Alright, the audible podcast is on the air. Kimbo, Camper, John, Come, Jemmy, and where's my man? Where's Joe Jo's I think he's playing tennis. If I'm guessing he's playing tennis somewhere. You know what he always does this, Well, you know, I've got a meeting. You know, he does a radio show in the morning. I understand that. That's how he gets up at four o'clock in the morning and does a six to ten, So I understand if he wants to take a breeze. But he doesn't have to bullshit us.
He can just say, hey, look guys, I gotta I gotta tennis match. You always you know, oh, no, I gotta I got a meeting with a spot, a sponsor, which means he's got Iram Winderman waiting at Central Park. Yeah's you've got the court from ten to eleven. Yeah, and about in about forty five minutes or so, he'll roll in. You're all sweaty and everything. Why what do you mean ten o'clock? That's exactly it. So anyway, we're gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna go along with with
just John and I until Joe shows up. If he does. If he doesn't, I'm gonna do this, John, I'm gonna instant I'm I'm gonna institute a find a fine policy for for the audible, different fines for different guys. If you don't show up the first time, it's just still a bucking the bucking the pot. But but every it goes up five times incrementally, So buck the first time, five, the second time, ten, the next and then Yeah, because
because Joe and Joe can afford it. With this meeting he's having today, I'm sure if it goes well, he's gonna be able to afford it. He'll he'll he'll pick up the twenty bucks that he bets Iro Winderman. That'll be a bonus for him. Hey, let's let's get into what's going on. Uh, I think we're gonna get We're gonna looks like we may get a chance to get
Bobby McCain on on the programs. Will be interesting to talk to Bobby about the move outside and kind of how the competition went during training camp, and that to me, John is one of the one of the real kind of interesting stories about the the And it's it's funny how I remember us coming into training camp and we're going through the off season. You go, man, look at the depth that they've got it at the cornerback position. You're you're you're set over there with that he's playing well.
And you look over here in Corday's coming off of you know, he was on an upswing end of the season. You get Tony Lippett coming back. You know, you got all these other guys to toy mctire and these guys, it's it's gonna be a good competition there, and they
all fell by the wayside. Bobby McCain comes in, they bump him out, and I think it has as much to do with the fact that Bobby can play the outside all and add to the fact that it also allows them to get Mink on the field, and I think that's I think those in those are those are tied at the hip, Bobby McCain outside, because I think if if you don't have Minka, I think Bobby's still inside and they're working those other guys trying to get them to be ready to play at the corner right now,
I think they would have taken the best of the bunch had you not drafted Minca Fitzpatrick and him be so good so early in his career. I mean, you can just see it. We saw it at o t as the angles that he takes, the body type, that the smarts he plays with in the secondary, and you're right. We we thought the winner of that position would come
from the bucket of three, that we're gonna compete. And when they move Bobby outside, you know, we're all kind of looking at each other, Well, maybe this is one day experiment, maybe this is a two day experiment. Maybe this is something that he's trying to light a fire under those guys to make them better. But when Bobby went out there and he got his feet underneath him and he started playing the cornerback position, you kind of felt that, you know what, he is the best guy
for that position. And it allows to your point to get mink on the field sixties of the time. Now you've got your best eleven. So I think the Miami Dolphins were kind of hesitant. I think they maybe wanted one of those other guys to come up because Bobby's so good on the inside. But the way it played out, probably get your best eleven on the field. Look and and and I'm not gonna kid myself into believing that there's not gonna be growing pains. Oh no, it's not
gonna be it. Not because perfect marriage. Right away, Bobby's gonna have some growing pains because he's done it. He's done it for a limited amount of reps during the preseason at at at a preseason pace. Now you come in game plans, they're gonna take it. They're gonna try to, they're gonna test him, they're gonna see what he's going they're gonna go after that. And the same with Maka.
So both of those guys. You know that that's the thing about about this about this football team, and and and the reincarnation of or the incarnation of what this team is right now under Adam Gaze. You know, it's a young team, specially defensively. You've got two guys in the secondary that's still feeling their way around out there. You've got two rookie linebackers still feeling their way around there.
And it's and those are two positions that look, I think if you're a Dolphin fan, you know, bite your lip a little bit and kind of hold onto your seat because it's gonna be a little rocky ride. But these guys, knowing these guys, having been around them long enough now you know that they're gonna get better each and every snap to them, to me, for those those those four guys, for Bobby, for Minca, for for Jerome
and for Rey Kwon, it's about reps. The more is, the more reps gigs, better they're gonna get, you know, because you understand as a linebacker, you're flowing, you know, and and you want to run and run and run and and but but you know, if you've got if you if you're responsibility's cut back, you gotta lag a little bit. You gotta lag lag, lag lag in case that guy's coming back. And and sometimes you see him, they just so they want to get out in front
of it. And but you're seeing you've been seeing that kind of you know, they've been kind of beginning. As Jerome Baker said, when you're here, you gotta be more patient. He's getting there, getting more patient and understanding that as
they go. But it's still still preseason versus regular season one pace versus a different pace, game planning versus non game planning, and targeting guys that are the young, vulnerable guys out there That's the biggest point bo is targeting guys because now you're going to game plan against certain individuals. You know, we've got we've got a rookie at at nickel corner, We've got a rookie at outside linebacker, We've
got an inexperienced middle linebacker. How can we get a guy like Delaney Walker, for instance, the tight end for the Titans. How can we get him matched up? Because the Dolphins historically, uh or not historically the state of the last five years have been poorous in covering the tight end. So how do we get that matchup? Who do we want him on? Well, let's go attack the rookie.
Let's go attack the nickel. Let's let's see how good Bobby is on the outside, and we put uh, you know, a size guy like Corey Davis, or let's put Rashan Matthews outside. Let's let's mix it up and see what our best matchups are. That's what the Titans are going through right now, and the Dolphins to combat that have to have confidence and as you said, have patients a little bit because this is the first time these guys are gonna see this action. And you know, the good
thing is your your home. You get an opportunity to play one o'clock. Hopefully it's a little steaming out there. Wasn't my little rain before the game, and the steam kind of come up there and and and work those guys a little bit. But I'm anxious to see because John, I think we saw I wouldn't even say the tip of the iceberg during the during the preseason. I know they're gonna use Gaseki a lot differently than we saw in the priest season. I would expect to see that
out of a lot of different situations. I wouldn't be surprised to see two running backs in the backfield, maybe maybe gor and Kenyan Drake back then maybe Kendall Ballog, maybe Kellen Bloge and Drake, because I think he likes two backs. I think we'll see two tight ends, we'll see three tight ends, a lot of those types of
things that we didn't see. It's gonna be interesting to see what what the scheme, why, what what they look like offensively and defensively with to me, John, what Adam Adam Gaze and Tannenbaum and Chris Greer have put together is to me a very fast and athletic football team. And that's the way Adam Gays wants him to play boll That's the flip side. You know Tennessee is doing that, but the Dolphins and Adam Gates are doing that as well. They want to figure out, Hey, how do we isolate
Kenyan Drake on a linebacker when we go empty? Is that the advantage we want? How do we get Mike Kisiki if they don't press and they play off Hey, what's our options outside? And how do we get Ryan Tannehill clicking early? How do we get this offense taking a seven nothing lead at tend nothing leads? So the Dolphins aren't playing from behind in Game one at hard Rock Stadium. So there's a lot of things that are going on. Your point to the defense, Yes, uh, we've
got some youth and inexperience. But I like the way they fly around the football. I like their aggressiveness. I like the way their their attitude is about I'm good enough to be starting in the National Football League. I don't care that I'm just a rookie out of Ohio State. I don't care that I'm a rookie just out of Alabama coming off a national championship. I can play at
this level and I'm gonna prove it to you. And it's it's by the way they work and what they do on the field, not by talking about it, which I love about all three of those guys. Yeah, and you know what, it's it's it's it's it's funny when you talk to them that they they talk like rookies, but they're but they're not overwhelmed. But they're not overwhelmed by because they've been they've been at the highest level.
They played at that highest level. We were talking to I was talking to Jerome Baker before the last game, and he was saying, no, this is nothing new, you know, it's it's you know, we we we played against really good players, we play against all Americas, we play against you know, weekend and ecality. So it's it's not a not a big deal to now. He's not saying that it's easy, he's not saying that he doesn't have things to learn. But you know, it's it's he's not shying
away from the spot. But for me, for me, coming from San Jose State, where he played in front of eighteen thousand people, to walk into a stadium was eighty thousand people the first time. You're like a lot of people. Yeah, yeah, I'm not in Kansas anymore, you know what I mean. One of those kind of things whereas you know they're used to it. They come into a game. Jesus, what you only got eighty thousand I'm used to playing in a hunt in front of what's going on here. I
had this baby wants me in high school. This was my spring practice, the spring game, exactly right, no doubt about it. So so they're at that level you know that the game is not too big for him. But but the thing I like about them is they're still hungry to learn and to learn in a hurry. Yeah. I love their attitude. I like that. You know, you talked about Chris Greer and Mike Tannebaum and Adam Gays getting and selecting the draft choices over the last three years.
All these guys are team captains, All these guys are leaders. All these guys leading off the field as well as on the field. And they've been productive coming into the Miami Dolphins organization. And I like the chemistry of the youth because this youth is where this team is going to be built from there's a lot of experience on the defensive end position, defensive line, offensive line. But when you go to the skill guys that linebackers, the corners,
the tight ends, you know, the running backs. These guys, that's the youth of the team, and those guys have to carry their share as well. A lot of people in this town, uh and around that they have been pointing their finger at the at Mike tannem baumb over the last couple of years. You know what's he doing? You know, I don't I don't like what he does.
He trades this and that. But you look back John over these last few drafts, you know, I don't know how you point the finger in Mike tannem Bam or Chris Greer after this draft and say they didn't get it right. You've got four rookies are gonna be starting on this on this football team. Four draft choice they're gonna be starting. You've got three guys that are two year players that are either Gon Startinger playing a lot
in Jesse Davis and Gotcha and Taylor. And then and then you go back and then you go one more track the three guys that you got out there. I mean, so you and I've said this, you know, John, I I go back to I go back to my rookie year when I came in, the Dolphins were the Dolphins were kind of at the They were at the the
twilight of that seventeen and oh team. You know, the Bona Conies and Jake Scott and and vern Den Hurder and Bill Stanfield and all those guys, you know, Jim Langer, those guys were at the end of their careers and the team, which this team was starting to show they're starting to fray at the edges, you know. And then had a couple of years where nothing happened, and all of a sudden, one year they draft myself and Larry Gordon.
Duriel Harris was in that draft. The next year they get a j do a Bob bomb howerd uh, And then we get Don McNeil, and all of a sudden, you get to put two or three drafts together and you go on a run for about ten twelve years where year you're winning, you're challenging for Super Bowls, you're
when all those things. And I kind of see that pattern with this football team because we've got more guys that have their homegrown more guys that have come through the draft, more guys that are salary cap friendly to move forward and can grow with this football team. To me, I'm looking at I'm looking at it optimistically, even if maybe this team is not, you know, the ten or
eleven win team that people certainly are clamoring for. But I think that I think the direction that this team is heading is they're building a team that can be h eleven win team year after year after year if we just let it grow the organically the way they've been doing over the last couple of years. I like those points you make, because you have to surround yourself not only at the top organizational organizationally, but on the field.
You have to have synergy. The way you think, the way you're you're going out and recruiting guys, the way you're targeting guys in the draft, the way you want to select very cautiously in free agency, see that you get the right type of guy for the right price. And then it all comes back to how well can Ryan Tannehill play the position of quarterback to take advantage over all this stuff around him? How well can he manage the offense, how well can he get explosive plays
with Kenny Stills. How how many explosive plays can Kenyan Drake Carey from the running back to mask some of the inefficiencies at other positions. How good is that offensive line gonna hold up and be able to create a running attack so Ryan can get to play action, so he can use his athleticism on the edge, throw footballs on the run and then make big place from the pocket. It's all gonna come back to the quarterback in somehow,
some way. He's got to find a way to continue to elevate where he was a year and a half ago, take the reins from there and keep moving upward. John, I know, I know this is I know within that within the football offices up there, this is not the kind of message they they want to kind of work on. But but I'm gonna ask you this question because I believe it's to be true. It this team is gonna go. You know, we've talked about youth. You talked about the
young guys they draft. We talked about the drafts over the last few years, and this and that and bringing in the guys like Danny Emmon, Dolan, Robert Quinn and sitting and kill Gore and all those guys kind of short things up. But to me, this season is gonna come down to how well Ryan Townehill plays. I think to me, all those other things that look, they're all pieces of the puzzle, but you can't complete that puzzle until you push number seventeen, that piece of his number
seventeen in there and it fits. That's the biggest key for me. Bo I always come back to to going and looking around in the league and saying, why is that team good? Yeah, well they've got you know, Levy on Bell, and they've got this guy, and they've got that guy. And about Ben Roethlisberger, Yeah, how about him? He's pretty good. You know how? How's the Green Bay Packers so good? They've got this guy and the well
Aaron Rodgers is really good. You know how? How did the Dallas Cowboys do really well a couple two years ago when you thought they were gonna be dead in the water. Well, the quarterback played at at an elevated level. That's what has to happen, no matter how good you are at the skill positions up front, when you win the battle to the line of scrimmage, if your quarterback
plays average or below, you're gonna lose average above. You got a chance to let me ask you this, John, when you if you were to if you're to set the scenario of Ryan Tannehill this year, and you want to look back at the end of the year, whether they made the playoffs, missed the playoffs by a little bit, we're eight and Nate, whatever, whatever happens at the end of the season. What would you want to see at the end of the season to say, hey, Ryan, Ryan
had a really good year this year. Well, I think all the things, all the characteristics you looked at in two thousand and sixteen, if they hold true in two thousand and eighteen, we're gonna have We're gonna have success offensively because you're gonna limit the amount of hits you have on a quarterback because Ryan's not gonna hold the football. He's gonna get it out on time, and he's gonna be more on target. You've seen the improvement on the deep ball over the over the last two or three
years when he's played. I mean it's gone from zero to one hundred in a hurry. And you've seen his awareness in the pocket become better. He knows what now when a tuck the football, get his eight to ten yards and get down. You know he's not gonna take that extra hit because there's no need for him to take that hit. Plus, you've got an offensive line now
that you feel really good about. So I really like that second quarter at home against Baltimore when you know the Dolphins were able to overcome some mistakes early in the game with the wet ball and kind of you know, nasty conditions outside of hard rock, and they made a couple of drives and they got the ball in the end zone. Those are the types of things without a Devonte Parker that I liked. So you you get him
back healthy. Now you've got a size guy on the outside, you've got speed uh in the slot receivers, and you've got Danny Amondola that knows how to work the middle of the field along with a tight end that has a great catch radius. So there's a lot of things and I have mentioned Kenyan Drake, So there's a lot of things in Ryan Tannehill's favor, But I do think the three keys for him, it's gotta be pocket awareness, getting the ball out on time, and not taking those
unnecessary hits. Yeah, when you talk about running backs. I just I'm kind of salivating to see Klin bellage a little bit a little more after watching after watching what he did in the first game, then he had gotten the concussion protocol and then came out and played well the other night. And I know it was against some guys that probably aren't on the roster anymore, but but
he certainly shows you that he's got the skill. And to add that backfield bunch with Frank Gore and Sonora's Perry Uh and kenyan Um that that gives you a lot of interesting option tunities options back there. And I you know, I love the fact that at times Adams like a two back situation where you you can put Gore and Drake back there, both can run, both can catch,
and they give you multiple options. And as a linebacker, and you've got two backs there that can both run routes and you kind of sit there and you're almost going, hey,
please run the ball. You know what I mean. Well, I loved I loved it when you know, I like that scenario when you have two guys in the backfield, and then I like when you had zero in the backfield when you split Kenyan Drake outside against Baltimore and you see a linebacker that's backing up, but you know at the snap of the foot ball and you've got a single high safety that has to worry about Kenny Stills on one side pressed up with a corner, and
Kenyan Drake beating a linebacker just straight down the field. As a quarterback, I like my odds because somebody's gonna win or somebody's gonna get a chance to come down with an explosive play in that scenario, So you know,
there's a lot of options. I like the situation too, where you can come out in the base situation with two backs and all of a sudden, you send one of them wide and you put one of the slot, and now you're basically into a four wide situation when when the defense you know, may have their base defense still and then you take advantage of those matchups with those linebackers that have to have to spread out and cover the cover the backs out there. So it's a
it's a good scenar to me. It's the same thing as as three tights. You put the two tights three tights, it gives you multi and I think that's the thing about this Adam Gays offense and him going out and plucking the pieces that he wanted for his offense. I remember talking to him early early training cameras said, coach, how do you how do you feel about your good He says, this is the group of players I want,
and this is the group of coaches I want. I finally got the guys that I want on both aspects coaching wise, player wise. And I think he feels like now that that playbook that's that's kind of floating around in his head all the time. I think he feels like he can expand that a lot more now than he was able to over the last couple of years. We just think of last year. I mean, he tried to swing for the fences in terms of bringing Jay Cutler in and getting uh uh Thomas at tight end. Okay,
same body type is Kasecki. But he couldn't do it anymore. He couldn't do it anymore. I mean he was he was really good when he was good, but he just couldn't do it anymore. And and Jay was at the end too, you know. I mean, you can still throw it, but in terms of getting it out on time and on target and really feeling like he cared. Now you fast forward and you go to Ryan Tannehill with Mike Kasecki. Those guys can do it. Well. We'll look at look
at how dramatically that right end position is change. You went from a kind of a slow loping Julius Thomas that I'm not sure how interested he was in and being here and being successful um to to a Durham smythe and and a Gasecki and a Marque's great who I still like Mars taking a j Derby who came
on late in the season and and playing well. So I I think the makeup of that position is leaps and bounds ahead of what we've seen, probably John and I would say even better than when Charles Clay was here. It was probably the last tight end we had that Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, And you feel better as a quarterback because you're just not throwing it and you have to be perfect all the time. You know you can get it close, you can you can take a chance and know that
the worst case scenario, it's incomplete. My guy is gonna out battle that guy. Whereas last year I wasn't so sure when the ball went up we had our odds were in our favor. We were going to have success if they threw a ball. It was really the other way other way. Hey, let's uh, let's kind of turn our attention to UH to opening day. UH. Finally the Dolphins get a home opener. UH. This this Sunday Tennessee Titans coming in Tennessee and a nice football team, good
defense that the Dolphins have to deal with. Mike Rabel comes in the first time head coach. Uh. I think it's a good opportunity for the Dolphins. I think it's gonna be hot out there. All those things play for him. But you know I I've talked about this a little bit during the preseason, John, this team needs to find a way to get away from the slow starts, both game by game and season long. You know this team is over the last couple of years, it seems like
every game you're playing from behind. Every single game, the scenario has been get the ball, two penalties, punt, they score, next thing. You know, you next time the same thing starting out to to score game and you're playing catch up and you're out of your game plan. They need to be the ones that get in front that they need to be the ones that forced the other teams
to play catch up. And you look at the start of the season where you got Tennessee coming in you you go to the Jets and the Jets got a rookie quarterback that that you know, that early in his career where you know you can I don't know how, I don't know how good he's gonna be, but if I'm gonna get him, let me get him early in the season. And then you got the Raiders coming to town,
and the Raiders look like disarray there. You know, they go and get Chucky over there, and you know, everyone's hundred million dollars and you you can pay a hundred million dollars for your coach, but you can't afford to keep your best your best player on the roster um. So so you got and then you go to New England. So this team really has an opportunity if they play well and if they if they play the way we expect them to play, to really get off to a
season starts. So you're not you know, our one and three, one and four and climbing uphill. I think just for the for the mental health of this football team, they've got to get off fast in both ways, John, I do too. I agree with you Bo. You have to be able to score points early in a football game to feel like you're in control, to be able to take some charge and be able to dictate to other teams. And that means obviously fast starting. That doesn't always mean
the offense has to do the scoring. You know that this defense is tenacious. This defense can get after quarterbacks. So my scenario going up against you know, different tackles throughout the league. Can Robert Quinn and can can waken that rotation at defensive end, get a strip and a in a scoop and a score. Can they change the field position for the offense early in a game if they're out there for quarterback and and can this defense?
And I think that this defense in Week one is going to face a very stiff challenge because every dynamic that the Miami Dolphins are looking to improve on defensively, the Tennessee Titans have on defense. They have a mobile quarterback that can extend plays and move the pocket. They have a big tight end that can control the middle
of the field. And they have a big running back in Derrick Henry that can that can win at the line of scrimmage with a guy like Dion Lewis can do a lot of stuff, you know, catching the ball out of the backfield. So every dynamic that you know our defense was working on in the preseason and in training camp. This team has those characteristics that will challenge us in Week one. If we're up to the challenge, I think our offense is gonna be able to take control.
But those are some of the things I'll be looking for. Did you see the article this morning by Marcus Mariota saying the first thing I'm doing is going after Bobby McCain. I didn't see saying I got a new cornerback out there. He said, I don't think the guy can play. I'm going right out of I didn't. I didn't see that that. I just made it up. Hey Bobby, what's up those
other bullshit interviews? What you gonna do? We got rid of Joe too for We don't want you to I want to if you want to get you have you. Let let you get a word in. Hey Bobby, it's been a it's been a long training camp. A lot of things have happened, but but here we are this Sunday. Uh, this team finally gets a home opener. I don't remember the last time that that. We had one last year, but you end up being in because of the storm,
so you get a home opener. Um, there's gotta be a lot of excitement in that locker room about getting the seat's always opening day is always great at home even better, and this team has gotta be very very excited about that. Yeah, for sure, for sure, definitely big for the for the crowd with our home fans, having a home opener. Um, Like you said, we didn't have them last year. I don't believe I've had one since
in my career. Um, So it's exciting. We're happy to be at home and happy just to kick it off the right way. Bobby, you you've had a chance to start looking at this Tennessee football team. I'm sure you guys probably started working on him in the last couple of weeks going into this to some degree. Um, you look at this team, what what what concerns you about them?
Right off the top? You know they got a good ball players, uh leading with them Yota, you know, he's he's he's a guy that can run, he can throw, um do with their quarterbacks. So you just gotta have it. We gotta have a good rush plan and have eyes on him and uh, make sure we're good in coverage that way when he does try to find those running lanes, you know we can close them up. And they got a good back, they got good watt outs, you know, and uh and shar Matthews, Corey Davis, those guys just
doing a little quick run through Henry. You know, they got Dion Lewis came from the camera from Patriots. They got some good guys over there that are that are good ball players, have been the league a minute. So you know, we gotta work cut out for us. But we're we're we're excited to get to get going and get preparent. Hey, Bobby, what was the biggest challenge for you moving outside the corner? You know when you're you're in dB and you feel like, I can do everything.
I can play outside, I can play inside. Just asked me, and I'm gonna do it. But for your own benefit of going from zero to a hundred right away? Was it I discipline? Was it your footwork? Was it your technique? What what was the biggest change for your challenge for
you that you had to get used to. Definitely eyes, having good eyes is a good is a big deal, especially outside with everything you get the cracker place and uh, you know reading run passed with receivers you never know, so it could be a double move just having good eyes come out of breaks, transitioning things like that, that sort that you've been doing your whole life, you know. But you know, inside you're a little closer to the ball, You're you're a little close to the run fits. Outside
you're more you know, pass first. So just preparation with that, Um, having a I'm gonna prepare the same, you know, I prepare the same each and every week. I never sleep on opponent. So, um, just that that would be the biggest thing for me. And then communication wise too, that's probably the next thing because inside you're probably communicating with linebackers, you're communicating outside when you're on the edge, you're only going one way or or back to the safety is
exactly exactly you're inside. You know, you got you're you're kind of a facilitator almost and especially with the back end guys getting us in the right call the correct calls and uh, talking with the lbs with the run fits. So you know at corner. You gotta talk to that. You gotta know your job, and you gotta know the guys next to you. And ain't nobody on your eye
that bob you. You have plenty of reps during during practice, during training camp, limited reps during the game because you guys starts didn't really play all that much during the during the preseason. They don't. So you still got some getting comfortable to do as this season comes in. As you start the season game wise, do you expect to see, uh, Tennessee, maybe test you out a little bit and see what
you got out there. And certainly with Minko is gonna I think anybody that's in a in a new position or a young guy, you would think that team is gonna go ahead and test the waters a little bit and see what you got in the tank. Ye, But I'm prepared, Like I said, I'm prepared. I'm ready to go. And uh, you know, I feel good outside and you know, I feel I feel like I can help this team win and that's that's what we're doing. Well, what about
the makeup of this football team? Um, you know, I don't want to know culture changes and this and that that. That's window dressing. But when when you look at this football team, you've been around it for a while, do you like the makeup of these guys? And I think and one of I think one of the goals with this, with this coaching staff during the off season and the personnel was to go from somewhat of a of a
of a me team to a WE team. And I think they've accomplish that pretty well with the cast of characters that you've got sitting in that locker room over there. Yeah, we got a lot of dogs in there that that that are about the team, and it's it's about a family. It's about us at the end of the day. It's not just about I or or me. It's it's about us as a whole. As a unit. We're trying to win for the Miami Dolphins. We're not just trying to win for the Miami offense the Miami defense might be
special teams. We're trying to win a game as the Miami Dolphins. And we had a lot of guys on that in our locker room, a lot of new guys that are that have came in and and have built a good foundation to and have joined the foundation of what we started. You know, whether whether you listen to radio or not, or read the newspapers or not, or read what's on the on the internet or not, I think you're aware of what the national picture of what
this football team is. Uh does that put a chip on everyone's shoulder in there and say, hey, look, these guys don't believe us, or is it say hey, look that's fine, Say whatever you want. We know the kind of football team we are. We'll show you. We'll start showing you on Sunday. I think I was just keep doubting, keep doubting, and we'll keep showing you who we are. So at the end of the day, we started with Tennessee Week one, and we'll go from there. Uh. So,
like I said, we can't focus on the outside. We can't focus on on what the newspaper with ESPN saying, oh they're gonna go so and so, so and so we'll be Lastingly, I'm not too focused on that. I'm just focused on our job and what we have to do to go want to know this week? Yeah, Bobby we Bow and I were talking earlier before you came in, just the excitement of a new season, the excitement of being zero and zero and trying to get your first victory.
What is that feeling like in the locker room right now as you guys build each day knowing that, hey, Sunday's our first test. Sunday's our first opportunity to to prove ourselves to ourselves. You know, like you said, I don't really care what's going on outside of our building, but this is our first opportunity. Do you feel that excitement with this team that they can't wait for Sunday? I mean, you gotta get your work done this week to prepare, but you can't wait for your first test. Yeah,
you can't wait. We can't wait for this season open. Man, There's there's nothing like opening Sunday. We so like we're really excited. And when we're excited just to show the world who we are, you know, what we're capable of and and and like I said, we're excited to get going. Man, just get that first W under the books and hopefully go out and have a good performance. Come on with the W opening day? Is it's nothing like especially, it really is. And uh, I don't care how many years
you've been in the league. You know you your roll out there on on opening Day, and whether you're at home in the road, it's a it's a it's it's a very very special thing. And I always look forward to it still, uh as and and I'm sure as a player, it's just uh, you know, I could always I couldn't wait to get done with training camp, and then I just couldn't wait to get to opening day game. You know, you wish your body could feel like that year around? Are the old guys? Do you probably after
three games? Les? Hey, how about Matt Burke coming in his second year calling the defensive signals? What's that dynamic with you guys on the field? Do you like? Do you like what he brings to the table. He seems like he's an intense guy. He seems like he's there for you. He's gonna correct you when you need it. But he's he's kind of one of those guys that you want to play for. At least that's the way it feels like when I when I watch you guys work.
He definitely got we want to play for. Definitely got that. He's smart guy, darting with the guy so he knows he knows his football. And uh, and that's and that's why we appreciate me though. He gets us in the right calls, he gets this, He does a great job overnight, um all throughout the week, just set up a good game plan for us, having a good plan for Tennessee
and Mariota and the receivers and guys. So you know, we uh, he's definitely got we'd like to play for and um, you know we're gonna go out and have a strong performance more. Yeah, speaking scheme wise, and this thing, Uh, we talked to X earlier and it looks like he's gonna be following the best receiver around for for some games and you're gonna be moving. How is that gonna How is that gonna work out? Are you're gonna stay insides or or you're gonna be switching for receivers or
it's gonna be a game to game situation. It's just game the game. As of right now, we're just you know, we're just going to game the game and uh and we'll go from there. You know, we can't really I can't really speak on you know, our our our strategy, a game plan for other receivers. But you know, right now we're just focused on on the Titans man and that and that's that. That's all I can say. And I know you're back in that that that backside of that,
that defense. But I'm sure you can hear Chris Consure up in front, the defensive line coach or the h the coach up there kind of getting these guys far. Do you do you listen to him? And do you hear him chattering all the time? Definitely a lot man. Definitely you hear his voice all the time. You know, anytime the guys off the ball, or anytime the line is getting off the one on the ball, getting off on the rock, you know, you hear him. You hear
that raspy voice in the background. So you know, he brings a lot of energy and he's like he's really good coach. He brings the energy to the d line and that's what we need. You know, those guys running to the football like like wild men. So that's that we appreciate that in the back end. You know, I got the rendso back here kind of tell me to wrap it up, Bobby. You know, guys are painted a butt back here, coming said, we're up. Going back in the other room, You're like, what was the guy in Uh,
what was the guy in uh the bathroom? Bathroom? What was his name? I forget his name? Bad luck? He was bad bad luck. Yeah, put him in there much put him in the bathroom. Put what ends in the bathroom. We're gonna do that. Hey, Bobby, Bobby, appreciate you coming. How are you? And how are you? And uh? And Danny get along you and amado. You guys you can ask every time, every time someone talks, you get asked about that, right, And I felt I felt obligated to
so with no no ask my boy. Man, that's my brother. He's going in. We're going to war week one, you know. So, but yeah, we're getting over well. Man. He's a really good player. He's a guy. He's a good leader for the team, good leader for that receiving room. And we're happy to have him before you go. You know there there's been a lot of talk about you know, losing you know, Sue and guys moving, you know, Pouncy and the guys that that that left this football team. Um,
but you're bring in guys, you'ring. You bring in um the Danny Amundolas and the Sittings and Kilgore's and mcquinns and and and what I see there is to me for this football team. You you've got to have a bunch of overachievers in this football team. I think they brought in guys like that that were overachievers, and I think everyone kind of is gonna buy into that. Do you think that's that's what this football team or the
personalities football team that you'd like to see? Ye got guys that better boat in and uh, you know the with with the with the with the with the guys we brought in in the locker room, the guys that we had currently even you know, there's there's like I said, it's a good foundation laid and we're just gonna keep building on that. But step back by brick, step by step and try to and build chemistry with this team that way we can. And and Jay way February, we're
still playing Bobby. Uh. You know, it's great to have you and looking forward to a big season, looking forward to Tennessee Titans on on Sunday. It should be a great day at the stadium and hopefully it's little muggy and hot steaming out there for those guys. And uh and put him on that side over there there doesn't even get any shade. Put him in there, put him in the in the in the heater over there. Appreciate stopped by Bob. They're good luck this season and stay health. Appreciate,
appreciate it all right, good stuff there. So well, it's gonna be interesting to see. Uh, it's gonna be interesting to see scheme wise, how they do. I think that as we talked about with with Bobby, I really think that this team, I think X is gonna be the guy, uh that that you know, if they if they look and there's a guy that they really want to cover, I think he's gonna follow. If it's just you know, hey, let's just stay on side because there's nobody there that
you know, we really wanna h dedicate him too. But I think that's going to kind of be uh what the what the look of this defense is going to be like, at least from a from a coverage team, I think this team should be thankful you get a guy like Bobby that's so flexible that can move from the nickel corner out to the cornerback position, and have a guy that's talented enough to go the inside like Minka and start game one, you know, you know, week one, middle,
middle of the you know, preseason, that kind of change happens, and the team doesn't look any different. Actually, a team looks better because you have your best players on the field. So thankfully you get a guy like Bobby You're right, that can move around, play either side, do whatever he's asked to do on the outside, and then have Minka come in and play snaps at nicol um had Uh. Adam Gaze uh, you know, it's it's it's an interesting
year to me for Adam Gaze. He comes in his first year, turns a team around ten and six, go to the playoffs, and then last year the you know, you can kind of come back to earth. But but look, I know he wouldn't talk about it, but you know that was a tough lot of distractions you talk about just from from day one, it was just you know, Ryan, you know, Kawan gets hurt, then you get the hurricane, and then you're out in California and then you gotta
I mean to travel. I think for the first four weeks of the season, I remember saying, you know what, a year and a half I kept saying, you what, I haven't played it I haven't played it down in the game, and I'm exhausted. You know, I can imagine what these guys are like because it travel was just it was brutal. Travel is long ter. I had to go to London, New York, you know, the California um and so it's understandable. So he goes through that and now here he is kind of clean that slate and
he's here. How pivotal is how pivotal is this year? You think for for coach Adam Gaze, I think it's very important. I think that what Adam has done is has really changed not only his roster, but he's changed the coaching staff over a little bit. And he feels confident that he has it right where he wants it. He thinks he has the players with the ability and
the mindset uh that he's been looking for. I think that you get your quarterback back, which makes him feel a heck of a lot more confident because he gets to the things in the offense that accentuate what Ryan does really well and the players around him, and I think he probably brings in a couple more playmakers on the defensive side. You know, you look at a guy like Robert Quinn how he can affect the game with
just one play. And you look at the versatility of a guy like William Hayes that can play outside, he can play inside, and the rotation of the pass rushers and the defensive tackles up front are going to if they play well, are going to mask some of the some of the inexperience you have playing behind you. So I think that's where he feels the strength of his defense is if they're good up front, bo, it's gonna be sure help the guys mature to the point where
now we're rolling. Once they get going and they're gonna be able to win with defense. I will say the one thing that this defense needs to do in terms of improvement is stopping the run. You know, I think third down and tight ends come from stopping the run. You have to be able to do that. You can stop the run, your your your third down defense is gonna get better. Yes, you know, if you're playing if you're playing second and nine, third and seven, those kind
of things you're gonna be You're gonna be better. It's it's the it's the third and ones. Uh, it's the second and two's it's it's those kind of things that really put you put you on your heels, uh and and get that going. So and on the other side, Bow, I think the one concern you have can you stop can you stop the mistakes before the ball is snapped and stay in first and tennis that the first and fifteen? And can you be are you able to score points?
Can you average not seventeen points a game? Can you do that in the twenties and in six range? Because if you start fast like you talked about, and you take lee in some of these games instead of always coming from behind, you can dictate a little bit more. You can have more control of the football game. So that that's the complementary football that that I'm envisioning for this team. To me, when I look at this team, John, they're there there. I think the I think the answers
for success are the same on both sides of the football. Hey, you gotta run the football. On the flip side, you gotta stop the run. You know, you've got to get your tight end involved. The tight end play has got to be vastly improved from what we've seen over the last couple of years on the offense and on the other side, vastly gotta you gotta improve vastly on covering the tight end. You know. Offensively, you've got to be successful on third down. Defensively, you've got to be successful
on third down. So the two, the two the issue. They mirror each other in what they're what their problems have been, and hopefully they've got them resolved. You know, you look at you look at Jerome Baker. That's the guy they brought in to to maybe be that guy that and you know, talking to him, he says, I love to cover, I can cover anybody. Well, that's the guy they brought in to cover those titles. Has only
two fifteen pounds. They didn't come in there to go, you know, go be a batting ram against a fullback or pulling guard or something. At your first round draft choice in there as well, you know, and he's gonna be able to move around and do a little bit of that. I think. As the season and and then you got you know, the running game, you got a whole new offensive line. Did you feel good about You've got a really nice group of backs back there. And on the flip side, as much as you as much
as you think, oh you're losing Dominican Sue. I really like that rotation of young defensive from a team spense to take got you to Phillips, all the William Hayes getting healthy and coming back in there, like those guys who love the defense, and so I think there's a lot of good things look for as also continue to continue to make some moves on the bottom end of that roster um. You know, you know what, that's one
of the things. But they've been able to do. You know, they've been You go through your cuts, you continue to make moves and and you try to improve this for roster. You're trying to upgrade this roster, and I like some of the moves they've made. If I'm forty team, I'm I'm Retten right, I'm going an apartment. When you unpack that, all you do is un zip your suitcase. You don't put anything away nothing, You don't put anything in the drawer.
You just keep that on the floor and just in case you need to pick it up and move very quickly. The going back to preseason, one of the one of the disappointing things to me was that first game in the first defense when they were in there and I understand the first preseason game is a veteran player. You kind of let me just get through these plays and I'm only gonna play six plays. Let me get out of here. But I expected a lot more. We kind of saw it shore up um at least to the
question of which defense are are we expecting to see? Uh? Come come Saturday. It comes Sunday, and it kind of goes along with what we were just talking about what they've got to do. Stop the run, pressure the quarterback dbs, stay tight, give your guys, give give those guys up front maybe another half of steps as you can, and
then play the takeaway game. They've they've got to they've got to be better at takeaways, much much better than They've got to get into the plus category and the giveaway takeaway, and then they've got to do it in a hurry. Well, I liked what I saw out of the defense, because when you started the preseason, I think against Tampa Bay, the first two passes one for thirty two yards and go right down the field and you score. Now you keep going, you progress. You go to Carolina,
you get two sacks right away from Robert Quinn. You get some pressure on Cam Newton. Although you give up a big seventy one yard run on the second play of the game because you don't fit it right, the defense finds a way to come back and they improve. And then you go to Baltimore and there's a lot more penetration up front. You get a lot more playing time, so guys are getting accustomed to, you know, the run fits and and the coverage, the calls, and you get
a little bit more experience playing together. So I think we're gonna see the ladder more more than how they started the preseason. I think you're gonna get a dynamic pass rush out of the front four. I think you're gonna get some push in the middle, but you gonna get some guys screaming off the edge, and you're gonna see a lot of guys doing it. Um. I hope
that the linebacking cork can solidify itself. You've got Kiko with the experience, You've got two young guys out there, and then you've got X who's really coming along on the edge. You get Bobby outside, You've got a handful of safeties that can play, you know, in a three man rotation, and you move make an inside at the Nickels. So but by the way, I like what you see.
And by the way, one guy we haven't talked about and and really over the last few weeks and and probably has been as impressive as anybody, uh, coming out of training campus t J McDonald camp. T J. You know last year, you know, you got the eight game suspension early on during the suspension, they extend his contract. People, Jesus, guy's not even playing. You extend his contract. Then he comes and really didn't play at the level that everyone expected,
didn't make the impact that everyone expecting to go. Jes A wasted money. Again. I'm gonna tell you what, this guy has been a terror during training camp and in the games. He has just been all all over the place. So I'm really looking forward to seeing him and Rashad working back there along with you know, it's gonna be a three safety She's gonna be a three safety backfield for a vast majority of the games with with Mika
back there. Um and and I just like the make up those guys, because you know, you know, we're shod and t J. They'll come up and hit you. Mike has shown that he's not afraid to come up and hit you. But I think Micky gives you that a little more athletic a little more athletic ability in that in that safety position that she has him a latitude, yeah,
a little range to get to more places. We saw it early in the early in the senior going over the top, you know that too deep where you know, how many times have you seen her too deep defense? And in abrot Well, Jesus, safety just couldn't get over there. And I'm while I was standing on the side and watching players, you know, I'm not sure he's gonna get there, and what puts on a burst and there and uh
usually don't see that. You don't see that on a veteran player as much less a rookie guys out there. So I think that's safety position. To me, I'm real, real happy with that. I like what you have because you've got different body types, you've got different skill sets. You know, we're shod with the experience. He's been a pro bowler. He still has that quick twitch that can cover. But he has the tenacity to play along the line of scrimmage t J the same way. You feel like
he's interchangeable. May not have the speed of Amenca or that that quick twitch of a rashad, but he makes up for when he hits you and he knocks you to the ground. And then you have Minca that seems like he does really everything. Well, you know, we seem like we're gushing over his skill set, but that's because
I've seen it. Well, I like what, you know what the thing about think about Minka since he's been here, you know, and I've been around the coaches a lot, and we've done production meetings and you ask this and this and that, and you know what, Minca never comes up. He's an issue. He's like I've kind of I'm gonna point out where I think Amika has been like a he's a veteran because guys always knows what he's doing.
Guy always And you know what, there there was a play we were in there We're in Carolina early in the game. You know, they run to the little, the litttle quarter route and bit the cheese and the bats coming out of the backfield and you see him just for just a little hesitation, catches himself, gets a ball, goes right over him. But you could see him. You could be registered the thought process. See this it's not gonna happen to me again. He was frustrated the time.
But and that, But you know that's what you see out of that guy. Is he just you know, he he's just he's a savvy veteran in a rookies body. I love it. That's exactly the way I was gonna say. He's a seasoned guy and you expect more out of him just because he's proven it time, every play that goes by, and every time he gets challenge, he's up to the challenge. So you stop thinking about I have a question mark there. You know you have a solid player.
You know you've got a guy that's gonna be with this franchise for a long time, and he's gonna be able to take over the reins at some point, probably at that safety position and move away from the nickel corner because you'll get somebody else to do that. It's funny as I went to watch some of the games over the weekend, and uh, you got all the football people in there and this and that, and the guy comes up and says, hey, he goes wahing, dos goes man.
I think I'll just go Minca Fitzpatrick. I haven't seen him do anything, And I'm going, what, I go, Well, you know, I don't have a whole lot of interception. But but I'll tell you what the guy's done. Everything, he's done everything that that that I would like to see. And I guarantee you you don't know what you like to see. How I'm sorry you don't see it. I'm sorry you missed out on it. But and maybe maybe that's a testament to to Manka is that he's played
so well. You know, sometimes you play so well that you just you know. I remember I played in my my junior year at San Jose State. I played with a guy, a cornerback. His name is Louis Wright. Louis Right was about six three, about to tan two, could run and and so I played with him. I came in. I was a junior college transfer, So I come in my junior year. So we go through the year and then here comes a draft. He's a like the seventh
player picked in the draft. And I go, Louis Right, I go, I don't you remember him making a play? And we ever noticed no one ever, no one ever threw a ball his way. That's why he didn't make any plays, because they didn't even then, even whe wherever Louis Ross, they didn't even bother. He didn't bother. We're gonna make a living off Gerald Small over the other side and not Louis. Right. But and I think micka Is Mick has been that kind of a guy. He
just you know, he plays so well. Sometimes you don't notice how well he's playing. I like what he brings his skill set because bo you're ready. He does everything well and he's not boisterous. He's not a guy that's gonna beat his chest after a play. He gets excited, and which he should, but and that gets contagious to the other players. But it's it's like, uh, it's like he flatlines. He does his job. There's no there's no ups or down. That's the expectation, and that's a good
thing for this team. And then look, he's you know, you know, he's one of those guys that make he may he'll make a mistake, but he'll make it once and he's not gonna make any again. Uh. And he's not gonna get beat physically very much out there because he's he's such a good athlete. Uh. And I just say, I'm I'm, I'm very, very excited about that secondary, especially when you get into the to the middle of it. Now, you know X, you know X played well last year.
He's got it and he's gotta lift his game. His game can't be stagnant from what it was last year. He's got to get better. And then certainly there's that concern with with Bobby McCain. I love Bobby out there. I'm happy that he's out there, but as we talked about really at the beginning of the show, he's gonna get tested and they're gonna find out what Bobby and they want to find out what what he's like. Okay, you wanna you want to put a guy, an inside,
guy outside. We're gonna find out if he can play out there, and it'll be it'll be a huge test Week one against the Tennessee Titans. You know, you have Matthews on the outside, you have Davis Corey Davis is the other receiver. You've got a big tight end and Delaney Walker that's strong, that can run down the middle of the football field. And you've got Marcus Mariota that can tuck the football and extend plays on a third down. So you have to be able to react to a
lot of different scenarios. You know, they've got a downhill runner, they've got an outside guy. So there's a lot of dynamics that the Tennessee Titans are gonna bring the hard Rock Stadium. It's gonna be a big challenge for the Dolphin defense, A good test in Week one. One of the other things if you want to if you're looking for storylines in the game, Mike Rabel, you head coach
of of the Tennessee Titans. I've got a lot of respect from Mike Rabel as a as a player, and then he's gone through the you know, he's worked his way through the coach through coaching ranks and and done what he's had to have done the work, and he's certainly the pedigree that he comes from having played with and coached under Bill Belichick and that staff. Um. You know, the whole time he's been there. You know he's prepared. You know, he's a guy that is going to be successful.
Whether it's gonna be sooner or later, time will tell. But it's gonna be interesting to see what he brings to the table and how much of the redundancy you see from what new England does up there that he's brought down to Tennessee, and he's got players to work with. He's got a really good defense. You look up front, Drill Casey, one of those guys that knows tackle that can get penetration on the quarterback and still in the team. A rap goes that outside. You got Woodyard is another linebacker.
And I'm really impressed with the secondary because you get Logan Ryan at one corner who has that New England experience in the schemes down Malcolm Butler who he's accustomed with of coaching and being around. And you've got Kenny Vacaro, who the Dolphins actually brought in and looking at safety. You know, you get him for a reduced price, so
you you've got talent on that defensive side. So you get available in there that has that experience of being around Belichick playing the Dolphins, knowing that the body types of who he's going up against. I think it's it's gonna be a great matchup in Week one. That that being said, though, it's it's nice to see a first year coach coming in on opening day because look at as as prepared as he is, um you know, I I can't. I couldn't imagine being, you know, a head
coach in the National Football League the first time. And I've look, I've you know, I've had Adam. You know, I've I've been through a number of handful of coaches here and all of them their first time is at head coaches and uh and and everyone I've asked, hbody said, hey, how was your experience? And now yeah, it's you know, kind of blown ou Yeah, yeah, I'm and I'm thinking, yeah, I'm you know, I'm sure there was at some point
you almost soiled yourself before the game. You're not human if it's not you're not human if it's a for your first time coacher player, and you're not grumbling a little bit. And that's why he surrounded himself with a guy like Dean P's, the defensive coordinat who has huge experience with the Ravens, and and you know Adam, Uh, you know, we talked to Adam a little bit and he he has great respect for those guys on the other side because he's coached with him, he's coached against
him in different capacities. So you know, this is a solid, solid group that's coming in on Sunday. Yeah, it's to me, it's a it's a it's a good test, but I think it's a test that Dolphin should pass. Um. But but like you said, it's it's they're not They're not. Uh, it's not gonna be a cake walk. I mean, you're gonna have to come out and they're gonna have to play good football, sound football. And John, I mean, you know, I've been beating this drum for a long time. They
can't come into this game and beat their selves. I'm watching I'm watching college football, you know, first week of college football, and and every team that got the snot kicked out of them got the snot kicked out of them because they beat themselves the majority of the time with penalties. Stupid penalty the Miami Florida State. You watch these teams and and they're moving the ball and then
they shoot themselves in the foot. Next thing you know, it's you know, now they got a third and fifteen second and twenty those types of things that are unmanageable at this level. And that's what the that's what the Dolphins have done. And Adams talked about it all preseason. They've got guys running laughs, they've done everything they can to try to get the pre snap Look, what's the balls in play? Guys are gonna things are gonna happen. You know, guys gonna grab a guy and and try
to protect his quarterback. You know, there's gonna be pushing shove, and there's gonna be bumping out in the corners and the you know, with the receivers and everything. But but you can't beat yourself with pre snap penalties, and and and and and the Dolphins and whether they're gonna be a great football team or social football team, they're they're they're they're not going to reach their peak until they
stopped beating themselves. We we did many a post game last year, and I don't know how many times we've talked about you can't you can't win games when you have ten penalties. You can't win games. We have nine penalties for nineties some yards. That has to be eliminated from the Miami Dolphins DNA, and I think they've gone a long way in terms of addressing it, in terms of making it a big issue. Protecting your football that's another thing. Protecting it on offense and taking it away
on defense. If you can improve on your discipline mentally before the ball snap, and once it's snapped, if you can get your hands on the football and protect it, those two trades go a long way and helping you win games. Give me a lot of these pregame issues to me, because look, the Dolphins aren't the only team. They're not the only team that are that are they're shooting themselves in the foot. Like I said, we've seen
a lot of college football. We'll see a lot in the National Football League, UM, especially one, especially week one, UM. And to me, you know, to me, this is where this is where not having a what I would call a traditional training camp where you're hitting on a regular basis. Because now these guys get into a game. They haven't they haven't gone live in practice, but I'm talking live
in practice very much, if at all. And then they get in this situation and you understanding, understand completely, you're that defensive lineman you want to get off in that but you want to get off that you know, and and and you haven't been that situation so much in practice. And offensively, you know, you're that offensive lineman. Guy wants to go on a three snap, you know, on a on a on a three count, you better hold your
water there. And if you haven't done it, and this guy's you got this defensive end, it's an all pro breathing, you know, coming out of breathing like a like a like a bull coming out of the shoe. You want to get your ass back there. And and and if you haven't done it, you get that you can answer. And it's so I you know, to me, it's it's a discipline thing. It certainly is a player's responsibility. But again to me, and I just I just I just don't like the direction this league is heading in from
that standpoint. Port tackling, penalties, all those kind of things. But and I think the penalty issue with the Dolphins and other things in part part and parcel has to do with that. Well, you know, no, that's okay because you know what happens. They do it in in high school and now they do it in college and it's it's filtered. It's way to the pros. And I don't know which way started it, but every every level of foot and every level of football, and that's what you get.
That's one of the bad results you get from it. Yeah, this podcast is permeating the airwaves too. I saw some guy there and he goes, you know, I was listening to Apple Music, So I was listening for somebody else, and you guys came on, he said, So I listened to you for two minutes and then I turned it off. Is nice of it? And I said, what did you turn it off to go to Dolphins dot com. He goes, no, No,
I didn't want to hear anymore. I said, well, if you do feel like you, just gout the Dolphins mobile app because you can hear it wherever you have to put it on your phone and or go to tune in radio. Hey, game this Sunday, UH one o'clock. UH hard Rock Stadium. Should be should be packed, should be loud, should be exciting. I'm excited. I'm exciting not only for uh this game. I'm started for the start of the season and this journey that this football team is is
gonna take. I'm I'm I'm excited to see and and you know, there's a little unknown and there's a little expectation and there and then there's that that that in between there that uh, I'm really looking forward to this. You know what, there's so many question marks in terms of how this team is gonna perform because you you think about it, you've seen him every day at camp, you've seen the preseason games, and then you you kind
of read about the national perception. It makes you a little piste off and makes you want to determine to go out and prove people wrong. I just hope that this team is focus on what they need to do to win Week one, then hit delete and get ready to do it again. I'm gonna go out on a limb Dolphins, Dolphins next week when we're on this show doing what we're talking about. You're talking about a one or no football team right now, getting ready to go
to New York and a little bit. That's right. I can't wait for this team to go out and kind of show what the work they've put in and see if they can do it on Sunday. Hey, John, appreciate it. Appreciate it. For Joe. Joe, where's Joe? I thought he'd come in, but you know, um, I were winner and must have taken him to it. Must have a tie, must be working at a tiebreaker, right, Noble or nothing? Right now? Is that double one? One more set? We'll just go to three. Al Right, that's gonna do over
the show. We'll catch you next week.