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We'll go ahead and have a sit down with the linebacker Landing Roberts, Roberts who seems to be blowing people up, no doubt about that. And then we'll, uh, we'll go behind the enemy lines, take a look at the New York Jets, the opponent this week, and then we'll have some xs and bows when we get to the end. But to get started off with Morgan and Morgan Law, we're gonna take our look back and John looking back at that game, and well, it looked like it looked
like three of the last five games. Uh. In that first quarter when first series you go three and out and then you you're forced to turnover X comes up with the interception, You're punch it in you Here we go again. It's gonna be another one of those games. But after that, uh, everything kind of fell apart. And John, I don't know about you, but I just felt like this football team, the Dolphins football team really never got
into sink on either side of the football. Special teams played well enough, but on either side and football offense and defense, I think they were I think they lost the battle with the line of scrimmage both ways, and it just seemed like it was a a disjointed effort. To me. Well, I agree with you, bo, I think
it was a flat effort. After the initial interception and the touchdown throw from to Ah to Parker in the end zone, I think the Dolphins got off to that start would made you feel like, here we go again. This is gonna be set up by defense and special teams. The offense is gonna get get it done just enough to be able to keep that touchdown or ten point lead and maybe expound upon that in the second half. But this is how the Dolphin are gonna win games.
And then I believe you know it was it was funny because Drew Lock, who's thrown the most interceptions in the National Football League. Denver has given up the football more than anybody in the National Football League. They all of a sudden turned into you know, the grinch. They didn't give anything up and and he was, you know, hitting on big plays in the passing game. They had a one to punch in combination with Lindsley and Gordon
being able to run the football. And as you said, bo I thought the Miami Dolphins the poorest outing, I think by the offensive line not being able to win their one on one matchups, not picking up you know, simple twists that the line of scrimmage. And then on defense, if it was like the Green Bay Packers were, you know it was it was the college sweep. You know, it was like here comes the counter, here comes the counter. You can't stop, but we're gonna run it again. And
that's exactly what Denver did. They went old school on the Miami Dolphins with a couple of explosive plays in the passing game and that was enough. And you know when they kept running them over and over, it's one of those since you said, look we're gonna run it. We'll run to both sides until you stop it. We're gonna keep running it and you know it. You know, this team the defensively, this team has gotten better over the last handful horse last month or so. It's setting
the edges and playing perimeter defense. Well that went out the door yesterday because you know, it seemed like every time that Denver ran it, and no matter who was was running it, you know, whoever whoever it was running the football always seemed to have that two way go. You know, there was you know, if that if that, if that that ed got said, the edge got up the field, there was nobody to take the cut back
and cuts back and picks up big yards. And if they if they played the cut back, there was nobody out there setting the edge to turn it back in. So uh yeah, I thought it was a uh probably the poorest effort we've seen out of the defensive front and the offensive line. I thought, well, I'm right with you.
The games. The games just confused these guys. They were you know, there's a couple of times where Jesse Davis they needed they need to know whether a man to man or whether there was zone block because one bumped each other off and one bumped the other guy off. Other times they both went for the same guy something else come So, yeah, I was just an uneven record, John, and John, you know what I was thinking. And I don't I still think they played hard. I'm not. I'm not.
Oh yeah, I agree with that. I've got nothing to say about their effort. But you've won five games in a row. All of a sudden, the national media is on and I watched I watched all the pregame shows on Sunday. Everybody's picking the Dolphins. Everyone's got co coach flows, the coach of the Year. I mean, this was the crescendo at the end of the day. Everyone's going, yeah, the Dolphins. Just all of that. And and I've been in those situations before, John, I've been in situation where
you've played real well and all. And I always say, you know you, I find myself in a situation before where you before you prepare like you do eight each and every week, right, do the same things do your preparation game day, get up at the same time, getting the car, drive to the state at the same time, with your shoes and socks at the same time, and then you get out of the field and go, Man, I just don't I don't I don't know what I'm ready to go here, you know, so you try to try,
and you try, and then you get in the huddle and you look around and everybody's got the same look in their eye that you got, and you go, oh, we're in trouble today. And I think that was one of those days maybe that the Dolphins had. Yeah, And I think to it probably felt a lot of that too, because you know, quarterbacks deal with pressure, and they deal with free guys coming all the time. They have to, you know, either get rid of the football, throw it away, sidestep,
buy some time and make a play. But when you're a young quarterback and you have so little starts underneath your belt and you're trying to grow the offense and try to come into your own as the fifth pick overall in last year's draft, um, you kind of have a lot of pressure on your shoulders. Not that he didn't never had it at Alabama. He had the world on his shoulders at Alabama because everybody was watching them.
But as you said, five wins in a row. You're in the National Football League now and you're expected to keep elevating your game each week. And I think you know some of those orange flashes of different colored jerseys were actually, you know, bothersome to the entire offense. It was bothersome to the timing in the past offense. It was bothersome to Akman who couldn't really get started other than a couple of runs. And I think it was bothersome to to Or to a certain extent, because it
threw off the overall timing. You know, there wasn't a whole lot of wide open windows for him to deliver the football. When he was finding DeVante Parker, they were covered and most of the time he was covered, and he put the ball in a good spot for Davanta. Davante could handle it, make a reception and really fall down. There was no run after catch opportunities, you know, you know, in that game. So I think everybody kind of felt that heat. Everybody had that feeling that you expressed about.
You know, you went through the same things to get here, but you're just not having it done. It's just not working for some reason. And it was just one of those days. And Denver found a way to click from off to on in the beginning of that game, and they found a way to get their traction going and get what they needed to do, make the plays they
needed to make to win a football game. Obviously, the biggest story coming out of the game is the uh, the decision by coach Flores late in the fourth quarter. You still got an opportunity to tie the football game up, uh and then force over time or maybe go for the win. Uh. And he chooses to go ahead and and pull to at Fits in and at the time, you know that last play that to us and he kind of got he got sacked and his kind of
his foot kind of got tweaked. And I thought maybe that was part of the reason he said no, and to us said no, that wasn't the reason. They just brought fits in to get a spark. And and I don't have a problem with it, um John, But well I'll tell you what. The the national the national voices, Boy, he really jumped all over this, the same the same voices that we're calling for coach Flores to be as sure, you know, coach of the year. You know, he give go ahead and give the trophy. Now now all of
a sudden, they're going, I don't understand that. I don't know why I made that decision. What were your thoughts when you saw uh Fits go in that late in the ball game. Listen my gut feeling. I wanted to to play so well, and he didn't get it done, and the team didn't get it done. It just wasn't one person. But I thought it was the right and correct call to put Ryan Fitzpatrick in because the things that to wasn't doing really well in the game, Fits
does extremely well. He feels pressure before it comes, he moves his body and moves the protection away from that pressure, and he's able to anticipate it and get rid of the football before guys are even open. And that's what you needed to have happened. And he wasn't greedy. He started cherry picking underneath, you know, checking down, checking dow, until all of a sudden some of that stuff opened up.
And I thought he did a really nice job of showing too a by example, how he could have attacked the Broncos, but he had to get out there to do. You can only say so much, and I thought it was a good decision by coach Flores that to really give the Dolphins one more chance, to give him their best chance to win. At the end of the game.
It wasn't a knock on toa. It was. It was a praise for a guy that really has played well and has seen at all kind of defenses that you can insert him into a game with very little reps during the week of practice and think that he could be successful and rally your team. He was a player too away bow from either tying the football game or
winning it with the two point conversion. You no doubt he goes down and and uh and puts that ball in the end zone, goes for a two point conversion, wins it, and coach Florence's smartest coach in the NFL, and Ryan's the best backup in the in the National Football Football League. That's we're talking about. But look, I understood the move and and and looked at that offensive line hadn't protected to a all day long. He's under
durest the whole time. They got hit ten times. He was sacked six times, and that wasn't gonna change if he went back in there. So uh and and look, I think to you when you heard from two afterwards, Look this guy is mature behind his years, and he understands a situation, understand exactly instead of I was fine with it. That's what fits is here for let's move on. And so we're gonna go ahead and move on. And now it's time for a sit down with a Lamb
and Roberts. Today it's gonna be amplified by hard rock, hotel and and and John Lamb is one of those guys that, uh, you know, when he gets an opportunity to play, I'll tell you what you talk about. A guy that comes through the line of scrimmage and and carries a carries a load with him. When he hits somebody, they stay hit. Yeah, he's a guy that you're you
want on your team and at middle linebacker. He's a good communicator, he's a terrific leader, and he's productive, you know, not only in stopping the run, but being able to be a force in pressuring the pocket, being able to get his hand in the way in past coverage. He does a lot of really good things. But his leadership and his production have been really what the Dolphins needed
in the middle of that defense. You've been nicked up in their h Van Noyd's being in and out, so so having a land and Robert be able to come in and and really step into that inside roll and get Van Ginkel on the outside when you know, taking over that spot for Van Noyd. But nice to have those guys on and it's nice to see uh, you know, short yardage and everything. But I tell you you can sometimes you don't even have to look at it. You can hear the hits from the landing and know where
they're coming from. So let's see what he had to say. We just spoke to him. John happy to be joined by Miami Dolphins linebacker and landing Roberts and at lantin the game in Denver. Wasn't the result of Miami Dolphins wanted, but the start was and it seemed like it was the same script from the past couple of weeks. The defense gets out, they get an interception, a turnover by X, and provide the offense with excellent field position to against Parker in the end zone. You guys were off for
the races. Did you guys feel like that early momentum was something you were gonna build on? Oh, of course, you know, you always want to have fast starts and games. You always want to you know, if you can't have a fast start, even with a turnover, that's always you know, a plus, you know, and um we we we had you know, great momentum. You know what I'm saying at the beginning, Yeah, it seemed like you guys really did.
It was one of those games that we're gonna hold true to the script over the last couple of weeks where you either's defense or special teams are offensively something was gonna happen. You made a couple of big stops in the game at one on fourth and one, Can you take us through that that play, you came like a rocket from the linebacker position into the line of scrimmage.
That was a big momentum change for the Dolphins on defense. Well, you know, uh, our front seven been playing, you know, our nose and our tackles, they've all been playing good football. And just on that play, you know, if you see you know, ray Corn Davis did a good job you know, one on one on that nose and stuff like that. And I knew backside that them guys are gonna do a good job. So I just trusted my teammates fit and we all was able to make that fourth and
want to stop. You know, I know a lot of times, you know, players you know, get the credit for it, But the bigger picture, it was a whole front seven we we all you know what I was able to execute. You know what a boy you call and get that fourth now stop? Yeah, you're right, you know what. It isn't always one player on a big win or or
a loss. Like in Denver, you guys lose twenty to thirteen, and it seemed like defensively you just couldn't slow down Gordon or Lindsay on the ground, especially on the edge of the defense. When you take a look back at the game and when you go through it in your mind, what was the biggest difference for you guys not being able to slow those guys down with that rushing attack
they had. Um, I just think, uh, you know, just because it's fresh right after the game and stuff like that, that we just gotta dig in, do wash the firm, you know, see what's causing what and stuff like that and then correct it. You know, uh, you rather have them type of games early in the season, that eight in the season. So you know, of course it was a tough loss or you know, the whole team hate to lose, you know, but now you see the corrections
that you need to make. That's gonna take you into later on in the season where you know them, you know what I'm saying them, corrections is made and that you can execute it when it's you know, saying called you know, Atlanta, And seems like when you get later in the season, no matter what level football, especially at the National Football League level, games are harder to win.
If you found that in terms of your progression in the National Football League, where when you get deeper in the season, no matter who the opponent is, no matter what the record is, it's always about you guys, you know, doing your job because those guys are either fighting for the playoffs or they're fighting for their jobs. It doesn't really matter what the scenario is. It just tough to
win games late in the season. Yeah, And like I said, you know, that's why I'm glad yesterday happened, you know, because we're able to fix that as a defense and fix you know what teams are trying to do, so later on in the season, they won't be able to do it because we alreadyn't seen what we need to do to make sure, you know, these players don't leak out on it and stuff like that. So you know, it's a tough loss, but I take the positive from it and you know, now you're able to learn from
it and move on and like every week. This this a one game season, man, you know what I'm saying. So you gotta you gotta take it one game at a time, because you start looking too far ahead. Then, you know what I'm saying, you run into run into a lot of stuff that you ain't trying to run into. I'm glad you said that, because I would think there's no better way to bounce back from a loss and get to one to know this week then against an a f C East rival in the New York Jets,
you go on the road. Um, it's one of those games where you feel like, all right, let's correct what we can correct from Denver. Let's get back to playing our our style, our schemes the way we're a custom of doing it and getting back on that winning track. Yeah, exactly. You know, Uh, it's always good to uh, you know, get back on the winning track. You know, we we gotta dive in as week, you know, the just the
good team. You know, you can't look at the record and stuff like that and whatnot to think that you're going to be able to execute just because off of a team director. Everybody's in the NFL. So we gotta prepare hard this week, and we gotta you know, put all out, you know, after today, after we make these corrections, we have to turn the page and put a great
weekend for the New York Test Atlanta. Lastly, do you prepare any differently when facing a veteran like Joe Flacco than maybe a younger guy and Sam Donald other than Donald might have a little bit more movement skills and able to tuck it and run. Are there little things that you kind of put in your memory chest on how you're trying to prepare for each different style of quarterback. Yeah,
you have to. You know, if somebody got him here and said, yeah, I kind of just look at them all the same, It's it's no way, you know, because Donald bring a certain aspect that and Donala bring a certain aspect that Flacco don't. And Flacco bring a certain aspect that uh Donald don't. You know, they both have
their own Tennessee. So you have to dive in and know that, you know, know that the game can change when it is Flacco or with Donald, you know, so you just have to pre path for both well Land and thanks for joining us today. Let's get back to one and oh this week against the Jets and get back on that winning track. Good luck to you up up in New York. Thank you man. Now stop go buying enemy lines presented by Auto Nation where Dolphin fans could sell their vehicles for cash right now, just visit
auto nation dot com. Wat's our second chance to see the New York Jets. And one thing hasn't changed, John, you still haven't won a game. Well, you take pleasure. You take so much pleasure in saying that that's great. They's still got that big old for hanging over there, hanging over their heads right there. And John, I gotta tell you there's nothing more beautiful than that throw fireman in right in there too. But that fireman and I just get Jay, you can go. This fireman in may
have quit again. He quit one year about five years ago, he quits, I've had enough, I'm not coming back. And then when they got Sam Darnald, he was back in the front road back. Yeah, he's back in uh in total one, New Jersey or somewhere now. I ain't even still so I don't think he's back but this football team, John Well, I'll tell you, I I don't know what you say about these guys. Joe Flacco, you know, Darnald
still out, Joe Flacco is there? Uh And you know, I've never seen I don't know if I've ever seen a football team in the NFL as inept as this Jet team has been this year. That fair. I think that it's fair. Their record proves that. Um, they've been in some games, but not a lot of games. And
it seems like it's always the back door cover. You know, it's always the Jet scoring points at the end of a game where you kind of go, well, that game was pretty close, but then you kind of watched the game and see the highlights and it was a two touchdown game for you know, the majority of sixty minutes. And then again that happened, you know, against the Chargers. You know, offensive league. Who are you gonna see? Is
it gonna be Flacco? Probably Sam Donald's still nursing an injury to the shoulder, so you may see him, you may not. Might be a game time decision, but you know you've got you've got Frank Gore still trying to get it done in the backfield. You've got, you know, an offensive line that's kind of been hit or miss, and you've got a defense at ranks kind of in
the middle to the end. You know, every every statistic meaningful statistics, statistic in the National Football League on both sides of the football are deep into the twenties and in the in the thirties. And if you're in the thirties in the National Football League, it's not very good. So it's gonna be a clear indication of your record. And right now, you know, Adam Gates has his hands full just trying to feel a healthy football team, get a team out there that's competitive and has a chance
to win every week. He's gotta spend some time beating the wolves off and jumping off his back either because you know they're all over him up in New York. But you look at this football team and and there's no one really jumps out of you talk about Frank Gore, your Denzel Mims, a nice guy. Jamison Crowder has done some good stuff for him, Quinn and Williams their first round draft pick last year. He's a beast back there. But but really it's just you know, this is a
football game. You know, John, I think when I look at this game, you know, you've got to prepare for the Jets. You've got a game plan there. There are a National Football League team, no doubt about that. You can't overlook them. But to me, this is more about the Dolphins getting back into their own heads and getting back to where they were two three, four weeks ago, where the defense was playing tough, they were getting pressure on the quarterback. Guys were getting off of their blocks,
you know, disengaging and making plays. You know, offensively, that line was protecting the quarterback, whether it was whether it was Uh, you know, whether it was Ta or whether it's Fitzpatrick. And the running game still wasn't what you want to be, but at least it was giving you
a little bit of something there. And and so somehow, some way this week in the Metal Lands, the Dolphins need to get their focus back on themselves and and playing the straight mistakes three football as close as they can, because look, don't, don't, don't don't. If the Dolphins gone play like they did Uh in Denver, you know, they just may get their first win this weekend. And why would as much as I'm happy to see him floundering in the in the in the muck of the metal lands.
I don't want him to come up and get healthy against the Dolphins. No, that's the last thing. The Miami Dolphins one. I agree with you both. There should be a lot more thumbs pointing at individuals that are wearing the aquand orange than index fingers, you know, looking at the Jets and what they can do to you. I think there's enough on the Miami Dolphins played after going over the Denver Broncos film. You know, by Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, they had to get that out of
their system. They have to get back to playing efficient football. On offense, they have to be able to make sure there's of a hat on a hat at the line of scrimmage. They have to be able to pressure the pocket, no matter if it's Donald or Flacco. You know, if it's Donald, you maybe rush him a little bit different because he has a little bit more mobility than Joe. But both guys can you know, beat you from the pocket.
And they do have some playmakers if you give them some confidence, if you give the Jets a reason to participate, they're going to participate. They can still get after you. On defense, It's not a bad defensive eleven when you look at the names and you look at some of the guys and what they're capable of. But it's all up to the Dolphins. If they allow them to stay in the football game, it will be a sixty minute game.
If the Dolphins can get out and do what they do best, get out to us a quick start and a fast start in all three phases, be able to score some points and and dictate how the temple and the pace goes, in the rhythm of the game goes. I think they'll be okay on on the road. Yeah. You know. The one thing John I touched on a little bit earlier. I really would love to see this
running game try to get a little more trash. And you'd like to see a game where you've got a hundred and thirty a hundred and fifty yards rushing and look, I don't care if it's three running backs to get you there, but you know, you've you've you've got to Yeah, you've got to be able to run the football to make this offense work, especially with two in it, as efficiently as possible, because if you can't, then then you're gonna see more and more teams do the same thing
that that Denver did is just tee off on him and and just just come after him and uh and run all kinds of games. And and quite frankly, even the games that are running on there were nothing that you don't see each and every week. There were a t you know, T and E games and simple stuff. But you know, guys, guys need to get there in
their heads and the shooting. Look, I don't, it's it's you know, I told you we were eleven and oh one year and went to San Diego to play and and stunk up the holes and sunk stunk up to Murphy in a in a really big way there. And so it can happen to anybody. And and sometimes you start reading your your your your own clippings and and it's easy to start feeling better about yourself. And maybe you don't give the you don't maybe you know, maybe you kind of cut corners a little bit. Uh, I've
maybe you know, you mentioned that running game. I think Akmen has done a terrific job for what he's been asked to do, and I think he's gonna continue to do that. He's John. I think he's gotta be more. You've gotta be you gotta be more consistent. It's gotta be you know. You can't. You can't bust off a run for nine, ten, twelve yards one run and then have three through the next three runs where you get
a yard. You know. Yeah, that's a shared responsibility. And and I think up front those guys would attest to that. Sometimes there's just nowhere to go. And anytime you see that colored jersey in the backfield, you've got a reroute before you almost you know, or at the you know, getting the football from the quarterback, that's a tough you know, and that that exchange point, that's a tough deal for running back to to kind of get positive yards on that run. So I think two things need to happen
in this offense. Up front, they've got to fix uh, the protection, and they've got to be able to get off the football in the running game. If those things happen, Two, is gonna be able to navigate the rest, He's gonna be able to throw guys open. He's gonna be able to buy some time and make some plays and extend
some plays. But if those first two things don't happen, You'll see this team continue to struggle and you're looking for the defense and you're looking to win field position on special teams to make it easier to find points. They have to fix those two things going in not only against the Jets, but it gets tough to win late in the season in the National Football League. You better be able to do that against Cincinnati and especially when you get to New England and Kansas City down
the road. Yeah. Look, I'm not turning on this team. I think they're a good football team, and uh, I think it's gonna be uh. We we still got a lot of good things to look forward to. But uh, you know, I think I think they just maybe got ahead of themselves for a week. Let's kind of reel it back in. Just get back to doing the basics and and get that done. Uh and then when we want to move on from there out, why not talk about it Thanksgiving week and Thanksgiving is always a great
day for the National Football League. A lot of turkey to eat, a lot of games to watch. And you know, the only thing I miss about Thursty about Thanksgiving Thursdays now is not not having Barry Sanders on the Detroit lines, because that in itself used to be one of the
biggest treats on Thanksgiving. You're right, that was entertainment because you knew he was gonna pull off a probably a fourteen to sixteen yard run and probably run for about sixty five yards to get those fourteen or sixteen yards, and you could always count on him having a leg of the turkey at the end of the game because he was probably the start of the game. Yep, no
doubt about my my uh Thanksgiving Day experience. We played a Thanksgiving Day nineteen seventy seven, which was my rookie year, was actually my my second year, but I was injured. I was an injured reserve my whole rookie years, So that was my rookie and we went up there and we had four defensive, four defensive rookies starting that game, myself, Norris Thomas, A. J. Dewey, and Bob bomb Howard. At the time St. Louis was the hottest team league. They
had won six or seven in a row. And there's two riders down here in South Florida had place dead who wrote for the Hollywood Son Tattler. I don't think anyone even has ever even heard of that newspaper and Bernie Lindscomb, who was writing for the Fort Laude Noo Sun Sentinel at the time, and both of them said, I don't even know the Dolphins are going up there. They're gonna be the Thanksgiving dinner for the St. Louis Cardinals.
And and in the Hollywood paper put a pitch had a picture drawn in of a turkey with all a bunch of next coming and had all of our heads sticking out dinner. So so so we go up there and and uh, very good football team. And that team was an offensive line was Conrad Dobler, Tom Banks, Big Bob Young who was the strongest player in the National football and Dan dear do Orf was on that team. Jim Hart was a quarterback, Terry Metcalf. They were a really good football team. And we went up and just
tore him apart. Greece Grease drew six touchdown passes, three of them and that more. And we just harassed them all day. So during the game game a J a JS instigating Dobbler and Bob Young, and they could Bob Bomb Howers, a rookie playing nose tackle, and a J keeps going, Hey, Dobbler Dad, rookie is kicking your butt. There he con come back the huddle, Bob and go a j shut up, man, because every time you yell at him, then they tripled to man. Yeah, I'll hit
his knees and stuff. So we're going on on. So not the middle of the third quarter in the game, Steve toll Are starting linebacker, goes down on the field vern Den Herder blue and blown his knee out. Earlier in the game, Steve told goes down with an injury and while they're dragging him off the field, he says, take me by the huddle, right, So he dragged him Draghim by the huddle and he sticks his head and
he goes it was double blur. It was everybody. On the next play, you know, we need a linebacker because Steve he's hurt. And all of a sudden, I look over and we have this offensive lineman from Kentucky who looked like uh who looked like he looked like Satan, and so Coach Sula sent him in. He was an offensive guard, Wally Pursuit was his name, so he was in defense, mated hockey coming in and settled the score. That's right, hem in and said, line up over Dobler.
And so this is Thanksgiving Day, everyone's having their turkey dinner, and all of a sudden, I'm playing outside linebacker when he dropped. We have a double zone. I dropped into my zone and kind of settling about eight to ten yards and I looked next to me, and I see Wally pursued. He's got Conrad dover by the face man. He's jerking it back and forth, and he's running past me. That bulldogs him. I went and jumped on him, and next you know, both branches cleared. The The game was
stopped for about a half hour. I think everybody on the team on both sides got fined. And and the one thing we watched I remember are watching the tape or watching the film afterwards of it, and and all you could, you know, you're seeing all the fights and the skirmishes all over the field. And we saw Dan dow our equipment guy walking around the field picking up all the St. Louis elbow well the equipment in his bag and bringing over the art. We need a couple
of extra neat pads, a couple of elbow pads. Probably the next week we had guys wearing them where we playing, they're wearing red elbow. But that was that was my lone experience with with with playing on the on Thanksgiving Day, and and it certainly was a very memorable one that that sounded like it was a lot of fun to partake in, especially the next day watching it on film
had to be outstanding. Well, well, I tell you the kicker to it was that before we went out for the game, Bob Kuchenberg and Jim Langer said, Hey, when the game's over, when we win, nobody talked to place Stead or Bernie Litzko. So, you know, so game's over, we win, We're in the locker room jumping up and down.
Here was happy, and all of a sudden Cooch looks over and he sees someone talking to ed Place dead and ed ed Place staid was about he was probably five six maybe five seven, shaped like a bowling ball, you know, yeah, yeah, but there was about yea y screen and so so cooching Cooch and lang Or see him. They go over. They picked Place that up, carry him towards the shower. Coach was doing his press conference right
next to sharers. Hey, where is it? Where are you guys going with him, carried him, shower him in the showers, give in the shower, turned the showers on, and wouldn't let him out. So it was the way that one ended. It sounded like a perfect day. It's giving to me. Yeah, I think you know, I think everyone, I think we all enjoyed it. I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure about the Saint saying Louis Cardinals and in place
that those those those guys didn't enjoy it much. That's great, but no, no, no, but uh yeah, it's it's Uh. I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving, and uh, it's always fun and it greats means I don't know, John, I mean you guys down at St. Thomas of climates, I always have a Thanksgiving uh where you can go out, want go watch practice, and you just gonna put a
good group alumni heaving back there, don't you. Yeah. Usually guys come back from I don't know how many years, as far as probably when I played football even before at St. Thomas, and they're always in the playoffs. So you always get to go down on a Thursday night after you have your Thanksgiving meal and kind of watch practice.
If you have a son on the team or you know you're an uncle of a player or whatever it is, if you played there, you can go watch and uh those are always uh fun times to reminisce with other players and and get to meet some of the current guys that are on the team and wish them well in their game uh the next night. So that's always a nice tradition. They they started and continue to this day. Awesome, good though, Well, John's it being with you again this week? Yeah,
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