January 6, 2023 • 9 mins
Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep OJ and Seth discuss the concept of a one game season as the Dolphins prepare to host the New York Jets this Sunday. Contributors to this episode include Sean “DJ Prec” Todd. Theme song created and performed by The Honorable SoLo D.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're now diving down and this is strictly for them too.
Fas number one one, of course you'll this a lot
(00:22):
of talk. Haven't been at pitch tank. Welcome back to
the fish Tank on a Friday. I am Seth Levitt
and as always I am joined by the last podcaster
who will ever done the number thirty two jersey for
the Hawk and Hawks high school football program. Oh j McDuffie, juice,
are you ready for some fish bikes? You know, A
(00:42):
big Seth Friday and fish bikes they go hand in hand,
don't they? Typically they do. Yeah, we might, we might
have skipped one or two, but they definitely go hand
bikes in our minds, at least Big set you know,
they're all minds, always in our minds and in our
hearts for sure. So just this season, it's hard to believe,
but it began way back in two To be exact,
(01:04):
it is I think September eleven, two, nearly seventeen weeks ago. Uh,
we started this season and to say it has been
a wild ride would certainly be an understatement. We have experienced, um,
you know, on one hand, we've experienced some of the
most exciting offensive football that We've seen in South Florida
in decades, record breaking individual efforts, uh, you know, touchdowns, yards,
(01:27):
crazy numbers that have been put up. We've seen some
gritty defensive performances, but unfortunately, we've also had our fair
share of frustration and disappointment. Uh and far too much
of that as of late. And you know, there will
be the time to reflect, to evaluate, to make changes.
All of that's gonna come. But for now, in this
very moment and for the next thirty six to fifty
(01:48):
six hours or so, depending upon when you actually listen
to this podcast, we are in the midst of a
one game season. Yeah, you know, you think about it, man.
I you think about everything gone to the off season,
you know, from free agency to the draft to you know,
the off season workout programs too, preseason, two, regular season,
(02:09):
and it comes down to one game, one game, one game,
all that work. You know that it comes down to
one game. And sure enough, men, there's we've had other
opportunities where it might not have come down to one game.
But this is what it is. This is what it is, man,
And you get in a situation and guys have to
be ready for it. I mean, I'm sure they've been
ready all year long, but man, this is playoff game
(02:31):
number one, you know, leading into hopefully a playoff run. So,
Drew's here's a question for you. You've been in this
exact situation before as a member of this Miami Dolphins
football team, as a leader on this team. You have
gone to work during a one game season. You've sat
in one game season meetings, You've participated and we could
practice prepping for the cliche the one game season, and look,
(02:54):
some of those have worked out better than others. But
help us understand what this current Dolphins team is thinking
or what they should be thinking in your opinion, as
they get ready to host the Jets on Sunday. Yeah,
that's a great question, Big said. You know, we have
had those opportunities in no situations and bottom line, is
this the intensity, the attention to detail everything. If it
(03:14):
was good, it's got to be great this week. This
is the week to pay attention to every single detail,
you know, in terms of everything, line up, snap count
on on offense, assignments on defense, you know, no busted coverages,
you know, thinking through every single thing that the New
York Jets do on offense and defense and special teams
and make sure you're locked in on your assignment. And
(03:35):
I'm gonna tell you this most of the time, and
they should do it all the time, but most of
the time, this is when guys watch extra film. They
might stay a little bit later. Guys they might go
through some walkthroughs on their own. They're getting the better
night sleep. All the things that matter that you should
do all season long, but sometimes you know you want
to be you have family and things like that. This
is time to kick the family out of the room,
(03:55):
you know, and get this focus on all those different
things that you need to be successful. Becus suggests right right,
and so like if you jump on Twitter right now,
if you read any articles or watch or listen to
the analysts, or hell, go talk to your neighbors or
the guy at the bar, you will hear all about
how we got to this point. You know, games that
should have been one, what the record was five weeks ago,
(04:16):
going on and on and on. But as a Miami
Dolphins player or a Miami Dolphins coach, really anyone who
has the potential to make a direct impact on the
outcome of the game that's going to be played at
hard Rock Stadium, at one pm this Sunday. How much
of that noise can you even pay attention to? Juice?
Is there? Like, is there any value at this point
to acknowledging or evaluating anything other than what it's going
(04:39):
to take to beat the New York Chest. Yeah, that's
about it, right, you know, you know, every year, every
week and me and everybody talks about and it's a
cliche that you know, let's get the one and know
this week, right there's no bigger week to get the
one in oh than this one right here? Yeah, well,
you have to. You can't worry about the last and
ones that you had. And that's the bottom line. And
I think this team has always been had to focus,
(05:00):
and most teams do because if you look ahead and
you're going to be behind, you know. And I think
that this team is that type, that type of focus.
And I think though, you know, I think they will
circle the wagons here. They have to. And they got
the right man leading them, They got the right guys
in that locker room. But all that noise set that's
all it is noise, and it's on the outside that
(05:20):
building all that matters. What's going on inside that ability
for sure, and so that brings me the one last
question that I have for you. And so, look, there's
no doubt that you want your team to be playing
its best ball at this time of the year. We've
talked about that all year long, and especially when those
teams who do qualify for the playoffs, you better be
playing your best football or else your season ends immediately.
(05:42):
And we understand that that hasn't been the case the
last month or so for our Dolphins. But at this point,
literally everything that has happened in the past is behind you.
This is the one game season and if the team
can earn the result that those fifty three men in
the locker room want that Mike McDaniel and his coaching
staff wants, the Miami Dolphins played themselves into the NFL postseason.
(06:03):
So again I asked the question, does anything that happened
beforehand matter? And can we Here's the thing, we'd all
like to write the story of how we would like
for things to go and talk about the ideal way
to make the playoffs. So you know, you you don't
want to back in or you want to get in
this way or that way, But I'm of the opinion
that this is where we're at the record is what
(06:24):
it is. The available players and the roster are who
they are. You can't make any changes at this point,
any real changes. And you know, the playoffs are the playoffs.
If you position yourself into being a playoff team, it's
a clean slate. Everyone has the same record, everyone is
chasing the same thing. And to me, that's what you're
in this business for now. Yeah, I mean, that's that's
(06:45):
the bottom line. No matter what people might say certain
things about, you know, backing way into the playoffs or
you shouldn't be here in this situation. Whatnot getting into
the playoffs as hard as it gets, it really is
that's the other six team teams or you know, are
eighteen teams that don't make it and they moved into
eight teams in the playoffs or keep that seven. Look
at all those teams that you know, they're number one
goal when your division, you know, try to win your
(07:08):
conference or whatever, but get into the damn playoffs. So
if you get in, you can't beat that experience moving forward,
big seth. We're a young team. Getting in is hell
important for us. It really is. No matter how you
get in, get in, experience it. But once you get
in you never know what can happen moving forward in
the playoffs. Well that's where we're at with this one
game season edition of Friday Fish Bits. We hope that
(07:31):
at this point you've all had a chance to listen
to our interview with former Dolphins head coach Dave Wantstead,
who was really wonderful juicy. So you know, guys, if
you haven't had a chance, we strongly encourage you to
check that one out. Yeah, Big Seth Man, they were
so good and so much fun to laugh and reminisce
with him about some of the things that happened along
the way and learn about some of the moments that
(07:52):
you know, being a part of them, Big Seth, and
we still didn't know all of what was happened. We
thought we did, right, Yeah, so deaf to check out
check out coats once said, and as always, you know,
we asked to obviously subscribe to the Fish Tank and
give us that rating that we love, and make sure
you also keep up with the rest of the Miami
Dolphins podcast network family. You know, Travis Wingfielder does a
great job of breaking down, you know, everything for you
(08:14):
daily on the Drivetime podcast. Kimmy be who we Love
as well on Dolphins Today, the Perfect Season Podcast and
of course our international partners as well. And finally, Juice,
our one game season will be played this Sunday, January
eight at hard Rock Stadium. Is your Miami Dolphins play
host of New York Jets at one pm. As soon
as the clock hits zero regardless of outcome, you can
(08:36):
join Juice, Travis DJ, Preshing myself on the w q
A m Fifth Corner post game show. Hey Dolphins, thanks
for diving in. You're now diving a little mine, sitting
(08:59):
down with Set Living o Jo and this is strictly
for them true fans, gol fans number one one of course, y'all.
This has ordinary sports talk I've ever been at time
You're now diving down and this is strictly for them too.
Fas number one one, of course you'll this a lot
(00:22):
of talk. Haven't been at pitch tank. Welcome back to
the fish Tank on a Friday. I am Seth Levitt
and as always I am joined by the last podcaster
who will ever done the number thirty two jersey for
the Hawk and Hawks high school football program. Oh j McDuffie, juice,
are you ready for some fish bikes? You know, A
(00:42):
big Seth Friday and fish bikes they go hand in hand,
don't they? Typically they do. Yeah, we might, we might
have skipped one or two, but they definitely go hand
bikes in our minds, at least Big set you know,
they're all minds, always in our minds and in our
hearts for sure. So just this season, it's hard to believe,
but it began way back in two To be exact,
(01:04):
it is I think September eleven, two, nearly seventeen weeks ago. Uh,
we started this season and to say it has been
a wild ride would certainly be an understatement. We have experienced, um,
you know, on one hand, we've experienced some of the
most exciting offensive football that We've seen in South Florida
in decades, record breaking individual efforts, uh, you know, touchdowns, yards,
(01:27):
crazy numbers that have been put up. We've seen some
gritty defensive performances, but unfortunately, we've also had our fair
share of frustration and disappointment. Uh and far too much
of that as of late. And you know, there will
be the time to reflect, to evaluate, to make changes.
All of that's gonna come. But for now, in this
very moment and for the next thirty six to fifty
(01:48):
six hours or so, depending upon when you actually listen
to this podcast, we are in the midst of a
one game season. Yeah, you know, you think about it, man.
I you think about everything gone to the off season,
you know, from free agency to the draft to you know,
the off season workout programs too, preseason, two, regular season,
(02:09):
and it comes down to one game, one game, one game,
all that work. You know that it comes down to
one game. And sure enough, men, there's we've had other
opportunities where it might not have come down to one game.
But this is what it is. This is what it is, man,
And you get in a situation and guys have to
be ready for it. I mean, I'm sure they've been
ready all year long, but man, this is playoff game
(02:31):
number one, you know, leading into hopefully a playoff run. So,
Drew's here's a question for you. You've been in this
exact situation before as a member of this Miami Dolphins
football team, as a leader on this team. You have
gone to work during a one game season. You've sat
in one game season meetings, You've participated and we could
practice prepping for the cliche the one game season, and look,
(02:54):
some of those have worked out better than others. But
help us understand what this current Dolphins team is thinking
or what they should be thinking in your opinion, as
they get ready to host the Jets on Sunday. Yeah,
that's a great question, Big said. You know, we have
had those opportunities in no situations and bottom line, is
this the intensity, the attention to detail everything. If it
(03:14):
was good, it's got to be great this week. This
is the week to pay attention to every single detail,
you know, in terms of everything, line up, snap count
on on offense, assignments on defense, you know, no busted coverages,
you know, thinking through every single thing that the New
York Jets do on offense and defense and special teams
and make sure you're locked in on your assignment. And
(03:35):
I'm gonna tell you this most of the time, and
they should do it all the time, but most of
the time, this is when guys watch extra film. They
might stay a little bit later. Guys they might go
through some walkthroughs on their own. They're getting the better
night sleep. All the things that matter that you should
do all season long, but sometimes you know you want
to be you have family and things like that. This
is time to kick the family out of the room,
(03:55):
you know, and get this focus on all those different
things that you need to be successful. Becus suggests right right,
and so like if you jump on Twitter right now,
if you read any articles or watch or listen to
the analysts, or hell, go talk to your neighbors or
the guy at the bar, you will hear all about
how we got to this point. You know, games that
should have been one, what the record was five weeks ago,
(04:16):
going on and on and on. But as a Miami
Dolphins player or a Miami Dolphins coach, really anyone who
has the potential to make a direct impact on the
outcome of the game that's going to be played at
hard Rock Stadium, at one pm this Sunday. How much
of that noise can you even pay attention to? Juice?
Is there? Like, is there any value at this point
to acknowledging or evaluating anything other than what it's going
(04:39):
to take to beat the New York Chest. Yeah, that's
about it, right, you know, you know, every year, every
week and me and everybody talks about and it's a
cliche that you know, let's get the one and know
this week, right there's no bigger week to get the
one in oh than this one right here? Yeah, well,
you have to. You can't worry about the last and
ones that you had. And that's the bottom line. And
I think this team has always been had to focus,
(05:00):
and most teams do because if you look ahead and
you're going to be behind, you know. And I think
that this team is that type, that type of focus.
And I think though, you know, I think they will
circle the wagons here. They have to. And they got
the right man leading them, They got the right guys
in that locker room. But all that noise set that's
all it is noise, and it's on the outside that
(05:20):
building all that matters. What's going on inside that ability
for sure, and so that brings me the one last
question that I have for you. And so, look, there's
no doubt that you want your team to be playing
its best ball at this time of the year. We've
talked about that all year long, and especially when those
teams who do qualify for the playoffs, you better be
playing your best football or else your season ends immediately.
(05:42):
And we understand that that hasn't been the case the
last month or so for our Dolphins. But at this point,
literally everything that has happened in the past is behind you.
This is the one game season and if the team
can earn the result that those fifty three men in
the locker room want that Mike McDaniel and his coaching
staff wants, the Miami Dolphins played themselves into the NFL postseason.
(06:03):
So again I asked the question, does anything that happened
beforehand matter? And can we Here's the thing, we'd all
like to write the story of how we would like
for things to go and talk about the ideal way
to make the playoffs. So you know, you you don't
want to back in or you want to get in
this way or that way, But I'm of the opinion
that this is where we're at the record is what
(06:24):
it is. The available players and the roster are who
they are. You can't make any changes at this point,
any real changes. And you know, the playoffs are the playoffs.
If you position yourself into being a playoff team, it's
a clean slate. Everyone has the same record, everyone is
chasing the same thing. And to me, that's what you're
in this business for now. Yeah, I mean, that's that's
(06:45):
the bottom line. No matter what people might say certain
things about, you know, backing way into the playoffs or
you shouldn't be here in this situation. Whatnot getting into
the playoffs as hard as it gets, it really is
that's the other six team teams or you know, are
eighteen teams that don't make it and they moved into
eight teams in the playoffs or keep that seven. Look
at all those teams that you know, they're number one
goal when your division, you know, try to win your
(07:08):
conference or whatever, but get into the damn playoffs. So
if you get in, you can't beat that experience moving forward,
big seth. We're a young team. Getting in is hell
important for us. It really is. No matter how you
get in, get in, experience it. But once you get
in you never know what can happen moving forward in
the playoffs. Well that's where we're at with this one
game season edition of Friday Fish Bits. We hope that
(07:31):
at this point you've all had a chance to listen
to our interview with former Dolphins head coach Dave Wantstead,
who was really wonderful juicy. So you know, guys, if
you haven't had a chance, we strongly encourage you to
check that one out. Yeah, Big Seth Man, they were
so good and so much fun to laugh and reminisce
with him about some of the things that happened along
the way and learn about some of the moments that
(07:52):
you know, being a part of them, Big Seth, and
we still didn't know all of what was happened. We
thought we did, right, Yeah, so deaf to check out
check out coats once said, and as always, you know,
we asked to obviously subscribe to the Fish Tank and
give us that rating that we love, and make sure
you also keep up with the rest of the Miami
Dolphins podcast network family. You know, Travis Wingfielder does a
great job of breaking down, you know, everything for you
(08:14):
daily on the Drivetime podcast. Kimmy be who we Love
as well on Dolphins Today, the Perfect Season Podcast and
of course our international partners as well. And finally, Juice,
our one game season will be played this Sunday, January
eight at hard Rock Stadium. Is your Miami Dolphins play
host of New York Jets at one pm. As soon
as the clock hits zero regardless of outcome, you can
(08:36):
join Juice, Travis DJ, Preshing myself on the w q
A m Fifth Corner post game show. Hey Dolphins, thanks
for diving in. You're now diving a little mine, sitting
(08:59):
down with Set Living o Jo and this is strictly
for them true fans, gol fans number one one of course, y'all.
This has ordinary sports talk I've ever been at time
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