on the Drivetime Podcast, and it is good news on the Dolphins injury front. Seven players listed as full participants in practice on Friday, with

Clayton Fedgerland the safety listed as limited. He will be doubtful for the game, but Mike a Sicki, Xaviing Howard, Byron Jones, DeVante Parker, to A Tonga Byloa, Kyle van Noy, and Preston Williams all full participants on Friday and are

expected to play on Sunday For the Patriots. Two players listed as out who did not practice on Friday, wide receiver Gunner Oshowsky and offensive lineman Yannikuld just four players questionable and wide receiver Nakill Harry, tight end Dalton King, linebacker Cash Malawia, defensive lineman Chase Winovic, and two players who were listed on Thursday are no longer on the report, and receiver Julian Edelman and cornerback Stefon Gilmour will both play.

So that's your injury report heading into Sunday up in Foxborough. And if you haven't checked it out yet, John Conjemmy's three keys are back on Miami Dolphins dot Com. He also will have three takeaways on Sunday night. Not gonna read the details of the story, you can check it out for yourself. But here John talks about being better fundamentally for the Patriots game, key aspect of winning that game when the turnover margin is key number two, and

limit unscripted plays from Cam Newton. He talks about any time you face a dual threat quarterback like Cam Newton, you must expect the unexpected. So go check out John Conemmis three keys. Go check out my Dolphins and Patriots preview, taking a look at all the personnel usage, the snap counts from last year, the players they had to replace, the key matchups. Tons of good content for you guys for this game. Ahead of this game on Sunday up on Miami Dolphins dot com. Okay, let's go ahead and

spend things backwards towards the flashback two thousand season. It was the first year the Dolphins were without Dan Marino as the opening day quarterback since n re his rookie season. We're gonna talk about the season finale that year up in New England a Christmas Eve games sept or December, rather up in Foxborough, Dolphins win at four on a late Olindo mar A field goal. The Dolphins began that season red hot out of the Gates beating the Seahawks.

They dropped week two to the Vikings, then whip rip off four more wins in a row. After that, lose to the Jets on the Monday Night miracle, which we'll talk to J about that. I think the one three games after that, lost one again to the stinking Jets, then one two games, lost two more and then one in New England to go to eleven and five to capture the a f C East. And in that particular game, it was a crazy one. We're gonna talk to J about the details of how that game ended for you

longtime Dolphins fans out there. You know, they had to win the division twice because they were brought back onto the field for the final play of that game. A good fourth quarter comeback of Dolphins scored ten points in that fourth quarter to close a deficit with a one yard Lamar Smith touched on run with four minutes to go to tie the game, and then a field goal with nine seconds left from forty nine yards from Olindo Mare, who avenged a twenty eight yard miss earlier in that half.

And the big difference in the game was the fact that Dolphins protected the football didn't turn it over. The Patriots turned it over three times in that game. They did outgain Miami three hundred forty eight three hundred ten yards, but the Dolphins out possessed the Patriots thirty five to twenty five minutes. On the time of possession third downs, Dolphins were eight of seventeen, Patriots were four of ten,

so pretty even there. As far as the individual stats, Lamar Smith just could not get it going on this day. Twenty carries, twenty six yards, scored two touchdowns. We're gonna talk to j about that and kind of how the Dolphins had to adapt their approach to offense on that day. As he threw the ball forty five times, completed thirty of them for two hundred and sixty four yards one touchdown,

was sacked a pair of times. And it seems like every time you go back to these old school games and you look at the box scores, there's Jason Taylor with an interception, there's Zack tom Mus with an interception, and a fumble recovery from Brock Marion on a hell of a play from Derek Rodgers who punched the ball out of Jermaine Wiggins hands going into the end zone

really kind of turned the tide of that game. Let's go ahead now and get to my guest, Jay Fiedler, who talks about the Dolphins a f C East clinching win in New England week seventeen December of two thousand and writing Shotgun here on the Drive Time podcast. Is Dolphins quarterback from two thousand to two thousand four. He won a pair of division titles here in Miami, including that epic come from behind when over the Colts in the two thousand wild card playoffs. He is Jay Fiedler. Jay,

thank you so much for jumping on with us. Man. Absolutely good to be here with you. Travis. Well, Jay, we're gonna talk about the season finale in two thousand, but first I want to go back to the start of the season that year, because we've got Opening Day right around the corner here in Miami and that shutout victory over the Seattle Seahawks, my hometown Seahawks, and I just want to get your thoughts on what it was like for you with the opening day nerves or jitter.

Did you have any of that going into that first year, especially your first year of starting here. I was the quarterback in Miami. Uh. Well, you know, you have your excitement. I wouldn't call it nerves. Uh. You know, it was a long road for me to get to a position where I was a full time starting quarterback in the league. And uh, you know, I granded it out. I worked

myself up. Uh, you know, from being out of the league for a couple of years, coming back in Minnesota for a year, uh, getting my first start in first real action uh ninety nine with the with the Jacksonville Jaguars, UM.

And then uh you know, coming into uh to the Dolphins and having a chance to to compete for a starting job, and you know, going out and being the leader uh in the clubhouse basically for for you know, most of the preseason and going into training camp and uh, you know, and then I had a hip injury and I don't know what was gonna happen. I had surgery on my hope me out for for three weeks right

in the middle of the preseason. They will come back that last preseason game and then uh, and then the season started and uh I was out there and it was you know, it was exciting. It was you know, a long journey to get there. You know, but my makeup has always been, you know, to be very even keel, to be very uh you know, focused on on a task at hand. And uh uh you know, I felt like I was very prepared going into that first game. So so the nerves you know, really weren't uh you know,

uh weren't there for me. It was more excitement about getting out and starting the season. Now, I feel like that's got to be just a difference between athletes and non athlete because even as a fan, sometimes Jay like, I'm sitting there an hour before kickoff, like, man, I am, my stomach is turning over right now, and I'm not even going out there to play. And like back in my day is like a baseball player, friends, I would get to the to the plate and be like, man,

this is too much for me to handle. So I think that maybe there's no doubt. You know, the pregame genners, you know, they happen for everyone, and you know, the there's routines that everyone goes through in the locker room, and some are more nervous than others, and some have to you know, use the facilities a little bit more. And uh, you know, but I think, you know, the

guys that go out and know that they're prepared. You know, once the once the ball is snapped and the game starts up, you know, everything else is lost, and uh you just go out there and perform and do your duty. Yeah, that's a good point. I was thinking about the any given Sunday, the Willie Beamon, you know, in the locker room you mentioned kind of using the facilities a little extra. Was there anybody on team that in your time in the NFL that kind of had that routine of going

to the bathroom and getting some stuff out. Uh, not that I know of. You know, I wasn't hanging out in the bathroom, you know, looking for for people, but uh yeah, there were definitely people that went in and out, you know, more than a few times. So you guys get that season opening, when you get the first win

under your belt, probably really helps calm the nerves. From there, the season progresses on and it's one of kind of streaks, you know, a bunch of wins and then a lost sandwiched in there, and they were stopped twice by I'm going to use PC language here, the freaking Jets j And you know, as a fan, games can kind of linger for days and sometimes even all the way up until the next Sunday. But I know that you guys, as players, have the twenty four hour rule, right, you

get over a game twenty four hours later. I have to imagine that Monday night monstrosity as we'll call it, had to push past one day of thinking about that game, right, Well, that was that wasn't an easy one to get over, you know. Obviously you know that that that game went into about two three in the morning by the time that we were done with it and out of the stadium and uh, you know on the plane right at home,

which was an awful plane ride. You know, not only you in the middle of the night, you know, going into the next morning exhausted, uh from it, but you know, you just lost a heartbreaking game and uh um you know, but like you said, you know, we were all pre fessionals. Uh, it was a tough one to get past. But you know, we took the next day off. Um. You know, obviously certain people went in and got uh uh you know,

some treatment and workouts and and just recovery day. But you know, by the time we got back to work on Wednesday, it was on to the next game, and uh, and you know, we knew we were still in good position right there. You know, it wasn't like, uh, you know, we lost and we were knocked out of contention for anything. Um you know, was it was a tough loss against the big rival and and uh you know something that you know, like we said, was it was a real heartbreaker.

But uh, you know, we knew we were still you know, I think we were five and two at the time after that game, so you know, we we were in great position going forward to continue and having a good season. Yeah, I'm sure a bunch of Dolphins fans children went to bed that night thinking six and one, that wake up five and two a rough go there. We we had the uh the Jason Taylor Poker Foundation tournament the other day and he was talking about that game a little bit.

He said, yeah, try being miked up for that game, because he got caught a few times, you know, giving the Jets fans a little bit of a ribbing on the side. He got caught with with me on on tape. Also, uh, you know, coming over and I didn't even realize he was miked up or anything, but uh, you know it was funny. Uh you know going into that game, you know that I think it was a six or seven

game losing streak to the Jets. Uh. And then also, you know, the Jets had had a few comeback victories earlier in the in the year, uh that year, so you know, uh, you know, we got out to the big lead and we were, you know, feeling great on the sideline, and you know, all the talk all week was you know, how the Jets had our number and uh and you know they had some big, you know,

comeback victory. So I want, I can't. I went up to him and we were just talking and and we were just uh, you know, bannering back and forth, and I say, let's and you know, when I gonna let them come back on us, you know today like they have you know, the past few games. And and that got caught on tape and I know, uh, you know that that gets replayed every single time. But you know, for me, it was more you know, talking about, hey, let's go out and do it. We're not gonna let

them come back. And you know, uh, that one backfired a little bit. Yeah, you had that that bomb to I think it was Dietrich Ward right after the Jets kind of had that touchdown to initially come back, and that was when I was like, Okay, this game is right back where we wanted. It's in the books, but didn't go that way. And yeah, I threw that too soon. I should have waited a few plays. We gave them too much time to come back, and uh, get the jumbo elliot and the ends out of the end there. Hey,

somebody had to say his name. I'll let you do with their jumbo freaking Elliott man. But you guys did rebound j You won the division in week seventeen. Obviously a couple of months later with the win over the Patriots, and the really interesting aspect of that game comes late on the final play. Let's go ahead and go back to the top, though, and circle back to that moment

and conclude with that. I want to first talk about maybe the game plan or maybe it was just the way the game evolved for you guys, because going into that game that season, you guys threw the ball fo one times you ran at four six, a balance that today is unheard of in the NFL. And I want to go somewhere with this point just in a second. But first I'm curious J because how do you, as

a quarterback approach then compared to now? How is your approach different when maybe you didn't know how many opportunities you might have in a game where it's more about running the football and controlling the clock compared to today where guys are throwing the ball four times every single game. Does that change the approach for the quarterback? You think? Yeah?

Can you know? I think, uh, you know, the game is certainly evolved a lot, and uh, you know, uh, the passing game is kind of you know as a is extension of the running again. You know, all the quick passes, this quick screens, the dumps underneath. It's basically like you know, the safe running plays now, but they're doing it in the air and spreading, spreading teams out and you know, there's so much athleticism out there on the field, you know, to to to give guys a

chance to just get into open space. And that's you know, that's the way the games played now, you know, as compared to uh, you know, back twenty years ago. And and you know certainly if you go back to to this to the seventies Dolphins, uh, you know, the power running game and and and you know, being able to to exert your will up front with the with the strong offensive line and a run game and control of the clock. Uh you know that was part of uh,

you know, really managing managing a football game. But uh, you know, I think when when the rules started to change, uh you know, uh, restricting defensive backs from from really impeding and and getting uh you know, on the receivers. Uh, you know, increasing the the amount of past interference calls that are out there are uh you know, the passing game became a heck of a lot more effective. And now you see it, you know, being utilized that way.

Uh you know, and that and that's why you see, you know, number one, that the tight ends is so much more in play nowadays, and they than they were in the past. Uh because pass interference. Uh you know, you can't you can't hit a defenseless receiver anymore. You know.

Back in that day, you know, if you throw a tight end across the middle and uh you know he jumps up for the ball, he's getting his head knocked off and you know, probably gonna be out of the game for a little bit of while a little while. You know, now you can't target anyone that way. And uh, you know, if you're a six ft six pound uh guy running down the middle of the field, there aren't too much any defensive packs that's gonna hit you in

the stomach or the ribs and and and knock out. Uh. So you know the risk reward of of throwing the ball now, Uh, you know, it's a lot far you know, a lot more on the reward side than it was, you know, twenty years ago. Yeah, I'm sure you'd love to have your completion percentage boosted by the extension of the running game, right those little quick hitters and swings and exactly the screens, the bubbles, the quick dumps, the shovel passes, you know, you you name it. You know

I love it. I love it when the guys take the take the handoff and just toss it forward to you know, to a wildcat guy coming across. And now you get, you know, sixty yards worth of of a reception and uh, you know one for one of the sixty yards, I tossed it to two inches to the guy in front of me, just handed it off four instead of behind you. It's just pretty pretty nice little

stab booster there. But do ask about the balance because you threw the ball forty five times of the foe in that particular game compared to twenty carries for Lamar and he only had twenty six yards in that game, albeit two rushing touchdowns. Was that a case of and we're talking about a coach who still there in New England? Was that a case of Bill Belichick maybe saying, your guys, not you're not gonna run the ball on us, You're

gonna be u with Jay Fiedler. And how did the lack of success on the ground and impact your approach to the game. Well, so you know, certainly, uh, you know that was really a game playing uh decision, and it also you know, it was a matter of the

course of the game too. You know, we got behind early, I think a couple of touchdowns, so you know, we were a little bit more reliant on using the passing game to uh, you know, to to to make a comeback and and uh, you know, get back in the game, and and uh, you know, in addition to that, obviously, you know, Bill Belichick is a guy that's you know, gonna try and take away what you what you do best, and what we did best, you know, for the majority

of that season was you know, control the game with the runs. So you know, they were stacking the line early, you don't allowed us to to to make some plays in in the passing game. We had some you know, some good one on one matchups on the outside that we were able to take advantage of. And uh, um, you know, I think we passed the ball over forty times uh that game. Uh. And uh you know really you know allowed us to to to move the ball

and be effective. You know the fact that they stacked the line up and left us with some you know, some opportunities on the outside. You mentioned the kind of getting behind earlier in that game. I think the thing that probably sparked to come back initially was Derek Rodgers having one of the best strips I've ever seen. We talked about, you know, we see the guys practice out on the field every day here working on stripping from behind,

but it never really happens in a game situation. But he did get the ball out of Jermaine Wiggins hands as he was getting close to the end zone and extended the lead to four team points there at the end of the third quarter. Now I'm curious, Jay momentum is a hot sports debate, a hot topic like doesn't exist in your opinion? Does momentum exist and how did

it impact the game on that play? Oh? It absolutely exists. Uh. You know, momentum is a huge factor, especially in the game of football, you know, where you get some ebbs and flows and and uh. Uh you know, hot team can can stay hot, uh until you know, a spark goes the other way. And you know, certainly uh you know, I mean watching Jeremy Wiggins catch the ball and run ahead of everyone on the defense. You know, it was

something like, oh my god, here we were. You know, we're in the third quarter, We're about to go down two touchdowns, and and all of a sudden, Derek Rodgers comes flying from behind and and you see the ball go out and everyone's you know, hollering and yelling and uh and we jump on it. Uh. You know, it gave us a huge spark, you know, coming back uh into that game to be you know, only down seven points at that point. Uh, and have a chance, you know,

to to to make it come back run. So after that play and all I have to go off of here Jays the YouTube highlight from NFL Prime Time, which it's great. By the way, there's like a little blip in the beginning that kind of the audio goes off, so it's like it shows you like the vintage level of it. I watched it that they just had a great time with it. But you come back right after that with a big scramble play, things kind of breakdown

around you. You take it down to the plus nineteam yard line, and there's a lot to unpack here on this play. Let's go ahead and start off the top. Because Chris Berman, the you know, legendary esp and football voice of football there, mentions that you had more starts than any IVY League quarterback that year since the merger.

That's gonna be a real sense of pride for you, right well, certainly, And and Chris Burman being an IVY League guy himself, he's always looking to promote the you know, the IVY players that are out there, so uh uh, you know, certainly with fits down there and in Miami, he gets a lot of love from from Bourbon and uh you know, anytime there's a brown guy in the league, you know, they're getting highlighted every time. With him, But yeah,

he was he was great. He loved me. Uh, you know at any time, he could highlight the guys in the ivy. You know, it was fun to listen to and and uh and hear him go out there. So you mentioned Fitzpatrick. Is there any like Dartmoer, Dartmouth Harvard trash talk that happens there between you? Do it between you two guys? Oh? Absolutely, any time we see each other,

of course, there's no doubt about it. But uh, you know he's great, you know if Fits is such a great guy and and uh, you know it's been it's been real fun watching him, uh you know, uh play all over the all over the league and uh, you know, really fun the last couple of years seeing him down in Miami and uh uh you know, have the success that that that that that that he's had, and uh you know, he's a guy that just grinds it out and and you know it does whatever it takes to

to go out and win. And uh, you know I love seeing that. Yeah, he's a lot of fun to watch. Kind of reminds me of the way you play, you know, really just kind of out there and join it and playing your hardest and really showing that grit and toughness It's it's fun to watch quarterbacks like that play the game. It's maybe a bit more of a rare breed these days, Jayson.

We appreciate that that approach to the game. My next question for you was about Prime Time, but you kind of answered that well for me, so I'm gonna ask you. You know, Berman is known for giving out those nicknames, are dropping a little tidbits there in the game. Did you guys like ever pick up those nicknames and call each other that in the locker room? Or did were those something that stuck or was that just was that

just a TV thing? I don't know very many of them stick in the last stuff stuck in the locker room. But you know, I think everyone was aware of it. You know, Prime Time was you know, everyone watched it. Uh. You know, you finish up your games, especially if you had an afternoon game on Sunday and uh uh you know you're watching the Sunday night game and you know, you you click over to and Prime Times on and and uh, you know, it was just fun hearing him.

He was just such a great announcer, and he made it fun to watch football, and uh, you know, as as a as a fan, and a player. Uh you know, it was you know, there were there were certain guys that definitely uh you know, took to those nicknames and and uh continue spreading it around. But uh, you know, I think there were other nicknames that were that were made in the locker room that that stuck a little

bit longer. I remember that Chris Chambers Time has Come Today was my favorite ones he ever used and used every time he scored a touchdown to so plenty of those from you to Chris Chambers there. We're gonna talk to Chris next week about the Buffalo come back in two thousand five year after you were gone, but we'll we'll get that on the flashback podcast. One more question here regarding that play that kind of started this conversation. You got lit up out of bounds on that play

and the flag comes in. As a quarterback, does that stuff like ignite you and get more out of you getting that unnecessary hit out of bounds or how does that affect like the way you approach the next player the next series. That's fine. You know, usually I am I am you know, pretty hyped up when when you know, when I take a good hit and you can just bounce right back up. I remember that hit pretty well

because that one stung for a little bit. Uh. Uh you know, I remember the scramble we get out, you know, run get out of bounds and uh, you know, we were back in the old Foxboro stadium. This was before the news day. I think this was the last game in Foxboro. Uh, you know, so it was it was like going to an old you know, high school stadium. The locker rooms tiny, there's uh you know, no room in there, and the field out there. I mean it was you know, late December, you know, almost Christmas time.

Field was frozen solid like ice, especially when you get over to the sideline area where you know you're not getting as much you know, play on it. Uh. And I remember that you know area of the field. I ran out of bounds and you know you could kind of feel your your cleats just you know, sliding on the ice on top of the grass there, and you know, got hit and landed right on my tailbone on the ice, and that was you know, that one definitely stung for a little while, but you know, got back up and

and you know shook it off. You know, I think we missed the field goal. Uh, you know right after that, uh, you know, a short field goal. Uh. And then we were able to come back you know, later on and put ten points up. Uh, you know at the end of the game, I think the last five minutes to play to to come back and win. Yeah. So perfect segment there, because that was next on my notes. Here mar I misses from twenty eight yards and he's so

reliable normally. And to go back to Chris Bermant on the highlight he mentioned this, He says, here we go in December in Miami again, and as a fan like that just brought back so many memories and feelings. I was curious, was the December swoon, if you want to call it that, something that you guys thought about. Did you like address it as a team, like, where did that? Where did you think that came from? And how much validity did you give the idea of the December collapse

as it were? Well, you know, I mean that that was my first season with Miami, so I didn't know anything about you know, December collapse or anything like that. So for me, it was, you know, there was no validity to any of that. Um, you know, we we knew we had you know, a chance to win that game and and go into the playoffs, and um, you know it was. It was a great comeback victory in

the end. And you know, I think, uh after that missfield goal, we actually made a couple you know, big plays, I know uh uh you know it was a huge play on on you know, our touchdown drive. Uh. O J. McDuffie made on a third and long Uh you know that, you know and O J that you know, he was you know, really real and with his with his toe injury. Yeah, you know, it was kind of right at the end of his career. Uh. You know, he can only cut

a certain way. Uh. He he couldn't cut off his right foot, So we made every play that we had him in the game on it was all cuts to to his right off his left foot, because if he tried cutting off his right foot, he couldn't get out of out of his break. Uh you know. So I remember we had him on a little short post, uh, and in that play I snuck it right in there and and he made an unbelievable play against a couple of defenders leaning leaning forward for the first down. It

really sparked us. Uh. You know, you talk about the spark from from Derek Rodgers play. You know that was another spark. Uh. You know in the game that was you know early on the drive, you know, to go down and tie the game, and I think we we ran off uh you know, about six or seven completions uh after that play to drive all the way down and cap it off with with Lamar scoring the touchdown to tie the game up. And then you know, I

think the defense made another great play. I think we got an interception uh after that, and and uh, you know, I was able to another big play third third down to o J to kind of uh you know, get us in better field goal range and Alindo hit about a fifty yard field goal to win it with a few second left. Your recall is out and just outstanding. J. It's your spot on with all that, because so Juice catches that pass, gets Wall up fifteen yards first down

on third and fifteen. Awesome play for both you guys there. Uh you you come back and you score a touchdown with Lamar Smith. You mentioned the big interception, there's Zach Thomas makes the pick on that play and then Marie connects with nine. Now we talked about how reliable Aldando

Maria was for you guys for so many years. After missing twenty yards, I have to imagine he came back and you guys had full confidence in him right at you know, he was great all all season long, and uh you know, certainly you know, one of the better kickers in the league at that you know that time. Uh you know, so we had, you know, tremendous confidence in him, and you know it was just a matter of getting in within range. And you know it was obviously it was a cold night. Uh you know that

the ball doesn't fly as far. You know, back then they had the different kicking balls, uh that that uh you know, came into the game and they were all brand new, hardest rock you know, footballs that you know, you couldn't work up like you know, like the quarterbacks do. Um. You know. So it was a little bit you know tougher to get a five sixty yr field goal, you know,

back in those days, especially on a cold night. Uh you know, so we were able to get that last uh you know, last play on third down, just to get us in a little bit better field goal range. And already now that uh uh you know, that last kick and and then uh craziness and suit after that, let's get into the craziness, because so you get the field goal. I think it's I think it's nine seconds on the clock, and the Pats have to push the ball like thirty or forty yards to even get in

field goal range. At that point, you get the strip sack, which to me still this day looks like a sack and a fumble. But hey, what do I know? You're in the locker room, your division champs. Then I want

to hear from your perspective, like what happened next? Well, we you know, we were in the locker room celebrating and and uh, you know, I think Dave was was just about to you know, he was just kind of starting up his you know, congratulations speech and and as he's you know, getting into it, all of a sudden, Johnny Grier comes, you know, walking into the locker room and interrupts him, and you know, we see him just kind of go back, you know, towards the entryway with

the referee, and I'm not You're not sure what's going on. And it comes back in and he's like, yeah, we got to go back out for another plate, you know. So you know, guys, were guys were crazy. Yeah, we were like, what the heck is going on? Uh um, you know, obviously it was defense had to, you know, how to get themselves ready. There were a few guys that came out, you know, just in their towels. I mean,

there were guys in the shower already. You know, everything was off, equipment was off, it was starting to get packed up the equipment. Guys were packing up bags and and everything, and they had to just pull everything right back out. Uh. You know, certainly the defense had had a you know, get dressed for that one last play and uh you know, we were thankful that that didn't get extended after that because you know, we probably would have had to go back into the locker room and

get a few more guys dressed if it did. But uh, you know, it was one of those things. I think

they got a call from from the league office. Uh you know, and because you know our game had playoff implications, you know, they wanted to just make sure everything was by the book and and uh um you know when they made that call, uh you know, to to make it an incompletion instead of his hip sack like you said, you know, I forced them to to make us come out for for one more play and uh, you know last play was was was you know, I think they

put Michael Bishop in. Uh you know quarterback Drew probably said screw And I took a shower also, and uh, you know, I didn't want to come out and and and throw and throw a hail Mary out there again with you know, Bishop came out and he threw like a wounded duck about forty yards in the air. Uh, you know, kind of anti climactic. Uh, ending too to the game. We were a lot more excited at the end of the first regulation than than the second regulation.

But you know, it's definitely you know, great, a great victory for us. Uh you know great, uh you know, finished to the season, uh, to the regular season and then you know, propelling us to go into the playoffs. Now, you mentioned how cold it was that day. They showed guys on the on the primetime highlight again coming out in their slippers, and I was like, I know, Foxboro

into Nimber is not warm. But you mentioned it was even colder than usual, So kudos to those guys were sticking it out and coming out there and freezing their butts off. But I was curious. We talked about two division titles off the top of the podcast. Uh, does that count for three for you? Then, since you won one, had to go to the locker room, come back and get another W out of that. I'll go I'll go with that one. I like that pre argument. Good deal.

One more tidbit for you here on the game Chris Berman again back to to the primetime highlight. He says that when you guys clinched the division on that final play, there was one fan in the stand and maybe a little bit of shadowing there, but they even identified the

fan is Jeff McBride. So that was really cool. Just kind of tidbit they put in there that there was one guy that stuck it out and hung out there to to wash at the time of a five and ten Patriots team come out and try to score a seven year touched I guess on you guys, and that was probably a buddy at chrisses that you know, he

just wanted to get his name after the broadcast. I'm surprising you get a nick name out of that, but either way, and so there was some activity after the game and Zach Thomas was talking to reporters and I saw this again on the Highlight and he mentioned that it could only happen this year, the Florida recount and now this recount, So pretty pretty funny parallels there. I've

got one more question for you here, Jay. I'm always fascinated by the idea of how much fun it is on the team plane the team charter after you guys win a game. But I've got to imagine that after clinching a division title, that's even better, right. Oh, absolutely, it was a much better plane ride home on that one. Then we talked about earlier with the with the Jets

game earlier in the season. Uh, you know, so, yeah, you know, we had a great locker room, We had a great group of guys, you know, ultra competitive, a lot of fun to be around, and we had our fun so, uh you know, the plane ride home after after a good victory he had to clinch in the playoffs, Uh, you know, it was definitely a good one. And uh you know, we we landed and we were right back to work the next day. I'm getting ready for Indie. No days off, that's for sure. He is j Fiedler,

Dolphins quarterback from two thousand and two, thousand four. He also has an episode in the vault on the fish Tank podcast, so make sure you guys go back and check that out if you haven't done so yet, Jay, we really appreciate your time today, man, thank you. That was my pleasure. Was good talking with you. So there he goes Jay Feedler, always a good interview. Again, if you haven't heard his Fish Tank podcast, he actually mentioned at the end off the air that he does know

Brian flora Is from going way back. He talks about that story on the fish Tank Podcast. To go check that out with step Levitt and O. J. McDuffie. Do apologize for some of the audio on that particular podcast. There got a little bit choppy at points, but I think it's mostly clear. So my apologies for some of the not terrific audio quality on this flashback Friday. But

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