The Audible Ep. 79 | Mike Gesicki

gotta search for positives in that game. Is certainly not what Brian Flores expected. I don't think it was anything that that we expected. I don't think it was anything that Dolphin fans expected. But at this point, it is what it is. The Dolphin has just got man handled from the opening kickoff until the game ended. Uh. The Baltimore Ravens, you know, give them credit. They were prepared to do in every aspect of the game, offense, defense, special teams. When all those battles and so now it's

it's regroup time. But you know, you look at that game, John, and you know it's it's it's really it's tough to gauge only because I've never been You've been around this league for a long time. You've been around football a long time, being around this league for a long time, seeing a lot of college football. I don't know that I've ever seen a team go into an opening game with so many changes within seven days of kickoff, and in some cases only only a few days of the

game being kicked off. And it's just not at one spot, one position. It was all over is littered on the football team. You have offensive lineman starting, you know, they've been in camp for practice for four days. You've got defensive linemen that are starting that have been here for maybe a week if that. And that filters into your special teams. You know, all those guys that haven't been there are now asked to do more on special teams.

So kind of it was a snowball effect from the opening gun, you know, mark Ingram forty nine yard run to open the game, and it was downhill from there and we made uh, you know, Lamar Jackson given credit, but he looked like a Hall of Fame corp. He's in the Pro Bowl right now, I mean, and he had four or five six seconds to throw the football so there was a lot of issues that the Miami Dolphins are gonna look at tape this week and go, wow, can we correct this? You know, can we correct that?

And I'm sure there's a lot of mental and physical mistakes that were made when you when you lose to ten, but you've got to be able to jump back and not let that loss really turn into two losses in terms of playing the same way. And I think that's what Brian Flores and this coaching staff really have to decipher. Who can do what really well and how can we get into better positions as a defense, as an offense,

on special teams too. Don't allow ourselves not to give us the best chance at at a winning result, you know. And they're going up against the team that if you thought Baltimore was good, this team is that much better, no no doubt about it. But you've got a week bund we punt week under your belt. Some of these new guys that have come in have been there for

a while. Um. But the conversations I've had with people John after watching the tapes is a lot of the things that there were the mistakes were made are correctable mistakes. You know, Guys, you know, being not being in the right place or choosing the wrong you know, Eric row In in the back of the end zone, you know, instead of looking at the quarter back and when the when the receiver just turns around and and finds wide

open space. Those things are fixable. But the things that sometimes aren't fixable fixable or when YouTube to get physically dominated by people guys are pushing around. And don't get me wrong, there were some guys out there that physically got dominated during the course that football game. And they're either gonna have to get better or if somebody else is gonna have to step in and take that charge.

But I think one of the to me, one of the difficult things and really that that uh, you know, if I put a spotlight on one thing that that going into that game, that that I thought was was really gonna be tough to begin with, was we were talking about it seven days prior about the offensive line and how they're gonna have to play better. And then you go into the game and all of a sudden, you've got Danny as a Dorian. Their Shaq Calhoun was

was there all preseason, he's out. Now you take Jesse Davis, you put him at left tackle where he hasn't played. You bring in the new guy gaving for it, You put him at at at right tackle, and so you got guys playing out of position. You got two guys playing on the right side that weren't in the that that haven't gone through training camp. We've only been here

for three or four days. And John, you know, in a in a position like that, in a in a group like that where communication is so vital to to to success, how how can you have communication when you got two guys in there that weren't even here a week ago, and you're trying to and you're playing against a damn good football You have dotted a lot of different looks, doing a lot of different things. Blitz is all different kinds of things and taking advantage of it.

It's hard to it's hard to blame him, but but look at it is what it is. They gotta line up and the playing they have a lineup and play this week against another very good defense is going to show him a lot of different things. And you know what it's. It's it's that old you put your big boy pants on, because it's not gonna change from here going forward, you're gonna be the guys lining up. You gotta figure it out. You gotta figure it up and

figure it out in short order, you know. I think the one thing that wasn't a surprise was the play of the offensive line when you talk about Isadora and Davenport on the right side, because you limit your offense, you limit your cadence, you limit what you want to do pre snap because you don't want to trigger these guys or put them in a worse position than they're already in with a limited access to a playbook that has been installed from last spring, you know, so you're

trying to spoon feed these guys and and I'm sure they were overwhelmed at some point during the week trying to get ready and on Sunday and we saw that. But the biggest surprise to me, Bo was I know that Baltimore is explosive on offense with the run game, with the zone read, with all that stuff, But it

wasn't Lamar Jackson's legs that beat the Miami offense. It was his right arm, and it was the lack of coverage in the secondary where we felt talking you know, on the audible multiple times that that's one of your strengths of the defense. You really felt like going in, well, let Lamar stay in the pocket and make him beat you with his arm. But that wasn't the case in

terms of having it work out for the Dolphins. It really played into the hand of the Baltimore Ravens and they were able to make one explosive play after another. There was three plays of over you know, thirty yards. Uh, and the tight ends. The tight ends had third. Three tight ends had four teen catches for over a hundred

forty yards in the game. I mean, and you've got one of your best players that seemed like trying to track down tight ends but he couldn't, you know, could He was always a step behind or two steps behind. So those are the things you want to get corrected. Because when you think about where the Miami Dolphins, if you feel like you can hang your hat on stuff, you thought it was the secondary. You thought Baker and

Aguabin would be able to handle that linebacker spot. And then you've got new guys front that maybe didn't fit exactly the way you thought it would fit in the run game. So my concern is you've got an even more explosive offense coming to town with one of the best to ever play the game and Tom Brady, and if you don't get pressure on that guy, you are

going to be in fron another long day. Well that that's the other thing when you look at that game, you talk about the backside of the defense, you mean, I mean Lamar Jackson, he didn't need to run because he he you know, he had he could just stand back there with impunity and look around the field and

throw the ball where wherever you want to do. And when you've got that much time, and it makes it that much easier for the receivers to get separation, makes it tougher on those defensive backs to cover, especially in today's day and age, with the rules and the way you play a lot of freedom. Well, you've got to have somebody putting that quarterback under duress so he doesn't he can't just sit back there and pick you apart.

And I don't, John, I'm I'm kind of I've been trying to go through every go through the whole name in my mind and think, was there one time where they had Lamar Jackson in the situation where he had a panicker, ramble or move out of the pocket or buy time, or yeah, you have plenty of time. You didn't have to buy any time. He kept all his money in his pocket, wasn't having to buy any time. The only time he did he retreated about ten yards and through a lollipop in the end zone and to

an open receiver for a touchdown. I mean that was the only time he looked like he was under durest and really he was just buying himself some time because he knew if he didn't find anybody, he could allude the three or four guys that were, you know, trying to pass rush and buy some more time, you know,

to the wide side of the field. So I just think that, you know, there's a lot of things that are correctable, but for a home opener at hard Rock Stadium, I think these guys have to have the attitude this week that they're gonna have their another chance to make a first impression in terms of being able to play with a lot more energy, a lot more efficiency, a

lot more uh organizational wise. You know, it just seems like the schemes are in place, but we kind of went off the reservation a little bit with maybe first game. You know, jitters with a lot of a lot of young players out You look at early in the game, you know, you know, I think it was the first play Fitzpatrick Audible's or you know, changes them to play the line of scrimmage and Preston Williams doesn't doesn't get it, and and he's blocking and and and fits throws him

the ball. And that was the beginning of seeing a team that, Look, the coaching staff has prepared this football team. They they've gone through all these situations, they've done all that. But you had a lot of guys out there playing in that in a game for the first time the national football it's allowed. You know, you've got all the excitement going, you got all the adrenaline going, you want to play well, you're you're behind the eight ball right

off the bat. And so you know, it's tough situation. Tough situation where a guy has been in the league for five, six, seven, eight years, when you've got a number of guys that are first time players in there, you know, it's it's easy to get off the tracks, off the rails, and uh and and and they just weren't able to get back on. Now the train's not stopping because like you said New England's coming up this week, you got Dallas the next week, and so on down

the line. So it's not gonna get any any easier. And I know going through the I know going through the film session on Monday wasn't a pleasant situation. I think they stayed in there a long time, a lot of work to get over, a lot of a lot of things to cover, a lot of things get done. And John, I know from my experience the times that we played and played poorly and winning that meeting room

and basically just got shredded. You know, you came back with a vengeance, and you may not have played you know, you may not play your best game the week after. But I would expect improvement in a lot of areas from this football team. That being said, the opponent also improves. As you said, coming into this stay you have the defending Super Bowl champions, made the steels a whole and Tom Brady looking like he's hasn't hasn't skipped a beat.

And oh, by the way, let's strow Antonio Brown in there on you who they've got listed in their depth chart as their starting wide receiver. Already on Monday they had him listed as a starting wide receiver. So it kind of tells you what we can expect out of this football team comes Sunday. Well, there's so many weapons,

and it starts obviously with Tom Brady. I mean, this is a guy that has seen everything, done everything one you know, multiple champions World championships, and he's a guy that just can beat you anyway you want to defend him. You know, if you're gonna crowd the box, he's gonna find a guy in isolate Edelman. If if he's got some zone, he's got a cross here with Gordon. If you want to go deep, you know, he finds a speedster, you know. And now he's got brown on the outside

as well. So you've got a lot of weapons. And that's not even getting to the Sony Michelle's and the James Whites and the Rex Birkheads and and those types of women and Julian right. Yeah, I mean you look at this lineup with it and you talk about Josh Gordon. It's funny because I'm not funny, but I remember, I believe it was two years ago when Josh Gordon came back from a lengthy suspension number of two and a

half years. I think somewhere along thatlines. He had been in and out of the league, played a few games, and just so happens he gets activated. Oh by the way, when the Dolphins pulled into town and and he just you know, I hadn't said there, I haven't seen him playing per and he's a big talented wide receiver, and you thought, wow, but now you have another guy like

Antonio Brown, you know, and hopefully on Antonio. Hopefully after Antonio misses a practice or or or a meeting or the plane or something, so we don't have to see him. But yeah, and that not being done, we're gonna see him on the other side. And look, he's ready to play. He's been working out, he's been training, haven't been a

training cam much, but he's ready to go. So uh, you know, And then you talk about the Julian Edelman's and Sony was Schill and James White and Philip Door said, I mean that that's a that's a I mean you and you talk about getting pressure. You know, you could be twice as good, you could do twice as you could be twice as effective as you were last week,

even though they weren't very effective at all. But you can be twice as effective and still lose ground because he's gonna get the ball out of there so quickly that that if you don't get if you don't if you don't make him move within his second or third step, you you got no shot to get to him a way. Yeah,

it's a challenge. It's an uphill battle for the Miami Dolphins, especially if you feel like you've got so much to correct in terms of offensive line and defensive secondary and trying to create pressure and when you're displacing guys to add another guy to the pass rush, well that kind of plays into Tom Brady's hand a little bit because he's got so many answers, you know, just not you know,

focused on one or two receivers. It's across the board and it's backs coming out of the backfield that can be hurt you just as badly as a guy you know, going you know, running as deep crossing route or a deep outcut. So the Dolphins definitely number one. I mean,

let's make no mistake about it. Number one. The Dolphins have to worry about the Dolphins right now, and they have to be able to correct what they can control on on each and every practice leading up to Sunday, and then you've got you know, the Patriots on the horizon that you've got to You've got a monster coming in the hard Rock Stadium that likes to play a

certain way. And the Dolphins. You know, if you ever want to either get a stalemate after a quarter or a couple of series, that's the week they have to do it. Because you don't want to fall behind the team as quickly as you did the Ravens and it seemed like it was there was no end in sight.

You don't want to have Tom Brady get the ball the first time, whether you received or they received whoever, first time they get the ball in their hands, you don't want them to go down the field eighty nine yards down the field and put points on the board, because then you're back, well, here we go again. Can

we're right back in the same situation. So somehow, some way, they've got to slow down this offense and find a way to oh, by the way, you know, get get past the defense that's gonna show you a lot of different looks that's gonna try to confuse you. And you look at their secondary with the McCardy brothers, back there, Patri Chunk, Kyle Van Noy, I mean, this is a football team. Pante High Tower, Michael Bennett up there. They's there is loaded on that at the football almost as

they are on the on the offensive. So well, there look defending Super Bowl champions. That's all you have to say about this team. But you're right, I think the Dolphins, whether they win this game or not, you've got to see a and I'm not talking about a little bit, uh, a noticeable amount of improvement on this football team, because it's gonna be a journey for these guys after starting the season like that. This isn't gonna be a one week fix. It's not gonna be a two week fix.

But if you can see them every week getting a little better and moving on and just tightening things up, then I think you can then you know, then you can start feeling good about it. But uh, right now, I think that the most important thing besides looking at New England getting ready for that football team, going through your practices, they've got to shut their ears off to the to the outside. You know, the outside is good. They gesn't buried worst football team ever. You're hearing all

these types of things about the Dolphins. Um, and so they they've gotta they've got to forget about that. They can't listen to that, they can get involved with that, and all the you know the people that are nowhere in the neighborhood. Oh, you know, people want to they want to get out of the team. They're looking there. You know, where some of the ship comes from is

beyond me. But it get out, gets out there, and once it gets once it once it's once it gets its its tentacles in there, it just festers and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And and you know, these unnamed sources and this guy or that guy or this agent. You know, it certainly doesn't help. It doesn't help this football team. But there's nothing you can do about it. They're gonna, they're gonna say what they want to say. Anyway, these guys have to concentrate on on on what they've got.

Who's my man? Where do I gotta be? How do I block him? How do I get off the block? How do I tackle him? How do I cover him? All those types of things? How do I get open if I'm receiver, if there's no hold and I'm running back, how do I find a crease, How do I find something? You know? And we can talk about offensive scheme and defensive philosophy and special teams. How you know two plays you know, you drop a punt, you have a fake punt, go for I don't know, sick the plus yards to

go down to pen yard line. Yeah, but but I think the one, not the most thing that gets stuck in in head coach Brian floores that makes them frustrated. But I think it added to it was the nine

penalties for for sixty or four yards. And it wasn't so much the yards, it was the nine you know, the nine penalties that if you if you're preaching to your team all camp and now granted probably uh of the players who weren't here that actually played in the game, but still you've got to think that that that's one area that you can you can control and you can improve on in week two, that you know, those hidden yards, those sixty or seventy yards somewhere is gonna help you

and it's gonna add to the improvement on on your scheme wise, what you do defensively, it's gonna add to your execution on offense and how you can move the football, because I just think that's one thing that they can definitely control and the coaches can kind of monitor that during the week to get them to the point where they're making two or three that I can live with at but not you know, six going to nine. You know that that that doesn't work that way, and you know,

you look back. And then there were there were some guys that did you looked at that played well in the game. Preston Williams, a guy that played with park dropped the park ball in the end zone. You know, should have had it when I got his first touchdown. Had some nice places. Davante Parker came out and played a good game ball. Ryan Fitzpatrick did Yeoman's work to get the football out of the pocket and and make

some completions down there. I mean, for what he want to add that little spin, Well you don't have to do it before, you multiple times before just to avoid in the pocket. But I mean he was fourteen and twenty nine. He had to pick yes, trying to make a play. I had to touchdown, which was good, but

on a number of those completions. Let me tell you there's there's a lot of quarterbacks in this league that have been sacked six times in that game probably would have had more than one interception and definitely would have had just as many quarterback hits. So you gotta you gotta tap your app to the way the courage, what he played with, and the smarts and you know the experienced factor of being able just to get the ball

out the other guy. I tell you that that you're we're starting to see some life out of is tight end Mike Gasecky. You know, Mike got a nice cat down down the sideline there and made a play, made a couple of plays in the football game. We saw start to see his him coming out as uh you know during the uh during the preseason, uh, you know, kind of putting last year behind him and improving on his game. And I think I think we're starting to see the Mike Gasecki that we thought we might see

when when they draft him out of Penn State. And so that's helping and and Mike, actually it's gonna gonna join us right now and we'll we'll have a chance to sit down with Mike and hear what he had to say. Joining us now, tight in Mike Gasecky and Uh, Mike, it's been. Um, it's been. It's been a long run. You have a long year last year, you get a break and come back here and going through training camp and O t s and all that stuff, trying to

get yourself improved or are you happy with where? You're never happy with where you're never satisfied worth your at but you like the progress that you've made from your

first season to your second. Absolutely. I think that, you know, whether it was you know, good or bad from last year, I was able to learn from, you know, all the all the things that are kind of throwing at you during that rookie season, and uh, you know, I've been able to take that into the offseason get better, you know, get bigger, stronger, faster, you know, all that kind of

stuff that everybody always talks about. And then come into a year two a little bit more prepared and you know, starting to pick up a new system again all that kind of stuff. But for the most part, you know, I feel pretty confident and I just remember back and it was a long time ago, but it seems like it took me like a couple of years just to figure out kind of kind of figure out what this league's about, you know, because it's a lot of about them, it's a lot of it's a lot about the players

you're playing. It's a lot about the job you gotta do, but it's a walking a lot about just learning how to play in this league and learning how to be comfortable in the environment. You're you're facing the same type of situation. Yeah, absolutely, you know, I think that there's definitely a you know, there's like that you know that that gap between college the NFL and and you know in your first year, Um, you know you're kind of trying to you're trying to you know, shorten that gap

as much as you can. But you know, ultimately, you know, these guys have been playing for a long time and there's a lot of talent up at this level, so you know, just trying to you know, make up the most ground that you possibly can. And then, like you said, you know, still trying to figure out, you know, how people play in this league and you're trying to get more comfortable as this way you know you can you know, continue to play fast and you know play up to

you know, your highest level. And let's let's talk about the game last week and certainly It's just one of those games that it happens, as you know, doing the Coaches Show with the Coach Flow, and it's just kind of like kind of like a snowball. Once it starts rolling, it's tough to stop. And then that's that's exactly what that game kind of looked like. You know, get a couple of couple of couple of mistakes early on, and it just got pounded on and pounded on and then

just made for a long day out there. And there's no fund for everybody in those games. How how did you how did you come out of that one? And and and how do you look back at it and and try to get better both individually and as a team going forward. Yeah. Absolutely, you know, I think, you know, first and foremost, you gotta tip your hat to Baltimore. You know, they played you know, extremely uh you know,

you know, they played an extremely effective game. They were they were great in all phases and all that kind of stuff. Um, you know, but ultimately, you know, Coach Flow kind of said it best right after the game and he kind of just said, hey man, just just let that sink in and you know, remember this feeling, remember this moment and let's grow from it. Uh So, honestly, I think that you know, you're if you handle adversity the right way, then you know you'll be able to

bounce back and become better because of that. So I think, you know, everybody in locker room today, you know, I was able to take the coaching points and you know, just get better overall because there was a lot of there's a lot of things to learn from, but there was also you know, some good stuff on the tape that you know, you continue to build on and then just you know, move on. That's that's the great thing about this game. You know, we got we got another

opportunity this week. It's an old cliche when you look at the tapes, never as bad as you thought it was, never as good as you thought it was. You know, I would assume that was the same case for this one. But I know, talking to some people, you know, there a lot of the mistakes were made were fixable mistakes. One thing, if you're getting man you know, you get man handled and run over. It's another thing when because there's mistakes that you can look out on tape, see

what what what was done wrong and do it. And it seemed like that be that was the case with that game on on Sunday. Yeah, absolutely, you know that that was the thing that you know, when we got in the offense room, you know, coach O'sha kind of said to us, said, you know a lot of the stuff that um that went that went on in that game, it can be easily corrected. Um. You know, there's just that That's kind of the big thing in this league. It's it's all the it's all the minor things. It's

it's the small details that make you know a huge difference. Um. So, especially on you know, the offensive side of the ball. You know, it really takes all eleven and U. So I think that that's something that you know, well, continue to focus on and uh and harp on each and every day to you know, just continue to move forward. You get better. Did you look at this football team and then you guys are a young football team and it got younger a week before a week before the

season began. And so you look around and there are a lot of young guys that are really still still, like we said earlier, kind of trying to find their way through the league. I really think until you get to your third, third, fourth, year when you're really getting your traction. Um, and so there's gonna be some growing

pains with this football team. Yeah, I think that, you know, it's it's definitely something that you know, I mean, at the end of the day, you know, whoever's in that locker room that that's that's the team that that we have, and you know, the guys that we're gonna go out with and you know, compete and go out and win with.

So uh, you know, I think that I think it's awesome to kind of see, um, you know, the the level of the age of you know, in our locker room and kind of you know, grow and get better each and every week because at that level, I mean, I mean I'm still in it right now. I'm only in year two, but you know I kind of lived through it, you know last year, my first year, and you kind of get thrown into the fire and you start learning faster, and you know, you gotta start understanding

things quicker. Um. So I think it's only gonna benefit as you know, I'm moving forward. You know, some people's think I'm crazy You're talking about this team, and I said, look, I like this, this is a young nucleus of this football team that that can grow together, and that's how you become a team. Just like your college, if you're with a team with guys for four years, you get that fourth year and you guys are you're cranking because you know, you're communication, you know all these things, and

I think it's no different in this league. But it's it's so times it's painful and don't get any more painful than last week. But you put it behind you and you move forward, and this doesn't get any easier. You look around the corner and all of a sudden, you know you got new England Patriots coming to town, and they get another big time receiver in Antonio Brown makes that challenge. He's more tougher than it it would have been before. But it's a National Football league and

in every game, they're not not gonna run across. Show me an easy game in your schedule this year and we'll we'll stack it on there. But I don't think

there is one. Yeah, absolutely, um, I think that, you know, Like I said, that's that's kind of the great thing about this league is you know, we got another opportunity this week, and uh, you know, we got an extremely talented you know, well coached, tough, physical team coming in and you know we got to do our best to you know, kind of put last week behind us, Um, learn from it, and then you know, put it behind us and move forward because uh, you know, you can't

let one turn into and let it snowball. Uh. So you know you just gotta continue to you know, focus on our on our role, our assignment and our job. Go out and go out on the field and use our fundamentals and technique and you know, execute the best of our ability. Like you're you're used you a lot of different player You're moving around a lot of during coming up coming, off of running routes, off of motion, all those different types of things. What are you doing

differently than than what you did last year? Um? I think honestly, it's just kind of you know, kind of growing and developing and letting the game around me kind of slow down. Um. You know, at the at the end of the day, you know, football's football, So I mean, the the calls are going to be the same, and you know, the plays can only change so much. But at the end of the day, it's up to you

to go out and execute. So I think that you know, our coaches are doing a great job and you know, not only putting myself, but putting everybody in position to be successful. And then you know, when when your number is called, you know, you gotta go out there and you know, excut to the highest of your abilities. And what is it, Uh, what is it that you want to get better at? What do you think that that that for you to be where you want to be

that you've got to figure out in this league? Yeah, I think, um, the main thing for me is just to be more of a complete player. Um, I think that that's kind of the obvious one right there. Um, you know, I know what I'm capable of to do in the past game, and um, you know, just continue to get more reps and get more comfortable in the run game and you know they're blocking and all that kind of stuff, because you know, the more that I can be on the field and in those aspects of

the game, I think it will benefit me. And you know, the receiving aspect as well. You take a look at the opponent coming up in New England Patriots, and you know, you talk about just the history of of high level success in the league, and they change players around but it seems like the results always become are always the same with that football team, and they challenge you because there they are so disciplined, smart, play their assignments, play

their techniques and do everything. And it's almost like a plug and play with those guys you put them in. If they buy into the system, that they're gonna play pretty well for him. So it makes a game like this, uh you almost have to play a perfect game in order to get them down with a with a couple of minutes left where you got a chance to win the football game. Yeah, I mean, obviously New England has a you know, a very rich history and that in

that organization. You know, they've had a lot of success, so you know, going up against team like that, it's an opportunity for you know, our team to continue to grow and develop. And uh, you know, I mean coming here with with coach Flores, you know, he kind of holds us all to a really high standard and he's kind of, uh you know, developed a culture here that you know, is um something that you know, we're excited

about moving forward. So uh, I think that you know, going out there this Sunday, I think it's gonna be you you know, a great test and a great matchup. You you saw him a couple of times last year. What is it about them when you when you play them that that you notice about what makes them so successful? Yeah,

I think it's it's it's the little things and the details. Um, like I was talking about earlier, Um, you know, just the minor techniques and the minor you know, phases of the game that kind of add up to be the big pieces. So I think that those are the things that they do really well. Um. You know Coach Flows talks about all the time. You know that the stuff that kind of takes no talent um, So you know, doing all that kind of stuff too, you know, kind

of put yourself in a position to be successful. I think that that's something that they do really well. So you've you've been down here in South Florida now a couple of years. How do you How do you like living down here? I love little hot during the summertime. Oh yeah, yeah definitely. I mean the heat's definitely an adjustment for you. But uh, I mean, but once like no November to sever hits. You know, everybody back up north they're dealing with snow and I'm dealing with seventy

five degree weather. So I love it down here in South Florida. Has been great. And what do you what do you try to do when your time when you got time to relax. Uh, you know, honestly, you know, our days on Tuesdays are kind of like is the off day. You know, we got a little uh time to ourselves. So when I'm not in the building, honestly, it's just kind of taking that time to kind of you know, recover and uh, you know, just get just get back because it is a long season, long run.

But you know, I do like to enjoy myself and kind of you know, get away from the game. So those two those days off for valuable, aren't they Definitely you almost count the hours on him and you wish it was that's the clock was slow down a little bit once on those days off. Yeah, once once once you get out of the building on Monday, it's that that's kind of when it starts. So you know, you definitely want to take advantage of the time that that

that that you do have. UM, but you know, ultimately, it is a long season and it's it's a grind. But you know, something that we're all looking forward to you a beach guy, you're like you hanging down with a beach and all that that offers up down there. Absolutely do uh I do love the beach. And then honestly, at my building, there's a there's there's a pool. Always go to up there just kind of hang out and just kind of relax, and uh I love that. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a great place to be

around here. And uh I remember getting down the ocean. You have you got a chance to during the off season to get out to why. I would say the Bahamas have, but you know, God bless them what they've gone through. It's well, it's a tough thing to see. But I've been the Keys and done those types of things. I haven't really done too much exploring outside of you know, the actual you know South Florida of the you know

the Miami and for lauderd and all that kind of stuff. Um, but you know, definitely something on the on the wish that's moving forward, all right. I appreciate you stopping buying man. Good luck, good luck this week, good luck for the rest of the season, stay healthy and and keep getting better. Absolutely, thank you so much. Appreciate it, appreciate it all right. Well, Mike is one of those guys that you know, he's talked about, you know, trying to improve every every aspect

of the game. I know he's got a little bit bigger out there. Uh, he's working on his blocking. But you know, John, I'm I'm still in the at least in my camp. I'm in the I really don't care if Mike blocks or not. I you know, to me, he's a guy. Let Durham Smith do the block and let let let O'Leary, you know, let let uh, let's let Cox. You know, there's a fullback come in his wife, bring in, bring in another tackle and and use him

as a tight end. I want to see Mike where he's moving, moving at the line of scrimmage, where you can get off the line of scrimmage, get down the field and and and challenge down the seams, Challenge the safety is out there, challenge linebackers to cover him, and make him be a guy that teams have to respect each and every down when when he's on the football field, he's he's a long way from that, but we're certainly

seeing the improvement in Mike. A second well, he might be a long way from that, but he's a long way from where he was when he's when we saw him at this period last year, because you know, last year, we saw a guy that you know, looked like he

was slow getting out of breaks. It looked like he wasn't strong enough to play in the National Football League, looked like he didn't have that quick twitch you were looking for, and all those things aren't a finished product, but they're a hell of a lot better than where

they started out last year. So you have to give him credit number one for working his tail off in the off season to prepare himself, and number two, taking and accepting the coaching and taking accepting the resource of being able to play in him the amount of games and played in last year, knowing where he was deficient and being able to work on the things he needed to be to be a better, better source, to be a better uh you know, target as a tight end,

as a wide receiver, as wherever you want to play and put him in motion, get him in the flat, get him in the red zone activity. When you get down there, throw him up the ball and have confidence he's gonna be strong enough and smart enough to go up and catch the football. John I was asked in the post game after Sunday's game about the defensive side of the football. And you know, we've seen him do

a lot of different things during the during the preseason. Uh. And I was asked the question, Hey, is this is it time maybe for them to maybe boiled down, boil that down a little bit, maybe maybe try to get go back to the basics. And and you know, I think there's some merit to that, maybe some merit to just saying, hey, let's let's go back to the basics. Let's get lined up, Let's know who our guy is in front of us, Let's get ourselves in position to cover,

and let's just cover. Let's not get let's not get crazy, let's not go exotic. Let's play some good, basic sound football, and let's not let's not create too much confusion within our within our own huddle that that we that we leave leave crevices in the in the defense, whether it's in the passing game or in the running game. And I don't know what they're gonna do, excuse me, on the defensive side of the ball, but I don't see a problem with boiling things down. You know, as it said,

old thing. You know, an offense at the offense that does so many things that they can't do anything, give me that that team that says we do. Let's take the ten things that we do. Let's take the ten plays that we run best, and we're gonna run them. We run them out of different positions or different formations, but we're gonna run these ten plays and we're gonna run them every time and over and over and over again because we know we can get these these done

and these are bread and butter. You know, you may have to. You may end up doing that both on offense and on defense, where you just pick the best things you can do and do them, and then as a season goes on, add to it, add to it, add to it until you get to where you want

to be. To your point on defense, I wouldn't be opposed to having I don't know, fifty percent of the time, let X play man to man on one guy and that's your guy and keep them on a basket and just like they used to do with Sam Madison, put

him out there. He that's his g When you got you know the problem is when you when you're facing teams like the New England Patriots, I'm not so sure you can pick a guy because there's so many and you put them on Antonio Brown, you got Josh Gordon on the other side exactly, and you put them on Josh, you got d Antonio Brown, and then you got Edelman

on coming boat. So I'm not opposed to having a little bit of fla fiver of that because now at least you're gonna play zone, You're gonna be a little bit more protected in the back end, so the ball is not going over your head as much, and make them go seventy eight five yards. You know, do you have a chance to score instead of those three plays eighty yards, sixty yard touchdown, forty five yard touchdown. And

it's deflating, it's demoralizing to a defense. And you noticed when they finally did go at exit against Brownie almost came up with the interception on Sunday. So I'm not opposed to maybe having a little bit of flavor of that type of defense or that style of defense for the Miami Dolphins. Now, on the offensive side of the football, you've got to find a way to get your running game going or at least extension of your running game, and that's throwing it to Kenyan Drake because this guy

is explosive. We saw him in the open field. He makes guys miss. I just think that, you know, Blage did what he could for the room that he had. I mean, he was running hard. But there's gotta be a way to get Kenyan involved, to make it easier for Ryan Fitzpatrick, to make it easier for the guys on the perimeter to get a little bit more rhythm going. And I think that's your guy, that's your most explosive player.

I think you have on offense in terms of either handing it to him or sending guys in routes and being able to check it down to him to make it easier for Fitzpatrick. And and and they gotta get that. That offensive line has to got to create something. They've got to create some kind of uh separation in there. They've got to get turned on their blocks and get

and get between that. You know, the the have some defense and then you know, and then the ball of the lane where you want the ball carry to go do something like that. But uh yeah, it's look, it's gonna be a challenge for these guys again, it's gonna, you know, it's gonna be a challenge for this coaching staff a to get these guys back to back to feeling good about themselves being so when they line up

on Sunday, it's let's go. We're ready to go kick some mass out here and play a good football game. But they've also get them gotta, they've gotta they've got a short period of time to solve resolve all the mistakes. Now we go back what we said earlier, a lot of these a lot of the things that we're a lot of the breakdowns or fixable breakdowns, just guys being in the wrong place, not not playing their technique, freelancing

a little bit, whatever, whatever you want to say. You know you can do a lot of that, but there was so much of it. I don't know how much you can get completely. But you got to get that done. But then, you know, it's there's a big, big challenge for these this staff to to get this team with a mindset going into the game that that's behind us,

we're gonna get better. And even if they don't come away on the winning end of this thing, the fact that they've played better and they felt that they're you know there, that they are becoming a team that's gonna be able to challenge each and every week. Is is that's to me, is the job of this staff getting them mentally to that point and physically to that point. I watched that game on Sunday as a fan, and when you got into hard Rock Stadium, there was a

good energy in the building. There was a lot of good energy by by the Miami Dolphin fans, and you felt like you were excited. You were you were sitting up with your backup right. You wanted to see what this team was gonna look like. You're excited to see because it's known, it's unknown what type of team you're going to have. Now this is a second opportunity, and there's a big gap from where they left off after sixty minutes of football to to their next opportunity, and

there's a lot of room for improvement. So for me, as as a fan of football, as a fan of the Miami Dolphins, I'm looking for that that that's the first thing I'm looking for. I want to see more effort, I want to see more execution, but I definitely want to see that gap close from where they left off against the Baltimore Ravens. There's so much room for improvement.

I want to see where they start. How hard are they going to be able to you know, attention to detail, all all the little things that you kind of take for granted. But now you're kind of putting a magnifying glass on because now you have a barometer of where they left off and it wasn't pretty. So now you've got room for improvement. So as a fan, that's what

I'm looking to see. I'm looking to see that defense, you know, get a couple three and ounce and and flip the field a little bit, make it easier for the offense. I'm looking for the offense to take a drive sixty seven yards, get it into the end zone, and be competitive. Not in the third quarter when maybe it might not matter, or the fourth quarter, but right from the first quarter. I want to see this team start a little a lot faster than it did against

the Baltimore Ratings. And it's uh, look, it can be done. It's gonna take work this week. And you know, you you'd be surprised at how much you can change a football team or their attitude in a week's time. And and this look, this team is down in the dumps. I mean on Monday Sunday after the game, I mean just looking at the looking at the faces of these guys, and and then Monday seeing them on Monday after they've gone and watched the tapes and uh yeah, they they were.

They're down in the dumps. And so they've gotta gotta pull themselves up by the bootstring bootstraps and and get themselves going. If not, it's gonna be like you said, you're you know, if you're not ready to play, you've already lost your second game. Uh you know, before you even before you exactly. So that those are the things I mean, there's a lot of things to look for where when you're looking for improvement for the Miami Dolphins this year. But there you can control mental mistakes, you

can control the way you play. You can control the effort that you give. And I'm not saying there wasn't a lot of effort given on Sunday, but it didn't match up with the execution. Sometimes you can go play as hard as you want. If you're not doing the right thing, it's really not gonna matter. So I want to see those things kind of get closer together in terms of given the effort, but the execution and the attention to detail on your assignment base on the offensive line,

you're starting points are better. On the defense, I want to be able to see guys not running Scott free in the secondary. I want to see some penetration or some pressure on Tom Brady on Sunday. I don't care where it comes from, but you've got to change what you did in week one because what you did in week one wasn't close to where this coaching staff needs this team to be. Yeah, and the defensive wise, I mean coach talked about it is this Monday press conference.

I think they got to tackle better, and they've got to tackle better. They've got to be able to step up and and fill those gaps in the running game,

and they can't. They just can't. I can't have big gashing runs effect them, especially against this team, because once you once you, once they get a run or two often and play action becomes a viable option for him, then then you're really you're you're really in that in that sling where where you know they've got you coming and going and and and you don't know what to do and you're out of position and all those types

of things. So from a defensive standpoint, certainly that and offensively, like you said, you know, John, the two the two areas of this football team that probably were the most disturbing was the offensive line, the defensive and and you know, the lack of pressure really the lack of of much stopping of the running game, you know, not making it tough for them to you know, there's forty nine yards in the first carry the game, a number of other long long runs and you know, when you forget long

runs four yards, five yards, six yards, I think that I think the Ravens had one negative play in the football game, and that was kind of a gimme yeah with with Jackson being caught as he was moving around, no doubt. So there's, uh, there's a lot of work to be done. There's a short time to get there. But but the show is not gonna stop for him. You're gonna gotta jump in there and get on it and make it happen. The good thing. I mean, even though you get beat by the score, you get beat

by it counts as one loss. And there's fifteen other teams right now trying to figure out how we can get back to one and one, and the Miami Dolphins are one of them. They just happen to be playing the World Champs, which makes the mountain a little bit tougher to climb, you know. John. The other thing is

is you know this whole Antonio Brown situation. Uh, normally I wouldn't bring it up, but but it's but it affects us now, you know, as you go up to play the New England Patriots with with him on the roster, now, you know, a few days before Sunday and a lot of as we can saw for the weekends, a lot of things can happen when Antony Brown when you see him, when you see him, you see him when he lines up, he lines up, But for all intents and purpose, it

looks like it looks like he's gonna be there. And John, to me, it's just uh, you know, to me, it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a bit of a scar in the National Football League. So it's a bit of a scar in the Oakland Raiders. Uh, it's a bit of a scar on the way young kids, high school kids, um, are allowed to watch somebody has

been well chronicled. Allowed to watch somebody manipulated that and be that much of a of a me me, me me kind of a guy who, by the way, he is getting paid a lot of money to show up and over the course of his time in Oakland, showed up when he wanted to show up, and he'd show up and not practice and and this and that and become a distraction for the entire football team. Uh only to get rewarded with a new contract somewhere over somewhere else.

To me, it's um, you know it, just it disgusts me, to be honest with you, when you think about the way this this all went about. In the beginning, when the Steelers, you know it, finally had enough. The only team, the only team maybe really wanted to go to, was the New England Patriots. He wanted to go to a chance to win a championship, a chance to be with one of the best teams in the National Football League. Oakland. Wasn't that so Oakland? You know they are, they work

out a deal, they are from tons of money. How does you know? Because he was never he was rarely there were really there for for anything going on for for me, maybe It's a crazy thought, but I just think that this guy had it in his mind the whole time where he wanted New England's where he wanted to be. I don't think he planned to hurt himself

with his feet and however that happened. But just staying away from the Raiders, staying away from training camp to kind of set the stage that I'm I want out, I want out and to be rewarded at the end for that, You're you're right, just doesn't sit well with anybody. I don't think any logical any anybody that's ever played a team sport. It can't sit well. And I'm not so sure. I mean, the Patriots might be happy, but you know, it's it's good. At some point it's gonna turn.

You know, at some point the worst type of virus is now embedded in one of the best organizations, uh in terms of winning, in terms of the way the culture and the way they want to do things. And you can only hope for the other thirty one teams or at least the guys in the a f C. That's something. You know, there's not a happy ending to

this in terms of being success. I remember when they got when they got to the kid from the defensive tackle from Albert Haynesworth, you know, and Albert was a guy, but trouble guy, guy that you know, cause problems where he was from Washington, went from Washington and then goes to uh goes to New England. And Bill Belichick the same thing, say, look, we're gonna give you an opportunity, but you don't go by our rules. And I think

he was out in three weeks. Well I think he came in out of shape and just you know, and so not get out. You're not you're not helping, at least from that standpoint, I think he's going somewhere where if he doesn't tow the line, and I mean to the to the max, then then he's not gonna be there for very long. And to your point about setting an example, you're exactly right. From kids that are playing Optimist League football in South Florida. You know, guys you

know from here, but high school football. You know, I do what I want, you know, and I'm gonna rewarded if I play well, I can do what I'm gonna get my money. I'm gonna be able to do what I want. I just I just think it's sets a just a horrible precedent in terms of now we're praising a guy that did it all the wrong way and ends up looking, you know, ends up being rewarded in the end, smelling like a role. It just doesn't. It just doesn't sit well. And it's it's disgusting to be

honest with you. Yeah, I do, Well, we'll see. You know, it's you know, you know, I mean you know the policy that uh that the flow house here, it's you know, if you're not five minutes earlier, you're late. You know, if you're on time, you're five minutes you're you're you're here five minutes earlier on time. If you're on time, you're five minutes late. And if you're late, you're you're, you're out, you're forgotten. That's gonna be a tough that's gonna be a tough Uh, that's gonna be a tough

rule for for him to abide by. So well, will see. I think this story is far from over. But I know this guy's goddamn good football player. And he can he's a great route runner, catches everything and uh and and boy, you hate seeing Tom Brady. You have another threat like that, a guy that can can go the distance at any point, and then rich get Richard. It seems like in terms of talent, that's for sure. We're

gonna wrap this thing up. John uh Dolphins in New England Patriots, hard Rock Stadium, Sunday, another one o'clock game. I'm assuming it's gonna be hot, and hopefully that that helps a little bit. The Dolphins have had some success against the Patriots, especially down here when they come and play and got him early in the season, So you know, hopefully some of that luck will rub off and and

they'll get something going. And but I do I do expect that we said before, I do expect this team to be much more representative than than what we saw

on opening Day against the Baltimore Ravens. So you sure hope, So you sure hope that the effort that they put in during the week, the corrections that they make, have a result some sort of positive outcome, some you know, you close the gap from where you left off too closer to where you want to be, if not there in week too, if you listen to this podcast, we hope to see at the stadium on Sunday, It's NFL

football Dolphin football. And if you're a Dolphin fan, you know whatever, come back, come by support this football team. And because no matter what, they're out there busting their bus, trying to find to put the best they can on the field, and uh and and and uh, it'd be nice to have everyone stand behind them when they walk into their own stadium. So but that's gonna do it for John Kijimmy, I'm Kimbo Camper. That's gonna for the audible.

We'll catch you next week, hopefully we're talking about it. Big win over to dranted New Eddan, New England Patriots. When we come back to you next week, we'll see you there.