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Miami Dolphins columnist covering the Dolphins shares his biggest observations following Day 2 of camp. Plus, why the Fins might be forced to pay Sieler, his take on Minkah Fitzpatrick not talking to the media and a review of Zach Wilson's play thus far.
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00:00Omar Kelly's on the Toyota of Hollywood hotline.
00:03He has covered the Dolphins for many years.
00:05He's a columnist with the Miami Herald.
00:07You can read his work in the actual Herald, the actual newspaper, the Herald app, or MiamiHerald.com.
00:15You have so many outlets.
00:16You know, I saw, I was at Wawa the other day, and I looked at a newspaper, one of your competitors.
00:22It was $4.50 for the daily.
00:25That was wild to me.
00:27I am so amazed at how much they charge for a newspaper now, and I'm just blown away.
00:33I'm like, are we really just trying to kill our business?
00:36Is this what we're doing?
00:37Well, I mean, it's more costly.
00:38Everything's more costly nowadays.
00:40I know.
00:41But it was just jarring to me for someone who loved stopping at the machine to get a newspaper, and it was a quarter.
00:48It was always a quarter.
00:49Yeah.
00:49To see it at $4.50 was wild.
00:51I mean, most people don't even have a clue where they can actually get a physical newspaper right now, and that's sad.
00:56That's really sad.
00:58I remember when we used to be in school, and they used to give us, they used to give us newspapers so we could read, and you have to do projects out of it.
01:05Nah, those days are long gone.
01:07Hey, by the way, I do this every year when training camp comes around.
01:11We have the local writers on.
01:13I always say, don't forget.
01:14Don't just Bogart all of the information that they're giving you via nefarious means.
01:22Subscribe to the Herald online, the app, or the Sun Sentinel, the Palm Beach Post.
01:29Support local journalism because guys like Omar, they're out there sweating during a training camp.
01:35Honestly, it's nice that you can get content for free, but also I think it is so important to support the local journalists.
01:46For me, if you're trying to consume as much Dolphins content as you can, throw a few bucks at the Herald app every month so that you get that stuff.
01:58Yeah, our deal is $2 for three months right now, so we're basically giving it away for free.
02:05Obviously, the price is going to jack up on you, but, you know, you can do what you want to do after that.
02:09It's good content, though.
02:10It's good content.
02:11Yeah, no, definitely it's good content.
02:13You still get the cartoons in there?
02:14You get Marmaduke?
02:16Nah, I'll get on that.
02:17I'll get on the other stuff.
02:18Omar Kelly, so I do want to talk about Superman because he saw Superman, but I want to talk first about the Dolphins, and you've been there for a couple days now.
02:25Obviously, a couple injuries yesterday.
02:27We know Eric Azucama looked good yesterday.
02:30I saw a couple people saying Zach Wilson looked good today, but what's your overall feel of the Dolphins after a couple days of actual activity?
02:40I don't think the offensive line is as good as we need it to be.
02:45I don't think the cornerbacks are as bad as people expect it to be.
02:50Now, obviously, the defensive line, defense is always ahead of the offense at this point, and until you put pads on, you really can't make much sense of anything.
03:02But right now, I like what you're seeing from a pass rushing standpoint.
03:07I'm a little concerned with the offensive line.
03:09They added some depth today because I had a concern going into camp.
03:12They don't have a backup left tackle, and that's a problem.
03:15And the cornerbacks, I got to say this, I understood what they were thinking and their thought process where we're going to throw all these young people against the wall and see who sticks, and they haven't disappointed so far.
03:31I can't tell you a day when I've been like, oh, that guy's been bad.
03:36You know, they're holding their own.
03:38They're holding their own.
03:39These young, inexperienced, no-name cornerbacks, they should call themselves the no-name boys.
03:43They are holding their own.
03:46You know, with the culture change, and now we're hearing that he's running them, the whole thing was running sprints after practice and toughening up and all.
03:54But do you, can you see a change of Mike McDaniel's approach to change up a team, trying to become tougher or anything like that?
04:02No.
04:03What, one, and I was interesting that you bring this up because I wanted your take on it.
04:09Um, I'm asking players, does culture come from the coach or does culture come from the locker room?
04:17Oh, locker room.
04:18Okay.
04:19Oh, I say it all the time.
04:20I didn't give a damn about upsetting Nick Saban or Bill Parcells.
04:24I didn't want to upset Zach or Jason, and that's where it has to start.
04:28That's the sentiment I'm getting from players around the league.
04:32Like, coaches don't set culture.
04:34Players in the locker room.
04:35And that's the interesting part of it because this is, and Zach said it today.
04:39Zach Seeler said it today.
04:41It's about, don't let the little things stack up.
04:45Don't, don't sweep it under the bed.
04:48Don't hide it under your covers.
04:50Address it.
04:51Talk about it.
04:52Call each other out.
04:53Speak on it.
04:55The, this moment of discomfort might lead to something positive down the line.
05:00And apparently that's what they weren't doing last year where they would just not, things would happen that they didn't like, and they just wouldn't speak on it.
05:10And it just stack up on them.
05:12And you got to the point where really nobody liked anybody last year, even though they had a hell of a great time in 2023.
05:21They just weren't getting along in 2024.
05:24And when you, and that's the thing, when you face adversity, like people always say, oh yeah, you know, I'm going to show you my culture or this or that, or, you know, we got a tough team.
05:36Let me know how you respond when they punch you in the mouth.
05:39After you get punched in the mouth is when I will tell when you, whether you do or you don't have ever, you do, do, you don't have culture.
05:47Because right now ain't nobody punching you in the mouth.
05:50Yeah.
05:50You brought up Zach Seeler.
05:54Should the Dolphins pay him?
05:56He says he, he deserves it.
05:58Uh, we were talking about it earlier and I was mentioning that you think back to that 2023 team when things were clicking, right?
06:05Um, pretty much everybody outside of Tua, Waddle, Tyreek, all like the key guys of that team are gone.
06:13Zach Seeler on the defensive end is really the only guy left from that, that like core of guys.
06:20Uh, I was making the point, like you can't let everybody walk.
06:24If you really believe that the team you built, if you're Chris Greer is talented.
06:28So I think they should pay him.
06:31I think the, the question is a little bit more complicated than that because they have him under contract for two years.
06:39They've already given him two deals earlier than he, they needed to.
06:44So now we, you'd be asking for a third.
06:48Now, has he always taken 70 cents on the dollar?
06:52Yes, he has.
06:53He's always taken a team friendly, probably below market deal just to secure the bag.
06:59And he's made $26 million over the course of his career so far.
07:03Zach will tell you, I'm very thankful and very appreciative about that.
07:07But now when you have him sitting here, probably have to hit every single incentive in the world to make $8 million when average defensive tackles are making 16.
07:18Like, what are you going to do as a team and an organization?
07:24Especially when this is the guy that you point to and say, he represents our culture.
07:30He makes up our culture.
07:32That is our worker.
07:33That is the guy we want everybody to follow.
07:35But you know what?
07:36We're not going to pay him.
07:37We're not going to take care of him.
07:38So why should I follow him?
07:40You're not going to take care of him.
07:42So they're kind of forced.
07:44They're kind of forced then.
07:46You know, no, you have, and Crowder can speak on this.
07:50You have to hold their hand behind their back and pull it up all the way till they feel pain for them to do something.
07:59This organization.
08:00You have to basically put a gun to their head for you to do something.
08:06Now, Zach is not doing that right now.
08:09Zach is working.
08:11He's saying, I need to show these young guys the right way, how we do things.
08:17That's not in my character.
08:18That's not who I am.
08:20But will there come a point where he says, where the contract negotiations aren't going favorably and he says, screw it, I'm shutting it down.
08:30I don't know.
08:32I have absolutely no idea.
08:34But this organization, like Chris Greer and Steve Ross, this predates Mike McDaniel, have always prided themselves on doing the right thing.
08:49Like, hell, there are, as they call it, big A fans.
08:54Their name of them are big A fans.
08:56There's like five of them in the bleachers.
08:59It's windy as hell sitting there in the bleachers.
09:02It's hot, but you've got a cool little wind.
09:05I don't even know how much that costs, but they put those fans in there for the fans.
09:10That's the type of organization they run.
09:13If you don't take care of Zach Seeler, if you don't just say to Zach, hey, Zach, we're going to give you this $16 million in guaranteed money.
09:24We're going to give you a $14 million signing bonus.
09:27We're going to extend your contract two years, you know, whatever, whatever the rate is.
09:32But here is, here's a check for $12 million, Zach.
09:37We love you.
09:38We appreciate you.
09:39Like, if you don't just make that extension of respect, like your locker room is going to say, you ain't backing up what you're talking.
09:49And that's a bad, that's a, that, that's a bad message to send.
09:54And, oh, but they did.
09:56I think they kind of, like you're saying, as I'm with you, I had, damn, I was, I think I was eight hours away from free agency until they gave me my money.
10:04And, oh, you know, 07, whatever it was, 08.
10:07But, uh, but they paid, they, they restructured Ramsey.
10:11Then they gave Tyreek more money.
10:13Then they gave Waddle more money.
10:14Then they had to pay Tua.
10:15So it seemed like they were opening the piggy bank, opening up the pocketbook.
10:20But now with the success or lack of success they had, do you think they're going to now go back the other way where it's like, we were paying folks and not doing nothing.
10:28We can't pay just everybody.
10:29It didn't work.
10:30A lot of those players force the issue.
10:33Like Ramsey was like, you know, I don't know if I'm going to be healthy enough for the season opener.
10:37Like I got, I got, I got these groins or maybe it's my knee.
10:40I don't know what it is, but something is preventing me from playing.
10:43Um, and, you know, and Tyreek, I, they, they should have done that deal earlier.
10:50I don't know why they didn't do that deal earlier.
10:51Cause it would have helped them create cap space.
10:53But yes, a lot of the contracts that they did and extensions turned out to be mistakes, but just because you make a mistake, these are the four times.
11:04Does that mean you're going to be making a mistake with Zach Seeler?
11:06Like what, what has Zach Seeler ever done wrong in this organization?
11:12What, what name, name me the one thing he's ever done that you said, you know what?
11:17Yeah.
11:17That's a little sketchy.
11:19It didn't lead us to a playoff win.
11:23One man band.
11:24He's got a lot of work.
11:27You rolled your eyes.
11:29Omar, when I said, uh, people were saying that Zach Wilson looked good today.
11:32You rolled your eyes a little bit.
11:33You do not think Zach Wilson looked good.
11:35No, no, no mistake.
11:38Was that a mistake as the backup for two?
11:40No, I think it's the best that they can do.
11:43It was the best that, and I, I trust me, I dig deep in this.
11:47There was the best that they can do.
11:49Josh Dobbs, man.
11:50No, Josh Dobbs got more money.
11:53He did.
11:54Are you sure?
11:55You might be right.
11:56You might be right.
11:57No, Josh Dobbs might not have gotten more money.
11:59I agree.
12:00I love Josh Dobbs.
12:01They wanted to invest in Zach, Zach Wilson.
12:05They paid him handsomely to do that.
12:08He has a strong arm.
12:11There's inaccuracy at times.
12:13The decision-making isn't as quick, but I don't think every quarterback, there weren't every,
12:19a lot of quarterbacks did not want to come in this situation because they knew you're not
12:22getting a chance unless Tua gets hurt.
12:24Tua has such a great mastery of the offense.
12:26You're not, you're not beating him out.
12:29You're not even coming close.
12:30Now, would you have had a great chance to play?
12:32Yeah, absolutely.
12:33But then all the pressure's on you because you got to save the season now.
12:38And I don't know if everybody wanted that.
12:41I don't know if everybody wanted that.
12:42You know, these backup quarterbacks, man, they got the best job in the world.
12:46They, they get a lot of money and they just stand there and hold the clipboard and got
12:49to help the quarterback get prepared and, you know, and like nobody's looking, nobody's
12:55realistically looking to evaluate what Zach Wilson did.
12:57He was okay today.
12:59He, but he, I haven't seen good.
13:01He's okay.
13:02He's okay.
13:04He's okay.
13:05I, I, I would never say he did a good job today.
13:08No.
13:09And oh, that story.
13:11That's the big story.
13:12The, what was that?
13:13Two days ago with Tua coming out and saying, no, Tyreek has to prove, you know, prove back
13:18or get our trust back and on.
13:20What, what is he going to do?
13:21Is he going to get chicken nuggets for the team?
13:23Like what, what, what, what is the, it sounds good.
13:26And it's a good story when you read it on ESPN.
13:28But what really, what really is he doing?
13:30What really is he doing?
13:31He meant that.
13:32He meant that with every, the one thing you can always expect about from Tua, and I don't
13:37know why he's wired like this.
13:40He will always tell the truth.
13:42Always.
13:43Cause he could have given you a politically correct answer.
13:46He like, nah, we not good.
13:47He like, no.
13:48No, you can't, you can't say what you said and say, my bad.
13:53He literally said that.
13:55Like you can't say what you said.
13:58You can't do what you did and then be like, oh, my bad.
14:01Like it don't work like that.
14:03You got to consistently show me what your actions.
14:06Even Tyreek has said he doesn't expect to be voted a captain.
14:10Like he said that during OTAs.
14:12He's like, yeah, I'm, I'm messed up.
14:14I don't expect to be voted a captain again.
14:17Tyreek has to show people with his actions.
14:20And that, that's my thing about Tyreek.
14:22Tyreek says a lot of things.
14:24How much does he back up with his actions?
14:27It's very little.
14:29Like.
14:30I love, I love Tua calling him out that way.
14:32I love, I loved it.
14:34I thought it was a good leadership moment from Tua.
14:36It was.
14:38And, and people don't see all of the leadership moments.
14:40Like there's no, Tua is clearly head and tails.
14:44He's the defying clear leader of this team.
14:48It's probably him.
14:50Minka.
14:51Zach Seeler.
14:53Jordan Brooks.
14:54Cater.
14:57Aaron.
14:57Aaron Brewer.
14:59There.
15:00The leadership has.
15:01Bradley.
15:02Chubb.
15:02The leadership has stepped forward.
15:04That was one of my biggest concerns.
15:05I was like, man, you're losing some hell of leaders.
15:09Calais Campbell.
15:10And Toronto Armstead might be the best leaders I've ever seen in my career.
15:14Like with the exception of Zach and Jason, you know.
15:18But there, I'm proud of the way that a lot of the leaders have stepped up and they're like,
15:24yeah, we're going to be way more accountable to one another.
15:26And this is, this isn't going to be, you know, the same thing that, that, you know, we're not
15:31going to look the other way when people start showing up late and, you know, and, and not,
15:36and, and showing up to practices when they feel like it.
15:39Cause that, that's really, Tariq, last year, Tariq, Tariq walked onto the practice field
15:43after they had done seven on sevens, jumped into 11 on 11s, roast the cornerback, run
15:5120 routes.
15:51And then my day is done.
15:53Like, and that was okay.
15:57Like.
15:58I got that.
15:59You bring up Minka Fitzpatrick.
16:01What did y'all do to Minka when he was here before that he hates y'all now?
16:04That joker said, I ain't talking to damn one of y'all now.
16:09Listen, it's not, it's because we remember what happened.
16:14We remember, I've, I've still to this day, remember him sitting in the lunch table in
16:20Davey with Brian, him and just Brian Flores.
16:23And you can see Flores is like animated and yelling and Minka just sitting there like,
16:27yeah, nah, dawg.
16:29Like, it was, Minka does not want to talk about why he left.
16:37It's like, it's like, it's like, okay.
16:39It's like, you know, you got an X.
16:41Now you circled, you circled a block.
16:44Do you want to talk about the old days?
16:46Y'all back together now.
16:47Do you want to talk about the old days and, and, and what happened then?
16:51And, and, you know, I, I'm sure he doesn't cause he doesn't want to have to explain it.
16:57He said, he said to this fan base, all right, peace.
17:00I'm out.
17:01This is, this is, this is too much for me over here.
17:03I gotta go.
17:05But the man's whole family lives here.
17:07Um, that, and that was the surprising part to me.
17:11I didn't even know his family lives here.
17:12Um, and even Tua talked about having to sit down with them and like, figure out what's
17:19fact from fiction about what happened back in the days.
17:22And, you know, Tua is a, a Brian Flores survivor too.
17:26So it's, it's, you know, so they, I'm sure they can relate some stories.
17:30So it's, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a lot of people who are Brian Flores survivors
17:35out there.
17:36They, you know, I'm one of them.
17:37We're all Brian Flores survivors.
17:39We all got, we, you know, we, we can all speak about some of our experiences.
17:45It is, you know, it's, it's a little traumatizing before we run out of time, Omar.
17:50So you texted me a couple of days ago that Superman was one of the five worst movies you've seen
17:59in your lifetime.
18:01Yep.
18:02Omar.
18:02Why do you not like fun?
18:04I don't like stories that have bad, dumb, stupid plot lines, horrible beginning that
18:13just, maybe I picked up and it had another Superman series that I didn't see before, but it's
18:20just like, huh?
18:22Like nothing made sense.
18:25Now Superman's got robots working for him and he's got a dog and him and Lois Lane, they,
18:30they doing it, that it just literally made no sense.
18:35You're a Superman fan though, right?
18:37Aren't you a big Superman fan or no?
18:39Did I get that wrong?
18:40I'm more of an X-Man fan.
18:41No, I'm not a Superman fan.
18:43I don't, I'm, I'm, I'm a more of a Marvel X-Man fan.
18:47Um, I'm, I'm not the DC fan.
18:50I'm more of a Marvel guy, but I tried it.
18:54And I know y'all have talked about it and I wanted to see it for myself.
18:59Oh my God.
19:00That was, I put it right up there with Mulholland drive or something like that in terms of like,
19:05you remember the really bad movies and Superman is a really bad movie mood or something when
19:13you know, and it was just happy and it was a comic book.
19:18It was a comic book come to life.
19:20And I can understand your point, but the comic book was such a bad, it's like,
19:25they literally took the comic book all 30 pages and made a movie of it.
19:28Didn't add anything.
19:29It's just like, Oh, this picture here, let's do that.
19:32And this picture here, let's do that.
19:35It was so badly written.
19:37The acting was mediocre.
19:40Oh my God.
19:40The guy, the black guy who his acting is horrible.
19:44Oh, his, but I've always not liked him.
19:48It was such a bad movie.
19:50Which guy are you talking about?
19:52The other, he was part of the other characters that came.
19:56Okay.
19:56Not the newspaper guy.
19:58No, no, no, no.
19:59He, he probably needs to have more of a role.
20:01Cause I know he's a good actor.
20:03Yeah.
20:03Um, Oh, it was Wesley West something.
20:07Wendell.
20:07Not, no, it was a bad one.
20:10Let's, let's, let's not, let's stop discussing.
20:13It was just so good.
20:15Certainly my favorite movie of the year.
20:17It was my favorite movie of the year.
20:19And I'm not even a superhero guy.
20:21I just had so much fun from the first scene to the last.
20:26I was smiling and enjoying it.
20:29Like there was no, I didn't want the movie to end.
20:31You, you clearly don't want complicated movies.
20:33You just, I do not want complicated.
20:36I do not.
20:37You don't want to think about anything.
20:38You don't want character development.
20:40Correct.
20:41This is, this is why Rick, you, you don't put respect.
20:44You won't put some respect on Riddick's name.
20:46Cause Riddick and pitch black, pitch black series.
20:49That is an awesome movie.
20:51That is, that is, that is his number one movie.
20:54Have you ever seen boiler room?
20:57I think I have.
20:58I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I think, you know,
21:00it's been diesel's best movie by a wide margin.
21:04Okay.
21:05Maybe I need to see it.
21:06Maybe I need to see it.
21:07Chronicles of Riddick.
21:08Chronicles of Riddick.
21:08Yes.
21:09Oh, I still, I still quote that.
21:11Keep what you kill.
21:12Come on, man.
21:14Like, I still quote that movie.
21:15Did they give you bad popcorn at Superman?
21:17No.
21:18The Slurpee not made right.
21:20Something, something was up.
21:22Someone was in your seat.
21:24No, I, I watched it at home.
21:26I watched it at home.
21:27I, I, I, I haven't watched it.
21:30Now, that's not the way to watch a big summer blockbuster.
21:35No, no, no, no, no.
21:36That's not now the truth comes out.
21:38You didn't know that one.
21:39You know, that was grainy.
21:41No, no, no.
21:42It was actually good.
21:43It was actually good quality.
21:44It was grainy.
21:46They, they put the big, uh, the big letters over.
21:49No, no, no.
21:51I watched a lot of movies that way.
21:54Any movie that you have bought on a DVD from the Pollo Tropical parking lot is not like going to watch a summer blockbuster.
22:04I love the thought of, oh, going to the corner store and get his movies.
22:08You know he used to be the bootleg DVD man in the locker room, right?
22:12Oh, we know.
22:14That was his retirement fund.
22:16Yeah, man.
22:18That was his, that was his, that used to probably pay his mortgage, right?
22:21You know, I got in trouble for that.
22:23They told me I can't, I had to stop selling candy and DVDs.
22:27Yeah.
22:28He's been telling me, he's still trying to get me to buy like a Rocky IV for a buck.
22:32But I said, man, leave my chalkboard alone.
22:34Ain't nobody fool with nobody.
22:36Goodness.
22:37Well, now the truth comes out.
22:39There's only one way to see a summer blockbuster.
22:41And that's not on a bootleg DVD.
22:44I've seen so many good movies that way.
22:48That was such a bad.
22:49I'm glad we got to the truth.
22:50No, no, no, no, no, no.
22:51You can completely discount Omar's opinion on the movie.
22:55I'm telling you.
22:56It was a good copy.
22:57You can completely discount his opinion on the movie.
22:58Sound was good.
22:59Omar Kelly, read his work in the Miami Herald.
23:03Check out the Herald app, MiamiHerald.com.
23:05See you, Omar.
23:06All right, guys.
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