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Speaker 1: He is working on another quarter banger. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by a hotel
Speaker 1: suite filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosbal.
Speaker 1: What's up boys, Hey, Dan, Beautiful sea breeze rolling in
Speaker 1: on this as a lot of sea breeze, but we've
Speaker 1: ever taped with with a big backing and a beautiful lay.
Speaker 1: Like I know we're in Florida. That's all I know. Like,
Speaker 1: unless I'm incorrect, the sea is the ocean. I've done
Speaker 1: so little research on where Orlando is in Florida. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you are correct. I went, I went running around
Speaker 1: this area and there's a lot of like central happy lakes,
Speaker 1: valley lakes, like little communities where there's some lakes in
Speaker 1: the middle, manmade, manmade lakes. Yes, here we are at
Speaker 1: the UH and NFL's annual Meeting also known as the
Speaker 1: Owners Meetings, coming live from room one oh five here
Speaker 1: at the beautiful Ritz. Yes see, Mama, you'd be proud
Speaker 1: of me. I talked to her today. She is proud
Speaker 1: of me. So we're staying at the j W which
Speaker 1: is right next door. Not necessary to point that out, uh,
Speaker 1: lindsay fault on our producer not even staying on the grounds,
Speaker 1: and she's working through that emotionally unfair. We're actually camping
Speaker 1: out at the KWA campgrounds. We got a tent. I
Speaker 1: can't wait until you can buy this place. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: that's in that bitcoin. Millions of dollars invested. So this
Speaker 1: is great. We we have a very interesting and different
Speaker 1: show today Monday, and we will have another show coming
Speaker 1: at you Tuesday, uh from from the Owners Meetings, and
Speaker 1: then another show later in the week on Thursday. But
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from a lot of superstars, superstars like
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Matten, Naggy that I mentioned, Mr Orchard Parker,
Speaker 1: Frank Bike and don't you forget don't you dare forget
Speaker 1: Adam Gas anybody else today. That's that's today slate, right.
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty full slate. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: a little intron to the show as a quarter banger.
Speaker 1: This is a double banger this show and tomorrow show
Speaker 1: this is this is a heavy duty banger, I would
Speaker 1: call it. So. Yeah, we were staying at a beautiful
Speaker 1: resort and uh, you know there's pool time, there's some
Speaker 1: nice restaurants. It was a nice Italian restaurant last night.
Speaker 1: And uh we'll be meeting up with some NFL media colleagues.
Speaker 1: Uh tomorrow show, you'll hear from rap Sheet he'll be
Speaker 1: back with some whispers and some more coaches and GM.
Speaker 1: So big, heavy show, a banger, a double banger coming up.
Speaker 1: Who's excited? Mark, You're excited. I am very excited. It
Speaker 1: is an incredible scene when you want. Honestly, when we
Speaker 1: were walking around today, I walked away from you guys,
Speaker 1: went to a restaurant, went back to my room. Matt Patricia,
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, Saul rap Sheet and Albert Brier and a
Speaker 1: bunch of other walk every every four or five feet,
Speaker 1: there's some sort of luminary. There's wags floating around all
Speaker 1: over the place. It's quite a scene. Is the only
Speaker 1: place you'll see families you know of like an owner
Speaker 1: general manager playing football football on the lawn. That's just
Speaker 1: not something, you know. I saw one coach yelling at
Speaker 1: his kids in the in the pool here, like get
Speaker 1: out of the water. I can't tell you who it was. Also, yeah,
Speaker 1: the stars are everywhere. The stars are out. Um when
Speaker 1: we we just had a lunch at a comically hipsterized
Speaker 1: eatery that we won't say where that is either, but
Speaker 1: it was not. It was a regrettable meal. And here
Speaker 1: here I see Mike Tariko strolling through the restaurant. I
Speaker 1: almost stopped. I almost said, Hey, where the podcast that's
Speaker 1: been clogging your mentions for about a year straight. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan. Can I get a picture? But I
Speaker 1: chickened out and I regret it, you know, like the
Speaker 1: one on the owner's meeting that I came to, there
Speaker 1: was a media party and Tarko was holding court the
Speaker 1: entire time. I thought, if only Dan could be here,
Speaker 1: you can meet him on a more even level. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're a host, he's a host. You don't need to
Speaker 1: be taking pictures. You're a host. I'm a host. It
Speaker 1: might have been your only shot, though, I could have been.
Speaker 1: You got a swing for the fences on those situations.
Speaker 1: So there you go. We're good a big show. You're
Speaker 1: gonna hear our conversation starting with the new coach of
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, Matt Nagy, and we get to that
Speaker 1: right away. Uh and and get to the bottom of
Speaker 1: the pronunciation saga that has gripped the nation since January.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's listen in Around the NFL podcast
Speaker 1: from the owners meetings. All right, here we are, room
Speaker 1: one oh five. The new head coach of the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: Matt Nagy. How you guys doing right? Welcome? Are you cool?
Speaker 1: If you're intro music? Oh? Yeah, I like it. That's sweet.
Speaker 1: That's sweet. Trying to pick something out for each coach
Speaker 1: that really speaks to his personality. Yea. Um, that's why
Speaker 1: you don't trust Wikipedia. Like the first thing in your
Speaker 1: line was a huge fan of electronic dance music. Um,
Speaker 1: right off the top. And I know this has come
Speaker 1: come up, but I want us to be like v
Speaker 1: source for the knowledge here. The buck stops here, Nagy v.
Speaker 1: Nagy both. Okay, I gotta hold your feet to the
Speaker 1: fire here a little at that, because there has to
Speaker 1: be one way someone in your bloodline would be upset,
Speaker 1: right if it wasn't pronounced the way that at some
Speaker 1: point it was deemed one way or the other. Right,
Speaker 1: what does your family say, Well, they'll say both. Kind
Speaker 1: of fascinating high school. High school was naggy, college was naggy.
Speaker 1: So I my name is Hansas, but everyone in the
Speaker 1: office for seven years calls me hands zeus and I
Speaker 1: just stopped correcting people. So maybe it's we've we've struggled
Speaker 1: with this. We've talked about it because we we need
Speaker 1: to pick one and stick to it as a podcast.
Speaker 1: So at least would you like, yeah, go with that's
Speaker 1: settled it on society? All right? How how has it
Speaker 1: been so far? We're talking about right before we started
Speaker 1: the coaches pictures coming up later, and that we love
Speaker 1: the coaches picture every year. I feel like I've written
Speaker 1: about it on NFL dot com several times. It's just
Speaker 1: a fascinating artifact of the times. That's almost to me
Speaker 1: like the moment a new head coach arrives is when
Speaker 1: you're in that picture. Any nerves about that, No, no nerves,
Speaker 1: just excited to see the Uh, what kind of Tommy
Speaker 1: Bahamas sure coach ree is gonna be wearing? Now it's Uh,
Speaker 1: I've I've grown up through the years here being able
Speaker 1: to see that picture um over time. And it's funny
Speaker 1: going back just again being close with Brad Shoulders as well,
Speaker 1: who's been in those pictures, and and uh, it's it's
Speaker 1: intriguing getting to see some of the hair loss that
Speaker 1: goes on for you've got coaches actually make it and
Speaker 1: and that. But now it'll be it'll be exciting and
Speaker 1: and and and in all honesty, it'll be fun to
Speaker 1: be able to be in that picture for the first time.
Speaker 1: And and pretty pretty uh pretty special day for me.
Speaker 1: Has there been kind of a moment, you know, since
Speaker 1: you've got the job that you sort of said to
Speaker 1: your something like, wow, you know I'm a head coach,
Speaker 1: this is real? You know what they're there? There is
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, exactly. Uh, in the mornings in my office,
Speaker 1: right when that sun sun is rising, and you just
Speaker 1: kind of look out there on the practice field and
Speaker 1: it's quiet, and and uh, no one, you know, no
Speaker 1: one's been into your office yet to kind of bother
Speaker 1: you or need something, and you kind of sit right
Speaker 1: there and you take it all in and you realize
Speaker 1: where you're at and and Uh, you know the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: and and before that, in the morning when you're walking
Speaker 1: in and you see that statue at Georgia's house, uh
Speaker 1: pointing and uh, just the history and the tradition that
Speaker 1: goes along with this team is is Uh is really
Speaker 1: cool And so for me that that will never stop.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Bears for I mean for a
Speaker 1: long time, I think their fan base has struggled with
Speaker 1: a pretty unwatchable offense. It's just been it's for as
Speaker 1: long as we've been doing our show, it's been hard
Speaker 1: to talk about the Bears that the most exciting team
Speaker 1: in recent you know, but it seems like you guys
Speaker 1: are creating a lot of change. I just look at
Speaker 1: what you've done around Mitchell Trabisky. When you're adding some
Speaker 1: wide receiver help. Have you looked at teams like the Eagles, Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe like the Rams as a sort of a blueprint
Speaker 1: on how you want to build around your quarterback or
Speaker 1: are you coming with your own total idea when you
Speaker 1: add a tail or Gabriel years around Mitchell tro bisk
Speaker 1: what's the philosophy on what you wanted to do this offseason? Well,
Speaker 1: it's a good question. I mean it's easy to say
Speaker 1: that that's the direction we're gonna go because there's so
Speaker 1: many similarities, you know, between those teams and between what
Speaker 1: we have with the young quarterback and offensive minded coach,
Speaker 1: head coach. But at the same time, we want to
Speaker 1: make this our own team, which which is which we're
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. But you know, Doug has done a
Speaker 1: great job in Philadelphia and and uh, just to see
Speaker 1: what he did and how how that came to fruition
Speaker 1: this year. Uh, the injuries, the adversity that that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is that team went through a lot of adversity,
Speaker 1: and so they stuck together as a group of group
Speaker 1: of guys as an organization that believed in one another.
Speaker 1: And to me coming into this this role for the
Speaker 1: first time, is is that that's where it starts. Is
Speaker 1: inevitably something bad is gonna happen. You're gonna lose some games,
Speaker 1: You're gonna drop some football as you're gonna you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna go on on a on a on a streak
Speaker 1: that you don't want to be on, whether it is
Speaker 1: losing a game or whether it's losing your quarterback. And
Speaker 1: how do you stick together? They did that and they
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. So that's kind of the blueprint
Speaker 1: that that we want to focus with in Chicago. And
Speaker 1: Mitch Drobiski came into the league just thirteen college starts,
Speaker 1: got some work last year. What what have you seen
Speaker 1: when you study that tape that gets you excited that
Speaker 1: this guy could be a franchise passer. Well, he grew
Speaker 1: from from his first start to his last start. He
Speaker 1: grew And that's all you can ask for. There's different
Speaker 1: routes now that that that these teams go into with
Speaker 1: what we had in Kansas City last year with Patrick,
Speaker 1: where you sit for a year, or you go the
Speaker 1: route where you get the guy, uh some hands on
Speaker 1: experience and you get to play for for twelve games
Speaker 1: in in his case, so uh for him and seeing
Speaker 1: on tape that he was able to grow as a
Speaker 1: quarterback and then also have coach daved Gone as our
Speaker 1: quarterback coach be able to kind of tell me how
Speaker 1: he grew as a person and how he grew in
Speaker 1: the in the hallways and in the classroom. Um is
Speaker 1: what I'm really looking forward to see seeing that keep going,
Speaker 1: you know. So, um, it's gonna be a challenge for him,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna throw a lot on his plate, but
Speaker 1: he'll he'll do well with it. You know. Going back
Speaker 1: a few years ago, I thought one of the most interesting,
Speaker 1: uh fascinating, colorful guys in the draft with Kevin White,
Speaker 1: and I interviewed him after the draft. I was so
Speaker 1: excited about his future. What are the expectations for him?
Speaker 1: He almost seems like an afterthought now with everything you've
Speaker 1: added on off Yeah, so Kevin did come in here
Speaker 1: with a lot of expectations. That happens when your first
Speaker 1: round pick. And so uh, anybody that talks to him,
Speaker 1: or even Kevin himself, he'll tell you, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this isn't where he wants to be. He wants to
Speaker 1: be better. So this is a good start. This will
Speaker 1: be a fresh start for him to be able to
Speaker 1: come into this offense. We'll keep it simple in regards
Speaker 1: to just let him play one position and just get
Speaker 1: rid of all the clutter, forget the past. Let's come
Speaker 1: in here with a new start and let's get that
Speaker 1: confidence back. And and uh, physically, he's very talented. He
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things. It looks like he's
Speaker 1: working out like a man. I saw that. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's impressive. But uh that's the best part
Speaker 1: as you get guys like him that maybe haven't lived
Speaker 1: up to what they were quote unquote supposed to live
Speaker 1: up to and he still young. So that's a that's
Speaker 1: I challenge our coaching staff to get the Kevin Whites
Speaker 1: of the world to where they need to be. And
Speaker 1: and when that happens, now it's a beautiful thing. Was
Speaker 1: there a part of you when Andy Reid was quoted
Speaker 1: late last season that that you are maybe the best
Speaker 1: head coaching candidate he's ever coached. Was that Was there
Speaker 1: a part of you that heard that It was like, well, well,
Speaker 1: maybe come down there. That's a lot talk twenty or something.
Speaker 1: It's that too much expectation. And then and then my
Speaker 1: guy Doug goes on and wins the Super Bowl, so
Speaker 1: uh so you know, it's uh, it's humbling. Uh. And
Speaker 1: and that just goes to show the relationship that coach
Speaker 1: and I have. Uh, it'll it'll never never change. I've
Speaker 1: learned so much from from coach, from the first day
Speaker 1: I stepped into that building in Philadelphia to novacare to
Speaker 1: to when I left and gave him a big hug
Speaker 1: and just said thank you when I left Kansas City.
Speaker 1: And so we'll always stay in contact, will always I'll
Speaker 1: be I'll be uh calling him and texting him all
Speaker 1: the time for advice. He's he's uh, he has he
Speaker 1: has a he's a special person and and so for
Speaker 1: him to say make that comment, yeah, it's it. It
Speaker 1: means a lot. But at the same time, I got
Speaker 1: a ways to go. Yeah, there is there Like for
Speaker 1: people that don't know him, like, what what is it
Speaker 1: about Andy Reid? Maybe that he's inspired I guess, for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, you know so many different
Speaker 1: people around the league that there's got many guys around
Speaker 1: around here that have been influenced by him. Well, he's
Speaker 1: a teacher and and people don't understand that they see
Speaker 1: the guy on the sidelines on Sunday, but from Monday
Speaker 1: to to Saturday in that building, he's a teacher and
Speaker 1: he's and he teaches with extreme detail, uh, and he
Speaker 1: cares genuinely for everybody in that building. There's a there's
Speaker 1: a care and a concern for each of those guys,
Speaker 1: not just as players, but as people. That goes a
Speaker 1: long way. And you talk to any player that goes
Speaker 1: through that that that plays on his teams. They realize
Speaker 1: that this guy really cares for me. Now he's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard on me at times, and he's gonna check
Speaker 1: me and he's gonna make me accountable, but he's also
Speaker 1: gonna make himself accountable. And uh, and you saw that
Speaker 1: last year when we struggled a little bit for for
Speaker 1: coach to go ahead and pass the play call and
Speaker 1: duties onto me number one. That shows everybody in that
Speaker 1: building that that he looks at himself first, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't just say that, and so there's that mutual respect instantly,
Speaker 1: and then he demands that from his coaching staff as well.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, here we go. Now it is time
Speaker 1: for our speed round, our famous speed. I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: heard of it before eight o'clock to light you ready,
Speaker 1: Let's go best Michael Jackson song thriller. Did they fix
Speaker 1: the catch rule? Yes? True or false? Blue Moon beer
Speaker 1: actually tastes like salami juice? False? Would you give up
Speaker 1: a picky toe if it guaranteed to a Lombardi Trophy
Speaker 1: in six years? Thumb wow? The greatest generation? Accurate nickname
Speaker 1: or needlessly bragging accurate nickname? Seriously, though, what's up with
Speaker 1: these kids today? Uh? Spoil Biggy a tupac? Uh Biggy
Speaker 1: friends are Seinfeld friends? More mass fell in changing a
Speaker 1: tire or opening a jar tire? Have you ever hitchhiked?
Speaker 1: Have you ever picked up a hitchhiker? Close? Interesting? Did
Speaker 1: the Internet make the world a better place? Yes? Beach volleyball?
Speaker 1: That seems fun. I love it. Should Bonds be in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame? Yes? Sopranos are mad men? Sopranos?
Speaker 1: Best Tom Petty song? M Uh some American American girl?
Speaker 1: American girl? Yeah? Do you wear cologne? Yes? Last question
Speaker 1: best steven sgam Oh Um, I'm hard to kill is
Speaker 1: the answer. Yeah, I don't know. Sorry, you were doing
Speaker 1: great there, Matt nag Best of luck to you this season.
Speaker 1: The Bears are an exciting team. We're excited to see
Speaker 1: what happens next. And good luck. Yeah, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. All right there he is Matt Naggy. And
Speaker 1: that was the crazy thing about the conversation. I really
Speaker 1: I told him I'm gonna put your feet to the fire,
Speaker 1: and I came out of it's still not knowing how
Speaker 1: to pronounce the name. I think he might have been
Speaker 1: trolling He's been asked the questions so many times that
Speaker 1: he seems, well, yes, it's right away, people like how
Speaker 1: do you pronounce this? Yeah, but everyone else has moved
Speaker 1: on except dan Is the Wood and of this situation
Speaker 1: he seems extremely flexible with his surname. Surname not a
Speaker 1: normal thing. I think abor very likable. The guy like
Speaker 1: walked out of the room and we're like, oh, that
Speaker 1: was fun, what a good talk. I like NA. I
Speaker 1: like Naggie a lot, and I think he's a laid
Speaker 1: back guy. And I think, uh, you know, you get
Speaker 1: the idea the fresh start is real in Chicago, and
Speaker 1: I think he's a He's a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1: I mean, even though Rhoda world is down on John Fox,
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I think Fox is still like a
Speaker 1: good dude. Maybe just not the right fit there, but
Speaker 1: is like that That was maybe the one Dacey moment
Speaker 1: of the interview is when Mark mentioned how unwatchable the
Speaker 1: Bears were anyone and a little look you were absolutely
Speaker 1: speaking the truth, but for a second, you know, there
Speaker 1: was a look on Matt's face that was like, where's
Speaker 1: he going? You brought back around like I heard a
Speaker 1: thought it was the pr guy. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: what I'm what I was trying to do with show,
Speaker 1: you know, you instill hope in this fan base, Mr
Speaker 1: new coach, and I think he does. All right, Well
Speaker 1: there you go. So all right, So that was naggy
Speaker 1: and then we move on now and uh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: now look at the Indianapolis Colts and Frank Reich who
Speaker 1: came in. Frank Reich a big man, big dude, NFL
Speaker 1: quarterback sized, quarterback size. And we talked to Frank all
Speaker 1: about yes, his his heroism in Western New York and
Speaker 1: his new start in Indy. So let's hear what he
Speaker 1: had to say. All right, up next, he is a
Speaker 1: legend in Western New York and now he's in the
Speaker 1: hope in business in Indianapolis. It's Frank Reich, Right, how
Speaker 1: you doing, Welcome past, Thank you, it's great to be here.
Speaker 1: How are you. How are you liking this head coach
Speaker 1: life so far? You know what? It's great? Uh, great
Speaker 1: to have the opportunity in Indianapolis, where I've coached before,
Speaker 1: so know the city, walk into a building where you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the people in the building. Not many players
Speaker 1: left from when I was there. Um, but excited to
Speaker 1: get to work. Do you ever, you know, at NFL Network,
Speaker 1: obviously they're playing the old games all the time and
Speaker 1: the comeback comes on NonStop. I know you've been asked
Speaker 1: about it endlessly, but do you ever just sit back,
Speaker 1: maybe in your living room without things play, and say,
Speaker 1: I am the man I pulled that off history. I've
Speaker 1: tried to tell that to my wife, but I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to We're still we're still working on that now.
Speaker 1: You know what, I really don't think about it too much,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's just a question of always keeping
Speaker 1: your eyes forward. That's one of the great things about
Speaker 1: this business that you can appreciate it when and when
Speaker 1: I see my old teammates. Now, that is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. That is a blast now when when you
Speaker 1: see your old teammates and you get to talk about
Speaker 1: that for a little bit. But you know, being in
Speaker 1: this business where we're at right now, that does not
Speaker 1: get to happen sometimes as often as you like. Well,
Speaker 1: with like DVRs now, you could just always keep it
Speaker 1: saved on your TV just in case, and then just
Speaker 1: whenever you get in trouble just kind of put it
Speaker 1: on in the background. Well, people are actually whatever you're
Speaker 1: get in trouble. It's like you just put it on
Speaker 1: and then like the families walking by and you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: remember that, Well I should do that. But people are
Speaker 1: actually are surprised to hear that. I still haven't actually
Speaker 1: ever watched the whole thing start. You have one in college, too,
Speaker 1: don't you, one of the biggest comebacks in college history.
Speaker 1: We did have one. We did have one in college
Speaker 1: in Maryland and eighty four so against Miami. But man,
Speaker 1: that was long all time ago. Now, so what about
Speaker 1: this Cults team, Like, how do you feel about obviously
Speaker 1: the opportunity kind of came out of nowhere? And are
Speaker 1: you settled into the job? What is what is the
Speaker 1: thing that you're most looking forward to with the cult?
Speaker 1: You know, in this business, if you're a coach, the
Speaker 1: thing that you look forward to is working with players.
Speaker 1: That's what it's all about. It's like, you know, now,
Speaker 1: it's great, we're transition and you know, getting through you know,
Speaker 1: going through combine, draft all that stuff. But really where
Speaker 1: the building of the excitement and the juice comes into
Speaker 1: the building is when the players come back into the building.
Speaker 1: Because you've gotta get in the meeting room. You gotta
Speaker 1: get out in the field. You gotta form this this bond,
Speaker 1: this chemistry that that just I get chills even thinking
Speaker 1: about it, about getting together with a group of guys
Speaker 1: and and wanting to have a common mission. Hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna turn this thing around. We're gonna get it right now.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Did you like ever imagine we we were
Speaker 1: there at the Super Bowl and you know, I remember
Speaker 1: you at the podium and obviously you were, you were
Speaker 1: sky high. Did you ever imagine in that moment that
Speaker 1: that a few days later you might be leading the team? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't, And I mean it was hard to imagine
Speaker 1: the winning of the game, was it was. I always
Speaker 1: thought it would be great. You know, hadn't been there
Speaker 1: five times previously and lost four as a player and
Speaker 1: one as a coach. You always wonder what that's gonna
Speaker 1: be like if you got to experience it, and always
Speaker 1: they got I got a pretty good head on my shoulders.
Speaker 1: I know, this is my aspiration. This is what I'm
Speaker 1: fighting for every day in this business to get that,
Speaker 1: you know, ring and so on and so forth. But
Speaker 1: I'll kind of keep cool, man. I lost my cool
Speaker 1: completely I was literally running around the field screaming and
Speaker 1: yelling my head off. It was a tremendous experience. And
Speaker 1: then to follow that up, you know, with getting an
Speaker 1: opportunity to come be the head coach with the Colts,
Speaker 1: was was about as good as it could get. And
Speaker 1: now you're here flying high. Yeah with us, we won
Speaker 1: the Class C Division co ed softball title in the
Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles back to back. Actually a big deal.
Speaker 1: But so we I know, and we know that feeling.
Speaker 1: It's well, no, that's what we do, all know. That's
Speaker 1: what makes that's why people love sports because I don't care.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've won things at different levels two and
Speaker 1: it is literally the same feeling. It just sometimes on
Speaker 1: a bigger scale. But we all can relate. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is great. I was walking around calling everybody champion for
Speaker 1: a while after that. It's exactly how you feel. I
Speaker 1: totally get it. We uh, you know, on our podcast,
Speaker 1: we we bet sandwiches sometimes on various football scenarios and
Speaker 1: wager proposition constantly correct on this. But I before the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I said that we would come out of
Speaker 1: that game with a a play with a title attached
Speaker 1: to it. That would be bigger than the helmet catch. Now,
Speaker 1: these guys tell me that the Philly Special did not
Speaker 1: get the job done, that it was not bigger than
Speaker 1: hold on, how about how about how about you give
Speaker 1: us the final answer here? Was it bigger as the
Speaker 1: personally inpendent market they we do need an answer. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the Phillies, I mean the Philly Special. I granted,
Speaker 1: the helmet catches is certainly worthy contender and and uh
Speaker 1: an ultimate play in Super Bowl history obviously, but I
Speaker 1: think the Philly Special on a fourth and one, you know,
Speaker 1: on the goal line right there, it was just and
Speaker 1: tow the trickery to it, I think takes it to
Speaker 1: another level. Having the guts for you know, Doug having
Speaker 1: the guts to call to play right then and there.
Speaker 1: I think that's what takes it over the well it's
Speaker 1: been settled. Um, I'm one thing I'm nervous about with
Speaker 1: the cults, and then a lot of people are Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck Okay, everything else seems to make sense that the
Speaker 1: and He's on the rise, But we still don't have
Speaker 1: any real idea, at least the football cogniscenti as I call,
Speaker 1: I don't really know if he's gonna be on the field. Like,
Speaker 1: how confident are you week one Andrew Luck at your quarterback?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm confident. But here's the thing it it
Speaker 1: does mean no good to try to play that game
Speaker 1: and try to say what does it matter? I mean,
Speaker 1: in this business, you learned that you just grind it
Speaker 1: out each day and you coach the guys that are there.
Speaker 1: You're hopeful that he's gonna be there. You plan that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be there. All the rehab is going, you know,
Speaker 1: checking off all the boxes. Yet we hit that stage
Speaker 1: stage one, stage two, stage three. It's all been good,
Speaker 1: but you know, we'll just have to keep progressing down
Speaker 1: that road. But have you imagined kind of I'm sure
Speaker 1: you have, but gotten excited thinking about Andrew Luck obviously
Speaker 1: seeing his old film about how he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: your offense. I can barely contain the excitement. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie, um because you know, a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: just watching him play coming out, and you just know
Speaker 1: this guy is an elite in every sense of the
Speaker 1: word um, in every aspect that all the skills and
Speaker 1: talent and mental capabilities that you need and the physical
Speaker 1: traits that you need, he's got them all and so
Speaker 1: uh and this and then he's got this this team
Speaker 1: first spirit. And I always think that the guys, when
Speaker 1: you get an elite player who's really a team first player,
Speaker 1: that's really where you that can take your organization, your
Speaker 1: team to another level. And I think he has all
Speaker 1: those I uh, full disclosure, Jets fan my whole life,
Speaker 1: so in the early nighties, maybe didn't like you as much.
Speaker 1: I've grown up in a short um obviously half a
Speaker 1: little bit. A big trade, big trade between the Jets
Speaker 1: and Colts. Uh. To me, it seemed like a trade
Speaker 1: that were or everyone. And then I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: if if I'm the Cults, uh, that you guys will
Speaker 1: be in position to maybe acquire more draft capital because
Speaker 1: this is such a quarterback hungry draft. You guys, you're
Speaker 1: you're not sure you're picking at six, are you? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean that's what to be determined, right and uh,
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, Chris Bowart has done a
Speaker 1: great job of of really setting the lead and setting
Speaker 1: a tone and what what we're gonna do there as
Speaker 1: an organization, and it's been fun to talk about it
Speaker 1: with him, you know, And what are the plans, and
Speaker 1: because we do have a quarterback that we believe in
Speaker 1: and and obviously believe it is going to be ready
Speaker 1: to go. Um, We're We're I'm thrilled the fact that
Speaker 1: there's four quarterbacks who are who are highly tied coming
Speaker 1: out this year, and I hope, I hope they go one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: that'd be that'd be great for us. UM. So that
Speaker 1: gives us the opportunity to look at scenarios where normally,
Speaker 1: you know, trading trading back three to six, where if
Speaker 1: you're thinking it's all quarterbacks and we don't need one,
Speaker 1: then you're really do the math, You're you really don't
Speaker 1: have the sixth pick, you really have the you know
Speaker 1: in the same song. So that might be able to
Speaker 1: put you in a scenario where you can think about
Speaker 1: going back one more time. But I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, Crystal pull the trigger
Speaker 1: if if he thinks it's best for the organization. All right,
Speaker 1: now is the time. This is the crucible right here,
Speaker 1: Speed round eight o'clock. Delight you ready, Frank, let's go,
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Best Super Bowl halftime show ever. Michael Jackson,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, are you buying this? Career Everything? Are you in?
Speaker 1: How You In? And Tom Brady Most Embarrassing CD? Or
Speaker 1: Album in your Possession? Most embarrassing album? Yeah? Like c
Speaker 1: D music. I didn't hear that part. Oh man? Uh?
Speaker 1: Worst the way to lose? The Super Bowl? Chip shot,
Speaker 1: field goal miss or catch rule? Shenanigansigans? Did they fix
Speaker 1: the catch rule? We're in the proposed rule. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Why aren't there more good football movies? Weird? Right? It
Speaker 1: is weird? Yeah? Did the Internet make the world better
Speaker 1: or worse? Better? Beach volleyball? That's it's fun. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: into it. Jerry McGuire sports movie or chick flick? Chick flick?
Speaker 1: Are we allowed to say chick flick anymore? Yes? Is
Speaker 1: there intelligent life beyond this planet? Yes? Do you believe
Speaker 1: in the concept of alien abduction? Is it time to
Speaker 1: move on from the gatorade bath? It's had? It's wrong. No,
Speaker 1: I'm a traditionalist at least deserving Best Picture winner Crash
Speaker 1: or Shakespeare in Love. Last show you binge watched? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not a bene watcher and I'm a coach.
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't binge watch Jordan or Lebron Jordan's
Speaker 1: you go finished strong? Is that I didn't. I think
Speaker 1: I got about a C grade on that, So that
Speaker 1: I thought you did great, Frank, And we're very excited
Speaker 1: to see what happens next with the Colts, hopefully with
Speaker 1: your quarterback behind center and healthy, because it will be
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see Frank Reich and Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck working together. I appreciate it, thanks Frank. So there
Speaker 1: you go, Frank Reich. So, even though he told us
Speaker 1: that he doesn't watch that comeback victory, Mark has privately
Speaker 1: assured us that Frank Reich is sitting at home watching
Speaker 1: the Mark's tone when we're talking about it right after,
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, it's definitely a fact that he
Speaker 1: watches it. I I just think it would have been
Speaker 1: number one. That wasn't his last runaround with the Bills.
Speaker 1: Your job after a game, a playoff game is to
Speaker 1: sit down and review all tape. I think I think
Speaker 1: I just would imagine that that he has watched it.
Speaker 1: But but he told us he hadn't, so I must
Speaker 1: take him at his word. I guess why would I
Speaker 1: Why should I be he's sitting here saying he didn't.
Speaker 1: We take you very confident that he was, so we
Speaker 1: shouldn't take you at your word from two hours ago.
Speaker 1: You can see how we're in a difficult situation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you and to put that on the public airwaves helps.
Speaker 1: I'm sure hopefully the bills pr will be And and
Speaker 1: the other thing about Reich straight shooter football coach all
Speaker 1: the way. Um, the look that Frank gave me when
Speaker 1: I asked him the Tom Brady question in the speed round,
Speaker 1: I've never seen a man look through me like that.
Speaker 1: It was it was proces saying to Brady, you know,
Speaker 1: that was the closest I've ever been to throwing a
Speaker 1: life raft to somebody in an interview. He needed it,
Speaker 1: So Frank right there with the cults. And he did,
Speaker 1: if any future coaches, you know on on tomorrow show
Speaker 1: are listening, you know, yeah, you're buying Tom Brady. That's
Speaker 1: a good absolutely, and he did. I asked the the
Speaker 1: the Andrew Luck question. He's answering the same way the
Speaker 1: cults have been answering forever. Nobody can say with absolute
Speaker 1: clarity he's our quarterback. So he but they're all excited
Speaker 1: to work with him. Yeah, everyone's excited to work with
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. We just don't know if he will be
Speaker 1: working with us. Yeah, there's definitely a party line on
Speaker 1: that quarterback situation, and it doesn't seem like it's going
Speaker 1: to change. I I do think, though, even though there
Speaker 1: was a time when Colts fans thought were getting Josh McDaniels,
Speaker 1: I really continue to think this might be a blessing
Speaker 1: in disguise. Frank Reich. Maybe he didn't know how to
Speaker 1: answer his favorite CD or record, whatever, but he is
Speaker 1: in on football. The guy is like he's so excited
Speaker 1: to coach and coach players. I really think Frank Regig
Speaker 1: is gonna surprise cults fans. Are you calling him a
Speaker 1: life remark? He is that though, like all these coaches
Speaker 1: come on. I know you're making fun of that, but
Speaker 1: it's like it's like he is he's a football speak,
Speaker 1: football coach speaking machine, but he's sort of I buy
Speaker 1: it with him. I will I'm done talking. I would
Speaker 1: say that it's not even coach speak. That's who that's
Speaker 1: I think that's who he's always sort of been. He's football.
Speaker 1: There's like fourteen pools by the way, on this giant resort,
Speaker 1: which basically covers a county like or a small city
Speaker 1: is the size of these grounds. And none of us
Speaker 1: brought the speedos. No speedos in a in a suitcase.
Speaker 1: What this opportunity? I did sit out by the pool
Speaker 1: though yesterday shirt off. No I did not. What did
Speaker 1: you witness? I brought trunks. It was some spring It
Speaker 1: was you know, a mix of families, and there was
Speaker 1: some spring break. There's like a lazy river with people
Speaker 1: going down at some beers. I mean it was it
Speaker 1: was rocking. What would it take for me to see
Speaker 1: you with your shirt off this weekend? This weekend? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is to Greg by the way, ye open question
Speaker 1: to anybody here during this I'd pay you to see me.
Speaker 1: But I'm at um all right, Moving on, that was
Speaker 1: very interesting. I'm trying to up the anty from West.
Speaker 1: He went free. I mean, I got to make it
Speaker 1: a better deal than West. Huh, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 1: Um alright. Moving on. Finally, our final guest on today's show,
Speaker 1: and again a reminder more coming tomorrow, including a boy,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, one of the top coaches in the game,
Speaker 1: entering his twentieth season as a head coach. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: But first, a man who was once an offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: and the Peyton Manning Heyday. He then leveraged that move
Speaker 1: that gig into the head coaching job for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He's entering his third year under potentially difficult circumstances. We
Speaker 1: talked to Adam Gaze about the plan ahead and the
Speaker 1: challenge ahead for his Miami Dolphins. All right, up next
Speaker 1: and hotel suite. All right, it's just a regular room
Speaker 1: one oh five, the head coach of the Miami Dolphins. See,
Speaker 1: we're very honest with our audience, Adam, So right off
Speaker 1: the bat, you should feel comfortable, the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, Adam guys at the club. Yeah, Adam
Speaker 1: making a very quizzical face. We thought, what what says
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze song about this music? Yeah, obviously in Miami
Speaker 1: the nightlife worried about that in general is like something
Speaker 1: we're more in da That's true, not quite soft beach, right,
Speaker 1: So you never maybe get into a disguise, maybe head
Speaker 1: out to one of the clubs just to see what
Speaker 1: the up to. No, I've thought maybe it would not
Speaker 1: be not you've got a failure. Yeah, So Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: is with us, third year with the Dolphins, and uh
Speaker 1: is this the year that Tom Brady goes away and
Speaker 1: some other team in the a f C East rises up. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not gonna say that. You know, I think
Speaker 1: you know, watching Tom Brady for as long you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we graduated the same year, so
Speaker 1: you know, he was we were both seniors the same
Speaker 1: you know, same year, and you know, obviously he gets
Speaker 1: drafted and I want to go work at l s
Speaker 1: U and just watching him over the years, it's unbelievable
Speaker 1: and it just gets better and better. It's it's real.
Speaker 1: It's awesome to watch when you're not playing him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're playing him, you know, you try
Speaker 1: to do everything you can to disrupt him. It just
Speaker 1: doesn't always work. One thing I've wondered this, you're entering
Speaker 1: your third year now the head coach, Like, what is
Speaker 1: the difference emotionally between being the coordinator and being a
Speaker 1: head coach? That's a that's a good question, I guess it. Ever,
Speaker 1: I never thought of that. You're you're a guy. I
Speaker 1: think that sometimes you like to wear your emotions. You
Speaker 1: wear your emotions on your sleeves. Yeah, that's sometimes you
Speaker 1: try to hide it. It's hard to feel free to
Speaker 1: go nuts on Mark. Yeah, that's that coaches that coaches
Speaker 1: throughout NFL history, and that's almost more than norm But
Speaker 1: now it's sort of more the the trend that coaches
Speaker 1: keep it underapp but a lot of great coaches in
Speaker 1: the history where their emotions on their sleep. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times you're you know, if something good
Speaker 1: or bad happens, you're trying not to be over the top,
Speaker 1: you know, either way, because you know there's a long
Speaker 1: way to go, and especially in this league, everything comes
Speaker 1: down in the last five minutes of the game, so
Speaker 1: you just can't get too high too low. You try
Speaker 1: to stay even kill. It's tough though, because you you
Speaker 1: sometimes you really want to go one way or the other.
Speaker 1: But you know your players are trying to do the
Speaker 1: same thing. They're trying to make sure that they stay,
Speaker 1: you know, even level to where they can keep competing
Speaker 1: through the whole game. And when you were, I mean
Speaker 1: you were a coordinator. You famously we're texting Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: late at night. I'd love to know more about uh,
Speaker 1: like those conversations we went on there. But as a
Speaker 1: head coach, are you My My Yahoo account deleted almost
Speaker 1: all my all my voice memos that I had saved.
Speaker 1: But as a head coach, do you really keep one
Speaker 1: on one touched with the players during the season that way,
Speaker 1: with that sort of intimacy. Intimacy may not be the
Speaker 1: way it's it's it's different for every every player, depends
Speaker 1: what position you are. You know, when you're going during
Speaker 1: the season, you know, our hours are different. When we're
Speaker 1: the players, you know we're working with them, whether it
Speaker 1: be installing practice, watching tape. And you know when you
Speaker 1: you know myself or the coaches on the staff, when
Speaker 1: you have a chance to actually watch film on your own,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you might see something you
Speaker 1: want to mind one of your players you don't want
Speaker 1: to forget. And it's so easy to be able to
Speaker 1: text a guy and say like, hey, just remember, hey
Speaker 1: take a look at this play, or hey, what do
Speaker 1: you think of this? And just get their opinion because
Speaker 1: those are the guys that are doing it. And I
Speaker 1: love when I get great feedback of oh I love
Speaker 1: that idea, or I don't know if that's for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, at least you know you want him to
Speaker 1: You want to put the guys in the best position
Speaker 1: possible that that might be getting an edge on Belchi.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's texting his players. You know,
Speaker 1: never need technology to you. You know, he's not gonna
Speaker 1: tell you, so, I mean, he might be what is
Speaker 1: he call it my face? When you when you first
Speaker 1: get your head coaching job, it takes a while to
Speaker 1: kind of put your stamp on the team. Now that
Speaker 1: we're in year three, what would you say is the
Speaker 1: identity of like the Adam Gates Dolphins. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a tough question. Hopefully we're developing the kind of team
Speaker 1: that figures out the right way to win the game
Speaker 1: for that week and being able to you know, it's
Speaker 1: tough to explain as far is what we're exactly looking
Speaker 1: to be because we've changed a lot of our personnel,
Speaker 1: and you know, every week is so different. You're playing
Speaker 1: all these these different styles of teams and you have
Speaker 1: to be able to morph into what you need to
Speaker 1: to win that game. And hopefully our players are are
Speaker 1: really doing a better job this year than what we
Speaker 1: did last year. That's kind of like what Belichick does.
Speaker 1: Everyone always says he adjust his game plan to that
Speaker 1: specific opponent more than most coaches do. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of my you know, beginning of my career was
Speaker 1: Nick Saban. I think Mike Martz had a big impact
Speaker 1: on me, and then you look at I think Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniels had a big impact on me. And you know,
Speaker 1: two of those guys are you know from that from
Speaker 1: that tree that that has allowed me to kind of
Speaker 1: learn from the you know, their experiences. And you had
Speaker 1: didn't have your starting court. You've been there two years
Speaker 1: and you didn't have your starting quarterback for for one
Speaker 1: of those two years. And I think we got thirty
Speaker 1: three games in. He's played thirteen, So you know, it
Speaker 1: would be great to get him back, you know, not
Speaker 1: that I kept track of, but you know, just seeing
Speaker 1: him around and rehabbing and you know, seeing his intensity,
Speaker 1: you can tell he's ready to go. I think last
Speaker 1: year was tough for him, but he did a great
Speaker 1: job trying to help guys as much as he could,
Speaker 1: and you know, he let j be the quarterback. He
Speaker 1: did a good job of kind of taking a step back,
Speaker 1: but I could tell it was killing him that he
Speaker 1: couldn't be out there. How Like, how was the decision
Speaker 1: making process of like, Okay, he wasn't there all of
Speaker 1: last year? But hey, this is, you know, our guy,
Speaker 1: because right now he is, you know, the quarterback for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. Yeah. I don't think we we really had
Speaker 1: much discussion. We all we knew that he was gonna
Speaker 1: be a guy we felt like we had made really
Speaker 1: big strides the year before, where if he stayed healthy,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how much better we would have got.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was really that Arizona game was one
Speaker 1: of his best games of the year and unfortunately got hurt,
Speaker 1: and you know, we we were looking forward to see
Speaker 1: what happened. Do you think we've seen the last of
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler? Mhmm. I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to. Did it seem like he's still had the
Speaker 1: fire in the belly after the season, You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I really talked to him about him
Speaker 1: about that, you know, I just that's a that's a
Speaker 1: tough conversation to have with somebody. It's not not as
Speaker 1: easy as everybody thinks where you just walk up to
Speaker 1: somebody like, hey, you're retiring, Like that's not the soun easier.
Speaker 1: How about this. Do you think he'd be a good announcer? M?
Speaker 1: I think he would be very Cutting. He would be
Speaker 1: very honest. That's I would not want to be a
Speaker 1: play caller with him announcing a game because he would
Speaker 1: absolutely not. You think he would be easier on you, though,
Speaker 1: I think you would kill me. But don't you think
Speaker 1: that makes a good announcer though? Oh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it would be. It would be hilarious to watch. If
Speaker 1: you're not the person, Yeah you're not, You're kind of
Speaker 1: the announcer or whisper. Maybe because Peyton Manning getting in
Speaker 1: the mix potentially for these jobs, you could have Peyton
Speaker 1: on one network, Jake Cutler for me, because this would
Speaker 1: be their opportunity to be like, Okay, I remember this
Speaker 1: and I didn't like and it's made sure that we
Speaker 1: handled this the right way. How is it going to
Speaker 1: change your defense not having and Dominicans sue there? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean we're still gonna have the same style. You know,
Speaker 1: Matt's gonna stick with our you know, we're gonna stay
Speaker 1: with our wide nine, and we're gonna be an attacking front.
Speaker 1: And you know, we like some of our our young
Speaker 1: players that a lot of people probably don't really know
Speaker 1: that we're looking forward to to get more you know,
Speaker 1: get more reps and and we gotta see what else
Speaker 1: we're gonna add the to the mix share between the
Speaker 1: end of free agency and the draft, so we'll kind
Speaker 1: of see how that plays out inside. But I like
Speaker 1: her defensive ends. Right now, we're pretty deep there and
Speaker 1: adding Robert Quinn, William Hayes back. I'm I'm liking our
Speaker 1: past rush and Charles Harris coming up and Cam Wakes
Speaker 1: still you know, doing his thing at It's unbelievable to
Speaker 1: watch this guy work day in and day out and
Speaker 1: play on Sundays because you know he's defying age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as a coach, like, what is your part of the process,
Speaker 1: because the Dominanto is a guy was still playing very
Speaker 1: well for you. So as a coach, like, is it
Speaker 1: is it kind of hard for you to be part
Speaker 1: of a decision that's gonna that's saying, hey, we're saying
Speaker 1: goodbye to a player who was who was playing well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the whole process of all this is it's
Speaker 1: not easy, especially you know this day and age you
Speaker 1: have there's a different relationship there. I think it's not
Speaker 1: so much here's who's in charge and like this this hierarchy.
Speaker 1: I think you know, players and coaches and from your
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of in it together, and it's when somebody leaves,
Speaker 1: it's tough. I mean, it's tough for everybody, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm you know, when we when Mike Pouncey gets released,
Speaker 1: that's that's not easy to go through. That's it's horrible
Speaker 1: because that's somebody that this organization has been with, you know,
Speaker 1: for a long period of time. He's been here, this
Speaker 1: is what he knows, and he's all he's been trying
Speaker 1: to do is help this organization winning. He's given everything
Speaker 1: he's had, you know, he has to it and you know,
Speaker 1: when that time comes and we we end up doing that,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's a brutal phone called to
Speaker 1: have to to make and have that conversation. All right, Adam,
Speaker 1: it's time for our iconic speed round game. It's called
Speaker 1: eight o'clock Delight. It's the crucible of this interview. Are
Speaker 1: you ready sure? Jordan and Lebron Jordan's big year Tupac
Speaker 1: friends are Seinfeldt signol? It's your false Game of Thrones
Speaker 1: is actually stupid. I don't even know what creame of
Speaker 1: Thrones is. The greatest SNL cast member of all time,
Speaker 1: Chris Farley. That's a good one. When's the last time
Speaker 1: he took a nice relaxing bath? Never? Most overrated planet?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know pass favorite animal? Pass um?
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of the arts and crafts? No?
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a ghost? Not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 1: Meryl Streep? Maybe a bit overrated? No idea? One NFL
Speaker 1: coach pastor president? Who scares you? Bill Cower? Would you
Speaker 1: give up a pinky toe if it guaranteed you a
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy in six years? One thumb? Yes, a leg? Yes,
Speaker 1: first got to go leg? Can the coolest guy on
Speaker 1: the team be the kicker? No? Do you work? Alogne? No?
Speaker 1: Best Tom Petty song? Oh Mary Jane under the Gun?
Speaker 1: Beautifully done. And that's a great song, but there's probably
Speaker 1: better ones. That was the first one that popped in
Speaker 1: my head. Yeah, that little late coaches couldn't even pull
Speaker 1: pull one out of their heads. So you did a
Speaker 1: great job. I think you're winning. Yeah, I think was it?
Speaker 1: Matt Nagy said American Girl? So the all all good options,
Speaker 1: Adam Gates. Best of all, we know what big birthday
Speaker 1: is coming up to we don't have to bring it up,
Speaker 1: but it's happening, and that's part of life. You just
Speaker 1: can't stop time. So happy fort Later this morning, it
Speaker 1: was almost it was almost gonna be dinner with Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield on my fortie birthday. Can you imagine that? Norman Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: But we were able to move it up so it
Speaker 1: would be a romantic Yeah, I'm sure he would enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I bring out the cake. Oh that's interesting. What are
Speaker 1: you what were you gonna, guys gonna talk about him? Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to do his workout then, and we had
Speaker 1: to move We moved some things around so we were
Speaker 1: able to get that out of the way already. They're
Speaker 1: just big like Korean barbecue fans and want to get out.
Speaker 1: Have nothing to do with football. All right, there you go,
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze, best of luck this year. All right, thanks guys,
Speaker 1: Thanks Adam. Let me know what you guys think. Um
Speaker 1: I thought and Gaze I thought he was a very
Speaker 1: nice guy, interesting guy and down to earth. But did
Speaker 1: any of you guys sense the idea that he understands
Speaker 1: that he's up against it a little bit right now
Speaker 1: with some of these roster moves and the direction of
Speaker 1: the franchise. A quarterback coming off an injury, being in
Speaker 1: year three and kind of having to start over because
Speaker 1: he lost last year with Tannehill's injury. I feel like
Speaker 1: you could sense that Gaye knows the pressure is on
Speaker 1: in year three. I think Dolphins fans agree with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think when I asked him about the identity and
Speaker 1: he couldn't really give us an identity through two years.
Speaker 1: But a lot goes into that, you know, releasing Sue, Trading, Landry,
Speaker 1: these guys that he wanted to build around, and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't want to get rid of him, but
Speaker 1: the organization does. So that's a challenge that maybe we
Speaker 1: don't see when we're sitting in the podcast studio that
Speaker 1: he has to deal with um. But Yeah, like to me,
Speaker 1: he seems like a guy who three years into the
Speaker 1: job isn't sure what they are yet. Well, I I
Speaker 1: really I think that just might be his nature though
Speaker 1: every These are just different people and they have different
Speaker 1: kind of personality types, and I think he's the type,
Speaker 1: even if things were going really well, might give off that,
Speaker 1: you know, that sort of I like that about him
Speaker 1: that he wears kind of emotions. Honestly, he even sort
Speaker 1: of did it here like you could see depending on
Speaker 1: the question how how he's in asking about the Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones, He's gonna give you a little bit and
Speaker 1: and I like that. I came away from it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. He's an intriguing, intriguing NFL personality, and it is.
Speaker 1: It is a challenging situation. They haven't they haven't had
Speaker 1: sustained success there for a long time, and he knows that.
Speaker 1: But I get my chance. The nugget that I'm not
Speaker 1: giving him a chance. I'm just saying I look in
Speaker 1: the man's eyes and you get in the room, and
Speaker 1: it's a little different when you're actually talking to him
Speaker 1: and asking the questions that it's not easy if you're
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Dolphins and the organization. The
Speaker 1: moves they're making right now, it's hard to say they're
Speaker 1: going necessarily in a forward direction. At best, maybe they're
Speaker 1: going sideways. I could I sense that he understands that
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough situation. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think he and you have to be the coach coming
Speaker 1: out and not throwing people under the bus, but trying
Speaker 1: to back what the committee of people have agreed to do.
Speaker 1: And he may not have gotten his way on all
Speaker 1: those decisions. It was interesting the nugget at the end
Speaker 1: where he talked about potentially spending his forty birthday with
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, because the one thing that could change everything
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins. And I it's not an anti Tannehill take,
Speaker 1: but someone like a Baker Mayfield, if he proves to
Speaker 1: be as exciting a pro player as he was a
Speaker 1: college player, could the Dolphins, who have been a somewhat
Speaker 1: dull team to watch in my opinion, and completely change
Speaker 1: the way they are on off the sleeper. They're a
Speaker 1: bit of a sleeper in the first round in this
Speaker 1: quarterback conversation, but that makes a lot of sense in
Speaker 1: the world. They've been waiting for five years from Townehill
Speaker 1: to take off. Now he's got the knee issue. Um,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens all right. By the way,
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Speaker 1: as we said, uh next uh, next time you hear
Speaker 1: from us will be Tuesday, and we're going to have
Speaker 1: a lot of good guests. We had a couple of
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe it's the owner, but Tony. We're happy to
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl winning All these people went on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but well we'll be rolling these out the rest of
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