Drive Time - Roster Changes, Captains, Starting Quarterback Announced

cover here. On today's show, it's game week, six days away from New England. We're gonna hear from coach and each of the coordinators, and Josh Bowyer, Danny Croftsman and Chan Gailey. Plus we'll get you caught up on the Dolphins roster, the death chart, the practice squad, Captain's, all of that and more on this Monday, September the seventh edition of the Drive Time Podcast. My ever, so did anybody else watch drag racing for two hours han Sunday? Luckily I was watching the heat and game for a

tough loss in overtime to Littlewaukee Bucks. But the twa tongue of Bloa documentary that was supposed to err on Fox on Sunday. I had that recording on the dvr, so I didn't subject myself to alternative programming because of the weather delay. I think it was at drag Racing. But the documentary is set to air officially on Tuesday night on FS one, the same time as Hard Knocks at ten pm Eastern, So get the dvr fired up once again if you intend to watch that. And on

that note, how is everybody's weekend? We had a busy one out here in Davy. I want to talk about a new trade acquisition in Lynn Bowden Jr. I want to talk about the roster in general, the practice squad, the depth chart, all the stuff we talked about in the lead. But since coach touched on a lot of those in his Monday morning presser, let's go ahead and let him t s up here and we'll intervene for some further analysis as we do on the media portion

of the Drivetime podcast. And first we start with coach Flora's announcing his starting quarterback for Sunday in New England. Yeah, I mean this is a good groundbreaking news. I think fits is gonna be the starter. You know, a year like this with limited uh no t is no mini camp, limited training camp were modified training camp, and just felt

like that was the best decision for the team. Um, he's done a good job through the course of training camp and you'll be out there so that you have it the announcement we all kind of expected here coming in with Ryan Fitzpatrick as the starting quarterback. I'm not

sure if as much of an announcement. Fits finished the season last year after re entering the lineup from weeks six through seventeen with three thousand, two hundred and twenty six passing yards that was third best in the NFL, had the second most passing first downs in the NFL over that time as well, and was the tenth highest graded quarterback on Pro Football Focus over that course of time.

To a tuggle by lower, the rookie will serve as his backup quarterbacks, so that your quarterback depth chart for now and up next. Coach was asked about the practice squad and how this year on that sixteen man practice squad, and of course the Dolphins do have seven team members on the practice squad because of the roster exemption for derv All. The now offensive lineman, as he's listed on the Miami Dolphins roster, making the switch from defensive line

part of that International Pathway program. He has roster exemption, so he is the seventeenth man on the practice squad alphabetically. The first one is a recent acquisition and solve An Akhmed out of Washington the running back and up. Second on the practice squad list alphabetically is wide receiver Antonio Kallaway, and you might remember him from the NFL draft from

the Cleveland Browns. He was selected in the fourth round, number one oh five overall by the Cleveland Browns back in eighteen, and in that rookie season, he played in sixteen games, started eleven for the Browns, caught forty three passes for five hundred and eighty six yards, and scored five touchdowns with twenty seven first downs to boot on that I red call a long touchdown catch he had against the Saints from Tyrod Taylor in that game where he got on top of the coverage and pulled a

really nice reception in in the end zone for a touchdown. So Antonio Callaway, after a spring in the XFL, is now back in the NFL. On the Miami Dolphins practice squad. On the rest of the Dolphins practice squad, we're gonna have Nick co who also was not here for training camp.

He was one of the Auburn defensive lineman you might recall that beastly Auburn defensive line with Derek Brown and Marlon Davidson and Nick co always getting constant pressure down there at Auburn pound defensive and joins the Dolphins now. Another newcomer on the practice squad is Brian Cole. He signs here by way of Mississippi State. Last year, entering his rookie season on the Dolphins practice squad. Here and the rest of the group were guys that were previously

with the Miami Dolphins. Matt Cole, the receiver out of McKendry, was here through training camp. Javarus Davis was here for a minute, was released and brought back now on the Dolphins practice squad. He too out of Auburn, so he teams back up with Noah Igbnogeny in that Dolphins secondary. Tay Hayes, the cornerback out of Appalachian State who played a little bit last year at the end of the season, is back on the practice squad. So is Nate Holly,

the CFL signing. Last year's CFL Outstanding Rookie of the Year. Jonathan Hubbard is back on the Dolphins practice squad after spending his training camp here in Miami. Was waived on Saturday and brought back on the practice squad. Kylan Johnson, the linebacker out of Pittsburgh. He was a transfer from Florida. He had all of his pass rushing productivity up in Pittsburgh his final season there in college. He's back on

the practice squad. So too is Benito Jones out of Old miss the big, beefy defensive tackle up in the front. He'll be back on the Dolphins practice squad. Wide receiver Kirk Merritt out of Arkansas State, he too was back. Chris Myrick was in the practice squad last year. He returns back to the Miami practice squad. We mentioned Dervall, the six ft four, three thirty pound guard, a massive, massive dude out of Brazil. He is back with that

roster exemption status. Tyshan Render, the defensive end is here as well from Middle Tennessee State. He was competing in camp off the edge on the Dolphins defense, and some special teams as well. He returns to the Dolphins practice squad. Jake Rudoc, the quarterback we know him very well here in Miami. He returns back to the Dolphins practice squad to give Miami three quarterbacks in the building and cornerback Ken Webster, who had a couple of coffee here last

season with the Dolphins playing some regular season games. He is back and on the Dolphins practice squad. So seventeen guys there, we've got a death charge to get too here real quick. Let's first go back to Brian Flores is Monday morning media availability when he talked about the two players that you can call up on game day to dress on game day off this practice squad list.

Here's Coach Flores on the team's approach when it comes to practice squad call ups once that rule is putting place, you know, within the c b A. It's something we talked about, you know, as a as a as a staff, myself, Chris Brandon, Marvin Um and the coaching staff. And man's an interesting uh you know that flex being able to flex up a practice squad player. It's something that you know, I think you know a number of teams are gonna use. We talked about it. We may use it as well,

so we've we've had discussions. Uh, it was true the case by case, a week by week and a lot of it depends on the game plan. So we'll try to Uh, you know, i'll give it too much away here. Uh, We'll use it when we need it. Uh and if we don't, we won't use it. So again, that's two players that can be called up on game day to dress for game day. To take your roster from fifty

three up to fifty guys. You still have to make inactives though, so the roster in the end doesn't allow you to activate every single player on the active roster for game day. Up next, Coach was asked about the usage and the decision to bring Lynn Bowden in. The Dolphins traded a fourth round pick and brought back a sixth round pick as well as the Raiders third round pick in this year's draft. In Lynn Bowden, junior out of Kentucky, played some receiver, played some quarterback there for

the Wildcats. We'll talk more about Lynn Bowden here in just one second, but here's coach on the decision to get Bote in. Here he was also asked about the pairing of he and Malcolm Perry. Here's coach talking about all of that collectively with regards to the Lynn Bowden trade. Well, I mean it's two young players have a lot to learn. Um, haven't played in the National Football League, don't know the speed of the game. They've got a long way to go. Um.

I'm excited about both Lenning and Malcolm from the town standpoint. Uh. You know, they're tougher, competitive guys. It's important to him as far as Lynn. You know, obviously we did a lot of work on him pre draft. When the trade was an option here, we did a lot more work. Uh. So we're we're excited about, you know, having him join our team. And once he gets here, I mean there's a lot that that that he's gonna happen. He's not gonna jump out there and start playing. Uh, he's gonna

learn to know how we do things around here. Obviously a new environment. Uh, you know, he doesn't know where our facility is. He's not gonna know where to meeting meeting rooms are, the training room, the weight room. So he's got a lot to learn in a little bit of time. Uh. He's excited we're excited to have him. Um, we're excited to have Malcolo also, and you know a lot of guys in this really class look forward to to working with all the young guys and really everyone

in his on his team. But this week obviously we're a lot then on the Patriots. UM, that's trying to have a laser focus on that, but at the same time, getting guys acclimated and trying to develop him is always at the forefront. I love that note. They're at the end about developing players and that always being at the

forefront of their mind on this football team. You saw the activity on the roster throughout training camp bringing different guys, in bringing in these young players to get a look at and to see how they work out on the field, how they might fit into your program. And we saw that worked out for Javars Davis for instance, who comes back on the Dolphins practice squad. So we started that conversation.

They're talking about Lynn Bowden, who was again acquired over the weekend for a fourth round draft pick, and in addition to the player coming over in the trade, the Dolphins also get a sixth round draft pick in return, so a swap of four and sixes to get Lynn Bowden, who was the Raiders third round draft pick this year out of Kentucky. Now, Lynn Bowden is a very interesting player.

He spent three years as a receiver in Kentucky but wound up playing quarterback for the second half of the season last year for the Wildcats, and as a receiver he did catch a hundred and fourteen passes for hundred and three yards and six touchdowns. He entered the season on the bullet Na cough Watch List, which is the

watch list for the best receiver in the country. Last year l S. Hughes Jamaar Chase captures that crown, but he entered the season on that watch list, so you get a feel for what he was thought of as a receiver in that regard. And how about his rushing statistics that were there when he was a receiver but definitely took off as a quarterback last season alone, carried the ball a hundred and eighty five times for fourteen hundred and sixty eight yards. That's an average of seven

point nine yards per carry. He had thirteen touchdowns on the ground as well, So this guy can do a lot of things. They manufactured tons of touches for him in that Kentucky offense, even as a receiver, which he will be listed here in Miami as a receiver on the depth chart on the roster. But in college they found a way to manufacture touches for him because he did have an average of seven point seven yards after the catch as a receiver. So they got him the

ball in space on slip screen, smoke screens, bubbles. They threw it to him short in the backfield on pop passes, little jet sweep actions, so he gets his hands on the football and makes plays in a variety of ways. He created seventeen miss tackles in eighteen, his last season as a full time receiver, seventeen miss tackles on sixty seven receptions, with again that seven point seven yards after the catch. Last season as a quarterback, he had a PFF rushing grade of eighty seven point two that was

the highest in college football for non running backs. He also forced to point three missed tackles per rush, that was higher than most running backs in all of college football. He also won the Paul Horning Award, which is awarded the most versatile player in the country and all of college football. He was a consensus All American for the versatile spot, the kind of X factor spot they have

on that list. He also won the Herald Leader Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year Award, which recognizes the I guess top name in the state of Kentucky, and last year he beat out John Morant and Lamar Jackson, the NFL m v P and the NBA Rookie of the Year for that award, So no joke there. He also set the single game SEC rushing record for a quarterback when he went for two eighty four on the ground against Louisville and again entered the season on the Blittna

Cough Watch List. So Lynn Bowden Jr. Your newest Miami Dolphins traded here, will play a receiver for the Dolphins coming out of Kentucky. Up next, coach was asked about some of the new guys on those defense that he has past relationships with, like Kyle van Neu for instance, and how he approaches coaching different players at this age of his career. Interesting answer here from coach talking about how much he loves coaching, the passion he asked for coaching.

Here's coach, We're We're excited about Kyle. We're excited about a lot of guys on the team, offense, defense and special teams. Uh. You know, I think Kyle's history with me and history with the you know, the defense has been helpful, I would say in a lot of ways, because you know, he and I have been been together so long. Uh, it's good for for other other guys to hear you know, I haven't changed, you know, coach guys, hard demanding. I'm still that way. Uh and I'm gonna

be that way. So UM, I think for for a lot of guys, it's you know macosa is yep, you know he's losing it, but you know he he'll get back here and give him five minutes. So I think that's that part of it's been been good. Um. And whether that's you know, Kyle or Landon. And I would say some of these the guys that were here a year ago, UM, they understand that too. Not that I lose it all the time, but um, you know I am I am you know, passionate about coaching, passionate about

getting guys better. And it's it's it's something that you know I love coaching, so uh, it's it's it's great to have Kyle. Great to have you know Kyle, and really a lot of the other guys defensively, Bobby McCain got you out, you know, Bike, So all I'm excited about, you know, that group, and we gotta put put together a good week to play against a you know, a really good football team, and you know, I think we'll do that. I think there's a lot to pack in

that answer. First, the the mention about the passion he has for coaching, and kind of laughing about the mentality he has within talking about when he loses it for five minutes and then kind of comes back. To have that balance on the roster and have a guy that knows the coach's personality and can help communicate to the rest of the roster along with guys that were here last year that know him as well. That just kind

of helps everybody get on the same page. And I love coaches mentioned there about I don't lose it all the time, but you know, sometimes I'm passionate, and anybody that's passionate about anything can tell you this. I can tell you this that it can control you for maybe a few minutes. And I'm I'm the same way. If I get upset about something. Maybe it takes me five or six minutes. I tell my wife all time, let me just kind of separate for a second, give me

five ten minutes. I'll come back and I'll get the emotion out of it, and then we're back at it with much more of a logical approach than an emotional approach. So it's it's cool to hear coach talk about his personality that way, how the guys receive it, how it's communicated across the rest of the roster. They're from players like Kyle van Noy, Like he mentioned, so good insight there into coaches person Nowady, how he loves to coach

players hard. We've heard the demanding aspect of his personality, of his coaching style since he got here, and I think that really helps bring out the best in his players. And before we get to the Dolphins depth chart and coach talking about the I guess not so heavy importance of the depth chart because of all the different personnel groupings. We'll hear from coach on that here in just one second, But first, before that, your Miami Dolphins captains on offense, defense,

and special teams. Players voted too on special teams Clayton Federal and Cabon Frasier. Three on offense fits r Fitzpatricks, Ted Terrris and Jesse Davis, and three on defense, Rob McCain, Calvin or any landon Robberts. So there you have eight captains on this Dolphins football team. Both the special teamers are newcomers and both are guys that have four years of experience. Both are guys that have made plenty of plays and tackles on special teams and guys that can

play defense as well. In safety's Clayton federalum and Cavon Frazier On the defense of side one familiar face gets the captain nod once again, and Bobby McCain as he is entering your number six here in Miami, which of course makes him the longest tenured defender on this Dolphins defense. Also, Kyle van Noy, Andy Land and Roberts, the two linebackers here in Miami, will be captains on this defense formerly with Brian Flores in New England. And on offense, three

more captains. Ryan Fitzpatrick your quarterback, Jesse Davis the offensive tackle slash guard, and Ted Carrish your center slash guard. On the interior offensive line. Those three will be your captains this year on the Dolphins offense, So eight captains and total. Let's get back to coaches response about the depth chart, the importance of that depth chart, and how it's pretty much like we've talked about on this podcast so many times, kind of a flexible, fluid thing because

you have different personnel groupings. There's no such thing as based defense anymore. There's all kinds of different subpackages on defense and on offense in this day's NFL, tons of substitutions. And with that coach, as he says here, you need more than just eleven guys on offense and defense. Of the depth chart, Yeah, we could take it or leave it.

You know, the guys who are let's call it starters or guys who you know obviously had good training camps and show that, you know, from a consistency standpoint, from a technique fundamental standpoint, from a communication standpoint, ahead of some other guys. Again, that initial depth chart, you know, I wouldn't take put too much too much into that. Uh, there's there's so many there's so many groupings. You know,

what grouping are we talking about? What we're talking about to all personnel eleven personnel, twenty personnel, ten personnel, big nickel, a little nickel dime like got mean, So um, I'm not into the whole starters, you know, backups. I think you know, in football, you got eleven guys on the field, a lot of different groupings. I would say this year specifically, you know, with no preseason games, we're gonna see a

lot of guys who are playing. You know, every rep counts, every snap count so I don't really put too much into hey, this guy's the starting this or the starting you know, right guard or left guard or defensive tackle. So I'm sure you guys will take a hard long, hard looking uh you know right about who's starting who's not. But I think it will see a lot of guys playing in a lot of different groups. Yep, you heard him rattle off some different packages there that include different players.

That's why depth in this league is so important, in as this Dolphins team has demonstrated they will go out and try to improve the one through fifty three as much as they possibly can. Just a quick note on that, real quick You'll notice sometimes that a player might start a game like coach mentioned there with twelve personnel. For instance, if you open a game and twelve personnel, that means you're gonna have your first and second tight end on

the field. But your second tight end might only play snaps in the game, but he still gets credit for the start over the receiver who might come on. For eleven personnel, where you have three receivers on the field, who plays forty five snaps, the tight end gets the start because he was on the field for the first place. So again, starters not that important of a distinction. Snap counts at the end of the day are what you're

looking for. And on the topic of the depth chart, will circle back to that later in this podcast and at the latest on tomorrow's Drive Time podcast. Still not available at the time of recording right now, but what we do have is audio from the three coordinators and Chan Gailey, Josh Bowyer and Danny Croftsman. Let's first go ahead and here here here here from Chan Gailey on

the decision to start Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. I think last year's play and this year's preparation and play uh played a lot into the decease very brief There no doubt we are going to hear back or circle back, and here from coach on Ryan Fitzpatrick here in just one moment. Next, he was asked about the difficulties of going to Foxboro and getting a victory. He says, it's all about the players. They got good players. Is one thing, uh that when you have good players, it's hard to win.

I don't care if your homemorrow Way, but it's uh, you know, they want a bunch, they believe they can win, and you have to go fight your ear off to win up there. It's always been a tough place to play. But the good thing about it is it's the players on the field. They get to go, uh play the game and make the difference. Our crew went up there last year and one, so I think they have a

great belief about what they're capable of doing. And up next, coach evaluates a receiver who didn't make the trip to Foxboro last year as he was injured and Preston Williams and how his campus progressed so far in your number two for the wide receiver. Yeah, um, some days he looked great and then the other days you could tell

he wasn't a hundred percent. But there were more really good days than than the bad days, and we tried to rest him, and UM, I think he's I think he's in a good place going into the first ball game.

And we'll stay on the past catcher topic here and talk about the tight ends the Dolphins have on the roster and the importance of finding balance among those two when you do go in twelve personnel or if you have one tight end on the field, the importance of having a guy that can both be a receiver and an inline blocker in Mike A. Sicki and Durham Smith and the improvements of those guys have made this offseason. Uh,

it's it's very important. You don't want to get locked into one doing one thing with with guys like that, you have to show some versatility. So, um, you know a guy like Mike that's envisioned as a just a receiver and not a blocker. Uh, We've worked hard to help him get better as a bocker, and I think he's done that. And I think we've also done the

same thing with Durham. We've we've worked hard with him to help his receiving and he's he's worked hard at it, and I think he's gotten better at it, so hopefully we've got balanced there more than people might think at this point. And as promised, here is the circle back talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick and what he means this offense and what Shangili thinks about him and a leader as a player and as a captain of this football team.

His leadership is unbelievable. His understanding of the game is right up there with the best, um and he understands not only what we're trying to do, he understands what the defense is trying to do. And that gives any quarterback a leg up when they can do that. So uh, it wasn't necessarily that way our first year together in Buffalo, but he's gotten to the point, uh the last you know, six or seven years that that's um been a real

asset for him. So um, his leadership. I think his accuracy as improved since we were together last and I think that his knowledge is great. And the other thing is he loves the game. He's a competitor. He wants to win, and you've got a competitory quarterback that goes along a I love chance perspective on these kind of things like this question here about will he be on the field or up in the booth as a coordinator.

He says he's always been up in the booth for the calmness it provides being up high compared to being down the field. I've always when I when I hadn't been at a coach, when I was a coordinator, I've always been upstairs. The calmness of being able to think through the next series, of being able to look at the pictures and think about things without somebody coming up to you and telling you they were open on the last play, Why don't you give me the ball? You

know all that stuff. Uh, it's it's great to just sit there and think about what how you need to go about beating the defense the next time out. Um, and you can spread out and and just have some calmness is what I like about. And finally here for chan, he tells us his favorite part about being a play caller and the desire to win on game day. You're in the business because you like to win. Everybody says they want to compete, but no, you want to win.

That's what you're trying to do. Uh. You compete in order to be able to win. If you don't compete, you won't win. So, yes, you want to compete, but I love winning. And it may be winning a series, uh, it may be winning a half, but ultimately you're about winning the game. And the good thing about it is I try over the years realized the most important thing is at the end of the ball game to have one more point than the other guys. That's a successful day.

Because if we if we go out and win fourteen, you guys will say how bad way on offense and right, but we won. If we win forty three, forty two, you'll talk about how great we were. But we want the biggest thing is to go win the game. And uh so, uh, I like winning. That's what That's what I enjoyed about play call and this winning. And I don't think I got all the answers, but I hopefully have enough to help us win. You and next we get Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer here on the podcast

talking to the South Florida media. First, he was asked about the uncertainty of not just this season, but any year going into Week one where you don't maybe know what you have quite yet on the defense on the team, and how your best ball should come later in the year. Because you always should be improving. Well, I would say, yeah, going into any season, I think that's pretty accurate. Um. You know, you you work your way through training camp. Um, you try to do as many things you know as

you can to get players ready. But you know, like I've said earlier, that the defense will evolve over time, and UM, you know, we're gonna try to put him in position to make plays and obviously it's gonna come down to execution and fundamentals. Um. You know, it's really an precedented experience this year because there there's no game action before we go out there, so you know, our

focus has really been on fundamentals. Um, you know, and uh, I think you know over time, you know, like the chemistry, the camaraderie, the fundamentals, the play, all of it will improve. Like we do. We don't look to be playing our best football in September. I mean, you know, week to week we're looking for improvements. So I think that, uh, you know that there's gonna be a little bit of uh you know, we'll see and uh, but you know, our focuses on getting ready to go to go this

week and go up there and get a win. Um, that's that's what our focus is, um, but yeah, there's definitely some unknown going into it. Up next, a question for Josh that brought back a really interesting answer and something I've covered on this podcast before. One of my favorite defensive game plans, and not just that it involved Brian Floores and Josh Boyer for that matter, just in

football in general. Was the first half of the team a f C Championship game between the Patriots and the Chiefs, and Patrick Mahomes, who is by all accounts the toughest player to defend in the National Football League, because we've see what he can do off platform and throwing the football from different arm angles, different arms slots, and having accuracy and anticipation regardless of where his base and where

his feet and where he sets up at. He's so difficult to defend that way because if you flush him out of the pocket, he's still just as dangerous doing that as he is surveying from inside the pocket. And so you had this plan that really kind of rushed contained, kept him in the pocket, and forced him to be stationary and beat you from there, which of course he still is capable of doing that, as we saw him do later in that game and get hot in the

second half of that game. But the idea of having a defense that can rush or rather generate pressure from the scheme itself, based upon the matchups you create by sending different rushers, by making the blitz call or the blitz protection not clear for the quarterback and making confusion for the quarterback. Getting that pressure through the scheme, but also the ability to create one on one matchups in the pass rushing game to get pressure that way too.

Here's Josh Boyer talking about how they want to generate pressure and how he thinks they get pressure on opposing quarterbacks this year on this Dolphins defense. Well, you know again, I think pressure, Um, it comes in a variety of forms. Um. Some of it will be individual effort. Uh. Some of it will be uh, you know, team team or in and scheme or in it. Um. But we'll take it

anyway we can get it, um, you know. So like you know, obviously, ultimately I think all defense and you're trying to put pressure on the quarterback, I think they're trying to put pressure on the offensive line. I think, um, you know, sometimes you can do that, um, you know, by disguises, alignments, and sometimes you can do it by matchups. So, um and again you know we're working pretty hard to

put our guys in a position to succeed. So and again, um, you know works it about Sunday, and you know we're looking forward to it and you know, and we'll kind of see what the results are there. And I was hoping coach would get a question about the captains as they were announced on Monday and Bobby McCain, Kyle Van noy Any, landing Roberts on his defense. Here is Josh Boyer talking about the defensive captains and the work of some other guys to really help facilitate workouts and camaraderie

this offseason. Well, I would say with all three of our guys, Bobby, Kyle and the land and I think those are all three great candidates, which obviously you mentioned the players voted for those guys. Um, I think, uh, you know, all of our players, all of our coaches, you know, need to exhibit leadership, you know, on a daily basis. I think, uh, these guys have kind of stood out in some of those rules and um, you know, again everything has kind of been you know, they came

in and the guys that were here, it was. You know, it was a welcoming event. Um for them when they're coming in and for the guys that were here. UM, I would say, you know, there's a lot of conversations between our players. Uh. You know, they worked hard and uh the spring when we weren't able to see him. Um, these guys, they reached out to many players on our defense and try to develop relationships that way. And I think ultimately it's gonna help us as a football team.

And it says a lot about those three guys in particular, but there's there's many others. I mean, they can go got Chaw, Eric Rowe like, there's a lot of guys that you know, took upon themselves to reach out to guys when you know everybody's kind of quarantined off with the pandemic, and you know, and they're trying to build those relationships. So and the same question that was posed to chan Gaily about being on the field or up in the booth has been answered here by coach Boyer.

He'll be on the field. Here his here's his take rather on being down on the field to call plays on game day. Uh, yeah, I'll be down on the field, um, And I would say, um, I've probably got as good as you know school as anybody because for I don't know the past, whether it was Matt Patricia or uh flow. Um, I was basically up in the box and you know I was kind of going through the games with them as games were going on, I would say, from getting

ready to call plays in the game. Um, like you said, and you watch a lot of film and you go through Okay, you know, there's a lot of things that you can manipulate the film to just give you okay down in distance personnel. You can create games, which we we've obviously done. I've said through there. You know there's there's guys on our defensive staff that have put those together and um, you know you go through it and

call that way with you know what you think. You know New England's gonna do this week and stuff, and you know it's not all right, it's not all wrong, but you know it. Uh, it's it's just a way to prepare. And um, you know and all all all the guys that I've been around over the years, I know they've done that, and uh, that's that's just what

how we kind of prepare. You'll go on film you'll make the calls and then you'll be like, you know, Okay, well this is something they could do in this situation. But again, like I said, you know, you know they have a new quarterback. Um, Um, you know there there can be a lot of unknowns out there, but uh, you know, we'll be prepared and ready to go and

make sure that we're fundamentally sound on stuff. And like I said earlier when I was talking to you guys, there's not gonna be a lot of surprises in the calls that are coming out there are our players are gonna know what's getting called in certain situations, and you know, give them the ability to go out there and play fast. And again it's gonna go down to fundamentals, you know, getting off blocks and tackling. Um, you know, good eye

discipline and coverage. All those things are gonna show up huge. I would say, like you know, the first month of the season, and we'll finish up here with coach and Danny Crossman, the special teams coordinator of your Miami Dolphins, who kind of continue a theme here of questions about the uncertainty of game one in a strange offseason, but how it's always kind of unknown going into the first

game of the regular season. Well, yeah, I think you're always going into the first game even after having played preseason games. You know, there's always the um you know that that ramping up of the regular season as compared to the preseason. Now you just add to it that we didn't even have those preseason games. But I think we've done a good job and how we've structured practice and how we worked obviously true game. Actually really don't know how guys are going to perform until they get

in that situation. So uh, I like the way we've worked. I like the plan we've had. We have a good week of practice hopefully and see what we have on Sunday. Up next, Coach discusses the return position and who he likes in that spot, talking about Jachem Grant and the

depth they have at the return spot. Yeah, you know, like I've said all through cam, we have a couple of guys that were very happy we have with Obviously, team has done a good job and had a lot of production this league, So we feel good about where we're at with our return situation, obviously involving and especially with Jaki and so that you have it the three Dolphins coordinators, Danny Croftsman, Josh Boyer, and Chan Gaily. We heard from Brian Flores I talked about a death chart.

We do not have that just yet. We'll cover that on tomorrow's podcast as the Dolphins are back on the field for practice on Tuesday. Again, Tuesday also brings us the two a Tongue Byla documentary, the season finale of Hard Knocks. Wednesday always has one of my favorite shows of the year in America's game will be the story on the twenty nineteen Kansas City Chiefs, and then Thursday we've got football as the Chiefs and Texans will kick

off in the season opener. The Dolphins will be on the field Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, go up to Boston on Saturday, and Sunday it is gonna be game day. So it's all coming to the pipeline here very very quickly. We're gonna have you covered here on the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, every day covering

this football team. We'll have the game recap on Sunday night, I believe is the plan right now written recap as well, and then we'll have all the content throughout the week, taking a look at the film, taking a look at the numbers on the field, preparing for each opponent, getting you guys previews. We'll have Flashback podcast on Friday as well.

This week we're gonna have Jay Fieedler on the podcast talking about the two thousand season finale in New England when the Dolphins won the Division one, the a f C East up in Foxboro. So plenty of content to come. Keep it locked here on the Drivetime podcast in the metime. That's gonna be my time. You all, please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast from. Go ahead and leave us a rating, leave us a review, give me a follow

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