00:00Jeff Halfley, he threw out the first pitch at the Marlins game.
00:04Heard nobody knew who he was.
00:07You know what?
00:08The only task there, Vlad, is to not end up like Malik Willis.
00:12Just don't do what Malik Willis did when he threw a first pitch,
00:16which he did not.
00:17He threw a completely normal first pitch from the mound.
00:21So I'm all good with it.
00:22Good for Jeff Halfley.
00:23Nobody needs to know who he is right now.
00:25They'll know him when they start winning games.
00:27Then they'll know him.
00:28Or when football season comes around, they'll know.
00:31Yeah, maybe.
00:33We'll see how this year goes.
00:34We'll see how this year goes.
00:36I'm looking forward to it either way.
00:37It is new.
00:38I mean, I don't know if it's going to go well.
00:40Maybe I'll be bored of it by the month.
00:41I mean, let's be clear.
00:43The last two years down here, this is what everybody wanted.
00:49Right?
00:53So you got it.
00:54You wanted him to start over, rip the Band-Aid off,
00:57dump some of those contracts, and start anew with a new gym,
01:05a new coach, a new quarterback, cut some of the fat.
01:12This is what everybody wanted.
01:13So I'll be highly disappointed if during the season people start saying,
01:21same old Dolphins.
01:23Right?
01:24You knew this was what it was going to look like before the season started.
01:28Everybody knew.
01:29The next year or two.
01:32Yeah, that's why I don't think anybody's that angry about it.
01:34Okay, like you told me, you'd be amazed at how fans are.
01:38Well, I think it is.
01:39Hold on.
01:40There is an element to this team.
01:43Now, they don't have weapons, but if Malik Willis looks like a total bust.
01:47But he could look like that way because there's no weapons.
01:49Or he could stink, Leroy.
01:50Or he could just stink.
01:51He could just stink.
01:52Like, you'll know the difference.
01:56Like, you know the difference in a quarterback who's not good
02:00versus a quarterback who doesn't have any weapons.
02:02You can tell.
02:04Or at least I can.
02:06Right?
02:07Like, the quarterback who's making the good reads,
02:10who's getting the people in the right places, and nobody's open.
02:16There's that portion of it.
02:18Or is a player that gets back there and starts panicking and running around.
02:22Yeah.
02:23I think, though, that we know that this regime believes in him,
02:28and they put an investment into him.
02:30Not like crippling investment, but they put a good amount of change
02:34for a guy who didn't have a lot of starts under his belt.
02:36Right.
02:37And if that's a misread, then we're like, all right,
02:40not exactly off to the right foot for this regime that I think people are excited
02:44because certainly people did not want Chris Greer anymore.
02:46I mean, he had worn out the welcome by a long shot.
02:50Right.
02:50So my question is, is sometimes in certain situations,
02:56and I say this about, like, top five picks.
02:59Like, the Chargers didn't end up with Herbert because that's who they always wanted.
03:09They ended up with him because the Dolphins took Tua.
03:13And so when I think about this past offseason, you knew you were going to get rid of Tua.
03:20So what other options were out there other than somebody you're familiar with that you don't have to pay 50,
03:2760 million to?
03:28So I do believe that that played a large role in it.
03:32Of all the options out there, I think for this situation, that was the best option.
03:38It may work.
03:39It may not.
03:39But they didn't, they sure as hell didn't jeopardize their future by bringing in Malik Willis.
03:49I mean, if you were going to go with other options, you could have looked at somebody like Kyler Murray.
03:53I mean, like, if you were going to do, like, a retread on somebody and him on the cheap skis,
03:56like, he's more credentialed than Malik Willis is.
03:59If you really want to, if we're really talking about winning and not screwing the pooch and having a terrible
04:04record and you were talking about quarterbacks moving around.
04:07Right.
04:07That would have probably been the other option, but I'm more intrigued by them trying the Willis thing out than
04:14I would have been by Kyler Murray.
04:15But that's probably the first one that comes to mind.
04:18All right.
04:18Like, I'm not, listen, I don't know that he's not talented in Kyler Murray.
04:27I just know he's not my cup of tea.
04:29Because he's short.
04:31I mean.
04:34Very short.
04:39Incredibly short.
04:40He's short to short.
04:42Right.
04:43When you say a quarterback is short, he's short to that short.
04:46Kyler Murray.
04:47We were saying if they didn't go Malik Willis, like, what would have been the other option?
04:50And I think the only one that's for reals was Murray, right?
04:53Like, that changed teams this year.
04:55What was it?
04:56Yeah.
04:57Geno Smith.
04:57I think they could have gotten Geno Smith.
04:58He could have gotten Geno.
04:59He had a hometown kid.
05:00They could have gotten Geno.
05:01The Miramar discount.
05:03But I'm just saying.
05:05You could have gotten Kirk.
05:05Malik Willis is considered a shorter quarterback.
05:09Kyler Murray is short to his short.
05:12I want to know who he paid off to say that he was 5'11 at the combine.
05:15What is he?
05:165'9"?
05:17The hair.
05:18Like, did he go tippy toes?
05:20Tippy toes.
05:21They don't let you go tippy toes, dude.
05:23No, but could you pay off a measure?
05:25Could you grease the palm a little bit?
05:28Maybe it's the hair.
05:30Maybe.
05:32They make you damn near put your toes up.
05:35Jeez.
05:36Yeah.
05:36Oh, no.
05:37It's in or like in basketball, when you do the jump, you get a step, right?
05:46So you can step and then jump.
05:47In football, it's two feet.
05:50No steps.
05:51So that's why a lot of the verticals get a little skewed there.
05:57Yeah, like I'm trying to see like what other options people would have been into besides Malik Willis.
06:01Right, but that's what I'm saying.
06:03Based on what was out there, right?
06:05You got – that would be – at $30 million, is that considered affordable?
06:11Yeah, it's not that.
06:12Where it's not going to cost you for like everybody else?
06:16Like what else would they have done with that money?
06:18You know?
06:19Like who else would they have gone out of – that would have been a super investment.
06:22They paid A-chan.
06:23They paid Brewer.
06:24No, but I'm saying the only other place you would have spent that money is their quarterback.
06:28Yeah, so I'm just trying to think like what else would they have done with that dough that they used
06:32on him.
06:32And Tyler Hero, you would have got – I mean, Tyler Murray, you would have got cheaper.
06:35You would have gotten him cheaper, for sure.
06:36Because he's getting a boatload of money from –
06:39From the Cardinals.
06:40Correct.
06:41So like there's that.
06:43So if you really wanted to go BOGO, you could have did that.
06:49And then stack the two columners on top of each other, and then you got a regular-sized quarterback.
06:54Yeah, I think that for what they have, I don't – I hope that it works out.
06:58I definitely think, though, it's added the most intrigue to the season.
07:01Because like, look, on the bright side, like maybe the retread – not even retread, but like the more developed,
07:09not old quarterback, but like a guy with experience under his belt.
07:13That's kind of become the thing in the NFL now more so than, oh, you draft a guy, you give
07:18him the money right away.
07:19Like, look at what Houston's going through with C.J. Stroud.
07:21Like, are you going to give C.J. Stroud a boatload of dough?
07:25Right.
07:25One of the same situations, right?
07:27Oh, he's definitely a – he's right now Tua.
07:30Yeah.
07:30Because he's won – he's gotten to the playoff three years in a row.
07:33And he did it sooner.
07:36And he's won more – he's probably won a lot of playoff games.
07:39He's advanced –
07:40What have they won, twice?
07:41They won three times.
07:42They've been to the division round.
07:43They've been to the second round.
07:45Right.
07:45That's the division, right?
07:46Yes.
07:46They've been to the division two, three years in a row.
07:50So by –
07:52Yes.
07:52By what the market states, that famous quote –
07:56The market is the market.
07:57The market's the market.
07:58And the market would say C.J. deserves his back.
08:01But I can understand if Houston doesn't want to give it to him.
08:03Hmm.
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