00:00You know, I thought Chris responded really well, and I thought Chris also made some good plays.
00:06You know, again, I think if you look at the amount of rookies that we had playing in the game,
00:10I like the way a lot of them responded.
00:13Regardless of, you know, if they made some mistakes early in the game, they're going to grow.
00:17And that's, we have to coach and develop this team and these guys as we go.
00:21And it's just, it's a good reminder.
00:24So we need to get back to work.
00:25We'll head out to Napa, and we just need to keep coaching those guys.
00:29You know, the thing that I'll say is all those guys, like, they just, they stayed so engaged and so
00:34positive
00:35and were so locked in.
00:36They didn't get down on them, son.
00:38They just kept swinging.
00:39And, I mean, I think that says that it's not too big for a lot of those rookies, which is
00:44important to see.
00:45And we're going to need them to play better football as we keep going.
00:49Jeff Hathaway talking about all his rookies and their impact on yesterday's game.
00:55Dolphins lose to the Raiders 27-13.
00:59Hollywood, Don O'Dan Day along here with you.
01:01Joe out on the West Coast.
01:02He's in Napa.
01:03As you heard, Coach Hathaway, they're heading out to Napa.
01:08Wine country out there, Don O'Dan.
01:10Hopefully they have a football field somewhere so they can get some work in coming up this week
01:16as the Dolphins get set to take on the San Francisco 49ers in Week 2.
01:22We've got one more tonight, and we'll wrap up Week 1.
01:25We've got Chiefs and Broncos.
01:26Hell of a game on Monday night football.
01:29Are you a Manning cast guy, Don O'Dan?
01:31The Manning cast is tonight.
01:33Are you a Manning cast guy?
01:34Joe hates it.
01:34I love it.
01:36You know, I can't do it for the whole game.
01:38I flip over from time to time.
01:40But it's like, I don't know.
01:42I start to feel like I'm watching something else other than a football game after a while.
01:47I'm more of a traditional commentary type of guy.
01:51There's too many distractions on the Manning cast.
01:53But I do enjoy parts of it.
01:55It's just got to be in small doses.
01:57Yeah.
01:57And we're getting Timothy chiming in here on our YouTube chat.
02:01These coaches brought these players 100% to blame.
02:03Yeah, look, guys, you have to be reasonable here.
02:07Yeah.
02:07Like, I understand.
02:08The team stinks.
02:09Like, they are not good.
02:12I don't know why this is coming as a surprise to people.
02:16Were they worse than I had anticipated?
02:18Yes.
02:19You know, given the opponent that they played yesterday.
02:23But they're playing with their rosters like one hand and like a leg tied behind your back.
02:30Like, you just you're really, really handcuffed with the, you know, what you could do here with this team.
02:38So, like, this is the reality.
02:40It's very unfortunate.
02:41But if you want to be mad at some, be mad at Chris Greer today.
02:45Like, you know, that's the guy who, you know, who got you into this mess.
02:51These guys are trying to dig themselves out of something that just realistically was not going to happen in a
02:57year.
02:58It may not happen in two years.
02:59It may not happen in three years from what we saw, Dono.
03:02You know, I think you want to look, you know, this season to me is real simple.
03:08Can these guys draft?
03:10There's a lot of draft picks playing.
03:11Can these guys draft?
03:13You know, that would be one.
03:15Do they have an eye for talent?
03:17Can they develop players?
03:19Are we going to see guys get better as the season progresses?
03:22I think that would be another big thing to watch for.
03:26Not that he can get a whole heck of a lot worse than what we saw yesterday.
03:29So, hopefully, they're going to just, you know, trend up as this thing goes.
03:34And, you know, hopefully Malik Willis is the guy.
03:38You know, we didn't get to see, you know, enough to make a judgment yesterday.
03:42It was one game.
03:43It was four quarters.
03:45I certainly don't think that's up for debate here, obviously.
03:50Like, is Tua better than Willis?
03:52No, Tua didn't play yesterday, man.
03:55You know, availability is kind of a big deal in the NFL.
03:59And Tua got hurt in practice and could not play.
04:01So, the Dolphins did the right thing getting Tua out of the building.
04:06I don't know that that's debatable.
04:09I hope Malik Willis is the guy.
04:11And I hope they can draft Jeremiah Smith with their top three pick, Donald.
04:15I'm already getting nervous.
04:17I'm already getting nervous about April because I feel like we're not going to have enough data on Malik Willis
04:24this year just because of the players around him.
04:27But I also, I get the feeling that Halfley and Sullivan, they just, they love Malik Willis so much because
04:34he's their guy from Green Bay.
04:35So, my biggest fear is, you know, Malik doesn't look that great this year, but we don't know.
04:42Do we blame the rest of the team or do we blame Willis?
04:45And then, Hollywood, this upcoming quarterback draft looks like there are just gold nuggets everywhere.
04:52Like, this looks like it's going to be one of the better quarterback drafts in recent memory.
04:56And then, the Dolphins will be like, no, no, no, we have our Malik Willis.
05:00We don't need a quarterback.
05:01We'll take anybody else.
05:03I guess if they take Jeremiah Smith, you know, despite the fact he's a traitor to his home city, I
05:09would welcome him back.
05:10I suppose I would welcome him back with open arms.
05:13But I'm just so worried that this is going to be the draft to take a quarterback, and they're not
05:17going to take a quarterback.
05:18Yeah, he looked good on Saturday for Ohio State.
05:22Not the fourth quarter, but yeah.
05:23No, but he's a good enough player where I'd be happy with that pick.
05:28But, nonetheless, who did you like, by the way?
05:31Who has stood out to you?
05:32We played just a couple weeks of the college football season.
05:35Is there a clear cut?
05:37Do I go first pick?
05:39Do I ask maybe Heisman?
05:40Because I'm trying to not talk draft.
05:43It's week one of the NFL season.
05:44I really don't want to talk draft.
05:46Is there a Heisman frontrunner, perhaps?
05:48Well, you know, it's funny you say that, because the Heisman frontrunner at this moment is Darian Mensah.
05:56And I'm actually a little pleasantly surprised, because I'm obviously a Mensah guy, that he still has the top Heisman
06:04odds,
06:04even though Texas got that big comeback against OSU.
06:10I just would have thought that, you know, the guy with the last name Manning would just automatically vault to
06:15the top after that.
06:16But that hasn't happened yet.
06:17It's still Darian Mensah.
06:20I really, really also like Trinidad Chambliss.
06:23I know he's a little short, so teams will probably use that against him.
06:28Dante Moore, I think, is getting exposed as that entire Oregon team got exposed over the weekend.
06:34CJ Carr, I'm not as high on him as some people are.
06:38I just think he's a good quarterback.
06:40I don't think he's the second coming of anything.
06:44So I don't know.
06:45I mean, so far, I'm a big Darian Mensah guy.
06:49And, you know, some people don't think he's got, you know, enough arm strength to be an elite pro.
06:53I think he's got good arm strength.
06:56And I think his touch is really incredible.
06:58And that's something a lot of these other quarterbacks don't have.
07:01Who is your best quarterback in the NFL that you saw yesterday?
07:06I mean, I'm a Josh Allen guy, despite the fact that I hate the Bills.
07:10I'm a, you know, I'm a big, I'm a big appreciator of Josh Allen.
07:13It's tough to root against Josh Allen, isn't it?
07:16It is.
07:16A big couple, dude.
07:17Yeah.
07:18Dan, was there a quarterback that stood out to you?
07:21I know Josh Allen was just, you know, sensational.
07:23But anyone else?
07:25Caleb Williams stuck out.
07:27Yeah.
07:28I thought Tyler Shuck, although he was absolute basura in the first half.
07:32They got down 21-0, ended up with 400 yards and was throwing darts all over the place.
07:38Yeah, those were kind of the standout guys yesterday.
07:41Joe Burrow had a pretty good game yesterday, too.
07:44Yeah, Dan is a New Orleans guy.
07:48So, yeah, the Saints, man, were really feisty yesterday.
07:51Came all the way back in that game, forced overtime.
07:54Went for two.
07:55Went for two.
07:56So, the new rule in the NFL is that a touchdown doesn't end it.
07:59If you have the first drive and you score a touchdown, the other team does get to answer now.
08:03So, the Detroit Lions went down, scored a touchdown.
08:06The Saints went down, scored a touchdown, went for two.
08:09I would have taken the tie there, I'm not going to lie.
08:11I would have just, yeah, I would have taken the tie.
08:14You don't have the grapefruits to go for it there?
08:16I mean, because you think about it, at the end of the day, a tie is better than a loss.
08:21I guess I don't have the grapefruits.
08:23I would have said, at least get me the tally that doesn't go in the loss column.
08:27Is it driving you guys nuts, too, that nobody kicks field goals anymore?
08:30Yeah, that's terrible.
08:32Green Bay really screwed themselves yesterday.
08:34Like, is every coach just out thinking themselves, or just, we just like, three just is not good enough anymore?
08:42Because nobody kicks field goals anymore.
08:44It's like, we have to go for it no matter where we are on the field, no matter what the
08:47situation.
08:48Like, we just have to go, like, nobody kicks field goals anymore.
08:51Which is ironic.
08:52No, no, no.
08:53It's so ironic, because the kickers now are better than, like, guys are making 60-plus yarders now, and yet
09:00nobody's kicking field goals anymore.
09:01That McPherson, dude, we were watching the Bucs game yesterday, that guy is, I mean, standing at the 50-yard
09:07line, and he's kicking these things into the stands, like, right down the middle.
09:13It's really amazing, and almost, like, gets to the point where we gotta, like, we're gonna have guys start at
09:20the 35-yard line, you get two first downs, and you're in field goal range.
09:24Yeah.
09:25Yeah.
09:25That's why it's this game, like, you have to play this thing now where you leave, like, you know, as
09:30little time on the clock as possible, because, you know, like, you leave 30 seconds on the clock, they're gonna
09:35be able to get the ball into field goal range.
09:39All right, we're gonna check in with Joe at some point on the show here.
09:42Joe is, for those asking, yes, Joe is out on the West Coast with the Dolphins.
09:46They will be there all week as they get prepared to hopefully hold their own against the 49ers, although that
09:53spread is not instilling a lot of confidence in me right now, Dono.
09:57I can't remember.
09:58We gotta have to look this up at some point this week.
10:0213.5 points or 12.5, wherever, there's different numbers wherever you're seeing it right now.
10:06That's a big, big number for the NFL.
10:09Very.
10:09Like, that is a comically big number.
10:13If you look through NFL games, usually the spread is, like, around a field goal.
10:17Yeah.
10:18In bad games, it's usually, like, around a touchdown.
10:22Yeah.
10:23Two touchdowns is a lot for an NFL game.
10:27Yeah, like, when I'm going through NFL wagers, like, because there's so much parity in that league.
10:33I mean, that doesn't apply to the Dolphins this year, of course, but oftentimes, if I see a three-and
10:38-a-half-point spread,
10:39I'll take the underdog, right, because so many games are decided by three points or less.
10:45Like, I did that with the Giants, who have won the game outright last night, were a three-and-a
10:50-half-point underdog.
10:51The Cowboys, oh, let me take the Giants, and they ended up not only covering, but winning.
10:56Well, we got one more game to go here in week one.
10:59We got Monday Night Football tonight with, again, the Dolphins heading out west.
11:04Yeah, that is by far the biggest spread of next weekend.
11:09And even the Browns, who go to Tampa, they're only eight.
11:13Just to give you an idea, they're eight-and-a-half-point underdogs going to Tampa.
11:17And the Browns were – I can't even believe how bad the Browns were yesterday.
11:22That was – I mean, it was incredible to watch.
11:25Deshaun Watson just running for his life, throwing the ball at guys' feet.
11:29He was so bad yesterday.
11:30That whole team is just a dumpster fire.
11:33But they're eight-and-a-half-point, dogs.
11:34Dolphins spread is almost double that.
11:36Oh, but their coach – you heard them yesterday, their new coach.
11:39You know, you can go against us now, but you better jump on the bandwagon early
11:42because we're going to be – when we get there –
11:44I'm like, come on, man.
11:45We get where, exactly.
11:48All right.
11:49With that being said, we'll hear more from Jeff Halfley.
11:52We'll hear from Malik Willis, a little bit of a moral victory Monday here
11:56for the Dolphins.
11:58Canes play on Friday.
11:59Dolphins will play again on Sunday out on the West Coast.
12:03They will come home the following week for their home opener
12:05and see Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
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