The Audible Ep. 8 | Draft Party

Football season is bad. He's back in the house right here, hard Rock Stadium. We're gonna bring it to you all night long. Should be a great night. This is a This is a strange draft. Been a lot of different scenarios, you know. A couple of years or last year, a couple of years ago, we had a little Larami tounsil issue going on. Now we gotta Josh Allen, miss you go on. That could change the dynamics of this draft. All these things. Ray Kwan Smith right there, got him

on his head. So there's a lot of different things, sir, I take that right now. If I take it right now, I take take that right now and go home. How about the day I'll do that right. You're right about this traft, though, It's gonna be fun. Find out what happens with the quarterbacks, who makes power, moves down, tries to jump up, get into this thing and uh and then see what the Miami Dolphins. If you're gonna get better as a football team, sounds like a broken record.

It starts by getting really good players today and tomorrow. And we gotta get a figured out, folks, real quickly. It John, We've talked about this in the program. I think somehow, some way before this weekends over that all of us come gotta come out with two starters in this draft, and they gotta come out with at least two more players that are impact players are gonna help you, whether on special teams or in a rotation, whether it's on the defensive line, whether it's in the secondary, wherever

it is. I think they've got to come away with four legitimate dogs in this draft. Bow and Joe, we talked about it for the last couple of months. You gotta be able to improve it. Linebacker. At some point, you have to be able to get a tight end that you can flex out and move around and be able to get the football too, because those are the matchups you need to take advantage of on the offensive side of the football. And now you're taking a look

where Miami is right now at eleven. You're hoping that the quarterbacks go on a run. You hope that those guys are gone in the first six. It'll help us because we might have a linebacker to choose from, a defensive back to choose from, or some impactful player that's gonna make a difference on the defensive side of the ball. I'll throw another name out, how about Tremaine Edmonds? Yeah? How about that? Yeah, let's see him drop. Got some blood Ferrell Edmonds through there too, So I'd be nice

to have him to the way right there. But this is gonna be an interesting, interesting night how this thing plays out. And you know, there's a lot of guys sitting in there in the green room in Dallas right now. They're peeing their pants because this is a big, big night for a lot of them. And you move three four notches down in the draft, a lot of dollars sliding out the door, the one that that you think

it might be there at eleven for the Dolphins. At all day, everybody's talking about him going number one to the Cleveland Ground. A couple of things to watch, A couple of teams to watch or early on in this draft. I think New Orleans, New Orleans and Saints they look like they want to get up a little bit there, down to somewhere down there. They want to try to get up, maybe in that quarterback Derby and the Buffalo

Bills are right behind the Miami Dolphins. They moved up and they're trying to get firepower to move up and pass the Dolphins and maybe grab somebody. So they're gonna be a couple of teams out there that really have reasons to go up. The question I would ask is which teams have the reason to go down? Yeah? Well, listen, Dolphins got some some needs. As John just mentioned, throwing defensive tackle. We still gotta get another guy in that rotation.

And I know it's not sexy, and it could happen tonight. Don't don't shake your heads on me, please please, but there's a big three pound defensive tackle now, Washington, I know, I know they're they're booing him. Think I'm getting booed for that bow. Nobody. Let me ask you one question, but he wants hold on, hold on a second, Settle down, Settle down for a second, settle it out for a second. Let me ask you one question. How tell me how you would feel if the Dolphins drafted a guard with

the first pick. You'd have guys walking out of here was messing with I can I can almost guarantee you that that's not gonna happen. All right, now, we got a couple of alumni joining us here, from someone to the greatest players to play in the Miami Dolphin uniforms. First of all, from the University of Alabama, Tony Nathan, my man Tony Nathan, where the great running backs and

Dolphins history joined us. Next, one of the UH one half of the greatest quarterback tandem in the Miami Dolphins history, Patrick Sir Tan joined us up here on stage, and UH get a chance to chat with them, guys, a little bit about a round up clause. These two great football players, those headsets on coach, all right, so UH

maker may feel the New York Giants are on the clock. Next, it looks like Shaikwan Barkley will be the guy for them, and UH Tony uh talking about Saikawon Barkley running back. I know you got to see him a little bit over the course of this year. You pretty impressed what he brings to the table. Get out of Penn State very much. Both, Baby, let's put that little close to your mouth. There you go, there you go. Okay, I'm gonna do this. We know you don't do a lot,

but we sure do like when you do it. Man, too damn good to not be out here when people can uh to hear you. Um, Draft day, big day. What what memory comes to your mind when you think of your draft day experience. Well, it's like man in a closet you don't know. But and then you got friends that plays jokes on you, especially if they go to first day and you don't. So you know, you get phone calls and different friends. But once you do get that phone call and it's legit. Hey, you happen

to pig and slout. Patrick's certainly one of the one of the certainly one of the great days in your life. If you're a football player, you've been playing since you were nine years old, and you know something, some guys never thought they'd ever get to the NFL. Others guys dreamed about being in the NFL. But draft days, Uh, it's a special day for for everybody involved, not not only the players, with their families and and all the

relatives that are close to him. Yeah. I remember like it was yesterday, all in front of the family and friends. Just just a dream realized. You know, all the work, the whole work you put in it finally culminated to you being the NFL player. And Uh, like I said, man, it was a dream come through. I dreamed. I dreamt about that day for a long time, and for had to come to frud wishing Man and able to share with the ones that that's been there since day one

was really specials. Hey, I gotta ask you guys a question a little bit away from football. Are you are you catching what's going on here? Part of that Alabama family? Now, Pastor Dan Jr. About had something to do with that. About that, well, I can't claim that he made he made a left turning. Hey, why what you gonna go to the boy? Nobody has the bag gave me, nobody has no All right, we got to the Giants. Selection

is in, so let's go up to the board. Wait the second pig in the two thousand and eighteen NFL Draft, the New York Giants select say Croon Barker. Say O want asking Tony playing that position? Have you ever seen a last time you saw such a complete back coming out of college like this guy? He is day far and few between. He's a he's a talent. I got

to give it to me the talent. And Patrick, you're you're coaching now at an American heritage by the way, undefeated your two season or two, just start throw that out there. But um to have a guy like that, running back like that, and I'm sure you had a chance to watch him play. Guy does every returns, kicks, return punts, runs, catches the football. This guy is a leader of the football team. Guess the one question, uh

is they didn't really really didn't give him too many carries. Uh. And you wonder how he's gonna transition over the NFL. He's gonna get a lot of heavier load than he got when he's at Penn State. Absolutely, I'm a little biased, but I think there's another running back in his draft who is better. He's a heritage and lum Son Michelle yea. I think of the man, he's gonna go early too. I think you're surprising people, but he's the top. He's special, man.

He has all the intanigible as he's a leader. Uh, like you said, he returned kicks, he catches the ball. He's a complete back. So the Giants with those receivers, they got on on the outside finally to finally get a running back to help compliment the passing game. It's gonna be good for him, Tony. We talked. There's been a lot of talking about quarterbacks in this draft, with all the guys that are out there. Can a running

back change the fortune of a football team? Oh? Yeah, he can definitely be a game changing you know, because if you watch this kid play, if if you watched him playing college, he changed a lot of things in games. He was the defining factor and a lot of the game that they play there. Let me let me ask both of you guys this question, as Dolphin fans live here in town, would you like to see the Dolphins take with his first pick? We always like put everybody

on the spot a little bit. I see I noticed, man. Oh, it's tough. It's tough. There's a lot of good players out there. I think if the the real Kuan Smith kid is there, I think you take him. Tremendous linebacker. We were kind of lacking in that spot. Yeah. Also it's a deep, deep draft in the secondary, we can get one of those guys to kind of plug and play. Also, Tony positionwise, what what do you think the Dolphins uh should be looking for when their pick comes round at

the eleven. If they don't move, well, they don't move. I mean, if you can't keep your quarterback standing, you gotta problem. And also they say defenses win championship, So you gotta have a good guy coming off the edge to do what he has to do it. And like you said, in the secondary, you need some help that too.

So it's uh But I think the good thing is I think the good scenario if this draft goes the way they want and and all those quarterbacks kind of go in that top picks or something like that, there's gonna be a good player left for the Dolphins at eleven, no doubt about that. I'd like to see. How about Edmunds out of Virginia Tech. Do you like him? Yeah, he's wrong, he's a little wrong. Wrong. He well, he's the youngest player in the draft, not twenty yet. His

ceiling is pretty high. You know. You take a guy like that and paramou, what will we have Because he can do multiple things. He's a big guy, so he also can rest to pass us. So we take him. I think that'd be a pretty good pig for us, Tony. You look at the Dolphins offense and and it's certainly something they want to to to get more offense, more point production out of this football team. They made some moves you know, let JG. I go during the season. Uh they go ahead, uh, you know, and make some

moves during the during the off season. Um, they want to spread the ball around. Jervis Landry's not here. They want to spread the ball around a little more. And I think when when when we had a chance to play together on a Dolphin football team, it was an offense that did spread the ball around. Everyone got catches. How more how much more effective does that make an

offensive football team? If you're able to have multiple targets that you don't have to rely on one guy to be the workhorse all the time, and you can spread, spread and open the field, Well, it's great they have more than one weapon, you know, because people can zee row in on one particular person. But now if you've got more than one, the defense had to make a decision who are they gonna take away? And so you know,

hopefully other people can get a chance. And your quarterback and been picked that up early in the game and go do what he has to do with the football. When they're gonna star runing that halfback short option they used to run so well, Tony, when they're gonna bring that back into the game plan, one of the toughest guys to cover coming out of that back. I remember standing out there's a linebacker. He coming at me and he's got two week ago. I got you. I'm screwed.

Thank you. But it's it's I don't know if they're going out, but is in the game. You know, you know if that body running in at five, it out or sometimes you're running the fan and the twelve yard out, so you know, it's it's in the game plan. And I think this young man that the Giant just took does that very well. Yeah, I know he didn't have a weakness to his game. I I agree by the way you were being nice. Some of those huddles we have with Clayton and duper in there. That was the

entertaining stuff. Man, we guys are begging for the ball Tony you got huh. You have to pretty entertain where everybody wanted to damn ball in that huddle for twenty seconds. But my thing was, hey, they covered down field. Bring it. Yeah. I think another thing that we've been lacking over the years is a tight end that constressing field, no doubt about. If you look at the Super Bowl, those two tight ends,

they're they're definitely difference. Maybe so if you you get a guy who's a mismatch with the linebackers and also the safeties, I think that that health the offense tremendously. You know, it's funny now because you talk about tight ends. You used to be back in the day you talk to tight ends, you're talking about blocking and receiving. Now that you either rock block or their receivers at I think the Dolphins, because use use a top line a tight end that I could care less if he blocks,

I could care less. Get him out there, spread a little bit, run him down the middle of the field, put the ball over the top and let people. Let people respect the middle of the field, and then you got the outside to deal with the upgrading. Everybody wants to upgrade the offense and receivers. We got to get a lot more production what we been getting out of the tight end. We we just we got to get a guy in the red zone that can affect the game and getting isolated going down the hash marks in

the numbers like the old days. I mean, if you get it, the red zone is fine, yeah, but you know you've got to get that to that point. You gotta get you get the red zone that you touched on something earlier too. You said possibly a cornerback. Uh, if he's if he's there, and and this is the league. Now everyone's there. Everyone's in three wide, four wide spread in the field, empty backfields, and so an abundance of cornerbacks has become a nest of necessity in this team.

Depth at the quarterback position is gonna be valuable. So it's certainly certain in the area that the Dolphins could be interested. Meanwhile, the Jets pick is in, so let's go ahead and head back to Dallas. And five was a usc quarterback and Mark Sanchez? Could it be deja who all over again? With the third pick in the two thousand and eighteen, Hannefel drafts the New York Jets select Sam Donald quarterback USC. So there he is twenty

years old. Alright, alright, so the Jets get Sam Donald. Uh. So the Dolphins are gonna be be watching to see in this quarterback quite a bit over the next halfful of years. Whether he's successful or not. We're gonna see him twice a year whenever he gets that job. And I don't think it's gonna take him long. Jes Then we played the quarterback stage draft. By the way, he got a butt fumble or two in. Hey, what's another USC quarterback? Hey guys? Uh to Tony Nathan Patrick tam

thanks for joining us up here. Always a pleasure to have you out here. How about a round of class and a great Dolphins of all times up here to the greatest guys you'll ever run a clock? All right, joining us now? A couple of the young players from the Miami Dolphins. Um Davante Parker joined us, and Davon Davin got youall join us, buddy, Good to see you, Davanta. How you doing, man? What's up doing the casual thing up here? I like it to like the way it's

looking up in your faith. Buddy, guys, how about a round of class for these guys. This is the future off here right now, man, right here, Mann, how's your how's your off season been going? Man, you've been You've been working hard. Everything everything going well, sir, it's going great. Uh. Let me ask you this your well draft time here you were you're here in this situation last year with the draft coming up. Uh, your thoughts from where you

were last year at this time it was very stressful. Yeah, you know, trying to go fishing up something, trying to take my money off the draft because it was very stressful. After draft free was a lot of stress relief. Yeah, d Wante, you're looking up here at the draft. Two quarterbacks gone already. Everyone talking quarterback, but uh, we're talking about receiver right now with you. How you feeling? How's your off season going? And uh, you got O, T,

A S and all these things starting right now. But what's your is your mind set at? Yeah? You know, my my off states a man, it's been pretty well, you know, just working hard with my teammates. You know, just come on it as one, just getting right, you know, do you guys remember the waiting and and it might be different for everybody that either is waiting on on

a Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday. Uh, take us through your draft process and and tell us, you know, the struggles, the jubilation, but after that night is done or that day is done, how you gotta go to work and how you gotta become a professional right away. It was very stressful in me going to day three. You know, I was trying to play the video game, you know, take my eyes off the tv, you know, stop watching

the draft. You know, it was very stressful. But once I got there call from the three or five number, you know what over. I know it was over, and I'm happy to mind me Delphin's organization chose me. You know. Yeah, you know I went to the draft, so you know, there was a lot of things that I know that we had to do when we went there, so many activities. I didn't like that, but uh, it was a good experience though, So I'm glad I'm here. Dontall your first

round draft pick. Uh, pressure comes with that pick. You you feel that coming in the league a little bit, that expectations and everyone's going on this guy, this guy were expecting this. Did you feel that when you came in? I mean not not really know. Only time for the press is only wing. Like I say, when you just talk smack and you don't back it up, that's only pressure that I think someone should feel. Hey, you're you're

looking at your your receiver room. Now. I know you guys are back together, getting together a coach and starting to do all that that type of stuff to get ready for the season coming up. And you got some new faces in your room. You know, you got uh you know, Danny Amondola is in there. You got to keep from Kansas City. Wilson's in there, So it's a

little bit change in there. We've talked to Danny a little bit about it, and he says, hey, like the competition in that room, it's gonna be pretty fierce when you guys hit the field, right. Uh, this summer isn't It has been a lot of competition though with them, you know, the inside guys and out, so it's gonna be competition everywhere. And I would think the same thing on the defensive line. You know, a Dominican Sioux moves on. You're looking around Jordan Phillips, seems like he's the old

head in there. You've got some other guys with experience, but with you and Vincent, you know, you guys are the youth of that position. How do you feel? How excited are you about year number two taking on that challenge? Very excited. You know. We go out there every day and meet Jordan Gabriel Densitil and compete. You know what it's living weights, you know, running sprints. You know, we try to compete, you know, uh, DeLine coach. I always

sending room every day. You know, Stacker day, Stacker day, each and every day, you know, and you don't want to stack bad days. I play us be great day, stack great days each on on top of each other each and every day. So we try to stack days and try to compete against each other each and every day. You were able to come in last year and make an impact getting the rotation play you and Vincent Taylor, both of you got got the chance to get in there and mix up a little bit. You're gonna be

more expected of you this year. What are you doing this year to be better than you were last year in your rookie season? Just playing football? Yeah, I think a lot of people make it so by thinking a lot, Uh, just play football, play your technique, you know the your assignment. You know you play each and every DWN. You've been playing football your whole life. People make it too hard by stressing just go down and play football, play your assigned to, play your gap, get off, get off the ball,

and do what you do. Alright, Well, let's see what Cleveland's up on the clock again. Acquired four Texan draft Texas to get their franchise quarterback to Shawn Watson last year. With the fourth pick in the two thousand and eighteen NFL Draft, the Cleveland Browns select Denzel Warren. Stand. Wow, that's crazy. That was a curve ball. I was saying

that this draft has been going going through to script. Yeah, your figure Chot was gonna be the guy to get in there to get a quarterback with the first pick, get a running back with the forest pick, fourth pick. But this kind of throws a little, a little monkey ranch into this draft and everyone has saw the thing falling in order. It's gonna change a little bit. So it's gonna be a little bit interesting from here going on.

For Davante. Davante, everybody wants to know about the off season and Ryan Tannehill coming back, and I know that you guys have been working out as receivers, as quarterbacks. Uh, what's your excitement level to have Number seventeen back in the huddle and being back as the quarterback of the Miami Dolphins. You know, it's very exciting, you know, to have the starting quarterback, have Ryan back, you know, and it's just better to see him out there and being

back and just rugging out with us again. Yeah, it's it's good to see him because he never seems like he never leaves the building. You know, every time you're going for breakfast, lunch, dinner, he's there. And that's what it takes to get back to a double digit season for the Miami Dolphins. I just want to know how

you guys feel about your expectations. I know individually, everybody's got expectations, but as a team, you know, this offseason seems like they're trying to create a culture, trying to create a positive culture, trying to get a winning culture to get back on that. How do you guys embrace that in the offuss How do you become your own leaders of the team or of your positions? You no I'm just saying that, you know, because she's trying to find the right guy to brain getting that certain and

certain spots, certain positions. So you know, just have someone like you know, Danny Avendola come in, is she does ropes and what he did and how he got to where he is. Now, what about on the defensive side doing the right thing. You know, we're trying to bring guys into guy's gonna do the right thing, don't time to do a pro. You know, a lot of guys didn't want to do a pro with a lot of guys that want to put in the work to the pro. So we're trying to find the right guys. You know,

our scheme and for our culture. You know, you listen to coaching staff and they talk on the defensive side of the football, and the way the game is is become you know, you're you're they're in three wide, four wide, seems like percent of the time anyway. So a lot of it's gonna come down to pass rushing. Got some more defensive ends coming in, They're gonna expect more pass rush out of the defensive tackle position. You feel like that's something you can step into be a part of

helping the pass rush moving forward this year. Most we need to see us little. We need to see a couple of sack dance moves out of up to got to I gotta come up of my sleeves too, all right, we gotta see him now. I gotta get him out there, get some some dancers, some of the Indians one by detach a touchdown and have a little excitement in there. I gotta do for a few. That's right, Joe Rose and I we're talking before you guys got on. We're saying a good number for DeVante. What will you give him?

Let's go between sixty five and seventy catches, about eleven yards and maybe six or seven touchdowns. That sounds pretty good. I'm looking for eight to night and maybe double digits. You go, you're gonna try to go double digits this year. I got to look at the double digit. There you go. There we sold you a little bit. Hey, the coaching staff got some changes in there a little bit. Uh, got some changes in the in the defensive meeting room.

How do things going with that? Exciting? You know? Coach Chris, you know he's very excited. You know, he come in enthusiasm each and every day. You know, he gets me up. You know some days, you know I'll come in there, have to get some coffee, you know, because Chris coming there full blow jacked up. You know, he's ready. He's gonna push us as practice, and that's what we need as defense around you know, every running to the ball, things like that. You know, so it's gonna be a

very excited year. He's not as quiet as Sean Jefferson, right, never Sean maybe one of them, Sean maybe woman. I was talking to coach. He may be one of the highest octam coaches I've ever seen. That guy is NonStop energy out there. What do you put on pads? A couple of years ago, out there and busting what you guys two, I think he was diving into the dummies and trying to trying to hit us, knock him out.

He's but he's I tell he's a He's got his passionate about his job, passionate about getting this football team better, and passionate about getting that that wide receiver room to be as productive as you guys can possibly be. What does he what does he bring to the room when you when you when you work with him, you know energy. You know, he has everyone up. You know, he's just always talking and so you know that talking against everyone else hype. So we just come out and when to

play hard for him. You know a lot of fans ask you when when you're walking around, and when I'm walking around, they said, you know, what are we gonna do? You know, Jarvis Landry had four hundred catches over four years, and you know who's going to replace that? Ever think about that? Or or is that something that you just go out and play your game, do your job and kind of with the ball is gonna find you because you're gonna get open. Yeah, you know, I never thought

about that. You know, just it's gonna come to you know, you just gotta be patient. You know, we have something different receivers now, so you know it's only one ball. So that's way of turns. I think a lot of people forget that you playing a lot of football last year.

You come right out of college, you go in and you got you got all the workouts with the teams, you got combines, you've got this and that, you got all star games, and you got the draft and you go right into t a. So you kind of had about an eighteen month run there playing football with no break out of the last couple of months before he went back to work in on the field. It had

to feel good to take a little breathe for a while. Definitely, most definitely I still was working, but it's it feel good to take our first break, you know, because coming out, come out of college, getting ready for the combined getting ready for the draft, being going right back in the your community camp. Know, it's very stressful. You don't have no break, but I mean, that's your job. What's the what's the biggest difference that you saw during your rookie year?

UH from from playing in in the UH in college to playing in the NFL. It's a business. It's a business in it. Yeah, and they can't get ugly, you know, so it's a business of afterl like, don't come into each and every day they could place it. You know, be ready to work no matter who you is. Ye, be ready to work because you know you have always have somebody working working for your job each and every day.

So be ready to each and every day. You know, work like you work like you work to get there, and don't never work like you not want to be there. Each and every day. Yeah, it's always interesting with the draft comes around and guys get drafted. First of all, let's go up to the Denverse with the commissioners, a big time fang and he wants my job, but he can't have it until ronn It's kids are really neat there.

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there's an inspiration to all of us. Okay, Austin the show him has done. With the fifth pick in the two NFL draft, the Denver Broncos select Bradley Chob defensive NC states, well, there goes a job. But it wasn't a Chubb that that some people thought early on big defense Van big guy that the big big guy can play gray athlete. This is this is a guy that that could be uh terrorizing this league for about fifteen years now at that position. Uh you've seen his kid

play devon Um. He brings up. He brings a full package. Doesn't he love his game? Love his game? You know you see most defense events, you know you can't really stop the run, you know all they could do his pass rush. And I met this kid out during California. He can set the edge and he can pass for us side. He can play both for its good. Good. Hey, guys, I appreciate you coming up. Vata Parker, Devin got y'all,

appreciate you taking the time out. Goot a chance to see some of the fans out here, and and we're looking forward to a big year from you guys. Uh, there'll be a lot of excitement out here. You guys are gonna play a big part of that. So we're looking forward forward to it. So thanks for thanks for coming and join us draft the Miami Dalcin's select me Come Fitzpatrick defensive back Alabama about it when uh we talked about when Patrick tam was up here, talk about

this league and how it's spreading the field. It's three wide, it's four wide, it's empty backfields, it's all these types of things. You know, you talked about being in in in nickel packages so much. Look, I mean there's games where you started first first play of the game, your defense is out there. All of a sudden, you're in a nickel situation out there. Can't have enough cornerbacks. Where they went out and got a very very good player. Uh,

he's a safety, not a corner safety. I think t J McDonald sounds to me is they're they're gonna be moving them up. Yep. Uh as a nickel maybe help a little bit more on the line. Is a big muscular guy. Because this guy didn't come in and sit and play and in a different safety than than Derwood James, a little more athletic. He's he's a match up he's a matchup guy. He's played corner, he's played safety, he's

played in the slot. And when you're going up against teams that are gonna go four wide and actually go empty, you've got to have a guy to be able to match up. We thought it might be Smith or Edmonds from the linebacker a position, but maka Fitzpatrick. The guy had nine interceptions for return for a touchdown. So he's a playmaker from the secondary. He's played in every big game you can imagine throughout his collegiate career. And he knows he's you know, he's been coached for some of

the things they're gonna be having him do. He's gonna be all over the place. I am a little surprised though the Dolphins. We're going linebacker, but we got a very good defensive player in Fitzpatrick, and all these guys are all gonna go screupid. Three or four guys are all gonna be gone the next now. So, but it begs a question, Joe, here here you are. You went with a you went the secondary with a safety h with with your first pick in the draft. You still

need that linebacker out there. You still need to find some way to fit the bill. And Joe, I don't think from here in, I don't think there's free agents out there that you know, you kind of look out and say, well, we can still pick up this guy that they need to find somewhere in this draft. They need to find somebody that can step in and fill that role at that linebacker spot. Well, you still try

to draft one. I hope this does take away from the need for a tight end, but both there must be a backup plan and anything one of those veteran guys that they have or the t J McDonald, although I still don't know about t J McDonald playing outside linebacker on first well, yeah, but I I think if you I think you can't line abop on first downs, I don't think you line abup the first down on the line, But I can see in passing situations where

you bring them up there. Look, even if it's even if it's a rough up a tight end a little bit, try to give him a little a little resistance getting off the line of scrimmage or something, because you know t J. T J could be that tweener guy. You can put a little weight on him and do that. I'm not sure what TJ is gonna think about that, although I think we found out last year when t J came back after that eight game suspension and and played with Rashaw Jones. That and you look, Adam Gates

has talked about it during the offseason. There two the two of the same guys. You know, we have two of the same guys back there, and you need that guy that's a little more of a free safety back there. You know, you could do the thing about that having both those guys. Either one can go to the line of scrimmage and give you some run support, but but you need someone back there that can come and cover and get after. This is as much of covering coverage

than than anything else at that position. By the way, I think we got one of the best nickel backs in football, right Bobby McCain at one of the two or three most improved years on the Miami Dolphins last year. And one look, one of the guys that we talked about the same way the year before Tony Lippett had that good year. He's he's coming back. So you know what you've done. You've given yourself a guy that can be a started guy, a starter for you in the secondary.

Gonna play a lot. I don't care if he's a starter or not. He's gonna play a lot of downs. Fitzpatrick and and you've got a lot of depths now in that secondary that you need. Unfortunately, I think what this pick means for the Miami Dolphins is in the second round, you're looking at a linebacker. You're looking at somebody that's gonna be able to play that position in the tight end might slide to the third round or the fourth round. Both. This guy's just taking the eleventh pick.

He can't be a rotation player. He's got to stay out on the field. And that's no. I'm with you. I mean, you gotta get We can't no more rotating first round picks. No, you've gotta be a guy who's gonna come in there and make plays. And like I said, but but Joe, whether whether whether he's the first guy that runs out in the field, he gonna play, he's gonna play. It's funny, guys. There's no way the Miami

Dolphins thought making Fitzpatrick would be around at number eleven. Oh. I think they thought both he and James are gonna be gone. Yeah, I think so. And I believe they were gonna have a front. They were staring at at Veia that the defensive tackle or trying to go back. I don't think they found a partner, and they said, you know what, we've got this guy rated highly on our board, probably about the seventh, seventh, eighth pick, probably be gone let's take the highest. I know who's happy

with that pick? Don McNeil, Dwight Stevenson, Tony Nathan, all those all those Carter, all those Alabama guys or that's right, all all happy with this? Uh this this pick from uh it. Look, you look at what Alabama's done. You you talk about guys talk about well not only that, but you talk about guys that have been in the fire, big game, you know, championship games, big SEC matchups, SEC championship games, playing in you know, those those prime time

Saturday night games every other week. So these guys are ready to step in. This league is not gonna be too big for those guys that come out Alabama. And you've got that kind of player coming to the Miami Dolphin. You know. The sad part is can Jimmy just called this while we're here. He just pointed to me before the pick. My gut told me a linebacker. But I mean, he's the highest rated player probably on the board, on

their board, no question at that time. Bobby McCain. We're just talking about Bobby McCain up here, and Joe and Walt Dakins coming up. Walt Dakins, Bobby McCain. Two guys that like to have a little on No listen, I I follow you. I follow all takings on social media, man, all that awesome media star. Now, how you doing many Bobby? How you doing? My man? Alright? First of all, I gotta uh, I gotta get your thoughts, uh making Fitzpatrick, Uh the safety from Alabama with a pick? What do

you think about that? Good pick? Man? Good pick? He's a ball ball player, you know, we get We're happy to have him, you know, a good guy to having a room and uh, like I said, we can't wait from to join us. You guys are gonna have in that room, and that's gonna be a very competitive room in there, and that in that secondary, isn't it? Oh yeah, definitely definitely, Uh like Bobby saying, it's a great pick, aggressive player and we can't wait to play with him.

This is all. This is all about getting more takeaways, right that, This is about picking up the numbers. We guys are gonna make more plays right exactly exactly, Blaze make put the ball in offense his hands, getting low him to score touchdowns, win ball games. Bobby, we talked about a little bit uh before before this pick and afterwards about your game last year. Um, you continually got better when you've been with this football team. And boy, you made a huge leap last year. You stepped outside,

played cornerback, did a great job there. When you stepped inside in the in the nickel, in the nickel die packages, you were making plays there. What did you do to make your make that big leap that you made last year? Just be consistent, consistent with technique, consistent on what I'm doing. You know, get get you a, get you a ritual that you do every every week wee get and week out.

That that that makes you comfortable, you know. And at the end of the day, you know, go out and playing football at the end, that's what I love to do. I love to play ball. I love to be with my boys, looking with my brothers, you know, and going to war Walter, what about you? You're coming back? How you feeling? What are your expectations? Uh? Feels great to be back. First off, So all the season was was

was a scary wine. But um, glad to be back in Miami and Uh, like you said, I want to go out with my boys man and just go ball. You know. We we go out every Sunday and put it all out there on the line. So I mean, just having another year, another season to do that, just just a great emotional feeling for me and the fact that we're bringing their new characters. Now. I just want to work with those guys and and be the best team we can possibly be. Well, you're so good on

special teams. I thought we're gonna lose you, young guy. I I thought you were gone. I really did, you know? Obviously a chancel. It's great to have you back. Yes, where you just where you wanted to stay? Was that you think you're gonna be somewhere else now that I mean, it was scary because I didn't know where I would be. But at the same time, I kept it like Miami's home for me. This is my second home. I'm from

North Carolina, but this is my second home. When I say I'm going home, everybody knows I'm going to Miami. So Miami is where I need to be. I don't think there's any question in anybody's mind that, uh, everybody in that building wasn't satisfied with six and ten last year. You want to get back to to a football team that's gonna challenge for the playoffs and challenge in the playoffs to move through. There's been some changes offensively and

defensively with his football team. You've had a chance to get to there with the coaches now a little bit. What is the feeling in the locker room with the group that you guys have right now that you're getting ready to go to bad with no woman happy with six and ten. Like you said, we weren't happy, The fans weren't happy, the city wasn't happy, and uh, we look for bigger and better. At the end of the day, you know, we had to make some changes and there

were tough changes. There were big pieces of the team. Uh gods, people that guys didn't want to see go, but they at the end of the day, you know, we're here to win ball games, you know. And with the guys that we have, we got a great chemistry. We have a great family. You know, it's a brotherhood in there. And each and every day when put in the work, and it's not gonna be the same, I guarantee it all right. So you and uh Danny m

Mondov had some great battles have in New England. I'm not trying to bring up anything, but like, so what's out like now is your teammate. You can't can't go out and get fines and and get kicked out of the game. How's that gonna be? You know, like that's my boy. We uh yeah, we talked it up. Man. You know, he's a good player, a really good player. He's been great over the years, especially for the Patriots, you know. And um, you know I told me the other day. You know, you you had to see me

for eight quarters out of the year. Now you gotta see me every day. And uh, but it's gonna be great competition, man, Each and every day is gonna be competitive. And just tune in. You know. We we had him on the show the day we said what he said, Hey, he said, Hey, he's my teammate. Now he's my teammate. We're we're playing for We're heading for the same thing and uh, the same thing you guys want to do is win. Uh. You look at this. This is a

young football team, this Miamied often team. You add another young football player, you got more picks coming that are gonna gonna continue to add this football team. Uh do you feel like that youthful enthusiasm on this team, and you have some veterans out there that can can kind

of help lift you a little bit. But you think young guys in this team can really take control and put this team in their shoulders and make this not not be a one year thing, not being known be be where this is what this team is gonna be a continual playoff contender, year in and year out. See'all said it a million times before. I say, we have all the pieces there, and which is adding new pieces.

We just gotta put it all together. We have everything we need here and and the thing now with the new Miami is is we're trying to change the coaches. We're trying to change the coach and actually win games and go out there every Sunday and ball out and and bring what this city needs, what the state needs, you know, a winning program. So we're gonna go out there and give it all. Yeah, man, like Wall said, you know, young, We've got young guys, We've got old

guys got in between. You know, at the end of the day, there's guys that's gonna put it all on the line. Those guys gonna sacrifice for the guy beside him. And I trust wal like I trusted to bet on my right, you know at the end of the day, and that's that's what it's about. It. Like I said, brotherhood, family, and we're looking at win ball games, no excuses. So what what's the what's just? What's now? Let me kind of shift gears here a little bit. You getting ready

to be on TV or what? What are you? Uh? What are you getting yourself ready for? Post? You still got a lot of years to play. I'm not trying to get you out of the league too early. You still got a long way to go, but you're kind of getting yourself ready for afterwards or while. Hey, I'm working with all guys all season. I come and kicking with all, so I know you see that. I man, Bob, you're trying to replace y'all in about ten fifteen years. There you go, there you go. I only need about

five more about a question? Am I young guy? Old? No? You definitely got You're a big bett Now. I'm with it. I'm with that. That ain't a bet. Hey, I want to ask you about you know, people here nickel and they hear dime. I don't think people realize how many snaps per game, Nickel. What what is the seventy snaps. Now, yeah, it's it's about seven even close to the snaps in the game. You know, it's uh, like I said, it's

it's eleven men defense. But at the end of the day, the way the game's changed, the way the games evolving. There's more receivers on the field. You got ten personnel, eleven personnel. They want to put the ball in guy's hands, and you know, at the end of day, it's our job to stop him. So yeah, Nickel dim, there's gonna be a lot of that this year. You know, it's always gonna be a lot in the league without throughout the league. The game's changing, the games evolving, and um,

you know, like I said, just stay tuned. Is is we're really excited for what's coming. And you look at the second or you had Minka. You know, you had the tank last year, you had acts the year before. You guys are back there. A lot of guys are. And the other thing that the changes on the on the on the defensive front, a lot of defensive ends coming in now, pressure up front, a lot of good talent in the back, uh, covering the you know, covering

uh and going after the football. Attacking the football, and I think that's kind of the change in the NFL. Get that pressure, get as many defensive ends where you gotta move him inside, get as much as you can up there and and get that ball up for grabs and let you guys go after. It seems to be the blueprint in this league right now for success. That's the way it works, that's where it works. You see, we've got can Wait coming back, we got Quinn coming in,

We've got Charles Harris. Uh. Those guys are high energy, big motor guys. So I mean we let them get at the quarterback and we gotta cover for a couple of seconds. Hopefully we'll get the job done. No one mentioned William Hayes. I thought he was one of the great picks last year and you know people talking about it was a run guy. I think that guy, he's he's he's the full package, that a motor. It's nice to see him come back and add to that group. Man, Greg.

He brings great energy, great player. You know, he's he's a big bet in the room, big bet in the locker room. We're happy to have him back. Did uh did you tell you time off? I went over to camp, like right after season. It seemed like you're already there, you and Charles Harry, you guys are already working out. Got a vacation or you just get right back. Take a little time, maybe take a week or two off, but you gotta get right to it. Man's long season ahead of you. And uh, you know, you want to

make sure you're healthy. You want to make sure that I want to be there for all sixteen sixteen plus, you know, so hopefully twenty games we played this year. And and you know, like I said, it's like I said, we're looking for really big things coming. How close is this football team? Guys in the locker room? We I think we saw it Joe last year. We're in San Diego and spent some time or a couple of years ago, and I saw you guys together, and it just seems

like a continuous to carry on with this team. Seems like it's a very very close knit. We talked each other brothers, you know, we uh, we hang out with each other. We talked trash with each other. We've grown with each other. Like you gotta understand, we've been with some of these guys for four or five years, you know, man, Bobby. We have been I've been with Bobby since he came in, so um, we've grown and built the relationship and if I say something, he knows what I'm talking about. We

just have that type of relationship. And we bring in all the guys like that. We don't have no bad blood and no beef. We just come in and try to build a team. We're trying to build a great program here keeping guys for a long time. I mean it's it's you know, you with guys long enough. I know there's times out of the field where you're in a situation where you can just look over at the guy next to you, don't even have to say anything. They know what you're thinking, the same train of thought.

And I think you guys are really getting to that area where that's the kind of kind of group you have on I really on both sides of the ball right now. Yeah, definitely. You know, the chemistry is close. Chemistry is really close. And uh, there's a lot of there's like a lot of good things going on in this locker room. And um, you know, people people don't get to see that, people get to see the work

we put in. People don't get to see the blood, sweat and tears we put on each and every day they just see you know that on Sunday, what happens the outcome or you know, at the end of the day, man, it's a band of brothers. Man, we're gonna steak together. Regardless of thinking things. That chemistry thing is important. It's

really it's not sexy to talk about. You know, it's about w and els, but having guys that like each other they want to be together versus when things aren't going well and guys get salty and her pouting and say, you gotta keep guys together, don't you. Yeah, that's definitely important. That's definitely important, man, because like you said, this past year went six and ten and that wasn't good enough for me, and I know it wasn't good enough for him. So at the end of the day, you know, people

are gonna clash. You can talk bad about you, but then the day you gotta pick it up and pick each other up. That's what that's what, that's what matters, picking each other up. And let's go and move the next play, moving next series, moving next game. Let me ask you something, Kenyan Drake. It's a pretty tough running guy. Yeah, what about that little dog he carries around? Well, let me let's talk about that little dog. What kind of dog is heard? Is a tough dog called I thinks

lollipop or something like that. He told me it was tough, So I'll take his mother for I'll take his word from you. Haven't seen the dog. I haven't seen it. I have not fevor a little dog, a little little tup. You gotta watch. I gotta have a I have a Yorkie at home, so I got one of them to pete pete Yorky. At all you guys, both of you single Mary, We are you guys? At? Where are you guys? Yeah?

Single single? I saw Bobby grabbed his phone and one of his girls probably just called him up, blowing him up a little bit, you guys sticking broward or date or you like to make sit up a little bit. Let him mess it that one. Now we're gonna get you guys. You are doing. I think you're knocking about two at the time you get home. All right, we gotta pick in here and then then we're gonna let you guys go. Uh. It's the New Orleans Safe fourteen using next year's one and pick one seven in this

year's draft to come from twenty seven to fourteen. Could this be a night that was starting off with a Heisman Trophy winner and then with pick fourteen being another Heisman Trophy winner, becoming the first draft since nine to half five first round quarterbacks in one night, and it would be done in the first fourteen selections, which then

puts Mason Rudolf on mclock potentially. Well, it's been thirty five years since he had six the vaunted free draft to Kelly Marino Elway Draft, or as Jets fans have referred to it, the O'Brien Draft. I don't mean a little bit a little like the fans here, there's this is this is so exciting because I think he watched what Bill O'Brien did in Houston last here with the Shawn blockson and this is the next level. The Green Bay Packers have traded the fourteenth pick to the New

Orleans Saints. With the fourteenth pick in the two thousand eighteen NFL Draft, the New Orleans Saints select Marcus steven Port. So it was Marcus dab of poy not woe up the defensive and out of uh University of Texas, San Antonio. Larry Coker's team. Larry Cooker started that time about didn't he you know about I think Mike take take Lamar Jackson with that pick on Joe, I did. I thought Lamar is gonna be there. You know. It's amazing though.

It's about pass rush yep, it's about covering yep, and take them all the way. It's just a big passing game, now, isn't it? A lot of it? A lot of it, a lot of it. Hey, guys, you want to thank you for stopping by a wall taking man. You guys never called me to go out. I'm free every damn night. I'm coming over. You let me like taking an anchor out with you. Man. You guys could business, you know, but I'm not good for billion. Thanks a lot, guys.

Always a pleasure man. We catch everything we go along along the way. Hey, Larry mind you guys. You can catch the audible podcast. Uh. We put it out every week. You can catch it on Miami Dolphins dot com. You can get on the Miami Dolphins app, tune in radio, a lot of different places to catch it. We let it drop every Thursday. So we love you to join us here on the audible. I think Ali's got a little something more to give away up here before we

kind of close this thing out. Where is the beautiful alley? Always come up right now and always get better now a lot more publico guitar now, so we have them. We're gonna announce the winner of the Vendor Electric Guitar song by qb Ryan Tannehill and to announce our when we have Prince Logan the g N at Hard Rock Cafe Miami. Thank you, thank you, Thank you. Alright, ladies and gentlemen. When it comes to rocking out, hard rock locks to do it really big. So we're gonna rock

out with this guttar for my man Matthew. Everybody giving up on Matthew who wins our guitar? Thank you very much. We appreciate you. All right? How about that? Can you play the good are just like ringing a bell. You're gonna get him down now. You gotta get lessons for him now, all right, Pop, I gotta get some lessons things up, Bob. Congratulations, Matthew said, I think it alright. So that's uh, that's gonna about do it for us here. We're gonna wrap things up. Uh, is that's the last.

Let me remind you. The party goes on to eleven o'clock here at my right, eleven o'clock here at hard Rock Stadium, so you don't have to go. You can hang around. The bar still open, still got some food back there, the garage sales still going on, so a lot of things to do here throughout the rest of the night. You can continue to watch the rest of

the first round as it goes on right now. And uh, kind of an interesting talk to this is gonna be a little bit of a different draft in the first round so far, and and it's how we saw some change and saw some surprises with Denzil a Ward going early. Uh, Josh Rosen getting kind of snatched right before that. You know, it gets taken just before the Dolphins and Buffalo Bills make a move up. And now you're kind of thinking, do where the Dolphins really gonna take him? Who was

there or not? And you know, you don't know where they're thinking. They may have taken the cornerback anyway, it looks like Arizona thought they were yeah, no doubt, pumped up one ahead of them. They weren't gonna wait to see how Adam gaateson those guys felt. And you know what with the Miami Dolphins getting Fitzpatrick, the way that the league has gone, if you let it sink in a little bit, maybe that linebacker that we were all craving. And I still think if Smith was there, the Dolphins

would have taken him. But the way the NFL is going now, that linebacker maybe coming off the field a little bit more, and you may be going to nickel one dime. So you got Bobby on one side and Make on the other, and and you kind of mix and match and match up that way. So you got a great player as stay and put at a leven. Well, well, the one thing, you know, you did get a very good player. I mean, this guy is ready to get

out here and play. Athletic guy. He'll come up in head, he can support, like you said, Joe safety, Blitz will come in and rush the quarterback and do a lot of things. And and and that. You know, I can't say enough about that Alabama pedigree and the quality of games that they played in. Uh, really makes these guys ready to come in and play at a high level. One of the many bad numbers a year ago on that six and ten team. You have not enough takeaways. Yeah,

there is no question. They looked at this guy his hands on the football, so we got we gotta get more and he can help us. You have no doubt about it. And uh, we'll see. So it's still Look, there's still positions and need for the Miami Dolphins. We talked about lineback, we talked about tight end, another defensive linemen, tackle, Those needs are still there. Uh, and the Dolphins have two more days to address those. A second round. Uh, they got second and then Yeah, so they're they got

to hit those three positions you just talked about. Gotta hit those, gotta be hit in the next four Yeah, in the first four picks. They've got to be done. They they've got to be taken care of. So we'll see if they can get that done. But guys, been been great, being been great being here with the fake Thank you, no doubt. Hope everyone had fun. And like I said, football seasons back, this is the start looking for big things out here at hard Rock Stadium all

this year from our Miami Dolphins. And we're looking for big things out of you fans. Hope to see you here each and every Sunday when the Miami Dolphins line up, have a good evening. We'll see you next time.