Miami Dolphins More Likely To Finish In First Place or Last Place?

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Leroy tries to keep it "IRL." Who has more of a chance next year, Canes or Dolphins? Will Dolphins shift focus to physicality? What would surprise you more, Fins finishing 1st or last in AFC East?

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00:00You want to have a football question real quick?

00:02Sure. Love it.

00:03Because I like asking you these questions because I like you to keep it real.

00:09Like in real life, you know that IRL?

00:12That's what I'm going to do with you.

00:13Keep it real.

00:14Girl.

00:16If I tell you right now who has more of a chance next year,

00:24I'm going to go the Canes or the Dolphins.

00:29Who you got?

00:31College may be a little easier just because of competition,

00:34but they still, when they've had powerhouses, they still haven't won ACC.

00:39That's true.

00:40So I'm not – I'm just going to – you got Tua,

00:44and then you got a quarterback who won a national championship

00:48and that team didn't want him.

00:50Yes.

00:51Right?

00:52So there's that.

00:54They're going to have a – the Canes are going to have an unbelievable defense,

00:57I believe.

00:58I just think with those guys returning, they look really good.

01:01And a new coordinator.

01:03Yeah, that's true.

01:06And then you got the Dolphins.

01:08Like, I don't know where they fit in because they have a lot of pieces

01:15that you can honestly say you're unsure about.

01:17Much tougher schedule this year than last year for the Canes.

01:20Yeah.

01:20Last year was –

01:21I just saw Virginia doesn't have to play Clemson, Miami, Notre Dame,

01:30or who else?

01:34Who's the other – they have to play SMU.

01:37They don't have to play any of those teams.

01:39So they might qualify for the championship just because of their schedule.

01:42Yeah, the Canes have Notre Dame to open up the season,

01:45which we're all excited about.

01:48They got Florida end of September.

01:52Then they go to Florida State.

01:54I don't know what Florida State's going to be this year.

01:55Who – like, is that the most battling thing?

01:58But it is a rivalry game.

01:59Okay.

02:00And then they got to go to SMU this year at the beginning of November.

02:05They got Syracuse.

02:06You guys better get revenge on that game.

02:09Syracuse.

02:10Still makes me sick to my stomach.

02:11Well, I mean, Syracuse –

02:1321-0, dude.

02:14Yeah.

02:16Jesus.

02:17You do realize who you're talking to.

02:18I know.

02:19All right.

02:19Fine.

02:20I've been on –

02:22What a crime.

02:22You know what's amazing about that situation?

02:24You never remember the times you were on the other side of that

02:30because the Canes have been playing with fire for, like, three weeks.

02:35They were playing.

02:35Right.

02:36So –

02:37They literally had –

02:38But what they basically had was, like, a stunt devil at quarterback

02:43because he's like, watch this, guys.

02:46There's a swimming shark.

02:47I'm going to tightrope it across.

02:48And, hey, we came out with the win.

02:50Right.

02:51And so, when you're on the other side of that,

02:55why do we insist on not believing that it could happen to you?

03:00Right?

03:01The Golden State Warriors won 73 games one year.

03:04It just felt like –

03:04They came back from 3-1 and then lost three –

03:07It just felt like the defense got progressively worse.

03:10Was it banged up or was the offense just putting them in a lot of those situations?

03:16Well, I mean, the offense –

03:17Yeah, they did have to come up with some key styles for the offense to pull out those miracles.

03:21Yeah, but they were in that situation.

03:24I don't know.

03:25So, that's the thing.

03:27When you think of –

03:29When you think about the Dolphins, I think defensively, they'll be okay.

03:36Right?

03:38Offensively, you have a lot of power – a lot of firepower.

03:42Gus Malzahn's still doing it.

03:44Yep.

03:44Jesus.

03:44But –

03:45It kind of looks like he should be in a rocking chair.

03:49But you have a better – I would say you have more hope

03:56because you've seen the players that they have have success.

04:00Yeah, I think the Canes – I think the Canes got a good backfield.

04:03I think that they have – you know, they've shown –

04:05The offensive line is dominant.

04:07Come on.

04:07Yeah.

04:08Just full of moose.

04:10Yeah.

04:10But that's how a football team is built, in case you're wondering.

04:13Is it?

04:14Yeah.

04:15Well, and so to get to your question on the Dolphins, like, would you be more surprised

04:20if the Dolphins finished first or last?

04:22I would be more surprised first.

04:26Well, you're just saying because you got Buffalo.

04:28But I would say –

04:29You mean who they can't beat.

04:30Right.

04:30They can't beat.

04:31I would say this.

04:34Shockingly, I think they'll win 10, 11 games.

04:37I do.

04:39And here's what I'm going to say.

04:42The sign of a good coach, right?

04:46And I do believe – when I say I believe Mike McDaniel is a good coach,

04:49one of the signs of a good coach is to be able to self-evaluate.

04:55And when I look at all the places that he's coached, all those places have had a physical

05:05run game.

05:06Like, why are we talking about he came from San Francisco?

05:09San Francisco is physical up front, which is amazing.

05:12I don't recognize – this is nothing that Mike McDaniel did last year.

05:17Nothing he's done in all the places that he's been in.

05:19Nope.

05:20Nothing.

05:21Now, I will say this.

05:25Young coaches and new coaches sometimes overcoach a situation.

05:33That means that you think you know what they're going to do,

05:36so you come out with an adjustment without even identifying whether they can stop

05:41what you do.

05:42And that's what it looked like he did last year with all those short passes,

05:46all those runs, trying to figure out, hey, we're not strong in the middle

05:50on the offensive line, so we're going to run a whole bunch of sweeps

05:53and quick passes and try to be ahead of that when sometimes you've got to just

05:58line up and play football.

06:00So I think if you go back and see all the places that he's come,

06:06this is the farthest away from any of that, what they did last year.

06:11Yeah, they couldn't run the football to save their life last year.

06:13It was – because even when they had Mostert, and I remember you talking

06:17about this, like it took him a while.

06:19It kind of took it until Jeff Wilson got there to start running up the middle,

06:22like kind of change the attitude of the team in Raheem Mostert.

06:25But like last year, he was bad, then injured.

06:29And, you know, so I'm hopeful that –

06:32Yeah, but they got a couple of more physical running backs.

06:38They got a couple of physical guys up front.

06:42But this is one of the situations where I'm going to say this.

06:46One of the things I appreciate about playing at that level is that guys have

06:53the ability to adjust to what is demanded of them, right?

07:00Like football players aren't soft, right?

07:05Offensive alignment, defensive alignment are not soft.

07:08But sometimes you put them in situations where you're asking them to not be as

07:14physical and, you know, with all the sweeps and stuff like that.

07:18And they lose focus on being physical and understanding that offensive

07:24and defensive lines are physicality.

07:26So you'd be more surprised, Marcos, if they were first than last?

07:29Yeah, for sure.

07:30Just because they can't be Buffalo?

07:32Yeah.

07:33Because none of us think like – nobody thinks the Patriots are going to come

07:36out of nowhere to win the division.

07:37Nope.

07:38Even though they spent a lot of money, they got a new coach, Drake May,

07:41people are higher on him.

07:43They're going to be extremely physical.

07:45If you look at what their coach has done at every stop, they've run the football,

07:52play action, physical up front.

07:55Wasn't he supposed to cut off his junk?

07:57He would only cut off his junk if they won the Super Bowl.

07:59Oh, okay, okay.

08:01They only got to the FC Championship.

08:02I got to tell you, I wish I had won the Super Bowl.

08:06Not like that.

08:07Not like that.

08:08It's like – and I would hope that everybody would understand that we're not

08:14cutting – we're not self-neutering.

08:19Paleo says 2-13 versus Josh Allen.

08:22Yeah.

08:23Okay, it happens.

08:24Like, I've been – I've been victim of that.

08:26Is that it happens?

08:27It feels like that.

08:28No, it's a certainty.

08:30Yeah.

08:31Guess what?

08:31It happens to the Dolphins.

08:32I think in the five years I was in Cleveland and then in Minnesota and then

08:41in Baltimore, I beat the Pittsburgh Steelers one time.

08:45Two things are annoying about the Bills, right?

08:46Not only that they stomp the Dolphins, but it's always that they lose to Josh

08:50Allen and has Tua gotten hurt like three times against them seriously?

08:54Yeah.

08:54I know he had the concussion.

08:56I know he got his ribs broken.

08:57I feel like there was another time, too, that he got hurt against the Bills.

09:00Oh, wasn't it the – his head hit the ground like a late hit or something like

09:05that or his back?

09:06I don't know.

09:07Maybe it was only twice, but there were two big injuries.

09:09I know he got his – I know A. Jampanessa broke his ribs.

09:12Yeah.

09:13Because the Dolphins had a dollar store line.

09:15Wow.

09:16And then, you know, went Leroy Jenkins putting his head into the Mar Hamlin.

09:21Not the best.

09:22Not the best form.

09:24So, like, I think I'd be less surprised if they finish last just because I don't

09:29think they can finish first.

09:30I don't think they can beat that team.

09:31Until I see it.

09:32Until you see it.

09:33Until I see it, how can I believe it?

09:36Right.

09:36And that's the thing.

09:39Like, there's certain aspects of just Dolphins football that until you see

09:49something different, I can't be mad at you if you make an assumption.

09:53Evan 11 says, I think you guys are omitting that there have been times that

09:56have been close to beating the Bills like last year.

09:59Yes.

09:59But there's also been times where the Bills have stomped on them too, Evan.

10:03So, it's like usually there's a close one that's always a squeaker and then

10:08there's an ass kicking.

10:09Except for the year they were able to beat them in the heat and then they played them

10:14pretty close on the road.

10:16Right.

10:16You know, where the Bills fans all recognized.

10:18Did you guys know it's hot in Florida?

10:21I got the heat.

10:22Ban the sun.

10:24Is the guy in the elbow room, is he a Bills fan?

10:27Is that why they host them?

10:28Yeah.

10:28Because I don't want anybody to turn down money, but can we ban them?

10:31Can that just be a Panthers bar now?

10:33Yeah, come on.

10:34Right?

10:34Like the Bills haven't brought you championships.

10:37No Bills fans are there at three in the morning waiting on Sasha Barkov.

10:43I miss him.

10:44Where is he?

10:44Where is that rascal?

10:45Getting drunk.

10:46Him and Reinhardt.

10:48That one goes for the ages, those two.

10:50Yeah.

10:50Let's go.

10:51It sounds like they're having fun in there.

10:53We're having fun here.

10:54No, no.

10:55Barkov's like, we're having fun here.

10:56And Reinhardt's like, we're going to party.

10:59And you're just ranting like a drunk.

11:02You ever have that?

11:03Like with a friend where you party with them too much, but they get emotional.

11:06So you got to watch them.

11:08Yeah.

11:08But you're drunk too.

11:09Oh.

11:10You just want to get into shenanigans.

11:11Like when you started shadow boxing?

11:14Yes.

11:16Dude.

11:18So first of all, we walk in down the strip and go, was that the same time we go, are

11:26you hungry?

11:27And we ate, I got lobster mac and cheese on the strip and it was a hundred degrees at

11:3312 o'clock at night.

11:35Hungry.

11:36And we were hungry.

11:38So we walking through the casino.

11:41No, this was the first time we went because this is when we went to the, when we were Crowder

11:47and Hawk to the restaurant and you were sitting at the bar behind me buying drinks.

11:54The boy, uh, Dolly on YouTube says it was the DeMar hit, the wobble walk, which they won

12:02the wobble walk.

12:02And then the broken ribs, the wobble walk was my back.

12:09Right.

12:10Was that the one though?

12:10They said he hurt his back.

12:11Yeah.

12:12My back.

12:12When he was probably concussed for sure.

12:14Cause he got shoved skied a hundred percent.

12:16And then he got hurt, right?

12:18Like he got hurt the next, the next day on Thursday night football, they played.

12:22Yep.

12:22Yeesh.

12:25Stupid bills.

12:28Dirty, dirty bills.

12:30Dirty bills.

12:31What's annoying is like, they're sitting here and they're doing the same thing with Patrick

12:33Mahomes, but it's such a higher level.

12:35Like we can't even win that part of the video game to, to elevate like that.

12:40Yeah.

12:41If you get past Josh Allen, you got to deal with the boss, the boss monster.

12:46It's frustrating.

12:47We tried, we tried, but you know what?

12:50Like this is like sports.

12:54Like sometimes somebody gets on a heater and if you're that other team or those other teams

13:01in that, it's like the Jordan years, right?

13:05How do you think Utah feels?

13:07No.

13:08Right.

13:09Like it, like, come on.

13:11It happens.

13:12But I'm like, everybody was talking about Utah.

13:18Oh, they can't get over the hump.

13:20These guys can't do this.

13:22These guys, but the answer is Jordan.

13:26So you're talking about Patrick Mahomes and the Buffalo quarterback in, on the same, in

13:37the same conference.

13:38So the only way you're going to get past, and this is how it happens, is at some point

13:44they play each other and cancel one out and you only got to be one of them.

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