OJ McDuffie Fins Flashback 1994 AFC Wildcard Win Over the Chiefs

Miami Dolphins lore. We're gonna talk about the a f C Wild Card playoff game, the victory over the Chiefs Dan over Montana. A great game to talk about. O J talks about a linebacker for the Chiefs in that game that maybe was hunting him down the rest of his life after a block that o J put on Derrek Thomas in that game. We'll talk about that and much much more. Get the latest on injuries for Dolphins

and Chiefs on Sunday. All of that and more on this Friday, December, the eleventh edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Time was brought to you by Auto Nation. Hey Dolphins fans, the new year starts now at Auto Nation. Let's skip the rest of and get two big New Year's savings on your favorite Auto Nation Chevy's, Fords, Toyotas, Hondas, and much much more. Shops safely at the Auto Nation store near you or Auto Nation dot com and save. Now. Let's go ahead and get the injury latest for Friday.

The final game status report is available right now and for your Miami Dolphins, Eric Flowers and Savon Aukmen are going to be out for this game. They will not play on Sunday. Both linebackers e Land and Roberts and Kyle Van Noy returned to practice on Friday. They are listed as questionable for the game against the Chiefs. As for the Chiefs themselves, Damien Wilson was the only limited

participant in practice. We'll get a game task for him for you guys on top News up on Miami Dolphins dot com and writing Shotgun now on the Drivetime podcast is a special guest. We hear from them every Friday on Flashback, but this Friday we have o J McDuffie from the Fish Tank taking us back through the n a f C Wild Card playoff victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh J, What's up, man, what's up, Travis.

I'm good. It's good to see you. Friday is always a fun time here on the podcast, we've gotta kle let our hair down, talk about some Dolphins football get ready for a big game coming up, like we have on Sunday against the Chiefs. But we're going back too on this podcast and talking about a game that you played in and uh, you were texting me a little bit before we we jumped on the podcast here and you went back and watched this game and it's entirety right.

I did. I did, man. I enjoyed every minute of it. Man. It's one of my favorite games of all time. It takes a little time from time to remember some things that happened when when you watch it back, you're like, oh, yeah, I remember that. I remember that too, man. And it was one of those great games, my Tanna versus Marino, you know, fighting for who could get to the next level in the playoffs and hopefully to the super Bowl, super Bowl being right here in our own backyard. It was.

It was one fun as game. I have to imagine that for an ext professional athlete like yourself, Like you said, how much fun it is to go back and watch that because like I'll go see, Like you know, I've got the VHS tapes from my high school days like that are the best thing in the world to watch to me, to watch myself play like eighteen years old. But being in an NFL game, a playoff game, especially on a national stage, I mean, does that ever get lost on you? Ors? It's still just really cool to

know that you were part of that. Yeah, you know, sometimes you forget about it. And it's so funny because I was watching that game and I showed my kids who never seen me play. They weren't born yet. You know, a couple of those clips, you know, there's a clip of me hitting Derek Thomas one time when I knocked the snot out of and I said, and I told you boys, I was tough. Look at me hit this linebacker right here. Not need to sin say to Derrick Thomas is looking for me the rest of my life.

You know, the rest is so uh you know, because of that hit. It's a soft flow Ridian. So I was worried about public. You know, if he's gonna run into me their nightclub, he might run into their charity event. I thought he was gonna try to get back at me, man, but to show the kids that game and some of the players that I made now when it was it

was always it's always fun to flashback. That reminds me of There was a great miked up clip with Chad Ocho Sinko and Ray Lewis where Chad cracked Ray Lewis and he goes, I tried to go up against Ray and I lost. But you but you got Derek and you you got him, so you had the head and the ball the rest of the game, like was he was he coming for you? You know? I don't know. I hope he was paying attention to me and not worried about getting it Danny or you know, stopping the

run game. You know, I was a little bit of distracting, but I know showed that I was running from his ass. He's one of the best linebackers of all time. Good matchup there. I always enjoy watching the run blocking that occurred back then with the receivers, and they do it today as well. But you guys definitely had a different task, different role back then. Let's go ahead and jump right into this game. O J. You hadn't mentioned that you were super fired up for this podcast, and that was

a big reason why. But you also mentioned there was a different sense of urgency around this game and a little more intensity than maybe a usual playoff game. And I know you talked about Marino versu. Montana. It was the first time they had gone up against each other since that Super Bowl? Was that kind of the sense of the urgency here? Where? Where did that urgency come from in this game? Yeah? We knew that, you know, we our team was stacked. You know, we knew the

year before we had one of the better teams. We went into a week eleven or twelve with the best record in football, and we lost the last five games, and we had a home playoff game here. You know, Montana already had a couple of Super Bowl championships, and we knew that. You know, Danny was still fighting to get his So it was it was a huge game

for Schottenheimer versus Don Shula. Shula had the torn achilles in this game, you know, had a little stewart to that game, and it was just a big game, especially having a home playoff game. You get an opportunity to play at home, you know, against a team that you've just beaten it was just a great opportunity for us, and we thought we had that team that can make it all the way through and play a home Super

Bowl game. They showed him on the cart in that game, and you know he was he was still doing the same thing, chewing guys out, getting in the refs here and making his presence felt when he was on that car. Was there any difference from a player's perspective about the way Don Shula was? No, he saw everything still. You can still hear his voice from anywhere on the field or in the stadium, you know, and he just he

wasn't as mobile. But hey man, when he got that car, because remember originally he was in a golf cart and that was just a little too balky. And then he got that little whatever scooter that he got, and then there was no hiding from him at that point, man. But the intensity was always there, and he he found you if you did something right or wrong, he found you. Well he did it in this game. We'll get to

that here in just one second. But to kick the game off, I mean, you know, we we see offensive explosions pretty much every single week in the NFL these days, But I watched that that primetime highlight, and they were going back and forth showing how impressive the offensive success was for either of those teams. So the Chiefs go down and scored the opening touch the opening possession for a touchdown. But you guys come right back. And I

found this part interesting. On that same highlight with Chris Berman, and it was Joe thisman filling in for Tom Jackson this week, he says, Marino comes right back with a bunch of guys you've never heard of, Mike Williams with the reception, And I was wondering how you would respond to that comment, because there were plenty of guys on that team, yourself, Irving Friar, Keith Jackson. These are players that you know, even a seven eight year old kid

like myself knew at the time. So what's he talking about? Like, how would how would you respond to that if someone a sports catcher told you these are a bunch of guys no one's ever heard of. Yeah, you know what, it's um it's not a very flattering thing to say, and of course, you know, I'm not a very flattering person at times. But at the same time, though, I mean, I think they really were talking about the fact that Terry Kirby was out and so Bernie Palmdy was our

running back. Uh Keith Buyers out. James Saxon was our fullback in that game. You know, so we did have some key players out, but there was so much attention paid to Irvan Friar and at times myself and Chief Jackson. That guy's like Mike Williams made big plays. Guys like Irvin Spikes running back was able to make some big plays. Scotty Miller had a big first down in that game

as well wide receiver. So I get a bunch of nobodies because he's never heard of, but I've seen those guys working practice and they were ready when I got to the Dolphins. Guys like you know, John Mike Williams, Johnny's brother Mike Williams, and and Scottie Miller are the ones that taught me the offense. You know, they knew more about the offense about anybody did. So they were

ready to play. They just to get the opportunity because you know, at Seth would say a first round pick came in like myself, or we traded for a guy like Urban Fire and it kind of pumped him out of the rotation. Hey, you know, it seems like the Dolphins over if if you want to go this direction in the nineties, you know, the no name defense in

the seventies is legendary. If you want to go that direction in the nineties with plenty of playoff appearances and then now in this defense that's frank second the NFL and scoring. You know, I've heard on national shows like they've got a bunch of no guy a bunch of names that no one's ever heard of. Hey, if that, if that's gonna be our badge, let's wear it, man, Like, I'll take that as long as we're winning football games. I don't I don't give a damn right. And I

think that's important, travelers. I think it's really important to have a bunch of nobodies because you know, there's you don't have the ego problems that you have when you have a bunch of somebodies. You know, especially gonna look on the offense side of the ball. You know, you and I before and talked about what happened to our nineties three team. I think we had too many name guys on that offense, and with only one football it's tough to keep everybody happy, and I think that was

our downfall and didn't make the playoffs ninety three. I think we still had quite a few of those guys at the end, but when we had those no name guys quote unquote, uh, they were the ones that were

catalysts for our success in that playoff game. Yeah, I mean you can put together a roster almost by design that way, right, like I think, and not to keep going back to the current team, but Brian Flores, I think has done a good job of making it more about the team and having guys that buying too that team first mindset over uh, you know, a star star minded mindset and maybe golf a tangent here o j Like, have you been around a team or a player where

there was a guy that maybe thought that the rules didn't apply to him. And I know, you know, Jimmy Johnson would always say, one guy's made this team, he's number thirteen, Dan Marino or whatever his you know, famous comment was. But have you been around a situation where a player like that maybe wasn't the best, Like he was going on the field, but maybe the overall net game wasn't there because he was a problem off of it. Yeah,

there are. I mean, yeah, I've had a couple of teammates that were eye guys, you know what I mean. And it's kind of strange because you know, you look at football and it's the cliche, the ultimate team sport. But some guys thought it was all about them, you know, especially like I said, on the offense side of the ball. Defense is different. Defensive guys, they rally with each other, they go out there and you know, they do their job.

They cover, they rushed past, and they make tackles. But on offense, you know, you've got a bunch of guys that want the ball in their hands. You know, then they become less team players. You know, you're supposed to be running off as a wide receiver on the back side to protect the guy on the front side, and you don't do it because your number is not called. That's a big problem. And we did have a couple of guys like that, and it became a problem in the huddle. I know, Danny had to deal with it

before I got there, sometimes with Duper and Clayton. But when I got there and it was over Fiing mark Ingram and Keith Jackson, Keith Buyers Terry Kirby. I mean that that one football man. We had to stretch it a long way to make everybody happy, and it's it's not a good situation a lot of times. Yeah, the current Dolphins receivers coach joshkers Aard calls them brotherhood routes.

You have to run routes sometimes that aren't that's not designed to get you the ball in the progression, but you have to do it to hold defenders in certain spots, whether it's his own coverage or you know, whatever might be. It's it's a loving guys doing their job. It's it's it's what's what's funn about Football's do your job exactly right, do your job. But let's let's go back to the game here and kind of, you know, it's funny we go no name because you mentioned Irving Friar, a name

that we all know. And and he makes a catch on the opening drive to get the Dolphins into scoring range. But he does something that brings back memories of another earlier Dolphins team, and Burman, once again on the Highlight, mentions that Duriel Harris to Tony Nathan. He says, almost two decades earlier, did we talked about Shula on the car like I have to imagine he came over to the sideline after that hook and lateral attempt and maybe

got an earful Yeah, you know what. And we did it again the next weekend too in San Diego, and that was that would end up being a fiord ladder. That end up being a fumble because it was a fill ladder. We got the ball back, so I mean that got to his head. It's best the fact that latterly to James Saxon, you know, I mean a fullback that has some of the worse hands I think in football. I mean, that was a risky move right there. But

zax was ready made a play. But yes, she love you know, we weren't about all that, all that flare and yeah, of course that one play with you know, with Dario and Tony Nathan goes back in the day, you know what I mean. But at the same time, now, man, it was about you know, playing the game way supposed to be played. Irvan had all that all that yard we didn't really need that at that point. But Saxon almost scored on that play. But Shula wasn't about that

most of the time. Yeah, you know, I didn't know about that until I went back and watched it. And it's funny you mentioned the Chargers game because when I was on YouTube watching the game, it said next video available was the divisional round and O J. I hate to tell you this, but that's actually my first like live Dolphins memory that I have was Toyanovitch missing that field goal in that game, and I had to watch

the highlight of games. I didn't remember the game very well because I was like seven eight years old, but there was a couple of plays where they showed you kind of getting fired up and and they showed the four lateral. I couldn't understand the way that that ruling was made, but hey, you know, good for good for us. But but you think that had something to do with the latter row decision. They're like, we did it last week, we can do it again. Absolutely, I mean absolutely, it

was successful a week before. And I think it was Irvan and Keith Jackson this time in that situation. But yeah, I think once you started doing stuff like that, it's kind of like the behind the back pass in the basketball game to work before we do it again. Usually it ends up in a turnover and that's what it was. Almost his ashes for us right there. Yeah, it was funny. I saw the highlight. I was like, what is he doing?

You throw a like five yards forward? But it worked out in the I guess it didn't work down in the end, but on that play it did. So you guys go back down tied up, but the Chiefs come right back down the field fifty seven yard for Kimball, Anders and Juice, you know, going back to uh to Shula again. And I don't think I've ever seen Brian Cox make a worse tackle attempt in his career. He's known for blowing guys up, but he kind of comes in with the shoulder and just bounces off Anders on

this play, and then Sula does chew him out. And as an offense, how do you guys responding something like that happens where a big play goes on the field after you just getting the end? So like, is that very deflating? Now? Our our offense just wanted damn ball back, you know what I mean, We didn't care how it happened. You know, if you get a three and out, you know you punt of tools will take it, or if they scored testing, and we're gonna try to come right

back and score two. You know, Brian Cox is the heart and soul of that defense, you know, so we know that. You know, if he didn't make a play, he'd find a way to make up for it later in the game. You know, I remember that play when I was watching it the other day. It's like, you know, he kind of knocked him out of Troy's tackle. Toroy events was about to make the tackle, him and the Cox bunking down the sideline and then he was off

to the racist. But you know, but you know, we're grown men, and I saw as a as a rookie, I saw how these grown men coaches and grown men players got into it. You know, the arguments were legendary. The four letter words they used were unbelievable. I couldn't believe that that we this guys talked to their coaches like that. So Sheula felt comfortable getting into Brian like that, and Brian understood that he messed up, so he had

to go out there and kind of make amends. But that was part of That's part of the NFL game and a lot of locker. There was some no curse in that Penn State, not one coach or player allowed to cuss. But when I got to the NFL and the Shuler's locker room and it was it was very interesting. What was it? Was it mostly Brian or was it a lot of guys? Well, you know, there's a lot

of guys. I mean I've heard I heard Danny and you know Gary Stevens getting to a you know, get into a big time argument, you know, in a meeting, you know, and there was there were no kind words use either way, you know, it was just like anybody was able to go out there, and it was shocking to hear the amount of landis that's used in some of those locker rooms. Whereas you know, the other locker rooms, I've heard that there was you know, very little that.

But ours was a bunch of grown men that had a lot in their minds, to put it that way. So this is probably a question for him, but he's not here today. Seth always joins us on these flashbacks Fridays. But you guys work together, you know, I guess co workers. I guess that the term for it. I mean absolutely yeah. So did did you ever see Seth like catching ear full from somewhere or get you because he told me. Seth told me once, you haven't worked in the NFL

until you've gotten chewed out by a head coach. I'm wondering if you ever saw anything with him and someone giving him the business. Oh I didn't, I didn't, man, Seth. Seth us he played it pretty cool, man, and he usually does things by the book, so it's hard for him to get chewed out. But you know, sometimes you can do everything perfect, Travis, and you still get chewed out. And so I'm sure he caught something from Harvey. I'm

sure he caught something from Jimmy. I mean, who knows, man, But a lot of times it was never in my presence, but Seth, like he always does handing like a champ. Sure, man, Yeah, I'm no. Harvey had to give him the business. Quite a few kames. He's told me about a few of them. And maybe one of these days in the offseason, we can have a crossing our podcast where we just go into Seth's vault and let let him be the interview. Subjects told me, Man, I said, we gotta you know

who was Seth Levin. We gotta do a podcast with it because He's got some great stories, man, and you know he likes to be behind the scenes too much of times. I said, we gotta put you out there at some point. Brother, he's so modest. I told him I was gonna buy the Seth shirt from the fish

Tank that the merch and he goes. I told I told him, no one's gonna buy that shirt, but if Travis gets one, So I still got to make good on that and get the Seth shirt for him because he was saying, nobody's gonna buy that one, but gonna support my guy. You know, That's what's so so back in the game. You know, we we saw the game on Sunday with Miami getting a little bit chippy with the Bengals, and this one was kind of the same

as well. And I'm curious if if you started this because of your your crackback on Brian on Derrick Thomas, but Willie Davis and Gene I can start throwing blows at one point in this game, do you remember that, And was that kind of festering over and what was the mindset as far as like the balance of well, we do want to keep its intensity, but we also don't want to get ourselves into a personal foul situation. It's a tough situation actually, and you gotta you really

have to set a tone. And I think my block in the first quarter set a tone. At one point, I actually had another block on the kickoff re turn for Irvan Spikes that you know, you gotta try the rough guys up. I think once you started laying that wood on, some of those you know dbs, their their wide receivers want to do the same with our guy, you know, And and that's a that's a great, great message to send out there. You know, let them know

it's gonna be a long game. It's gonna be sixty minutes, and I'm not gonna give up or let up the whole time. So, you know, setting that tone on a linebacker and then seeing it on replay and then hearing the crowd's reaction, I mean, that's how I made their sideline that and it made us hype. So, I mean a playoff game, the intensity was unbelievable. You could hear the crowd was just incredible. It was so loud there.

And I mean, you got Marino in Montana, but yeah, set in that tone right away, letting know it's gonna be a long ass afternoon is huge and we we my wide receiver coach, it was Larry Cycle then. But you know, coach Robert Ford with Jimmy Johnson, you know, our job is to set the tone. You know, we gotta run all day and we gotta set the tone the secondary. And I think it carried over to both

sides of football. You say that kind of reminds me of like in baseball when when someone gets thrown at the job for the picture of the next thing is to go out there and throw at someone else on their team. Kind of like that back and forth balance of of you know, the game within the game, and I think you saw that and this one certainly, and one of the big aspects of this game, of course,

was the offensive fireworks. And later you guys are on a crucial touchdown march and um, you guys were tie it up and you had a on fourth and three. And again back to Berman and Tisman, they both raved on the on the highlight about your ability to win on third downs or in this case fourth down even even more of a money down play. What was it about the money down that brought out your best juice like that seemed to be when you really shine to

the rose of the occasion, shine brightest. Yeah, I loved it, you know what I mean, what I loved most about the two Travis is the trust that Danny had it. You know, he knew I was gonna be in the right place at the right time. That was a little short when I caught I was gonna do everything I could to get to the sticks, you know, or run my route after sticks and make sure I got a couple of yards. More so, it's not even a question, um,

and and that was that was cheap. I think at some point my career is over seventy of my catches were first down, you know, and then it you know, the more I started playing on the first and second down and it kind of dipped. But when I was just mostly playing on third down, I mean, that was my job to move the chains. And so that was always something I relish. Now, I know a lot of times it's gonna be Hella coverage on the usually two sets of eyes. You know, it's the guy over me

and it's got to be helped somewhere. So I had to really pay attention to all that and still on my mark and Danny found a way to fit it in a lot of time. So but that was that was the fun part of it. You know, I used to call me a possessor receiver, right, I said, yeah, I make sure we keep possessing of the football. That's my job. And that's what we did. And you can't give a point if your if your offense is on

the field. I'm wondering if this is a comparison you've heard or if you if you like it, if you don't like it, you can tell me as well. But there was on that play, you catch it and you kind of you kind of square up to to maybe try to locate the defender, and you almost retreat a little bit, but then once you realize there's no one around you, you immediately get north and south and o j. It reminded me of Jarvis Landry. Have you heard that

comparison before? Yeah, you know, we're both nicknamed juice, you know what I mean? So everything it kind of carries over. And yeah, that's one thing about it, because you know, Chap, I wasn't going out run anybody. I'm not buried anybody, so I might just lower my head, bring back my old running back days and get as much as I can straight ahead, man, And you know it's always important to know you're positioned on the field. But you're right

on that play. If I recall Becau I was watching the other day, it was a hot route, so we had one hot coming off my edge and Danny had to get the ball to me right now, so I was a little bit short. I had it and then I retreated like you talked about. But then I said, man, let me just get north and style, get as much as I can and then keep this thing rolling. Then. But yet, Juice Landi is one of my favorite players of all times, man, And you know it's good to

see him still playing. Well, yeah, he's He's one hell of a competitor. That's why I think that's why the comparison so so app with you guys. The way you guys both play the game with that high energy, that high level. I'm sure I'm sure defensive backs, you know, both for you and Jarvis had to make plenty of business decisions in their career. Better keep their head, Molett.

That's you know, we talked about my hit earlier. My my hit I had on Derek Thomas is illegal now I get fined and probably kicked out a game this day and age. But Jarvis has had some borderline with himself. And I love this energy and his attitude when he was here and he continues up in Cleveland definitely. And you know, going going back to the game, you guys take the lead in the fourth quarter on a touchdown

pass from Dan to Irving. And we had Irvin on the podcast over the summer and he was that confidence hasn't gone anywhere. I told him about a play where somebody pressed him and or gave him outside access. He goes, I didn't. I didn't give me that access, Travis, I took that access. That was a great quote. How did how did he change the offense? Maybe? What did you learn from playing with Irvan Friar on your team? Man?

What a professional? I mean Urban Friar Man? What are you going through in his life before he came to Miami and how he changed his life when he got to Miami and became the ultimate professional, the greatest pro man and taught me how to work out there. This guy at his age, you know he got here, what was he in his thirties when he got here, nobody out worked in the weight room, the running, you know,

the work before practice, the work after practice. I mean, he was so much fun to watch, and he was one thing Irban told me like it was, which is funny is that he said, you know, juice man, They told me I lost the step, I said, and how do you respond? He said, I had a step to lose, you know what I mean. I was running four two to four three to maybe the four four, but I had a step to lose, you know, And he's right you you you had to pay attention to what he

was doing. And he was still so fast, super strong, ring great routes, and he would knock the snot out of people. Man. That's where that locking intensity came from wide receivers in that secondary Irving was hitting defensive ends and linebackers too. I mean, he was just a great teammate to have it. I couldn't ask for a better person. That took, you know, to learn from when I first

got in to the NFL. Yeah, it makes for a good pair when you but guys are both out there doing that forcing defensive back so like you said, keep their head on a swivel. And one defensive back that kept his head on the swivel In this game was J. B. Brown who grabs a pick in the end zone that looks like it might end the game with a ten point leading the fourth quarter, but the Chiefs get the

ball right back and get the same result. This time it's a Marcus Allen run to the outside and Michael Stewart just flat out takes the ball out of his hands for a fumble force and recovery. What was that moment like when you guys may be realized ten point lead, ball in our possession about six seven minutes ago. I have to imagine total jubilation at that point, right, Yeah, absolutely, man, You know turnovers, when the when of those when those games?

For when that game for us? Man, that the JB interception, Man, that was huge. You know they're going down and he makes a huge player right there. But then I don't know, I was watching that that clip and they said that that Marcus Allen poma might be overturned in today's game, you know what I mean. But hey, what a great play by Michael Stewart to get the ball back for us again. And you know for those two guys, you know, for my Tenda thrown interception and for the great Marcus

Allen to to fumble right there. I mean, you couldn't ask for a better situation for us and for the two greats to be the ones that end up giving us that win in that game. It was huge, man. But defense came up big for us. Man. I was also watching young Tim Bowens in that game, who was actually having you know, he was just phenomenal. You know, we saw the greatness coming from him, you know, and on the inside of that defensive line, man, and it

was just fun to look back at that. But those two plays right there were huge and obviously what we needed at that time of the game. I know, this was your second season in the NFL. Juice was was this your your most memorable game? Was another one that

maybe tops it? No, listen right here, man, if there's a couple that I've had some personal stuff, and you know, of course Danny's hundred for one game is one of my favorites just because of some milestone for Danny and you know, me being a part of three touchdowns in that game against the Saints. But for playoffs, men, the intensity, it doesn't get any better than that, you know, playing against Montana and Marcus Allen and Dale Carter, the cornerback

Derrick Thomas. I mean, the Chiefs were they were pegged to win it All as well that year. So it was just a fun atmosphere. I mean the stadium, and

that's the way I remember the stadium. You know, the state has kind of gotten away from that, you know, the team not being you know, this year we've been really good, but you know, and partial stadium with the with the crowd, but I'm so used to that stadium being so loud and full of Dolph fans and just you know being hardly ever being able to hear anything.

You know that those are the great days, man, And that day there, it was just unbelievable, like one o'clock or I don't know, afternoon game and it was just so loud and the energy was amazing. So yeah, it's definitely one of my favorites of all time. Yeah, it's a lot of fun to watch the seventies seventy tho screaming Dolphins fans and on Sunday afternoon think this game. And then also the two thousand wild card playoffs over the Colts. There was just this real intense back and forth.

And I mentioned you on the on the on the highlight, like there was a fist pumper just kind of getting pumped up, Like I love those moments where every single play is so crucial and so important to the outcome of the game. So Dolphins win this one seven seventeen. Go on next week and we dropped one to the Chargers at the buzzer with a missfield goal. But still a fun season to watch. O J. A big part of that. O J. What's coming up next year? On the fish Tank podcast? Now, we had Charles Jordan the

Tank last week. What's coming up next week for you guys. Yeah, we've got a Lindo Malred coming up, man, And that's been great to get Lindo on because what Jason Sanders has been doing as a kicker man, he's just been so good for us and so clutch for us. Man, I thought, you know that to be if we thought it would only be fitting to get Lindo one who was the same way for us as a kicker man.

And Lindo story is so great. You know how he ended up being in football from going from soccer and seeing that you know, whenever the kids they had on his high school team could barely kick the football, and he said he could do better than that. How he practiced, you know, it's kicking with you know, on on rough fields and just trying to hit a pole. You know, it's just an amazing story man. And then the journey

that he had coming back home. You know, a kid that was born and raised down here coming back home to kick for the Dolphins. It was it was a special one man. You know, I didn't know what to expect from Lindo. He's usual a pretty quiet guy, but he had a lot to say on our podcast. Hey, when when a when a kicker arrives or maybe you know, you come to a team and they have a kicker, does he have to like make a certain amount of kicks or big kicks before he gets the respect of

the rest of the the team, Like, how does that work? Yeah, man, it really it's hard. It's hard to get the respect of the team until you get in a game situation. And you don't get a game situation. You know, even preseason really doesn't count. You gotta get in there in a fourth quarter, you know, game on the line and you got a forty seven yard or when its muddy outside you're playing on the dirt, infield from the Marlins or something like that. You got a knock on those

down to get that street cred, you know. For me as a return guy, I had to return with my my kick off against the Atlanta Falcons as a as an ever one pick in ninety three in order don't even appreciate me or accept me. So it's even worse for a kicker when you gotta wait till you get

to a regular season game with the game one alive. Well, like you mentioned, fortunately we've had a Lindo Mari and Jason Senter is two of the best and franchise history here for your Dolphins over the last couple of decades, So look forward to that. On the Fish Tank podcast, O J. It's been a fun, fun podcast is always. Man. I appreciate your time today and uh we'll see assume my friend you gotta tray. Thanks for having me, buddy in a way, he goes. O J. Mcduffee, former Dolphins receiver,

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