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All right, the audible's back on the air. We're minus one man. Be a John can Jemmy here? I have no idea. I think vacation, you know what I think he's do you do it? Vacation day or two. I don't know how he comes in. He does that radio show. It gets up at four o'clock in the morning every day and then rolls in here and does a podcast with us. I'm surprised he doesn't miss more often. But anyway, we'll we'll we'll struggle on. We'll struggle on without him, but we're going to finish this show without Joe. I don't know everything. I don't know because we're not We're not gonna be able to tell people how to you know, how to how to go to tune in radio, you know how to get the Miami Dolphins mobile apps so they can hear it, find that podcast on dolphins dot com, Rapple Music or some of them. We're not gonna be able to get that out right. We're gonna, you know, we'll let him pay for We'll limp along. But I'll tell you what we are going to do. John, I got a chance to uh to catch up with the first round draft pick making for Fitzpatrick and um but I, I, you know what, you always hear a lot of different things about draft choices. This now, I don't think I ever heard anything bad about I don't think anyone said, hey, that that wasn't a good pick, or they should have gone somewhere else. I heard one guy said, well, I probably would have maybe maybe would have taken Derwin Jones at that time, or James whatever at that time, and uh, I thought, no, No, I think we're pretty good with pretty good. That guy is a solid player. When we were talking about who's gonna fall where, we always said, and we always predicated our our responses by where the quarterbacks gonna fall. Well, three of them ended up going, and four of them ended up in that tenth pick, with Arizona coming up and getting Rosen. That was probably the only decision that Dolphins had to make. Are they gonna go up and allow somebody to take that spot or without you know, bidding for it and trying to get there at tend to take a quarterback or are they going to let a guy that they probably had the highest ranked on their board at that time fall to the Miami Dolphins and that's exactly what happened. They get a quality starter for a lot of years wearing a Miami Dolphin uniform that played with a national to national championship. Teams in Alabama want every award known to man kind as a defensive back, played multiple positions, was probably coached arguably by the best college football coach in a long time, and Nick Saban so and he's been coached tough, and that that coach Saban has been touting him as the best player in the draft. If you pass up on this guy, you're you're missing now here on a very good player. So you know, I think look in any one of those quarterbacks, had they fallen to the Dolphins at eleven, there would have been questions about every one of them. You know why, Yes, he can, he's a little short, his attitude, Josh, his accurate season. They all had warts on him somewhere. You can't find award on this kid. This kid does it all. And and like you said, I think, you know, so I forget who it was and said, he's like a like a Swiss army knife. You'd be put him back there anywhere and let him play. And there was probably three guys in the draft and probably the top ten, or will count the Dolphins the eleven picks at the top of the draft, but it didn't award. Okay, you got Barkley up top, you got Chubb that goes to Denver, and I think it's this guy and you could probably So those are the guys that just pristine. Man, you can't the positional players, not excluding quarterback, those are the guys that you go, you can't miss in this draft at the top, and you know, you started looking at the secondary. We're at the draft party at hard Rock Stadium by that. By the way, it was a really a great night. A lot of good fans out there came out to support. It was really really a fun evening. Uh So we want to thank the fans for that they did come out and participate in that. Uh. But but you go through that and you're looking at all these different people that are about to come up and and go, and I don't think anybody left disappointed with that pick. And uh but it was it was it was the draft one. I thought the draft was gonna be different this year, at least a first round. Uh And initially it looked like it was just kind of falling into place, and then all of a sudden, it kind of, you know, kind of started spinning out of control. You know, It's funny about the draft parties. We've been doing him now for a long time. Joe and you and I were sitting on the stage and we're talking about who's gonna get picked and why they're gonna get picked, and we're mixing in interviews and alumni and current players always are fans. They've got one or two names that you know, we're gonna go with him. We're on board. Everybody's yelling and don't take a quarterback. What do you guys are crazy? If you don't take a quarterback. It's it's one or the other. But when the announcement came that we took make of Fitzpatrick, it was kind of like, alright, alright, alright, we'll take him. You know, that's pretty good once it sank in, because I don't think any Dolphin fan felt like this guy was gonna be available, but I think they're probably I think there were a lot of people that, if they weren't really paying attention to the draft, figured that the guy already coming gone because he was gonna be he was gonna be gone by six or seven. Yes, yeah, so you're probably that guy was still there and we got him. That that's pretty good. The other thing I think, you know, we had the chance to have Bobby McCain and uh and Walt Aikin's up on the stage a little bit, and it just as we went through the night and the draft choice came up, and I'm thinking of you know, Waal thinking back, I'm thinking of Bobby McCain, thinking of Tony Lippett coming back, thinking of Tank, thinking of Oxavian thinking and thinking, man, you know what, you throw this guy in that that's a not only is gonna be a very talented secondary, but there's gonna be some depth there. You know, we have some guys that you guys are gonna go down and guys are gonna need to play special teams. But I think the depth situation in the secondary probably John and maybe talent wise, probably as good as we've seen around this this team in a long long time. Where do you feel to fall off is when you look at a football team and all of a sudden injuries occur. It's either in the secondary where they get exposed or the offensive line. You don't have enough depth. You don't have enough quality starters and or that six or seventh guy to step in so the level of play doesn't drop significantly. I think that's what you get when you have the luxury of picking Fitzpatrick at eleven to add to a secondary with all those names you talked about, there's young guys, there's season guys in there. You know, you've got Xavier that's only getting better. You've got tankers Lee that is probably his best years are ahead of him and not behind him. They're well ahead of him because he's just learning the game as a pro. And you've got Lipid coming back for injury that went through all those learning curves as a wide receiver at Michigan State and a defensive back now in the NFL full time. So you've got a ton of talent, but young talent that are at different stages in the secondary. That's why I think a guy with the accolades of a Fitzpatrick, National championships under his belt, All American, All s SEC, every Big Game, Thorpe Award, Big Narik winner, you can name it. Nine interceptions in the career, four of him go the other way for touchdowns he can put points on the scoreboard if he if he's anticipating routes and reading routes, so when he gets that learning curve from Alabama to the pros, which is a lot shorter than maybe some other places, he'll be ready to contribute right away. William John, I think you look at this draft and we'll go through the go through the picks here. Uh. But I think you go through this draft, John, and I don't think it's I don't think it's off base to say that you're gonna have definitely two starters, definitely two starters in Fitzpatrick and Gasecki the tight end. Uh. And this Durham Smith is gonna play because he's he's gonna you know, he's a big, strong, physical guy. He's gonna play. I think you're gonna get four guys here. At least they are gonna be big contributors. A couple of them maybe rotation guys, but I still think they're gonna play enough to impact your team. And you certainly got two guys. And John, it reminds and I've been saying this, I've been saying this really all this offseason. I really thought the last two drafts were pretty good too, you know, and and and and so you start to and and it it kind of takes me back to so I came here in nineteen seventy six. At that time the undefeated I played with. I came in with a lot of those guys, but they were in the twilight of their career and the team was, you know, it wasn't playing at the level that they had a draft or so that wasn't didn't really quite you know, hit me, it's really dight, and hit what they what they wanted. And then uh my, my draft came and and and Larry Gordon was the first pick in the for our first pick. I was right behind him. We drafted Durial Harris and some other guys and guys that that were that that made the team and stayed back. Then we had seventeen rounds. Then the next year A J. Dewey, Bob bomb Hower, you know, you get those guys coming. So that year we remember that year, we played the St. Louis Rams or the St. Louis Cardinals on a Thanksgiving Day up in St. Louis, and we started four rookies on defense against him and beat and beat him up pretty good. And played four rookies, you know, for for the most of a lot a lot of the year. And then after that then we got the Dwight Stevenson's and Tony Nathan's And so the point I'm making is, and I know there's a lot of people allergies. These guys are on fun, Paul, or they're not. They're unproven this now. But but but you're doing what happened then you had three or four draft You put three drafts together where you're getting to three four guys to contribute. All of a sudden, you look around, you go, man, we got a good football team, and we gotta and and these guys are gonna be here. They're young and a lot of tread on their tires, and you're gonna get the best down. So I'm kind of looking at this and feeling very similar to what it felt like back then. And then you're going to run there where this team was a team was a playoff team, an FC championship games, super bowls really into the nineties. And so if you can get that momentum going with these team, these these three drafts and keep moving forward, you know, I think you're putting you know, look obviously I'm I'm I'm I'm a pro Dolphin. But but you're building. You're building what seems to be a very solid foundation on draft choices that are good, young, aggressive, and are gonna be around for a while. That's the way you build stability and a franchise through the draft. Everybody knows that you can, you know, cover some warts in free agency, but if you don't hit in the draft like the Dolphins have over the last two years, and then add a third draft class to that, now you're building consistency. Now that you're building the way, coaches aren't going anywhere, the players aren't going anywhere, the systems in all three phases of the games stay the same. That's where you build continuity in your in your organization. That the players know each other better, they know what what what's good at practice and what's good not good enough at practice. You start to create standards from the young guys and building up and that's where you, you know, quite frankly, weed out some that you that just don't fit anymore. And I think that's good because if you're going to win, if you're gonna challenge to win double digit victories in national football league on a consistent basis. There's only a handful of teams that are doing that. But if you can challenge to get into the playoffs every year, that that bubble goes to maybe fourteen or fifteen or sixteen teams where now you're going, hey, we got a shot this year. You know, if we play well, if we win a couple of games, that are those fifty fifty games comes down to a last possession score, last possession, get off the field on defense, last possession kick a field goal to win. Now you're in games. And that's what happened two years ago when the Dolphins won ten games. And you touched on a little bit in that conversation John too. You talked about coaching staffs too, and look, coaching staffs are gonna change every year. They're gonna bits and pieces, but you gotta keep and you look at the teams. You talk about a handful of teams that win ten games a year or are always in that Pittsburgh Steelers, what do they have continuity at the top, manage, management, coach, head, coach, everybody, and and and and look they hit a rocky road, they don't they don't panic, they don't know, let's you know, let's ship can everybody here, let's start over again. No, No, we're gonna stay with our You look at Dallas, same type of thing. You look at the New York Giants, same type of thing. You look in New England, same type of thing. San Francisco for a long time ago, Green base. So so that to me as much as the players, and you gotta have patience with the players. This this South Florida needs to be patient with Adam Gays and his staff. Look, I don't know what this year is gonna hold. You got a lot of young guys out there playing. Who knows they could go out and win ten games. It could win eleven game, they could go out win four games or six games. That doesn't mean that it's broken. It just means you've got to be patient and let everything come together. You know, I was came in a situation where you know, you're following you know, a team that went underfea two Super Bowls, Hall of famers, Don shul and everything you know. And I'm not saying that this team can't build that kind of legacy going forward, but you can't do it if you're gonna pull the rug out of guy every three years, and it's a shorter window unless you're fortunate enough to have Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady or uh you know that type of person that's gonna persevere and it is gonna be on that franchise, the face of the franchise for ten plus years. Your windows are shorter. So the Miami Dolphins are in a window now that if they can add to the last two draft classes, even though last year was a six win season, the year before they won all those tight games to get to ten wins, it could be a very fine line because this football team last year wasn't that far off and it wasn't that much more removed than the team that won ten games, just they never won those types of do you take makeup for Fitzpatrick? One tip ball at any one of those games changed the whole complexion of the Baker. One tip ball on the third down, break up on a tight end or a tackle and and not a not a hit, and you get it, move the chains. First down, you're off the field those or a Ghasicky gets a third down catch, you drive alive. You need those impact players, and I think at the top of the draft for the Miami Dolphins. You have impact player, no doubt. And obviously the guy that comes in, we talked about him a lot. Make a Fitzpatrick. I think I think everybody's excited to be here. He certainly sounds excited to be here. Let's hear what he had to say. Alright, so now we welcome to the audible Miami Dolphins number one draft pick, make a Fitzpatrick and make a first of all, uh, welcome to the Miami Dolphins. And uh, how'd that whole experience go? For that whole draft experience? All, hey, thank thank you for for having me be part of the team. Um, you know, it was a whole lot of fun in the draft of out there with my family. Uh, couple of my friendsh were just out there just having a good time. And enjoined the city and and uh, you know, it's just a waiting game, really, just waiting to hear your name called. And what was this? My name was called? I got a phone call, and I just I'm ready to go to work. Just go down there and do what I do. How was the whole process once you once you finished, uh with your your college football career at Alabama. Uh, and then all of a sudden came the recruiting, the the trips, the pro days, the combine all the things that came along with that. How did you did you enjoy that? Did it get a little annoying after a while and you did it get be too much? It was with something you just kind of absorbed and just uh just took advantage of the whole thing. Oh, it was something I just I just really tried to enjoy it, you know, because you know, it can be it can be tedious, it can be tiring, but there's a whole lot of people that want to be in their shoes, and it's honestly, it's a blessing to be in this situation because, um, you know, I could be a whole lot of other places. But you know, uh, like I said, there's a lot of people that they really want to be there, and there's a whole lot of people that deserve to be there that that couldn't. So I just tried to enjoy every every single moment of it, um and just go along with it, have phone with it. Just I tried to soak up as much as I could from other people I was meeting, all the hands I was shaking and stuff like that. So I was just doing everything I could just to enjoy the whole process. Now, you don't mind, you don't mind coming down here and being in warm weather. You know, you could have been up in Buffalo or Green Bay or somewhere like that where it's a little a little more chilly. You're gonna be all right with it being warmed down here. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be perfectly fine with it being a long no problem at all. That's a pretty a pretty easy question to answer. Hey, let's let's talk about Let's talk about you as a football player, um, safety, cornerback. You know, you've been described as a guy that can really do play anywhere in the secondary. Where is it that you feel most comfortable. I'm an comfortable out there playing playing football, and it really doesn't matter to me. And you know, I talked to the coaches and they pretty much gave me the same answer. I said, well, position I'm gonna be playing, and they said, football player, And uh, you know this this is wherever I'm needed. As we're feel comfortable, as I'm not getting repsed in practice, I'm gonna be good. You know. I did a whole lot in Alabama just moving around one place to place. But you know, obviously Miami they're not gonna have me do that, just can have me at one position. Um, and then maybe later on this moving froving around, I think get more comfortable. But um, you know, it's wherever I'm needed that that's what I'm gonna be comfortable at. So if I'm getting reps there, I'm gonna be good. So many multiple receiver sets in the NFL samesism in college these days, and so so more times than not, you're gonna be in a nickel maybe even a dime package, which is gonna give you an opportunity to play well outside little inside and do different things. And uh, from everything I hear, you're you're pretty comfortable really at any of the spots, whether you're outside on somebody or or playing in the slot or doing whatever you need to do in there. Um, it seems like they all fit your game to a team. Yeah, you know, like like like you just said, um, the game is changing there. You have to be able to move around, especially if you're going to cover the cover the team's best receiver. You know, the best receiver usually moves around a whole lot so, um, so if you can move around and you could find him wherever he is and you could cover him wherever he is, that it kind of gives you an advantage because a lot of times, if you have a great corner there, the offense is gonna move their best receiver on the inside try and get him away from the corner and put them on the slot guys. But if, um, if you can move from the corner to the inside to the box, you know that that receiver can't get away. Yeah. One of the things that this team has talked about a lot during this offseason, it's covering tight ends. And then I got a feeling that that's gonna be something that, uh that they're certainly gonna try to get you involved in. If you've done a lot that in the past in college, if you if you played again, sometimes guys are a little bigger than you and you kind of have to try to work around them and muscle them around a little bit. Oh yeah, yes, so they specially this uh this past season. Um, I had to do that whole lot. I played in the like the money the money backer position, uh, which is like where you come in the box and you cover the tight ends, uh the fourth receiver stuff like that. UM. You know I had to have some experience doing that this past season and now to put out some weight uh covering those bigger guys. But you know I got the job done. Now, you played in a couple of big games at the Alabama they're they're they're known to play in a couple of big games every year. You uh, you've you've been on the big stage a lot in uh championship games, National championship games, SEC championship games, big prime time Saturday games or whenever you played. How do you think that's prepared you to come into a league here that uh, that that gets so much exposure and that that so many people keep their eyes on. Um, I think, like you said, there's been in that spotlight you to kind of prepare me for the uh the NFL, UM in the sense of all the media tensions and all the uh extras that come with it. You know, Alabay him was almost like a professional team because Alabama, Alabama has no uh no professional hockey, baseball and football. All that has this Alabama football in Aubura football in the South. So so so, like like I was saying, it's just like a professional team out here, so you know, we kind of get all that attention that all the other teams will be receiving. So it's kind of um, like you said, just pay me with all the extra stuff on the field. And I haven't been to Alabama in a while. Is Alabama still ready still considered number two in the state of Alabama? Auburn number two? Man, we ain't number two? Uh yeah, let me ask you to give you what you're in tusclose. You ever run across my friend Bob Bama. How are you used to play here? Yeah? Yes, I have, I believe so you had his chicken wings. I've never been there at Joe Petty, Yes, and I thought going going there, but I never had it before. You gotta go check him out. I'll give call. I'm gonna give Baba call when I get done with you and make sure that he knows you're around there. You can stop by and check him out sometimes I don't need knows where you in New Jersey? Now are you in Alabama? No, I'm I'm Alabama right now. Okay, Hey speaking about Alabama? Uh. Nick saban Um clearly one of the great college coaches of all time, but he's a guy that uh, you know, he's known as a defensive back coach and he's uh certainly touted you as is one of the great players that he's had in that secondary Alabama. Um, with Nick's knowledge and what what what did he do to help you become the best player you can be? He coaching me hard and and and that was it. He was just being and stuff and and you know he really you don't mind you know, when you're doing something wrong? Does he? What was that I said? He doesn't mind letting you know when you're doing something wrong? Right, Oh no, I'll let you know right away in front of everybody. And it don't matter, you know. You know, he's just he's he's just a tough a tough coach on you. But it's only because you know it's how good you could be. And you know he's just he really still the discipline and and uh and the thoroughness and everything that you do, and it translates on the field. Well yeah, I mean you look at him and he is a tough coach and we we've seen him around here certainly in Miami. Uh. But the one thing about a coach like that, you look back now that your college career has done and you you kind of look back on it. Man, you guys want a lot of big games, and then you had a lot of success there and you know, sometimes having that tough coach that that the demands a lot from you. The payday is is just that winning a lot of big games and being in a lot of huge, big games. Yeah, exactly exactly what it is. I mean, you know a lot of people could say that, you know, their their their coach was the best friend, or the coach was um easy on them. But at the end of the day, it's not getting them better. It's not allowing them to win games and stuff like that. So you know, I appreciate everything coach segment is done for us as the teams, uh, as players, you know, a players appreciating him for being so hard on this because, like I said, it gives us better at the end of the day. It's a new Jersey kid. Uh what got you to Alabama? Oh exactly what we're talking about, Uh, coach Sagan and just overall overall program and is this a great program? Um? You know, and then it's uh, this is a different culture down here when it comes to UH, the academics, the athletics, everything is just um, there's always a constant demand for excellence and always the challenge at hand. So I just felt like, um, just coming here, I knew I was gonna become the best possible version of myself as after I left he growing up in New Jersey, I know, I know you were you were Was it Hurricane Sandy that you guys got affected by Hurricane Irene? Irene and you have some pretty pretty bad damn you have a lot of flooding and stuff or what what what happened with your living experience up there? Um? So what happened was the foundation. So the warrior came in into the uh came into the house like a basement and flooded in abasement flood like the first level of our house, and then the foundation of the house collapsed. So, um, the house is pretty much you can't live in it because you could have felt at any time, um, like half of my town was like under it. It was. It was pretty bad. You know. I was with me and my family was out for a little while. Um, but snow we just sitting together and guy's all done got back to where he used to be. Was it was there any point where that affected your decision about playing not playing? Maybe I should stick around, Maybe I should be with my family. All the things that kind of go through your mind when when some kind of the disaster like that befalls you. Oh yeah, yes for your arm that was talking about. Told my parents and I was going to a private school and it's expensive, and then my parents were both working the whole bunch of different jobs I was working. Um, so you know, I was just tough on everybody. Uh, And I just told him, like, you know, I'm just like gonna go to school no more, like football no more. I'm just gonna work and uh help my family out and just uh and just helped to provide. You know. Uh, is that any wanted to be going to school getting education and all that when my family's out working all day. So so so I just told him, yeah, I'm just not gonna playing no more. And uh they quickly set that down, and uh, you know they all men to continue to go to school and and play football. So it's definitely worth the uh the sacrifice. What do you want to copies? Coming in here, You're expecting to be a starter. Um, do you have that thought in your mind. You're just gonna come in and see where things take you and working. I know you're gonna work as hard as you can and try to get as much as you can out of this. UM. But this first year, But what do you think coming in as a rookie, UM, what are your expectations? UM this coming in, I'm I'm gonna staying this is going there and work hard. You know, I'm not explaying in this the handles starters and I would not splaying the coming in and uh, you have everything in front of me. I'm I'm just going I'm just going there work for everything, and uh, he's going there and compete stops myself as a as a respectable, respectable player, uh spells myself as one of the top t B s on the team. And wherever it goes from there, that's where it goes. And then of course, you know you want to when as many games as you can and eventually when the when the win of the rain. Yeah, you got some room for you. I noticed that you've got some room in your fingers? Are you you let everyone know about that? Got some room for some more rings? Right? Yeah? Yeah, I do. Hey, UM, you know, I think one of the coming out of the draft after the draft, for one of the things that kind of really got around town was, uh, you and uh you're reading the letter that your your mother wrote for you about the experience, and it had to be pretty tough for you to read it. I'm sure the first time you read it you kind of brought tears to your eyes. And I'm sure that that, uh, it was there's an emotional read when you did it, uh, and and put it on Facebook or wherever it showed up. I know I saw it a couple of places. But that that was a pretty uh, pretty nice heartfelt thought from your mother, wasn't it. Yeah? It was. It was. It was awesome receiving it from her. Uh you know, it's a it was just very emotional. The night before we had we had talked and she had told me about this everything she had been through when she was having me and what she was uh just going what she was pregnant with me, and and uh, you know, it was an emotional letter, especially, like I said, this after what she had told me, uh that the night before. So it was just it was just awesome, very hard felt and uh, they give a little emotional towards the towards well. Good good stuff, man, good stuff. We're looking forward to you to getting down here and and getting to work. You know, you have a chance to meet the coaching staff, Coach Gaze and the rest of the guys and your defensive back coach. Um, how did you feel about that? That that that relationship. I know it's kind of a you've kind of been on a little bit of a whirlwind trip when you were down for that, But um, what we're able to get out of that and get a feel for the staff that you're gonna be dealing with. Oh. The crazy thing is I talked to him place before they had drafted. I talked to him that combine. I talked to coach uh Tony Oltan one time. Uh, I think I talked to Scout five. It was very red scout questions. But um, but you know it kind of came as the product of me. But after that day and I'll call me guesterday, I talked to the to the to the owner, to the coach, Coach Gates and you know, you're just getting a steel from me. Tell him we just thanks for me coming in and uh and and really it was UM, you know he's just ready for me to get down there as well as I am. But just get down there and do what I do. You know, Mr Ross got some extra cash, will make sure you get yours and I know you're gonna. I know you're gonna work out. Hey, UM, let me talk to ask me asked this last question for you. Uh you new New Jersey guy. Parents in New Jersey, were they hoping you'd uh you you hook up with the Jets or the Giants? You know, we love you love New Jersey, but Jerseys. Uh, it's not it's not actually nothing I say that I would have been happening anyway. You know, New Jerseys our home stage is our home stacee. So there has been uh, it's been cool playing back there, and I have a lot of family there, a lot of uh, a lot of people that you know, it's been there from the beginning, uh with me. So they're a little bit cool just being able to play out there. That's right. It's a short flight down to uh, it's a short flight down to South Florida, and South Florida is a lot more enjoyable than than uh than New Jersey. All through New Jersey is not bad, but it's it's not South Florida, so I'm sure they're gonna look forward to the trips coming down on here for a little weekend for the games down here will be nice, all right, Hey, make congratulations again on on being drafted by the Dolphins. An outstanding college career. Really, you know, and I know everyone here with this franchise is so happy to have you here and expecting a lot of a lot of big things out. You're looking forward to meeting you when you come down in person, and I just want to thank you for spend a little time with us here today. Alright. To make Fitzpatrick John you had a chance to listen to him, had a chance to speak to him here on on the program. Good kids, solid background, and you know what I like, he got a little You're not you know, he's not you're not eating your face cockey guy. But the one thing I liked about him that he said from the beginning, Hey, I got a couple of rings, but I got I got room for I need to fill this hand up. I want to go to the other hand. That's right, and you get you can do it when you have players like that, when you start stacking up quality players that have played in the big games and that don't have any of those signs that say gives you any hesitation that why you would want him on this football team. I think that's why Chris Greer and Mike Tanne Mom and Adam Gaze, they were able to go, hey, this is easy for us. You know this guy is gonna fall to eleven. We've got an instant starter for as long as he's a Miami Dolphin. As long as we can find a way to make our defense better and the players that we have on the roster finding those chess pieces and moving them around for certain situations or schemes or different teams you're playing against, that guy is gonna be one of the guys that other teams are gonna circle say we have the game plan for him. I was happy to see that his name called, and I think almost jumped up and down when I heard Mike Gaziki's name called, because you know, that was the guy we we have talked about in the show that you know there there's no question that this team needed a tight end that can go down the field. And I've heard these people, oh, he can't block bullshit. I don't care. I don't care if he can block or can't block. You need a guy to score points and you got to move the chains. And this guy is athletic of a guy that was in the draft. I mean, you're watching, you know, watching slam Duncan. Basketball's played, volleyball, um, great hands, goes up for the football. I couldn't have been more pleased with that pick. He's a long strider. You mentioned all the attributes about being able to get off the ground and win uh contested passes in the air. Usually he's gonna come down with it. I've watched him play all last season, and the one thing that he does do is he's going to put himself in between the football and the defensive back or the linebacker or the corner, whoever that is, wherever he's lined up. If he's flexed out, he's gonna be able to do that because of his athletic nature, because of that basketball box out type of mentality, or that volleyball get off the ground and come down with a little velocity. He comes down with the football on those throws, which is so awesome to see. And I think the Dolphins haven't had a guy like that at tight end in such a long time. You mentioned the inability to block. We've got others hopefully on this roster that will get to maybe a little bit that can block. Uh So I'm not so worried about that. Another thing this does boa it gives Adam Gaze the opportunity to go into two traditional sets with another tight end, or go with Kasicki and split him outside. So you vary whether you're in red zone, whether you're crossing the fifty, whether you're coming out. You put more pressure on defenses because you can do that many more things with this type of personnelity. Well you look at how many times um Adam moved out, Um, what's our tight end from last Julius Thomas put him out in situations where he was a mismatch and the mismatch was there, it was there, but he just couldn't make a connection. Either he short armed the ball or didn't catch it or whatever, this or that, And so you can see how that's gonna work with a guy like this. This guy catch the ball, this guy go after the ball. This guy. I don't see this guy getting knocked down by a defensive back if he's got you know, if he if he's got some running room out there, and the guy comes up and you know, and and tries to breathe on him alone, not even close. And this is a guy that that no is leverage. He knows leverage. He he knows how to use his body. And I think that's one of his biggest attributes is going down the field. And as a quarterback, when you're throwing to a type of guy like that, you're not concerned about getting the tip pass or or maybe shortening up a router. He knows the frame his body, you know, behind and in front of the defender, and keep that football out away from his body. You talk about a catch radius from this guy. He throws his hands up. He's almost like eight foot tall. This is a large human at six five, he's around two fifty and he maybe he takes a little while to get going, but once he gets going, this guy can create space in the secondary. The other thing about it is, you know guys coming out from Penn State. Um, you know every guy I've been around, Um, you know Jimmy cepho O, j McDuffie, um, everybody that's been around Troy Drayton. I mean everybody that I've run across guys that have come out of Penn State, Matton Mill and all those guys. You know, they're just good solid and some good solid people. You know, those guys are I went to pitt So it's tough for me to say all that stuff. No, I'm just kidding. Those guys are the same type of people. They just wore different colors exactly. They're the same type of guys. And all the thugs and we had all our guys, we were able to get out of jail little easier than the Penn State guys. But the one thing I will say is they're all cut from the same cloth in terms of hard work. Don't shortcut it. Say how you feel, be who you are. You don't have to put a facade around you, and just go to work. Go to work and do your job. That's what those guys are good at. And that's why you go to places like Alabama and Penn State, in Ohio State and Notre Dame because they get it. They're not gonna they're not gonna hang around there. They're either gonna quit or they're gonna find a way to get it done. Those guys find a way to get Then they go in the third round to get Jerome Baker, linebacker round Ohio States, speed guy. And you know what else he played with Kwon McMillan. They they they know each other. They're gonna be lined up together with each other. They've been lined up with each other. They know how each other plays. And I know it's a different league, and I know it's a it's they're a little but that familiarity, it doesn't go away, and it certainly is gonna be an advantage. I think so. And and for Jerome to come out. When I saw the highlights of this guy during the draft, I wasn't sure if he was a strong safety, if he was a linebacker, because he's not a big guy at six one, two thirty. But the speed from sideline to sideline, run and hit, it's all he does. And can cover a wide receiver, can cover a slot, can cover a tight end, can cover the running backs. Where has been the glaring deficiency on this football team? You could name a few of them. One at the top of the list. Covering tight ends and getting open as a tight end. That to me, that to me is problem one, and problem to there's other there's other issues, certainly. But when you said you glaring, you know, I mean put at the top of the list, number one, and you could put one in one aver the tight end. Get a tight end, the canqutching football, and that's the biggest thing. So I I look at this draft, and you know, you you always get the draft knicks everybody. It's a mine as well, it's a D, it's a C mine as well, it's a B plus. It's somewhere above sea and it's somewhere probably blow an A plus or an A minus depending on how these guys pan out. But you can take a look at this draft each pick and go, you know what, that's better than I thought. Yeah, maybe that is a bet. I look at that. Maybe that's up there with some of the other people around the league. They're are assembling all this talent you've got. You address every need on this football team with the draft, and I look, you go down. I'm not gonna you go down the fourth, fourth pick with the fourth round with the running back. You know, I look at him, I look at Smithes, I look at the rest of those guys. Uh, you don't you don't need to redo that if you say, hey, we can redo those guys. I can and I'm fine good, I'm fine, I'm pretty good with those guys. We don't need to redo, you know, we shuffle. You don't need to re stack the deck here with these guys because you need a young guy that's a big running back. This guy is a big running back at six to eight pounds. He's his upside is huge. I think catch it out of the backfield. He can do a lot of things that Damien maybe didn't in the offense, so better maybe got a younger guy, not a lot of you know, a whole lot of tread. He goes to the Senior Bowl, felt like he was undervalued a little bit because no one was talking about him. Everybody was talking about other guys at his position. I think they did a great job in finding a running back that doesn't have a whole lot of wear and tear, that has a huge upside. And with Frank Gore being here in year one, we always talked about Kenyan Drake, what can he draw from Frank Gore? Well, you know, you think Kaitlin's gonna be able to sit there and soak up some of how I how to how to work as a pro, how to run routes as a pro, how to block, pass protect, and study as a pro. Absolutely have three guys, three guys there there that they're multitalented. They can run, they can block, they can catch the football, do all the things you need to do. But then you've got a guy in Frank Gore that can be that the guy has been there, done that, and done it at the highest level that these guys can really looked up to. And you know, we we heard him when he's out. He was more than willing to help and teach these guys what it means to be the type of pro that he's been during his career. And I think I don't want to short change Frank. I think he's gonna have a role. No, absolutely, I think he's gonna get his touches, he's gonna get his catches, you know, pass protection, all the things that he's done throughout his career. But I do think one of his biggest roles are going to be showing these guys how to go in on a on a Wednesday, on a Thursday when maybe coming off of a loss or maybe a short week, and how to how to take care of your body, how to do things, how to study, how to look, how about how to heal up. I mean these guys. You get one of these guys carries the ball to and sometimes a game, they wake up the next morning and they can feel it. You figure out how to get yourself ready to go and be back at full speed. And he's certainly a guy that that knows how to do that. Absolutely. So I think the team when you talk about bow at the start of the show about the last two draft classes, this one is as good or better in terms of on paper, looking at the type of athletes that we have, looking at the deficiencies of this football team, and finding out finding quality players to plug and play. In year one, you go, So let's step back to the early the first fourth round pick, and we touched on it live with the tight end. You got to get a big guy in Durham Smith that Notre Dame tied end. Now you know he could catch, but he ain't here to catch. I mean this this fulfills the and I've heard all the well yeah, but you know, if he goes in the game, they loved looking. I've known about two and three tight end sets. He loves the two and three tight end sets. So if you're gonna play multiple tight ends, whether it's two, whether it's three, what does it matter if one's a blocker and one's a catch, right, doesn't you know? Well? What happens when you're going up against a five ten corner you come out in a three tight end set. All of a sudden, Gisicky splits out wide? Who goes with the linebacker? Does the corner stay out there? What do you do? Do you replace a linebacker and put him out there? You don't want a corner against the run game. But if you have a mismatch now going into that set and all of a sudden you motion or change formation, the advantages to the miamis, yeah, look, you do the same thing. You can also do the same thing by putting two tailbacks back there because they can both run, they can care. I mean you really you know, I what I really like And I've always liked teams where they where you have multiple options with the personnel that you put in there, and you can do it. And I think the Dolphins both at the tight end spot, at the running back spot as well as a wide receiver spot, I've got a lot of a lot of different things you can do with pairings and packages. You know, it was funny when when Dirham Smith was drafted as a member now of the Miami Dolphins, when we had our top five at each position, we're going through that series through the off season. I put him in I think it is No. Or three or number four, and a lot of people kind of said, well, who is this guy? You know, I don't even really have that much to do. He only caught fifteen passes where he only did this or only did that. I watched him at the Senior Bowl. He moves a little bit better than you think, especially in the red zone. He's able to frame his body just like a sick he does. He's able to go up. He's a big guy at six five. Maybe he's not as fast, but I know he can catch the football. I think he was just underutilized in the Notre Dame offense. But what they were asking look look for. Really for Notre Dame, he was a glorified tackle. He was because they had those big five offensive linement, big huge, massive lineman and then you put him out there and then they wanted to run the football to power running for the quarterback round the ball. Well, their tailback round the ball, well, yeah, fullback and another one at the script. So yeah, I think then you know there's another fit. Now add to it to the quarterback from Southern miss Cornell Armstrong, Quentin Pulling, another linebacker from Ohio and Jason Sanders a kicker. I think it rounds. Look, you needed a kicker, you don't. You don't have one of the roster when going into the draft. You did that, and so I I just, uh, you know, now I'm now that the drafts over me. I'm just looking forward to seeing these guys on the field and really watching them and seeing what they can do. Well. It'll be fun getting to know these guys. They come in probably in about seven days, we'll be able to interview them, talk to them a little bit about their college experience, talk to him about the draft, talk to him about their expectations about being a member of the Miami Dolphins, and what the what the thrill it was to hear their name called number one, and now putting that behind them, getting into a playbook with all the rest of the rookies and the undrafted free agents and and the veterans on this football team and trying to become one and trying to trying to make this another draft class. That just adds you know, you you talk always in football bow about stacking back to back plays together, you know, positive plays together. You don't want that negative play. Well, I think the Miami Dolphins in the draft at least may not have shown last year with their record, but they've stacked back to back to back. Now, draft where you've got quality players at a young age that can give you continuity as an organization, no doubt about it. Let's get to some of the questions that the people have got it in and thank you guys for sending your questions. And by the way, you can send him in through Twitter. You can send him in through Facebook, and we'll go ahead and try to get him on in the program at Robert Frank's thirty two off Twitter. I love the tape of running back Canna Bellage, but I want to see if he can do that against the NFL. He's gonna need help from Gore and Drake, especially Gore. Um. Look, you know we talked about Minka Kelly or Minca Fitzpatrick. I did a show the other day and the guy kept calling Mika Mika Kelly rightly down in it drops. I think, I don't know, maybe he's not as good looking as Mika Kelly, but you know, I'm I'm gonna go with with his right name maybe anyway. Um, you know, you've got you've got guys in there at that position that uh that or that are at the running back position that can do a lot of things. Uh and and I just think that it all have different talents and could do multiple things. And I think, yeah, I think we talked about Gore and what he's gonna do with Drake and uh and Blage. I think it's gonna be very interesting. In the tape we saw of Blage at Arizona State, you watched him line up in wildcat and run for eight touchdowns against Texas Tech. Four of them were in the wildcat formation. I mean, it was it was unbelievable to see this guy take a snap. We've his way through touchdown all in the red zone. So you you have a guy that potentially can give you another formation in the red zone, potentially do some other things than just line up as a tailback. But this is gonna be a large learning curve for any running back. Even when you go to see Kwon Barkley about past protection, about identification, about being able to hit the whole a certain way, you know, other than you did it at Arizona State, in different way than he did it at Penn State. There's a big learning curve. I think for running backs that people just think I'll line him up in the backfield, let him go downhill off tackle, and we should be fine. There. There's it's a little bit more complicated about the way they want you to hit the hole, in the timing at which you do that. So a lot to learn, but I like his upside. Marty Ridgeway and Facebook. We'll see in two to three years, once these players have had a chance to make an impact, all the hyperbole in the world doesn't mean squat. Once the players hit the field and the ball gets snapped, we look. It doesn't matter who it is. I can tell you this, I'd be a lot more nervous about my first round draft pick if we had drafted any one of those quarterbacks. Really, the only guy that I had a full belief in was Baker Mayfield. I just liked him. I liked his personality, I like the way carried himself. I like the factory one everywhere. I mean I I liked him. I liked his feistiness. I like all that. The other other guys, the two guys from from Southern cal and U. C. L A. Darling Rose and I just never You know, Donald doesn't look like a great fit from the outside looking into the Jets, because it's almost you're putting that you gotta surfer dude. In my opinion, the way he talks, the way he carries himself, the way he does things. All of a sudden, you've got the let's get you know, do it today or else you're you're your ass is out. Yeah, you know that's the fan in New York. And that's in the pressure of that going into it when you don't have that maybe thick enough New York Northeast skin in terms of taking the criticism. Whereas out West, big deal. I grew up out West. I played all my college football out West. You wouldn't lose a college football game out West. And it's about a thirty minute conversation after that, I say, let's let's go back and let's go to the Beast. Let's go you know, it's not were you South Southeast Conference, Big you're your weekend, your weak, miserable all week long. There, It's like, you know, go get some shardonnay and everything, you'll be fine tonight. At uh Twitter at three of a kind oflphin picks look good on paper, Let's see how they perform the next level. We kind of feel that one thing is for sure, leadership and character. We're on the thoughts of our brass. Well. Look, I think it's that that begin during free agency, that begin when they started jetting, letting guys go, and Dominican sue Jarvis Landry. I'm not I'm not saying that Jarvis is a bad guy. I don't I don't think that Dominican was the team guy. I don't say he's a bad guy, but I just don't think he was the team type of guy. Then maybe they wanted to have out of the out of a guy like that, but Jarvis was you know, we don't know a Jarvis, but you know, yeah, but I do. I think this is all. I think They've got guys all certainly in the very top of that class. All guys are very high caliber, played at very good schools to demand a lot of team captains that multiple years go down to the seventh round. Quentin Polling team captain multiple years. You can go through every one of these guys. Kasicki. I heard a pre draft interview. Hey, if you were going to go somewhere, where you going, well, I'm taking Big Mike with us. You know, he's a guy that's coming with us. I think Chris Career maybe said that from from his press conference. So there's a lot of guys that you can look at. Yes, talents one thing. Character is another thing, and you gotta try to blend that together. You hope they have that those types of kids, those types of fibers about who they are as an individual. I think got that up and down well. And I know there's a lot of talk about character and leadership and all those things that are going on. But you've gotta have a couple of guys out there to have a couple of screws loose in them, right, You've got you gotta have those guys out on the team somewhere that are well. I'm sure these guys go into a different zone even though they may have their ship together at certain at a certain point, you've got to turn that switch on. Just be a football player. Just be an athlete and kind of go off the rails, but you don't have to go all the way off Twitter at Alonso at oh Alonso, eleven oh five. This class hasn't making it one of the best in years. First and second round picks, immediate starts, third round of drawn. Baker probably going to be a major contributor on passing down great job. Look, I wouldn't be surprised if he if he's not another guy that you're gonna have a chance to challenge for that starting spot, because it really right now, they got they got nobody over the question mark. Yes, it's it's up for grabs. There's a spot open with a bunch of names underneath it, and who's gonna be able to take seventy percent? If you want to see the dog fighting training camp, it's gonna be at that. It's gonna be at that outside line linebacker. And also you have to remember off of this football team. Yes, Walt Dakins was resigned in the off season, but who's gonna take the spot of Michael Thomas going down like a bandit on special teams and being the leader out there, being the young guy that can run down Because I know, you're not gonna take your starting middle linebacker who got hurt three plays into the preseason and put them on any special teams. But you can go down that list. Bow there's a number of number of guys, uh that aren't going to play special teams. On defense, you need a Jerome Baker that can play on third down rundown on special teams. You want a guy like Village that can go down and tackle on special teams and cover. You may need a Quentin Polling or whoever that undrafted free agent. We've been lucky in the past three years to get Mike Hall. You can go down the list there, you know, with Chase Allen, you can go down that list who's gonna show up on special teams because that's a big part of these guys making the team and no doubt about it. Facebook Tyler z I Tek, what's the biggest surprise for you guys during the draft? Either a player we drafted or a player we passed on? Um? I really, you know in our draft this draft, I really don't see much of a surprise. I thought Baker Mayfield going one. Yeah, that was a little bit of a surprise for me because it only came out. But what before draft night, all of a sudden, you know, we were thinking, hey, he might slip to a level it's gonna be a decision for the Miami Dolphins. Do we take a quarterback in Baker Mayfield? Because everybody said that's the one, you know, the Dolphins really like. But I thought that was a little bit of a surprise for me. Huh, John, let me ask you this, um um, as far as um, as far as those quarterbacks and where they went, um, you surprised at all at the buffalo jumping in front to make that that that move. That must have been the guy they wanted. And you know, I think a lot more teams wanted to make. That's the point I'm getting at. Do you think the Dolphins You think the Dolphins through this whole process had a commitment to those quarterbacks or was it I think they I think I'm with you. I think that they had a commitment to the quarterback. It was Baker Mayfield, and I think they were kind of lukewarm on every one of those other guys. I kind of agree. I think Josh Allen they were more intriguing. They may have because of his size, because of the way he throws the football because you think, you know what, if he had to play in a couple of games with a limited offense, a limited play sheet, I'd rather go in with him no one. He could stand in there and throw it and be okay, and maybe a raw weather game at the end of the year, or a home game where you just need to manage it and kind of sling it out there. I think they probably felt okay with him too, but I don't. I think it was probably lukewarm on on the other guys Twitter, Alfredo Polar, I don't understand what we took a tight end of the second and fourth rounds. Have you let me ask you, did you watch the did you watch the super Bowl and see who made the plays in the super Bowl, or if you watched the Dolphins in the last couple of years he watched us in the red zone, or potentially when about the tight end, Alfredo, you you need to do a little more homework, bro. If you're upset that the Dolphins took it tight end. And second, I can understand what you're If you're saying, maybe why the second in the four white two and win two around, I can understand that, But you've got one guy that blocks, you've got one guy that catches. And uh and look again, as I'll said, I'll said time and time again in this league. Right now, give me the guy that can catch the ball. We'll worry about someone put Sam Young in there to block it. Well, actually, the way teams have been doing it is they go almost to an empty or a one back and they eliminate the box. You have to spread out as a defense, and that's why you don't account for the tight end blocking anybody, because that player is removed from the line of scrimmage. Facebook. Leon Saunders not to be confused with Leon Gonzalez a kicker. Really, So you're telling me there were no kickers during free agency and you wasted a draft pick on a kicker instead of a wide receiver or safety. Someone please explain, Leon. Let me try to explain, because now I'm starting to think that is our Leon is kind of on there with this, it sounds so give me. Tell me if I'm wrong, John, tell me if I'm Leon is always wrong, but tell me if this Leon is wrong too. But tell me if I'm wrong. Going in that draft. I'm trying to look I don't think we had a kicker on the roster. We didn't, No, no, but we took a kicker. Well, why would we take a kicker in the draft then? Because we needed one? Oh right, that's the light. The light goes on a little bit. We drafted a kicker in the seventh draft because we don't have one, not even have one on the roster. We couldn't come off. And sometimes people are jag offs when they you know, these questions. This, that's a jag off question your Pittsburgh that's a jag off move, right, that's a jag off bad. So So if you're gonna so you'd rather not in the seventh round, your last pick in the draft, why not why not take a and or go or go into free agency and get one those scrappy kickers out there and then get three, get three of those. Yeah, and it's probably not over yet. You're probably gonna see two more, maybe two other guys come in during either O T A S or after June one or in training camp to compete for this year. Yeah, that was a pretty stupid question there, Leon, But you know, but keep sending him in. My friend, he looked at the kicking situation but over the last two years of the Dolphins, you think you got a young guy, you draft a guy, you let him go for another young guy who did an outstanding job. He gets released and we were fortunate last year with Cody Park They the Bears pay him an enormous, enormous amount of money. So now you have a question mark at that position, you try to fill it with a guy that has a strong leg and has some upset. He's done pretty well money wise over the last few years, having good He's done all right. Facebook Darren Smith, remember how much Jalen Ramsey has improved the Jags defense, as did Marcus Peters for the Chiefs. Make it can do the same for the Dolphins. I can't argue with that. I mean, you gotta, you gotta. You got a guy that's a ball hawk, he's a hitter, he can blitz, he can he can do. Guy can do everything for you. And and it frees you up a little bit. With t J McDonald back there too, where you know you you can if you have you have all three of those guys in the game. One time, you can put t J up on the line. You can put a shot up in the line of scrimmage, you know, I mean they're they're just the the different things you can do with that secondary. Now you've got three you know, I I I to me me because a corner slash safety safety more so you can play corner. But you put three guys in there. Now you've got one guy that's different than the other two just gives you different options and just different opportunities from from depending on what team you're playing and what you're gonna face. But when you look at the positions on the Miami Dolphins, and you would rate, Okay, this guy is our best player. He's our best football player. Rashan Jones thirty one years old. He's not going trending younger. Now does he play thirty one? Absolutely not. He's plays with like his hair is on fire. Okay, now who's our next best? But I don't know, Cam Wake, what's he thirty five, thirty six? Uh? And then you go, who's our next best player? I don't know. Pick pick pick a position, pick a players at Ryan Tannehill, he hasn't played in nineteen months. So if you have an opportunity to get potentially seven eighth best player on your roster as a rookie coming in and being impactful that can be here for four or five, seven, eight years. Maybe like like Rashot, you get a guy like Fitzpatrick Facebook, James T. Mangual. Uh, we've added some solid pieces. Let's stay positive and avoid injuries. Hopefully McMillan comes back and the defense can step it up. A f C S is getting better. We need a mass talent. Well, they all got They all got quarterbacks. Now you know everyone's stockpiler quarterbacks this year. The Jets got him, the Bill's got him. We know what to sit in New England situation up there, and and for us, you know, with Ryan Tannehill is pretty clear that he's the guy. And and uh, look I have all I have all the faith in the world, and and Ryan Tannehill ay that he's gonna come back healthy, uh, and that he's gonna come back and play at the level that he did back in two thousand and sixteen when he had his best year under Adam Gaze. There's no guarantee that all these quarterbacks that were drafted in the first come out and light it on fire number one, and you mentioned play, Yeah, how how much are they going to be able to get up to speed to be the guy. Now you've got you've got two teams in the a f C East that you're gonna face, and you're probably fortunate if you play early against the young quarterbacks, I know, you know, not not having the schedule in front of exactly exactly well, they're still trying to figure out what's going on going on the face of the game, speed of the game. Seeing the same jerseys is not like going up against somebody in week two, you know, at practice every day El Chapo Jr. Any surprise at all, always, any surprise at all that the Finns didn't go quarterback at all during the draft. I don't think so, because John I I don't think the day, you know, there was the the top four and then the next tier. I don't think they had any commitment to anybody in that next tier. And what's those first four guys went? It was you know what? Why? Why? Wait? Starless? Baker Mayfield fell to remiming Dolphins at eleven. The Dolphins were not going to take a quarterback if everyone was gone, because at that point there's too many needs on this football team. They didn't have the luxury they're picking the guy from Oklahoma State round two. They didn't have the luxury of picking another guy at three because all three of these needs the first three picks that needed to happen. The other thing, too, is there's no no need because none of those guys beyond the first four, we're gonna come in here and pressure and challenge Ryan Tannehill. They were gonna come in. They're gonna be clear backup the third team guy. Yeah, exactly. Now, if it was one of those other guys coming, I guarantee you if Baker Mayfield came in here, Ryan's pressure would be up there, he'd be pushing him. But those other guys, so why why bring him out? Why why haven't You're gonna have guys come and go at that position. I would think once training camp happens, you'll have four at least on the roster because you needed to practice, and you're gonna have one veteran backup, experienced quarterback behind Ryan Tannehill. Archibald Park comes in from Facebook. This is the best draft we've had in decades. I wish we would have dressed linebacker first, but hopefully we pick up a few good phrases to sort, to sort through um if Rakkan Smith. That was it once he was gone, and then Tremaine. I did, I really did. I thought, because he's you know, he gives you a lot of but you know, not quite as ready to plug in. He's not yeah, no and not not not he's a step below the gonna be a great football players. But wasn't. It wasn't a plug in guy. And so I think we got three guys in the top of the draft that are plugging guys and and get them playing. Um, you go, you go after that. This so Archibald said, this was the best draft we've had in the decades. Greg Griffin from Facebook Average Draft. This team seems to have a pension for drafting players they think can play, they thinking to develop, versus players who can help them win. Now. I don't know, man, I I thought the last two drafts for the Miami Dolphins were pretty good, and you could go down that roster and it's littered with with players that have come out of the last two drafts that are gonna be on this roster. I mean, just look at the defensive line. You get two fifth round draft choices that are gonna play significant snaps this year and one did last year and got Chaw. So you put Vincent Taylor up there, you're gonna have guys that are gonna be playing at a high level. But again it goes back to the last two years with the draft. I'm gonna ended up with this one because you really can't after this, You can't, Doug Bakehorn, what facebook is it? Is it just me? No, he's he's holed up in the um? Is it just me? Or is this the most ho hum draft in the history of the franchise. Yes, it's just you. Outside of Fitzpatrick. I don't see anyone make an impact beyond special teams. Yeah, Doug, it's just you. We're gonna play seventy eight players on special then cover team this year. You know, it's it's funny, it is. It's funny to me, how you know. Look, look, maybe it's maybe it's maybe it's what Maybe it's what this team deserves, this franchise deserves, because they haven't been as good as as people have expected to be for a long but but you finally got somebody. You finally got I think a group in there that are Willingas we said earlier, let's gonna ride this thing out. We're not gonna We're not gonna throw her and off the ship, you know, because because we had a bad season, we're gonna get going to get the right people and uh and like I said, we're gonna be patient. Man. I think this draft showed a couple of things. And one thing is they stuck to their needs of the football team and got the best players available at those positions. And it's it's littered, especially the first three picks, and you can even add the first five picks the two in the fourth round. They got depth at positions of weakness. They have potential starters and the other two positions you can't argue with that. Don you ever listen to this on Apple Music? H Well, you know what, when Joe text me and tells me it's gonna drop, I usually kind of because that's Joey. He just wants to know about the draw. Yeah, yeah, I usually. But you go on Dolphins dot com because that's where else can you hear it on the Dolphins that that that app, that mobile app is a really nice app. Yeah, it's pretty good. I look at the cheerleaders all the time on it, and well, I mean, and my car I go to tune in radio. Yeah, that's tune in. It says at all we're tuned in. You gotta tune in. Sometimes I tune out while I'm tuning in, but I'm always tuned down. I'm usuing. Hey. By the way, next week, Adam Gaze Adam Gay is gonna join us UH live on here for UH for a conversation this year. That should be fun, Thanks coach. But if you sent shitty questions in Tommy, we're gonna Darren Smith. We're on Darren. Who's the one that sent these questions? The last the last guy he didn't like Leon, Leon, Leon. It has to be it's gotta be good. Yeah, No, nobody's well. I think that's sorry, trying to get to the other two. So Leon, wasn't it Leon, Doug Bighorn and Greg Griffin. You guys are all banded. You can't listen to the podcast next week. You're you're on a one week You got your there on one week time out during time out. In fact, when we dropped, we drop on Thursdays on Thursday for one hour at some point during the day. I want you guys to put your nose in the corner, sit in the corner with a chair, don't talk to anybody for an hour, and then you then you can come out of time out. I think that's where time out there. Joe was on time out today. You guys are on time out. You guys can't come for two weeks. The guys I talked about Leon could be banned forever. Get Leon out of here. We're done.