The Audible Ep. 33 | Jerome Baker

he doesn't mind that. Kimbo camper, John con Jemmy with you and the Audible is presented by Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center as part of the University of Miami Health System and South Florida's only cancer center of excellent. By the way, before I move on Sunday's game, I think the UH the Dolphins Cancer Challenge presented him with a check for I believe over five billion dollars for last year's money.

That puts him up to about twenty seven million dollars or somewhere they're in total funds raised for the UH the Dolphins Cancer Challenge, and all the money goes down to Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Cancer Center. So I'm want to I want to thank you and could congratulate everybody involved with that and uh from from everyone that the start of the bike ride that participated, uh that organized that did volunteered everyone down to Sylvester and everything they do.

So we're really a good thing that Dolphins doing. It was good to see that on on Sunday afternoon and the way that you know, they had everybody involved, from the owner of the Miami Dolphins all the way down to people that you know rode in the race, and it was just incredible the amount of support and the amount of dedication that not only the organization put behind it, but uh, you know, the center itself and and the

good it does for this community. It's incredible. You know what, every every dollar to me, every dollar is about time. Every dollar is about giving you fifteen minutes longer with your your loved one, or a week longer, a month longer, and that's what it's all about. So to see this organization really get behind it, it's a it's really been a special thing. So I just want to touch on that. Other than that. Damn wan a freaking game man, man, That that thing you talk about most in turn and

we're in it. We're out of it. We can't come back. We came back, what's gonna happen. He's not gonna miss that can he missed the checknology. I mean what I was spent after the game, but I was freaking worn out. You know, you went to dinner after the game. I went to dinner after the game, and I just sat there, going, how the hell win that game? I mean, you're down, We're answering touchdowns with field goals, and you're going, we

got a backup quarterback in We're depleted everywhere. Guys are falling like flies, and there's no way, there's no no sense of a feeling that you were going to stop Chicago in the second half. But somehow, some way, the Miami Dolphins found a way to win that game. And you're dodging a lot of bullets along the way. But they were able to make plays on in all three fasts when they needed to. But I felt I felt

coming out at halftime once they scored. They scored twice in three and a half minutes right around there, I think six minutes into the game, into the into the

third quarter, we're down twenty one to ten. They scored three quick touchdowns and I'm thinking, man, here we go here goes Cincinnati again, where you know, we play a really good first half, feeling good about yourself, and then all of a sudden, man, the bottom just falls out of you and the number of the points are coming in big bunches, and and and we can't respond is quickly enough and what and then but but man, I'll tell you it's a good thing. They play sixty minutes,

were close to seventy minutes in this one. But you know, John, this was one of you you know, it's to me those those the three touchdowns in the second half, we're in aberration. They just kind of happened. Um uh, look, cert we had some trouble over on that side. They kept kept working against kept working offset x. They were going after touring the tire and then you know when you got in and and doing that, they look, it's understandable, but it presents it presents you with three quick scores

and now in the bottom looking up. But that defense just kind of ratchet it up a little bit, tightened up, and well you know big you know, interception, big interception by t J. Big forced fumble recovery by t J. Maye and and uh and Kiko coming up with it.

And and not forget you kind of forget early in the game they gotta stopped fourth and one at the goal line, you know, another goal line stand that maybe I think that's the third time this year that the Offins have stopped somebody on downs at the goal line and and come up with big play. So big plays there and um, you know, just never say dived. Never did say dive defense out there. And I thought they

played extremely, extremely well against that Chicago Bear team. Now, having said that, the three quick touchdowns are the you know the ones that and you're right both coming out after halftime, I think I told I was sitting next to Sam Madison and Troy's Uh Stratford, and I said, you know what, guys, the first team that scores a touchdown and or makes a kick is going to win this game. I think it's gonna be a ten seven GAMEEAM like in game or or something like that. But

you're right both. The Chicago Bears ran five plays early in the third quarter that led to fourteen points and then they got to twenty one, which six fifty left in the third quarter, and I'm thinking there is no possible way that from what I've seen from this offense, we're gonna score, but we don't. We can't score that much in that amount of time left, just because I

haven't seen it a year. Scores we're gonna be the typical we've grinded down the field, grinding down the field, either kick a field goal or punch it in the end zone for a touch. But it wasn't gonna be you know what what you saw from from from Chicago. But then we forgot about Albert Wilson and talk about quick score capability from Albert Wilson. Two quick scores that were just phenomenal place in out around defenders and being able to to make people miss in space and run

away from a very fast Bears defense. I think I saw on that yield. I mean you can throw in uh Tarik Cohen because he's one of the fastest players I've seen play against the Dolphins defense all year long. I mean that game was in and outer cuts, he was making runs, he was you know, run after catch after first contact. The guy was phenomenal. And the way they ran past you know, the corners to make big

explosive plays. But then you take a look at at what Albert Wilson did that was that was sensational running. I mean that coach always says he's got a runnings back. He's a running back body, but he he runs like a wide receiver and he plays he plays bigger than his size. Well, he played bigger, he played faster, He played smarter than the Bears defense because he was able

to find the end zone on two spectacular runs. And he's a stronger runner than then you would think for his size, much like good Jachim in Kansas City run right through some defenders on his way to a touchdown. And with Albert Wilson, you're seeing another littless, smallish guy that's got the the stamina and the strength to break tackles and then and then turn it on with his jets and and take it to the house. And and well,

I'll tell you what an addition to this football. And I just I can't get I can't get over Albert when he scores. It's all about everybody, Come on down,

Come on down. This is a team thing. And I think yesterday John, of of all games that we've seen, is an example of of what this team believes they are, which is a team, a team of everybody, a team where everybody matters, where everybody counts, where everybody's gonna give you something, and everybody at some point may hurt you, but they're gonna come back to you and they're gonna

get you back into somebody else. Somebody else is going to do something and be able to make up and mask some of the UH deficiencies, whether it's on offense, defense and special teams both. I don't know how many times I've looked at Jonathan Wood and Cameron malbon go. Those guys are gonna play a significant factor, are you kidding me? You know? And they're good players and they give you everything they've got. But if you'd have told me before the season, you're gonna depend on him not once,

but twice, two guys you let go. Two guys you let go at the end of try And I love Calvin Malvina. I loved Cameron Malvo from yes last year because he all he did when he got in games, play hard plays, and he played hard, and you'd see him get he'd be disruptive, he'd be causing things. So I was really disappointed when they let him go, And then when they brought Wood back instead of him, I thought, man Malvo is my man, and then Woodard plays to

me those to me there. If you don't you take you take their numbers off of them and have them run run away from that. You don't know which one is with the same size, same physical built, same way they Yep, everything is the same about him. And it was really a blessing that you got Andre branch back yesterday because he was able to eat up a lot of snaps that would have been put on their plate. Even more stress, how about the inside play, I mean, it's unbe able. How Vincent Taylor has become just a

relentless force for this defense. Kiko Alonso is playing his best football since his rookie year. The guys all over the field, so that defense is it's just not one guy t j comes up, comes up big. There's guys that are making plays all around that first first of all, to touch on this, you know, the there's a major difference in that defense. And we've seen it now in the last two weeks when Rashad Jones is in that defense.

When Rashad was out for a couple of weeks, same guys out back there, but it was, uh, it wasn't quite you know, a little, just a little, you know, vague. I would use the word vague for that defense without him, But when he gets in, it just locks down. And he's like just a glue that brings that whole group together. And I don't know if it's just motivation. The way

he plays, they just follow his his his lead. Um, but with him and and I know by I know by the way, um number twenty two is playing pretty football, pretty darny good football too. There was a lot of people last year after that eight games, after the spend, how Jesus why they extend him? And now I read an article day go, yeah, look at how good t J is playing. He's only he's only getting paid a

million one. But now they're happy, and you know, so you know, but but he's playing great football for you. So they'll say they have Minka to it and and John if if if Rashad's the glue, the super glue is on his way, Yes, because Bobby's got a boy to make it, really Bobby, Bobby, Bobby takes that. Bobby gives you a competitive guy opposite X where they've got a test text every now and then. I don't even

think they threw a ball. I think they threw one ball his way and it was on one of those little bubble screens or something, and he blew it up up as soon as they did. But but John, the one guy we haven't talked about, and then the one guy that you really gotta to go to his brockos Wilder. I mean, I mean, here's a guy that gets a text in the dame that hey, hey, strapping up, big stramping up, big fella, you're up, You're up, and it's

the Chicago Bears waiting for you. But boy, I tell you talk about a guy come in, played with poise, uh, handled the situation. I remember watching walk out for the first snap, got the hell together. You know they're kind of they're kind of meandering around. Now, no, get down, let's go get in here, get him in here and

get him on his page. And boy, you you just just I don't know, I don't know what you can say about the way that that Brock handled the situation, handled that huddle, and and and just handled the game itself. He played with poise number one, and he played with experience and a confidence that you don't get right away.

I mean, this is a guy that had a belief in himself and had an opportunity and took took advantage of his opportunity, which makes me feel good because that's a tough situation to come into, knowing that you're here for an insurance policy. If something were to happen, you don't know if once your name is called, you don't know if it's a quarter, if it's a play, if

it's a week, if it's two, a month. But whenever your name is called, you have to play at the level that that guy left, which is Ryan Tannehill, and then maybe up at a couple levels to get a win at home. Played it against it, played against the defense that's tenacious. All week we were talking about clil Mac. All week, we talked about the offensive line that had to do a good job keeping pressure off Ryan Tannehill.

Now you throw Brock was Oswhiler in the equation a guy that doesn't move the whole whole you know, he doesn't move a whole lot from his spot. He's but he's going to get the ball out on time, and he's gonna throw it away and burn a couple of plays because he needs to. And I thought he was smart doing that. He was really good at the line of scrimmage. We had one delay a game penalty I think,

which kind of hurt. But he overcame some of the bad throws, some of the bad decisions with big plays, and he had a running game and an offensive line to bail him out and to keep keep the offensive float when they needed to. Well that that offensive line did a remarkable job all day. And look now, look

they certainly had help. Every time I looked at Khalil Mack fours either a back over there and tell you, I tell you that the kind of unsung here on the last couple of weeks, it has been Nicole Leary right, and a lot of plays but great and Cincinnati did

a lot of good things in Cincinnati. Came out here and did not not only do the score touchdown, not only did he catch three passes I think all of them for first downs and may have been on third downs, and that he could complete three or got three passes, but he I mean, he was one of the guys instrumental in keeping Khalil Mack out out of the backfield. He'd line up over there on the side of him and just hi and jack him up. Yeah, you know, he's an old school tight end. Yes, it's a guy

that gets it done. And he doesn't look great. You kind of overlook him a little bit. But watching him practice over the last two and a half weeks, every time he catches the ball, I'm looking for somebody to go, who is that? Yeah, oh that's for good. He was on the team, and and slowly but surely, over the last couple of weeks he is. He's played well enough that other guys on the team are going to coach ks going, hey, we gotta get this guy out. This guy they have seen with him now for for the

last couple of weeks is hey, he can block. And he's not just uh, you know, do not just a standing your way. He'll move. He'll move some people at the line of scrimma. So so he's he's and and John I said this one the first time I saw him. He's a lot more stout than I thought. He's not that lean sin tight end. He is. Yeah, he's been in the weight room and and he's got some strength to him. Um, but his ability to catch the football and his ability to run after the catch is something

I think surprised me a little bit. So another great addition that that you kind of keep looking at and you go, man, just when this team can gets a little healthier, when that health starts coming back, there's another little piece you out into the puzzle that that that that really is making plays and doing some good, good things for you. So so he's another guy out there.

But but but kind of going going back to Brock, you know, just you know, not panicking when you're down by three or would be down by eleven, not after the three touchdown, could continue to play your game. And that offensive line was I was getting at. You know, I think I think they did two things for Brock that didn't really needed to be done. A they protected him as a as a passer. They gave him time to throw the football. Maybe more importantly, they created running lanes.

They allowed the running game to be a factor, because had that running game not been the factor that it was in that game, I guarantee you your pressure would have been coming in a big, big way on brock Oss Wilder. And you talked about us, I would be the guy if I if I was practicing against a quarterback like Brock brock Oss Wilder going into the game, I would take a cone and I would put it on a spot about seven yards deep right behind the center and say that's my point, because that's where he's

gonna be all day long. He ain't going anywhere other than that, and that makes it and that certainly makes it easy on a defensive alignment. But he was able to he was able to move a little bit. He ran, ran, ran a couple of times, got out of the pocket and did some things which kind of surprised me. But why.

I just think his his demeter walking into that game set a lot to that huddle, and I think it's said a lot to the fans that were watching at the stadium or watching on TV that hey, look from when I saw Brocker Oswald in the preseason, like, uh no, we get to him. Were in trouble. But I was pleasantly surprised by by the way he handled the whole situation. I just think he he had supreme confidence in his ability and it helped him that the game played out

the way it did for the Dolphins. On offense, Frank Gore ran the football so effectively on first down, and Kenyan Drake when he had his opportunities, but more Frank

going straight ahead, I mean, he did not hesitate. He was moving piles, he was making carrying guys with him four yards, five yards, six yards for two yards and then three or feo four more and he'd find a little the little is crease if one wasn't available to to stick his nose in there, knowing that second and six is a hell of a lot better than second

eleven or second and ten or second and nine. And that kept the Dolphins ahead of the chains, which I thought for the majority of the game helped rock Osweidler. And the only other thing but I'll say to that that complimented the running game was getting the football a little bit more frequently to Danny Amendola because he provides you quick, open windows, easy throws, those lay up throws that you're looking for to kind of keep the pressure

off the running game. But moving the offense forward, yeah, no, no doubt about it. So yeah, it was. It was a lot a lot of good stuff that you saw offensively coming out of that football game. And he's just gotta give you now. Now, the question is, and the question that was asked of Adam Gaze after the game the next day, after the game and all those things,

was was Ryan Tannehill, when's he gonna come back? And I gotta think with this situation, you know that it's hey, take your time, take your time, make sure you're healthy. And and he also said, when Ryan's healthy, is he gonna be in the Yes, he'll be the hell be the quarterback. But you know, you feel pretty good. I think you feel pretty good about I feel better now

than I did going in, I mean much. I was like you, I was waiting for a couple of the throws that well when we saw one, I mean we saw I didn't go for six, but we saw one of those come out a little late, a little dead, a little inside, and they both ended up as interceptions. You know, the deep ball to Davante Parker and the other ball in front of the Dolphins bench. Both of those plays you in your mind, you go, I don't want to If you see too many of those, it's

gonna be a bad day for the Dolphins. And because we've seen him in the preseason, you've seen him in practice. But Brock was able to overcome and the team was able to overcome those plays and get and crank out of victory. Yeah, it's it's it's funny, John, it was you know, the last two weeks have been gloom and doom around here, and it's like that for every team in the National Football League. You lose one, you lose two, and it's just as a black cloud hanging over you.

Uh But but now you know you're sitting here four and two, you're feeling pretty good. You're see you're you're tied for first place in the a f C East. And John, I'm looking through this, I'm looking through the records in all of football, and and you know they're the most most of are three and three. Got a lot of three and threes. You you know, got some other you know, I think you got you only got you got. LA is the only the Rams, the only team undefeated as Kansas City went down, uh to to

New England. So you know, it's one of those things, John, where you're just you're stacking up wins. You know, we we talked about winning the quarter. They won the first quarter three you know, three, three wins and one loss. And and here you start the second quarter your one and one, you know, with with really at home again with the Detroit team coming in that you know that we've seen good Detroit. We've seen bad Detroit. But the

good thing is they're they're they're at home. As far as listen to uh, let's listen to Sports Center the next day after the game, and they had Rex Ryan on there, and Rex Ryan's going, I gotta tell this may be one of the best kept secrets in football, but they got a real home field advantage down there in Miami especially. He was talking about how it's shady on the Dolphins side, Sonny in their side, and he says, you know, it does take it out of it does

wear people out. And so it's so this is another week, another week in October where it's still gonna be c M warm, is gonna be humid. You know that humidity is not gonna change untill after Halloween. And so the humid humidity is gonna be there. So it's another opportunity to to to to to go out and I'm not gonna say get to win. Go out and and try to beat another good football team and try to get yourself to to your John which would be your fifth win.

It get you halfway because you know, to me, the numbers ten numbers tend to get you in the playoffs. You get five wins, and you're halfway home, you know, and and and you've got a long way to go still. I just think if the Dolphins can dominate at hard Rock Stadium this year, and I'm not saying you're you're gonna win all of them, that's your goal, but if if you can get pretty damn near close to that, that gets you where you need to be, because you're

gonna have to. You stole one in New York, right, you know, you get one of those road games that you feel like you want to win, You get a rookie quarterback early. Now you gotta go and play Detroit at home, which you feel like, hey, they're coming down our place. Like you said, it's gonna be sticky, it's gonna be hot. You gotta go to a short week at Houston. You don't want to get too far ahead of yourselves, but you start adding him up, and if those whole home wins continue to pile up, that's a

great sign for the moment, all, no no doubt about it. Hey, let's talk a little bit about Adam Gaze. Uh, you know, there's been there there, you know. Obviously, you get you get in a situation with two losses in a row and in this town, and you fire everybody, get read of everybody on the in the organization. Let's start from scratch five weeks into the season, right. It is kind of the mentality out there. But you know, if you're a coach, if you're a general manager, if your team,

stay the course, stay the course. And he's doing done a good job of staying the course. And I think one thing that was really, uh, really important after the game when when Brock, they asked Brock about why did you sign? Why did you sign with Miami? And he said, point blank because Adam Gays was here. He said, I had three other choice. I had three other visits set up. As soon as I heard from Miami, told my guy canceled him. I want to go play. I want to play in Miami. I want to play for Adam Gaze

because I know him. I know the type of person he is, I know the type of coaching, understand his offense. I've been in since two thousand and twelve. Bla blah blah blah bing, and so you know, here here you got a guy that that Adam Gays wanted that that look. I don't know about you, but I didn't. I thought he was gonna be odd man outing people that raise their hand. When Brock was avail, I mean, he had other places to go training camp. But I'm looking a

who we got. I'm looking you come down to David Fails and him, and you know, I don't know Dave. I know he likes David. I know that, I know the boss likes David. But you know Brock and when when Brock was the first guy actively and I'm like, jeez, this is a little odd, but you know here it is. And you know, sometimes you realize that coaches know what

they do the exactly and you have to trust. Sometimes the front office has to work together to trust a head coach and his gut feeling in his history with a player. Sometimes you'll have a general manager or a director of football operations that you know, look at we don't want to take on somebody else's property and garbage or or got this guy's this, this guy's that, and

a lot of bad things said about here. But you have to trust a head coach when he has a history, especially at a position of quarterback, that the play caller knows what a guy does best, he knows his his his good traits, and he knows his his ability to get away from things that maybe doesn't suit that quarterback. So you have to be able to have that trust, and I think it's a it's a two way street.

Adam trusted brox ability to work within this system because he knows it so well he can get himself into good places at the line of scrimmage. And he knows that playing behind Peyton Ending all those years that he

didn't get a whole lot of reps either. He didn't get a whole lot of playing time, he didn't get a whole lot of practice time, and that that's important to a guy like Ryan Tannehill because Ryan needs those reps at practice and for a guy to just get your X amount of of plays during the week and still be prepared to play like a pro mentally and physically,

you gotta find guys like that. So I think Adam has great confidence in both Brock Osweidler, and I don't think you can discount the impact that David fails might have because Brock's only one kind of bad quarter or two quarter performance away from having another guy go in and have to play at a high level. So you have to have confidence in both those guys. The other I think the flip side of it too is is you know, you listen to Brock after the game and

he's talking about the two point conversion. So I've never run that play in practice. I've watched it five hundred times. I've kind of repped it in my head plenty of times, but but I've never run it. So it's the first time I run it, and it's the first time first the second area on the ground and Coach I didn't I didn't even know. You know, I forgot we had

that guy because we never got to the third guy. Well, Ossweiler has the patience he see he sees uh because I watched because um who was the first his his first guy slipped I think slipped out of the backfield and slipped down the back of whatever Kenyan and then Danny got caught up in the in the wash, but Kenny kept kept running along and hits him in the corner. So so his knowledge of the offense since two thousand twelve paid off in a big way that two point conversion.

And I'd like to ask Brock. I'm gonna ask him during the week because as they broke the huddle. He told Kenny. He and Kenny were talking about something and we were kind of standing on the sidelines. But I picked up and I was maybe he's saying, hey, remember the back line in case something happens. I don't know if that was said or not. Maybe he said something else to him, But they definitely communicated to each other. But as they're breaking the huddle, and and that's good.

Teams make plays and trust each other and count on each other by making sure that everybody, even he got the green light special on this play, stay alive because I might need you somewhere in the back end, you know, the end zone. Hey, look, who's the Jerome Bakers just walking into awesome. Let's let's let's kind of take a little break from talking about that. We'll sit down with Jerome for a little bit and then, uh, you know, when we come back after drone, because I think we

probably have it for ten minutes or so. Let's let's sit down with the Jerome and then we'll we'll come back and we'll take a look at the Detroit Sounds. All right, Jerome Baker joined us a lineback from Jerome. You've been a busy man for the last few weeks. Man, you got a lot of playing time out there, and do you feel like that that playing time is is helping you get to where you want to be? Oh? Yeah,

definitely is definitely helping me. Um just kinstantly getting better every time I'm out there and just having fun with it. It was a crazy game on Sunday, wasn't it. I Mean that thing had more turn twists and turns than been driving down a mountain road with the with the snow coming down on you. Oh yeah, definitely. It was a team effort. We leaned on offense a little bit, they leaning on us, so U overall is a great win. Uh,

it wasn't pretty, but we still got it done. You know, you know you're you're your your defense just continues to get better. It seems week weekend, week out getting better and better. And you and ray kwon. You can see you guys both every week, every rep, every snap you get, just making you guys both better players out there both you're more comfortable or did you talk about where you guys were at? Yeah, we we just constantly just uh just improving. Um really every day we go out there,

we kind of just push each other to get better. Um, so we go out there on Sundays, that's just the final result, but um, throughout the week, were just constantly improving. If that's watching film together, if that's just talking about football. So uh, that's pretty much our main focus. And you know we're happy we yet we know we still got along with it. Go all the football you've played, you know, from being a kid in high school and college and

now your rookie year. Have you ever been involved in a game that was seven nothing at halftime and it looked like, you know, this is gonna be a defense struggle. Whoever gets the next touchdown, maybe kicks the next field goal is gonna win. And then you look up on the scoreboard and with six fifty left in the third quarter, it's ten bears and you guys have to find a way to come back. Have you ever been involved in

something like that? No, that's something unique, but um, it's kind of one of those games you just gotta keep pushing through. You don't really know what's gonna happen, but you don't want it to happen on you. So uh, you know, it was just kind of leaning our offense and we just try to make as many stops as we could. You know, he's gotta done. I want to ask you a little bit about about the defense. You know, all the red zone turnovers you guys have been able

to create. Um. Is it communication? Is it a belief in one another? Is it when you get down there, you're you had a feeling, Hey, this is our zone. This isn't third zone, this is our zone. We're gonna make something happen. Yeah, it's just that. Uh, you kind of just have to you know, look at the guys in the facing but all right, you can't let them score. You can't let them just get in there easy. Were

gonna have to make them work for it. Uh So when the guys get locked in, kind of believe in each other and we just get it down and go out there and just do what we do. Um. So that is pretty much just what's keep happening. We kind of just believe in each other. And I was working out in my favorite you know, Jerome. I watched that defense in particularly in the first half and towards the latter part of the ball game. You know, in the second half, they came out and they hit you with

three quick, quick scores. I think one was like a one place school series or two places. They went from from the twenty five yard line down to the fifteen yard line in two places, four plays they had a score. And then the next offensive series I think it was one playing a score. So it was like a world

win for these guys. To me when you look at this football team and if you can stay away from the big play, because you look in the first half, and what I liked was that they were moving the ball down the field, but but it was a methodical move, you know that. You know, first down, second down, third down, Okay, they convert, but they're not making big plays. And to me, that kind of defense is that defense that lends itself to they get to the red zone, they've made so

many stacks and eventually they're gonna make a mistake. You know. It's that old Ben break theory. You know. You know, they they're move the ball, move ball down the field, but the more snaps they've got to take, eventually they're gonna make a mistake. And it seems like when they make a mistake, like John was talking about in the red zone, you guys are able to pounce on it and really make a difference. And I think that's kind of to me is the mentality of what this defensive

football team is becoming. Yeah, it's definitely that. Uh we just try to make any offense just earn whatever they get. Um, nothing is free, nothing is given. Um, so they're supposed to play. That's that's not one thing we want. We want offensive prove that they can move all of down the field. Um, because our defense, you know, we have a great defense. We can definitely, Uh we have offense do that. You know, it's gonna be a long day. So uh, we really started to really do that every game.

And um, this this game we had a few, you know, mishaps, but it is what it is. Kind of those things are gonna happen, you know, And into yesterday was a great example. Is you know, bouncing back, you know you'll be bounce back. You're down, you're you're sitting there at seven nothing and the next thing you know, you're down

to ten, you're and you're down eleven points. And I think you know everything, you know, everything you've heard after the game and all the conversations, there's no letdown, there was no concern. It was just let's go back out. There's plenty of time. Let's run our offense, let's run our defense and get back into And that's exactly what happened. And I gotta tell you that man, you're your boy

out there, number forty seven, Kiko. That that guy, he's running around like a chicken with his head cut off out there. He's out there everywhere, and you know, he seems to be a guy that just he's always around the football, always seems to make something happen. And it's certainly gotta be fun to play with a guy like that and really kind of watching grow up in the NFL with a guy that plays like that, because certainly you can you can glean a little bit of that

from him and added to your game. Oh yeah, definitely, Uh, he goes he's if not the most he's the smartest player we have. Uh he's probably number two. If that. He may be the goof his player, you got to Yeah, but on Sundays he definitely just shows up and he goes to words. So it's definitely exciting to see him, you know, do what he do. He got a knack for.

I mean, you know, he's finds the ball balls, being around the ball you know, there's you've played with guys like we've all played with guys like that that just the ball seems to find them or they're always around the football and and he's definitely one of those guys. And but but you're watch him playing these guys everywhere. He mean's all over the field. Yeah, that that's just Kiko's game. Um, no matter what the ball that he takes off full of speed and he's running um and

it really paying off. So I'm glad does he bars the bars in the locker room with his uh his his Latino music and stuff and trying to pour that on you guys know, it's just kicko. He he plays what he likes and uh end up sometimes we end up liking what he's playing. And that's that's a good thing. Hey, how much more comfortable are you, uh coming in and getting more playing time and more playing time and beyond

the field. You know, with every unit, it seems like how much more comfortable are you weekend and week out with the scheme, with the communication about positioning your body? You know, when you're facing a guy like Colin that's so fast, you know, you gotta kind of keep adjusting throughout the game. How much more comfortable are you getting in the National Football League? Um, definitely getting more comfortable. Uh,

but it's just the working progress. Um. Honestly, every every day I go out there trying you better at something. I'm trying to improve on something. If it's a call I'm not sure about, just trying to just reinforce it. Um. And that's really my approach pretty much this whole see, and just to constantly get better. I know, Uh, my talent is one thing, but you know, I have to really utilize that. So every day I try to go

out to get better at one thing. So are you harder on yourself than maybe Frank or Charlie or Matt, you know the defensive coaches and you watch film by yourself? Are you constantly going you know, I should have taken a better angle, right, I could line up on his outside shoulder, trying to get those things to ingrain them so they come naturally on Sunday. Yeah, I'm definitely hard on myself when it comes to just the little things. Run fits. Um, even just when I'm covering somebody, uh

at the ball. It's even if they get a no yard game, that's not good. Enough for me. I don't want them to get anything. So uh, I pretty much just heard on myself no matter what I do, and so you just helps me get better and overall picture, it helps to tak you better. You know you're in college, you guys, didn't you know? I used to losing too many football games in college. Um, and you come you just went through a tough stretch where you lost two

games on the road, two losses back to back. I don't know how many times at Ohio State that happened to you probably didn't have very very often. But is it is? It is it's a new experience for you trying to try to fight through that, or or just knowing that that's what's knowing that that's what it's gonna be in the National Football League. There's gonna be good

stretches and bad stretches as you get through. Yeah, it's sometimes not used to but I'm also not used to a sixteen game season, So uh, it is what it is. But I can never get satisfied with just losing, especially two games back to back. Um, I don't think any of us is get used to that. But it's a long season. You just gotta constantly key fighting, get better. Um, and it's all gonna work out well. To be honest with you, I'd like to see you guys never get

used to that, right, never get back games. I mean, look, you're gonna lose games in this league. Ever, everybody loses games. But there's only one team that hasn't won lost any games. So it's gonna happen. But you know it's it's and I think I see him in this football team. You know, you see those losses and it's like someone's stuffing something, you know, a bitter pill down your throat, hard to swallow, and you don't want to do it again. Oh yeah, definitely. Uh.

We don't take losses easy. Um, we don't really. Just it's one of those things that you know, we could have definitely got it done whoever we play. So it's gotta go out there next week and just get better. And that's how main focus actually lose. Just gotta go out there and just do what we do at a better level. You know, Jerome, you mentioned you know this is something different for you. Sixteen games instead of maybe

twelve or or thirteen. The way it's spread out, you go through preseason, you go through training camp, you go through all that stuff and it feels like, you know, they always say that rookie wall it's gonna hit at some point. How do you feel physically and mentally? Is it more of a strain on your physically international football league mentally or is it about fifty fifty for you? I have like mixed feelings about it. Um, it's a lot more free time, so I have a lot more

time to prepare my body for it. It is longer, but um, you know, I find ways mentally just to get my mind right. That's just playing on my dogs. If that's just get them a size. Um, that's the little things I do. And physically it's so much less taxing. Only really time you really hit it is Wednesdays and uh Sundays. Um, that's pretty much the the thing that's kind of like equal balances. We have a lot more time to take care of our bodies, so I'm not

really affected by as much. But it is definitely a car crash. I'm gonna flip that around a little bit on you. Do you think you you would be more effective in college as a linebacker if they adapted to the way that you practice in the nfl um. Yeah, but it's a little different because you've got an account school. What I'm saying, like, if you only hit on Wednesdays in at Ohio State and then when played on Saturdays or maybe it's a Tuesday, however, how are you gonna

do it? Do you think that would help the college athlete? Yeah, it would definitely help. But it has this pros and his cons to Uh, when you don't tackle, you're not gonna get good at taking That's one thing. Um. So it depends on your team. If you have a you know, veteran group, you don't need to hit each other all right. So it just really depends on a team in college. But you're on a big win on on Sunday, and uh say, those wins are fun, man, aren't they look grinding,

look gut wrenching during the game. But boy, when you come out of the come out of the other end and on the right side, it's, uh no, no better feeling in the world. Oh yeah, definitely that that was one of those games you really work for. And uh happy I got you keeping coming. Thanks for starving by man. Always a pleasure to have you. Thank you all right to talk about to talk about a guy that's uh, get he's getting his experience under fire, no doubt about it.

Get a lot of playing time, get a lot of reps. And but but John, I you know, for me, I knew going in and I think we talked about it going in with with him. Uh and ray kwon Um. It's about reps that the more reps to get, they're not getting. They're not gonna get to their best without getting them game reps. And so I'm happy that they threw them into the fire. Hey, look, you guys are gonna start day one. Get used to it. You're gonna play.

You're gonna have some bad you have some bad games, you have some good games, but just fight through them. And uh and and he's certainly he and Rayon are both I think playing really really good football right now. And I think you said something important there, Bo. I think that the coaching staff expected, Hey, there's gonna be some really high high points, and there's gonna be some

low points. Don't make the low points so low that they keep us getting the high point cost us a game or or demoralizes your your confidence in your ability to do this. But make sure those high points are starting to stack up a little bit more, and I

think you're seeing it in both guys. I think they're both triggering in terms of being able to recognize a play, recognize a run with with McMillan, especially in getting in and filling those guys and creating some tackles for losses, and with Baker taking better angles and getting better set up.

In terms of knowing I got a fast, twitchy guy or no one, I got a bigger guy that takes longer strides, and getting to know the National Football League and what they're what opposing teams are trying to do to you a weekend and week out. Because if somebody see something that's been effective last week, hold on, you're gonna see a little bit more of it this week. And I think both those guys are smart enough to know that. Well. I think that's kid. They're both smart kids.

And and and then not only you're smart, they they they work and they hold themselves accountable, which is something that not a lot of pros at a young age. Do you know, I don't want it just a bad game. I don't have to worry about working harder, getting back on You never hear from me, I'll go looking at the tape and all in figure out what's going right. You know, I gotta do this, I gotta they're they're

just more accountable and and all like that. And by the way, you know, speaking of of the defense and those guys, and we talked about it, uh with Jerome Vincent Taylor tweeted out, Ben but bend but don't break, you know, and and that's look to me, that's I know, I know sometimes it's a it's a it's a mind numbing defense. In the in the fact of Jez, they keep moving the ball up and down the field, up down the field. But you know, I know, I know

the Dolphins. I know the Dolphins philosophy going all the way back to Bill Arnsbarger was that and his his his philosophy was, hey, don't give up the big play. You make them take. You make them take between twelve and fifteen plays to get me. And if they if they take twelve and fifteen places, they're gonna make a mistake and we're gonna capitalize on the mistake. And I

think you see it with this football team. This football team a little more they're a little more predetermined to make that to make that stop in the red zone. It gives you a little get your hair in the back of your head. But I'm serious. But hell, they're making them. I mean they're making them. And I mean, John I I don't know. You know two thousands, you go back two thousand and sixteen, A lot of big

plays at the end of games. They're a lot of big interesting We've had four interceptions in the fourth quarters San Diego, and you know Keiko's interceptions. L A. You had a big play in New York right in the game, right in the yeah, and and so. So you know you're getting them. But but this team gets them. But they get him, they get him in money, they get they get up. It's like, you know, it's like you're getting all the juice out of that sticky gum before

before you throw it away. Don't leave early because it's not over yet. And this defense keeps you on the edge. But they find a way most times than not to make a play and make a really ignites the team. I mean t J making a play, Kiko running all over the places, Vincent Taylor, you talk about them, the guys. Vincent Taylor has been I mean he just says, and you know, you interview, got you House playing well like

Spence is playing well. Those guys, you know, and everybody in marriage and Dominican Sue, who I haven't even heard his name mentioned down here until I just mentioned no, No one misses, no one misses him. Meanwhile, the problem with the Rams as they can't stop and run around freaking middle, you know. So yeah, we're never neither here nor there. But but day Vincent Taylor, those guys got

y'all all doing some really good things. And by this defense, I'm just excited to see how this defense, how this defense continues to move. But also man offense, and you can't you can't just you can't get away from offensively. Uh, you know, and look ahead, Maybe you gotta lie, and maybe you gotta rely on big places. Maybe you gotta reply on the Albert Albert Wilson's and the Jachem grants to come up with some big place for you and do some things. But that's fine because that's what they do,

that's what they're here for. I kind of like the way the Dolphins approached this game in terms of it was a run first mentality on first down, and the offensive line took it upon themselves with Frankie and and Drake to be able to go north and south. Every time we saw Kenyan want to bounce it outside, you you wanted to wrinkle up the paper you're holding, because that wasn't the way we were gonna beat the Chicago Bears.

We're gonna do it by hitting the hole and hitting it with authority and getting your pads square to the line of scrimmage and making that guy whoever was trying to make the tackle carry him another two yards. And you'd like to see him kind of take a page out of Frank Gore's book. Uh, you know, if it's if, if it's a if, it's a design dive play, take it up there. And I understand Kenyon, because kenyans a

little space to take advantage of his speed. But you know, once you get lateral in this league, you know, everybody's everybody's there, everybody you know, you, like Frank, you need to get through that first level and then go ahead and look for your running room and look for your space.

And I remember Kenyan had a chance to get a first down some part in the game, going towards the west end zone and he caught it in the flat or had a run in the flat where he if he goes straight outside and it doesn't give that little dip, he's gonna get the first down. Was a linebacker there and he was all and I'm thinking, just run past him and he and he just stop and try to come back, and the guy made to play on him. Where I'm with you remember that play vividly watching going

to Kenyon. I guarantee you could have beat that guy to the sideline and turned the corner on him and at least picked up a first down on it, exactly, And that those are the type of things that you watch film and you hope that doesn't happen again, that you kind of get out of that realm of they let's make a big play with every play. Let's make the play that's available. And I think as the game wore on Kenyan when he got his opportunities in the

running game, was a little bit more determinous. Run behind his pads and and and kind of get tougher in that offensive line and get those four in five yards. John, I gotta talk to Adam's dad now, I got a little relationship with what's going on. No, he's good, he's good, But I gotta. We haven't talked about him. I'm gonna stick a bug in his ear next time I see him and say, hey, tell your son, take that bubble screen and flush it down the toilet. I think we've run.

I think we've run this season. I bet we've run. How many games we've played, Well, we were six six games in, so I'm gonna say we've run at least at minimum twelve of them. Runner Tom, I'm just saying minimum. I'm just sending the minimum to a game, and I would say, if we ramp to a game, are probably total yardage gained is probably a minus fourteen yards on those bubble screens. I would like to see the I'm waiting for the pump on the bubble screen and the

guys that are going out and blocking. I mean, we've set it up quite a bit now, right gets set up. So I'm waiting for the the plan b off of the bubble screen because i'd rather see I'd rather see us get to Danny Ammadol on an option on first down, or get O'Leary, or or get somebody else involved. Somebody, because it's tough to block that with consistency after a team has seen it well, you've seen it so much and you get ready to play it. But you know,

I was actually I didn't see the guy. I didn't see the play because I was listening to it on the radio when I was leaving, uh, leaving last night after having dinner, and I think it was I want to say it was New England that ran a bubble screen and then he had one of their guys slipped and they run. They threw the slant to him. Where was everyone's running out of the bubble screen. All of a sudden, here come it was Chris, Chris Hogan underneath boom.

It hits him for the slat picks up like fifteen yards. So there there is an offshoot off of that. Uh. But anyway that I decided to get, you know what, I like that play of the Bears ran where it looked like option and then godown that playoff twice, and I think we worked twice. You can see, you know, I think Adam's a smart guy and he probably has it already in his offense. But three or four weeks down the road, see that I can see that play

creeping into the Dolphins game plan. Hey John, let's let's talk a little bit about before we get off the air, let's talk a little bit about uh, this Sunday another home game. Um well, I tell you what, I love these home games. Man, it's awesome. I mean, you know you're done it, especially one o'clock game, you're done at four. You have a nice little dinner and win a game. You a little bit. I've been on. I've been on two really shitty plane rides coming back from New England.

Not just miserable, miserable, miserable. So it's it's nice to be home and then get this. So but Detroit's coming in obviously Matt Stafford, they've got a nice little running game coming back stairs, a good guy. And I think they're coming off a bye week just like Chicago. Ye, we're getting their one off the bye week. Um but I think that I think the interesting the interesting thing to me, first of all, which which Detroy Lion team are.

We're gonna see that one that when we saw in week one that Matt Patricia wanted to quit and go back to New England at halftime. I think at that point or that they're the team to beat in New England. Just a couple of just a couple of weeks ago. Um, but Matt Patricia, it's gonna be interesting us. I know, Matt Patricia, how much how much of New England does he bring with him? I know he's trying to bring that New England a way to Detroit and meeting some

resistance up there. But how much of a how much of the New England things that we see, plays that they do, ways they go about. He's played against his Dolphin football team for years and years and years. Oh. By the way, he's very very tight. He and Adam Gays are very very close, very close friends. So that will be an interesting matchup to see how those two and those are two guys. It's one thing I've always

said about him. He he loves nothing. His favorite thing about football is that chess match between he and that defensive coordinator stand on the other side of the foot field. And he's gonna enjoy this one. I think he's gonna enjoy it. And I think that the Miami Dolphins have some confidence about playing at home, you know, three and oh at home finding ways to win the longest game in NFL history. This game overtime, exhausting until the last second when you make the winning kick. So It's gonna

be an exciting and and test. I think as Detroit comes in, can you play well and answer a lot of questions with injury, you know how many guys are gonna be able to get back? Does Ryan come back this week? Does Bobby McCain come back, Does Cam Wake come back? And on the defensive side, like you said, with Patricia being the head coach now in Detroit, does he use the same schemes that he had and worked

so successfully in New England? Different names, different numbers, but the schemes are you know, pretty much the same same wrinkles. So in preparation for the Dolphins should be a little bit easier, should go back a couple of weeks like they prepared against New England. Maybe some different things you have to always prepare for, but the the basics of the way New England plays defense, I would think are the same the way Detroit wants to play defense, no

doubt about it. But it's a different football team. And then you come in and I think that's one of those games, John, where you need to come out and really you know, I think, you know, punchment here, here's what I just kind of putting my my looking at the crystal ball a little bit. I think Brock Osswaider

is gonna play again. I think Ryan is. I don't think you come back from that thing in a week if your shoulder is so bad that you you can't you can't get the velocity in the ball that you want to or or you're just not or that you need um. So my my expectation would be Brock Cosswiler comes back. I would also think that Bobby McCain this maybe they comes back because I saw Bobby before the game. He was running something you have a big workout before

the game, more than he did the week before. And I know there was some question last week maybe Bobby would play this with this this last week. I didn't didn't think that was gonna happen. But but I think he's probably more in play this week, possibly to get back in. And if you get Bobby in there, boy, that really just really cements that that that defense and makes it just just that much better. So I think with Brock, I think if you get him back, I

don't think Cam. You know, Cam evidently had some knee surgery a week or so ago. I'm not sure about Charles Harrison you know, well, Charles, look if he if he I'm not sure what he did to his calf. I'm gonna assume he pulled a calf muscle. And and a calf muscle is a is a slow as a slow healer because every time you it's it's it's all. It's like having having a Parsley torn achilles. You don't want to push, you don't want to push off it because that thing's gonna go. And he's a guy that

depends on that first and second step. But look, you got Andre branch back. Yeah, and so, um, I think you'll be all all right there, but it'd be nice to have all hands on deck. But uh, yeah, I think I think with the rock in there with Bobby, I think Bobby McCain is the he's the big hope for me this week, I hope. So he's a guy that you just hope he's healthy. I hope he can can you know, can get going, and uh, it'll be

all right there with him. But uh, it's it's it's it's gonna be another it's gonna be another dog fight. John could be another Every home game seems to be that way, you know, every game that you have to grind it out. And every week in the National Football you look around the league, there's only a couple of teams that have had their way, in Kansas City being one of them, until they lose this week at New England. The Rams are are doing, you know, what they want

to do. But you're right, Bo. You look at the records, a lot of three lost teams, a lot of four lost teams at Jacksonville, jackson will look like they were world leaders and then all of a sudden and the Cowboys and knock them off and really stuff it to him at home. It's you know, the seasons in general, it's it's it's really strange. It's hard to get a real grasp for. You know, it's certainly the best team out there right now is Ramps. I mean they're they're

just rolling over people, may making it look easy. I think you put in New England, you know, New England especially, they've got all the you know, get Edelman back, get Edelman backs, high tower bag, he get Chung back, and they get and Gordon. They get the receiver Gordon, who's a get him going. He's a big body and he seems to be fitting in there pretty well, I was

thinking about the is watching that game last night. Probably no better place for him to go than New England, where you know they're gonna stay on top of him. And I wouldn't be surprised if Tom Brady hasn't put his arm around him and said, hey, let's let's me and you talk a little bit. Let's get you, let's get you right, Let's get your head right and get you out of this pattern that you've been in of destruction destruction year. Let's get you go into the right direction.

So so I would just assume that's so. You know, So I think they're I think they're a team that's certainly on the rise. Um. But but you look at everyone else out there and manutes anyone's ball game. You know, there's a week a week situation. How you divide that season into groups of four games. If the Dolphins can find a way to win at home and then on

a short week, scratch, how to win at Houston. If you can go three and one again and the second in that second four game quadrant, man, you're looking good, I mean, and that and that sets you, that makes you delete that Cincinnati debacle there in the fourth quarter and makes you delete that from your mind because now you're sitting at in a good spot. You're sitting at six wins, and if you can if you can get there at the halfway point, this team is in a

really good position. That's the way fans can think. You know, you and I we can banner about it. The Dolphins want to take care of but they're gonna go week your week, and that's how you want to you want to finish that. That's their business. Their their business is to not worry about what's next week, and and and and look, I usually don't look forward. I maybe kind of look at look ahead to the next week, just

to see where what's after this one. But I really don't like I I beyond that, I don't I really don't pay much attention to the schedule. But you know this, this is one of those games, John that you know,

it's a bury game. You can be you you win this game against the Troy, you can bury that loss against against umand Cincinnati, because that that one, as much as it hurt in New England, that that one was just it's still naws at me when I think about that game and it and it came back to me when I stand in sideline, I ship here we go again since rock Stadium, and here we go with another

one of these deals. But the fight in this football team there their willingness to just stay toe to toe and not really get away from their game plan, not not really panicked, not do anything, just play their game and come back Bodge Well to me, uh with with Detroit coming to town, Well, they stayed after it. They stayed honest to who they are, and they took every

play in every series as a new one. And I think on offense that really helped because down and you're only kicking field goals that try to get back into it. For a certain part of that game, you had a feeling that the Dolphins were gonna come up short. But they fooled us again. You know, this is a team that has come up with some big wins and some big plays and all three facets and we haven't even gotten to the to the rookie kicker at the end

of the game. And it's unbelievable. It's a forty seven yard game winner after Oh, by the way, the guy we had last year did that? Did that script not set up perfectly? That Cody Parky was gonna come into hard Rock Stadium after the Dolphins let him go. They pay him a bunch of money. He just he's gonna make the kids. Walks it out a little bit, a little block there. I couldn't believe it. I said, bo, I think we were standing next to each other's like he made it, and you go, no, he missed it.

I don't know. I was in the tunnel. Were in the because I was sad because I had him, I had to go. I was going. I knew I was gonna have to be. Our pregame show comes on right after, so I kind of buried myself in that tunnel. Just let me see it, and I want and I got. I missed that out there with a great feeling. Oh my god, didn't have Jason come back out and make it for his first game winner. I mean, just an incredible kick. And it was just funny because I talked

to him. I have Jason on the postgame show afterwards, and I said, I said, man, we're nervous. He's now. I look I just you know, yeah, I'm a little nervous, but you know, I I looked at my I looked at my target lined up went through my routine, did everything I had to do, and then just just just swung the leg and made the kick. And and you know he you see, he's not not a cocky guy. All those guys just said, Man, it wasn't It wasn't like he said. It wasn't like when I was in college,

that's for sure, you know. So I think he was as surprised as anybody because it wasn't. It surely wasn't a chip shot. I can't guarantee you that that was a big time And look when you look at it, it really was. It really was the best of two situations. It worst comes to worst, you're gonna tie the game. But and look, no one wants to tie the game by any strength of imagination. But at least you have this. You know where you're gonna you're gonna when you lined up,

he wasn't gonna lose the game. You can win the game, or it's gonna be a tie and everyone's gonna go home, piste off. But but you but you knock it through. And I think it was I think it's uh his twenty. It was the second longest overtime field goal by a rookie kicker. Zerline, the Rams kicker, had kicked a fifty four yarder in two thousand twelve. But I'll take forty seven for the game for the game winner. Right down. I asked my said, how far are back could be gone?

And he said, well, to be honest with you, said, he said over time. He said, if it was sixty four yards, might as well give it a shot. I know I could get the distance there. I didn't know whether I would I would get it in So, but that's gonna keep a good note keeping the back of your mind. It is and you've seen it at practice, you've seen it, uh in pre game, and those guys

take some kicks that I mean from forty seven. That thing hit pretty high up on the net and it was going through still with a lot of steam on it. So that that's a good sign to know at the end of a game scenario, if you need him to kick fifty plus, he's got the leg to do it. Yeah,

it was. It was just one of those games that boy, the twists and turns, and you know, if you if you didn't walk out of that stadium exhausted, like like you just went through the ringer or something, you know, you you just went through the driving the spin cycle in your uh, in your washing machine. Because I know, I was worn out. My gut was killing me because you go like, we're gonna do this, We're not gonna win. Now,

we're gonna get a chance, now we don't. It was emotional, yeah, and I think, you know, I think of myself and how I felt, you know, with the emotions of watching it, the ups, the downs, you know, the exhilaration of winning at the end, and and I'm thinking, and I'm thinking, man, I'm tired. I go. But but there's a lot of guys on that field that did have nothing left in the tank because they left it all out there on

the football field. And and look I go back along, I go back to you know, we win, lose, or draw. All I can ask of you is to give me your best effort. And I think yesterday was a day where there was certainly opportunities out there on Sunday for this football team to pack their bags and say, not atitude, here's gonna happen. It's another one. You know, we'll get

it back next week. And instead of that, they just kept fighting back and fighting back and fighting back and I do believe that is a reflection, a direct reflection of not only Adam Gaze, but every coach on this coaching staff who you talk about running to the football, You're looking at it. You see it every day. These guys they run to the game practice, they're running backs, going to the end zone. I'm going to the endza

to get my hand on that football. And that leads to the turnovers and the fumbles and the and the things that are produced by by this defensive football team and offensively, guys just believing that they're gonna make plays that you know, the the kee Keem Grants and Danny Amondolas Frank Gore and Kenyan Drake Um and Albert Wilson Um, you know, they just believe they're gonna make the plays. And and and we saw it and and uh man, he was it's a fun team to cover, and it's

a fun team to be around. It's it's a lot of guys believing in themselves. But Adam Gays has a lot to do with this because he wanted to change the culture. He wanted to change the culture of this football team. He wanted to get guys in here that believed in what he was talking about and didn't have their own agenda, or you could have your own agenda, but don't make it number one. You know, the team's agenda is the primary thing you should be focused on.

And if you want to do something individually, that's fine, but don't make it ever overshadow what this team wants to accomplish. And I think you get total buying from you know, from the staff, from the players, for everybody that's in that touches the football team. It's got to feel that way well, he he said. He said time and time again, this is the team I've always wanted. These are the guys I want on my team. And these is the this is the coaching staff I wanted.

These are the guys I wanted. They they think what they think. My way we were in were in sync with each other. We're all, you know, working for the best thing. And so and I think you're starting to you're starting to see it pay off when when guys will just fight to the end, you know, they're to fight to the end no matter what, and and and let the chips follow them. And coaches who are at the end of the game of coaching as hard as they were on on play one game. That's right, and

you gotta credit this team. It's not the last game that they're gonna be and that's gonna go down to the wire, just the way, just the way the Miami Dolphins played football. And you gotta have that belief that you've been there before. You're a little bit more comfortable with the situation, and you're not. You're accepting the situation. You want to be able to be able to put teams away, but knowing that you've been in games like this throughout, you know early parts of the season is

gonna pay dividends, I think down the stretch, no doubt. Hey. The audible is presented by Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System in South Florida's only cancer center of excellence. That's gonna do it for the show, John Kijemmy Kimbo, No Joe, no show, Joe carving somebody. I'm gonna pick him up one of these days and bring him over here. Do you think that's a problem. No, he's probably probably you know, he's laughing

at us, going he sleps. You're gonna go ahead and do the show. I think I saw I think I saw a sign when I was going by Central Park. It was Super Senior's Day. So he's gonna go out. He's gonna be he might have three matches, said, I think he had an eighty year old he was playing out there. If I can get him running and I can get him, I can get him buried. So that's gonna do it. We'll catch you guys next. Starless are of An