Legendary Dolphins WR doesn’t think the Dolphins will be very good or very bad. Instead, he expects somewhere in the middle. During his son's pre-draft process experience, OG explains it’s clear the Dolphins are trying to become more run-centric.
00:00Aranda Gadsden is on the Toyota of Hollywood hotline, played receiver for many seasons
00:05with the Dolphins, and his son, OG II, will begin his first season with the LA Chargers
00:12this year.
00:13We were talking, Aranda, because we all want to get Aranda II jerseys.
00:18Do you have a hookup?
00:19You got some kind of plug for OG Chargers jerseys, or we need to go retail on this?
00:26No, I got a plug.
00:27It's called NFLShop.com.
00:35Let me get his number.
00:36He has a real funny name.
00:37Let me get his number.
00:39All right, I texted to you offline.
00:46How's he doing with the West Coast?
00:48I had to go through it.
00:49I had to go through it myself.
00:51Yeah, I imagine they don't just give those things away willy-nilly.
00:54That's a pretty good profit center for them.
00:56Man, man, the key is because his mom gets really upset about this, and she already talked
01:04to Jim Harbaugh about this.
01:05So this is no need to know.
01:06So on the jerseys, and even on his practice jerseys, they only got Gadsden.
01:13Oh, really?
01:14So he wants the two.
01:17But Jim Harbaugh doesn't believe in the juniors or the seniors or the twos or the threes.
01:23What?
01:24Yeah, only if you were grandfathered in before he got there, well, you keep it, but you won't
01:31get it done.
01:32So when you go to NFLShop.com, you're going to have to add the capital I, capital I on it.
01:40So, Arande II, though, his jersey this season is just going to say Gadsden.
01:45It's not going to say Gadsden, capital I, capital I?
01:48It hasn't so far.
01:51Like his practice jersey and all that, everything else has not.
01:54The one even on the website has not.
01:58The Chargers website, not NFL.com, but I don't know.
02:01It's the senior player development guy for the Chargers graduated from Dillard, and he's
02:13Anthony Hightower II, and he's not able to put it on his cards.
02:18Because I talked to him knowing he was from Dillard.
02:21On his business cards, he's not allowed to?
02:24Yeah.
02:25Yeah.
02:25No.
02:26They say this out loud.
02:26When did we give this kind of power to Jim Harbaugh?
02:30Jim Harbaugh brought 16 people from Michigan, and they're in the front office.
02:39They're the coaches.
02:40They're everywhere, and they're running it like Michigan.
02:42So I don't know.
02:43I'm just letting you know.
02:44I don't want to get OD in trouble here, so I don't want, you know.
02:47I mean, what if Jim Harbaugh didn't believe in vowels?
02:50I mean, you know, where do we draw the line?
02:53Yeah.
02:54It's a little crazy.
02:55It's a name.
02:56Like, that's his name.
02:57It's not something, whether you believe in it or not.
03:00Like, hey, I named my son Arande Gadsden Jr.
03:03Like, that's it.
03:04Well, the second, not Junior.
03:06Excuse me, the second.
03:07Yeah.
03:08Literally, that's his name.
03:10No, that's not his name.
03:12That's not his name.
03:14You don't know how Junior or the second works, Solana?
03:17I guess not.
03:20Don't turn this on me.
03:21Don't turn this on me.
03:22This is on Harbaugh.
03:23It's not his legal name.
03:26You're the second because of your lineage, or you're Junior because you're the one after.
03:32Huck, I'm doing this with my dad because we're Randolph Crowder and Randolph Crowder, and I was the beneficiary on all his retirement stuff, and I have – it's the second on my birth certificate, and it's the second in the NFL websites and all this stuff.
03:48I'm the second.
03:49But your legal name is the second?
03:52My legal name is the second.
03:54Yeah, legal.
03:55Interesting.
03:56Well, if it's a legal name, then I don't think there's an issue.
03:59Let's jump Jim Harbaugh.
04:00Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
04:06Let's wait until season five, and we can jump him.
04:09Let's wait until season five.
04:10He should demand a trade.
04:12All right.
04:12Settle down, everybody.
04:13I got to move on to the Dolphins.
04:15Ronday's already real.
04:16This is a bad decision.
04:18Well, put us down for four jerseys.
04:21Let me ask you something about the Dolphins.
04:23What size is Jimmy?
04:25Jimmy's like a youth large.
04:27I'm not just rocking Jimmy.
04:30Ronday, Louis Riddick.
04:32I've asked this of several people.
04:34He said about the Dolphins.
04:35This is a team that you have no idea if they're going to be great or terrible or somewhere in
04:42between because there's so many changes.
04:45And if you look at what they did in 2023, it looks nothing like what they did in 2024.
04:51And so you just can't figure out what the team is.
04:55Do you have an idea of what this upcoming Dolphins season is going to look like in your opinion?
05:00Or are you in the dark like everyone else?
05:03I got the answer.
05:05Somewhere in between.
05:06I mean, that's just what it is.
05:08You know what I mean?
05:09I mean, we've seen it and I can give you, I don't know if I should, but I can give you a little insight just from, you know, going through the draft process with them.
05:19They're trying to, you know, go away from all the passing that we've been doing, you know, and they want to become a little bit more run-centric.
05:29And because of that, I think it's going to take time.
05:34I mean, you know, Coach Mike came in as a run-game guru, I think, but he then became the pass-game guru.
05:47You know what I mean?
05:48And, you know, so now is he going to go back to what he did?
05:52But, you know, it's different when you have the San Francisco players, you know.
05:56Maybe Channing could even call someone in place if he had that team.
06:01So it's going to be a little different going forward, but I still think we don't have an identity of what we are.
06:08And because of now, the changes from, you know, for me, it's just tough to know that you just got rid of a dude that just had 75 catches.
06:17That's like a big deal for me, you know.
06:21In my arena, like, man, that's a lot of catches to get rid of.
06:26Like, you can't replace that.
06:27Do I think I like Darren Waller?
06:29I think Darren Waller's a great player, you know.
06:32Kind of put me in, you know, the frame of my son, really.
06:37Like, you know, I received a dude, transferred to the tight end dude, blah, blah, blah.
06:40But he's been out a year.
06:42His rap song's all right.
06:44You know, I give a few of them a little better rating than the others.
06:47But he hadn't caught 75 catches last year.
06:51That's for sure.
06:51And so to replace that, it's going to be tough.
06:53And especially Ramsey on the defensive end, that's going to be tough.
06:57So Minka may cover some of that up, but, you know, he has his job to do too.
07:02So I think somewhere in between is at best because, you know, just like everything else,
07:08the teams in our conference and our division have gotten better.
07:13And, you know, everything doesn't stay status quo.
07:17And, O.G., can't a zebra change its stripes?
07:21Because, like, Nick Saban is going to run the ball, play tough defense.
07:24Then when Parsnels and Tony Spirano came in, same setup.
07:29But that year with Cam Cameron, we got graceful.
07:32And it's just their personalities.
07:33But now you got Mike McDaniel now trying to get tough and physical,
07:39and we know it's a graceful track meet.
07:41They sold us track meet all day long.
07:43All right.
07:44You know, the key is in this kind of, you know, like when I came in,
07:49because, listen, Jimmy came from Dallas.
07:52We all were at Dallas.
07:54And we knew what that was about.
07:57They're running the ball with Emmitt.
07:59And, you know, every, you know, fourth Emmitt run,
08:02they'll play action and throw the mic.
08:04And you're going to have to stop that.
08:06And Jay Novichek will get a ball or two.
08:08Kevin Williams may hit the deep prime.
08:10And Alvin Harper, but they're going to play good defense.
08:13But we knew that we knew the basis, the foundation was running Emmitt.
08:18And, obviously, Jimmy came with the same foundation, but we didn't have Emmitt.
08:24You know, we had a decent old line.
08:26It wasn't their old line either.
08:27Let's not be, you know, let's not fool ourselves.
08:31Their old line wasn't the same old line.
08:33But that was his thing.
08:35And I don't think he could get away from that, even having Dan Marino.
08:40I think that was just him.
08:42As great as a quarterback is, we're going to find a way to run the ball.
08:46Now, you know, John Avery and J.J. Johnson was a far cry from Emmitt.
08:51But that was his deal.
08:53But some people nowadays will try because they're younger guys.
08:57You know, like Mike McDaniels is going to try to do something.
09:01Like I said, when he came over, he was the run game guru at the 49ers.
09:07But he had a different type running back.
09:10He had a different old line.
09:11He had some other pieces that we don't have as of yet.
09:16And so he's going to try not to do the track meet thing.
09:20But, you know, at the end of the day, I think with Tua,
09:22he's going to jump back to the track meet thing.
09:25And if we don't have the horses, it's not going to work.
09:28Well, we kind of do have the horses.
09:31But I don't know, you know, again, offensive line is a question.
09:35Do you think Mike McDaniel is on a significant hot seat?
09:38Is this a make-or-break season for Mike McDaniel?
09:41I think so.
09:42I think so.
09:42I think so.
09:44It's going to be tough because we have Tua and he signed Tua.
09:49And Tua has the money now.
09:51And, you know, that's the only thing because we all know the coach
09:54and the quarterback is connected.
09:56It's going to be tough to get rid of Tua and get rid of McDaniel at the same time.
10:02But I think, you know, it has to happen because I don't think – you know,
10:09like when I was talking about Jimmy, the problem was we were trying –
10:14when Jimmy came in, Dan had a passing O-line.
10:19They were pass-block guys.
10:20Now you've got to change that whole line and try to get run-block guys.
10:25And that's the whole different situation.
10:28You know what I mean?
10:28You have to find those guys that run-block.
10:31And now that takes – you know, it's just like a college.
10:34Like it's going to take – you know, getting rid of seniors
10:36and bringing in the freshmen.
10:38And it's going to take, you know, two, three years to get the guys
10:41to run the ball the way you want it to be run.
10:43But then you have to get those guys.
10:45And we tried.
10:47You know, we had – you know, we had some good linemen.
10:49But, you know, you had to keep Webb because he was the left tackle.
10:53That wasn't going to change.
10:54You know, and you had to keep Ruddy.
10:57He was the center.
10:58That wasn't going to change.
10:59So everybody else was, you know, interchangeable.
11:02But you've got to get those guys to fit your system.
11:04And importantly, most importantly, the O-line.
11:08So that's going to be the tough job.
11:11Yeah, you know, we've always had this thing.
11:14I think I have as well.
11:17One, he doesn't have a plan B.
11:20And so it seems like this is going to be the plan B.
11:22And two, we don't ever keep the people we're supposed to keep that we drafted.
11:27And now that guy for us, the poster shopper that guy is Eichenberg.
11:34Like, ah, you know.
11:36We got Minka back.
11:38We drafted Minka and we got him back.
11:39We loaned him to the Steelers to go get a couple Pro Bowls.
11:48Go get you some Pro Bowls, man, and come on back.
11:51Come on back.
11:52Come on back.
11:53As the, you know, when your tank is quarter percent full, come on back.
12:00Keys under the mat.
12:02Keys under the mat.
12:03In the same parking spot that I left at the airport two weeks ago.
12:07One thing we talked about with the Dolphins, OG.
12:11I don't know if I did a great job explaining it.
12:14Like.
12:14Probably did.
12:15But anyway.
12:17Those guys that ain't running from no fights.
12:20You know, you know, like I said, you ain't got to be a felon.
12:23But you just got to have some something, some little nasty to you.
12:26You had to been, you know, you probably got detained by the cops every now and again.
12:30Just, are we getting those type guys?
12:33Because you don't need 53.
12:34But I think you need about seven or eight dudes that they're not going to ask why you're fighting.
12:39They're just going to start throwing stuff.
12:42Are we talking, are we back at the gorilla or are we just talking about football?
12:46We're back at the gorilla.
12:47How many Dolphins would it take to beat a gorilla in a fight?
12:50Like, you don't have to be, OG, OG, you don't have to be the poor Joey Porter in them.
12:56Like, Porter, Keith Traylor.
12:59You know, like, some of those guys I played with, you just knew they were crazy.
13:02But, like, Zach Thomas is not going to turn down a fight.
13:05You know, Vernon Carey.
13:07Vernon Carey's coming in.
13:08He's a pleasant dude, but he's still got something in the back of his mind that's a little different than a normal human walk around.
13:14You want me to tell you who is not going to turn down a fight?
13:18John Bach.
13:19When I had John Bach on the whole line, oh, man, John Bach fighting all the way until next Thursday.
13:25Like, he's still on site.
13:28He may get beat up today, but when we come in tomorrow, hockey game, gloves off, we fight.
13:33He'll get beat up.
13:34He'll come back Saturday.
13:36Oh, when he walks through the door, he'll see you, gloves off, we fight.
13:40He just loved it?
13:41He loved fighting?
13:42I don't want John Bach.
13:43I didn't say one time he fought in Louisville for about an hour and a half.
13:48And that's confirmed by Sam Madison.
13:51Like, they just had to just, like, stop him.
13:53Like, you know, he would not stop.
13:55Like, he that dude.
13:56Like, ice hockey.
13:57Like, let's go.
13:59And, you know, he had to fight one time in practice.
14:03Jimmy was like, let them fight.
14:04Because when they get tied, they're going to run.
14:07Man, John ain't stopped.
14:09John Bach ain't stopped.
14:11Like, everybody else is like, stop.
14:13All right, let me see some of my...
14:15Nah, I ain't.
14:17But, yeah, you know, you think about those dudes and you...
14:21You know, I think sometimes it's tough for us trying to separate ourselves from, if we could say that, the older school football than the newer football, just like the basketball situation.
14:37You know, I'm from the get a good postman, post them up, and go down low.
14:41You know, I'm like the Thunder one, because they had two starting seven-footers.
14:45Everybody else, they had SGA and Williams.
14:47I'm like, ah, two things can be true.
14:50You know what I'm saying?
14:51So, I mean, you want the war daddies, but you got to know who the war daddies are.
14:58And, you know, I don't know, because maybe some of our war daddies have not been in...
15:04Like, I think Phillips could be one.
15:06You know what I mean?
15:08Chubmite can be one.
15:10Polkchop is one.
15:11You know, we just got to find them and make sure those are the guys in the key spots that we want them to be in.
15:20And, you know, I think now it's just more technical.
15:22Everybody wants to be technical.
15:24You just don't have no, you know, somebody going to fight.
15:27Because, you know, it took away, you know, like rookies and just holding them down and cutting all the hair off or tying them to the air conditioning and throwing all the water on them, like, all night.
15:40Like that.
15:41Like, you can't do that anymore.
15:42Can't do that anymore.
15:44All right.
15:44Aronde Gadsden, we'll talk to you throughout the season.
15:47We're really excited for Aronde II, too, man.
15:50I can't wait for...
15:51Who do they open against?
15:52Who do they open against?
15:54On the 31st, they play the Lions because they play in the Hall of Fame game.
15:59Oh, wow.
15:59So he plays at the end of this month.
16:02Yeah, yeah.
16:03Yeah, they're ripping and ready to go.
16:05And then the first game is the fifth against the Chiefs.
16:10Oh, boy.
16:13He got a hell of an NFL start, don't he?
16:15Holy mackerel.
16:16Oh, man.
16:17Trust me, dog.
16:18Listen.
16:18Listen, we went through the list while he was home.
16:21On the defensive end, he got a block.
16:24Like, whoa.
16:25I mean, you already got to block Max Crosby twice, right?
16:29You got to go against Chris Jones out the gate.
16:31Y'all play Pittsburgh.
16:32You got to block T.J. Watt.
16:34You got to block Brian Burns.
16:36And he's not your teammate no more at Heritage.
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