Alright, audibles on the air, Jie. One of these days, Joe, we're gonna get the three of us in here all at one time. John Conjemmy, John, you know a football season, John's Uh, he's like a Swiss army enough, my man's He's everywhere, He's doing everything. He's got multifaceted jobs. So so we're out with Joe without John con Jemmy today. He is going a zillion different places, including football, no doubt, no doubt he has a big week for college football.
Kimbo Camper, Joe Rose with you. I'm gonna talk about the game on uh. Last last was a Friday night, Saturday night. I can't keep tracking. Yeah, I look, you know what I'm I'm a day off. I'm you know that that I don't know for whatever reason, I'm like a day behind now, so I can't keep track of it. Anyway,
we'll talk about that. But Joe, I gotta get something off my mind, man, I gotta get I I've had a crappy, crappy morning and seem you know what those days where you know those things where every time you do something everything's wrong. So I get up and you know, dog shit on my carpet, you know, so I gotta clean that first thing first. I'm goddamn yeah, you know that's a bad start. Then I get in my car, come driving over here, and I'm thinking, you know, I
gotta I gotta call Jeff and ask him something. Where's my phone? Where's my phone? Looking all around my car, no phone, no phone, turn around, drive home. I can't find my phone. You know you got that. I got my iPad. I gotta find my phone. Find my phone and says, yeah, everything is offline. Can't find it. Now I go to my house phone. I got one house phone on the on the hard line. Pick it up. Battery's dead. So I can't do that. I can't find I'm walking all over the house. Can't fine. Finally find
my phone. Get it. It It was slid but heat, but tip my recliner when I Then I fall asleep and every night, you know, this got my my body, like the shape of my body is is right in, slide it right down. So I found it and get in a car. Go Thank God. Anyway, So I'm a little aggravated, and I'm a little aggravated from the game too. I'm a little aggravated from the game the other night on fun Saturday night, Friday night, Thursday night, Sunday night, whatever,
damn night they played dead game. I'm freaking aggravated. Were you more frustrated with the first quarter of the Dolphins or the second half? Watch? I wasn't so aggravated about the second half. Look disappointed. You'd like to see him pick up and play. But you know, Lamar Jackson's out
there and he's running around doing doing his thing. And tough guy to play your you know, you know those those guys, Those guys are tough, you know, especially when you got that guy because I remember playing against the running quarterbacks, those kind of guys and when I was a linebacker, and there's there's no more uncomfortable place to
be on a football field. If you're a linebacker. Then when you're dropped into a zone, no man, a man you dropped into his zone, you kind of settle and all of a sudden, here comes a quarterback and he's encroaching on the line of scrimmage and a guy like Lamar Jackson. Do I come up? And he thinks over the top of me, Do I stay back? And he comes that this is in right. There is a that's a tough, tough decision to make and he and he stresses it. He stresses those defensive players every time by
threatening that line of scrimmage. I can tell you one thing that the Baltimore Ravens will run. I know this isn't read option is gonna be a big party. Three and Lamar Jackson because they both ran it against the Dolphins, and I'm sure the Dolphins haven't put a lot of time conversation. There's a gloat conversation during the pregame show
with Bob Greasy and that more about Lamar Jackson. Uh, if Joe Flacco is a starting quarterback, which he's gonna certainly gonna be going into the season, do you find a way to put Lamar Jackson in the backfield and use him as an athlete and do different things. That's just extra time to get ready for that read option and him throwing on the run. And obviously he's not injury yet. He will be though he keeps running that much.
But he's young and he's ready to run. And of course he just put on a great show against the Dollars. But Joe, you've watched you've watched this guy here here's here's kind of my argument for that, Joe. You've watched this guy since high school. He's played the same way since high school to where he's at right now. Why change him now? And I understand the injury factor, what that's fine, so so so, so you're gonna take half of half of Half of him is throwing the football,
half of his strowing is running the football. Right, So you're gonna take that running football away from Now, you've got a guy that you're you're, you're you're hamstringing him and his ability to play. My theory, these my theory these days on these quarterbacks, and it goes all the way back. You could probably go all the way back to Randall. Cunning him right, is maybe one of the first because the other guys who were running, you know, Fran Target and they were behind the behind there, behind
the line of scrimmage runners there. You know, these guys started now with with with Randall and those guys, and then you had, you know, all these guys that have come along, and you get him in the league and you go, yeah, that's great. You know, running was what made you such a big threat. But we're gonna take that away from you and and and then their successfully. My thing is, let the guy play the way he plays I'm doing, and if you get him for five years,
you get him for five years. Michael, Yeah, Vince, Vince Young, r G three, all those guys. You can just go on and on with those guys. No, no, I I agree. And if they're smart. Russell Wilson's run, but he is down sliding, not taking hits. Yeah, Joe. The other thing that that that kind of was was annoying to me. You know, the penalty that this week it wasn't so
much penalties, and there were penalties. I mean, they had their first drive going and they had a penalty down by the by the red zone and took them back and they settled for a field goal. But all the talk about pre snap issues, all these kind of things, and and the first two series you get quarterback drops the ball. Understand it was a little wet, but no excuse drops the ball. Now you're at second and twelve,
forget about that. Although you did convert. Then the next series can't get a center quarterback change to go boom. There you are second and ten again. And Joe, we we thought talked about it last week one of the keys going into this game. Get ahead, play from ahead, don't play catch up all the time. And you do get ahead. But you know, you know I'm talking about touchdowns. Fourteen nothing is opposed to six nothing because six not
one touchdown. Boom, you're now you're back about now you're playing catchup again, No boat, You're right on the money. Just a matter of fact that they had two people make comments today already outside and said, how can a professional team early in the game can't handle a center quarterback snap either out a shotgun or under center? And I said, I can't answer that. And Ryan's good athletes, really good hands, He's a good athletes, anybody on the team.
But it was just a really poor first quarter before they picked it up in the second quarter to give you a better face. And look, it was rainy, but but but you know coach Kays, he doesn't stick those guys in that in that bubble when it starts to rain. So they've practiced in the rain, they've been out there, they're used to it. You're in Florida. Ryan Tannheils played played football in South Florida now for what seven years? You know, he's seven years he's practicing the rain, playing
the rain. There's no excuse for dropping a football on the first play of the game. Now, when you're trying to get things going on, that's been the emphasis. And not just that. I mean it's your fan base getting the juice stuff, getting everybody but leaving for that opener, which is coming up September nine against Tennessee. Uh, I was glad to see the second quarter and get some people going Kenya. Drake is the real deal, man. I am excited if we can keep him bow as a
out wide. He's a mismatch. I saw, I saw the linebacker go out with him and uh, and I just said, put a great little move off the ball and he's opened by five yards and uh and a Mendola. It's good to see him. Kenny got involved. So some of that stuff was real good. Kasicky got him out. Why a quick post pattern, caught it in his hands, looked smooth. Uh. So there were some good things that happened. And then no, no,
there were some good things that happened there. No looking defensively, you know, they gave up some yards in that first first series, they missed the field goal, and after that they played really good. See a lot of pressure Robert Quinn's making. I mean this, this guy is gonna be a beast out there. And wait, you know way too Cam gets going on the other side with those two, he got some pressure on their Uh. I think you saw some good things out of the defensive tackles. I
thought Vincent Taylor played well. I think we're gonna have a chance to have Vincent Taylor on the show. I thought he made some big plays. Jordan Phillips made some good plays. Um, Kendall Lankford came in and although he played with the the you know, the second and third against the second and third team guys, made a lot of plays in there. And he's a guy who he's made an impact. He's made an impact in the two games that he's played in, so certainly you look at
that defensive tackle rotation. Um oh, I really thought McDonald fitzpatrick were really good in the game. Well, you know, Fitzpatrick has just continues to get better and better every game and Joe, we're gonna see that for a while. This guy's not gonna slow down. Every every snap he gets, he gets better. You know, the experience for him is really he magnifies that experience. He's gonna be a takeaway machine,
don't you like? He's just getting make place. I guess the question for him because both the disappointment for me on this football team right now. I haven't asked you yet, And I'm surprised it's not linebacker, find another corner? Yeah yeah? And which which which Joe, Quite frankly, three or four weeks ago, we were thinking, Hey, that that they're loaded on that defense, someone's gonna come out of there and take that job and be really good. It just hasn't.
It hasn't happened. And now now you are in search mode kind of for that that cornerback spot all of a sudden, wouldn't be surprised if if that's right up there. We'll talk about quarterbacks in a second. But tankers Lee, I don't know what's happened to him. He's taking a full step back and uh and lip who is not he's not? Yeah, no doubt um so And and but getting getting back to the other safety T J. McDonald for everybody looking, and I had this conversation. I had
this conversation a lot. I'm sure you've had this conversation a lot. Jeez. You know last year, the guy misses the first eight games on suspension, you extend his contract, He comes in place, doesn't play very well, and you're going, oh, man, did we waste money again. I'll tell you what. He put on a show. He put on a a show Saturday night. Oh my goodness, run Pat he was. He was all over the place a linebacker safety. He really did. He
played like a big, strong safety. It's good to see him making him playing, you know what, him playing that way, Rashad playing the same aggressive style and then having Minka in there in the with the Nichols, and I think that really gives you a because those two guys are bad, but those guys are big and making the mind sticking his head in there and in Lanta hit on somebody either. Now I was wrong because I didn't know if they
could play three safeties as much. And now I'm thinking I'm buying into the Adam Gates the best eleven guys are gonna play, because if that's the case, our three safeties are better playing than we are with extra with another corner in there. Yeah, especially especially if you're kicking Bobby out there. You're kicking Bobby out there. I take Minky in there any any day of the week. But I'm not so sure you don't looking I I think Joe at this point, because you know, the Veterans are
gonna play this week. They go up to Atlanta, and Atlanta is not gonna play anybody. Dolphins are gonna play anybody. This is this, this week's game is Joe to me, is about I'm gonna say three roster spots, maybe maybe four. I think most of the roster sponsor you've got a few of those fifty to fifty three are kind of battling. Thats got to play in this game. Oh no doubt, no no, no, no doubt, no doubt. I'm not just I'm they're They're probably on the team. You got to
keep guys, but they got to pick it up. I think Lippett, who played, he's got to play. He's got to show some person and something close to the guy we saw two years ago before the Achilles in that and and Joe lets you you touched on it earlier. Um the backup quarterback spot. Uh, you know those guys were given they've been given equal pretty much equal opportunity. Both throw interceptions, Uh both have you know Brocket times.
You know he's kind of a little immobile back there. Uh, tough guy to you know, not not a tough guy to sack, not a tough guy to put pressure on. And David, you know, gets throws the interception quite Frankie guy could have probably gone up and challenge that ball a little better as a receiver. But you know, you you you're gonna you're gonna throw the ball before the guys open. Those are the things that are gonna happen
to you. And I'm not against a quarterback that you know that, you know that the throws the ball before his guys open. But if you're gonna do that, you gotta If you're gonna throw that ball, you gotta make sure that it's either long or you guy can catch it. I'm not overly impressed with either guy right now, but I will say this, they gotta have a little help both. They're running many games up front, and our guys, I mean,
these are NFL games, These aren't some complex schemes. And our guys two guys blocking one guy and leaving another guy coming up different gaps. That's got to get cleaned up. But those guys say Listen, nobody's gonna want to hear about it. I've said since Ouswidler got here, fair knot bo.
He comes in on double secret probation with everybody, maybe not Adam Gaze, but everybody else goes, what does Adam Gaze cee in Osweiler when the other three teams he's been on recently couldn't well, you couldn't wait to get rid of him? How about it? You got a team the trades for him just so they can get rid of him. Yeah, you know what I mean, that's a that's a that's a pretty odd thing. But anyway, yeah, look it is no but but Joe, those are the
things right now. Look, you're getting to the final fifty three guys on this roster, and and look, I gotta believe that there's I gotta believe that there's two or three guys that are gonna be on this roster that aren't here right now. One of them may be a quarterback, depending on depending on depending on what happens, depending on what happens, especially up in the in Gang Green up there you got Teddy Bridgewater, who kind of you know, what's gonna go on there? Or other guys out there,
and so I think they'll be looking at the quarterback position. Uh. I think they'll be looking at the cornerback position, no doubt about that. And I wouldn't be surprised if if, if there's a linebacker out there that doesn't doesn't end up on this roster at some point, I feel I feel like we're one guy short with experience. Chase Allen's on the roster, playing great, probably gonna get some starts
before this is said and done. I like him in there, but I just wonder if there's not another guy that's got experience that that they'd like to have come in here. Hey, both. The other thing is, besides picking some guys up, I think you potentially could trade I'm not saying when you're big PI, but yes, six or seven, maybe a five
if like him that they don't take a look at that. No, look, this team and Tannon Baum and Chris Greer, you know, and and I think most GMS and and uh uh, you know, personnel guys with this look, we we will trade a five now or four now. But but our job after we trade that is find a five or six we can pick up somewhere else before the draft right. Yeah, you know you got time. You got time to to find you know, you're talking of first, second, third, it's
a different thing. You get four or five, six, you can find those guys before the next draft. But yeah, I think there's gonna be There're gonna be some people on. I think like three guys in this rosters aren't aren't here right now. Um. Yeah. One of the interesting things, one of the really interesting battles to watch this is the kicking battle. You know, these guys are kind of they're kind of neck and neck going into the there, Joe coming down the strets coming down the stretch, neck
and neck. The draft guy always to me the rookie free agent. But bo man, I'm with you. This thing is gonna be fine. It's really fun to watch see how Joseph does with Sanders, both these guys, Joe. Another thing I had a chance this week to uh Adam Gays brought in Mike Martz. Uh Mike mart spent the week here and I was talking to coach Gays a little bit ago about him, and he said, this guy was was so invaluable the things that he brought to this team, and said I and I saw it on
game day. So I'm standing so I'm doing the the sidelines during the game, and and Mike standing, you know, ten feet from me. And so I'm standing there watching and all of a sudden, I look over. Here comes Danny Amendola talking to him. Here comes Ryan talking to him, Here comes and And it was a parade, a constant parade of guys coming over and talked. Frank Gore spent time talking to him. Coaches came over and spent time talking this guy. This guy that week was like a
fountain of information on this football team. And Coach Gay's eyes talking he said, he said, Man, I tell you this guy, this guy now Mike Martz coach. When I was a senior at Sanjose State, he was on the staff at Sanjose State. He came in to help wide receivers. I didn't I knew he was on our staff, but didn't know, you know, because I wasn't. I'm a defensive alignment I'm not dealing with the wide receiver coach, you know. And uh so I hadn't seen him since I left
San Jose State. I hadn't seen him. And you know, all the all the you know, Joe, You've got a lot of guys that you played with, the cal and coaches that are that are coaches or whatever. You know, you go somewhere, you see him and you cross, you cross their path because it's a it's a network in this league. I haven't seen Mark Mike mart since I left San Jose State. That's forty someone years ago. I've seen what he did. I've watched his career, follow his career,
what he did, this and that. So I'm out in the practice field on whatever day it was last week, and I go out there and I'm talking to Danny and that, and you know, we're talking and I go, is that coach Marks Mark? Uh? It was like coach Marks over there? And they go yeah, and I go okay. So when they kind of moved into the next next drill, I kind of see where he's going. So I kind of get in his path. All of a sudden, he looks over and sees me, and he gets a big
smile on his face, comes over and hugs me. Hey bo, how you doing ever? Yeah, and I'm going to I can't. I was I was gonna introduce myself to him, say, you know, I was. I was playing for Sadose's say when you we're there. It was, it was, And I had such a good conversation with him on the practice field. I had a good conversation with him prior to the game, sitting on the bench with him and talking to him. And then during the game we talked a little bit.
And and evidently you know from the fallout of him being here, is this guy get delivered a lot of information, a lot of little technique stuff, a lot of coaching points, a lot of those types of things to the players as well as the coaches. It's gonna be interesting to see how that how that carries forward. You know that's lost is always open to veteran for He's a sponge. He brings in everything. He's talked about. Things he's picked up from the eighties passing game that he liked, that
he's brought in. He's always looking for stuff. He's a very secure guy. Unlike other former coaches, head coaches we've had here didn't want former players here and here, Hey why don't you try this or that? Adam is always open. Not that he does everything, but he is always open to But I'll tell you what, though, it takes a
guy to me. It takes a guy that's confident in himself, confident enough in himself to be so open to other people's information, you know, and he look, he not only does he not only does he take it in, he seeks it out. He wants to talk to everybody about what they do, what they did, what made him successful, what did this? He may not use everything, but he's gonna pick and choose some things out there. And there are coaches that that you know, we've had coaches here
that I don't think they even believe in themselves. They had to have somebody else kind of tell him what to say and what to do. Whereas it no, no, no, I'm not you know, I know I don't want if that guy say no, no, no, Adam, just completely. If you've got something that can help us win a football game, put it in my ear and all and all determine what we're gonna do with that. But we have had guys not to get into a very insecure because those guys didn't play it that and not only no, we
we've had more in a couple anyway. You know, some of those guys are out of football now. You know, some of those coaches and you know, and but but they still they have that the roots of the Dolphins. So I usually probably go on you know, the Dolphins dot com, you know where they go on the Dolphins mobile app or you know. I saw one of the guys, one of the assistant coaches the other day. He says, you know, I have been listening to you guys on the Apple Music on that podcast. He said, yeah, it
sounds like ship. But he says, but I listened anyway, tune in radio, all those things. So you're doing well, man, you're doing I'm trying to just you know, just trying to get the information out. Hey, Joe Um Danny Amendola. I gotta see him nice, you know what, I throz and throze in the ball and I go, I go, I go ask me a nice We're gonna set us up. We'll get into get about the ten yard line. Sounded a gun if he didn't put a nice little move
on there take his way to the end zone. Yeah, cut back on that and cut against a couple of guys and then showed a little burst there to get in the end zone. He gonna be fine. Yeah, I'll tell you. I don't want to look ahead and I want to tease anybody on the red zone, but we haven't seen anything in the red but but it's gonna be fun. I know Mike a SICKI did flex out and he got boxed off, which he's gonna learn. You can't just run to the side where an old vet gros.
You're not gonna jump against me. And he blocked them out by the way. Should have been a penalty. But uh boy, when he figures some things out and some of these other guys, it's gonna be fine. Let's let's you know what they're there's they're They're not a whole lot you can do in the red zone that people haven't seen. You're you're not gonna surprise. You may surprise you know, the fans sitting in in section three, but but you're not gonna surprise a defensive quarter in the
National Football League with stuff you're doing. Everyone's doing it. It's about winning in the red zone, is about winning individual matchups in those types of things. So I really believe that the Dolphins during this preseason, including the Secy, including anybody else that you might want to throw out there, I don't think they're showing very much when they get to the red zone. I think they're just they're just, hey, here's vanilla, here's bread and butter. That's all you're getting.
Because when I think once the season starts, I think you're in a Siega Secy when he comes that red zone and he's gonna be He's gonna be either one or one A when it comes to targets when they get in that red zone. Well, I saw him out and just ran a quick post pattern, catches it in his hands with confidence, and all I could think, and I know it sounds like I got a little crush on him, because all he do is talk about this guy, Well, he's got a chance to catch at football. He really
did well. He's been all over the board, you know, going well, let's take our time. It takes time, but it's good to see some of these rookies making plays and then doing it in practice. So I I haven't I haven't seen a tight end around here in a long time that run routes, runs routes the way he runs routes. He ran around I think it was it was either in the first preseason, I think it was.
I think it was in the scrimmage. He ran ran a little flag pattern, little quarter pattern deep and and he made a move on the defense back just left him standing there and got overthrown. And and maybe he made them maybe you know that he may have made the move too early, may need to be a little more patient, you know. But still, I mean his route running, his ability to get separation and his ability to go up. Boy, it's hard. It's hard to imagine him not being a
huge asset to this football team on the field. Just yeah, that's it, exactly exactly so not nice to see that. Nice to see a Mondola Ryan Tannehill leven for sixteen fifteen yards, had the touchdown, and you know, thank god, you you get the touchdown in there, because you know, another week of sitting there and going, jeez, you know we got shut out in the in the red zone again, but you get the touchdown. Um, he's not gonna play this week, Ryan. Are we feeling Are we feeling pretty
good about Ryan going into the regular season? Russ is knocked off feeling the pace of the game. Well, that's that's everybody was frustrated with two snaps. But yeah, let's go Ryan. Ryan's clearly the best quarterback we have. He's got a little edged to him. I am really being careful and unlike a lot of fans, I get frustrated watching some of the junk that goes on, and then you go, all right, I don't give him a chance
to put his game plan in. See what he's gonna do, what the game plan is for this whole group of guys, no matter what package has out there, and then you get going. So that's where I am. So these guys gotta they gotta get out to a quick start. Man, They've they've got to get out. I mean. And I'm already kind of looking ahead to Tennessee on September nine because of what the preseason, preseason game number four is
all about. Uh so so so to me, I'm assuming as a coaching staff their game planning more for Tennessee right now than they are for for this game. And these guys are working to give them two weeks to to get ready for that for that games. Look, they still gotta do stuff with the guys that are gonna playing the game on on on this Thursday. But I guarantee of their work is is more so in those in those those those offices, and there's about what they're
gonna do with Tennessee. They've got to they've got to be able to come out hot. And look, Joe, you talked about fans, and you talk about the fan base. You know, they gave that game. They've got to come out and they've got to set a tempo for the season, and they've got to set a tone for what kind of football team they're gonna be. And they've gotta they've got to win this fan base over. Because this fan base, I give him a lot of credit because they've been
very patient. But but I think patients is patients is starting to wear thin on a lot of these people. I hear it all the time when I go and you know, if you can get a get off to a quick start in the season and say, hey, this is the offense we've been looking for, Hey this is the defense we've been looking at. Good, Joe, we may not have a lot of stars in this football team, but but believe me, I believe there's a lot of really good football players on this team. The counter to
that is it's a very very young team. Four rookies are gonna start, five rookies are gonna play a lot. You're gonna have second year players and Gotcha and Taylor and guys like Jesse, young guys like that play. Then you're gonna have some three year players that You've got a lot of young guys under three years that are gonna be starting on this football team come September night, and we're gonna have Davante Parker back here pretty soon. He needs to come in with his head straight. We
need that big six three target. Yeah, we got we got a lot of guys. Don't get me wrong, but I just think we get something out of him bough and get him go and get him off to a good where Where's your where? Where's your where's your heart? Right now? On Davante not good? I'm not I'm not look I'm I'm I hate to say, I really hate to say it. I'm not expecting a whole lot out of him. I you know, this is the first time. It's funny you said that, because I'm talking about this
first time. I'm worried, very I'm I'm I'm agag. He jumped up and made a great catch in practice, and I saw a guy and I hear a guy that's affected by all the negative talk in the media, and it's really disappointing because I want him to just dominate over that, like you win no matter what, could you win, and you've got a chance to win even more by playing well this year with a new contract. Yeah, I I don't, I don't. You know, it's it's I'm just not.
I'm just not counting on him, you know, it's to me, to me, Davanta Parker, in my back of my mind, he's a bonus. If he comes out and plays, then then fine, But I'm not. I'm not gonna sit here and wait every week to see to see, Hey, is this the Is this the week that DeVante Parker is going to become the DeVante Parker everyone expects him to be. I would say this though, Ryan Tannehill needs to spend with DeVante and pump him up. You know, some guys both need to be pumped up more than other dudes.
You know, other guys you don't have to worry. They walk around with confidence. And then you've got some guys their body language is not quite there. You know, when they're good, they can be on top of the world, but when they're down, it can laugh. Davante is one of those guys. I'll worry about. And I'm gonna throw some of this on Adam Gateson and Ryan Tannehill to spend time and remind them, pat him on the back, giving him, give him not tough love. But but Joe, Joe,
They've they've given him tough love. You know, he's spent a lot of time with the Jarvis when he was here, and you know, I think Jarvis was trying to kind of get him into that toughness moment. Everybody is. Look, everybody's given him the time he needs. Now now it's got it's on him now. You know, at this point in his career, like you said, got all the skills in the world, got all the ability in the world,
and he's got a contract coming up. If that's not enough to motivate him to be the best player he can be, then then then what do you get? You know, you can't you can't put a bunch on burner and stick a fire under his ass every day. We got you know, we got a lot of fan base. Yeah, he's off my radar screen right now. You know, know they got to get ready. They can't wait. I can't wait for him. Yeah, I'm more concerned right now about jacquin And and getting him out of concussion protocol in
time for the opener. What what a preseason? He's man, but he made as much of a jump the preseason. And I'm not talking about the return guy. No, no, no, no. Look him and Albert Wilson, both those two guys have the best. They've had great preseasons, both catching balls. But yeah, yeah, the three smaller guys, yeahn't feel good about this team. Yeah, any concern that there's gonna be a small, small receiving corps if if, if we don't get Davante, uh oh,
it's gonna be small. But well, I don't care care for a guy I mean five seven, five nine, five ten to get it where they can catch it. They're off, tough son of a gun. All three of those guys are top. Let's let's get to some uh some of the fan questions here from Twitter at g cardon this fifteen. Time to move t J McDonald linebacker? The team needs
hell there and he would be a beast. I don't think that's gonna happen, but but I do think that I do think that you may see t J and and Rashad up in the box at times and I certainly wouldn't be against Joe using t J at times to almost to be a guy at the line of scrimmage to reroute to reroute, receiver three route tight ends to reroute and do a little bit of that. If he's got a little something, some help over the top. I will tell you I forgot Rashad has been so
good at in the box. Having a guy that size. It is like an outside linebacker watching him come in there and put the hit on guys. You know, a guy. We haven't had a lot. We haven't had a I don't think we've had a safety that big since Louis Oliver. That's right, Yeah, I'm with you. Jennifer Johnson comes in on Facebook. I love Kenyan Drake. Great things ahead for this kid if he can stay healthy. I like him a lot. I like a lot of things about Kenyan Um. I like his mindset. UM like the way he works.
I love his ability to to break the big run. I like that he can catch the football blocking a little bit better. Um, But Kenyan still gotta becoming pro. I mean, there's still some things that he's got to do a little better. UM, But I think his upside is there, and I think we're gonna see big things out of Kenyan Drake this year. I think he's best playing the team. Well, I would argue that I think what he brings as a runner, Well, we've had three
big plays. Another guy from Alabama. We're talking about this pretty good. No no, no, I understand that. But but a guy that's done it in games and continues to do in preseason. He's got three plays now over twenty nine yards two weeks last year he is one of the top guys were breaking big plays. Both even stuff him two or three times and he cuts back and runs forty yards and all of a sudden he's averaging six yards to carry. Yeah, and you look at that
running ball with Kenyan Drake, Frank Gore. Uh, Snoras Perry is playing? Was a Snorris Perry right, Yes, is playing well? Uh? And then and then calin balage. You know when when he gets back, I mean, I've been impressed with I've been really impressed with him. I'm really gonna give you a nice It's really gonna give you some nice. Yeah. If he gets well, Look, he was suited up for
the game. He was suited up for pregame warm ups last week tells me he should be ready for the game this week and and this type of game is perfect for him. Give him a lot of carries, give him some give a chance to break a sweat out there and do some things. How much how much does McMillan and Baker played this week? And look, if it's me, I play him a half, I play him a half. They need reps. These guys need reps, reps, reps. You don't want to get injured. But yeah, I'm with you.
I'll tell you who I wouldn't play a lot this week. Yeah, I get and may start some games. Give me the other guys, get done those guys. Give me those other linebackers out there and you know that, and let them, let them get that work. Yeah, the rest of this draft class go get I got the young guys, the the young guys. Look, yeah, you know, like you're you're gonna kind of hold your breath out there with u um uh with the two linebackers and the young guys
out there playing. But but they've got to their norther way to get reps. And Joe, it's I'm not I got no concerns about their ability to play the game. I got no concerns with these guys are flying all over the field, but they've got to slow down a little bit, Joe. And when I slay slow down. You can't just you can't just be line to the to the ball, you know, You've got to be in position. Look, if your job is cut back, you can't be out ahead of the running back. You You've got to understand, Hey,
look I can get there, but it's more advantage. This is where I need to be, you know. And that only comes with reps. You you can't you can't sit in the side. Oh we can watch it on tape. No, no, no, You've got to be get out there and feel it, you know. I mean when we're playing linebacker. One of the toughest things to do is you get that guy that you're you're the you're the you're you're you're in the you're in you're in the hammock. You're not the
outside guy forcing up. You're the guy that's trying to get him to to you know, if they come back and all of a sudden, no, do I do I give up and go to the front side, or do I gotta say? You know, that that's a tough decision to make because once you get that, you know, once you become that turtle in your head pokes out on this side, that guy all of a sudden he's going backside on you, and you've got to see that over and over and over to get that field. Three weeks
now we're cut back. Runs have hurt this dolphin d y no doubt, Twitter at fan Finn Fan thirty six. I feel like Vincent Tann has been playing well this preseason and has earned a chance to get him the starting rotation. I don't know if he's gonna be in the starting rotation. I would kind of at, oh, yeah,
they're all gonna get snaps. I would say, right now, Joe, if this is if if this is opening Day, Opening Day was this Sunday and we're going in, I still think it would be got you on a Keem Spence are gonna be the two starters in that, and then the next guy in is going to be Jordan Phillips and then Vincent Taylor and then can if they keep all those that group of guys. Vincent Taylor for people that forgot last year, he didn't suit up a certain games.
He was a healthy scratch. And uh, I think you make enough for you making enough for During this training camp, he made a lot of plays behind the line of scrimmage. And I gotta tell you his gear. Once he gets off blocks chasing guys, well he's been he gets after him. There's a guy. Oh my god, that's really improved. But here, but here, you know, we talked about youth in this football team. Look at this guy, look at look at Taylor, gotcha Phillips. Three guys. Phillips is going to his fourth year.
These guys are other guys are both going to their second year. You know that that's a that's a nice base. Joe. I was talking to somebody last night and they're talking about this team, and I said, look at it. It's a young team. You know it's it's a young team. But in the nineteen seventy seven, which was technically my rook year, we started four the seventy two team. That's seventy two team that went to three Super Bowls, went undefeated, won two Super Bowls. Hall of famers on that team.
You know, they they were on the down slide. You know, guys were getting hurt and you know this and that when I came in, so in seventies, some of those guys left, but you know, we started four rookies at year on defense, A J Do, A Bob Bomb Howard, myself, and Norris Thomas, and we just missed the playoffs that year and then went on a run going forward after that where we played in three a f C Championship games, two Super Bowls, multiple playoff games when the a f
C East almost every year and had a run like that. And the only reason I'm bringing that up is because I look at this draft. You got four guys in this draft. They are legitimate starters on this football teams. You stacked out on the guys you got last year and the guys a year before. And I really think this team has a nucleus of a team that maybe not this year, but can can get on that kind
of a run. You know, if these guys progress, and they've got to get better every year, but they certainly have a nice base of young players that you can look forward and saying, hey, this team is gonna be pretty good for a while here, and it may take a while to get there. Just thinking when you said that you left one little thing out with all those teams you got turned around plait a lot of ones and twos that were damn good for well, ye yep, I mean a j doing Bob bomb Howard Hey, Tony Nathan,
I mean not Tony Nathan. Don McNeil and Mac and Dwight went all Alabama one year. Well, and that's why I like, we're going to Alabama. I like that. I like that. I like that Alabama. You know. I tell people like hey, right off the bat, Don mcneiel was better player than Dwight, Yeah, no doubt. Obviously, Dwight becomes one of the greatest centers of all times. But Don
McNeill didn't embarrass himself. He lined up day one and one of the more stupid lines I've ever heard in my life from the radio from your boy Big Oh. I'm driving along one and he says, you know, one of the worst picks of Dolphins made, Don McNeil and cornerback and I almost pulled off the side of the road, which you know, we drafted Don McNeill. He was a starter the first day at practice and and was a great player from day one until the day he left.
I went back to Berkeley and Steve Barkowski was playing with the Falcons, and we used to play the Falcon all the time. He said, I gotta tell you, man that Don McNeill is as good a corner as a rookie as as I've ever seen. Like that guy came in, you wanna play bumping run hee And he didn't talk a lot. Always a good dude, right, but my man could play. Yeah, and he and and look he's always gotten the heat for for the ghenre. And I tell guys, yeah, I go, yeah, you know the guys playing with a
broken arm. You know you had at one point he was playing with two broken wrists. I mean, come on, you know anyway, yeah, yeah, ye, No. Jeremiah Flint Facebook, I'm still worried about our run defense. We've given up some pretty big runs over the last few games and hope we can figure it out before the regular season starts. Joe, last drive that that that that the drive for the drive that I think it was the end of the
end of the first half. Um where no I'm talking about no, no, talking about when the last drive script they went down the field, it looked like they were gonna score and it looked like they're gonna punching them to a touchdown. They had one, two, three, four, five first downs and they and they were forced to kick a field goal. And that gets back to what I've always believed in defense, as long as you don't give up a big play. They gave up no big plays.
I'm there. I think they converted a first down on a on a third and long, but it wasn't like a They didn't throw a forty yard you know, forty yard completion um. But they made him methodically work down the field, move the change, move the change, move the change. And you know what, they made a mistake when they got into the red zone. Boom, they you know, drop him for a loss. Next you know, they got to
settle for the field goal instead of the touchdown. That to me is the key to the success of this defense. If you don't give them big plays, don't give him that big chunk play, that fifth that that three play touchdown drive, that two play touchdown drive. You make them drive down the field twelve fifteen plays. This defense is good enough to do what they did then force him into a field goal and not and not score the touchdown or come up with the turnover, or force or
get the sack, those types of things. If they can take away to the big play. On defense, I feel really good about the guys that we have on that side of the football. People forget this defense only had fifteen takeaways, the worst than football. Meanwhile, the team we played just got done. Thirty four takeaways led the National Football League, and takeaways defensively interceptions, force fumbles and and all the different ways we got to improve that number.
I'm not so worried about yards. I'm with you, you know, I could care less, but you gotta get stops in the red zone, and you've got to get takeaways, make people kick field goals. And I think the old thing, if you don't mind me saying, is Bill Arnsburg always felt like I don't believe anybody can go fifteen or you might just kick. And look, we were a very
conservative defense, you know we we were. We rushed three guys a lot of times and we're three man front that back then, and you know, sometimes you just held up. Your job was just a hold a spot. I'm not even gonna try to make it. I'm just gonna hold a spot so he can't come this way. And someone else.
It was team defense, trusting everybody else, and that was it make them, make them, make them take fifteen play because if they they're gonna take fifteen plays to get into the end zone, we're gonna make a play before them and we're gonna turn the ball over. So i's gonna happen. Let them make the mistake, and then if this team can do that, then then then I like it. Cole Jensen from Facebook. I don't understand why people keep saying Tannil isn't playing well all, or that they're concerned
over the dink and dunk play so far. I think by those short passes it will eventually open up the deep ball, like the one to to Drake Well. I'm gonna say this, I think that's been by design during training camp. I don't think this offense is being built to be a dink and dunk offense. Kenny Stills, Albert Wilson, Jachim Grant. Those guys aren't dinking dunk players. These guys are down field players, and I think that I think that, look, we we gotta understand this preseason. You're not to open
up your playbook. You're not showing everything that you got. I think this team I think you'll see a different team when it comes to aggressively moving the ball downfield my opinion, than what we're seeing right now. Ryan Tannehill, if he's got time and he's dunk dropping it off underneath the backs and stuff or out on the flats, I would be disappointed. You've got some guys that can go down the field and get it. You know what we haven't done, and we got to get back to.
We gotta attack the hash marks and the numbers side with tight ends. We just have not done, not at all. We need to do that. I'm watching all these preseason games, Well there's just everybody's attacking the middle of the field of this thing. It gives you another weapon. Ryan's got to get comfortable making those throws, no doubt, and we talked about that before. I mean he you know, early on his career, he was having a tough tip, tough time getting the touch on the ball going over the
middle down the scene. I think he's got better at that. And look, he's got better receivers better, you got better, better guys running down the middle middle of the field. Now better than that. He's having a long time. Um uh Twitter at l M a D four five four. What was a feeling always like around the locker room
when when cutting day was approaching? You know that there were there were there were a few days a year, well, there were a number of days a year in the locker room when you could hear a pin drop and we had shag carpeting in our locker room. And that was every day when you had to before you had
to go in and watch game films. Right especially after that, basically after bad games or even games that you won that you didn't play well enough, um and cut down day, cut down day, you walk in that locker room and all you saw was guys sitting there, especially young guys, guys sitting there with their head between their their head between their knees, just waiting to get tapped on the shoulder. Man, there's no secrets. Secrets in the seventies and and today,
all those guys know who's on the bubble. They should know by who's gonna be playing in this game and who's not. By the way, if you're playing this, you don't get in the game packing bags. Like if there's five or six guys, don't get in or get in Rookie guys that are here, they don't play what's you know that's not good? But no, but yeah, and I don't want to take any shots anybody because a lot of coach most coaches are no longer with us, but called tass seem to really we relished in it. Man
that that always. I mean, I've become kind of myself. But it kind of bothered me that he enjoyed or messing with guys walking back and forth. I'll give you the ultimate. And and and we had we had a guy that came in and it will look back in the day. You know, we'd go to training camp with a hunter and thirty guys, so many there was no limit on the amount of guys that you could go. So he and we were at camp, and we were at camp for a long time, so you had to
have bodies there. You had to have bodies to work against. And and that was part of the part of the deal. So we had and so we had a kid coming a cornerback, come in and uh pulls his hamstring on testing day when he's running his forty right, pulls his hand. Guy wasn't gonna make the tea he was he was back in the time. He was what you we called fodder. He was one of those guys who was just there
for cannon fodder, just to just to work against. He was just a body we had no chance of making the team, but he had to sign contracts, and they signed rookie contracts. So this guy pulls a hamstring nothing earth coach Shulam more than then a guy that wasn't gonna make the team there was hurt and then had to pay him in the regular season. They milked it and and and the smart guys knew, Hey, i ain't gonna make this team, so I'm gonna milk this thing
as long as I can. I'm gonna get if I can get to game checks in man and then get me in, then I'm happy it can be and then get out never play again. Never. So this guy's got this hamstring and and and every you CE coach will look at you know that, you could see him very now. He looked guy just gonna do that. You know, he didn't like giving you even got He don't like guys getting earn in free money. Right, So this guy there.
So so we're sitting it, we're coming in and guy's been on he's been I've been practicing for a while, and Carl comes in. The guy said, about three locker rooms that lockers down for me. I gotta look at car comes into his aces. Uh one of our dbs went down, got hurt in the game or something, right, So he goes, h hey, uh, hey, you so and so are you You think you can get out there
and practice. Goes well, jeez, coach, I'm not sure. You know, it's still a little tight and this, and he doesn't, goes, well, jeez, you know, we had so and so went down there. There's an opportunity, there's a job out there, and jez, you're gonna miss a good answerd you know, who knows, maybe maybe getting you know. So the guy buckles goes out of hell with you. I'm taking my shot now. Guy goes out, goes out into practice field, runs around a little bit. Come his ass had barely even hit
that chair. After practice, Hey, coach, Sheila wants to see him, bring your plate book and the guy kid goes kids, well, wait a minute, wait a minute, my hamstring. Somebody goes, we got you on tape out there running around running around. Boom walks in and walks into the office. Right out the door, never to be seen again. Yeah, it's funny. We had a guy running gas one day. He pulled a hamstring and running gas. One of the very first guys, you know, like you said, we had a hundred and
something guys, and he did the same thing. But I gotta tell you, every time that guy earned his money finally left. There was one guy. There was one guy and he's a younger. He's a defensive line where a line there, same thing, same kind of guy. And he
was a funny guy. And uh, and he coming goes hates me, boy every time I see him, and so he would make so he says, he says, you know what, every time Coachula seeing mare we had or our dining our dining room was across it was probably about probably about quarter of a mile, I don't know how far, with five yards whatever you had to walk to get to the dining room. And you had to walk across park a lot and stuff, and everyone's going in the
same path. And he says, uh, he says, he says, you know, he says, every time I see Coach Sula, he looks at me and gives me look. He says, he says, I was, I was walking to the dining room today. Coach is coming back and he says, he says me, he said, look, when you see me walking, you go in the other direction until I get past you. I don't even want to I don't even want to look at you. And so so so so the guy.
So the guy was. He was there for another two weeks or whatever, kind of getting so every time he'd come walking along. Hey, guess right, guys had lunch with Shoes last night. At the dinner with Shoes last night. He invited me over the family and just busting it was hilarious, dude something. That stuff had some characters back then. They had that truck driver tryout. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah's called He's called the Gong Show. And bodybuilders and and
they're all out there pulling hands. They had guys come up, guys coming off a construction site with with the work boots on running a fort yard dash down in the under practice field. Yeah. I greatest greatest thing I ever
saw like that. The Dolphins were scrimmage in one year, inter squad scrimmage up at Lockhart Stadium, and I was there working for Channel four, you know, doing doing the whole stuff, And there's a guy in the stands and he's completely dressed in a uniform, helmet, shoulder pads, thigh pads, uniform, cleets, the whole thing, standing up in the standing up in the in the stands. Give me a chance, Give me a chance. He wanted him to. He wanted to call and wanted to call him out of the stands and
going and playing your squad scrimmage. And so I'm in this and I go, Louis, shoot, shoot, get some video of this guy. You know he's up there. Come on, I can do better than that. Let me play, you know. So so midway through we kind of there's a little little so I go, let's go walk over to us. We walk over and talk to the guy, and I got him on camera and I said, I go, hey, well what's up man? You go? He goes, I'm just trying to get a job. It won't give me a chance.
And I go, well, why do you think of the serving job? Just man, man, I had four thousand yards my senior year and I still can't get a job, which was one of the great lines I've ever heard. I just started out, and then you see all kinds of no no, no doubt, some tryouts, no doubt. All right, so they have good stuff there from all the uh, all the people that did follow us and Joe. Uh.
You know, we're supposed to get somebody in here. You know, we've been pretty good every week about getting getting players in and the team has been really good about getting We're getting players in here. Where the problem is, I gotta get my ass out of here. Bro, I got somewhere to go. If I If I get out of here and you can, you can, you really gonna go? Right now? I'm gonna leave you. Yeah, I'm gonna leave you with you know, I'm gonna leave you with your
passed down around your ankles. I'm gonna leave you to your you know, you know I go. I got it. Are you pissed You're the only one that's always here? Yeah? Instead the hell with you guys. You've been gone. John's been gone. Now when I'm getting out of here, you handle the heavy lifting. I'm out of here, right, I'll see you on Thursday. Hey, joining us from the Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Vincent Taylor. Vince, Thanks for being with us.
Man's great to have you and and you know we see around the hotel and at the game warming up. It's great to spend some time with you. Hey, listen, we got a bunch of stuff to talk about. And before I get to any of your defensive tackle play this preseason, what's up with the ability to block kicks doing back in college? You know, I think that's what it all started. And then last last year I had two. I got my hand on two, one being justin Tucking
and for me to block him yesterday was pretty good. Yeah. I was gonna say, that's got to feel pretty good. That huge point actually, and even though it was a preseason game, to be able to get that stop for the defense no points. You know you said this preseason for me to all that count, you know, because I feel like if you're doing the preseason is gonna roll over to the regular seas. Uh. If there's one guy,
it's been clearly better since last year. And the way you've played, whether you're playing with the ones, twos, two ways, two bees, whatever it is. Uh, your motors running like I've never seen before. Just talk about your motivation and where you've played this preseason. I think I've been doing pretty good. But there's a lot of things for me
to work on and keep getting better. You know, my mind set is to always make a play when I'm on to feel I think I feel better this year than last year, just knowing that last year I called myself thinking more. I was afraid to make a mistake. But now when I make a mistake, I just go go to the next player. You know, I remember last year making a mistake. You know, if I had one bad play in the game, my whole game was because
that's all I was thinking about. I know, when I got in the film film last year, I know coach was gonna be on me. But now I just learned that it is all part of the games, part of the game making mistakes. So now I don't I don't feel myself thinking as much as I did last year. I'll tell you what your motor and I always like to ask guys from college to the pro what's changed about you? Because one thing I've noticed about all you guys, man, you guys are running to the football. Yeah, I think
like that. You know, he's a big believer in that, you know, with the defensive lines, in the tempo and like he said, man, we give him three hard plays. We got you're gonna send somebody in there for us to get him. And with that, I think everybody, not just myself, but everybody on the line. You know, if you've got somebody coming in the pick up where you left off, you don't have no choice but to give it all. Yeah, are you okay with the rotation? We
get so caught up in the media. I'm trying not to. But who starts in, who plays, and everybody's playing right now? Is that the most important thing or how do you look at it? Like you just mentioned, that's the most important that you know, nobody remember I started. You know, most people like coach christ mention the day. You know, if we're stronger as a unit, you know, that's what people don't notice, like the weakest link. So we all
got to just be strong. And like I mentioned, it don't matter who start, we all getting in their road taking picking up with the next guy left off. What have you worked on the most since you since you got here, especially this offseason. I probably see my footwork, you know, last year coming in my footwork was pretty bad and looking at it right now, you know it's way better than it was last year. So my foot work, Uh, it's better this year than it was last year. Yeah, hey,
I want to ask you. You and got you are always together, got chawer, got ya what are you call call the Hey? The great thing about him, no matter what you called me, never corrects anybody, you know, So we mean, I know his name is got Chold, but for me, I'm just so used to saying guy chill that just you know, I called got you out all last year and then the guys here calm got you and I said, well, whatever it is. A man always answers to everybody, So yeah, you know what it is.
But YouTube tighter and what's forget? You guys always together always, Like you mentioned, we're gonna be together right after this a matter of fact, you know, go to Hopeful. You know he that he agreed with mass and now he won, so we're gonna be together again. So you guys room together on the road, separate at home or are you guys got your own places? Her? You know when we have to stay in the hotel, me and him his roommates on and off the road. Yeah, we're pretty familiar
with each other. It's uh, it's been a great relationship. Ive seen you guys at high school football games. By the way, what do you think of the high school football down here? Since you've been part of our Friday Night high school football big You know, I was in the barbershop last week before, I was on the shop Friday and a guy I was in there from St. Thomas getting a cuttackle. ESPN went at the school, So that just go to show you how big football it
is out here. I think they just had a game Saturday night with esp in there, so that was big for them. Yeah. All right, let's get into some stuff from this preseason. Some people concern you guys have been giving up a lot of yards. And I'm not saying just the ones, are not just the twos or the two a's or two bees as a group. Can that stuff all be fixed or should should there be a little concern here in South Florida. No, like you mentioned,
it could be fixing. That's why it's called preseason. You know, give us chances, uh the show what we need to work on. That's why we watch films and like I mentioned, this preseason, but you know when the season start, when we play Tennessee, you know we gotta have our big boy pants on because you know, they're a team would like to run the ball out here. But I think if everybody on board, I think coach Chris and Burke, they're gonna have a ready to play. Yeah. Uh. People
always ask me, is it because the tackle? You know, tackles anytime they're running, tackles get blamed for everything, right, so so they're defensive tackles. I try to tell p listen, man, linebackers, gotta it's a group, it's a family. It's it's a family of seven when on the run. Sometimes even safety is coming up. You feel that way too. Yeah, you know you gotta work together, you know, uh not, we a't gonna just put it on each other. You know,
everybody do their job and then run get stop. Yeah, so it's just a matter is it technique for you guys taking a lot of double teams? I see the double teams? What what is it? Mostly not taking a side? Like I mentioned, it's all working together. You know, we get double that freedom lineback up to make a play. If they come off the double in the detagle make the play. So it is all working. We've seen cutback runs. I know that can be fixed once the season starts. Guys,
pinching down and stuff. But we have seen a lot of cutback runs have some success. What is that? Mostly like the day you know, on some of them it was one thing a black that we didn't see in practice, so they kind of hear that's what that and was able to bounce the ball back. But like I mentioned, it's all about fish. You know, everybody have a gap that they're responsible for it. And if you're in that
gap to ballship running, you seem you look bigger. Are you a little bit bigger than you were when you got here? Yeah? I think my body fat is pretty much down. You know, I came in here, my body fat was pretty good, but now when we checked back in it was down. So I'm finna good. Yeah, I can say, um, life ain't bad over here. This best of food has been as a guy that's been here for the good food and bad food. And I go back in the eighties when when the food was really that,
it was called dorm food. You've been in that dorm thing where you guys are now though this pretty good chefs in that like mentioned, when he can't talk to us, you know, he got a chance to eat in You ever find you know, foods good. Now. See it used to be sex for me. Now it's mostly food as as I got older. I know. Wow, I never thought I was gonna say that, but you know it's amazing.
You know the food is good if you can leave and the guys go, hey, you want to go grab a bite to eat, and instead you guys are going, hey, let's grab it by here before we go, right, that's what we get breakfast here, so I wouldn't pass it. Hey, listen, Vince, have been great, man. I really appreciate you spending some time with us. Vincent Taylor, defensive tackle of the Miami Dolphins. You're gonna play a lot in this fourth preseason game
coming up. Sure, yet, I'm pretty sure the coaches that have something that you know what I respect, I respect no matter who you play with. You were you're going hard. I think people, you know, like, instead of going, oh man, man it, you're going let's roll it all right man? There you go. You never know, Bevince, thank you man, good stuff. They're nice to have him. Hey, all part of the audible. Man. It's always fun and uh, we got a lot more stuff. One more preseason game coming up.
That'll do it. Have a great day. Everybody