The Audible Ep. 29 | Albert Wilson

And you know that's at someone that you go somewhere with Joe. You can never just leave a place. You can never creep out of it into a place or out of a place. I'm a creeper when I go someplace. When it's time for me to go, I just kind of buy it back out a little bit. And you know, hey, on my way, he used to tell me, I used to vaporize. Yeah, exactly, that's that's corner. Hey where John, I think he's in the bathroom. They wouldn't send me

untill next season. Exactly where's Bo? Well, it's to be honest with he's probably right in bed right the right it's all over with so anyway. But we'll get him back here at some time. Uh. First, First, John, let

let's talk about about yesterday's game to win. Um, you know, going up against the Jets, going up to New York, playing in New York, first road game for a very young football team in the Miami Dolphins to a team that that you know, looked like looked like, oh boy, they got they got the next coming of Joe Namath. You know they got uh, you know, they got a running game the restaurant hundred sixteen yards. Oh man. I remember looking at the back of the post after Week

one and and they already anointed the super Bowl. They were going second coming. We're on our road. We're on the road. We're on the road to the super Bowl. One of those New York Jets fans that haven't been able to bring the pomp bombs out of the closet or the Jackets or whatever they were, they were screaming from the mountain tops and and every you know, you probably feel good about doing that because you haven't been able to do that in a while. If you're a

Jets fan or a Dolphins fan for that matter. Being able to feel confident about your team and being able to, you know, just talk about it anywhere you go. They even they played so in the first game, even that fraud Fireman ed came back. They came out of time. Remember about four or five years bringing down the guys are horrible. I'm the Fireman's hats coming and I'm retiring. And now he's back. Last week. It was great to see it. It's great to see his stupid ass up there.

You know, did you hear anything at him? No, I don't know. I know. I think when he left he used to be down, like down almost almost feel. I think they put him up in the They said, we'll still put you on a camera on the stadium, but you're gonna sit way up in the in the chief scenes discouraging from coming. And so now they got three.

They got three. They got they got Fireman ad back, and they got to want to be Fireman as so they're all patrolling the state and they're all wining after the game, you know, crying and you love good cars. It's an awesome thing to see. When I thought to take over by the Dolphin fans was good. It was really good. Yeah, that was great. Yeah, it was nice. We went out there and Joe and I went out for a cup of Joe in the part those packs man, So we're driving they they unfortunately they got us a

golf cart and and then the goat. It's Joe, me um Mark, Clayton's wife, Dupe and Clayton. So we're on a sixth seeder there we're heading it. And so we're driving and we're driving through them by the metal lands out in the parking lot and and all there's you know, jet fans and we all got dolphins shirts. I and you know, but everyone else had dolphin shirts on and uh. And Dupe's like, We're like, we're driving going, hey, you're

gonna get your asses. And it was were real quiet on the cart, right, No, no, no, no, we're right, We're right. I mean we're literally driving down and we're about ten feet from all these tailgates and Dupe is just giving him. The business people are like running after us and we're riding into golf. Dude was just and then we come around the corner and all of a sudden you see the sea of akwand orange. You know, these people that they be coming and look, I talked

to people from Canada. There was a guy from the UK there that was his first game. Uh, people from all over the country came, you know, with all their dolphin gearing. It was it was really really was something special. So you know, if the funny was at the end of the game, I'm walking off the field two minute warning,

I know they don't have to run another play. I'm walking in and I look up and I saw you you know what, that's amazing all these people and they were so happy because they were getting to beat down to Jet fans while they were walking out walking down. It was a little payback for pregame. It was. It was the thing of beauty. It was. It was good stuff. But anyway, um, a big, big win for the Dolphins in a lot of ways. John, I think, um, for the second game in a row. You know you're able

in the first have to establish a lead. They get a fourteen nothing lead, then they get twenty nothing, and you know, that's kind of been my that's kind of been one of my thing my themes this year is, hey, this team, you can't afford to play from behind all the time. And here's two games we led three lost trail three nothing in against Tennessee and then came right back scored a touch after that, and so you so

you'll lead the rest of the the way. So, uh, this team gets a lead and you're able to, thank God, able to hang on because he really struggled in that second half. John couldn't couldn't put points on the board for a lot of the reason. But the Jets weren't

gonna allow him run the football. But they weren't gonna allow the Dolphins to make a living between the tackles running the football a lot of people with the line of scrimmage, and so they found other ways to get the job done, and the help of the defense with the with the turnovers. Three turnovers in the first half were huge, huge in this game. It was really nice to your first point about the Dolphins getting out to

a fast start. You know, in those numbers. I think we've talked about it in prior years, in prior weeks about how the numbers are so directly lead you to a loss if you're downten nothing, if you're down seven nothing, and now it gets to fourteen nothing. And the Dolphins have not been a good team over the last ten

years of being able to overcome that obstacle. So they get off fairly fairly quickly, and it's led by you know, Ryan Tannehill running the football early on the first play of the game, the defense setting the table with all the turnovers, uh cutting the field in half, the special teams, and Hawk punting the football the way he did, keeping the Jets pinned down on their own end. So there was a lot of things to lead that led to early momentum in the football game that Miami took advantage of.

Every time the defense or special teams set the table for the offense, they were able to operate on a short field, moved down and score. And I think I wrote in one of my takeaways that turnovers lead to touchdowns, and that's exactly what the Dolphins did. T J gets him down inside the twenty yard line, you get a

Drake run up the middle of six yards touchdown. You get Keiko stripping the ball loose, you get uh Wilson on the under route and he stutters the guy in mid midstream and goes up the sidelines for a touchdown. So he had plays like that where it was complimentary football that the defense set the table, the special teams kept him down there, but the offense came through to finally get that league, and and and and the key thing is, and you look at the difference between the

Dolphins and the Jets. Jets were held. They score the one touchdown, but you know, whenever they pro whenever they had crossed the goal the goal line, they had field goals or turnover or you or turnover. But you know, to be able to hold. Look, we've been that situation enough over the years where you gotta settle for field goal. Settle for field goals. Next you know, you lose a game by two and so and you're looking at exactly and you look at the Jets and they just but

but you're you know, Matt Hawk. You got Matt Hawk in the first first series or first half, he went put put the ball in the fifteen yard line, uh, the nineteen yard line, the third, eighteen yard line. I mean, he was just busting the ball down, busting the ball down. First half twelve seven seven, second half, the three, the ten, the seventeen, the eight all came all came after the

Jets session. After Matt Hawk put and you know, there was a lot of a lot of a lot of guys did a lot of good things in that game. But if you're gonna pick m M v P, guys certainly gonna get some votes because I thought that was when you when you make that team drive, it's tough, it's it's rocky quarterback. Unless you get a big chunk play, something's gonna happen, especially with a rookie quarter make him

go the long way. And I think that was the game plan from Adam Gaze in terms of the coaching staff and the way they wanted to make the Jets work on offense. I think there's starting field position in the first half. I had him down his minus four minus ten, minus twenty five, minus eight, minus twenty five.

They were always deep in their own end. So even if they strung four or five or six plays together, you're right, they needed that one twenty five yard player, that one thirty five yard play, that explosive play to cut cut it in half, to to really if they didn't score, they punted back and pin the Dolphins. So that really never position, the field stayed tipped the entire first happen basically the entire game. Yeah, yeah, no doubt

about it. And uh, just um, you know so many you look at us just trying to to put some You look at, say, so who this is If you go back to two thousand and sixteen when when the Dolphins when ten and six went to the playoffs, very similar to what we're seeing now with this football team. I think Ryan was playing at a better level there, and I think Ryan will get to a to a better level than than than than what he's done in the first couple of games. We've still done enough to

help this team win football games. But it was always big plays. There was always a big play at some point that made the difference. First game against tennessee big plays in that that when you have the big touchdown to Kenny Stills, you have the kick returned by but Jachim Grant. Defensive plays had interceptions from two interceptions from and then you go look at this game and Albert Wilson's touchdown, the play between Rashad and and Bobby Bobby McCain at the end of the first half to keep

them from being the end. And then in time running, I didn't even get then even walk away with points. Right, you're figuring they're gonna they're gonna go in with momentum work, the clock make sure they got a little time. LA was brutal. Oh gosh, yeah, and so and so. You had a big play there. You know, you get the fumble from from Ryan. Very next play, X runs the route for whose I don't know if it's Anderson and picks and and and it makes a huge play in

the ends. I was able to stand in the end zone, stay in to get to make it count. Um and then it just it was just so anywhere else. I know, I'm missing some of the big plays that were out there yesterday, but you know, you had you had Keiko frying around the field, stripping football's, knocking guys out. I mean, it was unbelievable. Thirteen total tackles, Robert Yeah, McMillan picks up the fumble, Robert Quinn's humming off the edge. The

entire game. You've got you know, McCain battling on the corner. You've got the Jets limited to forty two yards on the ground, so that front seven and was really doing a great job of winning the battle to the line of scrimmage. You had all those things happening, and then you put the Dolphins offense on a short field where they you know, the numbers might not have seemed, you know, huge, but they only had to go fifty or sixty or forty yards to get the points they were able to

get in that first half. Yeah, no doubt it was. It really was a fun thing to watch. But you know, the it this is you really start to see. And I was just talking to Albert about it, John, I think we may have talked about it last week. But the more the more I watched this, more I watched this league now, the more I believe fast athletic is the way to win football games out here. Now. Having said that, man, there's still a lot of big hits

out in that football field. Big. I know there. I know the league is trying to take away all these big hits and but there and there were a lot of big, legal, big hits out there. Is Keego is just Keigo just socks office people. And it was unbelievable how how well he played and how fast he played. And I think it all goes back bow And we've seen all these practices during O t as, We've seen

all training game, we've seen the preseason. The defense has been preaching, the coaching staff has been preaching run of the ball wherever it is on the field, get to the football, then get back to the line of screamage, get back in the huddle, run another play. If somebody go if Frank Gore and practice runs at a hundred yards, you go down and touch the football, get back to where you're supposed to be, line up and play again. That's the way they play every play, every snap against

the Jets and the Titans. No matter where the ball is, they're finding it, getting back and getting ready to do it again. Going into that game, I you know, I like, I was like everyone else, you know, you've got to stop that running game because the Jets had they ran ran all over the week before. But but in the back of your mind and it was at Detroit or was at the Jets. Uh, But they Jets have a nice running game. They have a nice, pretty nice offensive line.

And I tell that defensive front, that front seven, and you know, so the beginning of the game, I thought they set the tempo in the beginning of the game just they want to penetrate. You know, they were getting up the features. We're trying to get that zone blocking, stretch blocking, and they would get in the crease of that stretch and just get in the backfield create you know, create trouble with lanes to meet is is a killer

of a running game. You can penetrate with that running now has to stop readjust then then then and that I thought they did a really good job of being very aggressive early on and throughout the first half, and a better part of the second half. I think they were I think around the feel a little too long, kind of got a little tired there towards the end, But I think early on the aggressiveness of that front seven really set the tempo for what that defense was

gonna be all day long. And you know what, Bow, it just wasn't one guy, but that constant rotation up front. I asked a Keem Spence, you know, how does that keep you fresh? He goes, Oh, I feel so much better in the second half because we all feel like we're starters number one, and we all feel like we're contributing.

And the rotation up front is keeping those guys a little bit fresher in the second half so they can still penetrate the running game and and and pressure the pocket like they did maybe the first two series of a game. Because those guys are getting You know, there there's multiple people playing different positions, all equaling the same effect because they've all been just as good as the

next guy coming in. You don't you have to check the number to see who was that because you're not sure of which guy was playing defensive tackle on that play. Where you look at Robert Quinn making plays, gotcha made plays. Vincent Taylor. Vincent Taylor, to me, here's a guy that's just getting better and better and better. He played well last year, you know it, gotchall was kind of a little hit him. Now I think they're I think they're there.

I think they're both playing. But I think I think Vincent really is taking his game to a whole different level. And they're best football's like two years, right, I mean, once they really get the hang of what they're doing. Right now, they're going on emotion. You know, they got a little bit technique, but they're they're strong guys and athletic kids. Well, well look at and that's why I've been saying about this football team. To me, this is

a very very young football team. But but there's a good core of young football players over the last three drafts, and a good example we look look at So you look at Gottschaw and Taylor from last year to this year, both have improved, right, both were good last year, Both have improved. Go back to x you know, his first year pretty good, but he kind of feels second year all of a sudden second half. Second year he started and now they don't even throw his ball throwing the

balls the third year. So so that's kind of all these guys that were drafted three years ago, two years ago, this year, you know they've got you know they're playing well, but they've gotta they've got a lot of upside. And these are these are guys that you hope they're gonna have upside because you can see it already. They're getting

better each and every week. They're approving it. And for opposing offensive coordinators that think the wink link might be Minca Fitzpatrick, they better, they better scratch that off the list and try to spread it around. I'm an offensive coordinate saying, look, there's two places I don't want the ball to go. I don't want it to go by twenty nine, and I don't want it to go anywhere in and you're thrown somewhere between them. We don't don't

get it around those two guys. And it's and it's really very evident to Jets were trying to target Minca because I think he had ten targets. You know, whoever he was covering, the ball was going his way and all I saw was him waving his hands in You know, I don't think so well, you're talking about big plays, plays he makes in the end zone, Witherson going up and you know it goes up and then defends the

ball and tackles well in space and everything. He just he just you mean, you talk about a guy that stepped in and looks like he's been playing at this league, in this league at a high level for forever, for a long time, not just a month and a half. You know, whenever he got here and and was able to contribute, it's been special on defense and and it has to continue. You know, this is a league where

they're gonna get a couple of weeks on film. They're gonna take a look at what you do, where your tendencies are, what your alignment is, How can we defeat you by alignment? And you know that's where yourself study comes in. You know, guys that have only played two games in the league thinking and I don't think Mink is this way. I think I think he's gonna continue to work in his craft, to change up his alignment, to change up things that he does because he doesn't

want people to think, you know, I've got you. Now you know they're gonna try to work on something else. But I really like the way that the defense. I mean, over two weeks in the National Football League, there's been a lot of mistackles around the National Football League, but there's been a lot of positive explosive plays made by the front seven and the back end, and I think they're playing complimentary a lot of pressure up front. You don't have to cover as long you can make plays

on the football. Teams will start to see what they're doing a little bit and they'll adjust. But but they'll adjust too because they know what other team that but what the other teams doing. But I don't care what you can talk about adjustments and schemes in this and that. As long as you're an aggressive team that's playing downhill on defense, you're gonna have a chance to win the majority of the time. You know, it's when you're kind of when you're playing catch you know, catching read, then

then then you're gonna struggle. But then you're in in this team. This team, I don't see this team at any point this season being a catch and read football team. It goes to your point. But the defensive front seven, especially the front four, they're moving the line of screamage about two or three yards in the offensive backfield. Anytime you can get the head type of penetration, it really

he's going to make the backstop and start again. And that's where the speed of this defense catches up to you. So I agree with you. They're playing like their hairs on fire going up the field, and they're making guys uncomfortable, especially the offensive line of Hey, who is that? You know? Assignment? Who do you got that guy? Hum? I can't get to the second level because I'm playing in my own backfield. Talk about Robert Quinn as well. We should be in

a great pass rusher. He made a huge play backside, came up the middle. And that's the other thing. The effort has been unbelieved. Its incredible, but but it leads me to this John, this league, this league, if I'm if I'm a team, if I'm an offensive Cordiner in this league. I'm gonna run naked boot, naked the time, naked boot until you show me. You're gonna show some backside containerent no nobody within it opens up, opens up the game with a twenty yard run. He ended the

game and opened up the game. In the defensive end that should have been up field, he's over trying to stop a sweep on the other side of the gator. I know, when the hell is somebody? When is somebody in this league? And I'm talking to everybody, But Dolphins do the same thing. I think they've gotten better about kind of, you know, having somebody bowing him out a little bit, just so you But you know, he used to me, if you get that big backside defense on

the field, that quarterback starts in naked. But you gotta pull up now. You get out there and you got a whole field to run. I got a tight end dragging across the field. You have a flood. Wait here for a little while and bom hit him in there. Yeah, it's the easiest play right now. It seems like in the NFL to run offensively because there's nobody that regards their assignment on the back side. Just to set the edge or at least being in the space to affect

the play. I remember two years ago, three years ago, I went up to play Philadelphia and and and they're tight end was bread selling breadth selk at the time was was was seventy three years old, right, the guy they just want to they were trying to get rid

of them. Your two will get out of here. That guy made a living and it was all naked boot wait for selector you know, wait from he run about a five tube lopes across the field and then all of a sudden, you it right, But then they had like three or four times and I going, geez, you know, get that defensive end back up the field a little bit. That wouldn't happen to you, but you know it just

it seems to be the nature of the beast. But get getting back to getting back to the Jet game yesterday, talk about the defensive front, talk about that that front seven against the run. But boy, I tell you, you you know, Sam Donald didn't have a whole lot of time back there to sit and pick and choose early on that

football game. Now, look as a game went on later, Dolphins started playing a little more zone and he started looking like like the like the guy that it was a third pick in the draft and then the future quarterback for the New York Jets. But but when it was when it was man on man, when he was put the pressure on the quarterback. But you know, not

that they brought him down a lot. I mean they did, and they stacked him three times in the game, but there are a lot of times where they made him move put the balls that he put up that they were tipped or intercepted were balls that you know, he probably would like to ti back and have back, and but you know, trying to get him out of get the ball out of the pocket, and get him down the field. And that's exactly what you want to do

against a rookie quarterback. Absolutely, they made they made Sam Donald go the long way first of all with that long field, and then they shut down his running game. You know, when you rush for forty two yards in a sixty minute game, something's wrong and you know you're gonna probably end up throwing for over three hundred yards. What's he did? But a lot of those yards were kind of like okay, you know, that's okay, We're glad to give you. You know, It's one thing when you

throw a ball you get an eighteen yard reception. When you when you're on your own ten yard line because you're a defense guy, you look back. You still a long way to go, you know, instead of instead of when they're on there on the forty yard line they scored one, they throw ayendix and you're in the red zone like, oh, you know here, we gotta come up with a play. So no, but I just think that credit the defense. Number one. The pressure in the pocket

was extreme. They shut down the running game and then they said, you know what, Sam, go ahead and Dank and Dunk get it, get what you can, but we're not gonna give up the big play over our heads. And that was a credit to the Dolphins defense. So it's it's you know, it's it's and John is as a quarterback. You gotta kind of like watching, uh watching this football team, Adam Gays, um Dal Loggins calling, you know,

putting this offense together. It just seems like they've got so many with Albert Wilson, with Jachim With, with Danny uh With with with with Grant with um uh with, You've got so many different guys that you could put in different spots, and and and just and just take advantage.

And I was reading some some of the quotes from people, he's had so many mismatches out there gets us and they're like mad sciences and they've gotta be happy at how happiest can be to have the the versatility within the guys that they've got that are very good players.

From the base formation anyway, I think I think you go from the base formation, and then Adam Gates knows he is interchangeable parts, so he can call any type of formation, whether that's a tight end running back, your your slot receiver or your wide receiver in that position, it doesn't matter. Ryan Tannehill is going to make the call at the line of scrimmage now to say and dictate where the ball goes. So I think that plays into the play calling of Adam Gaze as a head coach.

He's able to spread the football around only because he's got multiple formations at his disposal and different types, different body types running those routes from any one of those positions. So it allows you that flexibility at a quarterback to say it doesn't really matter, I don't have to have my slot receiver line up in the slot formation. I can have a running back, I can have a tight end. I can split out those guys as well. And now

it's on me. Where's my best matchup with speed and where I think I've got an advantage either height wise or speed wise or technique wise to to go deliver the football. Be pretty interesting to watch as the season goes along, how this offense kind of morphs into tay you taking advantage of all the all the varieties. The one thing we didn't talk about is, uh, you gotta congratulate Frank Gore. Man, that's number four on the all time rushing list. Who's in front of him, Walter Payton,

Barry Sanders and uh and Emmett Smith. Not not a bad not not a bad group to be uh be included in Yeah, what what a what a guy? Number one? You know what a what a great professional football player and gentleman? Is Frank Gore number one? And number two? What is spectacular career he's had and having and what a contribution he's going to be able to make this year for the Miami Dolphins, not only running the football

but saving the day with a shoestring catch. I mean, Ryan's trying to throw it around arms, and he's he's got a you know, a couple of verticals going down field. He doesn't like it. Everybody drops off, and now he finds twenty one who recognized his guy kind of blitz but didn't really blitz. He's just hanging around. Make me a viable outlet. He kind of slides out to the left and Ryan throws it a round an arm and

scoops it off of his shoes. It was not an easy I thought he was looked looked like Ryan had a clean passing lane. But when he started to come forward, all of a sudden, there's a hand and it was almost I was almost thought he almost thought he hit the arm and forced the ball down. It was almost like he was shooting a free throw bow, you know, just goes at the end exactly. He had a ducket

around an arm or a hand. So the ball comes down low, Frank picks it almost off the turf and third and nineteen and he gets right at the plate. I mean, it was it was funny because somebody asked him. Somebody asked him in the press conference after the Frank, why is it why does it seem like whenever you make a big run for a first down, if it's a four, if it's if it's four yards to get there, you get four and a half. If it's nineteen, you get nineteen and a half. I don't know, but he

just happens that way. You know what it is. It's the guy who knows where the sticks are, I'm telling you. And he wanted to make a big cut to like, you know, make it even bigger. But I'm just glad he did it nineteen and a half yards down the field. Yeah, it's it was. I tell he's a He's a remarkable guy to watch. I watch him on the sideline and when when the offense is in there, I think he's in Adams getting every every play. Coach, give me a, coach give me and coach give me a coach give

me in. Probably probably becomes annoying to coach Gage, but you're gonna live with that with Frank Gore, no doubt about it. But it's funny. What it was funny is when when the team goes on defense, then he starts to wander and he just looks like cool as a cucumber, Like he's like he's at a park or something. You know, no big deal. There's watering around here and there, and I just look at him, go, man, that's a that's a guy that's just so comfortable and and so happy

where he's at right now. And uh. And the other thing is he just like he said, he's a he's just a good man, just a good good man. You know, I've I've seen him. He used to go to the gym, and he'd be at the gym and people will come up to him. Never never never turned anybody away, always had a nice thing to say. He'd be stop, spend

some time with him. And and last night yesterday, comes up in the uh, the podium talking and um, and one of the guys, Adam Beasley from Harold, asked him, what's that who's that picture on your on your on your chain? Well that's my mother, And you just go, man, what what? How? How good can this guy be? You know, it's a it's a pleasure to have him around other players and a pleasure just to be around him as you know, part of the media because you get to

see him and he's he's real. You know, he's a guy that kind of wears his emotions out there and kind of tells it like it is. And it's refreshing because there's no agenda, you know. It just asked me a question, I'll give you an answer, and it's honest and uh. And it's good to see a guy that works as hard as he does in his craft. Uh be where he is when it when it's all said and done. You know, you hope that he's in the Hall of Fame because of of what he did as

a player. I was talking to I was talking to Dr reeby the team, uh surgeon who does mean a lot of the orthopedic work for the team and and he's known Frank since since high school and uh, and we're talking and I said, and we're talking out. You know, Frank had two devastating knee injuries at the University of Miami. Won a great rookie, great freshman running backs. I think he was average ten points something must per carry, you know. And he was ahead of he was head of Willis mcgahey.

And he also he was ahead of one of the one of the Clinton porters for one of them and when they were they were aheaded. So and then so he has and so I asked the doctor in the size I said, Doc, because we were talking about Frank goes Yeah, man, he's done all this because after he broke the record, done all this on those knees. I said, let me ask you a question. Did you operate on his knees at you am? He said, yeah? I go how bad Worthy's horrible? Horrible, two of the worst kneesy scene.

And the guy goes on to have a career like this. You know, it's it's estiment to hard work and getting himself back and mentally, I think Frank's as tough as they come, as well John did. So this team is it's you know, you know, you don't want to get ahead of yourself. You really don't want to get ahead of yourself because you look at the look at the Jets.

Jets come off a week where where they you know, they play a great game to get things going, and then the next week, you know, so what steps up and slugs him in the mouth, you know, and you have to so you you got to expect that. You gotta expect that every week that someone's gonna come up and and hit you with a hey Maker and you're gonna have to bounce back. And I think you've got

to go that way with this Raider football team. But you know, I was talking to us, talking to guys on the way back and the play and something, I I just something about this football team. I really like them. I think this offense is I think this I think we've seen probably from an output standpoint, I'm say because there's a lot. I think there's a lot of room

to grow. There's some plays out there, plays out there, and I think to your point, but I think that's why this team feels the way they They're very happy about winning their first two football games. But when you watch yourself on film, there's no way you could go back to the locker room or go back home and go, hey, we're as good as we're gonna be right now. It's not even close. It's not close. So that's why I think the coaching staff is instilling that in the players.

I think the players know that themselves. They're not in this business to fool themselves. They can take a look and watch and go. You know, I if I throw that pass a little bit more inside or a little bit more on target, that's another six points. If I make this block for a hair longer, it springs Drake or gore for another fifteen or twenty. Who knows he could still be running. If I make this cut on this on this route and and do it the way I'm supposed to, I should be in position better position

to catch the football. There's a lot of things out there, especially on the offensive side, that have have a long way to go for it to be close to being where they wanted to be. To your point there, there's there's virtually everybody you talked to said I can do better. It's not you know, it's not all yeah, yeah, I look, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, yeah you did this, you did that, Yeah I did, but but I still got a lot of things I gotta get better at. And it's you know,

you hear that sometimes from one guy, two guys. This team everybody's on that same page. Um. And I think a lot of the residual of last year and the disappointment, you know, and how things were and and and so I think they've learned that they can't be happy where they're at. They just gotta in a lot of people say it, a lot of people can can talk it. But when you watch this teamwork, I think they're working in that on that progression each and every single day

to get that much better each and every week. And I could see I don't know, I don't know. I don't know where this team is gonna be ten weeks into the season. But I guarantee at some point you're gonna talking we still gotta get better, We still got to get better. We still gotta get better. And I think that their attitude, they're they're mentally tough, and the young kids on this team, they're used to winning football games. They're not used to losing. So it starts to get

contagious after a while, no matter how you win. You know how many times have we looked at the Patriots over the last ten, twelve, fifteen years ago, Wow, they played they played really crappy today, but they won. You know that wasn't you know? They didn't really play great,

they ended up winning. Well. I don't care if the Miami Dolphins are that way for a while, as long as they find a way to win and know that they've got some limitations that they need to improve on, or some things that they need to correct to get to be closer to perfect or closer to better or closer to great. I don't really care whatever scenario you want to put on it. But there's been some games now, two games in a row that Tholtins played pretty well.

They didn't play their best, but they found a way to win. And that's the most important thing you can say at the end of a Sunday or a Thursday or a Monday night. Yeah, two and oh and and and and you know that you've got stuff to improve on. You know you want to get better at all that stuff. So uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm happy with it. Uh you know, the new coaches and I just I don't know. It's just says there's a lot of good a lot of good feeling. It feels like a team. It feels

like a football team. It feels like the way it should feel. When it doesn't really matter individually, how the hell you did it matters collectively? Did we win? And it is that? Is that the most important thing. Was it about me catching ten passes or getting three sacks or being able to boast about a kickoff return? Did we win? Yes? How did we win? What we played average and we played a little bit better than average. How do we win our next game? You gotta correct

these things? Did play better did we win? Yes? How did we win? You know, it's all about those things and kind of self scouting yourself because at the end of the day, this this feels like it's a collective effort. Doesn't Let's talk about Ryan a little bit, because I think Ryan would be the first guy to tell you and he and he when he stepped to the podium, I gotta play a lot better. There's a lot of things I've got to do better. I think he held onto the ball, I think a little bit too long.

And you know, I think and I think, look, guy's been the guy hasn't played football in a year and a half and and he's playing at a pretty good level right now. And I think as he goes and starts getting a little more confidence, I think he's just a little bit, a little bit tentative and just just letting that ball go and throw it and and and so and and that's led to some sacks for him.

But I think he's gonna get that comfort level way see it, throw it, and you're gonna start to see his game exceler I think there's a lot more left in Ryan Taniel and and the thing of saying he's the same way he he knows it, and he knows he's got to get better, and he will get better. And so I love upside that that that what he's gonna be in six weeks from now, I think it's gonna be. I'd rather make an indication six weeks from now.

How how how good Ryan Tannehill is for the Dolphins in this in two thousand and eighteen, Well, I think Ryan, you know, it is no different than probably ten other guys on the team watched the film said you know what, I can I can play a little bit better here. I should have gotten rid of the football there. I'm

glad I tucked it and ran on this play. You know, there's a lot of good and there's probably a lot of things that he wants to improve on, one being his pocket awareness in terms of you know what, if I don't see anything and I don't like it, let me throw it away instead of taking this unnecessary hit or this unnecessary sack or you know whatever the scenario at the end of that play is. I think there was a lot of plays out there that Ryan Tannehill made that you go, wow, that was that was a

good throw that that was a good read. Well, the ball he threw to to Derby, that was I mean, that was a long, long through a lot of people and it was it was it was a laser shot. And the good thing about that was he held onto it for the right reasons. He bought some time away from the line of scrim it's drifted to an area where he could actually see the you know, see the route. And then Derby did a great job of coming around the defender and making himself a viable target because he

attacked the football. So there's a lot of good the guy throwing it and the guy catching it ended up being a touchdown. So yeah, if I said, you know, the couple of things you see over two weeks for Ryan Tannehill, I think there's a lot of things to improve on, but there are a lot of things you can build on as well. Yeah, and it starts this week when they when they play the Raiders. When we got the Albert Wilson coming was breaking. Then we'll move

on from there. Alright, joined by Albert Wilson Albert Day after the game of victory Monday here, Um, you know they're they're they're they're good wins. There were there were you know, wins that you in, Yester. It was a fun win, wasn't. I mean the whole day, especially playing you know, I know it's your first experience with the Dolphin as a Dolphin playing in in the Jets territory, and it's a big rivalry, been been so for a long time. And um to quiet the Jet fans down.

It certainly was a lot of fun in the in that building yesterday. Yeah, it definitely was. Definitely was a lot of fun. You. Um look at that game and um, your offense came out moving down the field, defense helping you were turnovers and stuff. Um, when you look at this offense and that you guys are in, it just seems like there are so many options for Adam Gays with you, guys with you, Jachim, all the different phase of the game, the different players where they can move

them around. You. You like that variety, don't you? Yeah? Definitely, Um, you know, just definitely hard for two teams that just keen on one player. So when you have guys that can do it all, man, it definitely gives the defensive coordinator job to come with it. You win and you get a division win. Second game of the of the season, um. And and you know it's kind of like baseball you look at early in the season. Yeah, what you lose,

it doesn't matter. But you know those games doesn't matter when you play a division game, they're important to you. So to get a get a win in your first division game certainly got to make you guys feel good as a team as you start looking forward. And I know this is a week to week business, but uh, you know, the win this week certainly set you up going forward. Yeah, man, like you're saying, and those division

wins are hard to come by. Um. You know, it's a definitely a physical game, and you know, to be on the road for our first division game and come out with the win, it definitely sets the tempo for the rest of the season. Even though it's week too, you know. You know, we we were definitely preparing ourselves to go week by week and then just go on one to know, but it definitely feels good getting that first one. You guys jump out to a lead, you get a seven nothing lead and then they throw the

past to you. You're taking in for a touchdown fourteen and nothing to take us through that play, oh man. You know, uh, we came in Ryan seeing something um that that he liked, and he made a check, A great, a great check he made. Um it was a five five yard en route that I ran. He he actually got the ball to me. Um, he looked like, you know, he was going somewhe else with it and kind of like a no look past. So he got the ball with me, and you know, I was able to, you know,

make catching. I think buster screen was was was on you? And when when did you know that that he wasn't gonna he wasn't gonna be a factor. Oh man, when I got him to stop his feet on the little hesitation move, I knew I was gonna be able to get to the corner. And and when I got up the sideline, I knew I was gonna be an in zone.

You know, it's funny. We had the jackem Grant. We talked to him a while back and we're talking about his speed and he says, you know, I've been learning, I've been trying to learn to slow down a little bit. I've been trying to, you know, to give yourself another gear, right, And I think that's kind of what you're saying, right. You kind of had him a situation where you kind of slowed down so you could get that other gear to to get the separations. That what made a difference

for you. Yeah, definitely. Um, it was the same thing man when I first got in the league. Man, I just wanted to run and um, you know, a couple of guys that was ahead of me, Like Jarrey Macklin was like, it's not all about a foot race, so, um, you know, just some things like that you're trying to learn. You always want to outrun somebody. But when you've got two guys that can run good and you can make the other guys stop his feet, you know, you pretty

much win. You were back in the wildcat a little bit and with a lot of different things doing trying to get you the ball a lot of ways, And it seems to me that that for you, that that makes a game fun. Yeah, definitely a lot of fun. Man. You know, to be able to you know, line up in the wildcat or or motion in the backfield and get a carry, you know, line up by wilde and get a catch it it definitely makes the game fun. But you know, whatever they need me to do, I'm

down to do it. It seems like every time I turned around. Today, I'm looking at the picture of of you and and everyone there after the after the touchdown. I gotta tell you that that was that was pretty cool. That that was. You know, you've seen celebrations and then some guys you out. That's you know that that to me one of the top tops because you bring you bring everybody in and I think that was kind of your point. Yeah, man, um, just getting the team. Man,

it takes eleven people to make a play successful. Man. And and you know for for Ryan to to get to the checking the lineman to you know, to hold their blocks and you know, the receivers to you know, to get separations from from everybody else and clear things out. It takes a team effort. So um, you know for my first touchdown, you know, I kind of want to get everybody involved. Um, Like I was saying, I think it's gonna be. It turned out to be a great picture.

So um, you know that's that's when one of those things you want to frame and you know, have that that memory around forever. Hey. Um, you know it's it's funny after after the win against Tennessee and after this game up in New York, Um, everybody we talked to

after the game. Everybody had the same sentiment about this football team, and it kind of goes along the line with you in the picture afterwards, how tight the team is, how you know, you know, talk about you lose Josh Sitton, Ted Larson comes in and then we're talking to those guys and they say, look, everyone loves Ted Larson. We're behind. I mean, it's it's it's you know, it's it seems to be cliche at times, but I think it really is.

This team. You know, it looks like a really really very close whether you're wide receiver or a dB, whether you're an offensive alignment and a linebacker, it just seems like the bond and this football team somehow it's been

forced to be really really strong at this point. Yeah, definitely. Um, we did a lot of things, you know, in all season that that just kind of built team chemistry, you know, man from just doing competition things in the bubble or you know, just going off off you know, site to to run hills with each other and you know, make make sure everybody's grinding at the same time, or you know, just going and doing team activities. We spend a lot of time with each other and um, you know, coaches

preaching him. Man, it it takes a team to win the championship. Man, you know, you can't have this one or two good players that make plays and you might win a couple of games, but you know, the goal for us is you know, to win that ring. You know. And I know you look at you obviously look at your game tapes and look at the tapes of the teams you're getting ready to play. And I'm kind of been kind of looking around. Look watch most of the

games that have been on this season. I can see and and it just seems to me that the league is turning into, uh, all about speed and athleticism. I think the rules have kind of dictated that. Hey, look it's you know, they're they're calling things tighter, especially you know, the dbs and receivers and quarterbacks and all the things. And it just seems to me that that those rule changes are making opening things up and the more speed and athleticism, which I think this football team has a

lot of, it seems to be the formula. As I look around the league right now, the teams that are being successful, I have a lot of speed and a lot of athleticism and I would throw you guys in the bunch. Is one of those teams. Yeah, definitely. I feel like we have a lot of speed and a lot of athleticism on our team. And you know, coach does did a great job agetting a lot of guys in for camping, you know, having us compete early and um,

and he's working out for us. You know, our offense, you know, it's a tempo, speed type of team, you know, trying to get in space, make guys, you know, make plays. And I think we have a lot of guys that can do that on the offense. And he's like a mad scientist, you know, you can see his mind kind of working there and these owly energies. I got your team, I got Albert, I got Damn. I can do this,

I can do that. And I just think, you know, I'm sure, I think we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg of all the different mismatches that he's trying to create on a on a given game day. Definitely, Um, you know, mix mismatches is like the number one thing in this in this sport, you know, is finding your mismatches and having your guy beat the next guy and I feel like coach Coach did a good job of

you know, just bringing in guys of doing that. So like me and Danny, you know, we're new to the bunch, but um mismatches, you know, we were able to do it all. You know motion, you know, just line up and straight go forward and you know, and not not only are we speeding and in athleticism. I feel like

we have a tough, a tough bunch. Um. I feel like, you know, our receivers, you know, we don't mind going there and getting low blocks in you know, you know, our tight ends and our office alignment is some some tough, some tough jokers. So you know, when you mix all three of those things, man, and you get somebody that's playing for the team, you know, you usually get success. Yeah, I'm sure you look at the side of me. I'm not. I'm glad I'm not out there with Kiko running around

there and some of those. So if you got out there, you guys are learning to boom on people out there. Definitely, Man, they look really good. Man. I told every single one of them after the game, and we appreciate them holding it down in the second half of us. Man, them guys was finding around our game. Man, they set the

tone early, you know the offense. You know when when you're playing on the road, you know, you you want to set the tone early and kind of get the crowd out of it so it can be a fair match. And I feel like that's what we did. You know, we talked last time you hear about growing up a Fort Piers and the Foster Home and all the things that you've done and and you're still your roots are still there. Uh this week you're bringing fifty kids to the game from four Pierce, from your from your relatives

elementary school. Yeah. Man, Um, we had a pretty much the fs A test um that came around, and you know, the kids did a great job. And you know something our preachers is like education, and you know, for them to do a great job on the tests, I kind

of want to reward them with something. So bringing fifty kids from c a more elementary school and four Piers up to the game, you know they'll be able to tellgate with with with um, with some of the some of the fans and you know, you know, have great time, listen to some music, you know, have fun, get to dance. Then they'll be able to get to watch the show.

So hopefully we'll be able to put a show on for them, you know, leave them with something good probably for them for the vast majority of first time you'll ever beat in the NFL. I'd imagine all of them for the most part, right definitely, you know, like I told people, you know, coming from four pitch, you know, my first NFL game was was when I lined up, you know and put on past myself. So you know, for me to bring fit the kids from my hometown

and giving them an opportunity, it's a blessing. Good for you, Albert, And it's been uh it's been great having your team so far, watching the first couple of games, and I know it's just gonna get better and better and you're gonna get more involved in this offense and show you

some great things. Big touchdown, Yes, say it really helped, really really, you know, you're seven nothing, you're feeling all right, fourteen nothing like Okay, you can start rolling and doing it gives you an opportunity to a lot of different things. And it it certainly seemed like the that's the way the touchdown set up. And uh so it was fun watching and uh I want to see a lot more. Appreciate your stuff by problem, man, thanks for having me just

keep flying around. Man, appreciate it. I God blessed. Alright. So h just got done talking to Albert Wilson, John and uh, what you know, another solid citizen man, another good guy bringing fifty kids from Fourth Pierce to the game. You know that where he grew up, and it's good to see. But boy, I'll tell you what, what an addition he's been to this football team. Talked about athletic ability and speed. Boy he brings he brings it in

a big, big way. First time I saw him in the practice field, I thought, I just said, man, that kids fast. I've seen a lot of fast guys run around here. That kids fast. And you know what I think Adam Gason and Mike Tannebaum and Chris Greer had a plan for him not only to play slot, which is now wide receiver, which is now quarterback, which is now running back. I mean he's touching the football out

of every position possible on the offensive side. And it's a good thing because it gives teams other formations and obstacles to prepare for during the week. He may not run it against the Raiders at home this this week. He may not line up in Wilson cat Okay, he might line up in something else. He might not line up at slot or wide out. He may line up just adjacent to the tight end, which will give the next team, you know, the new Patriots, something to think about.

But he's so dynamic when he gets his hands on the football. And you mentioned that speed, that crossing road he caught for the touchdown. He just idled like Walter Payton just a second. He had both feet in the air and it seemed like he was floating right and then the defender stopped, but he couldn't start fast enough to catch Albert Wilson. So he gets his shoulders and hips lined up down the sidelines and he outraces everybody

for a touchdown. Beautiful to watch, and I'm not so sure a lot of guys could have made that play. You know him, And then you put Jachem Grant and then mixing. You know, it's funny. A year ago a training camp, we're talking about my own. You know, Jachem got catch punts and he doesn't catch those punks two punts on the ground during during preseason games, he's out of here and now you don't even think about him with punt now you think, hey, man, wide receiver, no

doubt about it. I mean he is. He's really built himself into you know, to me, you know, he may he may be one of, maybe one of the best players we have in this football team. Competitive, yeah, I mean yeah, And I mean he's a better route runner. He catches it more consistently, both on punts and as a wide receiver. I love his enthusiasm and when he makes a play, it's not all about him. It's like, let's go, let's make another one. And it's funny, you know.

During the off season, I mean, how many times with people talking to say, man, what are you gonna do without Jarvis Landry? They're gonna go rid of Jarvis Landry. Well, you know, two games in, I don't think the name is Jarvis Landry want And I'm not taking anything away from Jarvis. I love Jarvis, loved him as a player, loved his effort, like all a lot of things about him. You know, I could have done it with some of his extracurricular you know, penalties after the whistle stuff, but

that's you know, that's that's him. That's the way he plays the game. But you know, the taking away a guy where he had a hundred and sixty targets and and moving those. Now those targets are being spread among a number of different guys, can do a lot of different things and can take it to the house anytime they get their hands on it. Uh. It really has gotta It really has given this whole offense a completely

different personality. You know what's funny, But for four years I said consistently, Jarvis Landry is the best football player on this team, on the Miami Dolphins, and I and I still believe that. I still believe he was the best football player on his team. Now you take him out of the equation, and you see how the Miami Dolphins are spreading the football around and they're more difficult to defend than when the best football player on the team was playing and catching a Hunter passes a year

or averaging Hunter passes receptions a year. It's very tough to take a player like that and not say I want to get the football to him in this situation that situation. Now, it doesn't really matter. It's whoever lines up there, you're gonna get the ball and whoever, whatever formation you're in. The ball is not dictated by player, It's dictated by coverage. And I think that's a lot different for quarterback. It's a lot easier for play caller

number number two and number three. Everybody's alive. There's it's not they're not breaking the huddle or going into hurry up saying well, I got zero chance of getting the ball in this play because I know where it's gone all week. Now, everybody's alive, and I think that brings a little bit more competitive energy to the whole room because you never know when your number is gonna be ready, and if you're not, the next guy's coming in to take your spot. So you got the Raiders coming in

this week. Uh, kind of hope it's hot. I think it will. Those black jerseys on for those guys out here coming from no humidity in northern California, believe, but I know what that's like to come out here and try to play. Chucky is gonna be sweating on the side. Chucky should be sweating right now. Gett a hunder million dollars and team mark Mark Davis said he may need

to get that bowl cut a little different. You know, maybe over his eyes and here, yeah your eyes, your eyes and because this one could be ugly, my friend, you know, but uh, you know you still got that Derek Carr, Seawan Lynch, you know cover you know I was. I was always looking forward to seeing Khalil mac play. I'm glad I'm not going to see a play later years, not not this week. But uh, another great opportunity for the Dolphins. Another home game. Come in, one o'clock game.

It's gonna be warm, um and and John. I don't think this team. I don't think this team is going to be reading their you know, their their press clippings and and and listening to Look, they didn't listen when they say they were gonna this team is the worst

team in the National Football League. When the national media now, they're not gonna start saying, hey, look look what we told you so, we told you so, because this team knows that they they're not that good of a football team where they can just roll their helmets out in the football field and win a game. And they know that and they'll play like that. No, I think you're

right now. Watching the Raiders play at home against the Rams earlier looks like that first drive, You're going, Wow, they're gonna they're gonna bring the Rams down, you know, making a four quarter game, and then the Rams kind of took over the game and one and then this week, you know, they go on the road to Denver, they're up twelve nothing. I think, you know, midway through that

game and found a way not to hang on. So you're right, they're gonna come in looking scratching, calling anyway, they can get a road victory in a tough environment here at hard Rock Stadium, and I think it should be a fun environment. This is a team now that in the Dolphins have a lot of excitement around it, and I think the fans will respond at home. I

think it's gonna be hot. I think it's gonna be humid, And it's one of those things where, again, bo, if the Miami Dolphins can get on an Owen two team early and have that little doubt creep in to the Oakland Raiders sidelines and here we go again, you know, and I think that's where the Dolphins want to play. Well. I looked to me, this is this is one of those games. This is one of those games where you're walking that offensive line room and say, this game's on you, guys,

This game is on you guys. We're not gonna throw the ball. You know, we're gonna throw the ball. We have to if we if we could run the ball every down, we run the ball every down. Where these guys the way Tennessee looked when we were on the sidelines. You know, Joe's just watching that game before that first

before that first lightning break, they were right. And I think a lot a lot to be said about the way the offensive line laid on him and played on him and just grinded, you know, on that on that line of scrimmage, you being able to move people against their will, and it gets a little bit easier in the second half you can consistently do so I think that's the I think, you know, that's where I'm down up front. Take your chances where you can with the big plays in that defense. I just I just think

it's a it's a good sense. It's a good situation for the Dolphins. Have the Raiders coming now, John, we talked to We talked about all the all the Dolphin fans that were in New York. Raiders have a pretty good national following. Two so so they're gonna come out and they're black and gray and and and do their black and silver and do the whole thing. Yeah, and so you know it's um. But look, I love those environments. Give me, give me a combative environment every football game.

Give me the energy in the in the building, and it just makes it that much easier to play. I don't care who's scream and I don't care what they're saying. But but as long as there's big energy in the stadium, I think you get big games out. And you know what, it says a lot for Dolphin fans after that. You know the two delays two weeks ago, there was you know,

a handful was the fans hanging right. It sounded like it was pretty full because those guys got up there on their feet and they were yelling and screaming, having a good time and cheering for their team. Imagine if that that place is sold out on Sunday, which it should be, it's gonna be a great environment. Taking someone in New York and they go geese. Must have been nobody left in the game. I said, now, I said, come to the contract. I said, everybody came down to

the bottom. Then the Dolphins did a great Hey, come on down, bring everyone down. People got to get down and get down to the lower level. But they're like you said, there were twenty some thousand people there at the end that game, still making a lot of noise. And then that kind of commitment is it's something that you know he as a player, you want to have fans like that, and you hope it's like that on Sunday.

You give him something to cheer about early in the game and make it just be so tough on Oakland to communicate offensively and make play if you can grind if you can grind them offensively, like we said, and put pressure on on on Derek Carr like like they did early on on Sam Donald, because he's a good quarterback and he's gonna he's gonna make some places for They've got some good receivers to throw the ball to.

Um you know, you've you've gotta you've gotta put pressure on him and get him moving around the pocket and doing all those things. So if you can run the football, get that front seven doing what they did like and you know the good thing about this front seven to John is a lot of the pressure they got was just rushing four guys. It's not like you gotta send you know, send actress. So you don't gotta send the army after everyone. Well, you've got four guys that can

get the job done. You know, looking at that Rams game when the Raiders played at home on Monday night, they shut the rundown pretty fast after that first series. If the Dolphins can do that to Marshawn Lynz and make Oakland one dimensional even with talented quarterback and you know, you know, got talented a couple of wide receivers outside, at least they feel like they can win with four and possibly five getting to the quarterback because it just

gives you, you know, it gives you so coverage. More yea, more more things do come. You can you can disguise a little more because you know, if you get that depression and the guy and that's where you get the guy throwing somewhere where guy just pops up and that guy, you know, I didn't see him any You didn't see him because someone's on the side of your head where you're going the other way. But um, yeah, I'm looking forward to the raid that it's not gonna be a look,

it's not gonna be an easy test. But you know, I want to see this team get tough football teams coming and Raiders is gonna be a tough, physical football team. You know, let's let's get through this. Let's let's fight through this. Let's be as tough as them, and and in fact, you know, let's let's out tough m on our in our own backyard. Yeah. Those are always good indicators of how your football team is gonna be when you don't have to worry about the effort, you don't

have to worry about the enthusiasm you play with. And it's it's it's created by execution on in all three phases. That's the way the Dolphins have gotten to to it. And you know the other things. Adam talked about it a little bit after the Tennessee game. Um, and I think he's done a good job of creating a home field advantage for the football team. There's an advantage with the heat and this and that and the other. The visitors are sitting in the sun while the Dolphins are

in the shade, all that type of thing. But he's talking about going out and owning your turf, going out and and you know, every home every home game. You should be shocked when I remember we played in the Orange Bowl and you never thought about losing when you launched. What how the hell did that happen? You know, because you're so you're you're just so profortable to it and

you're you're it's it's We had this conversation. I was having this conversation um during the during the preseason, and we're talking about, well, you know, is it important to win preseason games? And you know, a couple of guys said no, no, And I said to me, it is, especially for a young football team like this, because I believe and I remember coaching like saying like, well, how come you? How come you? How come you? It's important you to win football games? He said, For me, it's

important to win every game we play. You you needed for a young team like this. To me, it's about learning how to win. Whether it's a preseason game, whether it's a scrimmage, whatever it is, learn how to win. Because if you learn how to win, then it becomes the norm for you and you and when you don't, it hurts and it's unexpected and you and you fight back.

And I think this team is starting to develop that kind of mentality at home, and this is just another opportunity to kind of start cementing that that, Hey, you're gonna come into a hard rock stadium. You know you better, you better pack your lunch, and you better get ready and get some ice over the sideline because you're gonna feel this one. Well, what did Don Shula have in his mind? He he had a championship mentality in his

mind and that's the way he coached. I mean for throughout throughout his career, everywhere he was at, especially when he got on the run with the Miami Dolphins, he instilled a championship mentality that good enough wasn't the wasn't the norm. It was the you know, it was the championship. That was the ultimate goal. And what did it take to get there? It takes physically, it takes talent, but mentally it probably takes a lot more toughness to get there.

So it gives goes back to your point of saying, every time you put on that uniform, no matter where it's a scrimmage, it's a preseason game, it's a regular season it's or it's a championship game, you expect to win because you've prepared to do that. That's where the Miami Dolphins have a long road to get there. But at least they didn't play their best in weeks one and two, but they found a way to win to

keep that edge going. And John quite frank that they may not get there this year, that they may not get to that level where you want to be. But as as long as they're and I but I believe they're heading in that direction. And and you know this is a long term. Look, you know, I think Adams a long term guy. It's as far as I'm concerned. It's not the guys we had before two or three years out. A guy can't you see a bill, you see a plan, You see things coming to fruition with

Adam Games and may take them. You may take him a couple of years to until we're to hard rock stage in place where Gez I don't want to go down. Play there. Well, you know, we get our asses kicked there. It's like we used to play the Raiders. We went out there, we knew we were gonna get our asses kick. We knew we were gonna get our this kick, and you know what happened. We went out but we knew this when they came to came to the Origin Bowl,

they were gonna get their asses kicked. And when they came, they got their asses kicked. I don't think Adam and his crew wants to be told what they can't do. That's right, and I think that's a good mentality to have. And so it's another opportunity this week to kind of to established that again, the home field advantage. And I'm looking I you know, I love, I love when the

Raiders come to town. You know, I grew up a right in the mayor, right in the middle of the forty Niners and the Raiders, so watch both of them. I used to love that attitude that the Raiders have, and I know, I know, uh Gruden's trying to get them back to that, but uh, you know, until they get the U it's in two weeks. Yeah, hopefully it's in two weeks. But looking forward to seeing them come

to town. But I'm more looking forward to seeing this football team, the Miami Dolphins, and seeing them continue to grow. And I'm excited to see how are they gonna win this week? John? How are they gonna win this week? Are they gonna do it? You know? Maybe they don't get as many turnovers, but maybe you get big plays. You know, I believe they're gonna win. Yeah, exactly. It's gonna be fun. All right. We'll be hopefully next week when we're on the Audible week, hopefully Joe will be here.

Hopefully he's gonna come show up. We'll be talking. If the Dolphins keep winning, we may want to keep Joe out of here. We might have to get you may have to get some questions from the fans about Yeah, we may have you guys might have to send some questions in Joe or no go or no go. We'll find out. We'll talk about that next week. Thanks for listening.