All right, Welcome back to the awful Kimbo Camper. John con Jemmy with you. John here we are about Yeah, we like three months into this deal already, I think, so right out there about it feels like it. It feels like it's one of those things where, um, you think you're coming out of it and you're closer, but you know, you're you're still trying to do all the
right things. So, yeah, we've been in this situation for a long time and hopefully we're we're starting to see a little bit more light at the end of the tunnel. I'm feeling like I'm half in, half out, you know what I mean. Yeah, you know I've been I've been you know, hold up for so long and you know, jumped in a car and drove the Illinois for fifteen car right up and back and and did that. And so now I'm like, okay, I'm kind of done with
all of that stuff. And I've actually gone out to a couple of restaurants that have opened up locally, and so that's kind of my splurts, going out to a restaurant, and you know, instead of going to the grocery store buying groceries, having to cook them, having to clean up afterwards. Um sneaking out to a restaurant and just said, hey, here's my credit card, you do all the work. Yeah, you know what that I actually actually did that for
the first time. And I don't know how long I guess two and a half three months and um and and it was a good experience. And it was good to you know, see people out and and going and trying to support local businesses and going out and kind of kind of selfishly doing it for yourself to to get back out and to get back in the community and kind of feel some sense of normalcy, you know,
even though things were a lot different. You know, maybe the occupancy wasn't quite at fifty or seventy five percent, but at least you felt like you were doing something out in the community and it it felt good. Yeah. So so we're we're kind of getting there and along
the lines, you know, there's a lot of talk. We're gonna talk about a lot of things today on the show, but you know, one of the things we'll talk about, certainly, Steven Ross on Tuesday, UH came out and said that the NFL will play that the uh the He's optimistic that the NFL season is gonna go on his planned. And you know everyone's been asking me, John, I'm sure you you run across the same thing, whether whether you're talking to people on the phone or whether you're running
into somebody somewhere or whatever. Are they gonna play? Are they gonna play? And And my answer so far, John, for everybody has been well, look, the only thing I can tell you is this, the league is going through
their business as if they're planning on business as usual. Now, when I say business as usual, that that doesn't include O, T A S. Mini camps and those things, I kind of take it down to, look, if you had, if you don't have any of those things, that you and you start training camps as you normally do late in July, that that the season will go on as expected. And I think Mr Ross kind of kind of put that out there for everyone, and um, and I don't make
me feel good, John. And and along with that, you know the other thing that you know this this week Thursday, the Premier League, UH, the European League of Soccer, and they're gonna return June seventeen with with a slate of games remainder of their schedule to play. Um, So, John, we're starting to see things come around. Are we feeling really good that the NFL can be on that path? But I think the NFL and John, I think we we that are you know, involved with the NFL and
doing what we do. Um. The good thing is, you know, there weren't a season that was in the middle of the season. They didn't have to stop. They went around business as usual. And they've got the they've got the the opportunity to have time that that extra time that late July started the training camps, boy, has done them a big favor as other teams have suffered with stopping seasons in between. How are we going to resume? What are you gonna put the other? And I know the
NHL has got got there deal lined up. So um, I think I'm kind of like Ross Mr Ross John as Farez, be very optimistic that that that this season is going to start on as regular away as possible.
I think so. And I think you hit it perfectly both when you say at the right time, at the right time for the NFL, because it happened during the off season, and it happened during kind of a law in the off season, and you were able to still continue to to really go on schedule because you're able to find the draft and free agency and and sign undrafted free agents and be able to do stuff online for O t a s and be able to get together as a team and find ways to kind of
circumvent the issues of the world and still be able to, you know, care for your family, care for one another, but be able to do your job and be able to do it at a level where in the NFL you didn't see it affect the bottom line in terms of where the owners are, where the league is, where
the teams are. In effect that the calendar, So the NFL kind of went as seamlessly as they could go on and be able to do things they needed to do to prepare themselves for now five weeks which would have been more of a dead period in their calendar anyway, once the O t a s finished, and now get
ready for the season. So I think Mr ross Is is right and saying, you know, the NFL has a plan for the season now, whether that's going to be kicked off at the exact same time right now, it is, and right now they have a plan for it, and they have a plan for fans. They have a plan for the teams getting together in late July for training camp. So all those protocols are being put in place. And I think that you know, Mr Ross echoed those sentiments as an owner, as one of those thirty two owners
in the proper way. Yeah, and it's um, you know, it gives fans hope, but they're they're moving forward, Joe, John h though, John is you know you know that the question to me, the question now becomes next season, next season, and and and and salary cap wise, you know, if you have you know, I know, I know the Dolphins have in place, uh a system whereas you could you could have about fifteen thousand fans in hard Rock Stadium, uh coming in safely, leading safely seated safely to watch
to watch games. But John, that's that's taken. You know what ut thousand fans out of the equation, what's says stadium hold now they dropped down to So you know that's so that So the point being that I'm kind of getting to John, is, but when you start kind of looking beyond the hurah and of this season and what implications a season without fans or with limited fans for all are part of the season. How does that
affect the salary cap next year? Especially you've got guys out there that are maybe holding out a little bit on franchise tags, all those all those things that they certainly have to consider. What what the salary cap is gonna be next year without people in the stands or without the revenue that it's coming to. They're still gonna get plenty of television revenue that that's big. It's gonna
remain open. But when it comes to fans and concessions and all those types of things, well, that's that's gonna be something to uh some to see how the league manages that going forward. Well, I'm sure that behind the scenes there's a plan in place for just about everything, and I think it's probably been bantered about over the past month and a half two months. And the and the best thing for the NFL, as we said at the at the start of this conversation, is they have
time on their side. They still have another month and a half at least until training camp is gonna start. Now, what does that happen? How how does the health of society and how UH is the medical teams that are all working on on issues or resolutions for what we've been dealing with over the past two and a half three months with COVID nineteen. So I think that time is still on the NFL side in terms of planning for twelve thousand, fifteen thousand, possibly thirty, possibly forty five
or or a full house. You know, I think everything's on the table in terms of how they're going to approach it, and in different areas of the country might be affected differently, you know, in terms of their of their attendance. You know, right now, the state of Florida, you know, selfishly is doing fairly well when you look around the country and you look around at the numbers, So I think, you know, with Jacksonville and Tampa Bay and obviously the Miami Dolphins here, they're looking at maybe
a better situation than than some other parts of the country. Yeah, you look at California and it looks like most of those teams are gonna have to find at least if if it remains the status quo in that state, the teams in that state are gonna have to find somewhere else to go to training camp because the governor there
says we're not gonna do it. We're not gonna have it until until we feel so you know, I know you've got You've got all those other teams, the forty Niners and the Chargers and the Rams all kind of looking around and saying, hey, where where can we go if and when training camps start out here. So they certainly have some dormos on the hands. But look, these teams travel enough. They've been on the road, they've been to training camps on the road, they've scrimmaged other teams
on the road. I think it's a minor nuisance, uh, for most of these teams. And and and and in some cases, if you go away to training camp, like a lot of teams always used to do, and and there's still a handful of teams that that do go elsewhere, um, it gives you that opportunity to bond, especially since you haven't had o k s and mini camps or will
have not had oks and mini camps. There's still that you know, you can do these zoom meetings and all these types of things, but until you get together with your teammates, actually see them, work with them, get to normal because there's been so there's such a turn over in every team in the league every year. Uh, getting reacquainted with your team and bonding is something that needs to be done. And look, maybe those teams that have to travel somewhere to go to training camp, maybe that's
an extra bonus for him. Right. Yeah, you never know what's gonna happen, and it's still time on the side of the team's out in California, But it sure looks a lot better for other states like Georgia and Florida, and maybe more of the southern states, because it seems like the majority of the COVID nineteen cases and and the severities of of what's gone and what's transpired by this virus has happened in the Northeast and and maybe
out west in California. So you're hoping and praying for everybody around the country and around the world, but you're you're selfishly when it comes back to our profession and what we love to do on a daily basis is talk about the Miami Dolphins and talk about but you know, the football season coming up. It looks it looks more promising than it did a month ago, and hopefully at the end of June it'll look even better than than the goggles were wearing right now at the Nay in
early June along the lines too. You know what you talked about, Mr Ross, It just came out with an initiative with from the team that uh, they're gonna provide a thousand meals, Uh, a thousand meals a day, thousand meals a week. What is it, John, I'm not sure what the thousand meals? Yeah, each Sunday, I think Sunday, yes, Uh, going forward through the season and uh, which you know he's already you know, he's already laid out plenty of money to help feed South Florida and help this community.
And uh, you know, congratulations to him and kudos him for putting something else out there together. That's gonna allow people to need a lot of people who have food but once a week have a thousand meals delivered until they need to stop. And that's quite a commitment from a guy that's already committed a lot of money, uh
to this entire community down here. He's done a terrific job and you have to echo that with the Miami Dolphins Foundation along with Mr Ross, it's a multimillion dollar you know, major gift commitment through the Foundation of the Miami Dolphins. They're gonna provide jobs, They're gonna provide long term you know, food opportunities a minimum of a thousand meals prepared by by the team's partner, Center Plate. So there's a lot of really good things going on in
the community. And Mr Ross and the Miami Dolphins and the Miami Dolphins Foundation are right in the in the center of all that news, which is great. How about how about the how about the and this is a Tom This is got Tom Garfinkel stamped all over it the drive in movie theater. Yeah, exactly, that was that's great. You know, Tom has done a lot of really good
things for this organization since he's been here. And uh, you know that last thing when we're there for the d C C. John, you know, and I knew it was going up, but I didn't definitely really. He's got the I don't know what you called the gondola rod, Yes, gondola ride and goes across the a parking lot area where you can get a good bird's eye view of everything.
Now you've gotta you know, you got the tennis tournament when the Major Tennis tournaments in the world to hard Rock Stadium, and uh, you've got uh Formula one now depending on what goes on, but it looks like Formula one is gonna be making one racing at hard Rock Stadium. And then now you can, uh you know what, you can go watch The Exorcist on in your car sitting in the middle of the stadium. How about that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. It looks like a
lot of fun. You're gonna be able to relive games, exciting moments from Dolphins uh past, you know, glorious history in terms of being able to watch those things on the big screen and then pull up and watch a movie as well. So a lot of exciting, a lot of excitement around the stadium. And there's so much you
can do at hard Rock Stadium. You know. You mentioned the tennis and hopefully it'll be coming back in its normal time slot next season and next year, and you have the Formula one and you have all the excitement around the d c C. So the hard Rock Stadium really the heartbeat for the Miami Dolphins and what they can do not only with with the Dolphins as a football team, but in the community as well, yeah, it's just you know, it amazes me the creativity, uh that
this organization has done. You know when when Mr Ross committed the money to redoing that stadium and getting it to a to a level where you can host super Bowls. And by the way, they get a fantas pastic job with the Super Bowl last year, and I think everyone's anxious to get back here. But all the all that he's done, it really, it really is is um. I just don't see anyone in the league being is creative with their building and with their space as uh as
the Dolphins have. And so congratulations to them for forgetting
all that done. They getting back to little football. John Um, you know, I'm I'm I'm popping up reading, you know, like everyone else, reading everything I can read and this and that, and all of a sudden you pops up with Chris Sims talking about the top forty quarterbacks in the in the National Football League going into the season, and and kind of I kind of was put kind of set aside, step back a little bit when I saw that he uh he ranked to a ton of
viola in the league in best quarterbacks. Now, you know, he kind of points to the injury situation, but injury situation or not quarterback and leave John Guy's a fifth pick in the draft, and quite frankly, had he not been injured last year, he probably would have been the first pick in the draft. How do you go from that to have him? And I'm not gonna take any shots at Chris Simms, you know, but yeah, that's a
pretty harsh prediction. I'm looking at the bottom of the list and you have Dwayne Haskins and Mitchell Trabinsky and Justin Herbert and ranked him. Yeah, Jason Hill, he's not He's not ranked above him on our depth chart, and yet he's above him on Chris Simms the top forty. So that tells you a little bit about the top four. I wouldn't I would venture to guess that, uh, that during his career Chris Simms was swimming around number forty.
Also on the on the list, I would go, well, there was a lot of bodies around around forty, let's put it that way, and I was probably one of them myself. But to be honest with you, though, I really liked the opportunity of two uh and what he brings to to the roster because there's no urgency, and I think the coaching staff is taking it upon themselves in this mindset. If I could, if I could be that fly on the wall, this is what I would
read into it. You have a quarterback that has been built to be a franchise quarterback for his entire career, ever since he's picked up a football, and they go, this kid's got a chance to be pretty good, right So you you build those that that system of leadership and and the way your accountability and and making people played beyond what they feel like they can be. This guy has that gene, so he's gonna be able to
compete right away. And I think this coaching staff is gonna take the opportunity to give him every opportunity, just as they did Josh Rosen last year, and just as they did Ryan Fitzpatrick last year. They're gonna throw them all out there and say, whoever is the best guy is gonna play because we want to win it. And I don't care if it's to us. I don't care if it's Josh, and I don't care if it's Ryan.
One of you guys are gonna win the job. But there's no urgency to push him to say, well, if it's close, we should start to it because I don't trust X Y or Z, you know, or we should really start him because we drafted him fifth overall. If he's the best guy, he's gonna play, and if he's not, he's gonna sit and learn. And he's gonna sit and learn from a fifteen year veteran who's been in multiple systems and that knows this system through playing five years
with Shane Gaily. So there's a lot of positives, but I think that two has got the best opportunity, best of both worlds. If he's the if he's the guy that wins the job, he's gonna play, and if he's healthy enough, he's gonna play. But if he's not, if he doesn't win the job, it's going to be a gradual progression to win the job, because ultimately, that's why they draft him. He's going to play. Ultimately, it's just
the timing of when no question about that. And to me, I mind, it's you know, the only thing that that to me, that that's an issue with him at all is his injury history, and and that that's it. I like I said to me, in my mind, had he not had. You know, even if he had that high ankle sprain that he had prior to having the hip injury and he finished, he still would have been, you know, either the first or second pick in the draft. He's
gonna be. He was gonna be that guy anyway. The only reason eas Hel to the Dolphins at five was because of the hip situation. And I clearly understand that that that the thing that I that I kind of looked at with a with a crooked eye when I was reading the article about Chris Sims was him talking about He mentioned the injury, and I'm buying into that. With that, I can go with that, But the disparity between the athletes and he had in Alabama and the
ones he's gonna play with with the Dolphins. Now, you know, if I'm if I'm you know, if I'm Devonte Parker, Uh, if I'm Jachim Grant, if I'm Might Dressing, if I'm Preston Williams, if if if I'm any of those guys, you know, I gotta stick up my ask for Chris Simms now because of that, you know, saying, oh, well, we don't have guys that are good as Alabama. Look Alabama had some phenomenal receivers, certainly the two that came
out this year, we're incredible players. But but but let's not let's not overlook guys that are already in the NFL and have played in this league um as quality players and and and use that as a reason that to me is a little bit far fetched in my mind. Well, I think that it's it's not so much the talent that to have played with. It was the talent he played against on a weekly basis. Even though they're in
the SEC, they were by far the better group. You know, maybe eleven out of thirteen times they lined up over the last five years, four years, ten years, right, So I think it's that that gap between the talent isn't really on the offensive side. It was who they were going against. And then you put that talent on offense and line up on a weekly basis that was probably scary for opposing college defenses. So I kind of agree
with you there. But I think the Dolphins quite frankly offensively, have enough firepower on offense now to do some damage. I think they line up pretty well compared to when you look two years ago till last year to this year, uh coming back healthy, if if Preston can come back healthy, and I think if Wilson comes back healthy, which all
counts he should be. You add that to the firepower that's already there and a new offense where you don't know where guys are gonna line up and and asked to do you know what they're gonna do with the backfield in terms of pass catchers now guys that have
speed in space. This offense has a chance. If the offensive line can catch up to where we think they're gonna catch up and and what they've done in the draft in free agency, this has a chance to be one of the better Dolphin offenses in terms of on paper going into a season where you feel pretty confident about the group. In particular, if Preston Williams comes back and it begins at the level that he ended at.
You know, I mean because while you talk about a guy that just kind of dropped out of nowhere, I mean a free agent that came in and don't expected anything or the end and John, I think it probably took about a week to ten days before I was going, hey,
whoa this guy? What thatxt he doing? And then well, let's wait to see what he see what he does in the preseason games and did pretty well there early on, and they had like kind of stumbled towards the end of the preseason, but came back in the regular season and really proved to be uh the type of player that that you know, quite frankly played up to the level of a second or third round receiver in my mind, if not better than that during the course he played,
while he played before he got injured. Well, if he comes back, um, now, he could really be a difference acre in that on this football team, but in particular in that wide receiver room, he could come back that same level of play that he left at last year. You're exactly right. And I don't like roller coasters, but I like the roller coaster ride that he took us on for that short period of time, Because, like you, I had question marks in training camp because I kept
saying to myself, was everybody wrong on this guy? Were the office you know, off the field issues such a big deal that they missed this talent? And then he you know, he he plateaued for you know, a while he was on the he was on the ascension, he was doing all the things you need to do, and then it kind of plateaued and went down a little bit with a few drops in training camp, but then he picked it right back up and you got back on the ride. You're like, I like the way this
is going. And then the injury hit, so I'm like you, I have my fingers crossed. And with the way a c LS go over the last ten years, it's almost like I don't want to I don't want to bring it down to an ankle sprain or any sprain. But I will say, other than the rehab that that is vigorous. Guys are coming back from these injries and prolonging their careers and maybe taking it to another level or at
least getting back to the level they were at. So I think with Preston, you know, I know these he's a He's worked for everything that he he's achieved so far, and I think with his offseason progression in the a c L being able to go through that and seeing guys go through it last year, I think that he's gonna be ready to go and and really be counted on in two thousand and twenty to come up and take the pick up the slack on the other side of Davante Parker. Yeah, you know it's you talk abous.
Funny you mentioned that because the A c L deal you know, used to be. I know, John, when you and I played and back then, and I know I played before you, but even I think even during I would say, even during your time, Yes, it was devastating you got a c L. You know, it was for me during my career, and it was funny we didn't have as many A c L s as they have now.
It just seems to be more prevalent now. And I think it's because of the size and then just how big and and and and and heavy these guys are. But that's a different thing. But um, but when when guy had you know, as soon as you saw a guy go down with the A c L, you knew his career was over. It was done. Yeah, but you know he went, you know, but it was a two
It was a two year rehab. You know, they did butcher your leg from seemed like hip to toe, rebuilding you and then you you'd rehab it for two years and you'd watch these guys and you knew they were gonna be able to play when they came back. And sure enough, two years later they'd come back and you know, receiver that was running a four four forty now runs a four seven and and their careers over with. Now,
now you've seen guys. If you gotta see a guy during a c l early in training camp, Hell, sometimes I already to play by the end of the season, you know, which is crazy, Z It's unbelievable. You're right, and I think a guy that you know, it all depends obviously on on the severity and how the curtain goes and how the rehab goes, But on the majority,
I agree with you. It was it was almost a football death sentence if you had that injury thirty years ago, forty years ago, fifty years ago, and who knows if half the guys that were diagnosed with a Knie brain and they did have you know, a slight care or they did have whatever it was, and they said, I'm gonna be okay. You know, you're gonna take a couple
of weeks off and then you'll be fine. But it's one of those injuries now that you you hear it and you go, okay, he's okay, we'll be back next year. You know, he's gonna go through the rehab and and everything's gonna be fine. You just cross your fingers that you know Pressings has that body type that he's gonna be able to bounce back and give you the same type of agility and leaping ability and quickness and and all that stuff out of breaks that he once had
that you saw glimpses of last last year. Hey, yeah, John, one of the other things I want to touch on here, And you know, I'm I'm confused by it. You know, the rule changes and what they're trying to do, and you know some of the stuff got set aside, but this on side kick rule, I I don't, I don't completely understand it. I'm looking for I'm looking at you for a little clarity here. And now, man, might be you might be kicking the wrong the wrong dog here, Bob.
I don't know that anybody really knows for sure what the deal is so so so in lieu of an on side kick and I'm I'm um, assuming John, this is just the fourth quarter or over time or is it the whole game? But lout on side kick you can choose to take from your old twenty five yard line fourth and fifteen and if you convert, then you then you got then you continue to play on. Is that is the way I'm understanding this, Well, I'm not so sure if it's if it's designated for the fourth
quarter or that last possession. I would think if if you're in the middle of the game and you miss a fourth and fifteen from your own twenty five, you don't want to give that opportunity, you know, anywhere else in the game, unless it's you know, the last seconds of of a you know, a half or or whatever, or or or the game obviously, but that is it, basically,
you know. And I'm not so sure if if they've been definitive in terms of where they're gonna go with this, and how many teams or how many people on the the rules committee are on board really with this, and are they trying just to take that kickoff and another extension of the kickoff completely out of the nfl um and put it into another play. So I'm not so
sure how it's going to end up. But as you said, it, yes that that's going to be a fourth and fifteen from your own twenty five, and it's gonna eliminate you know, uh, collision play that they've tried to adjust with the rules in terms of getting a certain amount of bodies on each side of the football and outside of the numbers and and the hashes and all that stuff, and how many yards away from the actual thirty five yard line you're allowed to line up, and all those things have
been adjusted. But I think this one is gonna need a little bit more massaging before it comes into play in two thousand and twenty. Yeah, you know, the problem I got with some of these rules is, you know, you know, they tried the pass interfere it's replay last year and that was that was brutal. Unfortunately, they pulled the rug alpham under that thing and then that's not there.
But I just, you know, it concerns me that there tinkering too much with the game that's already been tinkered with enough, you know, if you know, if you're so concerned with I don't know. You know, they changed the outside kick rule last year, where I thought it was a lot much safer last year and almost impossible to convert off, although the Dolphins I think converted three times during the course of year and had a couple of them called back by penalties or whatever. But you know,
nobody was converting on on those on site kicks. So whether it's a whether it's just to put a little more excitement in some way, or or whether it's it's it's built into protect players, I I don't. I just have my hard a hard time wrapping my arms around why at this point. You know, you know, I thought that they've done kickoff wise, turning kickoff regular kickoffs into
more like a punt situation. I think it was a good situation, and I think it probably alleviated I would assume that the numbers of injuries on kickoffs went down under those under that UM that rule change with regular kickoffs. UM. But you know, at some point he's gotta let the game play out school, you know, I don't think so, but I think they're you're trying to you know, safety is at the forefront of everything the NFL is trying
to do. But I still think you by doing some of that, you're taking some of the strategy away from special teams coaches, especially because even though the majority of the kicks kickoffs, they're not returned right they're going out of the back of the end zone or their nine yards or eight yards deep and the teams are just saying, you know what, no Moss, Well, we'll just take the football,
you know. But I do see other special teams coaches teaching that that that longer pooch kick that lands inside the five yard line, that's hanging up in the air, that doesn't give the opposing team instant field position because they're barely bringing it back beyond the fifteen yard line when they do it successfully, so they're gaining a first
down for their offense and defense. Really and and I think that, you know, with with a lot of the rule changes, they're trying to take away the opportunities two gain some leverage in terms of field position for for your offense and defense. I agree with that. It's just um, I don't know, I just you know, uh, you know, you kind of look at it, and you you look four, five, six, seven years down the road, and who knows, they may
not even play special teams anymore. Well, you know what, they may adopt a rule that that we had in Canada where you just go, you know what, we'll take the vault at the designated yard line whatever the NFL would say, it's the twenty five yard and we'll just take it at the twenty or and be done with it. But but but you know, you touched on something too, John.
That's always been interesting to me is watching these rule changes over the years and watching coaches adapt and and when that first, when the kickoff rule first came out, the change last year, I think there are a lot of people who going to well, like you said, look at the end zone, just just just down it, you know, just let it go and we'll take them all wherever.
And then and then and then you have these coaches started looking for ways to make how can we okay, well, you know, we'll kick it to the five yard line, let our coverage guys get down there, and usually they end up between the you know, they end up you know, if you didn't kick them all to the five, you're stopping him at the ten or fifteen yard line. So
like you said, you're gaining an advantage. Uh, But from from that, from that if you're the kicking team, uh, from a field position standpoint, and so I just don't want to see I just don't want to see the league take the creativity from the coaches out of the game at any level, whether it's offense, defense, or special teams.
And I think the more they make these changes on special teams wise, the more you kind of handcuffed these guys to where you know, eventually every special team unit or if if whatever they're gonna be doing, it's gonna look the same because they're gonna be so limited and
what they can do. It takes away the creativity of coaches to find answers two new rule changes, if you will, And I think it takes away your coaching ability if you're a special teams coordinator, because you know, going in weekend and week out, hey, we have an advantage this week. We're better than Team X in special teams, especially in kickoff return. So if we can get our hands on it, even if it's the eight yard line, we feel like we have the ability to get the football out past
the twenty five yard line. So let's take our shots. And it goes into that planning of that week, and then you're gonna have other weeks where you say, you know what, under any circumstances, do not return the football. We'll take it at because the statistics show us that Baltimore, Pittsburgh, or knowing whoever that special teams unit is covering has been averaging you know, the opposition around the fifteen eighteen
yard line. So we'll take that extra seven to ten yards and move it out and just and just take our chance. Is with the offense teaming up from Yeah, we'll see, we'll see how that goes and see what ends up that way. Hey, John, before before we wrapped this thing up. Uh, you know, and entertainment's been tough to find the service them from the sports standpoint, but uh, you know, you know, you're a golfer. I like to
watch golf. I'd like to think I could. I'd like to think one of these days you're a golfer too. But we're all golfers at heart. It's up level or But but I I watching the watching the match this last weekend, um uh with with with Phil and Tom Brady, Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning. I thought it was I thought it was awesome. Yes, just from from a lot of standpoints and and and one of the things John, that I think was it was really cool to me was that, um, the players all got it. Yeah, they
knew what they were there for. They were there to have fun, they were there to jab each other a little bit, but they were also there to play John, so there to play. There was a lot of people that were closing up to the TV at three o'clock to to watch that thing. And I give those guys a lot of credit because I guarantee you this had had that been any other day out there. Uh and then and they had to play with those with the
weather conditions, they wouldn't have been out there playing. And they gutted it through and and and I you know, it was fun playing, but it wasn't easy playing through those conditions, especially on that golf course, no way. And number one, we we touched on it the week before
on the audible boat. Remember I said that probably those guys would lose three to four golfers a piece in terms of you know, you know, not not really Phil and Tiger, but Tom and Payton because it's such a hard golf golf course to play and you're you're gonna buy just a little bit off the fairway. It's complete X. There's not a score you can make. So you know, it's one of those things where tough golf force extremely tough conditions and then the pressure of of just going
out and playing. It's not your regular you know, throw the balls up and hit it. You know that five million people are watching and you're playing a game that you're not accustomed to playing on TV. So I I felt for for Tom, especially early because he was struggling mightily, but he brought it back. He holds the you know, the wedge shot on the far five seven fold, he makes a huge eagle put on eleven. I mean, it
was fun. And I thought Peyton was awesome too with the commentary and you know, giving it to everybody, especially Tom was which was good, and him giving it back to Charles, uh, you know, which was great. So I thought the whole thing really, uh, the whole thing was beautifully run and executed. And I just hope they do, you know, some more of that in the offseason, because I think you could have some dynamic guys come out and and go on the golf course and have a
lot of fun. Raised number most importantly, raised a ton of money in a in a four hour period for for what a wonderful cause. And I just think that, you know, you can expand on that and and people get it. People tuned in because not only that you know the greatness of of the four people, but you know knowing it was gonna be a camaraderie that was gonna be fun to watch. Well, you know, you know you could see and you could You've got glimpses of
people in different ways. You know, you got to see Tiger Tiger where he's not just you know, grinding it out, you know, not being Tiger, not not not playing at his highest level, you know, where where he's so focused that he doesn't even realize what's going on with what the fans were, but they're not that they're fans there, but you know, watching him up with Putts, watching help look for golf balls, well, just his explanations of stuff within then Phil were great and then Phil, you know,
what are you gonna do here? And you know, ten minutes later, Phil still talking through the I have already hit it four times once over the game, once back. Yeah. Yeah, So it was I thought it was really good and I thought those guys all handled themselves well. And you could tell and that that front nine that that Tom Brady wasn't he was a little he was you know, he's a proud guy, you know, the guy. Guy's not used to being someone you know, you know, he dresses
perfectly all the time. He's always you know, and you know, not only so so not only is he playing poorly, he couldn't, you know, everything's going right and he's he's all over the place, and then he finally it's a good shot. BENSI over to pick up the ball, splits his pants and and I don't know about you, but I watch it. I think he split his pants. You know, for many golfers that has happened to Yeah, no doubt, yeah, uh but it was. It was good. And like you said, Peyton,
you know, Peyton just has that way. He's got that knack. And you know, even when he's writing by himself in the car, telling stories and and this and that and shouting out to his buddies back in New Orleans and all those types of things. Uh, yeah, it was And I thought that was a lot a lot of I give those guys a lot of credits. I do. And they put on a great show and and it was
highly entertaining. And I'm sure, uh, you know that the match is going to expand and and have other you know, players from other sports join other pro golfers, and it would be just as entertaining. I I can't wait for the next one. So this is just a little personal question to you, John, from me. And I know you played the Medalists a number of times up there, um and you're a good golfer. So would it be easier? Would the Medalists be easier to play when it's wet
or when it's bone dry? Definitely wet, definitely. I mean if it wasn't for the high winds and and all that nasty rain and it was just it was just you know, after a rain storm, I think those guys would have had a much better you know, probably front nine or enjoyable front nine, because it looked miserable, you know, handling your own equipment and trying to keep everything dry and trying to figure out, you know, who's away and all that stuff. You definitely definitely easier wet, but maybe
not that day. Yeah, But you know what I just remember I played that. I think I played there twice, John, And all I remember is that if you're short of the green, the ball is gonna come back about if you hit the ball, everything is is so tight over the greens. You hit it a little long, you come up and you're behind some bush about thirty yards back that you know what. I hit the green, yeah, and going and going and going. And for amurs Bo, that's a great course to use your putter from twenty yards
around every anywhere. If you don't have a bunker in your way, put the putter in your hand and just get it to lands or settle somewhere on the green. Well, you know, I'm surprised too. I'm surprised that, and you certainly no, you don't know with Tiger or with UH or with Phil, but I'm surprised there wasn't a six ration where because they have some long carries over those marshes.
Oh yeah, they teas there and I was I was waiting for one of those guys to get a decent shot and just just haven't not carried, you know, not where, did not be able to get it over the uh you know, over the scrub before you get to the fairway. Yeah. I played with both Tom Brady and and Peyton Manning and golf, not not at the medalists, but right next door at MacArthur. And both of those guys, I mean are are single digit handicaps and both can hit it. It just took took Tom a little while to get
going and once he got going, he played really well. Well, you kind of knew, you kind of knew he wasn't gonna be there. He wasn't gonna be that guy at old. He wasn't gonna be the butt of the jokes the whole time. I know, I think, you know, I think what Charles Barkley told him said, Hey, I want to I want to play you for buddy, No chance that that. I think. I think that turned. I think that was just enough to light the fire enough on Tom Brady where he said, you know, f this, I'm going out,
I'm gonna start rolling a little bit. Yeah. Well he hits the ball the it's some ball in the whole from the fairway and goes when you can suck that call, that was That was awesome. That was so good anyway. But it's good entertainment, good entertainment, good stuff. And uh and uh that's good I'm doing for us John when they get to go on and play a little golf this weekend. Yeah, I tell you what, I'm I'm actually I'm I have my backwork done. I gotta go see
the doctor Tuesday. If I get the green light on Tuesday, then then the golf courses around South Florida can start getting extra sand in the buckets because bo I'm gonna start telling put some extra netting up. That's it, man, that's it. I women and children, shore, both camps, back to the golf course. Get your hard hats on because ball's gonna be playing all the I hope, I hope you get the green light. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Hi, John,
appreciate it. Hey, thanks vote all right, Logan, thank you too for John Conjemmy, I'm kim vo camp all little McCall, thanks you for everything. And hey, yeah, we'll catch up with you guys next week. We'll have something to talk about and hopefully we'll have some good news, uh moving forward next week. And tell then you guys stay safe and we'll speak to you soon