The Audible Ep. 21 | A.J. Duhe

Joe enjoyed watching practice Yester I did. It was a nice, easy practice. But Thursday is gonna be the real first practice. Joe Rose Kim bocamper and join us in the studio, number seventy seven, your program number one in your heart on one of the uh the the one of all time greats out of Leon got your high school from Reserve, Louisiana. Is that going right? They know the greatest place, maybe one of the greatest athletes come out of Leon got

your high school. That's what you'll need to learn. How to pronounce that. Kids on the team's how bad is it? Got you got choked? Got child? Got y'all? Yeah, I don't know why because I asked him one time I've been jay Is joined us on the program. Thank you, thank so, I asked me, because I know that in in in that French kind of dialect whatever a us right.

It's like when you see like how they make go tigers and a lot of times aux people around the country kind of go, what are they trying to stay here? But it's all made for the home folks. You mean yeah? So I asked him, I saying, how do you pronounce it? Got you? All right? He goes, yeah, I got you all and everyone pronounces got you. You know, it gets

it's got everything. It's all different kinds of things. It's kind of like Dewey when it first came, I thought and then but it turned out to be due from my first time. First time I asked a J. If I didn't ask him the first time I met him, I go, J, how you pronounce that name? J? I mean again, how practice? I said? You know, I'm sir Dewey pronounced d e w e w do a d A check. That's the US way. J. J was a name changer out of college college was a J. Dewey.

But the thing is J. But I did not put do a junior on my Hello, how about your ec his kids and calls. Now they got you know, you know Jones Senior, because they got a few, they got a little you know, I got a couple of third We got some packages there they're dealing with. So anyway, hey, j training kills, training camp. What do your do you think back to training camp started a long time, but you know here we are the twenty one. I mean we used to start training camp. I thinking the teams

right longer. I remember one time starting training camp like two days after the fourth I don't know if maybe we had we had the like one year right after, like a couple of days out of after after fourth of July. We're training from bottom rocks and booze. I think I had some firecrackers. Someone through firecrackers in the BOT. I think I hold in the bottom of my foot and I couldn't. I said, just packed that thing with.

I ain't go in here and telling coach you life, I blew the bottom of my foot off with firecrackers. I can't practice that. I'm gonna go over. The game has changed. What do you think a j no more two of days, no six or seven weeks like there used to be where you had rookie scrimmages with the Saints and veteran scrimmages the preseason. It lasted first. I mean, you know, it's it's what it is. I mean, you know, we we can't we can sit here and talk about

how it was back in the day. But uh, you know, the guys are playing today, the coaches that are playing today, some of the coaches on the staffs and may still remember. You know, You've got some guys they're a little you know, in their fifties and sixteed that kind of are back from the day. But uh, a lot of these coaching staffs are, you know, their young guns, just like their players. And and the style of the game has changed. Uh. You know, I don't argue about it. I just think

it's different. I think the players aren't getting in shape like they should. But one thing, and uh, sometimes I don't like it. I don't I don't like it. I just know that it look I put it this way. You know, the guys that were playing twenty years before us,

it was harder for them, you know. Then then then we came along, and then the guys after us, it was it was a little easier for us, then it was easier for the next guys, and now it's here, and it's just it's just, you know, it's just the change way the game is changing, and and I just don't what bothers me about it is you know, there's a couple of things that bother me about and we've

talked about this before. First of all, if you're an offensive a defensive alignment and you're not a draft pick, how do you even make a roster because you get so few opportunities to go it? Because you know, if ID for a receiver, a dB, a tight end or running back, because you can show your skills, you know, the only if you're an offensive defensive lineman, your skills are you know, being a battering ram, you know, being you know, physicalness, toughness, pushing guys around, and you can't

you can't see that in with it. So you get and then and then you know, if you're a free agent, you get very very few reps in the games, So how do you make that impact? That's one of the things that that bothers me about it. And the other thing that bother me about it, I think that I think for the first four weeks of the season. The

NFL is a very sloppy league. They're sloppy games. It's sloppy tackling because guys, that's how they It's like back in the old day, and you have nine weeks of training camp, you don't really have to be in shape because you're gonna get yourself in shape. We're here. Those first four weeks are kind of getting me into football shape. So now they can kind of get playing at the peak level where where we used to be kind of going into the season started. Those are the things that

bother me about the way. Look, I understand the injury, understand the head situation, understand all the things about safety. But I'm also concerned with with us ten years from now watching a game that that doesn't even resemble what we knew as football growing up. Well, I don't know

how that's gonna change. Well, because I see the game being played violently, I mean you know, I mean uh, And getting back to when you were saying about draft picks defensive linement, the thing is that the league is so wealthy rich right now that you know practice squads, I mean, how many ten, twelve guys and now guys get a little ding in training camp and they maybe an undrafted guy, let's stick him on i R because you know the cost of keeping these people on IR.

I mean it's it's almost like it's like that whole group is less than one player salary. I mean that whole group of players. So you know that there are some some positives to the UH to the fact that you know, more guys have job, more guys have opportunities by just being kind of hidden. I guess you call that. UM. I think guys are in a lot better shape now overall standard football, but a j these guys, they're in

year round shape. They've got all these workout facilities. When they're not here, you go to Bombrino and all these and there's bomb Rito's all over the country, and go to Arizona, l A. We got the specialty coaches. Now if a guy wants to go throw the ball for quarterbacks. So these guys can stay in really good shape so that when they come in. We used to just show up for mini camp, go for a couple of days, get ready, and then you know, accurting mostly basketball and

little softball in there and a few little workouts. But our facilities are nothing like no nobody had. Uh. I mean, the worst facility in the league today is probably better than the best facility back in, no doubt about it. But you're right, and look there's all the sports science, all the things like that, but but still, you know, when it comes to that that first Sunday, Uh, you know, when the season starts, I got guys out there that

are to me, are ill prepared to play. You know, they're more worried about them being healthy than playing their best. That's the other thing. I don't remember our hot course, we didn't have a lot of guys making a lot of money. But now guys are protected. They they're not playing that much preseason football. They play Game three, play into the third quarter, they don't play the fourth quarter.

So they're basically all they got. They got two weeks and you know, getting back to what you said earlier, which is the true statement, these guys look like they're just the finest athletes ever known the man kind. But why can't they play sixty snaps a game? They can? Look these guys, these guys, let me ask you a question, when when you were when you came out in your one years old come out of l s U could

you play both ways in this league at that age? Um, I could have played both ways, but I couldn't have had to have a break. I understand that that, and and and the point I'm getting at is going back to two way players, going back to two way players way back in the day, all the way to now where it's so hyper um situational. Right third and two. This guy's going in third and three. He's not going

in the other guy's going. You know. So it's very but you know, those things have just those things have just changed over the years when you had those the guys that could play to the reason that the reason they're not playing two two ways anymore, it's not because they don't want to, because the coaches wanted to make individuals better. You remember when you remember when Steve Told started having his issues, Steve Told won the great middle

linebackers that the office have ever had. That nobody, nobody really, you know, remembers or knows that much about. Guy still holds a record for the most tackles in a single season for the NFL, you know, fourteen games season. He still holds a record. But I remember he was the guy that Rnge used to take out situational substitution third downs. Let's take our middle line back around and Steve, I

thought it was a pretty good coverage guy too. Let's bring our middle line background and put another he was, you know, starting to put in that nickel, putting another dB in there, someone or another linebackers, and then also know, oh we got this guy compelled, let's put him in the past. So then all the situation. So now it's gone from guys playing two two way two ways to now you got guys are they're barely barely playing one way,

you know, but that WLD true both of everything. Okay, so as as the situation, those situations occurred probably pre us coming here, and then it grew. You know, obviously I think we created the zone blitz. I think, I tell people to this day, I think we created and the thing it it's like just like in business, I mean basically like the way you buy your airline tickets. So everything is is, it's evolution. Everything changes, so you know,

we have to accept it. But then again, old school guys kind of say, why you know, you know, for what reason? Yeah, well look there, you know, you take rotations and in this team's about rotations, defensive front rotations, linebacker rotations, dB rotations, all about this, and and and the frustrating thing to me is if you're were in Buffalo somewhere, you know, and the game Buffalo is driving

down the field big series. I look over and you got cam wake on one cam wake there, and you've got Andre branch Or one of these guys stay on the sun going to Dominican sus standing going wait a minute, You've got your two of your best players here and in the most important series of the game out there defensively, and they're staying on the sideline just because of rotation. That's bullshit. You know, it's your best damn guys in there.

That's the game, you know. The thing is is the other thing that I kind of confused me and scares me, is that why do guys tap themselves out? I know sometimes you gotta, but I see guys tapping themselves out like because because because they don't feel like they're Sometimes you gotta play at that for a couple of players can figure it out. You gotta, you know, you gotta

be a man, stand up to your understand it. But here comes the analytics, Here comes all this sports science and this and that and and there, because you've got these guys are on the sideline telling hey, you're not at your peak. If you're not at your peak, if you're not playing, come out. Let's get someone in there that's it there full well, you know what. Just take for example, aga you're you're playing, you're you're playing middle linebacker,

you're starting middle linebacker. You know you're not at your peak because you've been you've already played fifty plays in the game, right, and all of a sudden, now the guys on looking a little tired. Let's put this guy in because he's he's you know, he's not tired, and he's fresh as a daisy. Yeah, but he can't play with the ship. You know, give me the guy who can play, not the guy. That's the thing about being in the game is that you gotta feel for the game.

You know, you kind of know, you know, like here again, but the situations come up again. Okay, last time they ran a trap. You know, they probably think that's their bread and butter play here. You know, we'll well, we'll call a right call and make the right adjustments for that. You get a guy off off the bench, I mean, first of all, he's probably like shocked that he's in our day. It was like whoa here, it was like you saw a new face and what the else this guy?

But the game is a lot more rotation. The dog especially this year, built with more pass rushers, gonna rotate defensive tackles, and their whole thing is keep everybody fresh. Came on the other day with me, Coach Gates and said, Kenyan Drake, Hey, what do you think he goes? Oh? No, I think Kenys gonna have a good year. But I believe in rotating my running backs, like Frank Gore is gonna play a lot of football. Don't think he's just here to a you know, kill some fourth quarters. We

still got it. I mean, you guys have seen him. I've only seen a few interviews. He looks in great shape, and I mean he does Okay, that's that's that's amazing. Guy made team takes unbelievable care. That's crazy. He say, Yeah, he's Scott Blessing. I appreciate it. You know, you know how he's a j though. You know you're you watch guys playing all of a sudden they step off the cliff.

You know what I mean they're playing pretty good and then all of a sudden, maybe in the middle of the year, guy steps off the cliff and that guy's done.

You can't do it anymore. So but you know, in anybody, I don't know, I'm not talking about just Frank Gore, but anybody at that age playing the game in this league now is I think a perfect example that would be our own cam Wait, who they tried to monitor that was two years and yeah, you know they counting there exactly, and I mean, you know, and you know he he played to it as far as I saw as the general, you know, just fan watching him at home,

but maybe behind the scenes he was kind of like going, you know, I need my reps, I need my time. He did. He just kept playing all you know, he didn't bitch, kept playing hard. And eventually they said, hey, we need to pay all the time because he's making plays. I guess he does whenever. So you know, yeah, they wanted worn out the end of the year, but it heard him early on when he's playing. And I agree

with Bo. There's been times where there's crucial we need stops at the end of the game, need to stop, and you look and you look to see who's on the sideline and you're going Cam Wakes not in the game because of the rotation. You gotta screw that. Screw that rotation. He's there. Even of the greatest pass rushers in history of this franchise, his ass needs to be playing. You know, roll, rotate all you are for the first three quarters, but when it comes down to crunch time

and get your best guys down there. But it is a league of rotation, now, man, I see that. You know, I get it. You know, it's kind of it's a copycat league, you know. I mean, it's kind of you know, just like I said, we go back to the day when we created the zone blitzer. You know, now see the zone blitzer is like wow, Man, I wish I wish you didn't Bill Lawrence Barker. I was hoping we'd have time to talk about Bill because he was way

way ahead of his time with things he created. We had injuries, things happened during the year, and and he came up with things. I still remember going to bed check at eleven o'clock and seeing you and Ranges Barber talking outside the hall whether you're three rows down, and he'd get a group of guys and was telling him what he wanted to put in and and and he'd be creating something he'd brainstorm the day before the game, and we would we would put things in like the

night before the game, install them. And you had to install them mentally. You know what he's like because because we would always say yea, yeah, we can pull that off. Because you know, when you've been playing together a group of guys, you can pull stuff like that off, you know, I mean, you know you didn't have to run it seven snaps and practice brainstorm and I was always blown away, like wow, arns Barger's making adjustments. That was the other

thing to j though. The other thing that made that I think it made it different is you know we did play together with for a long time, Like I mean, I played together with you your whole career, you know, I mean, you know, with Bomb Howard and Betters and and you know the Blackwoods and and and everybody we played with, um you played with for a long time, same offensively, So you got to know, you got to know what the guys next year was thinking. You had.

You could have non verbal communications just by looking at him this and that. But it also allowed for the coaches to I mean, how many times were we in a situation in a game where all of a sudden, some call comes in from the sideline that we maybe not run that thing for six weeks, all of a sudden, boom, the play comes out of it. It It wasn't in our game plan, but it was a situation presented itself. This

is a perfect defense for this situation. Keith throwing in everyone kind of would look like Jesus and we've got doing that. Okay, fine, boom and then you go. But you go do it because you've done it enough, you've repped it enough that you know how to do it and you can just fall in. And but getting on that same kind of topic, you know, we we you know,

we had a uniform group of guys. We had a core of forty five guys who are all the time and and and that was good for the fan, you know, the you know, I think about the fans, you know, like today's players like here I am, I'm gonna lum and I couldn't tell you, but maybe one or two the moves the team made the office because I got more things going on my life. He was worried about you guys work in the industry. You know all that's up. But I'm saying, you know, the average fan, who I

think I am? Now, maybe they're sitting home kind of going, I guess I gotta wait to the preseason starts. There, you know, gets carried more in the networks to kind of start seeing because if you're not, if you're digging deep into the the internet and into the Dolphins web pages, you're kind of a little lost. He said. Old, that's old cliche. You better get your better get your roster if you want to know the players, because they change. You know, there's a forty percent turnover in this league

these days. There there has been this way for a while. Forty You know, you got, first of all, you got guys retiring. You got guys that get hurt and leave. You got guys that just they can't play anymore. You get that guy that was maybe one or two year wonder free you know, kind of a guy came as a free agent, special teams guy that's fallen out. You get free agent moves, you get trades. Sot of every roster in the National Football League is turning over. That's

a lot. That's a lot of faces coming and going, you know, to to to keep track of if you're if you're a fan. Well here, okay, I'm gonna take that. That's a crazy number from me because I'm gonna the business side of things. I work for a company. If we had ten or twelve percent turnover, maybe you know, you know, in our in our department. I mean, that's kind of like that's that's game chance, that's like whoa

you know, you need to reorganize. So I'm just wondering, is maybe that formula might not be Yeah, but it's what's but it's collective bargaining. Okay, they're not going. Okay, So so the the mothership is the New England Patriots. I mean, you know what's there for. But they don't have at they do, Yes, they do. I'm shocked. You look at the roster. Look at you look at that roster. This they've let go Look at a Mondola's gone. I mean they let go up a bunch of players there,

you know, but and he's been doing that. He's been doing that all you look at the you look at the I bet you they turn over the roster more so than you don't live up to your contract or you come in at age thirty and usk Belichick for a new contract when you're real good and he's thinking you're on the downside of your career. We're moving out. We don't pay that kind of money. This thing we win here, we don't worry about if you're looking to get paid. Because I was wondering what their formula was.

When you guys, you know in the industry, you you see it as that is taking place up there as well. I called he's got he's got the Wayne hysinga magic, knows when to buy. More importantly, knows when to sell. He knows when you get rid of these guys, when you know they're there there he sees a little Okay, I see that little well. I hope I hope you made a mistake on Amndola. Yeah, yeah, I hope we haven't made a mistake. People getting back to you know, I've seen a few clips of the you know, the

O t a thing that you know. I mean, that boy's got some wiggle. He can more, you know. I mean, I don't know if the guy's covered anymore or number three on the depth chart, but I mean he's he's smart guy. He's tough. He's gonna be just fine. He knows. I don't think. I mean, you know, we're losing my homeboy drivers, but you know, maybe that might be a better replacement. I mean, I'm just Joe. You you you

were talking about on your radio show this week. And sometimes you know, the the sometimes the elimination, eliminating guy actually makes a team better. And I think you look at the three guys that you know, I think you look at Mike Pouncey. Look, I love nobody, nobody that. I don't think anyone that's associated with this organization, whether whether you work with the organization or you're close to the organization or a fan. Um, I didn't want to

see Mike Pouncey here. Mike Pouncey one of the great players. From a players standpoint, from a guy standpoint, from a teammate standpoint, from a locker room guy. He brought you everything you wanted out of a football player. I hate to see him go. But look, he's got that hip thing and he's been dealing with and you just wonder, how long do you how long do you roll the dice on that. You know, they got lucky last year with him because he was able to play a number

of games. So so he's kind of when you understand a little bit. But Sue and Jarvis Landry, those are two guys that are still in their prime of their careers, still playing at a high level. But but but I look, I'm gonna I'm not I'm not pulling this from anybody else. I'm just this in my own opinion. You know, I think those I think those guys were the me guys that we need to get rid of me guys and get us guys. And I think they got rid of two me guys that are very good me guys and

brought in guys that are US guys. The Robert Quinns that Danny Mendola is, the Sittings, those kind of guys guys. I've said this before. I said, my, My, My, My. Deal this year for this team to win is they got to overachieve. They've got to overachieve. And Adam Gay has gone out and got overachievers again in tannem Bomb and Greer has gone out and brought overachievers to this team.

That's one of the things they've got to do if they if they want to be successful, they've got to play better than what what the roster looks like on page. He wants guys though they're gonna play together and not after a game complain about stats or doing their own thing different than everybody else is doing. And hey, Jay, you listen to this program. You listen to this podcast. You can go to podcast is what are you listen? You listen on Apple Music? No, I pulled them up

on my computer. I go to the Dolphins website. I do like an old school guy, you know what I mean? You know, you should try to be and you travel. You got a phone you should get. You should get the Miami Dolfins mobile app because you can hear it on on the mobile apps. And I'm using company data, so I guess that that doesn't matter. You can use a tune in radio. You got tuned in radio, don't you. I don't, but you got it, so you can. You know, there's a lot of places you can watch, and I

know you want to listen to it, watch it. I don't know. We used to watch, but now now we just you know, listen, Now we just listen. Now we just sit back and listen, listen and hear what they're

gonna say. Geez, that's bullshit. Tired of this thing. Well, I'm kind of glad football season's coming around because so ay, j let let me get let me get your view, let me, let me let me So you say, you know you're a fan of the team, you know, I know during the season and during the off season, during the off season you're you know, you're you know, you're you're not as focused on on all the little moves in this and app I get focused on politics, and

I'm tired of that and out politics where you go, don't go talking like, don't bring up politics. That's a party killer. That's a that's a conversation kill or man, you know, I mean, it's a it's a it's as a conversation starter, but it quickly turns into a conversation killer these days. It's a bad anyway. I don't want to get it anyway. So, so, so from where you stand, from the type of fan you are, Um, when you

look at this football team, what are your concerns? Is this team gets ready to to start your training camp and begin preseason games. I mean, I guess my concern is that you know how over the last four or five months, how he's been playing out how unified they are. You know, if you're not unified, you know, it's it's you're done. I mean, you know, this team behind the scenes, I want to and and behind the scenes we'll see that.

We'll see that in the preseason. It plays a little bit, but the first three or four games of the season, you'll see if these guys came to play, if they believe in each other, if if they're all you know, in the brotherhood where you want to call it, you know, because because you need to make things happen early in

the season. You don't want to be climbing that ladder, you know, you know in October November, you know, you want you want to be up a few runs in the ladder, you know, and just kind of looking down with people and that it's hard to do because we're in a tough you know, I think the Patriots in Buffalo, you know, I mean there are two rock solid teams I think in our division, you know, the Jets, and I think they're in a rebuilding team right now. But you know, we got we got two teams ahead of

us in our conference that uh yeah, there's challenges. We've got two teams that got new two new quarterbacks out there that I don't know about Buffalo, Buffalo. I'm not I'm not sold that. I gotta see either one of those quarterbacks. They gotta back up in a rookie. Yeah we got we gotta see that to believe in the guy that's killed us has gone. Yeah, Cleveland, but so but so from that standpoint, j obviously getting off to a fast start. UM, young young running backs, Kenyan Drake,

you bring we talked about bringing Frank Gore back. Uh. Noticing Sonora's Perry. I think there's a couple of a couple of the guys in that that running back mixed out there. King on Bellage they bring in um and a lot there's been a lot of talk about the offensive line over the last couple of years. Think they feel like, you know, they feel like they've rectified that with Josh Sitton. Uh. They go out and get the other it was the other kid they got um kill Gore.

Uh and then to Juwan James coming back. You gotta learn me tounso um and probably it's gonna be uh Jesse Davis at that right guard. Um. You feel like they if you feel like you feel like there's some resolve there. Uh you know, I'm really not that solid on who they're gonna line up. You know, their their five interior guys. But that's that The key impact the game is one of the line of scrimmage. I mean, no matter even if you're throwing the ball or running

the ball. You know, if you're in the spread offense, those five guys have to open up pose. They gotta give your quarterback protection. So you know you named I mean Touns. So you know he's still kinda needs to have a breakout year. You know, he's he kind of hit or miss I think, you know, uh uh. The other kid from Tennessee was John James. I mean, you know,

he was having a pretty stellar leader. I think it like last year he end up getting hurt because I wasn't paying that much we do he tours knee up, our ankle or something. I mean, he missed the last three. We're geting to see us, right, yeah, because then I remember Sam Young started filling in and playing a lot, you know, and and and Sam's you know, steady, solid guy. He can give me production. But you know what I mean,

you know he didn't hurt you. Yeah, so again, you know, the five guys that they can figure out who's gonna line up on the opening Sunday. That's gonna, you know, be a test that's gonna take place going over the next three or four weeks. Now, you know, I say one thing to everybody's gonna have their own opinion on this team. Are ones that we've draft and need to play, like number ones back three drafts, Tounsil He's got potential a g I think he'd be really good left tackle

DeVante Parker, Juwan James needs to be really good. Charles Harris. We need all those those guys all need to those guys all need to play. Like look, there's no reason to me to learny make tunsl can't just can't be a Pro Bowl guy. It can't be a dominant guy.

He was giving the talent. I mean, okay, so you're saying, okay, looking back back in the day, you know, Richmond Webb number one stud Studs day one, you know, I mean Sim's second, Kate Sim Okay, talking about the kid from Missouri last year the defense was his name, Charles Harris, Okay, I mean he had a couple of games that he played, you know, the shining star but I don't think I don't think he played as bad as poorly as right, he had a couple of shining star moments, you know,

but when you're a number one, you need to be a shining star at least one or two plays per quarter, you know, I mean, you gotta you know, you gotta be like you know where the fans are kind of going, yeah, that's why we got what I mean, you know, and that's and that's not there, you know. And then again with you know, the Davante Parker. I mean, he came in here a little wounded warrior, and you know, supposedly he's you know what he's been. They think he's they

think he's healthy. Now, I mean, I mean he's been healthy, he teases us. He's got his moments. We just need to get more. I mean, you know, I mean I thought the guy would be a Calvin Johnson, you know, me, some big, strong talk guy. And I think we wanted to be Calvin. We've seen, we've seen glimpses are yeah, you know, he's not he's not as big physical as Calvin Johnson was, but he can certainly go out for the ball. He's got the athletic ability, and we've seen

signs of it a number of times. But man, they're they're just they come and go. Man, it's like a comment shooting by you know that was pretty So he's not even as big as I are fitz Erald and Yer is a lot more physically. Yeah, okay, I mean who I mean, I'm just trying to place him in the league because some of the key receivers who were stand out big you know, six ft four or five guys, he's to fifteen to six. I would put him sizewise, probably more like Randy moss leer athletic. Yeah, you know

the guys you were talking about. I was trying to compare him even to the kid who plays for Tampa Bay, and that's he's not even not even so these are his carters, these are not even Wow. Okay, yeah, he's he's got finesse from but he's he's an athlete. He's a great athlete. Being on Julio Jones, I mean, you know, you know, Davante go up, get it now, Davante has made some play. Matter of fact, some of the best players, maybe he's been injured on going up making some ridiculous Yeah,

but yeah, he can go. It's just gotta getting more. I'm looking forward to it. I know you guys are you know you kind of you've got your ear to the wall and knows knows of the stone a lot more than me in this business. But uh, it's just exciting for you. But you never know, j you got the driving, You got Fitzpatrick coming in. You know, this guy, for all intents and purposes, should come in and be you know, if not knocking on the Pro Bowl door

being pretty. But but look, we said the same thing about Laramie Counsel, right, you know here, these guys are bad. This guy, guy's best player. Guy's the best player in the draft, right dropped into our lap and and and he has a sniff to Pro Bowl. But you know, you know, even though Nick Saban is, you know, he's the angel and devil in my life, you know, kind of both ways. But you know he tak ll shoot

the National championship. They came here, bailed on us and without so but the thing is that man knows how to produce players and look in defensive backs. I mean he's a defensive back guy, and he's never stood out. Nick has never stood out in front of people and touted a guy like he did Minka. Uh so, so I think you know, but Jay, I mean, look, we've seen time and time again guys come in and hey, this guy's been great, and then look look at Dion

Jordan's you know how my expectation of Dean Jordan. So you never know. But the thing I'm gonna tell you this, Okay, So Dion Jordan was kind of a to me. You guys, like I said, you're you're in the building. I mean when you look at makeup Fitzpatrick, I mean, you can look at you can look at a person in the eyes. You can kind of you know that that Dion Jordan guy kind of had them glazy eyes you never look at. You know, a few times I was around him in

the building. You know, I'll smelled the rat, you know what I mean. So this kid, manka, I think you know, if you smell it, you're right on the Money's one of the greatest bus no check that the greatest bust in the history of the franchise. Uh. Eric Kumro is happy. He's the only He's the happiest guy out je No no Jackie play Jackie play um Jackie just couldn't played professional Jackie had skilled, but he just he didn't hit professional football skill. You know that's Minka. I've been around

Minca probably now four times. Maybe you know, just different that that son of a bitch has always taken notes. He takes notes on everything I think, and he's got the focus. I mean, he's you say, you look at the guy and you look at his eyeballs. That guy wants to be good and he's gonna be good. So I'm just I'm just using him because he's a he's the latest first round draft pick. We're talking about. They listening to us, but they go, yeah, man. Then guys

are telling him. I think he's we don't want to come back October November, they gonna started calling him about. Look, I I think he's you know, I'm trying to think of all the cornerbacks that we've had over the years, Um and and and look, I know Sam and Pat, but up Salmon Patt a little bit of time to get into the lineup. Um. But you know, he reminds me Don McNeil just from the standpoint of this guy's this guy's lock and load. You plug him in from

day one and he's ready to go. The only thing is, I would say, because he's a unique player, because all the different things do too many things Matt Burke. All of this to following Matt Burke, putting him in the right places, moving him around in defense. Hey listen, I'm like what you just said. I go back and if I'm Matt Burke, leave my ego at the coordinator door, and go back and see how Nick used him and see if I can use them those same kind of

ways in this game. And what have they in O T A. S. He was kind of playing a little bit of every time he can play deep, you can do anything. Because listen listening to you guys and talk shows, and they're talking about matching him up against Gronkowski. I mean, He'skowski is a beast, big dude. Uh listen, that might be a mismatch train. But yeah, so I think they're hoping they can. I'm thinking hoping they can. They think for like t J. McDonald can maybe step up and

try to rough from I don't know. Look, nobody stopped the guy, so I don't know, but they thought Georgia. He's up in Seattle now remember stopping him. Now in the Northwest hey, j you know what what you know? What I was, you know, the stays. The safety position in the NFL, to me, um is really one of

the one of the one of the most important. To me, it's one of the very important positions, not from a stand from both from a standpoint of of physically what you do, but from a mental standpoint, because I I can't. When I first came in, it was Jake Scott and Dick Anderson. Jake left soon thereafter. Tim Foley was a safety, two very bright, smart guys. And then we and then we were fortunate enough to to draft Glenn Blackwood and then bringing Lyle Blackwood and and and what the what

I saw from those those guys. And look, I'm not in the meeting rooms with these guys. I'm not, you know, And and so I don't have the intimate field that I had with those guys. But I always felt like those guys made our defense better because they they were smart enough to where, you know, they break the huddle. They'd read formation, they get in formation, they'd read they'd read UH route trees, route route schemes and stuff like that,

and they would get it. They would say, cheat out a little bit or they would cheat over or they would say, hey, you know they were like that quarterback back there that would make the adjustments back there. And and the reason I'm asking you this is because you had you had the opportunity to be in two different places. Defensive line you never you know, you know, they're they're

they're back there. But when you once you became a linebacker, how much more important did it become for you to have safeties back there that were smart, understood the defense, and could help make adjustments back there on the defensive side of the football. Well, it was. It was key because we were coached and taught to be coaches on the field. I mean, so you know today, I don't know how don't know if they break the huddle and

they snap it. I mean like you know, we would call, you know, a week side blitz and they come out the formation we're like kinding on just won't fly. You know, we have to check it to maybe just a standard you know, four man rush and some kind of some kind of pressure pressure a pressure d I know, coach wants to put pressure, but we can't go blitz here. You know, we're gonna put pressure with four or five guys instead of six, and I mean so so we

made those adjustments today's game. I don't know if they're these these players you know, like you're not in training camp. Be long enough, dude, you know you're not playing together for so many years and do it so so so like getting back to the original question, you know, the you know, Glenn and I kind of you know, when

the huddle would break. Soon as we saw where the tight end went and the two receivers that would be, we kind of knew automatically, you know we can go with it, you know, I mean are sometimes you know their emotion soon as you know, the two of us kind of and sync, you know, working with RNs so much during the course of the week where we would always check to something that was gonna be safe and reliable, you know, where we wouldn't just you know, and you

guys up front, soon as you heard the magic word, you know how to make that adjustment. But within if it was like hud hut, you know, we can say we're on the second hunt. And you guys were smart enough because we we were we were intelligent enough and we practiced enough to know that you know, I'm maybe having to do you know a rip technique here? But now I gotta play outside show to control. I mean,

you know, in those quick, quick moments like that. So I just think the mentality of the seriousness of the way we took our jobs and the way we applied ourselves a lot different. But the other thing is a defensive player, Um, look what we had. We had a pass rush was important for us. Man, it has become of paramount importance now now it's like, you know, forget your contained, forget rules, just get to the damn quarterback cast from disruption back there because you see guys spinning

inside when with no contain outside. And but that's that's the way, you know, that's the way the league is, and that's what defense defense want. Defensive cordiners want pressure, pressure, pressure, no matter how you go out and go out and get it. It seems like, you know, we've heard over the years though, just talking about what you're talking about, how many times we're defensive coordinators say, man, I gotta dummy this defense, that we're making too many mental mistakes.

We gotta simplify things. You never heard that with Bill Larrence Barker, the guys that played on Bill Larrence Barker's defense. Honestly, if you weren't smart enough, no matter how talented you were, you couldn't plan it because he couldn't trust you. And and mental mistakes. You know, my physically we were going to all get beat, but mentally you can't have a guy wide open in the middle of feel from a breakdown or a blitz and somebody didn't know who they

were supposed to pick up. And you know, but the thing is that did happen occasionally. You're not gonna go a lot. I mean, you know, I remember we used to take pride in the fact that, you know, we used to come into the NFL. I mean the NFL there are locker rooms on on Mondays or Tuesdays wherever our day back was on Mondays, you know, And and you know, I used to love the fact when it would say mental mistakes would be like for the whole team and for all sixty eight snaps it would be

like two. You know, It's like, you know, we used to take pross the fact that you know that you know, we had hardly no mental breakdowns. And what was it? What was the day off? Because that was the day that I couldn't enjoy myself coming the next day. You know what, it was horrible because we were off Monday, and we came back and watched films on Tuesday. So you played on Sunday and and and you know, you

and I drank beerans did stuff after that. But then once you started clearing up and you got ship, remember that playing the third quarter and you know, you know, you know, you remembered every bad play, every bad here I go, I know that, and so that, so that Monday off, you know, we tried to go out and do stuff, but it was miserable because you know, all it was just you know, you're just pushing, you're just

delaying the inevitable. You know, you're gonna walk in that meeting room tomorrow and you're gonna rip your ass and then you're gonna go in your your your position room and you're gonna get your ass ripped again, and you're gonna walk in the field. You're gonna feel like a piece of ship. You know, don't you think the accountability was good though, Like I didn't like it at the time. I had chewing my meetings. You guys didn't have him.

He was tough man like he broke down every play like you think he got by and he go back a seventh time and go, wait a minute, what were you doing on this B And I had a little Q and A and the other night, and I kind of mentioned that I'm saying, you know, in today's political correctness, you know, I mean, we used to get pounded and beat on and just humiliated and just kind of and you just took it like you know, this is part of the job description, although you know I never liked it.

I didn't like it like a job. What if we didn't have to watch game field like a game film, I could played another three years. I didn't leave the game because a physical hurt. I've left the mental anguish. I couldn't. I just couldn't take the beat downs anymore. You know, you ever got called in, Like, first of all, coach will never called you in and say, hey, you're

playing great, really happy with you. You got calling in if things were you know you were wanting to ask you and you do it at the end of the day. I can still remember a little tears wandering him. My damn my driving home going man, we talked to me like I remember, were driving home. We used to driving

me for a while. There was me a J. Bomb HOWERD and either Rusty Chambers or Wally Pursuit used to drive together, right, and uh, and Bob was always playing well, you know, and so I'm getting yelled at and you know, Russy is getting yelled at or whatever, and we're bitching Cam sholing and Bob and go, yeah, Gene, I don't know what's wrong. He's a good, nice guy to me. And well, you wait one of these days, and sure enough, all of a sudden something happened. He he hurt his

knee right, which doesn't count. So so he's not playing as well as he was still playing good. But now all of a sudden he's getting little heat. That guy's a son of a bit. We've been trying to tell you, man, you're having to figure it out here, but oh god, yeah, it made it tough. But but you know what, you look back. I just keep looking back and say, you want a lot of games. And you know we're talking about we're talking about it before you know, these guys

leaving New England. Now you know you got guys. Now, guys are chirping. No one ever talking about Bill Belichick. Now all of a sudden, you got Danny Avendola. You got this guy talking about, hey, really you know, it really was no fun to play. There was this and that and and I'm sitting there going he sounds pretty familiar to me, you know, sounds pretty familiar to to what we went through where you gotta coach, but that

that all goes back to the Paul Brown. And you know that that that coaching treat that all kind of came off with Paul Brown. And you know, I didn't like, you know, these guys, you know, they got sorry. I don't have sorry grapes about playing, you know, for your I don't know. I just thought he was you know, he was an s ob you know what. I love the guy, you know, I mean, nobody was complaining we had home field advantage. We got them banners sitting that here.

You know, I know our generation, I think we won the a f C East five times maybe, you know, I mean, you know, so that that's what I want to see some more banners being hung. You know, like I'm like, I'm saying Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving to me is like you know, that's when it's like, that's when you're happy.

It's hell about what's going on, Like you're going there's nothing like, man, you can play all you know, they're nothing like winning late December early January and sitting there and knowing you got a week off and looks like you said, you get you know, you come coming around Thanksgiving time and you gotta you got a four game lead in your division or something, or a three game leading your division, and you know your best football is

coming up this year on Thanksgiving dinner. I hope our team is in the talks of like they might make the playoffs. That's you know, yeah, just a I just want to know that I can go to a playoff game. That's you know, our kids. I mean, you know what I got kids, You got you got generations in it. Maybe seeing one or two playoff games in the last couple of years, and that's that's about it. You know, it's hard to it's hard to imagine our kids the

same age I lost mine. Just he never got to see he caught that early thirties and he's gone through. Man's been a lot of rough football around here. Ran into it. Ran into a guy the other night or talking to him and he said, uh, you know, he's got his kids he's got his got his tickets, brings his kids in the game, and he says, he's constantly telling us the kid, Yeah, they used to be really good, man, they used to be really good. And then the kids going with with when was that? You know? But hey,

look hopefully, hopefully they're heading that direction now. You know, you know, this can be a big test. It's gonna be a big year for Adam Gaze because this is a very impatient town. Uh. You know, it rolls you into the playoffs the first year, and then you know, the one thing no one talks about last year, and and and you know, you hate to bring it up,

but that was a tough year. Man. At the beginning of that season, I was I was physically I was physically worn out after four games and I had never played, didn't play a snap. You know, these guys have been in You've been in California for ten days, You're in New York, you're in London. There in Philadelphia for four or five days before that, you know, in the with a hurricane. It was just a brutal, brutal you know how that schedule, Uh, let's see this year just roll

off three or four Tennessee. Start off with Tennessee, then you have New England Jennis Tennessee at home. K you know, I'm finally new em in the road early. I'd be playing that I'd rather do. Yeah, I'm just saying. I'm just trying to picture in my head. You know, can we pull off? Can we? And yeah? I think so? Yeah, they gotta like they had two games last year Oakland and Tampa Bay. They were both asking, yeah, en will fall over and you guys score that those at home.

So they start to September nine at home in tennis versus Tennessee, at New York at home versus Oakland, then up to New England, then to Cincinnati, Okay something. So yeah, you got looked at that. That's not I'm not saying it's soft, but it's like it's a favorable sketch up. That's I could see yourself coming out of that three in two, four and one possibly if you get that, you know what I mean? You know, yeah, get off to a good start. Yeah, careful, you never know who's

gonna be good though. From year to year. In Philadelphia, everybody want to play Philly last. People people who people who look at our schedule, you kind of go, we got the dolt. You know they're saying the same thing. Okay, so well yeah, but look at look at every look you know, my big big example I can look. People say, you know, what do you think of the schedule? I said, I really don't care about the schedule. Schedules A schedule you're gonna play who you're gonna play. And I said,

I look at the NFL schedules as fluid. It can change week to week. All it takes is Aaron Rodgers to go down, and everyone had everyone had that loss mark next to Green Bay. All of a sudden that l went to a w where Aaron Rodgers went down. And so you know, one guy going down in this league makes a makes a big difference in how your team is winning and losing. So I don't worry about the schedule because you don't know that. You don't know

that New England. What happens if in week three or a week two, you know, Tom Brady blows out his knee and then you go up to New England and play them, and they got no backup because they traded him off to uh San Francisco and wherever else. The other guy went to Baltimore. He went to the Yeah, I still say who's there? But who who's their backup now? Though, I mean I don't know what they're backup is now. But they had two pretty good ones that Garoppolo and

the kid, uh the kids from Florida. Right there, there's uh Jacobe Bissette. He went to the Colt the coach y. Yeah, so you know, let's see are getting us the new eng backup or what? Oh you know what? Yeah? That that that is Thanksgan Hey. Uh. Shocking news over the weekend with with Tony Sprawno fifty six years old. Uh. And I know people have mixed emotions here about Tony Sprawno. But he was a good man. He was. He was a tough coach um. He liked his players, he coach,

he was. He was always good to me. Um. And I was shocked. I was shocked. I was add and I was broken hearted. I was I was just with a day of physicals, bow and the medical field. You just don't expect it here and actually years old, well he had gone. He's talked about winning. On Thursday with chest pains, they cleared him and then two days later he's he's you'll find on the floor. And I will

tell you we've had a lot of coaches come to here. Um, he was one of the most respected with players and coaches that I've ever seen, and we've had a run of a lot of coaches. But they played hard for him and and it didn't work out. Everybody knows the Wildcat was the good when he was here, Ricky and Ronnie. The bad was the way it kind of ended with that whole thing was a mess bag, well, the Jeff

Ireland thing and the whole thing to create. And I think to me, Tony was one of the guys that, to me, uh, I wish we had given him more time. You know that this is an area here where there's an understandable this this team's you know, fans are dying for a winner here. It's been a long time since this team has been a continuous playoff caliber type of

football team. So so I understand the impatience. But I think Tony was a guy who was building a foundation because he came in want a little bigger physical you know, he kind of had to change the physical makeup of the team, and I just don't think they ever allowed him the time to to to to run it, to get the team to where he wanted to be and coach it the way he wanted to coach it. That that's my own opinion. I just thought he was a good coach that kind of got put. It got put

into a bad situation. That got worse when when they went out and tried to recruit Harbor in California, and that really created a bit that that which kind of was overseeing every that was a monkey wrench in the

whole thing. He got ugly anyway, ar Condole's go out to the Esperanto family and Jeanette and and the and the and the sons, and I didn't get two sons and a daughterdren, grandchildren, and and you know, first and foremost he's a family guy, and so I know it's I know how difficult that is for that family right now and what they're going through. So uh, just just send some good thoughts their way, and because it's gonna take them a long, long, long, long time, uh to recover.

I mean, you know, losing losing uh you know, someone that young in their life. You know, I just don't expect that with a guy Yeah coaching, ye crazy, Yeah, it's funny because I remember talking to him. Uh. I caught up to him last year after the we played up in Minnesota just to say hello to him because I I just he was he was just he was. He was one of my favorite guys. I liked him a lot. So anyway, um, so let's let's go ahead and get some fan questions here before we wrapped this

thing up. El Chopo Jr. Coming back in. What are some of your guys favorite, favorite or funniest training camp stories? Jay? What do you got from? What do you got from training camp? Uh? You know training camp. I took the I took my job. You know, pretty serious a lot of times. Uh, you know we started training a lot downtime during training camp you have to fill up with something I do know. My my my rookie, my rookie year. You know when I first got was a hold out.

So I was kind of getting ripped and left and right and all differ away. So the veterans kind of who was your agent was Howard Slush? Howard Slush, he was the hold out agent? What kind of signing bonus you get back there? What was that thing? What that look like? Signing bonus? If my bonus was a hundred thousand dollars nowadays. I was here before, I was here before ag and mine was sixty three. I think Don

McNeil got a hundred my year. Leroy Leroy Selman was the first pick in the draft my year, and he got a hundred thousand dollars signing bonus. That was the number back money back then, though I deferred it to man. You know, I didn't take a dollar, right, you know, I hope some of these guys they got some good

agents helping them make good. No. But the thing is that, I mean, I remember, man, the veterans are You're making me skip out after cur if you go buying a beer, you know, and uh like, you know, you're freaking out. I mean, you know, get the hell out here, right, here's the money I'm paying for it. Just go get us some bear, you know what I mean. At least at least they paid for it. They just want me to, you know, be the man. That's all I could think of was getting in there. I sang on that damn

chair every night, well by saying fight songs. Any song I could think of. Well, you know, it's funny when you're a rookie. When you're rookie, going to dinner was like, I don't want to go in there, man, because they're gonna make you do something right, sing song or whatever. Yeah, so and so and and so. You used to you know, after your rookie year, you kind of figure out what's going on and you didn't care about getting in and

listen to the guys sing. You just want to get in your car and get down the road to the Lums and so you can drink, so you can drink ice cold beer. So all the vets. It was like it was like a Laman start out of the training camp. All these cars spitting gravel getting out of the parking lot to go to Lums to get a few beer. And you you go there and drink six beers and like, you know, fifteen minutes or whatever, I just kind of pouring. Now I gotta get it dinner. So now you walk

to dinner. Now you got all these these you know, there was probably about maybe fifteen guys that would do that. You got fifteen guys walking and ship faced, half drunk off their ass and out and these rookies that didn't get out in time. There there Now that he let's let's get some singing going on in here. And now I got all these drunks in here, in there forcing all these guys to do stupid ship like that. And yeah, that was, yeah, it was. It was a little different.

But you know what I remember, you know what I remember. I think of a lot of things I remember about training camp and funny things. But one of the things I really remember, and I think it came about I think you guys were both there at the time, because said Garrol was still there and uh so you know during training, you know, he had that couple hours off between the first practice and the second practice after lunch, and and I was in there getting some treatment or something.

There was me and two or three guys other guys in there getting treatment at the time, and Garrow was in there. I don't know what Garrol was doing in there. So we're in the training room Junior getting treatment and whatever. And uh and and here comes this this sales guy comes in out of nowhere. Uh. And he's trying to sell a piece of equipment to the trainer, trainer Bob LUNDI trainer at the time, and and we ended he

end up buying a machine. It was that remember that machine, You put a big sleeve over your leg and they put ice and stuff in you put like the hoses in it, which just kind of it was like a like a sauce thing. So I was in there the day the guy came into to try to sell lend the machine and the machine and we're all laying on the training table and this and that, and we're we're giving a guy a right that bullshit will never work,

you know. He's trying to pitch the guy, and you know, so we're sitting there watching and and Alice I noticed and the guy had the guy had back at the time, he had remember those, remember those that time they had those golden nugget watches. They were the goddiest watchers ever seen, Just like it looked like just a pile of gold rocks with a watchhead of it. Right, So these guys

wearing that, you know. And so he's he's pitching about this machine, you know, and and we're giving him to bust his balls, and all of a sudden, girls, hey, let me talk to you in the other room for a second, right, So guys, well let me he goes, no, no, come on, talk talk you Garrol and the guy leave. Guy leaves, They go in the in the weight room, remember that weight room, like right next door. They're going away room. They close the door. It's rolls I was

doing there, you know. All of a sudden, Garrel comes walking out. He goes, hey, I mean endorseting this machine. He got the guy's watch on. He talked the guy out of his watch and endorsed the machine, which is one of the stupid stuff that happens when you're not practicing. In the downtime with training camp is pretty Uh, the

camaraderie with the guys was the best. And that's the one thing to me, you know, it was even we were all bitched and moaned about being at you know, being at Biscayne College or St. Thomas Wood University now you know, in the dorms and this and that, but you know it it served a purpose. You know. It is a bonding type of thing. It brings you together, and it's it's a you know, it's that goddamn you look at that. You look at that every day every day.

I know you you you you didn't care you and I cared every dad walking you know, he put the put the schedule up on the overhead projector. First thing idea was went to the bottom and make sure we see if we had gassers, you know, and I knew he did. I knew it. He was never gonna go high. Let's forget the gasses today. But I always had to go down there and look. But I think we're getting you know, the schedule. We we we we We went like a buck forty. Yeah, we're a good Now, what's

what's two days? Now? They practice? How long they Yeah? But they I think they go longer, but they only have one pros. They don't do two days, so so they're they're going a little longer. But but we, you know, we do we if we went an our forty, there was a lot packed into an hour forty. I mean there was there was no no waste of time. But there's always some good stories out of training camp, some of you can't tell Twitter from Chip folsom I'm calling

this year the purge. I like what they've done. Actually, this will set the tone for the years to come with Gays. Roster looks more fit, with more to more to fit with Gays is looking to do ball catchers everywhere in all different styles and finally, got him some tight ends bigger for Gays. I think this is a big year for outom Gays. I think it's a big year for him in his offense. To this offense needs they need to score, they need to be in a

mad him seventeen points a game. I'm gonna Pertram called the reboot. Yes, I agree with that. Yeah, just you know, get rid of some guys, you know, get some new bloody and he's got everything he wants. He's got the coaching staff he wants now, and he's got the players he wants to and he's got the players with the attitude that he's looking for. The guys that are that are gonna do that extra guys are gonna make guys around him better and do all those types of things.

So so for as much of it is a big year for a lot of people, I think it's as equally it is an important year for Fradom Games because look at this team. If this team um is sub five hundred again, doesn't make the playoffs, I guarantee you the chirps, the chirping is gonna start start going around. You know, the shine is gonna kind of wear off of the uh of the Crystal there Fradom Gay so uh,

he knows it and it looks everything. So I'm not telling anybody anything than anybody else doesn't know, alright at alright in Miami, Twitter, too many people forgot what QB one and this team accomplished in two thousand sixteen. It's okay, they'll be reminded soon. Look that that's one. I think that's one of the things that we're bad. That everybody that has positive you know, feels this team is gonna be better than than than as being presented nationally to me.

And a lot of it comes down to number seventeen and Ryan Tannehill and what he does if he can come back and start at that level he was in two thousand sixteen when he was playing very good football over a hundred quarterback rating uh, interceptions down, touchdowns up, deep balls up, um, turnovers down to a minimum. I I think that. I think that's that's that's the number one key to the success and failure of this football team. He's worked hard. It's just a matter of putting together

that's the most important position. We're breaking everything down. But a lot of this comes down to seventeen. Yeah, let's get it through. Uh we could eat twenty four that we twitter. You know him right we uh? Durham Smith is a Gays kind of guy, smart and gritty. He loves the block and if the ball hits his hands, he's catching it. Durham kind of greeting Anthony. Creating separation will be his biggest challenge. He's like an Anthony Vasano

Smith or Smithing. Kasecki sure seemed like a perfect fairy. Look, they've got you t we had, we have both of You've had both of them in here and in uh in uh. Gasecki says I can block better than people think, and Smith says I can catch better than people think, and everyone thinks, you know, vice versus. So look, I think they got to two tight ends here that are one of them at least is gonna have to be productive this year. They got all of you guys. One of them gonna have to be a big part of

the second. Fourth round picks are making the team. Yeah, they've got some veteran guys who are ahead of them right now that they picked up from other teams. Wait, you said, from what I see, it looks like all draft pick makes team nowadays. I pretty much I don't think, okay, all right, yeah, but you're you're right, You're right, you're a dan. We had guys, you know, sometimes we had again, we had a twelve round guy with making, so you know,

we had more draft picks. But we got a kid that we cant where that a mirror lineman Smith out of I forget where it was out of do third round draft pick, coach, you will cut him in a week. First are the peg in the country. When smart guy a good thing, you couldn't play you can you can fix my ni now. But yeah, that was that was it. Um James Richard LaPoint facebook last one. I'd still feel better having a bit more depth of defensive tackle. Maybe we can snagg a surprise cut from another team that

can provide a little more insurance. I'm not worried about the defensive tackle position. I think you've got enough guys in there because I think more times than not, you're gonna see more defensive ends lined up. You know, the league, the leagues are passing the league is the league is is three wide, four wide, five wide, empty backfield, those

kind of things. You know that the the days of the you know, the days of the line of an eye formation and running a p ten or or running a you know, a trap or those days are over is wide O up and it's spread. And so so I would prefer to have more pass rushing defense. I say it over and over again. I look back to the New York Giants when they beat uh beat New England. They beat him because they could sit put six defensive ends out in the field and rushed the passer and

they couldn't block him. And that to me, we're worried about defensive tackle either. No, just just not a concern to me. That's gonna do it. Man, he was coming at me. Is good. It takes this show to see you. Man, nobody sees you anymore. Oh, I get out a little bit. I mean, you know, I'm a homeboy. You're taking naps and stuff again, a little you still playing card games. I kind of given up on what happen to Bomb Howard? He never shows up now here. He comes down and

grabs his boat and goes in. You know, Riggy keeps you marked out there calling me off. He said, Hey, I'm heading down. What are you doing this weekend? I go, no, I'll give me a calling again here and then I get a call from on Monday driving home. Yeah, what nice snow he's spending some of that money he's made in those restaurants. That life's good for. Apple Music, Miami Dolphins mobile app, Tune in Radio Dolphins dot com dot com. Every time every Thursday we drop one, so Friday mornings

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