Jerome Baker's Extension, Will Fuller's Inclusion into the Offense and Brian Flores on Development

the person, the leadership and everything Jerome exudes. Will go back to his media from Friday, and also here from coach Flores and wide receiver Will Fuller and a whole lot more on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast Miami Dolphins. So we talked about playing the hits on this show all the time, and that's the message today and the hit is the news of the weekend. The Dolphins and linebacker Jerome Baker have agreed on a three

year contract extension. And you recall Jerome was part of theeen class that includes Mike Gasicki, Durham Smith, All Pro kicker Jason Sanders who got his extension earlier this this year, I should say, and a draft pick that would later become starting left tackle Austin Jackson, and of course linebacker Jerome Baker, a player who quickly evolved into one of the leaders on the team, both in terms of the weight that his voice carries, but also in terms of

sheer volume of playing time. Go back to when Jerome was drafted in a third rounder out of Ohio State. Remember that clip of him tailing se Kwon Barkley stride for stride up the sideline on a wheel route in coverage in the Ohio State Penn State game in seventeen.

And then of course he timed well in Indianapolis at the scouting combine and I remember him covering Bears running back to Riet Cohen on an ang a route which is just difficult for linebackers to pick up on because the widen the linebacker you crossed back across the face. You have to have lateral agility and straight line speed

to handle a player like to Read Cohen. And I want to say it was Greg Jennings, I think was the color commentator on the game that day, and he said, this is why you draft Jerome Baker to run with all those speedy mismatch backs and tight ends in the modern, past heavy NFL game that we've come to know and love, and that was true and it still is true. But Jerome has taken a considerable leap in his role from that rookie campaign. You go to his first season under

coach Brian Flores in twenty nineteen. He wore the green dot on the back of the helmet, the defensive communication helmet. He played one thousand eighties snaps and over twelve hundred snaps that year if you count special teams, which we do because it's a big aspect of the game, and he was just a tick under one thousand snaps this year combined, and that included work on special teams, though the number did go down in two about twenty five total snap apps from a little over a hundred in

that nineteen season. But the best part about his season was that you'd assumed that less snaps coincides with less production, but the opposite of that happened. He became an even more efficient player. He set career highs and sacks with seven and tackles for loss, also with seven QB hits with eleven QB pressures from Pro Football Focus with eight team the nine point two yards per reception was a

career low. A career best. How you say that per Pro Football Focus, a career best with an eighty six point to passer rating aloud and coverage. This season, he matched his career high with two force fumbles. He added three more passes defense to his career high was four in nineteen, and he still made a hundred and twelve total tackles, which was just fourteen shy of that twenty nineteen season, but a higher tackle per snap played race.

So he has improved every year of his career and over his three years, three hundred and eleven tackles, one of those solo, eleven and a half sacks to pick, ten passes defense, and four forced fumbles. His three hundred and eleven tackles are six among all players selected in that team class, and all five of those players with more tackles than Baker were chosen prior to him at the seventy three pick to the Miami Dolphins. And you

know what, He's only twenty four years old. He turns twenty five on Christmas Day, so you consider that rapid development occurring in his early twenties and makes it all the more impressive, and you can see why he was a priority to get done with his contract extension before training camp, and the impact plays are the ones that I really want to dig into here because that's where I think the biggest jump happened for Jerome this season

or this past season. I should say he's been consistent in the areas that just don't get anywhere near the same pop as the takeaway and sack numbers. You've heard coach talk about the flash numbers are great, and that's what everyone sees. We want to talk about the one thousand snaps, the consistent down and down out work of a player. And I can go back to twenty nineteen and find clips of him knifing into the backfield and blowing up a Charger's fullback friends since en route to

a tackle for loss. I can find clips where he anticipates a run, whether he's finding his keys from motion, the polling guard, whatever the exact keys are. I can't identify them exactly because I'm not Jerome out there seeing it. But you can see so much anticipatory work in his game, even from that young age. And how about that sack last year of Patrick Mahomes. A thirty yard loss is essentially a turnover when you consider the roughly forty or so gross yards the top punters in the game get.

And I think that play showcase Jerome's best skill set from a tangible standpoint in the athletic ability. Emmanuel Ogball comes free off of his edge and forces him a Homes to spend the other direction, and then he's in a foot race with Baker, who changes direction to beat Mahomes to the edge and gets him to the ground for that big loss and sets up a big fourth down which Miami would cash in on the ensuing drive. And you see that skill set in his coverage too.

There was a crucial, absolutely crucial third down stop in the Vegas game last year in Week sixteen, where Derek Carr broke contain sane and Baker had to plaster to the back and who initially had kind of stopped his route in anticipation of the play being over because it looked like it was gonna be a sack car gets out. He continues, and that stuff is really really tough to do because it's sam lot football and you have to keep up with someone you know just as shifty and

agile as you are. It's a tough ask, and Jerome can do that so he's got the physical, he's got the mental, the versatility, the team first mindset. I shared the clip of him putting pressure on Jared Goff and getting to the quarterback's arm as he's throwing the ball and that ball would get intercepted by safety Eric Rowe, and I just love that play because Jerome looks back, he sees the ball fluttering, he sees it come down in his guy's hands, just as the quarterback is going down,

and he throws a massive fist pump to celebrate. And it shows you that selflessness of we don't care who gets the credit or the stat we just want to play winning football. And that mentality is one of Jerome exudes.

And we recently heard from Dolphins linebackers coach Anthony Campanelli on Jerome Baker and what's next for him in terms of taking the next step and what he brings to the field, both from a physical standpoint, but also the preparation and intelligence and work habits that Jerome Baker brings. Fake is a guy, like I've said in some of these UH media meetings or gatherings in the past, um, who's really a great guy of coach because he's an

extremely bright guy. Um. You know, we understands football concepts really really well and those things come easy to him. Um. Just his his level of study, I feel as continuously improved over time here, over my time here, and he's been really really diligent in the classroom. UM. His technique on the field, uh, in a lot of in various ways, has improved. And we're hopeful that he'll continue to do that.

And I know it will because it's important to him. UM. Just from you know, in the run game and the past game he's uh, and even in pass rush he's He's really made improvements in a lot of ways, and we're just hopeful to do that, just like everybody else hopefully to get better every day. And you hear a coach they're talking about how smart Jerome is and the time he puts into making himself a smarter football player. Like we talked about the intelligence, you don't just show

up and be intelligent on the football field. It's all about preparation of the time you put into it and how valuable that is in a system that wants to be so multiple, because Jerome defines multiplicity in so many ways with the way that he can play off, the ball mug up in the a gaps, playoff, the edge playoff,

a stack, play man, coverage, zone drop. I mean having a guy that can plant, you can just plant him out there for nine hundred to a thousand snaps in a season and you know there's always going to be a role for him and what you want to do. It's just so so valuable. And I also like that he gets his deal done first in that as we mentioned very impressive linebacker class with Darius Leonard, Fred Warner, ro Kuan Smith, and Tremaine Edmonds. I mean that is

a stacked, stacked linebacker class. You talk about your modern day football players and some very good company for Jerome to keep. So the way Jerome's speed, as we talked about with the Patrick Mahome him sack, the way that speed impacts the game I think is a good correlation to those impact plays we have covered here. It creates urgency and everything that he does, which as a byproduct,

forces the offense to make urgent decisions. And as coach flor has talked about this offseason, having speed on the field is a benefit to the offense, and that means you need speed on defense too. To match that right, and also Chris Greer mentioned this offseason an emphasis on playmakers on both sides of the ball, and Jerome has ball production every single year since he came into the league.

With the four force fumbles, the two picks, the ten passes defense, and the aforementioned pressures that result in takeaways. It is not technically ball production, but eleven and a half sacks too. That's up in the scoff at in three years for a player like Jerome. Baker and coach Campanelli also talked about Jerome speed last year and how when he's up on the line of scrimmage he's stretching the offensive line out and how his speed is evident

in those rough situations. So again you see the impact this player has on the field, but he's also an impact guy in the most important area it can be in the community. And last summer I talked with Jerome on a feature podcast here on Drive Time, and we covered some of his work with Dolphins units and handing out backpatch to kids here at local schools and back

in his hometown of Cleveland. The organization that his father, Jerome Senior, co founded called Men of Central which has a focus on providing a positive adult male mentor in the lives of kids in the Central neighborhood. They're in Greater Cleveland, and so Junior Jerome Baker Jr. Is a leader in the community. He's a leader on the football field. And we're gonna get here to Coach Flors media from

Friday in just a moment. But I want to cut in on it right here, because Coach talked about leadership and the different forms of leadership. Let's go ahead and listen in. And I think it's different. It's different for each each individual. Um, I think I'm gonna lead differently than you would, or or Sopha would or you know, Armando or Kyle. I mean, it's it's everyone's a little

bit different. Some people are are more outgoing and uh, you know, louder some people or you know, by example, some people, uh say nothing and then when they speak, people listen. I mean, I think it's there's there's different types of leaders and they're coming all. It's not like it's not a one size fits all, and it's not a one size fits all. So I wanted to ask Jerome about that quote from coach and what his approach to leadership is um for me. Ever since I was young,

it's always been the same. I leave by example, um, and I kind of just do what the team needs me to do. If it's if you need me to be the guy that yells today, I'll be that guy. You just need me to be that guy's lead by example, I'll be that guy. Awesome, I think I'm just lead by example guy. I just tried to write things. Um. You know, I tried to do it was best for the team. And uh, that's always been my approach. Um, and I don't see a change anytime soon. And I

think that's who got me here this far. And before that question, he was asked if he could see himself playing in Miami for a long time. And here what's Jerome's response. Oh yeah, I want to play here for the rest of my career. I love it here, I love games, I love the organization, I love everybody here. Uh yeah, I definitely see playing for a long time. You see the hats. He's talking about his bucket hat there,

it's a it's a gorgeous bucket. Had an awkward Dolphins bucket hat that he had on practice and it's all awkward. Garb there as he met with the media and earlier, he was asked by a reporter why it was important for him to be out here for O t a s at this time of the summer. And here's the realm's answer, that I want to play because I thought it was fantastic. I love this team. I love being out here. Um. I just love just being on his team and just being out here getting back to football.

It AWESO me helps me, you know in the long run. So honest he's just missed being out there with all the guys, especially all the the personalities we have the new guys, um, and just asked me just learning and getting better. So I love to play football and that's honestly, Um, while I'm out here, that's what I love to do. And I just want to want our team to get better.

And just to quickly recap the rest of the presser, he also talked about how it is easier to lead and get guys to buy in and to develop that trust because of the types of players that Dolphins have brought in terms of players who are like him that love being around the game. When you heard him talk about there about how he's out here because He just loves the camaraderie, loves getting to know the personalities, and loves being on the football field. Very good media availability

there with Jerome. I would highly recommend going back and checking it out on our YouTube page, as you can find the rest of all those media availabilities on the

Miami Dolphins YouTube page. And the final sound bite I want to provide for you guys here on Jerome Baker with a new three year contract extension comes from March of last year when I talked to former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder, my co host at the draft party at hard Rock Stadium and co host of The Hawkman and Crowder Show on five sixty here locally in South Florida.

Here's Channing talking about his favorite player on the Miami Dolphins and Jerome Baker, and talking about the Dolphins scheme in that first year under Brian Flores and what he liked about it. Here's what he had to say about the Dolphins newest extended linebacker, Jerome Baker. He put Jerome Baker in the middle of everything and tried keep him unblocked to let the room run. Because the Romes fans. He slide him to the tight end, cool guys down

in the box. And when I saw not Jerome channing rather at the draft party back in April, I asked him about, Hey, what do you think about Jerome's season after you were so impressed with twenty nineteen? He said, he just got even better at the things he was already doing. So there you have it, some takes from the coaching staff and X linebacker. Plenty of content there on Jerome Baker, and like Leonardo DiCaprio and the Wolf of Wall Street, Jerome's not leaving three year extension and

a big congrats to Jerome Baker out there. Hopefully this brings you one step closer to finding mama. All right, we have more to get to here. I want to get to the other player that spoke at media on Friday, and that was wide receiver Will Fuller. And after Will gave me so many good sound bites and interesting answers in the podcast back in March, when he signed with the Dolphins, I thought, why don't we just ask Will about how much funny is having being back on a

football field. Hasn't played a game since last Thanksgiving, and then obviously this is his first time back with the Dolphins at voluntary camp here last week. So he talked about how much fun it is and how it feels great to be back on the field and just hearing play calls, moving around, competing a little bit, and just thinking football stuff on the field. He said, it feels

good to be back out there. And then I followed up by asking about how is the process of getting to know your new teammates in terms of camaraderie building, and he said, it's more about putting names to faces right now and just showing his face. They're letting people know who he is, talking to as many people as he can, so it's kind of like first day of school, getting to know everybody, all your new teammates. And he's

enjoying the process so far. And one thing's fan will love to hear was he talked about how the Dolphins do have speed on this team. Said, you can't teach speed, and we have it. It's not just me and Wallle. There are other players with speed too. It's gonna be fun. We'll see we're gonna do with the coaches ask of us, and we're going to be playing fast and make some

stuff happen. And I want to finish up with Will Fuller's media availability here with a quote from Fuller talking about the process of coming to Miami and why he did want to sign with the Dolphins in free agency. Yeah. So, I mean this is my first free agencies so I just took I just took it. As you know, I wanted to go to a team they wanted me. You know that the Dolphins show showed the most interest. So that's that's why I chose the Dolphins. And um, you know,

ever since I've been here has been great. You know. I love the culture here, you know. Um, you know, it's just been easy to be here. And and you know, like I said, I've been in the building as much as I can and I enjoy being here. So you know, I'm happy to do. Dolphins, you know, decided to take a chance on me. And so there's Will talking about getting to Miami and enjoying the process and experience so far.

And we've covered a lot of his game here on the podcast in terms of what he brings to the offense and the speed and the underneath route running and the plus percentile and win ray on certain routes run. We went back and covered some stuff with Matt Harmon from Reception Perception dot Com and he tracks a lot of stuff for fantasy purposes and for NFL purposes as well. Used to work at NFL Media before he broke off and did his own thing, and we had him on

to preview the past catchers in the draft class. But I wanted to, of course, start with will Fuller and talk about his game and what he brings the Dolphins offense. I want to go ahead and play the audio for you guys here. When you look at him, even on a year by year basis, he had always been a really strong separator and reception persception. You know. I break things down not only by success rate versus man's own

press coverage, but also by individual routes. You know, we'd always had a really good and if people go to Reception Perception dot Com and they sign up for the site, they can see not only uh, Will Fuller's twenty season, but go compare it to his twenty nineteen season as well, which I think is really useful because it shows you, even if you don't get the version of the player,

you're looking at excellent success rate on deep routes. Of course, we know that's part of it, but also routes like the flat, the curl, you know, some of those more shorter lay up patterns that are gonna be important for moving an offense down the field. And what I always liked about Fuller two playing with the Texans before was he just put defenses in such a bind. This is why I think of a player like Jalen Waddle is really going to be appealing for folks in the drafted.

Fuller was never that number one receiver because the Texans had DeAndre Hopkins, and it's like, Okay, we want to, uh, just put some extra defensive attention just stopping DeAndre Hopkins. But then you're gonna leave Will Fuller on your number two corner exposed there on the other side of the field with no help, you're gonna get destroyed. And those those games where it was Watson, Hopkins and will Fuller,

those guys fired off together. It was real magic. But going back to the season, which I think is really, of course the important part here, this was a player that jumped up huge in terms of success rate versus press like the Texans used him as an alpha wide receiver out there as the ISO X guy basically just put him in DeAndre hopkins old spot, and he had the best season of his career. And you can look at that, you know, look at that down the route

tree as well. Only one route did he fall below the NFL average in terms of success rate, and that was the out route. Everything else, like, the Dolphins are getting a complete player. And I love that Matt mentions there the progression of will Fuller's career because I went back and watched his all twenty two on game pass his rookie season. You see that speech to up a

lot too. But there was a lot of screens throwing his ways and quick curls and just quick opportunities for him to get the ball in his hand, and he made plays that way too. And you see him developed through the course of his career from the speed guy another Dame all the way through his career now to what he was last season, just winning on every route, imaginable, plucking the football, making big plays, contributing on the production standpoint with big time stats and numbers, and the stress

he puts on a defense. And I forgot about that quote there from Matt talking about a guy like Jalen Waddle in the draft, because that was recorded pre draft and now we have both those guys here and toe, So a little bonus clip for you there in terms of Will Fuller, and I want to go ahead and finish up the podcast here with a couple of things, but first with Coach Flores and his media availability on Friday as well, and a player that he talked about

in that press conference and Noah Ignogny, because it gave coach a chance to develop or to kind of elaborate on the development aspect of the franchise of this of this team and where they are in year three under Brian Flores and Chris Career. And the was geared specifically about Noah igban Agaty and his role on the defense, and coach elaborated about his development in his rookie season.

And you know, I've talked about Igbo on the podcast a lot in terms of a player that I think has not just shown with his late season tape, the progression that he already has in year one as a you know, he was the youngest player in the National Football League last year. And we talked about Jerome Baker coming into the NFL at one and just stacking good year on top of good year and getting better and

better and better. And there's a bunch of you know, clips of Noah on the social accounts with working out and he looks fantastic. There was a great video of him working out in the off season with a bunch of NFL defensive backs and I thought he looked like the biggest and strongest and most physically imposing one of the group, popping the shirt off, running around and just showing off all the hard work that he put in, but also smooth and the footwork in the athletic ability.

We've covered that in the podcast here. That's U two Olympians and the hard work he put in throughout the course of his childhood and development and adolescence and coming into college and converting from receiver to cornerback and now getting to the NFL and working on the one position on the perimeter. And here what's coach I'm gonna play this long audio for you guys talking about development, no eggonogamy playing inside versus outside, and plenty of good notes

here from coach Flores. You know, was it was right and he played NOA played predominantly on the perimeter last year. I think that's and that that in itself. In this league, it's not easy. So it was sticking in one position. Let him learn the techniques to fundamentals, feel the speed, feel the uh you know, quickness of the receivers, you know, go through the different uh you know combinations that happened in different coverages. And once you feel more comfortable in

that specific role. And UM, you know this year obviously we feel like you know, he's ready to move, move and you know, at least take some reps inside. UM with versatilities is h is important you know to our team. So UM, you know we're gonna move guys around, not just Noah, but really everyone you know in that corner room, in the secondary, really across the board. UM. But as far as what it takes to to to play inside, I think it's um obviously speed and quickness and ability

to tackle. UM. I think those guys will play the nickel position end up, you know and run fits a little bit more than guys on a perimeter. So just an understanding of uh, you know, front and what's happening in front of you, UM, more opportunity to blitz um. And then just from a cover standpoint, UH, you don't have the sideline, so they can go inside, they can go outside. Um, so you don't have that as a as an extra defender or or a place you can uh kind of pushed me the receiver two. And uh,

it's it's tough playing in there. You know, there's a there's a it's not easy. You know from a mental standpoint, there's a lot going on as well. So uh, you know, as many guys as we can, we can we can get to play inside and play different roles. I think, uh, Nick Needam's growing in that role, justin Coleman's played that position you know in the past, and uh Small Perry as well. So we're just gonna continue to to train

guys and help them improve grow. And I think you know a lot of times if you you can play inside and you've played outside and you understand what's happening as an outside corner to the inside corner, if you have that kind of understanding, you know, when you're making calls and those guys are working together, um uh, there's a little bit more of a hey, I know what you're going through and I've been in that spot, you know, and they can kind of often times it works a

little well and it works better together. Hat tip there to Kyle Crabs of Locked On Dolphins for the outstanding question, because any time to get a chance to hear coach really breakdown football and talk xs and os and and talk strategy and development. Man, that was a lot of good notes there from coach Flores and again hat tip Kyle Crabs Locked On Dolphins check out his podcast does a fantastic job. But he also covered some interesting things there in terms of the depth this Dolphins team has

at that position on the inside. I mean, they go out and they signed Justin Coleman, a very accomplished slot cornerback. We talked about Nick Needham's production last year in terms of some of the stats he posted in that area. We've covered Jamal Perry, who does a little bit of everything with special teams moonlights as multiple positions in that second area, but has played that slot. As coach mentioned,

they're a fantastic tackler in the second level. And talking about training guys and getting guys to really build a development plan for players in terms of how they want to get them acclimated not just to the speed of the game, the professionalism of being an NFL football player, but the recognition of what some of the challenges could be in terms of the mental aspect of the game, and and getting comfortable and familiar with what you're not

familiar with and the uncomfortable, as Coach mentioned, they're all the traits and responsibilities of going from playing outside to moving inside and the impact of playing out side to learn that spot first, to take that experience then to go inside. I just thought that was a great, great insight there from Coach, and I do want to get back to one more quick thing there on the development with Coach here in just one second, but first let's go ahead and recap the rest of his media availability.

He was asked about guard derv All Kiras Netto and what his development has been like. And we had Henry Hodgson on the podcast a while back who talked about how in his relationship with derv All, he knows that he was awarded for some of his practice habits in terms of practice squad player of the season, and Coach talked about saying he's one of our hardest working players. It's very important to him that he improves and gets

better at whatever technique or fundamental he's working on. He also mentioned the talent, strong, big, fast player that has really all the physical traits you want because we've seen him do the judo and the backflips at that size and just very thickly built. So coach talking about the

development of that player. Of course, he talked a little bit about Jerome Baker too, and kind of covering the same things he did earlier this offseason with how he's excited about how tough and smart and competitive he's team first, getting better in every area of the game, pass coverage, run defense, really across the board, talking about him getting better as a studious player of the game as well, like coach Camp and Ellie mentioned, and then he also

talked about Robert Hunt, who said that he saw him improve of the course of the season playing tackle. Thinks he has a solid chance to be a good offensive lineman, whether it's tackle or guard, whether it's right side or left side. Said it's hard to say we're gonna play our top five guys. I think he's got an opportunity to be one of those top five guys. That's coach floors media availability and all the media availability from Friday.

We're gonna have more coming up next week as the Dolphins are back on the practice field Tuesday and Wednesday. But I want to go ahead and circle back here to the comment I mentioned there about development and a quote I heard on the Move the Sticks podcast on my flight down to South Florida, and I found this little note interesting here from Bucky Brooks of the Move the Sticks podcast, which came out on Tuesday in reaction

to the Julio Jones trade. He had a tidbit where he was talking about measuring veteran experience versus rookies and coaches comfortability with those younger players. I thought it was interesting here as he talked about and what I'm trying to get out here is the challenges of coming into the NFL and learning that the element of playbooks and all the responsibilities and the different asks of a young player who doesn't have the experience Yet here's Bucky Brooks

talking about just that. Sometimes, though DJ and having been in the rooms, we know coaches fall in love with experienced quarterbacks because they can speak the same language. Yeah, they are have an adult conversation. You're gonna have an adult conversation. Whereas when you're thinking about the prospect of dealing with a young quarterback man, how much do I have to like water down to my system. I may not be able to get to the back pages of

the playbook because he doesn't have this experience. And so I always thought that was interesting SoundBite in terms of how young players have a challenge to catch up to the veterans in terms of what they know from the element of the game. We heard, obviously, Ryan Fitzpatrick talk last year about having the sixteen years of experience in that catalog in the back of your mind that you

can rely upon. That's a roller dex that you just don't have until you have it, and you get it by experience and playing the game and being out there. So interesting comments there. I thought we had plenty of great quotes from coaches and players on the media availabilities here. I wanted to play that soundclip for you guys. Heard that on the plane on the flight down as I was rocking podcast all the way down to South Florida.

We're down here now at the stadium at the facility, getting ready to cover practice for you guys this week, and I just cannot tell you how good it feels to be here getting ready to watch this Dolphins team hit the field. But the trip down here it didn't start so great. Kind of a funny story for you guys. So my wife and I went to Seattle. We don't live in Seattle. I've talked about that in the podcast here. We're about a two hour drive from the Seattle area.

And when you fly from a small town like the one we live in, it typically puts you on a plane very first thing in the morning, like six o'clock, five thirty in the morning. And so we wanted to, you know, reduce the need to get up at to thirty am just to make it to the airport and

get through security in time to make that flight. So we drove to Seattle with my wife and my daughter and made a little trip up there and some style us along the way because of one year old the car seat at least ours does not like that very much. So we made a little trip up there and it was a good time to get some last minute family time in before we're coming back down to South Florida.

And we got this two room suite at this hotel because we wanted to have one space for for Caroline the baby, in one space for us so that we can kind of separate when we want to go to sleep and when she goes down. And there was the sliding door in the from the living room into the master slash bathroom area, and we closed that door and

it got jammed like we could not open it. We both tried with all of our might, with as much funess as we could, and I was at a point where I was about to do office linebacker Terry Tait and run through the thing because some claustrophobia was setting in there for a minute. And we called down to the front desk to say, hey, we're kind of like trapped in our room and it's a little bit scary. And the guy asks us, is the latch clothes on

the on the main door? And that was when real real panics had in for me, because I was like, yeah, it is. How the hell are they going to get through that thing? But they came up after banging on that latch. I don't know how he did it, but because we couldn't see him obviously we're trapped in the back room, he got it open, got in there and was able to get the slider open and free us from that back space. And it scared the crap out of my daughter. So that made for interesting night in

terms of the sleeping situation. But just h I suppose a discovery of a fear I didn't know I had, being locked in a room against my will. I think most people probably are scared of that, but I got to experience it and didn't know how I would respond. And like I said, I was getting very very close to lining up off the ball and blitzing the a gap and blowing up that door so we could get out of the room and I could make my flight

in time for the morning. Speaking of that flight, woke up, got ready, got down to the shuttle to go to the airport. At six am, check my email and there was an email saying your flight has been delayed by

five hours. So went through that whole rigamar role, went back to bed, but that never really works, especially with a one year old, and then made the six hour flight across the country, and jeez, it was just I'm ready for this flight to stop being a thing in my life and get down here full time, which we almost are, my wife and my daughter and I'm going to be South Floridians here very very soon. But what was great about the flight was I was able to get an exit row on one of them. Pay for

the upgrade like thirty bucks. It's well worth it. You get the extra leg room and I was able to stretch all the way out. But on those flights, I watched The Bow Burnham Inside Special once again, and I thought it was better the second time around because there's so many quality elements of that special and it's funny, but it's also like makes you think. And I just, you know, as someone who struggles daily with my own complicity and many things, this special really connected with me.

And I find myself listening to the songs now on Apple Music, which I would recommend to you guys out there too, because what a genius that guy is, and you can really feel some of his his pain throughout quarantine and throughout COVID in the specials he records it throughout the course of being stuck in that house, in that one room for a year, and I just think it's it really connects with a lot of the current mood of people, you know, just dealing with what the

pandemic was. So I highly recommend that watch it twice, watch it three times. Also wanted to give a shout out to Chris Laurndo on Twitter at extortion, who recommended Mythfit Quest on Apple TV. I watched that on the flight as well. Very funny show, and I love Rob mckilheney from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia does a great job on this show as well. So appreciate the shout out and the recommendation. That has been a fun source

of entertainment. Want to read a couple of the reviews left over the weekend before we get out of here. One more here from Mrs Kim Hawaii, who says thumbs up, fins up, good Miami Dolphins podcast. Travis is a good host and provides great content. Thank you very much. We've got another show recommendation here from VR Noel Yellowstone. I haven't seen that, but I've seen plenty of ads for it, so I suppose it's got to be great, especially with

your recommendation here. Have to check that one out. Those are the two updated reviews we have. Again, leave us a rating and leave us a review. We'll get to them here on the podcast. Especially if you have a question for us, we want to answer here on the podcast. All right, we're gonna be at practice Tuesday and Wednesday with podcasts covering the days with the media availabilities and the practice itself and so much more on those podcasts before we go on vacation, and by vacation I mean

pulling back to two episodes a week. Will resume the divisional previews, preview the ninety man roster before training camp, and then get back to our daily format in late July when training camp opens. The season is right around the corner, all right. That is gonna be our time on this edition of Drive Time. You all please be sure to subscribe, rate, and review to the podcast on Apple podcast or Spotify or wherever you hear podcast from.

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