October 10, 2025 • 34 mins
Prep for the Chargers is in the books as we wake up to another Football Friday! Former Dolphin Jermon Bushrod joins Travis to talk about the play at the line of scrimmage and the 2016 Dolphins that started 1-4 before finishing the season 9-2. Plus, Kyle Crabbs joins for his weekly spot and Travis stops by the locker room to talk to Tahj Washington and Larry Borom.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it's a Football Friday.
The Variety show brings us my radio co host Jamon
(00:21):
bush Rod, who will talk to us about offensive line play,
line of scrimmage play, as well as a one in
four team turning things around as he did with the
twenty six team Miami Dolphins. Plus Kyle Krabs joins us
for his weekly Friday spot, and I dropped by the
locker room to talk to a few Dolphins players from
the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This is the Draft Time Podcast Day.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And my guest today is former Dolphins offensive lineman Jermon
bush Rod, my postgame partner on iHeartRadio, Big one, O
five nine FM and Fox Sports nine Am. Dremon, welcome in, man.
What do you think these are some new digs for
you? You were in the Dave Facility a couple of years back.
A little bit nicer, A little bit nicer.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No, it's funny. I think it's my first time being
actually in this building. I think I missed one of
the tours for the older players that could come back,
you know, when everything was all said and done. But
hey man, listen, you gotta have nice facilities these days.
And yeah, well, I guess you could say we were
on the tail end of the roughing it air with
the Dolphins over there off of University, but you know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Our fellow radio brethren Ojia McDuffie will tell you about
the Saint Thomas days, which was a step back from
what Davy was. So I guess you progress as you
go along here, and yeah, like you're to your point
A plus amenities across the board here in Miami Garden.
So Jamal and I do the postgame show after Dolphins games.
The minute the clocke at Triple Zero's were on the
air talking about the game you just saw. And there's
so much we can talk about from our five games
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together now, But I want to just start with the
offensive improvement from the last couple of weeks because the
Colts game was a tough start, kind of got some
things going as the Patriots the Bills game, same deal.
But it feels like the last couple of weeks Miami's
offense has taken a different step. What have you seen
from the offense that encourages you going forward the rest
of the season.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I really think you got it. Starts with the head coach. Obviously,
he's the one who's calling the plays, and I think
he's really buttoned up the play calling, and we figured
out a way just to be a more just to
be more efficient getting the plays and having enough time
to get up to the line of scrimmage because in
some of the schemes that he does run, there's a
lot of pre snap movement, there's a lot of communication
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that takes place. So I think, you know, the offense
as a whole, just being better getting up to the
line of scrimmage with enough time to communicate properly, to
move properly, and then it gives your quarterback an opportunity
to kind of assess the defense as well. So I
really just think from an operation standpoint, it's been better
from week one to week five.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You feel like it kind of clicks in in terms
of like the run game a little bit more as
that go along. I know the last game was the
lowest rushing output of the season, but you know, we've
talked to guys that have played in this offensive line
and kind of the style of the scheme where it's
like fire off the ball, right. We talked this in
the Carolina game. Guys like jump setting, whether it was
guards or tackles, like often jump sets. That's kind of
the mode of go get the defensive line, right, go
reachent the line of scrimmage that way. What do you
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think of that style of play in terms of how
you would have liked playing like that in your playing days.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, that was actually something that I kind of hung
my hat on and just understanding. I call it a toolbox, right,
because you have all these different techniques that you can
use as offensive lineman. And if you're continuing to take
the same type of set a forty five or a
vertical set, unless you've really mastered that, it's hard to
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kind of it's a chess game that you're playing with
the defender, you know, especially when you get in these
second and long, third long opportunities, you want to be
able to give your defender a different look, a different feel.
So we did talk about it on the radio. I'm
not going to butcher this kid's name anymore. I'm calling
them Big Jonah right from here on out. That's that's
what I'm calling them. I'm not going to butcher it.
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You've tried, though, I did. I've tried, and we've talked
about it off air a couple of times, and you've
kind of broke it down to me, but I still
can't get it. So he's Big Jonah from here on out.
But again, it's like, how can I give myself the advantage?
Right If we're nowhere in second and eight and the
line is sliding away from me, maybe this is the
time I want to go and be aggressive. I want
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to take the fight to him. In the past game,
I want to hit him before he really gets out
of a stance to make it maybe feel like a run.
That's what you're talking about when you when you have
a jump set, but if your technique is just slightly off,
you're gonna have to pay the price. And I was
a young player. I played this game for a long time,
a whole lot of snaps, a whole lot of good reps,
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and I've had some bad reps and some things that
I definitely learned from over the years. But for guys
like that, and even older guys, you're always trying to
figure out how to find tune your game, but you're
also trying to give yourself an advantage. And even in
the run game, like this is a downhill style of
running attack that they have. They want to attack your edges,
which they tried to do last game weren't where they
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weren't very efficient. But you know, just really about being
cohesive and just believing in your individual playing for the
unit up front.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, we saw the impact of that approach on the
long Wallle touchdown because the entire Panthers defense bit up
on that play action fake and the Dolphins had nineteen
rushing yards in the game at that point. So you
don't have to you don't have to run the ball
well to establish a play action game. We saw it
well on that play. And you know, speaking of the
jump set, I'll never forget you're one of your best
buddies in this business. Toron Armstead twenty twenty three against
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the Cowboys. He jump sets Michael Parsons and kind of
like does a jump set and a snatch trap on
him to throw a screen in behind him for Tyreek
Hill for a first down that eventually won us that game.
So it's fun to watch when guys executed really.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well it's and again that's something that Tron has been
doing for a very long time. As my tenure in
New Orleans ended, he was coming in, so we had
a lot of the same type of We got taught.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
A lot of the same techniques.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And then on those types of plays when you do
have to jump a guy, the thing that's exciting is
they feel like it's just another opportunity where you're jumping me,
getting your hands and your feet on me as fast
as you can. So now I got to go rush
the passer and he's able to throw him off with
a screen. So at the end of the day, what
that does is just set you up in the long
run in this chess match, because it's it's a sixty
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minute game that's spread over three and a half hours.
So you know you don't want to again, you don't
want to give them the same look. It's just trying
to figure out how can I confuse this person I'm playing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's what makes football fun to me is all those
individual matchups. On any given play, you have sixty plays
per game, give or take offensively and defensively, and then
you have got eleven matchups. So you're talking not a
math guy, but six hundred or so matchups throughout the
course of a game on either side of the ball.
Speaking of something that makes football fun, you were part
of the twenty sixteen Dolphins team that I mean, Jaman,
I can tell you what happened in every game that
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entire season.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was one of my favorite years.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Is a Dolphins fan that the nine to two finish
to get into the playoffs and you know, Ryan Tannehill
gets hurt that year, Matt Moore comes than you guys
win to the final three games. But you started that
year one and four. And we've had this discussion on
the show a couple of times about kind of coming
back in and you know, remolding your identity and finding
out who you guys were as a football team. And
I pose this question to you postgame when you came
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back into the building at one and four, And if
you've had other years that were challenging the same way,
what's the mindset got to be for a team who's
lost for the first five games but still has a
whole season ahead of them.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, kind of going back to twenty sixteen, that was
like one of your favorite years covering the team. You said,
but for me as a player. That was one of
my favorite years just as a player, just to be
in that type of situation, like you feel like the
season's almost over with at one and four and you
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kind of have to take it back to a line
in the same type of moment, like I'm going to
make my mind up of how of what I can
do to be better. And I remember, actually Juwan James
was the right tackle that year, and we were sitting
in the locker room, I believe, after we had lost
to Go one and four, and we were just having
a discussion and we talked about, man, whatever we gotta do,
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we gotta we gotta fix this. We gotta figure this out,
whether it's coming together, whether whether it's working harder as
an individual, and and I can remember that moment, and
then I can just remember Adam Gas, the head coach
at that time, how we just approached that year. It
was a one game season. Every single game. We're not
looking past game number six, We're not looking at what's
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happening in November, what other teams are doing. This was
the message that was reiterated to us every day when
we got in and it was something that we you know,
nobody's gonna go back and look at the press conferences
or the interviews. But it was something that really resonated
with us because it was the things that we were
talking about after the game. It's a one it's a
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one game season, and we're going to figure out how
to win this game this week, and we're going to
figure out how to execute our job to the best
of our ability, uh this week. And offensively, listen, we
were we were tough. We ran, We ran the hell
out the outside zone, and that's all we practiced. We
would get in there with Forrester in online individuals for
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twenty five to thirty minutes and we would go over
indie blocks to the right, to the left, double teams
with your guard, You with the guards, and the tackles,
then the tackles and the tight ends. We're going over
different looks. Are they going to give us a forty
front to this formation? Are they going to give us
a fifty front? What does it look like? What does
my assignment have to be? And then it was just
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about really pouring great energy into the plan and really
kind of getting us fired.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Up for it. And I remember the game like it
was yesterday. It was the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
They had a tough defense, they were a good team overall,
and we came out and we did something that no team,
especially that season, was able to do against them.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And then that kind of we rode that wave.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We rode that wave and we started to figure out
what this is who we are, Like we are an
outside zone running team and we have a tough running
back that we know if we get him him one
or two yards pass the line of scrimmage, he's gonna
make magic happen because he did that over and over
and over. And then then after you rattle off two, three,
four wins, then you go out to La or you
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go out to Cali and you have you play the
Chargers and you play the Rams. Our confidence was scott high.
We felt like we could we could beat anybody. And
that's how you want your football team to feel. And
I just think when it comes to you being one
and four, it's a decision that has to be made.
It's a lot of soul searching, a lot of you know,
looking in the mirror and saying, hey, this is this
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is what I'm gonna do to get better. How we're
going to be better as a unit. So that each
unit can be better, so then we can overall be
a better team. And what does that look like? And
obviously it starts with the head coaches and the coordinators
figuring that out and just relaying that message in a
way that these guys it resonates with the player.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That West Coast trip was a white knuckle affair of
two games, the San Diego games.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To walk it off.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The Rams game might be my fun It might be
the funnest game because that was and it got to
the point where, like you know, we put up two
hundred and twenty versus Steelers, two sixty versus the Bills,
maybe been a little maybe it was a little bit
more than that. We had a by a week. We
come back face the top three defensive, top three defensive
unit in the in the Jets at home. We put
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one fifty something on them. So every game after we played.
I can remember now TJ. McDonald because I see him
down here in South Florida from time to time. But
I remember the way he was coming down hitting Jaya Giant,
and everybody kept saying the same thing, y'all not getting
two hundred on us, You ain't getting two hundred on us? Well,
it wasn't the fact that we're trying to get two hundred.
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We're just trying to sustain our run game so that
we're trying to get the ball down the damn field, right.
And then at the end of the day, we gave
ourselves an opportunity I think it was a pick. Somebody
end up getting a pick. It was thirteen to nothing
or ten to ten to nothing with like five or
six minutes left and went crazy and then Tannehill put
the ball in places that only he could catch it,
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and we ended up getting out of there with a
w And after that.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
We stayed there.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
We had a little fun in California for a night
or two, and then it was really our focus on
the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Chargers.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Then back after that. Yeah, it was a fun trip
to get a couple of wins. But just in general,
it sounds like as you go through what your guys's
mindset was not so much back to basics, but almost
having like a compartmentalized approach to it, where it's like,
you know, attack each period of the day, right, which
is the general goal I think of most football teams,
But it almost sounds like strip back all the pomp
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and circumstance and just focus on that meeting, that practice,
that walk through, that film session, one game at.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
A time, like it at one and four.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Back then we were playing sixteen games, so we had
eleven games left. Like you said, we ended the season
nine and two. That's significant, you know, that's really significant.
And then we get to a place where we lose
our starting quarterback versus the Cardinals that year, and it
wasn't I'm not gonna say it wasn't this huge drop off.
Matt Moore comes in, a guy who's played the position
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for a very long time, and he knew the right
things to say, especially to the old line. Like I
vividly remember him. We were up there playing the Jets. Hey, man,
give me two three, give me, give me three seconds. Hey,
this one's coming out quick, give me two. Give me,
like give me a lane to throw it in. Like
he did a great job of like reassuring the lineman
and just giving it, helping us with our plan, you know, like, hey,
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it's a long one, boys, give me get let me
let me look down the field, let it, you know,
let the play, let the let the routes develop. So
we know at that moment like, hey, we have to
we have to do our job here, do a little
bit better. And then Matt was just doing so just
such a great job of distributing the ball wherever it
needed to be, and we still hung on to that run.
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We hung on to that run game in a major way.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And so that was your guys. Calling card writes your identity.
You find out who you were to bring it back
the twenty twenty five Dolphins. If you had to pick
some thing, it could be offensively. Defensively, you talk about
the you know, the game plan, the play calling earlier
of something you felt kind of took a big step.
What can this team kind of put their hat on,
Like how can they get back to the drawing board
and say, if we can just do this one thing,
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then maybe everything else can fall into place.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I think offensively, it's just coming out with a rhythm
and it's coming out and keeping defenses on their heels
like you've been able to do in years past. Now
you have to navigate that without tyreek. Okay, this is football.
It's the next man up mentality, and it's always trying
to find a way to stay ahead of the sticks. Now,
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nineteen yards on the ground is not going to help
you because you're not keeping anybody off balance. Then, and
you have a really accurate quarterback. And I feel like
from game one to game five, you've seen him be
a lot more comfortable with this group. He's operating this
offense much more efficiently. He's when it's time for him
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to get out the pocket, he's more sudden. He doesn't
look as jittery as he was in game three. I
thought the last I thought the last couple of games,
he had to make them off what do you call it?
Off platform off off platform throws? He had to escape
the pocket. He looked a little bit more comfortable doing
that and then able to push the ball down the field.
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I believe that's what you got to do. Offensively. You
got to be able to mix things up. You gotta
be creative, you gotta you know, we talk about it,
give him the eye candy, give them, give them the
pre snat movements. But defensively, that that's gonna take a
lot of that's gonna take a lot of soul searching
up front to figure out what these techniques need to be.
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Do I need to come off the ball lower? Do
I need to be stronger at the point of attack.
They're not doing a really great job against double teams
right now, So what does that look like? Do I
need to be more physical with my hands? How can
I hold the point of attack better? Because we talked
about it on the show, opposing teams offensive line are
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displacing our defensive line. And when you can let a
backup running back from the Carolina Panthers, no disrespects the
kid played us behind off, but sometimes he wasn't getting
tackled or touched till yard three or four, and then
we just got to do a better job of tackling.
You said something about it earlier. Just getting back to
basics really is just getting back to basics, you know,
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like going let's rewind it back to twenty sixteen. It's
just being better with the with the outside's own technique
and really selling it and really understanding that, hey, I'm
going to stick with this. And in Gase that year
did a great job of sticking with it. Certain games,
you know, you got to go and throw the ball
because it just wasn't working out for us. But you know,
just far as this year's defense, that's when it start
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at the top and figuring out how to put these
guys in a much better situation. But then the guys
that need to make the players need to go out
there and make the plays and players eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And to your point, that was on coaches press conference,
we round the show after the fact. I think the
first thing he said was, you know, when you don't
control the line scrimmage the way we didn't in the game,
it's tough to win. And we had a chance because
we're plus two in the turnover department. But at the
end of the day, if you don't control the line scrimage,
you don't have a lot of chances to win games.
So that you mentioned Tua as well. Tua I mean
ten touchdown passes this year his pass rings over one hundred.
The numbers are starting to get back to where they
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usually offer Tua after a slower start, So good stuff
all around. I love this guy because I always learned
something about football when I talk to you, Dremon. You
can hear Jamon and myself on Dolphins post game Live
on Big one oh five nine FM and Fox Sports
nine forty. Once that clock hit triple zero's we're on
the air breaking things down for you guys.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So Jamon. Appreciate your time today. Man, Maybe get your
ice coffee on the way out here. You need something
to drink.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Listen, uh, with the way these facilities look, I know
y'all got all kind of we did.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
We can get cooked up. Appreciate you. Mo On, thanks man,
Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And the way he goes. First break right there.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Come back on the other side with Kyle Krabs Drivetime
Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. It is a Friday,
which means we have my good friend and fellow Dolphins
analyst Dolphins savant Dolphins. Really dedicate your entire life to
this football team, right, Kyle. I mean, how many hours
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a week would you say you put in towards Miami
Dolphin's content, whether it's watching the tape, writing or recording, Like,
what's how many hours we're talking here on Just Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
On Just Miami is probably it's probably forty five hours
between the game, like the game time, and then I
have five days a week with programming, and then I'm
doing research and then I'm writing, and then we have
our squad show with Locked on now where we get
Jeff Scanino on with us, which is really cool as
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a former finn Yeah, it's it's north of forty, which
makes sense because I do do it for a living,
so i'd hope I'm hitting forty. Otherwise I feel like
I'm leaving someone on the table, you.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Know, and take a little bit pto there. I do
see right now that we are playing. We're currently on
the air right now. We are playing NCAA twenty six,
twenty five. I don't know what years out right now,
but you are currently at Martin Stadium.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah, I have the twenty six our version of so
we're representing with some Washington kooks.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Is that Kyle Williams on a big play on the field,
a big, big player for the Koks offense.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Right there.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Let's go ahead and get into this Kyle and stop
boring the fans about our h what we're doing here
for a living in our college football video games. Because
I wanted to kind of follow up on something we
talked about a little bit last week and what it
might look like, you know, post Tyreek Hill. And we
got a pretty good example of ball distribution, you know,
that first couple of drives, ball going all over the place.
We saw touchdowns from Jalen Wattle, we saw touchdowns from
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Darren Waller and de von h chan Waddle by the way,
two hundred and forty yards now in the two games
without Tyreek Hill and a score in both of those,
both on long passes. What's your kind of evaluation here
of what we saw one game in touchdown kooks in
the post Tyreek Hill Dolphins offense.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, I think it was a lot of what you
hoped it would be if you were a believer in
what Jalen Wattle can look like as a kind of
the marquee option in the passing game, and you get
an explosive play up over the top and some of
that specif militated by your personnel groupings and getting up
under center. And I thought it was interesting in the
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build up to that game where to a tongue of
Aloa talked about, you know, is so much of what
we get is, you know, tendency breakers from teams with
what they put on film for the teams, Well, that's
what we have to figure out. Is their team's going
to continue to do that? Are they going to be
a little bit more true to who they are? And
you know, throughout the course of that game, you kind
of get a feel for that, and you know obviously
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that the middle two quarters we need to find a
little bit better rhythm so that you know, you could
take advantage of when you get up on top of teams,
but to see them find those opportunities to create explosives,
and he beats man coverage and you can put them
all on the slot, you can put them all in motion,
you can put them out on the perimeter. He has
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everything you need to be a featured player and then
to have the emerging CounterPunch that is Darren wallerm excited
to continue to see what that looks like as they continue,
you know, stacking more reps and onboarding him more.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
If you have not seen it yet, go ahead and
check out the Dolphins HQ breakdown where I put Jalen
Waddle four plays up on the all twenty two with
telestrations and show you why he can stress every area
of the field at the release, at the break point,
at the catch point. He is a very very good
wide receiver. On the latest episode of Dolphins HQ. And
I guess a follow up to that, Kyle would be,
you know, I keep going back to the game in
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twenty three against the Jets without Tyreek Hill after he
suffles the ankle injury against the Titans, and that Titans
game is kind of, you know what a lot of
Dolphins fans point too, is kind of the turn here
in terms of, you know, where this team was previous
to that and where they have gone post that. And
I mean Waddles was a sixty yard touchdown in that
game against the Jets and twenty three he had a
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long bob against the Cowboys the following week. But I
can't really recall in the Baltimore the Buffalo game. We
got the long Tyreek Hill touchdown in the KSE playoff game,
but then twenty four happens and the vertical passing game
kind of goes away. You get some of it in
the first part of this season, but then here comes
Waddle once again as the you know, the primary guy,
and we get a forty six yard touchdown. Why is
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the deep passing game more available to Miami seemingly when
the last two years when it's just Waddle compared to
Wattle in Tyree.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Well, I think there's a conscious decision when both those
guys are on the field and what kind of shells
you're getting, right, And then it's the other elements of
your offense are put more under the microscope as a
result because of and to alluded to this after the
Carolina game as far as like the second level depth
and if they're playing quarters and everybody's kind of playing
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across the top, and then you're also getting the second
levels really deep. It's free access. You'd be foolish not
to take it, right. But when that unique identifying quality
of Miami with ten and seventeen on the field goes
away at the same time, it does appear as though
it changes the psychology of how teams choose to play you.
And then you can kind of get more into the
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chess match and the cat and mouse of we can
manipulate with personnel and still feel like, hey, we can
maybe get them into a certain kind of covered structure
that we wouldn't get otherwise if we still had Tyreek
and Jalen on the field at the same time.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, it's interesting. And something else I think is interesting
is in that Chargers or not Chargers the Panthers game rather,
is that we saw them play with light boxes and
nickel defenses quite frequently in that game. And I guess
the Dolphins ran for just nineteen yards in the game,
so there was some difference in how they covered, you know,
down the field, but the personnel grouping still suggest that
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they were leaning more towards pass heavy defense. Where can
the Dolphins get to next and the next step of
the evolution of the offense this year? Because again Tyreek
is to miss the rest of the season, we still
got twelve football games. What's next for the Dolphins offense
with the way it currently is constructed.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah, I think one of the things that I'm looking
for is just some kind of continued diversification of the
run game where I think you have some opportunities to
get into some more You saw out of Pistol that
they pulled Jonas savin Ay and had the tight end
wrap with it, where you're changing the numbers on one
side of the center to the other like you would
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with motion, but you're doing it with gap and power
concepts in the run game, right. And I think we
heard throughout the offseason talk about putting a more diverse
menu together for what you can do based on your personnel,
and some of that's been tested by injury, some of
that's been tested by game script. But when a team
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gives you what Carolina gave you, which was a lot
of Hey, we're going to be content to play three
defensive tackles on the field. I mean, maybe they're head
up over top of your tackles and head up over
the center, or maybe they're inside shade on inside shoulders.
And then we get somebody who's a defensive end who's
walked up outside with a lot of width. But we
feel like that interior trio of guys, if we could
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cover up your offensive lineman, you can get some favorable angles.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
And I know that's a big point of emphasis with.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
The offense is angles and angles in the run game
and angles with speed out of the backfield. But depending
on what fronts you get, feels like there's some more
if you really had that focus on having a more
diverse menu of ways that you could attack defenses in
fronts in the run game, I think that becomes all
that much more important as you continue to work on
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life without Tyreek Hill this season.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I think it adds to the intrigue of the matchup
on Sunday between two quarterbacks they were drafted back to
back in twenty twenty and how the evolutions of their
careers have gone to this point right now, both sides
have injuries on the offensive line. The Chargers are banged
up at running back, the Dolphins banged up at receiver
with Tyreek Hill down, and it makes for a fun
not a ladder match, because the Dolphins do lead the
series since twenty twenty two to one against the Chargers,
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but for a fun chance to possibly take it to
three to one or for the Chargers to even it
up at two to two since twenty twenty. And speaking
of that twenty twenty quarterback class, Travis has told you me.
I'm Travis has told you a few times that the
better a quarterback class, the more into college football.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I am and Kyle.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We got Lenora Sellers coming up on a really tough
schedule of games here for South Carolina. But the biggest
news in college football this weekend is the likelihood of
the return. I see, you've got fourteen points now for
the Washington State Cougars.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
By the way, go for two? What are you doing?
Go for two? Kicking pats? What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I need to practice my kicking.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Still new to having a little bit of time outside
of my forty five hours a week.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
And then draft stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Finish us up here with some talk about ex Cougar's
quarterback Jometier, and then possibly return to the Red River Shootout.
I'm gonna call it because it still should be called that.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Yeah, Oklo.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
The chance to get my teerback would obviously be massive
for the outlook for Oklahoma as a team that has
a lot of talent. I had a chance to see
this team in person already this year when they played
in Philadelphi against Temple. But you know, whether it's Dion
Burk's at wide receiver, whether that's on the defensive side
of the ball, armson Thomas, they have guys that can
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make splashes and be highly drafted players, none more intriguing
than Mateer, and this chance against the Texas team that
really feels like they haven't caught their footing yet with
Arch Manning as the quarterback and that transition that's taken
place for them.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
In this quarterback class. I think you see.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Some of the guys that were perceived to be top
name guys coming into the Yearka Drew Aller have not
played particularly well, and I think that makes it really
interesting for Matier, as a guy who's a red shirt junior.
If the senior guys slide a little bit. You know,
the stocks down on Garrett asmyri hasn't played as well
this season is what he showed at his.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Peaks in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
You could make the argument for a tier, especially with
the nil era being what it is that you know,
maybe it be who's you to come back, But you know,
if the senior guys have regressed a little bit, it
leaves the door wide open. And if Matier only ends
up missing the Kent State game with what this this
injury is, I think it certainly puts him squarely in
the conversation of guys that could help define this year's
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core of back class.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Looking forward and seeing how that plays out here and
this weekend as well, some some fun games across the
college ball landscape, and of course Dolphins and Chargers on
Sunday at one o'clock. KYLEI you said at all, as
you always do, hosting the Lockdown Dolphins podcast, locked on
NFL Scouting, author of Touchdown Miami, NFL analysis for Agency
Sports at Kyle Krabs on social media, forty five hours
of Dolphins, probably about fifteen hours of drafts and other content.
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This man stays busy all the time, and we appreciate
your time as always.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Kyle, thank you enjoying the game on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
My friend, appreciate it. Travis, you too.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Let's take one last break, come back and go to
the Dolphins locker room. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation, a couple of brief chats.
Stopping by the Dolphins locker room on a Thursday, I
caught up with Dolphins receiver Taj Washington and right tackle
Larry Boram. Let's go ahead and kick it off here
with Taj and his NFL debut and a heck of
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a lot more from the Dolphins second year wide receiver.
Joined here by Dolphins wide receiver Taj Washington. Taj NFL
debut last Sunday. That's got to feel pretty good. Tell
us about the entire day.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
How was it for you?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Oh man?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
It surreal?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
You know, growing up as a kid, you always look
forward to that moment. You know, you always visualize, you know,
or have expectations of that day. But so had that,
you know, become a reality was a blessing that I
definitely enjoyed for.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Sure, especially coming back.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I think we talked last night about this your story
right from getting hurt before your rookie season starts, you
have the whole off season to kind of think about that.
Just take us through like what it meant for you
in perspective of losing out your rookie season and getting
the chance to enjoy here in your second year.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
It just made that that moment Sunday that much more sweeter.
You know, the appreciation, the gratefulness I've had like from
you know, like we said, like taking that whole year
the first year, you know, you have expecicitations of that
and just you know, sitting out and wanting to be
on the field so much and then that coming is
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you appreciate it so much more.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Was there a moment where it hits you, like whether
you're having your breakfast that day, maybe it was the
Saturday night you know, a team big before the game,
or the ride of the stadium, maybe coming out to
the field, Like, was there a moment where it kind
of hits you like I'm making my NFL debut.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Today, I would say, when we got to the locker
room and seeing you know, my jersey, my jersey up
there and there just like okay, like it's game time.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Now the smile says it all.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
And thinking about your possible home debut this Sunday at
hard rockstad H And when you think about that, what
comes to your mind.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
I'm excited to get in front of you know, our
fans and and you know them see me get out
there and run around and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What would you say?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The overall receiver room response was to not having Tyreek
Hill for the first time in that game, Like, how
did you guys, you know, talk about the loss of
Tyreek and just what the room can do, you know
without him.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Just rallying around each other, you know, trying to you know,
leaning on each other more, you know, because that's a
that's you know, that's a big big boy you know,
to to feel you know, so you know, he hitting
us up after the game, you know, stuff like that.
So you know, it just it just brought us closer together.
I would say, just depending upon each other, you know,
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how can we help each other, you know, take our game,
you know to the next level.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What did you see from waddle U to you know
kind of this is like the second game that he
played without Tyreek in the last four years, and he
goes for one hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Again, what do you see from him?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
In Tyreek's absence.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
He's just you know that workload, like you know, it's
just part of the game where you would have to
take on just much more you know, responsibility, you know
for you know obviously says going forward.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
So it's just like just to see him go out there.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
You know, you're gonna get maybe a double team now
or you know, the best guy or whatever. And he
just went out there and competed like every snap and
and it's great, you know, being a younger guy to
see you know, older guy like that Vett who just
knows what the situation is still gonna compete and win
win on his rip.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
So that was pretty good to see for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Look, good luck on Sunday, you sir, Thank you. We
were talking with Dolphins right tackle Larry Boram. Larry, I
want to first just start off with kind of your
experience your five games playing on the line with Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
We heard from coach.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
McDaniel back when you signed about the idea of projecting
your fit in this scheme as an ability to get
the best football out of you. I'm curious how you
feel that's gone, and just your experience playing at the
Dolphins through.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Five games so far.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I think that's coming coming to light a little bit.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
A lot of things you do allow me to be
aggressive in the past game and in the run game
as well, So I think that's come along good.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
You like that right side a lot. Yeah, I'm more comfortable,
right yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Okay, So, speaking of just the production in general, the
run game last week not where you guys want to
be nineteen yards. We've seen it work at times this year,
but what do you think is the biggest difference between
when it's working when it's not working? For the offensive
lineup front, when it's working.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Is good, when it's not.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
You know, it's a little details here and there with
certain things being able to just to start dominance across, you.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Feel that something that is easily correctable, maybe not easy
is the wrong word, but something you guys can look
at and find a way to correct.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Every thing that goes on is there's a way to
correct it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
What's been your experience of working with Butch Berry so far?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Man, he wants he wants the best best out of you.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Alpha set right, Yeah, I do a little butch Bery
impressionate from in my spare time, but I won't bore
you with that for now.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But I love watching him coach.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
As far as like what you've seen across the rest
of the offensive line, I know Pat Paul's having a
real good year. Aaron Brewer, what of he knows from
those two guys, his performance is so far this year.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
They do a day in and day out every day.
It's not just on Sunday. Yeah, that's that's one thing
I've learned a lot from from them. For everybody in
the room, it's it's a day in and day out effort.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
So appreciate.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Larry borm Dolphins right tackle. Good luck, ast eny Man, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
All right, there you go. Brief, short and sweet, let's
go ahead and call it a week. We'll see you
guys on Sunday evening for the Dolphins and Chargers recap pod,
and then do it all over again next week for
the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
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He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins
and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, it's a Football Friday.
The Variety show brings us my radio co host Jamon
(00:21):
bush Rod, who will talk to us about offensive line play,
line of scrimmage play, as well as a one in
four team turning things around as he did with the
twenty six team Miami Dolphins. Plus Kyle Krabs joins us
for his weekly Friday spot, and I dropped by the
locker room to talk to a few Dolphins players from
the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This is the Draft Time Podcast Day.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And my guest today is former Dolphins offensive lineman Jermon
bush Rod, my postgame partner on iHeartRadio, Big one, O
five nine FM and Fox Sports nine Am. Dremon, welcome in, man.
What do you think these are some new digs for
you? You were in the Dave Facility a couple of years back.
A little bit nicer, A little bit nicer.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
No, it's funny. I think it's my first time being
actually in this building. I think I missed one of
the tours for the older players that could come back,
you know, when everything was all said and done. But
hey man, listen, you gotta have nice facilities these days.
And yeah, well, I guess you could say we were
on the tail end of the roughing it air with
the Dolphins over there off of University, but you know.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Our fellow radio brethren Ojia McDuffie will tell you about
the Saint Thomas days, which was a step back from
what Davy was. So I guess you progress as you
go along here, and yeah, like you're to your point
A plus amenities across the board here in Miami Garden.
So Jamal and I do the postgame show after Dolphins games.
The minute the clocke at Triple Zero's were on the
air talking about the game you just saw. And there's
so much we can talk about from our five games
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together now, But I want to just start with the
offensive improvement from the last couple of weeks because the
Colts game was a tough start, kind of got some
things going as the Patriots the Bills game, same deal.
But it feels like the last couple of weeks Miami's
offense has taken a different step. What have you seen
from the offense that encourages you going forward the rest
of the season.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I really think you got it. Starts with the head coach. Obviously,
he's the one who's calling the plays, and I think
he's really buttoned up the play calling, and we figured
out a way just to be a more just to
be more efficient getting the plays and having enough time
to get up to the line of scrimmage because in
some of the schemes that he does run, there's a
lot of pre snap movement, there's a lot of communication
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that takes place. So I think, you know, the offense
as a whole, just being better getting up to the
line of scrimmage with enough time to communicate properly, to
move properly, and then it gives your quarterback an opportunity
to kind of assess the defense as well. So I
really just think from an operation standpoint, it's been better
from week one to week five.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You feel like it kind of clicks in in terms
of like the run game a little bit more as
that go along. I know the last game was the
lowest rushing output of the season, but you know, we've
talked to guys that have played in this offensive line
and kind of the style of the scheme where it's
like fire off the ball, right. We talked this in
the Carolina game. Guys like jump setting, whether it was
guards or tackles, like often jump sets. That's kind of
the mode of go get the defensive line, right, go
reachent the line of scrimmage that way. What do you
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think of that style of play in terms of how
you would have liked playing like that in your playing days.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, that was actually something that I kind of hung
my hat on and just understanding. I call it a toolbox, right,
because you have all these different techniques that you can
use as offensive lineman. And if you're continuing to take
the same type of set a forty five or a
vertical set, unless you've really mastered that, it's hard to
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kind of it's a chess game that you're playing with
the defender, you know, especially when you get in these
second and long, third long opportunities, you want to be
able to give your defender a different look, a different feel.
So we did talk about it on the radio. I'm
not going to butcher this kid's name anymore. I'm calling
them Big Jonah right from here on out. That's that's
what I'm calling them. I'm not going to butcher it.
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You've tried, though, I did. I've tried, and we've talked
about it off air a couple of times, and you've
kind of broke it down to me, but I still
can't get it. So he's Big Jonah from here on out.
But again, it's like, how can I give myself the advantage?
Right If we're nowhere in second and eight and the
line is sliding away from me, maybe this is the
time I want to go and be aggressive. I want
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to take the fight to him. In the past game,
I want to hit him before he really gets out
of a stance to make it maybe feel like a run.
That's what you're talking about when you when you have
a jump set, but if your technique is just slightly off,
you're gonna have to pay the price. And I was
a young player. I played this game for a long time,
a whole lot of snaps, a whole lot of good reps,
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and I've had some bad reps and some things that
I definitely learned from over the years. But for guys
like that, and even older guys, you're always trying to
figure out how to find tune your game, but you're
also trying to give yourself an advantage. And even in
the run game, like this is a downhill style of
running attack that they have. They want to attack your edges,
which they tried to do last game weren't where they
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weren't very efficient. But you know, just really about being
cohesive and just believing in your individual playing for the
unit up front.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, we saw the impact of that approach on the
long Wallle touchdown because the entire Panthers defense bit up
on that play action fake and the Dolphins had nineteen
rushing yards in the game at that point. So you
don't have to you don't have to run the ball
well to establish a play action game. We saw it
well on that play. And you know, speaking of the
jump set, I'll never forget you're one of your best
buddies in this business. Toron Armstead twenty twenty three against
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the Cowboys. He jump sets Michael Parsons and kind of
like does a jump set and a snatch trap on
him to throw a screen in behind him for Tyreek
Hill for a first down that eventually won us that game.
So it's fun to watch when guys executed really.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well it's and again that's something that Tron has been
doing for a very long time. As my tenure in
New Orleans ended, he was coming in, so we had
a lot of the same type of We got taught.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
A lot of the same techniques.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
And then on those types of plays when you do
have to jump a guy, the thing that's exciting is
they feel like it's just another opportunity where you're jumping me,
getting your hands and your feet on me as fast
as you can. So now I got to go rush
the passer and he's able to throw him off with
a screen. So at the end of the day, what
that does is just set you up in the long
run in this chess match, because it's it's a sixty
(06:15):
minute game that's spread over three and a half hours.
So you know you don't want to again, you don't
want to give them the same look. It's just trying
to figure out how can I confuse this person I'm playing.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's what makes football fun to me is all those
individual matchups. On any given play, you have sixty plays
per game, give or take offensively and defensively, and then
you have got eleven matchups. So you're talking not a
math guy, but six hundred or so matchups throughout the
course of a game on either side of the ball.
Speaking of something that makes football fun, you were part
of the twenty sixteen Dolphins team that I mean, Jaman,
I can tell you what happened in every game that
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entire season.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was one of my favorite years.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Is a Dolphins fan that the nine to two finish
to get into the playoffs and you know, Ryan Tannehill
gets hurt that year, Matt Moore comes than you guys
win to the final three games. But you started that
year one and four. And we've had this discussion on
the show a couple of times about kind of coming
back in and you know, remolding your identity and finding
out who you guys were as a football team. And
I pose this question to you postgame when you came
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back into the building at one and four, And if
you've had other years that were challenging the same way,
what's the mindset got to be for a team who's
lost for the first five games but still has a
whole season ahead of them.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, kind of going back to twenty sixteen, that was
like one of your favorite years covering the team. You said,
but for me as a player. That was one of
my favorite years just as a player, just to be
in that type of situation, like you feel like the
season's almost over with at one and four and you
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kind of have to take it back to a line
in the same type of moment, like I'm going to
make my mind up of how of what I can
do to be better. And I remember, actually Juwan James
was the right tackle that year, and we were sitting
in the locker room, I believe, after we had lost
to Go one and four, and we were just having
a discussion and we talked about, man, whatever we gotta do,
(08:00):
we gotta we gotta fix this. We gotta figure this out,
whether it's coming together, whether whether it's working harder as
an individual, and and I can remember that moment, and
then I can just remember Adam Gas, the head coach
at that time, how we just approached that year. It
was a one game season. Every single game. We're not
looking past game number six, We're not looking at what's
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happening in November, what other teams are doing. This was
the message that was reiterated to us every day when
we got in and it was something that we you know,
nobody's gonna go back and look at the press conferences
or the interviews. But it was something that really resonated
with us because it was the things that we were
talking about after the game. It's a one it's a
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one game season, and we're going to figure out how
to win this game this week, and we're going to
figure out how to execute our job to the best
of our ability, uh this week. And offensively, listen, we
were we were tough. We ran, We ran the hell
out the outside zone, and that's all we practiced. We
would get in there with Forrester in online individuals for
(09:06):
twenty five to thirty minutes and we would go over
indie blocks to the right, to the left, double teams
with your guard, You with the guards, and the tackles,
then the tackles and the tight ends. We're going over
different looks. Are they going to give us a forty
front to this formation? Are they going to give us
a fifty front? What does it look like? What does
my assignment have to be? And then it was just
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about really pouring great energy into the plan and really
kind of getting us fired.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Up for it. And I remember the game like it
was yesterday. It was the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
They had a tough defense, they were a good team overall,
and we came out and we did something that no team,
especially that season, was able to do against them.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And then that kind of we rode that wave.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
We rode that wave and we started to figure out
what this is who we are, Like we are an
outside zone running team and we have a tough running
back that we know if we get him him one
or two yards pass the line of scrimmage, he's gonna
make magic happen because he did that over and over
and over. And then then after you rattle off two, three,
four wins, then you go out to La or you
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go out to Cali and you have you play the
Chargers and you play the Rams. Our confidence was scott high.
We felt like we could we could beat anybody. And
that's how you want your football team to feel. And
I just think when it comes to you being one
and four, it's a decision that has to be made.
It's a lot of soul searching, a lot of you know,
looking in the mirror and saying, hey, this is this
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is what I'm gonna do to get better. How we're
going to be better as a unit. So that each
unit can be better, so then we can overall be
a better team. And what does that look like? And
obviously it starts with the head coaches and the coordinators
figuring that out and just relaying that message in a
way that these guys it resonates with the player.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
That West Coast trip was a white knuckle affair of
two games, the San Diego games.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To walk it off.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The Rams game might be my fun It might be
the funnest game because that was and it got to
the point where, like you know, we put up two
hundred and twenty versus Steelers, two sixty versus the Bills,
maybe been a little maybe it was a little bit
more than that. We had a by a week. We
come back face the top three defensive, top three defensive
unit in the in the Jets at home. We put
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one fifty something on them. So every game after we played.
I can remember now TJ. McDonald because I see him
down here in South Florida from time to time. But
I remember the way he was coming down hitting Jaya Giant,
and everybody kept saying the same thing, y'all not getting
two hundred on us, You ain't getting two hundred on us? Well,
it wasn't the fact that we're trying to get two hundred.
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We're just trying to sustain our run game so that
we're trying to get the ball down the damn field, right.
And then at the end of the day, we gave
ourselves an opportunity I think it was a pick. Somebody
end up getting a pick. It was thirteen to nothing
or ten to ten to nothing with like five or
six minutes left and went crazy and then Tannehill put
the ball in places that only he could catch it,
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and we ended up getting out of there with a
w And after that.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
We stayed there.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
We had a little fun in California for a night
or two, and then it was really our focus on
the Chargers.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Chargers.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Then back after that. Yeah, it was a fun trip
to get a couple of wins. But just in general,
it sounds like as you go through what your guys's
mindset was not so much back to basics, but almost
having like a compartmentalized approach to it, where it's like,
you know, attack each period of the day, right, which
is the general goal I think of most football teams,
But it almost sounds like strip back all the pomp
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and circumstance and just focus on that meeting, that practice,
that walk through, that film session, one game at.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
A time, like it at one and four.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Back then we were playing sixteen games, so we had
eleven games left. Like you said, we ended the season
nine and two. That's significant, you know, that's really significant.
And then we get to a place where we lose
our starting quarterback versus the Cardinals that year, and it
wasn't I'm not gonna say it wasn't this huge drop off.
Matt Moore comes in, a guy who's played the position
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for a very long time, and he knew the right
things to say, especially to the old line. Like I
vividly remember him. We were up there playing the Jets. Hey, man,
give me two three, give me, give me three seconds. Hey,
this one's coming out quick, give me two. Give me,
like give me a lane to throw it in. Like
he did a great job of like reassuring the lineman
and just giving it, helping us with our plan, you know, like, hey,
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it's a long one, boys, give me get let me
let me look down the field, let it, you know,
let the play, let the let the routes develop. So
we know at that moment like, hey, we have to
we have to do our job here, do a little
bit better. And then Matt was just doing so just
such a great job of distributing the ball wherever it
needed to be, and we still hung on to that run.
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We hung on to that run game in a major way.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
And so that was your guys. Calling card writes your identity.
You find out who you were to bring it back
the twenty twenty five Dolphins. If you had to pick
some thing, it could be offensively. Defensively, you talk about
the you know, the game plan, the play calling earlier
of something you felt kind of took a big step.
What can this team kind of put their hat on,
Like how can they get back to the drawing board
and say, if we can just do this one thing,
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then maybe everything else can fall into place.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I think offensively, it's just coming out with a rhythm
and it's coming out and keeping defenses on their heels
like you've been able to do in years past. Now
you have to navigate that without tyreek. Okay, this is football.
It's the next man up mentality, and it's always trying
to find a way to stay ahead of the sticks. Now,
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nineteen yards on the ground is not going to help
you because you're not keeping anybody off balance. Then, and
you have a really accurate quarterback. And I feel like
from game one to game five, you've seen him be
a lot more comfortable with this group. He's operating this
offense much more efficiently. He's when it's time for him
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to get out the pocket, he's more sudden. He doesn't
look as jittery as he was in game three. I
thought the last I thought the last couple of games,
he had to make them off what do you call it?
Off platform off off platform throws? He had to escape
the pocket. He looked a little bit more comfortable doing
that and then able to push the ball down the field.
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I believe that's what you got to do. Offensively. You
got to be able to mix things up. You gotta
be creative, you gotta you know, we talk about it,
give him the eye candy, give them, give them the
pre snat movements. But defensively, that that's gonna take a
lot of that's gonna take a lot of soul searching
up front to figure out what these techniques need to be.
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Do I need to come off the ball lower? Do
I need to be stronger at the point of attack.
They're not doing a really great job against double teams
right now, So what does that look like? Do I
need to be more physical with my hands? How can
I hold the point of attack better? Because we talked
about it on the show, opposing teams offensive line are
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displacing our defensive line. And when you can let a
backup running back from the Carolina Panthers, no disrespects the
kid played us behind off, but sometimes he wasn't getting
tackled or touched till yard three or four, and then
we just got to do a better job of tackling.
You said something about it earlier. Just getting back to
basics really is just getting back to basics, you know,
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like going let's rewind it back to twenty sixteen. It's
just being better with the with the outside's own technique
and really selling it and really understanding that, hey, I'm
going to stick with this. And in Gase that year
did a great job of sticking with it. Certain games,
you know, you got to go and throw the ball
because it just wasn't working out for us. But you know,
just far as this year's defense, that's when it start
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at the top and figuring out how to put these
guys in a much better situation. But then the guys
that need to make the players need to go out
there and make the plays and players eleven.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And to your point, that was on coaches press conference,
we round the show after the fact. I think the
first thing he said was, you know, when you don't
control the line scrimmage the way we didn't in the game,
it's tough to win. And we had a chance because
we're plus two in the turnover department. But at the
end of the day, if you don't control the line scrimage,
you don't have a lot of chances to win games.
So that you mentioned Tua as well. Tua I mean
ten touchdown passes this year his pass rings over one hundred.
The numbers are starting to get back to where they
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usually offer Tua after a slower start, So good stuff
all around. I love this guy because I always learned
something about football when I talk to you, Dremon. You
can hear Jamon and myself on Dolphins post game Live
on Big one oh five nine FM and Fox Sports
nine forty. Once that clock hit triple zero's we're on
the air breaking things down for you guys.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So Jamon. Appreciate your time today. Man, Maybe get your
ice coffee on the way out here. You need something
to drink.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Listen, uh, with the way these facilities look, I know
y'all got all kind of we did.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
We can get cooked up. Appreciate you. Mo On, thanks man,
Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
And the way he goes. First break right there.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Come back on the other side with Kyle Krabs Drivetime
Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. It is a Friday,
which means we have my good friend and fellow Dolphins
analyst Dolphins savant Dolphins. Really dedicate your entire life to
this football team, right, Kyle. I mean, how many hours
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a week would you say you put in towards Miami
Dolphin's content, whether it's watching the tape, writing or recording, Like,
what's how many hours we're talking here on Just Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
On Just Miami is probably it's probably forty five hours
between the game, like the game time, and then I
have five days a week with programming, and then I'm
doing research and then I'm writing, and then we have
our squad show with Locked on now where we get
Jeff Scanino on with us, which is really cool as
(18:35):
a former finn Yeah, it's it's north of forty, which
makes sense because I do do it for a living,
so i'd hope I'm hitting forty. Otherwise I feel like
I'm leaving someone on the table, you.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Know, and take a little bit pto there. I do
see right now that we are playing. We're currently on
the air right now. We are playing NCAA twenty six,
twenty five. I don't know what years out right now,
but you are currently at Martin Stadium.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Yeah, I have the twenty six our version of so
we're representing with some Washington kooks.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Is that Kyle Williams on a big play on the field,
a big, big player for the Koks offense.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Right there.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Let's go ahead and get into this Kyle and stop
boring the fans about our h what we're doing here
for a living in our college football video games. Because
I wanted to kind of follow up on something we
talked about a little bit last week and what it
might look like, you know, post Tyreek Hill. And we
got a pretty good example of ball distribution, you know,
that first couple of drives, ball going all over the place.
We saw touchdowns from Jalen Wattle, we saw touchdowns from
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Darren Waller and de von h chan Waddle by the way,
two hundred and forty yards now in the two games
without Tyreek Hill and a score in both of those,
both on long passes. What's your kind of evaluation here
of what we saw one game in touchdown kooks in
the post Tyreek Hill Dolphins offense.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Yeah, I think it was a lot of what you
hoped it would be if you were a believer in
what Jalen Wattle can look like as a kind of
the marquee option in the passing game, and you get
an explosive play up over the top and some of
that specif militated by your personnel groupings and getting up
under center. And I thought it was interesting in the
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build up to that game where to a tongue of
Aloa talked about, you know, is so much of what
we get is, you know, tendency breakers from teams with
what they put on film for the teams, Well, that's
what we have to figure out. Is their team's going
to continue to do that? Are they going to be
a little bit more true to who they are? And
you know, throughout the course of that game, you kind
of get a feel for that, and you know obviously
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that the middle two quarters we need to find a
little bit better rhythm so that you know, you could
take advantage of when you get up on top of teams,
but to see them find those opportunities to create explosives,
and he beats man coverage and you can put them
all on the slot, you can put them all in motion,
you can put them out on the perimeter. He has
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everything you need to be a featured player and then
to have the emerging CounterPunch that is Darren wallerm excited
to continue to see what that looks like as they continue,
you know, stacking more reps and onboarding him more.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
If you have not seen it yet, go ahead and
check out the Dolphins HQ breakdown where I put Jalen
Waddle four plays up on the all twenty two with
telestrations and show you why he can stress every area
of the field at the release, at the break point,
at the catch point. He is a very very good
wide receiver. On the latest episode of Dolphins HQ. And
I guess a follow up to that, Kyle would be,
you know, I keep going back to the game in
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twenty three against the Jets without Tyreek Hill after he
suffles the ankle injury against the Titans, and that Titans
game is kind of, you know what a lot of
Dolphins fans point too, is kind of the turn here
in terms of, you know, where this team was previous
to that and where they have gone post that. And
I mean Waddles was a sixty yard touchdown in that
game against the Jets and twenty three he had a
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long bob against the Cowboys the following week. But I
can't really recall in the Baltimore the Buffalo game. We
got the long Tyreek Hill touchdown in the KSE playoff game,
but then twenty four happens and the vertical passing game
kind of goes away. You get some of it in
the first part of this season, but then here comes
Waddle once again as the you know, the primary guy,
and we get a forty six yard touchdown. Why is
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the deep passing game more available to Miami seemingly when
the last two years when it's just Waddle compared to
Wattle in Tyree.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Well, I think there's a conscious decision when both those
guys are on the field and what kind of shells
you're getting, right, And then it's the other elements of
your offense are put more under the microscope as a
result because of and to alluded to this after the
Carolina game as far as like the second level depth
and if they're playing quarters and everybody's kind of playing
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across the top, and then you're also getting the second
levels really deep. It's free access. You'd be foolish not
to take it, right. But when that unique identifying quality
of Miami with ten and seventeen on the field goes
away at the same time, it does appear as though
it changes the psychology of how teams choose to play you.
And then you can kind of get more into the
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chess match and the cat and mouse of we can
manipulate with personnel and still feel like, hey, we can
maybe get them into a certain kind of covered structure
that we wouldn't get otherwise if we still had Tyreek
and Jalen on the field at the same time.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yeah, it's interesting. And something else I think is interesting
is in that Chargers or not Chargers the Panthers game rather,
is that we saw them play with light boxes and
nickel defenses quite frequently in that game. And I guess
the Dolphins ran for just nineteen yards in the game,
so there was some difference in how they covered, you know,
down the field, but the personnel grouping still suggest that
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they were leaning more towards pass heavy defense. Where can
the Dolphins get to next and the next step of
the evolution of the offense this year? Because again Tyreek
is to miss the rest of the season, we still
got twelve football games. What's next for the Dolphins offense
with the way it currently is constructed.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah, I think one of the things that I'm looking
for is just some kind of continued diversification of the
run game where I think you have some opportunities to
get into some more You saw out of Pistol that
they pulled Jonas savin Ay and had the tight end
wrap with it, where you're changing the numbers on one
side of the center to the other like you would
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with motion, but you're doing it with gap and power
concepts in the run game, right. And I think we
heard throughout the offseason talk about putting a more diverse
menu together for what you can do based on your personnel,
and some of that's been tested by injury, some of
that's been tested by game script. But when a team
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gives you what Carolina gave you, which was a lot
of Hey, we're going to be content to play three
defensive tackles on the field. I mean, maybe they're head
up over top of your tackles and head up over
the center, or maybe they're inside shade on inside shoulders.
And then we get somebody who's a defensive end who's
walked up outside with a lot of width. But we
feel like that interior trio of guys, if we could
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cover up your offensive lineman, you can get some favorable angles.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
And I know that's a big point of emphasis with.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
The offense is angles and angles in the run game
and angles with speed out of the backfield. But depending
on what fronts you get, feels like there's some more
if you really had that focus on having a more
diverse menu of ways that you could attack defenses in
fronts in the run game, I think that becomes all
that much more important as you continue to work on
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life without Tyreek Hill this season.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I think it adds to the intrigue of the matchup
on Sunday between two quarterbacks they were drafted back to
back in twenty twenty and how the evolutions of their
careers have gone to this point right now, both sides
have injuries on the offensive line. The Chargers are banged
up at running back, the Dolphins banged up at receiver
with Tyreek Hill down, and it makes for a fun
not a ladder match, because the Dolphins do lead the
series since twenty twenty two to one against the Chargers,
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but for a fun chance to possibly take it to
three to one or for the Chargers to even it
up at two to two since twenty twenty. And speaking
of that twenty twenty quarterback class, Travis has told you me.
I'm Travis has told you a few times that the
better a quarterback class, the more into college football.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I am and Kyle.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
We got Lenora Sellers coming up on a really tough
schedule of games here for South Carolina. But the biggest
news in college football this weekend is the likelihood of
the return. I see, you've got fourteen points now for
the Washington State Cougars.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
By the way, go for two? What are you doing?
Go for two? Kicking pats? What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I need to practice my kicking.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Still new to having a little bit of time outside
of my forty five hours a week.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
And then draft stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Finish us up here with some talk about ex Cougar's
quarterback Jometier, and then possibly return to the Red River Shootout.
I'm gonna call it because it still should be called that.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Yeah, Oklo.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
The chance to get my teerback would obviously be massive
for the outlook for Oklahoma as a team that has
a lot of talent. I had a chance to see
this team in person already this year when they played
in Philadelphi against Temple. But you know, whether it's Dion
Burk's at wide receiver, whether that's on the defensive side
of the ball, armson Thomas, they have guys that can
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make splashes and be highly drafted players, none more intriguing
than Mateer, and this chance against the Texas team that
really feels like they haven't caught their footing yet with
Arch Manning as the quarterback and that transition that's taken
place for them.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
In this quarterback class. I think you see.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Some of the guys that were perceived to be top
name guys coming into the Yearka Drew Aller have not
played particularly well, and I think that makes it really
interesting for Matier, as a guy who's a red shirt junior.
If the senior guys slide a little bit. You know,
the stocks down on Garrett asmyri hasn't played as well
this season is what he showed at his.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Peaks in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
You could make the argument for a tier, especially with
the nil era being what it is that you know,
maybe it be who's you to come back, But you know,
if the senior guys have regressed a little bit, it
leaves the door wide open. And if Matier only ends
up missing the Kent State game with what this this
injury is, I think it certainly puts him squarely in
the conversation of guys that could help define this year's
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core of back class.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Looking forward and seeing how that plays out here and
this weekend as well, some some fun games across the
college ball landscape, and of course Dolphins and Chargers on
Sunday at one o'clock. KYLEI you said at all, as
you always do, hosting the Lockdown Dolphins podcast, locked on
NFL Scouting, author of Touchdown Miami, NFL analysis for Agency
Sports at Kyle Krabs on social media, forty five hours
of Dolphins, probably about fifteen hours of drafts and other content.
(28:28):
This man stays busy all the time, and we appreciate
your time as always.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Kyle, thank you enjoying the game on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
My friend, appreciate it. Travis, you too.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Let's take one last break, come back and go to
the Dolphins locker room. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation, a couple of brief chats.
Stopping by the Dolphins locker room on a Thursday, I
caught up with Dolphins receiver Taj Washington and right tackle
Larry Boram. Let's go ahead and kick it off here
with Taj and his NFL debut and a heck of
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a lot more from the Dolphins second year wide receiver.
Joined here by Dolphins wide receiver Taj Washington. Taj NFL
debut last Sunday. That's got to feel pretty good. Tell
us about the entire day.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
How was it for you?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Oh man?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
It surreal?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
You know, growing up as a kid, you always look
forward to that moment. You know, you always visualize, you know,
or have expectations of that day. But so had that,
you know, become a reality was a blessing that I
definitely enjoyed for.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Sure, especially coming back.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I think we talked last night about this your story
right from getting hurt before your rookie season starts, you
have the whole off season to kind of think about that.
Just take us through like what it meant for you
in perspective of losing out your rookie season and getting
the chance to enjoy here in your second year.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
It just made that that moment Sunday that much more sweeter.
You know, the appreciation, the gratefulness I've had like from
you know, like we said, like taking that whole year
the first year, you know, you have expecicitations of that
and just you know, sitting out and wanting to be
on the field so much and then that coming is
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you appreciate it so much more.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Was there a moment where it hits you, like whether
you're having your breakfast that day, maybe it was the
Saturday night you know, a team big before the game,
or the ride of the stadium, maybe coming out to
the field, Like, was there a moment where it kind
of hits you like I'm making my NFL debut.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Today, I would say, when we got to the locker
room and seeing you know, my jersey, my jersey up
there and there just like okay, like it's game time.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Now the smile says it all.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
And thinking about your possible home debut this Sunday at
hard rockstad H And when you think about that, what
comes to your mind.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
I'm excited to get in front of you know, our
fans and and you know them see me get out
there and run around and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What would you say?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The overall receiver room response was to not having Tyreek
Hill for the first time in that game, Like, how
did you guys, you know, talk about the loss of
Tyreek and just what the room can do, you know
without him.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Just rallying around each other, you know, trying to you know,
leaning on each other more, you know, because that's a
that's you know, that's a big big boy you know,
to to feel you know, so you know, he hitting
us up after the game, you know, stuff like that.
So you know, it just it just brought us closer together.
I would say, just depending upon each other, you know,
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how can we help each other, you know, take our game,
you know to the next level.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What did you see from waddle U to you know
kind of this is like the second game that he
played without Tyreek in the last four years, and he
goes for one hundred yards.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Again, what do you see from him?
Speaker 6 (31:22):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
In Tyreek's absence.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
He's just you know that workload, like you know, it's
just part of the game where you would have to
take on just much more you know, responsibility, you know
for you know obviously says going forward.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
So it's just like just to see him go out there.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
You know, you're gonna get maybe a double team now
or you know, the best guy or whatever. And he
just went out there and competed like every snap and
and it's great, you know, being a younger guy to
see you know, older guy like that Vett who just
knows what the situation is still gonna compete and win
win on his rip.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
So that was pretty good to see for sure.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Look, good luck on Sunday, you sir, Thank you. We
were talking with Dolphins right tackle Larry Boram. Larry, I
want to first just start off with kind of your
experience your five games playing on the line with Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
We heard from coach.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
McDaniel back when you signed about the idea of projecting
your fit in this scheme as an ability to get
the best football out of you. I'm curious how you
feel that's gone, and just your experience playing at the
Dolphins through.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Five games so far.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
I think that's coming coming to light a little bit.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
A lot of things you do allow me to be
aggressive in the past game and in the run game
as well, So I think that's come along good.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
You like that right side a lot. Yeah, I'm more comfortable,
right yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Okay, So, speaking of just the production in general, the
run game last week not where you guys want to
be nineteen yards. We've seen it work at times this year,
but what do you think is the biggest difference between
when it's working when it's not working? For the offensive
lineup front, when it's working.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Is good, when it's not.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
You know, it's a little details here and there with
certain things being able to just to start dominance across, you.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Feel that something that is easily correctable, maybe not easy
is the wrong word, but something you guys can look
at and find a way to correct.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:59):
Every thing that goes on is there's a way to
correct it.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
What's been your experience of working with Butch Berry so far?
Speaker 4 (33:05):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Man, he wants he wants the best best out of you.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
It's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Alpha set right, Yeah, I do a little butch Bery
impressionate from in my spare time, but I won't bore
you with that for now.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
But I love watching him coach.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
As far as like what you've seen across the rest
of the offensive line, I know Pat Paul's having a
real good year. Aaron Brewer, what of he knows from
those two guys, his performance is so far this year.
Speaker 8 (33:25):
They do a day in and day out every day.
It's not just on Sunday. Yeah, that's that's one thing
I've learned a lot from from them. For everybody in
the room, it's it's a day in and day out effort.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
So appreciate.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Larry borm Dolphins right tackle. Good luck, ast eny Man, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
All right, there you go. Brief, short and sweet, let's
go ahead and call it a week. We'll see you
guys on Sunday evening for the Dolphins and Chargers recap pod,
and then do it all over again next week for
the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
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