The honorable is presented by Sylvestor Comprehensive Cancer Center in pursuit of your cure. All right, same castor character, same as every week. Can bocamper John con Gemmy with you. They keep asking us back. I'm hard, but it's hard to believe. I thought, I thought after our first two or three shows, we'll be you've been the outside looking in. But you know what, I don't think they really know what we're doing in here, so we just kind of deep.
We just kind of yeah, yeah, there's not many people here. Yeah, no, no, no, no. So it's good. It's good. It's it's you know, it's good. It gives us a little job assurance, you know, keeps us, keeps us around, keeps us doing something. All that's good stuff. Hey, John, the t a s in the second week, we've had a chance to go out there and look around a little bit. Just your initial thoughts. Again, I'm kind of
on the side of watching. I'm looking at guys, and I'm kind of looking at guys just to see how they move around. Right now, you know, some of the you know, offensive lineman guy, you know, just guys. New guys kind of get to feel for them. But I and I've said this before, I'm kind of spent more time now watching the coaching staff and how they coach
coach upter football team and what the differences are. And I'm interested to see, you know, because I know you've been out there every day that they've had these ots. I've been out a couple of days. Um, what do you see different? Competitive competition? Um, constant reinforcing of fundamentals. Uh, A lot of coaching, a lot of teaching, a lot of hustle, all those things, all those good things that that good teams have, character traits that you look for.
I think this team is building those character traits. I think this team is finally figuring out that you need to work hard to get better at your craft, and you need to be able to be accountable on a daily basis. I mean, the slate is white clean every day, even though you're you're collecting money in the bank and you're feeling like, hey, I put a good day on top of a good day when you hit the field on them one day, when you hit it on Tuesday, the slate is clean. You gotta go prove it again.
And I think that's when I see The most uh thing that I can draw upon is competition. Competition, hustle, get on guys, and constructively, you know, good job, Hey, that needs to be better. We can't line up like that. We gotta line up quicker, we can't jump offsides, we can't do all those things. It's just accountability for every detail. And I think that's the biggest thing I've seen over the past couple of weeks in O. T are certainly competitive out there, and you know they get to when
they're where they get into team offensive defensive drills. Um, it's a it's a competition and whoever we end up come down to the last player, the last couple of players, and you'll say, hey, alright, this is for push ups and offense wins defait. Whatever loses goes down and coaching staff goes down, and you know so so and those kind of things, you know what they they're kind of
twofold John. They create it's fun because now you've got a little something on the line, and uh and and it's it's it's competitive because neither so I wants to lose. And it's a lot about push ups. It's all. It's about winning and losing. It's about winning and losing, and which which every single play in every single game should be looked at that way. It's about win this plin, this play, and then move on to the next one
and do your best there. So so I like that and and it brings an enthusiasm to the to the football team, which I and and and and that enthusiasm also brings a camaraderie I think with both sides. You know, you get in the locker room, yeah, we kicked your guys, and and so and and and you know, and on the surface those things look like little things, but in a situation where you've got a new staff a lot of young players, I think that team building is very important.
It is for this team. And the other thing that I see that that that I really like is I see them really stand tight on the details. You know, I've seen too many times I've seen out here and proud in the practice fielding in games where a guy makes a mistake, comes over and either the coach says nothing to him or kind of says, hey, I know you won't let that happen again, and just kind of walks back, looks by, And I'm not saying these guys are.
They're out there, you know, ripping these guys. But if a guy makes a mistake, they say, hey, no, let's come back, do it again, get it right. Yeah, and so and I and I like that and because you you can't. You know, we we talked when when we had Brian in here, we talked to Brian says, I mean, I want this team to be disciplined where they're supposed to be be there, and you can't expect them to be there if you're not reinforcing that every single day
on the practice field. And you see it. I see it constantly out there, you know, on the practice field work guy makes a mistake and that his position coaches right over there with him, and every now and then, you know, they get a little heated with them. Damn it. You know, we just went over this, do it right, and you know, so there's a little No, they're not not be rating guys, not making them feel like crap, but just letting you know, hey, this is important. These
there's a little thing. They're small details, but you know, small details lead to big success. And I think they're reinforcing that to the point where I really like what I see from what they're doing out there, and the other thing I like much different than I'm not taking a shot at at Adam Gaze because he's doing his thing and gone up to New York doing his thing. And I always said, you know, someone just asked me down there, did you you know, what what do you
think about? I go, well, you know, all I know is this. The Dolphins fired him two days later. He had three interviews lined up, and so it tells you a little something about what and what people think about him.
But there was there was also, you know, the one thing I saw with it, there was a that kind of las fair we'll get it, we'll get it together, we'll get it together, you know, And and it doesn't you know, whereas now these guys they see that mistake, they don't wait till they get in the film room. They you know, they take care of it right on the field, and then sure enough when they get back
in the meeting room. And look, we're not in the meeting room, but I'm my assumption, my assumption is is in there they're gonna go over it again and let you know again how important it is. And I think that, you know, I think for any football team to be successful. I think that's a must. I think if you would go back John and look at and I'm not gonna talk about New England, but let's take the Pittsburgh Steelers. The success in the in the in the consistency that
the Steelers have. I bet you if you sat in those meeting rooms, it would be the same thing. You know, we had my whole career where well, you know, you made the mistake on the field and all that was. It was a precursor in the same age when we get my ask tune and we get that in that meeting for half an hour later, right exactly. So I think especially with this team where it's at, I think it's I'm just really happy to see that. The good thing about it is both not only the negative but
the positives of the reinforced. You know, the negatives you can hear, you know, you can hear the coach's tone, you can hear the players uh, you know, discomfort and not wanting to do that again. And you can hear the moans and groans out on the practice field of that's got to be better. This needs to be better. But when player X, Y or Z makes a big play in the end zone, or makes the correct read on a throw, or is in coverage in the right spot. You're hearing that worse too. So I think it's it.
It goes both ways to where hey, this is the way we want it done. That's a great job, Davante, I want you to do it again. Or Bobby, that was good positioning, you know, in coverage, that's good. Good talking on defense. That's the way we need to communicate.
All those little things are being reinforced too. So not only are the negative traits trying to you know, get the eras route and say, hey, we gotta get rid of those, but the positive traits are being reinforced so that you you know, that guy did it, but the guy taking mental reps, the rookie that's waiting his turn, knows that he did it right. That's the way I need to do it. And I think those are the things that build success. Those are the things that build
repetition in a positive way. So you don't you stay away from the negative as well? Yeah, well you know, and you look long term, two years, three years down the road where that becomes the ingrained. And so now everybody that comes in kind of gets they get this this, they look this way you do it, and you know, I mean, look, we've all been in situations, whether it's training camp or mini camps or whatever, where you really
screwed something up and you just feel like shit. You know, we're walk in the locker room and you know, you guys, hey don't you want you know, hey, just keep your head up or or the other way. Hey good, hey man, that was a nice play you made down the you know, it permeates into the locker room and it really creates that environment that I think that that you need. So I'm very Look, it's it's it's very premature, but but I think from from where I sit right now, what
I've been able to see out there, I'm very happy with. Um. I'm very happy with the way this staff goes. And I look at Brian Flores and I kind of getting back to Adam Gaze when when Adam was here, you know, Adam was you know, Adam was a you know, he was an offensive coordinator. You know, he was a head coach, but he was more offensive coordinator than head coach because he you know, he concentrated on what it was his thing, offense, play calling. That was that was his saying, offense play calling,
let me play that chess game. Defense, I'm gonna beat you with the scheme. But you know, when the defense was struggling, when special teams were struggling, or when they're playing well on either side, you know, you never saw him engage with those guys. I look out here, and I see I see on on on on the on a practice given practice day. I think Brian has something to say to virtually every single group, whether it's offensive line,
special peckers, special teams, secondary. You know, he's he's he's putting his fingerprint on that. And you know what, Unfortunately for for the Miami Dolphins, the talent might not have been where Adam Gates wanted it. But I think Adam Gates is gonna be a better coach the second time around, learning from what maybe his deficient season where in terms of doing those little things that mean a lot to All fifty three or All ninety when you're when you're
getting together, you know, getting ready for training camp. I think the second time around, now, I think he's going to be more cognizant of doing those little things that maybe he thought, you know what I can get by because I really need to concentrate on the offensive side. We put a lot of trust in his assistant coaches to do that. You know, his defensive coordinators. Hey, that that's you know that that that that's your team. That's that's your group. You take care of your group. I'll
take care of mine. And I was. I was in that. I was in that same mode during my career. Bill Arensberger is my defensive coordinator. But there are there were plenty of times where coach Shula came over and you know, and let you know, you know what you're doing, what you need to do. Time Sometimes when you're one sided and I don't I don't mean to say coach. Some coaches are just one sided. They don't know anything on
the other side of the ball. But when you know, when you jump in at you know, halfway through the season, the message just doesn't come through. You know, it's almost like window dressing you. I'm gonna go over and I'm gonna take control of a few things. But then you go back to that one voice that you've been listening to for two years now, and that's the guy you trust, and you got you got the defensive coordinator, you got the offensive coordinator unless they head coach is one of
those positions. He's the ultimate guy. So this defensive quarter may say something to you, and certainly it carries resonates, it carries weight, It resonates to you. You better listen to him, you better do it. But then when that head coach comes over, now you're thinking our ship, that's the final how you're talking about you. I hope I don't get cut. I hope I don't don't don't get demote. You know, it's a little more. There's a he's a
step Hires, always a little bit more influence. So I like, I like the fact that you know that he's a head coach that touches every aspect of the football team, both from a standpoint of reinforce positive reinforcement as well as reinforcing that deal that we're gonna be committed. Two small details. No jumping off sides, no pre snap penalties, none of these things that none of these you know, post play personal fouls that that cost you big And and you know, I don't know what this team is
gonna be. Like everyone asked me, Hey, what do you think why? I don't know. We got seven draft choices I don't or six whatever we got here, six draft choices. I go. I know all all of them are probably gonna make the team, because that's the way it is now. But I can't tell you. I mean, I've seen guys come in where there were you know, big first round draft choices and and and never Barrett never never made
the field basically. And I've seen guys that came in as six, you know, thirteen, fourteen round draft picks that came in and became productive players. So you know those I said, And so my answer is always, well, you know, it looks good like the guys that got in here, but I gotta wait and see how they play. I gotta wait and see when when the Pats come on in July, or those guys gonna be able to play at the level of the next level up and step up and play at the National Football League level after
coming out of college. Just so obviously, time, I don't know. I wish I could tell you, but I don't know until I see these guys and watch them play a little bit. And I'm not talking about but we can watch these o tas all day. You know, It's funny because I listen to reading I was reading a tweet from from our big our friend old Mark Kelly and and uh and rose and throws a touchdown. Yeah, but it's not important, you know, because it's a mini care
or whatever. And then DeVante Parker catches the past and he goes on and on about Dvante catching touch I go, what's the difference? What's it there? What's so? So? A quarterback throwing the touchdown is really not important, but the receiver catching the touchdown? Oh, that's a that's a big deal. What is it? It's one or the other? That? Yeah, you have it both ways. Want is your buddy? Okay? I get that, So okay you you pump up your boy. But you can't, you know, you gotta you gotta be
you gotta be on equal footing. Here. The most fun I tell you watching O t as you know, sometimes you you go through the you know, the Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. But to watch the guys compete at the level that they're competing at and watch the code, just getting engaged with the guys. I think that that means something because now you're starting to build an expectation of where your
team starts and where your team needs to be. And I think the coaches setting the tempo and you get it to the guys, the leaders on the team take it to another level because those are the guys that are ultimately gonna control you wins and lossuits. You can scheme as much as you want, but the guys on the field are controlling whether you win or lose a lot, you know, the majority of the time, they're gonna make the plays that determine you know, first downs, third downs,
off the field on defense. So it's fun to watch guys compete at every drill, you know, and and it seems like the guys are taking control of the coaches at the tone, but then the players ultimately are responsible for keeping that level of consistency in concentration and competitiveness, and that gets it to where you need it to be. I I can't watch these O t a S and tell you are they gonna win three games, five games, six games, eight games, ten? I can't tell you that.
But I and tell you just from early on watching these O t a S, I think this team is going to be more disciplined, more detail oriented, and and a team that's not gonna beat itself, you know, as much as we've seen in the past, but it takes time to grow that Bobbycain joining us. Now, Bobby, you're there every day and it's a it's a different uh you know, just just watching these O t A s and practics out there, a little different feeling coaching staff,
new coaching staff. You you're getting a feel for him. What do you see is different about what they bring to the table and the expectations that they're putting on. Your guys played each and every day. Like you said, you know, we have to pay more attention to detail, have to be more discipline because that's what at the end of the day, that's what can lose ball games.
And um, you know, you can take it each every day through these O tas and put the pieces together, but at the end of the day, it's about focusing attention on detail because the little things that don't matter, that's what winning ball games. You know. It's funny, not so long ago, I remember doing shows with you sitting here and talking going, man, you know, Bobby, young guy here now now you now you're you're getting you're one of the gray hairs now a little bit you're getting
on a little bit left. Young guys out there. Is it a different Um? Is it a different job for you now? Is it now that you've you've been around, you understand you're playing multiple positions, doing a lot of different things out there. Uh do you feel like you have to be someone that's helping the younger guys? It's being a mentor to these guys and maybe don't mean but but just kind of getting them acclimated, Uh, to understand what it's gonna take. Yeah, definitely, you know what
young guys coming in. You know that. I remember when I was rookie coming in and I was just you know why I and I had no clue what was going on. I was just running around. But you know I asked the vest that took me under their wing and taught me some things and taught me how to be responsible and how to take care of my body. Uh, taught me the defense. So I tried to do the same. You know, there's never when I told the guys here
that came in, um, all the rooks that come in. Uh, personally I told a Jamal he Uh he was like, UM,
He's like, man, I need a little help. And I was like, man, don't ever be at don't ever be scared to ask anyone of us for help me t j x X, any guy's being for a minute, especially in the back end, We're gonna help you know, no matter what the no matter what it is, has it been fun kind of getting getting your hands and getting your mind around a new defense scheme, new terminology, because as veteran as you are and experience as you are on the field playing, anytime I feel like a player
gets introduced to something new, it's like, Okay, I gotta pay attention now. I need to get back to to my fundamentals. I need to get back to, you know, taking bits and pieces of what I've learned in the past and apply it to this new scheme. Yeah, for sure. You know, you just gotta you gotta go into like you like like you You're like you're a rookie. I go in like I'm a rookie, and I work every
day just as hard as I can. And uh, I try to be better each and every day because I learned something in his defense each and every day, like especially being in a new position, just knowing looking at things out of the middle field, understanding where you're going and play entries, everything like that. You know, you you gotta changes changes for good and at the end of the day, that's what that's how you gotta take it.
It's it been fun to kind of look around all of a sudden you see Brian Floores and your drill, and all of a sudden he's gone somewhere else, And all of a sudden, five minutes later he's back and you hear another voice. He's everywhere on the practice field. It seems like to me, is that is that fun to see your head coach kind of get into every drill,
special team's offense, defense. Yeah, he's very active. He's very active, and uh, you know he started off his career as especially in coach, and so he takes pride in it. And uh, we understand that if you the one thing two things that make you tough in this team they appreciate all the time is uh what you can do in the run game? Can you tackle in the run game, in the kicking game, And so just understanding that those are gonna be vital to winning. You know, they take
it very seriously. We when we started the show, as you know, talking to John about just say what your you've been out of practice watching and I've watched a little bit of practice out there, and what's the difference you see? And and and we both kind of came with
the same thing. It's it's competitive out there. I mean, O, T A S. And you know, it's you know, they little really even even like you know, last play offense, defense wins, whoever whoever loses has to do push ups and coaches and everybody, and it creates creates a lot of things. That creates competition, creates camaraderie, creates all a lot of things. And it's you know, I I know it's kind of a you know, people may look at and go, oh, it's it's but but it's there's value there.
And you you're going one of the guys on the field, do you see value in the he's running his practice, of the assistant coaches and the way they're going out and and and harping on details. Yet for me, how I how I see it is, Uh, you don't create chemistry by just being around each other every day. You create chemistry through competition. So when you're competing against each other every day, and you know you could you want let this got down next to you, that's chemistry. When
you know that this guy's got my back. Dask. Chemistry, at the end of the day, it's about competing and winning. So we have to understand that when we have when the push ups on the line, nobody wants to get down to push ups. You know, we got we want to make the offense do push ups and vice versas. So uh that for me, that's that's the biggest thing about chemistry, And I believe it just brings a new standard of competition around here and that's what we need.
How did what's your mindset going into these o t A S. I know it's a necessary evil, but with a new scheme, boy, you really gotta every day is like a clean slate for you guys. And I hear I hear that the team preaching that, you know, whatever you did on Monday, erase it because you gotta go prove it every day. Is that is that kind of close? Yeah? For sure? For sure. Whatever it is, you know at the end of the day, like how I see it is okay, you may mistake yes day, trying to make
the same mistakes again. And you made a good play yesterday, try to repeat it, try to make a better play the next day. And that's what's gonna keep you here, and that's what's gonna keep you around at the end of the day because just me being here, I've seen I've seen this, this entire locker room change is my first day coming in here, you know what they say. So there may be there may be two guys that's still here from my rookie year that I that I that I can remember, such as Walk and Mike Hole.
You know, so I can't really name too many more vantee, so um, you know there's only about four or five more guys I'm missing, and uh, so, hey, you gotta just make sure you prove it each and every day because those seats aren't aren't given. You know, they're they're taking you right exactly exactly. You may run it for a long time time, six months, you never know. Hey, did you uh did you? Did you watch the draft
at a little bit so you saw Christian Wilkins. So he comes up and you know everyone's talked about him with Roger Goodell now and now he's in your locker room. Do you see some of that personality uh coming out in him? Yeah, you can definitely see it. Uh, he especially shows it sometimes, especially throughout the d line when you hear him talking, and uh, you know, you can see he's you can see he's a really good football player.
And we take a good football player and Grey has a he does a good job of that all the time. And um, you know, just showing his athleticism from Clemson, like you can see, he's very he's very athletic. He can move around, he can play different spots on the um, he can play d and he can play the tackle. No matter where you put him, he's gonna be he's gonna be a good player. And you look at him with that group especially, I mean he can play outside
and play inside. But you look at him with Gotschaw and and and Vincent Taylor and those guys in there. Uh look, it looks like and those two guys just keep getting better every year. So it looks like, you know, in an area that may have been going into the draft, kind of an area where you want a little need a little help, and it certainly seems like a guy that can really help help out in that a team.
Spence still around, he steps in and play as well, so you know you've got a tackle position with him in there. It looks like it's showing up pretty well. Yeah, like you said, we got we had a good guys. We got a good group up front and uh, you know coming along each every day. Like you said, got Child VT. Spence Wilkins. They're all getting better each and
every day. Charles Harris. We've got guys that have you know, been around for a couple of years, and you know, just gonna just gotta keep putting it together and keep and keep stacking, and keep keep working and keep grinding. Are your dogs doing? You got one dog? You got one dog. He's done, he's doing. He's doing good. He's doing Look on you, I see your Instagram or see your dogs doing good. He's doing good. Little dog. What do you do? He's a Yorkie. I got a Yorkie too,
So don't worry. I'm right now. I'm right. No, no, no, not here, savage, don't get it twisted. Ye Archie's three pounds and he thinks he's like you have you have a daughter too? No no, no, no no kids, no kids, I repeat, no kids. You knows wrong, you know, just we're just trying to throw something up there, you know, And but what is it about? It's funny because I've talked to you, I've talked to uh KD about it. He's got dogs, a lot, a lot, a lot of small dogs on this team. Yeah, I know a lot
of Katie's got a small dog. I know actually got a little small dog as well. He keeps hiding, but he I know, I know that. But now you know that at the end of the days. I mean it's it's he's a family member at the end of the day. So we go through O, T, A S and uh you know, the team talking about the team building together, getting together. How have you seen this this young group with with you know, some exceptions on the football team. Have you seen you guys kind of grow together with
this new coaching staff. Do you do you feel like that the communication is where it needs to be. Do you feel like the tempo and the pace and the concentration to detail is there and it's building each and every practice, And be honest with it's not where we need to be yet to be to be a championship football team that we want to be, but you can tell it's it's getting better each and every day. And um, you know it's like you say, it's ot a number
four believe numbers. So at the end of the days, she's gonna keep building and keep working because but you can tell communication, chemistry, everything that works together is getting there and it's getting better better each and every day. You're going one of your coach, Tony Odin, one of the two guys held over from the last regime. Uh, And I like Tony. I watched what he did last year and like, how do you how do you feel about having him back? Given some continuity in your room?
And I feel good. You know, was a great coach. He's a great coach. And uh, it was actually funny because coming out for the come behind, he uh he's with the Lions when I was coming out to combine and ever since I've had him until last year, I had him saved this Tony Old and Detroit Lions just when I keep calling for the from the line. So that was just a funny story for him. And uh, you know, just bringing just just having a familiar face around, you know, it's it's nice, but um, you know, we
all got we all got a job to do. He's got a job to do and we all got everybody here has got something to prove, So you know, and that's players, coaches, that's everybody, and he's done a great job so far. Some offenser coaches, I'm still try to get that. It's pretty that's pretty scare hold. That's how is that have a staff change of that magnitude. I mean we're we're basically like I said, yeah, the only
guys that did have stayed behind something. But I mean, this is my this will be my that's my fifth year. This would be my fourth head coach and my third staff. So you know, um, it's happened to me once before a couple of times before, and it just it just you just gotta keep like I said, you gotta go into like your rookie man, like just have you have you have your pen, pen and paper ready and understand that Asian, every year, each and every day, you've got
something to prove. So you know, with the new coaching staff, you know, I look at it as an opportunity and that's that's all you can do. That's all it can be. So are you a golfer or a fisherman when it comes when it comes to you know, I'm a caddy and now I got to top golf and I can drive the ball a little bit. My put game, my pluck game is not very good. So but I'm not your desonated driver. I'm a desgnated drive. I'm gonna get on that. I'm getting on the course a little bit
this year. That big oh yeah, five ft wide hole like the top golf that when you gotta put it though, it's a little tough. You gotta have everything right now, you with anybody on the team when you ride around or do you just so, how's X's game? He's terrible. Yeah, yeah, he's really bad. But he'll tell you. He'll tell you he's good, though I ask him. So you don't fish, you don't fish. I can't fish, but i'd rather not fish. Yeah, they're going deep sea fishing. You're out you want to
you want to catch a bass or something. I'm your guy. You put me out there with my guess told me at an early age you either have to you have to pick one. If you're a golfer, you're a golfer. If you're a fisherman, you're a fisherman. But you can't do you know that happened to me. I bought a boat when I was playing, and uh, I got it all set up for fishing, had it for about six months fish and then started playing golf. That boat you sat and sat, so no more. Hey, we're talking about
Finn's weekend June one. Uh So it's always a big weekend, you know, if alumni comes back. A lot of current players are are involved in it, whether it's fishing, whether it's playing golf off. Uh And it's really a chance to kind of mingle and mix with the with the community a little bit. And I know it's something that it just continues to get bigger and bigger and bigger
down here. Um, you enjoy doing that. You enjoy meeting different people and getting a chance to be with the fans a little more, a little more closer environment than in a casual environment. That's it's pretty fun. Yeah, definitely, it's uh. You know, you can go down, you can have a drink if you like, you know, or just meeting around, meeting around with some important people. Man, it's good to make relationships and just understand that. You know,
it's bigger than football, and it's bigger than you. So I understand that you you have to make those relationships to kas football don't last forever. Well, you know what It's funny because I've talked to guys said, you know what it's you know, I retired when I was thirty one years old. I played ten years and I was thirty one years old. I'm sixty four now, you know that that's a long time. That's that's you know, thirty two thirty three years. Then you gotta fill in after that.
So you're you're absolutely right. You know, you look at football and certainly when you're in that game, you're the center of the universe. It's all swirling around you. Then you step out in all of sun your whoa, you gotta find and you gotta it's a long Save your money, my man, Save your money because you know you're along. You've got a long way to go afterwards, you know. Oh yeah, it's uh, it's it's like we always does
a great job. And I still go to some of those means, especially the finance means and you know, the budget meetings, just to see like because you always need help. You you never know enough, you know, just like football, you never know it all and um, you know, so anything that helps, and like I know football, then last fever, I want to play seven eight more years. But you know, lord willing and um, but after that, you know I want to us I want to live another sixty or
seventy years after that. So, UM, I understand that. You know, you gotta save your money, you gotta budget your money, and and just be responsible for yourself. Hey, Uh, you're like you said, you're far four or five years into your career. Um, you don't like the way things been going for you. I mean it's so far. I know you got, like you said, another five, six, seven years left in you, a lot of things look forward to.
But uh, did you ever think you'd be sitting here right now in this circumstance and being where you are with with a number of years going. I'm be honest with you. I don't want to sound boastool when I say this, but yeah, yeah, for sure, because I know, I know I put the work in, and I know I knew from day one. Um, when I stepped on campus, I was like, you know, if I just do what you're supposed to do, do as you told and make the plays when they come to you, you know you'll
you'll be fine. And that's that's what That's what my my first coach told me. And it's stuck with me, luing a remo. It's stuck with me since uh, since the day defensive coordinator and since good hey, Bobby, take a look at yourself and like both said, you know, four or five years into it, I view you last year watching your play. You're one of the leaders on this football team. Now you can be a vocal leader. You can lead by example. I don't care how you
do it. But when I look at you, I feel your leader because one you make plays, you communicate, and your accountable. Do you feel that way when you look at yourself? Like every day I gotta go out and I want to be myself because if I'm myself, I'm one of the leaders of this football team. I just I focus on being me. You know, you can't. You
can't stop me from being me. And U if that's being a vocal leader, if that's leading through play, if that's no matter what it is, just being yourself is what that That'll last you a long way and being and after the end of day. My mom and my dad taught me a long time ago, just being respectful to people, you know, because people people see that. You know, um, when you're talking to elders, Yes, sir, No certain, yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. You know that's it's always taken me a long way.
And um understanding that, you know, I gotta responsibility, be accountable to myself and my family. And there's other young guys looking up to me like, oh man, he's he's here, So how do I get there? And I'm you know, I'm just here to lead the way. It's a football season, a long grind, you know. When you get to the end of that season and season ends one way or another, whichever way it ends, Uh, and you do a little
way time. What what did you do for yourself to kind of get away a little bit, refresh your mind and get yourself ready to come back and and get to work. Did you travel a little bit or travel a little bit? I travel a little bit. I travel with some friends too. You know. One of my closest friends still to this day is that Tony Lippett. And um, he's still my guy. He never never, that's always gonna be my dog. And UM, you know, I just I
live in I'm sorry, I mean in Uh. I live in Miami, Florida, so you know there there's always sunshine and uh, I try to stay out of Miami. But I live in for a lot of else so you know, it's not too bad. You can go out and go to the beach if you like, or go you know, it's just you live here. So I live in a place where your vacations. Yeah, and and it's big. My mom's gonna hate me for this, but uh, Fortnite will keep you out of trouble. Man. Really well, that's true.
So you haven't done any traveling you even know Europe? No, no, no, you haven't done any at all, not yet, not yet. Just been around, just been around the country and uh, just you know, around just such as Texas, l A. Just you know, minor, minor things. But I plan on going. I plan on I want to go to Spain. I want to go to Spain when we get a little time off. Um. But I'm gonna make sure I'm running each and every day because if you're not, you ain't
gonna make it when you get back. Get up to you especially he and flow again, I were talking about a little bit like like a kid like Josh Rosen. You know, I grew up in northern California. He's a California guy, and I had never been. I've never been east of Nevada. When I came down here and that humidity, I'm like, whoa. I mean, it took me two years
to get used to it. And we're talking to a couple of gold balls will come out of his hands, and you wonder about him getting used to You see guys coming in from the especially from the West coast where there's no humidity, coming here and have to deal with with the humidity and getting through it. Yeah, it's definitely different. It's definitely different. And uh it's a lot of the guys out there saying now that uh oh we um man, it's so hot out here, and I'm
just looking at him like, yeah, it's not here. You ye, you don't understand it's coming, and it's it's gonna it's gonna be bad, but you'll get used to it and you have to either adapt this. It's the thing in our defensive room, and said the adapter, die, so do one or the other, Bobby. We certainly appreciate you stop. Always great to have you on the on the show and wish you the best luck, stay healthy and uh
let's just see you keep growing. And uh, I can seeing the pro Bowl on these days would be nice too. Nice to see your your number flashing round out there. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it, buddy, appreciate it. Vivian McCain. Good to watch. I gotta watch. And uh, I'll tell you talk about the guys. Just worked and got himself to where he needed to be. And and like you said,
I agree with you. I mean you look at guys and you were pointing guys, whether it's the offensive side of the football or defensive side of football, and you go, hey, who are the leaders and this football team? And he's and he's one of those guys that you know. And he came in, he came in as a special teams guy. You got his snaps here and there, and every time
you get a snapper, so he'd make something happen. And so that's how you more and more and then and then you put him down to me, he's I don't know, he may not be a starter, but I consider him, yeah, no doubt. You look around, you go, wow, who can play multiple positions? Who can be accountable? Who's not going to make that mental mistake? And uh, and who's the guy that has seen a lot of football's I had a conversation yesterday. I was out in the field and uh,
I asked about Mike Gasecki. You know, because because I was watching Mike last year and I think, you know, he needs to get in the weight room, he needs to be in every aspect. It was gonna get a little stronger there. And so I asked about him there and they're pretty happy with where he's right now. He's gained some gain some weight, gas and gain a lot of weight, but he's gained. He looks, he looks game
masks against gain some muscle. We're talking a little bit and he says, you know what, And I think this coaching staff believes in in his place. It's let's put let's do what he does best. Let's let's get him in movement, let's get him in crossing routes. Let's do this, and then let's not him. Let's not trying to force him to do it. And I said, what about blocking, Well, you know what, we've got guys. We've got guys can block.
Let's let's and I think this, I think that is I think that's part of that m O that you're getting from the guys that have come down from from up North is the way they've used the tight end. And I think I think the way that they've seen the tight end used up in New England is going to allow a lot of different options now, whether it's whether it's Gooseki, whether it's smythe whether it's uh, you know, you've got it. And I'll tell you what, what's the name?
I'll tell you. Every time I look at that guy, he's doing something good, you know. I mean, I'm watching that maybe the best tide and they've got out there and he and he was he was waiting for a job last year early in the season, a pick up and and what a job that that that kid has done. You know, he's a you talk about hard work, effort guys,
he's a guy does everything well. So I like, I like our tight end competition, like we you know, Bobby talked about competition, especially on the defensive side, and being more you can do. You know, that tight end room. It's gonna be interesting to see how it how it shapes out and how the plays are allotted two week
to week. You know what coach o'sha the offensive coordinator and his play calling and being able to be flexible at that position, because as you alluded to, New England did a lot of different things with Cronk, but Alan only caught maybe two or three balls. But he's a guy that consistently was knocking people off the lane scrimmage.
And that's why New England was so balanced. They were able to run the football effectively with multiple backs, you know, sharing the wealth and being able to get guys flexed out and being able to get two different four nations
and put pressure on defense. And the other conversation that seems to be out there a lot is run defense, run defense and tackling, you know, the two things that you know you you if you you know you look at the It doesn't take a genius to look at the numbers on from this football team over the last couple of years, giving up well over a hundred thirty yards of game. Whatever those numbers are there there, they're gaudy numbers that you don't really want attached to you.
That's got to change, and and and and even at this point early on, as early as this is, you know there, that's become an emphasis for this football team. I'm watching, you know, I watched the drills, you know, just the different drills. You know, I'm watching the tackling drill where they're not tackling, but it's about getting in position. You know, if guys, if they if the sidelines of the outside, you play, you know, take from inside out, work from inside out, use that right the right angle.
But they got guys, you know, dropping to the ground, having to get up off the ground. Then go and make a play, which is more real, is much more realistic then if you stand on your feet and running up and a guy jumps up and you and you put a bear hug and look, you can't not you know, in this day and age, you're not gonna have live
tackling drills out there. But I like the fact that they're getting them as closer close to what you're gonna close to live action is possible without actually laying the wood on on anybody out there. So so in different drills, you say, I just I don't know, I just I just like the way the coaching staff and kind of getting back to where we started. We just like the
way the coaching staff is coaching these guys up. Um. There's no detail that's too small out on the field for O t S. And they're putting in an importance on that. And I think it starts with you know, all ninety guys, even the quarterbacks are throwing the football and they're involved in those drills that are those those simulated tackling drills. You know, the blocking dummies to get through when you catch the football from the quarterback to
get through. You know, those receivers and tight ends and and running backs are getting hit and then the defender, as you said, it's on the ground, he's up, he's at I having to identify which way the runners going and then kind of tag him, you know, tag him around the waist and make sure you're in right position and all the little things that you do as a football team. These guys are ingraining every day and it's it's like no stone is unturned to be able to
we'll do it again. You know if if if a guy start start to drool over, your jog over, start to drool over. We want to hustle everywhere we go. And I think that comes from the top down, and I think every coach has that mentality. It's just not you know, coach flows, it's every coach that metal. There's been a couple of times I've seen assistant coaches run that over. Usually that's the quarter of the head coaches
job to you know. But you know when you got an assistant coach that that, and he may not be that, he may not be that head position coach. Maybe the guy down, Hey, run it again. This, we talked about this, let's do and and that that and and and allowing your coaches to coach and do those types of things is just rather than you know, we run that over again, we're gonna miss out into well, you know what, Well then, so so let's run eight extra shitty plays instead of
getting these two plays right. No, that that and get it done. You know, I mean, you get better because not only the guys that screwed up are doing it over again, but the guys that are watching are are getting a good taste. And man, I hope that's not me. I better not be me. Next. Well, one of the guys we haven't talked about much this offseason um is Davante. And look, you know it's no surprise to anybody. Davante kind of you know, kind of hanging by a thread there.
They decided to extend him out and and and have him back for this year and and and this is a boy if if if he doesn't realize that this is a critical year for him. And I'm certainly certainly sure that he does UM. Every practice out here for him with this new staff is extremely extremely important. And I know Carl Durrell, the receiver's coach, he was here before I got to know him a little bit, and I think Carl maybe a guy that really really is
a good fit UM for DeVante. You know, he's a smart guy, good guy, He's got a good way about him. It's gonna be interesting to see what DeVante Parker is going to do this year. I like, I like the way DeVante's responded so far in O t A's just watching him play number one. When you look at his brief history with the Miami Dolphins, it's health. He's got to be available, he's got to be on the field
producing at at a more consistent level. And and look, he's gonna have to compete and he's gonna have to produce uh when he's not. And I think that's been probably the biggest knock on him is you know, you remember a couple of years ago, he's having a really game and he had that one ball where landed right on his back. And then and then from the rest of the year was you know, hit or miss what you're gonna give a week to week and and the
same thing. And you know, he's he's had nagging injuries that have really affected his ability to play sometimes even ability to suit up out to be available to be one of those and and he you know, he's got to find a way to be more healthy. He's got to take care of himself more. And he talked about that last year. I got to continue to do that. But you know, at some point he's gonna say, you know what I just come from. I just gotta push through it. I don't care. I don't care if my
ankles swollen. I don't care if this is that you know, if it's if it's a pulled hamps. You know, certain things like that. But you know, some things you can't play with or something things you can't pay. Stuff that that has gotten Davante and I like how he's responded so far. But I've said that before of Davante Parker. We've seen you've seen him camp, you know, every every year at this time Mini camps and then the season starts. I think this has got to be I mean this,
this has gotta be his. Look, this guy could this guy could easily be a Pro Bowl player this year, or it could be a guy that's out in the street next year looking for a job. No, it's it's gonna be it's black or white, and we need to see more of the good, you know, more of the availability, the more productive guy on the field, because with his size and his speed, boy, he sure is a threat. You know, he puts pressure on the defense when he's at his best, and he needs to be at his
best this year. So good stuff so far. I mean we're you know, one more, two more, got a couple more weeks and then the mandatory is June four to six, I believe, and then they're gone after June and then they're and then they're off until I think around the twenty six of July something like that of July. And that's uh, it's a long time to be off. So that's why Bobby was saying, you know, I might, i might travel a little bit, you know during this downtime,
but I'm I'm gonna be running every day. That's how you know that that time of years has got to be for NFL. Cross your fingers. Coaches, it's just don't I don't even want to. I don't want our name. And they wake up and read a paper or put on Sports Center or do whatever. I don't want to see an update on my phone coming through that I'm watching. I'm looking to paper. And this guy Cespitus is playing for the Mets. Okay, you know he's out, he's had
to say, heal problems. He's out, he's on the injury so he's his ranch where and he breaks his ankle and you're you really, you know, you kind of wonder what some of these guys baseball guys. I don't know. I know, I'm not so sure. I don't get I don't get to you know what. It's just funny because he's on the d L and her, Well, if you could do sh it in your rants, get out here and play BA go sitting the dugget. You know, the guys making sillions of dollars and stuff. But uh, yeah,
I don't I don't know. But tell but that period that that that five weeks or whatever, boy, that's a and you see it every year. You see something every yearly with a young team you know, I think that's what you're and that's why I think the coaching staffs coaching the guys the way they are. I mean, every little detail, it's on you, it's on you. You know, clean slate, let's go new day. You know, you haven't
proved anything yet today. So I think that's gonna be you know, reinforced all the way through the mandatory camp and then like you said, you hope that you come back in July with a full roster that you've coached up and you've done a good job with and and you're ready to go for the preseason because this is a young team that needs that needs every practice they can get on the field, every every bit of coaching to get them ready to be competitive in two thousand
and nineteen. So I got another couple of weeks and then they go and um, but but they're important weeks again, and we keep, you know, we keep kind of emphasizing it. But that's where we're at. And um, you know, if it's trying to watch a team trying to look at new foot faces, a lot of guys gone big change at quarterback, you know that that's a huge change that uh, you know, you just kind of every day you sit there and you're looking to evaluate and I don't know
who's you know, who's moving up, who's moving down. But well, you know, it's fun watching the quarterbacks. It's it's pretty even reps. You know, Ryan Fitzpatrick's getting a lot of the reps, Josh Rosen is getting a lot of the reps, and Jake Rudock's getting some good reps. He's been impressive over the last couple of days. So that's a good rotation. It's a good smart room of quarterbacks that have live arms, uh,
that that have that have been productive. You know, they've they've been productive throughout these O T A s And it's fun to watch, uh, these guys progress and and those guys be competitive because that's one that everybody's gonna zero in no doubt. Does Josh Rosen need to play? You know, is Fitzpatrick better coming off the bench? Is Fitzpatrick gonna play? Do we waste a year with Rose
and we need to find out what he is? You know, all those questions will be answered when we see who's ultimately named a starter and who's lining up at home at hard Rock Stadium against Baltimo and these practices for Josh Rosen are extremely important because you know, he's he's learning a new one. He's about a month behind. He's
a month behind Fitzpatrick. He's a month behind Jake Jake, you know, because those guys have they've seen that, they've seen it, they know what they they they've been they got the terminology, they got the playbook. You know, he's new to the game, and so he's playing a little catchup. And is this goes is this goes on? I think the the evaluation, uh will will become um more competitive certainly, and a little easier to see who's gonna rise to the top in this deal. And he's got four teen
games of experience. But now you couple that with a new environment, new team, new teammates, new scheme, and a chip on your shoulder and a bruised ego. About that, I mean, your tenth overall last year and you get shipped away. I mean, he's not complaining because the Cardinals paid him handsomely for those four teams. But but but competitively, as an athlete, you want to be the guy. You know.
It's funny because I've talked to people about this before and I don't think they don't think they understand it. They all talk about the money, the money, the money. But it look look they're great. I mean there there's plenty of money out there for these guys. But when push comes to shove, when you step out on the field and say, am I better than that guy or that guy better than and all the money in the
world isn't gonna doesn't make it difference. It didn't make you feel any better, doesn't make you feel more confident. And you know that they, hey, this is my job right now, because as soon as you think that, you see this guy throws a pass it like us may not be my job. Yeah, And it happens every day. You know, these guys are so many reps and so many uh you know, individual drills and little things that you have to be. You know, you have to be
bang on, you have to be a hundred percent. And when you make a bad reading the balls going the other way and you're chasing, you know, it doesn't feel very good because you know you're gonna see it in an hour. You know it was a bad read, it was a bad throw, poor location, it was late. You know, all those things come into factor in why you were you know, a negative on that play. Yeah, so it's
it's gonna be interesting as we continue going on. I want to remind you guys, June one, Finn's Weekend all down in Miami. I think the fishing is that Miami Marina, the Miami Beach Marina down there where they're going out and they do a big way and I know Joe's usually Joe Rose is usually the appearance he doesn't make. You don't go out in he doesn't go out in the water. He does he mcs the the way in so he bust people's balls for small fish and stuff
like that. He does that. And then and then they got the I don't where the golf turning. Where the golf maybe Miami Beach. I think it is golf course. It was a nice venue out there last year. So and then people are welcome to come out and do this stuff. There's a there's a a gala event one night.
I believe that you probably go to the Dolphin's webs website and look up Finn's Weekend and and see if you want to participate in black And we're talking to Bobby, I think it's you know, to me, this is a nice time because you know, it's it's it's just going into their vacation time. Those that those weeks off that they have, you know, they've gone through the otis, they've gone through manicamps and there, and they're they're feeling a
little you know, time to relax a little bit. And and if you're a fan, you get a chance to rub shoulders where you you know, I think you get a good you know, it's a it's a good time. Like you Bobby said, have a drink or two, and yeah, it's fun. They're not just talking to people and relaxed atmosphere. You know, the Miami Dolphin Foundation they raised a lot of money. It's a good environment. If you're a Miami
Dolphin fan. You want to be around the players. You want you like fishing and you like golf, or you just want to come out to the party. Uh. You know, it's a pretty cool atmosphere. I talking about the party. But yeah, you can sign up and play golf with with whoever. And then like I think last year I was out there, it seems like everybody was out in the golf course. Greasey was out there, Danny was out there.
She's just about every everybody was out trying to sneak in with the scouts, you know, if they're if they're short of a guy kind of, I'm like a last minute draft. I don't see who goes out in those boats. No, I because I don't go out on the boat. But but I've been told and I've seen because our production crew covers it so well. You know, it's a lot of fun, A lot of fun, A lot of fun. Yeah, I'll watch it on the video because that's what I get my takes from. Yah something, Hey, we got a
boat for it? How big is itt? No, I don't thank you, but we will partake if you catch something nice that I don't want to know anything about it. The only fish I want to see is on my plate with with some oregan atto, a little little you know, stef or trade to you know, go out on one of those boats, prepare something for us. Yeah, you know, don't don't be catching on of those mud fish in these canals and trying to pass it our way. I guess the nice group or something, yea dolphins. Stuff is
all right? Johns so hey, look by the way, reminder June one, Fins weekend, go to Miami Dolphins dot com. Check it out if you want to part just face. I'm sure there's still space for anybody wants to be part of that. And it's a great, great weekend and and a lot of fun for players and everyone everyone involved and everyone everyone, you know what I know that week everyone seems to be smiling and happy. So so it's a it's a good deal to do. Hi. John
will be back again next week. We'll find out, we'll have a skill update. We'll keep up on the Josh Rosen deal, where he's at. We'll go and keep a looking on all the different position guys out there and who seems to be making headway and uh and again kind of keep watching the the personnelity, the personality that this UH coaching staff is is beginning to influence on this football team. I think that's gonna be something interesting to watch really really throughout the course of the season
this year. I can't wait. You know, they keep seeing this team grow and get better at their craft because uh, it's hard to listen and read when you hear the local or national media you know kind of downplay where they think the Miami Dolphins might be. You can't tell these guys any different, and they're the only guys that can change it. So it's fun to watch them work as hard as they're working, no doubt about it. For John con Jammy, I'm Kimbo Camper. That's gonna do it
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